“You will very likely run up against a series of circumstances that will, for a time, almost have you convinced you are actually going backwards; but, persistence is the key. Continue to hold the picture of personal prosperity and understand that what is happening to you, is what must happen, to prepare you to receive the good you desire.” Bob Proctor in ‘You Were Born Rich’
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Inspirational Quote of the Day
January 22nd, 2010Bhutanese Wisdom-Important Must Read!
January 18th, 2010“In a mountain village named Laya, I was standing in a school house and staring at a document entitled ‘Manual for Teachers of Mathematics’. What caught my eye is something that is offered as a ‘first rule’: ‘Always remember that you are a human being as well as a teacher, that your students are also human beings, and that you are here because you have something important to give them that they need.’ ”
Lonely Planet’s Bhutan
Wow, I had to read that several times.
I felt the message was of great importance.
I know it is one of immense wisdom, and I felt that it addresses a great truth in one’s dealings in the world.
Whether it’s family, friends, business associates, clients, or someone off the street; they have come into your life because you have something important to give them that they need…
And they have something important to give to you also.
It can be an incredibly valuable experience meeting another human being and just BEING with them and exchanging your gifts; whether they be friendship, a kind word, a helping hand, an exchange of money for services rendered…
As a person who aspires to inspire and help others succeed in life, I found the quote quite humbling as it really made me think about all the ways I communicate with the world.
I know I can be in a hurry at times and not take the time to be friendly with the cashier at the grocery store, or in a rush in traffic, or not really give my ALL and be personal in a blog post or email-it does seem somewhat impersonal at times…
If I can stop and remind myself at the other end of the computer screen, counter, or another vehicle in traffic, is a living breathing person with their own wants, desires and needs, then perhaps I have just found a place of mutual compassion and understanding.
A depth and place of meeting that will enable true comunication-even if no words are exchanged.
I intend to incorporate this wisdom into my life, and I hope that you do too! 
To Your Ultimate Success! Jonathan Dugan
Inspirational Quote of The Day
January 17th, 2010A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
Tony Robbins
It’s All God Stuff!
January 10th, 2010“If you embrace the present and become one with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every living sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens and encumbrances of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness. Only then will you become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.” Depak Chopra in ‘The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success’
I once heard a story about a boy who being quite HIGH On God described watching his mother breast feed his little sibling, he said: “it was like watching God pour God into God”.
This is what Quantum Theory is also telling us, it’s all energy! Our thoughts, our bodies, money, the chair you’re sitting on-are all energy/source/The Law of Attraction/God/vibration/atoms in motion-whatever analogy you feel most comfortable with.
It’s all made of the same stuff!
So if there’s anything in your experience you’re not happy with, the question arises ‘How am I to be present with this, and how am I responsible for this?’
I was once told by a shaman when I remarked that something wasn’t my problem(even though it bothered me) that it was someone else’s and it was ‘out there’; he replied: “There is no ‘out there’, it’s all inside”.
I other words, everything in my experience I am somehow responsible for by the shear fact that I am experiencing it, I’m vibrating with it and at the same level as it. I am Attracting it!
Radical concept! I can tell you I didn’t like it one bit! That I’m somehow responsible for what happens in my life? Preposterous! 
Then years later I heard about ‘The Law of Attraction’ and it all started to make sense, although I can tell you, it still sometimes irks me when the world comes up and bites me on the butt.
I have also found out that when I’m present with these things, they aren’t so terrible, they loose their power and don’t seem so frightening.
So part of my process of surviving and thriving is to always come beck into my body and be present, and focus on who I am, where I’m going and experience as much joy as I can.
In this way I hope to transform not only my experience of life as joyous, but also spread joy to the world!
To Your Ultimate Success, Jonathan
What Movies are You Watching?
January 8th, 2010“A success consciousness is that state of mind in which you cannot see yourself as anything but a success.”
Ben Sweetland in ‘Grow Rich While You Sleep’
What ever ‘Movies’ or ‘Pictures’ you are playing in your mind are most likely also the results that you are getting in your life.
If you are constantly watching and playing movies of failure(getting hurt, robbed, failing) in your mind then you are most often receiving those results, and if you are sometimes ‘playing’ movies of success and sometimes failure then most likely you’re getting mixed results, but if you are watching movies of success all the time then you cannot help but succeed!
There are countless stories of athletes who rehearsed their successful moments in their minds before going on to become a champion.
The first person to ever run a mile in less than 4 minutes rehearsed it over and over again in his mind in addition to on the track, all with the intention of doing it under 4 minutes; and finally he was successful.
Even though scientists of the day said it was ‘Impossible’ for a human to run that fast!
All great leaders and people of success agree that you become what you think about. I don’t think they agree on much else!
Henry ford knew that if he could see it in his mind it could be achieved, and he proved it over and over again.
Napoleon Hill said “Anything the mind can conceive, it can achieve’
So what ‘movies are you watching?
To Your Ultimate Success, Jonathan
What Were You Thinking?
January 3rd, 2010“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and
beauty .”
James Allen in ‘As a Man Thinketh’
In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen talks about how our thoughts create our reality and that this process is by LAW, Law of Attraction.
It’s been said time and time again that the thoughts we think propel us toward what we are seeking-consciously or not.
The things we attract are also attracted to us, but there is a timeline from the time we think to when it appears in our lives.
It seems that negative thoughts have an almost immediate return(reaction) like hitting your head, but positives seem to take a longer route to come back to you(respond).
For instance, give the finger to someone in traffic-you may immediately find yourself in a life threatening situation. Give someone the right away in traffic and later that day someone does the same for you.
It’s hard to link up the thought with the result, but usually it’s not just one thought, but accumulated results built up that results in what many call ‘Bad Luck’.
Also if we waiver in our thoughts from positive life affirming thoughts to angry annoyed thoughts our lives don’t go anywhere, and we get the same results we’ve been getting.
So What Were You Thinking??? or more importantly: What Are You Thinking Right Now?
It should be on your present moment and on where you want to go…
My mentor and friend Bob Proctor put together a great product about using the Laws for your success check it out now: http://bit.ly/Your11LOAsecrets
To Your Ultimate Success, Jonathan
