“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Unknown

I ask the question-Why?

Why put up with lack and limitation? With your current circumstances? Why believe that you can’t have what you want? And Why make excuses for these limitations?

See, people make excuses for why they can’t do something and it usually goes something like this: I can’t because I can’t afford it, I don’t think that way, I’m not that good, I don’t know how…

Much of it comes from our conditioning, what we were taught from our parents, grandparents, what our friends told us, and much of it is unconscious, especially the paradigms we learn from our parents. We unconsciously pick up the other persons thoughts. We do it all the time! We pick up mannerisms, beliefs about money, and I believe even health concerns.

Now I’ve got 2 little boys at home, so I take this very seriously. I realize that they are picking up not only my actions and words, but my conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings. I know they do. In the bible it says: ‘know that before you speak, I will hear you’, and I believe that pertains to all of us, we often know what a person is going to say before they speak.

For example: Have you ever had a song in your head that you know that you haven’t heard in years and then you start humming it and the person next to you says ‘I’ve had that song going through my mind all day’, or you say something that the person you’re with was just about to say when you said it first?

The problem sometimes is we aren’t clear enough in ourselves to identify which are our thoughts…
Have you ever asked yourself: ‘Where’d that thought come from?’

Why not direct and choose your thoughts? If you’re not consciously choosing them you’re accepting what’s there by default, which is most likely the paradigms you were fed as a child.

So what are your thoughts of? Self defeating, or life affirming? If you’re telling yourself you can’t do something, it’s a lie and IT’S NOT THE TRUTH!!! So why put up with that crap?

You might think it’s the truth, your current circumstances, but I could say you’re the most powerful(lame, nice, attractive, ugly-whatever adjective you choose) person I’d ever met and if you believed it then it it’s the truth for you. You see you can decide what’s true to you. You can decide you’re wealthy long before it makes it’s apperance in your life. ‘Henry Ford once said: “Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you’re right”. So why not choose your own ‘truth’ that your beautiful, rich, fill in the blank…

I remember a conversation I had with a spiritual teacher who was talking about a member of our spiritual community that was of average looks, but she believed she pretty, and so she always had men around her wanting to date her. She had the inner belief which superceded the outer and THAT determined her result.

You’re in control of your thoughts! It’s just that most don’t want to believe it.

Your thoughts are what put you in the place you are currently in-if it’s a great place then wonderful keep thinking those thoughts. But if it’s not-change them, and start creating your world the way you want!
Decide to take responsibility for your thoughts. and for directing them to get your desired results.

I read a book awhile back, it was by Helene Hadsell and called: ‘Contesting: the name it and claim it game’ (or something like that) and it was about winning contests and essentially about manifesting life.

Well she had this acronym for her manifesting process and it was SPEC, which was: Select it, Project it, Expect it, and Collect it.

I thought it was pure genious! I mean that is the process of all manifesting-except most people do it unconsciously. Since they do it unconsciousl then they get results that they don’t like or are marginal at best.

See, what we’re thinking is what we’re manifesting in our lives. If you’re worried about not having enough money, eventually you won’t; if you’re holding thoughts of prosperity and abundance in your mind that is what will show up. Spirit is always moving into form. We are souls that have physical bodies.

So with this SPEC process you first have to consciously decide and select what you want, then get it in your minds eye and ‘project it’, give it life, meditate on it, and then Expect it. Now that’s where I think most people get hung up is in the ‘Expect it’ part. I mean how do you ‘Expect it’ if you have no way of knowing how you’re going to get there?

So what happens to probably 95-98% of people is they give up or don’t try at all to change their circumstances. They just accept their current circumstances and believe that’s the life destined for them.

They haven’t learned persistence or faith, or the proper use of their minds in thinking. Now if you take care of the first three parts of the equation then the last part-Collecting it will be the result!

Have you ever met someone who just goes along with the crowd? Joins the army because all his buddies do, stays at a job they hate, because they think that’s all they can do, or someone tells them that having a business is risky so they never try?

Or have you ever had an experience where you just KNOW that you’re going to succeed? Do you know a person who has this faith in themselves? Who seem to always move forward confidently and know where they’re going? They Expect it!

It all starts with a thought! Everything! The car you drive, your house, the money in your bank account, are all there because someone thought them into form. Now they had to take action to make them, but it stared with a thought.

Now what I’m getting at is that it is very important to work at your own self development. Your own self awareness. To be aware of the thoughts you are putting out to the universe, as they will come back to you in form.

It’s like planting a seed(thought) in fertile land(mind), you will grow what you plant. So if you plant poison ivy seeds(negative thoughts) in the land(your mind), you will get poison ivy(negative results), and the same holds true for positive thoughts.

So stop beating yourself down, telling yourself you can’t, and give yourself a gift of great thoughts, a pat on the back and congratulate yourself on how wonderful you are.

You are truly a gift to the world, so start acting the part!

To Your Ultimate Success, Jonathan