James Clayton Napier

Take this Thought with You into Our Global Economy

2011-03-02T16:50:00.006-06:00

"Money swore and oath that nobody that did not love her should ever have her." - Reverend Ike

Comment: take that into our global (currently dwindling) economy and think about it. :)

What Will We Attract in the New Year?

2009-01-01T19:17:00.008-06:00

Wishing you and yours happiness, health, and abundance.

So...what are some ways to keep a "positive attraction mindset" amid this atmosphere of fear?

First and foremost, I suggest we work to cultivate the attitude of GRATITUDE....however we can...whenever we can...whereever we are...and with everyone we contact.

A Favorite Quote

2008-06-25T03:13:00.003-05:00

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." -- Poet Louise Bogan

Count Your Blessings or Have Someone Do it for You

2008-05-25T13:06:00.007-05:00

I wrote that title "tongue in cheek" after running across a quote from a favorite Hollywood actress Teri Garr, who joked in her book Speedbumps (in which she recalls her Hollywood film and life experiences), "I really do count my blessings. At least I used to; now I get so tired, I have a woman come in once a week and count them for me."

Actually, the point Teri goes on to make is that she greatly improved her life when she found ways to slow down each day and experience simple aspects of life more consciously. Read a little Eckhardt Tolle or most any consciousness writer about being present and grateful.

A wonderful little exercise is to simply stop for 10 minutes and make a list (mental or on paper) of everything you can think of for which you are grateful. Count your blessings and then watch the change in your experience of the rest of your day.

Gratitude Tunes Your Core Vibration

2008-01-17T00:07:00.008-06:00

The vibration of Gratitude cannot be overstated. Gratitude is a state of being in which you drop your resistance to experiencing your life in the ways you always truly wanted. Gratitude creates timelessness and peace in your heart. For your enjoyment, simply look at the photo above, the beautiful form that is the energy of Gratitude made manifest and communicated by water itself.

Imagine that every part within yourself also aligns in such a breathtakingly beautiful way when you whole-heartedly experience Gratitude.
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2008-01-13T22:56:00.002-06:00

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More articles to come.
Thanks,
James

THINK AND GROW RICH - WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS?

2008-01-07T23:56:00.002-06:00

Napoleon Hill wrote the success classic THINK AND GROW RICH — a book that has since publication sold millions of copies It is one of the most popular self-help books on SUCCESS ever written.

This was in the 1930's. But before THINK AND GROW RICH, Napoleon HIll published, in 1928, a nearly 1200 page book called THE LAW OF SUCCESS "Teaching for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy upon which all Personal Success is Built," to quote Hill and published by The Ralston University Press in Meriden, Connecticut.

You can read this phenomenal, life-transforming 16 lesson course online — at no cost — by going to the following link:

LAWS OF SUCCESS - 16 LESSON COURSE

A PERSONAL STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR (NAPOLEON HILL):

Some thirty years ago a young clergyman by the name of Gunsaulus announced in the newspapers of Chicago that he would preach a sermon the following Sunday morning entitled:

"WHAT I WOULD DO IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS!"

The announcement caught the eye of Philip D. Armour, the wealthy packing-house king, who decided to hear the sermon. In his sermon Dr. Gunsaulus pictured a great school of technology where young men and young women could be taught how to succeed in life by developing the ability to THINK in practical rather than in theoretical terms; where they would be taught to "learn by doing."

"If I had a million dollars," said the young preacher, "I would start such a school." After the sermon was over Mr. Armour walked down the aisle to the pulpit, introduced himself, and said, "Young man, I believe you could do all you said you could, and if you will come down to my office tomorrow morning I will give you the million dollars you need."

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it. That was the beginning of the Armour Institute of Technology, one of the very practical schools of the country. The school was born in the imagination of a young man who never would have been heard of outside of the community in which he preached had it not been for the imagination, plus the capital, of Philip D. Armour.

LAWS OF SUCCESS - 16 LESSON COURSE

Take plenty of notes! James

Money and Tuning Your Core Vibration

2007-12-29T23:12:00.003-06:00

Excerpt from my Idea Marketers article -- Author David Hawkins indicates that only about fifteen percent of the world's population is above the critical consciousness level (which can be translated into Core Vibration) which supports, rather than diminishes, life and life energy.

"Thoughts are living breathing energies. They have a life of their own and an electromagnetic charge. At first birth they are singular in nature, yet very magnetic. They seek like vibrations as they travel encircling you throughout the day," -- Gillian MacBeth-Louthan

The very good news is that you can take charge of the instrument of your life and communicate effectively with the "inner strings." Your conscious mind and the powerful sub-conscious energies, pulling together, can create miracles.

Click to Read: Money and Tuning Your Core Vibration

Success -- Is There a Science of Success?

2007-12-19T14:53:00.002-06:00

Is there a Science of Success? According to Julia Seton Sears, M.D., definite laws of success exist. Julia Seton Sears' book The Science of Success is a very rare book originally published in 1914. Her husband, F.W. Sears published his own book "How to Attract Success" and the two compliment each other.

So, What Is Success?

Dr. Sears stated, "Success is the power in the individual to get the thing he or she wants, when they want it, in the way the want it, to keep it as long as they want it and when they have included it, let go of it, and pass on to the fulfillment of a new desire." This definition of Success is about as inclusive as any I've ever read.

"We see clearly that everyone in the world is doing just the thing they should do and that when they have gotten enough of the old thing, and include all its laws in their consciousness," Sears writes, "they will quit and naturally pass on into the inclusion of something else." Success is not "a mysterious thing that waits around and then rushes unannounced into a life," Sears continues.

"The reason so many are seeking success, fame, money, love and recognition and not finding it, is because they have never learned the first necessary lesson of knowing themselves. First, they do not know what they want to do, and secondly, they do not know how to do what they want to do." The first true law for success, Sears indicates, is, "know what part of the mighty stream of the universe you belong, and then strike boldly out in that current of life."

The creative person, she adds, "does not think in dollars;" they "think in millions." The failure world, Sears points out, "is heaped high with those who didn't know." In other words most people don't have a CLUE as to what they want to do with their lives beyond safety and self-preservation needs. I recommend this rare book to you because "The individual who hopes for success must become that success in their own mind, at once," and Sears' book shows her readers how to exactly do just that. Check out Amazon, Alibris, or Bookfinder and check out this rare book on the science of success.

P.G. WODEHOUSE FREE ONLINE BOOK -- UNEASY MONEY

2007-12-15T11:54:00.000-06:00

This blog — Dollars Love Me — takes a light-hearted look at The Law of Attraction. So far, I've posted about 51 articles. Scroll down and look at all the titles while you're here.

Also, if you have "had it up to here" with all this talk about The Law of Attraction, you need laughter. The person I suggest to you as the funniest writer who ever lived was — P.G. Wodehouse. During his more than 90 years of life, P.G. Wodehouse wrote over 90 novels and I recommend you Law of Attraction buffs take a break and read his uproariously funny novel UNEASY MONEY (greed and chaos take over when a man leaves a will worth five million dollars).

Click to Read: UNEASY MONEY

When you've finished UNEASY MONEY check out Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster & his manservant Jeeves books, his novels about Lord Emsworth and life at Blandings Castle, and Psmith in the City.

Laughter is, after all, reputed to be the best medicine. If you're suffering these days from "irony deficiency anemia," Wodehouse is your tonic.

Be well and enjoy,

James

Life-Changing Books at No Cost

2007-12-13T23:39:00.000-06:00

These LIFE-CHANGING books are at No Cost! No gimmicks.

If you love reading the vigorous style of writing found in the old success classics of nearly a hundred years ago, then check out this site.

PSITEK.NET

Here are a few of my favorites — and recommendations for those of you interested in knowing more about The Law of Attraction, The Laws of Success and Mental Mastery.

The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont.
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles.
Practical Mental Influence by William Walker Atkinson.
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
The Master Key System by Charles F. Hannell.
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Theron Q. Dumont.
The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson. A classic!
Thought Vibration and the Law of Attraction by William Walker Atkinson.
The Message of a Master. Exceptional book, written in the 1920's.
Your Invisible Power by Thomas Troward.
How to Turn Your Ability into Cash by Landon Brown.
How to Get What You Want Out of Life by Orison Swett Marden.
The Master Mind by Theron Q. Dumont.
And many more titles such as:
Prosperity Through Thought Force
How to Put the Subconscious Mind to Work,
The Money Magnet,
I Can & Therefore I Will, and many more — all FREE!

Again, the website is: PSITEK.NET
Enjoy!

Prosperity to all!
James

SUCCESS: KNOW YOUR RULING STAR

2007-12-06T21:31:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article --"Know your Ruling Star," the Spanish priest Gracian wrote in The Art of Worldly Wisdom. "One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical."

We are better received in certain locations or areas than in others, welcomed when we show up, and we most certainly do find more luck in one place than another.

"But where, where, where is THAT PLACE?" I wondered.

Click to Read: Success: Know Your Ruling Star

Speak Up and Ask for what You Want

2007-12-06T20:57:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- Asking for what you want isn't about being overbearing, but aren't the little things of daily life as well as careers dependent on simple, direct requests? "We are perfectly justified in assuming that a fair share of all that is good of big and little things belongs to us for the asking," Lurton observes. He claims we fail to collect because we don't adopt the positive attitude, we're careless or shy and afraid of a little rebuff." That's quite a price to pay for never speaking up or shuddering at the thought of hearing "No" as an answer. Who knows? The pay raise, promotion, great end-of-the-month car deal when the dealership is trying to meet a quota, or marriage to the love of your life may never happen - unless you ask.

Click to read: Speak Up and Ask for what You Want

The Infinite Passion of Life

2007-12-05T23:21:00.001-06:00

A single improvement is often enough to produce far-reaching consequences in one's fortune. – Max Gunther, The Luck Factor

For most of us the prospect of a invigorating beginning in a new Location, a fresh start in life — re-energizes us. It brings about a feeling of what I call that let-out-of-school feeling.

"Why is this let-out-of-school feeling so important to our emotional health and well-being?" you may be wondering (I hope you are!).

Because the ability to notice and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us--no matter our location or vocation in life--is vital.

A change of scenery or pleasant, much-anticipated diversion from our usual pace is often just the ticket to make that occur.

Appreciation allows life to pour more of itself [life energy] into us.

"The moment we fully appreciate beauty we become more than what we were (it lightens our greed)," Roberto Assagioli wrote in his book Psychosynthesis. "We live a moment of pure psychological health

"Full consciousness brings joy," author Wayne Amos wrote many years ago. "One of the mysteries is that the universe contains innate joy. Once you open your senses to anything--a sunset, a waterfall, a stone, a blade of grass--the joy comes."

Ready For Sightseeing?

"We are departing for the skies. Who has a mind for sightseeing?" the poet Rumi asked.

The skies here are not the "friendly skies" a certain airline has encouraged us to fly, but the skies of imagination.

A bit of wispy daydreaming wedded to commitment on our part and, before you know it, you're on your way--to your new home; a new location, new city, new job, new friends, perhaps even to your Paradise vacation spot or favorite retirement destination.

Before selling everything you own or packing it into storage and heading out to the open road and new adventures, however, I suggest you ask yourself (as I have), "What do I want for myself in this new moment?" (Janet Rainwater).

Life, I've found, does have a pesky way of asking you WHAT YOU TRULY WANT AND DESIRE and it wants YOUR reply. My own experiences have shown me that life wants: a crystal-clear answer from you--"Yes, this is it! This is what I want to be, do, and how I desire to enjoy my remaining time here."

If your answer is, "I'm not sure," then I suggest you close your eyes and daydream.

First, try envisioning what an ideal day would be like for you. Write down, and be very specific, about what you envision.

When you do this, you are departing for the skies within.

Faith and Confidence in Your Future

All of us care about financial security. Money allows us to say "Yes" to ourselves and to new experiences in life. It is a bit costly to sample many of life's delights (here and abroad), isn't it?

Money, however, has no idea what we think OF or ABOUT it. Money is neutral in that sense. So, wherever you move--or even if you stay in your present location--your feelings about money (your scarcity consciousness/abundance consciousness quotient) will determine, even in Paradise, whether or not you feel financially secure.

Dr. John Diamond's (Your Body Doesn't Lie) wonderful affirmation, "I have faith and confidence in my future. I am secure," is worth taking along with you wherever you go.

Security: A Place Within

I'd like to share with you my personal favorite definition of security:

"Security is not a place of ideological stability but a direction inspired by curiosity."

How's your direction-inspired-by-curiosity doing these days?

Well, I hope!

Those of you who are about to retire, or have already, remember as you try to figure out whether to sell your home and buy an RV, take a cruise around the world, or settle into a retirement community, "Plan to keep busy."

"The practice of idleness is not as easy as it sounds," Alan DeVoe reminds us.

Ask those who have tried idleness and found it lacking in meaning and a source, eventually, of much dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, observed that "Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."

To those of you a few years away from that "idle" life you imagine will be so wonderful--perhaps several or more moves are yet in your future--you have a big question to answer:

"In what should I creatively invest the remaining capital of my days?
What projects? What goals? What do I really CARE about?"
I've known people in the 80's--and one woman in her 90's--who are still asking themselves similar questions.

One thing is certain. To quote the philosopher Lao Tse, "If you do not change direction [assuming you are dissatisfied at present], you may end up where you are heading."

What Dreams May Be

The Italian film-maker Fellini wrote, "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

How strong is your commitment to what you say, in your heart of hearts, you really want? Is there anything you can start doing TODAY to power up your dream?

Are you willing to make the initial investment of buying back the time you are giving to television every night, the office talk that goes nowhere, shopping, or "having' a few every night before heading home," into achieving at least one thing in your heart of hearts you know you desire?

Only you know. No one else does. The results we see in a few years, however, will let everyone you know how you decided.

"Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune," Boris Pasternak wrote. "Our nervous system isn't just a fiction."

"Man's main task in life," Eric Fromm wrote, "is to give birth to himself. This is possible only when our interest in ourselves spills over into caring about our fellow men and women. Usually getting there requires a bit of living before that spillover occurs (except, perhaps, in those children who seem to be born with "old" and "wise" souls).

They are the exceptions.

We cannot live only for ourselves," Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick) wrote. "A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects."

Try not to let everyday life get you down. If you do, down scores a triumphant victory over life, doesn't it?

"The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged." –-Max Gunther

"There is no end," Fellini reminds us. "There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Money & The Art of Bliss --

2007-12-05T23:11:00.000-06:00

"The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged." – Max Gunther

How strong is your commitment to what you say, in your heart of hearts, you really want? Is there anything you can start doing today to power up your dream?

18th and 19th Century German poet, scientist, and author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, "Until one is committed, there is hesitation, the chance to draw back, always making for ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred."

Goethe assured his readers that with commitment, "A whole stream of events issues from the decision, working in our favor; all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it."

Isn't it possible that the day you ask for a mountain (a problem) to be moved from your life…and you wouldn't be surprised if it did move…is the day it will move?

The great Joseph Campbell, shortly before his death, told a nationwide audience that watched his PBS series of conversations with Bill Moyers to, "follow your bliss."

By bliss, Campbell meant your highest enthusiasm. "I have found that you have only to take one step toward the gods and they will take ten steps toward you," he wrote.

What happens when you want to follow your bliss but are unable to give up your present job? You worry so much about money.

"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." — Charles Schultz

You can begin by reclaiming the hours you do own, the ones which may have been filled with clutter, distractions, and unnecessary obligations.

"What happens then?" you ask. "Suppose I grant myself the possibility that I might find fifteen or thirty extra minutes a day if I searched for them?"

Getting started toward "your bliss" is when the magic begins. The smallest progress opens springs of inner vitality. You're re-energized as if every little cell in your body tingles with excitement (they know you've done something right)!

Sidney Friedman in his book Your Mind Knows More Than You Do listed what he called 17 common, sensible, simple, yet for some reason, often unobserved means to gratification.
The first four are:
*Pursue the work you love to do.
*Seek the people you love to be with.
*Find the place you love to live.
*Appreciate each of these discoveries."

My own experiences have taught me that what truly matters finding your place in life, being engaged work that energizes you and you instinctively feel and intuitively know you are here to do; work done in a spirit of service and for which you are well-paid and from a spirit of service, and always the result of an infinite passion for life.

Let's go back to the German poet and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who reminded us, "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it."

Welcome from James

2007-12-01T03:05:00.001-06:00

Welcome to my blog, subtitled "a light-hearted look into the Law of Attraction" -- light-hearted because many of the articles and books on the Law of Attraction are serious and lacking in humor. Frankly, reading them can be depressing rather than inspirational -- not good for the psyche.

A super-serious psyche that isn't entertained by your life is likely to busy itself giving you just the opposite of what you're seeking. We don't want that, do we?

Even if we are feeling a bit desperate about our life situation, it's not a good idea to feed that feeling of desperation into your suggestible mind. Your mind takes every premise you send and acts on it as though that premise were TRUE. To quote a friend, "The desperate life is not worth examining."

The American novelist William Allen White read Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on "Self-Reliance" when he was a teenager. Years later White would say, in his autobiography, "As I read that essay my spirit expanded as though I had heard the trumpet call of life. I was thrilled and stirred...I doubt if I have ever been moved so deeply by anything else I have read."

Take a look at Emerson's "Self-Reliance" when you get a chance. See if it thrills and stirs you as it did William Allen White when he was seventeen.

Your thoughts are not just whispey things that appear, hang around for a few seconds, and disappear. Your thoughts are Forces. I'd like to suggest you practice the power of speaking into existence the things you want. I suggest you avoid stirring up the energies that work to defeat your deepest desires and dreams by, frankly, not bringing up those subjects.

Here are three places to find great ideas, ideas that will excite and restore your vital reserves.

First, check out Project Gutenberg. You'll be astounded by the thousands of free books you can download, print, and read. All the books in that database are out of copyright. You're sure to find something of interest if you take an hour or two to browse the Project Gutenberg offerings.

Secondly, go to books.Google.com Google has scanned many classic books from libraries across America, books you will find no where else. Here are a few I've read recently and recommend you give a look:

Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic by William Walker Atkinson (1912). This book, by the author of over a hundred titles during his lifetime, was considered by Atkinson to be his masterpiece — and it is a masterpiece!

Mental Therapeutics or Just How to Heal Oneself and Others by Theron Q. Dumont (1917).

The Law of Mentation by A. Victor Segno (1902). Look up Segno on the net. He was quite a character among the early mentalists.

Health Through Will Power by James J. Walsh, M.D., (1919).

If you go to books.google.com and find a book you want to read, you may want to take notes on it if it deals with a self-help topic. I have many notebooks filled with jottings from late night voyages into the world of Google scanned books.

Finally, check out Internet Archive. They also have an amazing collection of books from libraries throughout the world. Tonight, for examine, I printed chapters from two remarkable books: The Power of Positive Living by Douglas Lurton (1950) and The Power of Mental Demand and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law (1913).

Especially read Lurton's first chapter "Ask For It." I'll be writing and posting an article shortly from my reading of Lurton's book. "Many of the richest rewards of life, material as well as spiritual, are never acquired -- simply because they aren't asked for," Lurton writes.

I'm always glad to receive your feedback on the articles here at dollarsloveme.blogspot.com; so feel welcome to write me at writercard@gmail.com for your comments and suggestions. I leave you now with the wonderful words of Florence Scovel-Shinn from her 1920's classic The Game of Life and How to Play It: "We should all be bringing some seemingly impossible things to pass."
Let's do it!
All the best, James

RENAME YOUR WORLD

2007-11-26T13:54:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from Ezine Article: Before renaming our world we have to understand the power of our words. "We have bound ourselves by the chains of our own words," Beard wrote. "Think of the things that we say! Think of the beliefs under which we labor," so many of them standing in the way of our happiness, yet as real to us as the imaginary friends of our early childhood years.

Click to Read: Rename Your World

DOLLARS WANT ME!

2007-11-25T01:19:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- "Say to the dollar, 'I do not need you. You need me. You are of no use until my brain and hand use you. You wish to be used. You come to me that you may be used. I do not need a dollars. Dollars need me," Mr. Brown tells us in Dollars Need Me. I enjoyed the part of the article that reminded his readers to speak to his Dollars and tell them to get out there and circulate and essentially, "Go to work for me."

Click to Read: DOLLARS WANT ME!

Why Some People Almost Always End Up With What They Want And You Don't

2007-11-20T18:18:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from Article -- The idea behind auto or self suggestion is this: "Every thought entirely filling the mind becomes true for us and tends to transform itself into action," Coue' told his patients. "When you have something to do, always think 'it is easy,' and make the words 'difficult' and 'impossible' and 'I cannot,' and 'it's stronger than I,' 'I cannot prevent myself from'...disappear from your vocabulary." Replace them, he said, with the phrase "It is easy and I can."

I am convinced that Dr. Coue's voice, physical presence, confidence, and his ability to convey his belief to each of his patients that they would either get well, better, or - in cases where the illness was too far advanced for cure - find relief from racking pain, his personal magnetism and demeanor conveyed suggestions of HOPE to his patients and when their "inner mind" BECAME CONVINCED, amazing turn-arounds occurred in their lives.

Click to Read: Why Some People Almost Always End Up With What They Want And You Don't

Create Money with the Magic of Believing

2007-11-19T14:33:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my Ezine article -- "The subconscious mind," Bristol claimed, "will not take the trouble to work for those who do not believe in it." For those who believe the Source of Power is MORE than that possessed by what I call the sub-attentive mind, look at Bristol's statement about its connection with a "universal hookup;" in other words, a power source outside itself into which it is plugged and draws on for energy to carry out its assignments.

Click to Read: Create Money with the Magic of Believing

Wikipedia on The Law of Attraction

2007-11-18T09:19:00.000-06:00

From Wikipedia : "One of the most important early books on this subject in the English language is As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (1864 - 1912), which was published in 1902. The title derives from the ancient Jewish Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." Allen took this ambiguous idea of a correspondence between "a man's heart" and his existence to a logical extreme, stating that, "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires -- and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.^{[4] "}

ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME AFFIRMATIONS WERE FUN AND GOT RESULTS?

2007-11-15T11:09:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- DNA information patterns were captured by Russian scientists and the cells reprogrammed (which, I might add, we have the power to do up to a point by altering our self-talk from negative to more optimistic and upbeat). There are many other techniques we may employ to also transmit new information patterns and frequencies to our DNA such as meditation, hypnosis, prayer, Emotional Freedom Techniques, and so many other self growth techniques.

Dr. Deepak Chopra has pointed out that each cell of our body is not only a miniature mind but a "little ear" listening in on everything we say and think - positive or negative.

Click to Read: Isn't it About Time Affirmations Were Fun and Got Results?

Welcome to This Week's Edition of Failing Forward

2007-11-15T00:15:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- "History moves in long waves," Irwin Edman said. "We are caught in the roughest surf today, and hurled about by it." Financially, many workers feel they are caught in rough surfs and hurled about by them. Do you have a boss like G. Raymond Spurley? Do you have to wonder what your Mr. Spurley is thinking, what his next moves and plans are, and whether you'll have your job when he finishes cleaning house? Maybe you should, as a side dish of your life, be working on a plan that will take care of you and your family should the axe fall, a plan that gives you faith and confidence in your future no matter what outside forces intrude into your life.

Click to Read: Welcome to This Week's Edition of Failing Forward

Why Can't I Figure Out What to do with My Life?

2007-11-15T00:09:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- Have you ever experienced a longing or desire to excel in a certain profession or business?" A. Victor Segno asks in his 1902 classic The Law of Mentalism which sold for three dollars, a hefty sum of money back then. "There is nothing that kills aspiration and ambition," Segno writes, "more quickly than trying to do something for which one is not adapted."

Click to Read: Why Can't I Figure Out What to do with My Life?

ISN'T IT TIME FOR MORE GOOD NEWS? part one

2007-11-13T19:06:00.002-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- My friend Peter has a theory about money and luck. He says, as we all agree, that money is energy. Peter, however, says money on the physical plane is DENSE energy. You can learn to play around with dense energy and get yourself a home, a car, furniture and food, or you can grow a metaphysical carrot. A real carrot, Peter notes, is grown from the dense energy of the soil. What good, he asks, is a metaphysical carrot if you can’t eat it? His view is that when Jesus told his followers to “be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove," he was saying be wise in the ways of the world and if survival depends on a physical plane existence and you’re going to have to play in the same arena as the the well-to-do, then you better to give up any fanciful notions you have about money being the root of all evil [actually the Greek is “a" root of evil], get real and wise, become as educated and informed as your competitors are, and let your light shine as brightly or even more brilliantly than theirs does. You’ll do this if you want to “make it" in this old world of ours.

Click to Read: Isn't it Time for More Good News? pt.1

ISN'T IT TIME FOR MORE GOOD NEWS? part two

2007-11-13T18:55:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- So, let’s look see how possibility thinking, the luck factor, serendipity, and good fortune are interrelated—each situated on a single strand I see as prosperity awareness. Our service to others is a present, a gift we give of our time, skills, and talents. Our giving attitude convinces the “inner us" that we already have a lot, that we are prosperous [lucky] and expect to remain so. Also, any questions about where to start your money flow can be answered by asking yourself the question, “What is it I get the most praise for doing that I love and enjoy? What have people suggested I do more of?" What riches within my reach am I overlooking? In your imagination, travel back to your youth and answer Joseph Campbell’s question, “What did you do as a child that created timelessness?"

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The Law Of Attraction - What are Your Inner KEYWORDS?

2007-11-13T10:04:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- We send the right keywords to our Innernet search engine, keywords that optimize our search for what we, at a cellular and tissue level of our being, truly want and desire from life--as well as what we would like to give. As for your multidimensional search engine ranking, this is an instance where you and you alone create the algorithms that determine the ultimate ranking you see when you sign on, enter your search term.

Then, while our search progresses and all sources of information accessed, our part is not to become exasperated by how long it is taking for our search results to be displayed on the screen of our outer life; relax and continue to have faith and confidence in your future, knowing that you will be taken care of, that you are SECURE.

The key, I suspect, to retrieving all you want from life is learning to become an inner search engine optimization specialist!"

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Will I Ever Be Happy Again?

2007-11-12T23:48:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- Start to notice, and this is my phrase, all the small, insignificant, or meaningful little things that happen to you throughout the day that fall into the category of "absurd good news." We should all be (1) having more FUN, (2) having more instances of "absurd good news." This is my version of notice what is already great about your life and as you get happier about what you're already happy about you'll find you'll lose more of that fear of change. I've reached the place where I can truly follow the words of a former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Holmes, who wrote: "Have faith and pursue the unknown ends," knowing they may be absurdly better than you ever imagined. Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way says to "Leap and the net will appear," and I suggest you will know exactly when it's time to leap and you won't do anything until you, inwardly, are shown and have unshakable conviction that "This day, today, is the day I leap and not a moment before."

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Is TV News More About Ratings & Money Than Bettering the World?

2007-11-07T17:49:00.002-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- Local broadcast news has become more about ratings and station profits than solid news gathering, compiling lists of trusted sources, compelling writing, and good storytelling. The term "seasoned reporters" is rarely heard. The traditions of Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards, Walter Chronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and the early journalistic years of Barbara Walters at NBC are all but lost on today's generation of new hires who have only the vaguest ideas of the standards, values, and news ethics that were so important to these broadcasting legends.

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A Surprisingly Simple Way to Make Life Give You What You Want

2007-11-07T17:43:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from article -- "We think in secret" - and feel - "and it comes to pass; environment is but our looking glass," the poet William Thackery wrote. What if you were given a printout at the end of each day of every thought, and strong feeling, that had its moment of glory in the sunlight of your mind? Ouch. What would be the ratio of positive to negative thoughts? Could the "Law" of Attraction be getting many mixed signals from you? One moment, happy? Another moment, discouraged? Another time, really, really, really upset? What's the "Law" supposed to do to help you? How will it answer you? Exactly how many different images can we place on the photographic plate of our minds daily and not blow the transmission lines radiating from ourselves to that great Central Answering Station, wherever it's located.

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The Law of Attraction in the Thought World

2007-11-06T10:38:00.002-06:00

Excerpt from my Article -- We set into motion what Atkinson refers to as the great Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction should make us realize there is no value to thinking of all the possible things ahead of us, which might upset us and our plans. "When the mind is full of worry thoughts," Atkinson writes, "it cannot find time to work out plans to benefit you." "More than half the people of the world are slaves of every vagrant thought which may see fit to torment them," Atkinson says. Our minds were given us for our own use, not to use us and he encourages his readers to "Wake up and display a few signs of life!"

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Smith Ballew -- The Best Male Singer You've Likely Never Heard Of

2007-11-06T10:35:00.003-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- A small number of Smith Ballew's recordings are on CD, having been re-mastered and you can probably find them on Amazon.com or Ebay.com If you haven't heard the music of the 1920's and early 1930's you owe it to yourself to do so. Amazingly, there are several Ballew vocals on YouTube. I'd suggest you start with the recordings of Smith Ballew, Bing Crosby, Annette Hanshaw -- who retired before the age of 30 -- and who is my favorite female vocalist of all time. Her vocals are amazing. How I wish this incredibly shy young woman not retired from the music business so early in life.

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Attract Luck -- Where Can I Go to Be Lucky?

2007-11-05T23:43:00.001-06:00

Excerpt from my article -- "Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical. Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's value felt." - Balthasar Gracian, (Spain, 1600's)

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Boost Your Energy in Less Than Five Minutes

2007-11-05T23:34:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from my article --What follows is a daily program for balancing your meridians and maintaining emotional health. I've encapsulated material from energy experts such as Dr. John Diamond, Gwenn Bonnell, Gary Craig - originator of the Emotional Freedom Technique, and the French doctor Emile Coue' who was best known in the 1920's for the phrase, "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

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Our Search for a Place Called Home

2007-11-02T13:00:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- This universe we live in is connected in a mysterious fashion we don’t possess the language skills or insight to fully describe.

We are, all of us, part of an indivisible fabric of reality. While we may seem separate from each other and we live distinct lives, at another deeper, more profound, more fundamental level we are inseparably linked.

Just as all knowledge in our information universe is part of a greater Unity, it separates itself so we can examine each knowledge strand.

We also are part of a web. This web is about ten-trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion times larger than the spiders wove in my cornfield!

Each strand of this web vibrates as part of the whole and must be part of the whole to have any claim to existence.

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Work Miracles -- Have More Faith & Confidence in Your Future!

2007-11-01T15:30:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- "Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction...." -Boris Pasternak

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Quick Easy Questions For Getting Your Life On Track

2007-11-01T15:23:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- "Man ever surrounds himself with the true image of himself," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. Look out your window, take in what you see and then ask yourself, "Is this the success picture I've been unknowingly carrying around in my head all these years? Is this a reflection of what I think I deserve from life? Are the things that surround me, including my neighborhood, my car or truck, my city, a faithful reproduction of who I really AM?"

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Are You A Metagrumbler?

2007-11-01T15:12:00.002-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- The meta-grumbles "are the meta-motivations which hold in the self-actualizing life." These, Maslow says, "might be complaints about not being given the full truth, blocks in the free flow of communication, complaints about inefficiency and imperfections, etc." What's intriguing about complaints or grumbles at this level is that people who have the luxury of complaining about certain systems in place at work, injustice, grumbles about not being rewarded for the time one has spent on a project, about villainy being rewarded, is this: these are much higher levels of grumbles than those we expect to hear from a person who is anxious about their safety and survival.

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What's Your Business Personality Type? -- Article by Cait Stanley

2007-10-31T17:25:00.000-05:00

Click to read Cait Stanley's new article on Business Personality Styles in the Four-Grid System.

Is the Law of Attraction Really a Law?

2007-10-31T12:10:00.004-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- ...is The Law of Attraction a Law as real as gravity or is it a work in progress - a "habit" of the universe rather than a ironclad Law?

Rupert Sheldrake, biologist with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University, has written more than ten books including A New Science of Life and The Presence of the Past. Sheldrake says most of the laws of nature, as well as the universe, are more habits rather than Laws.

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RID YOURSELF OF MONEY WORRIES

2007-10-31T00:39:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- When we worry about money, creative solutions slip through a time pocket; they just disappear - up and leave because they don't like living around a lot of loud, partying worry neighbors. I hope this article will help my friends rid themselves of today's money worries, that their mental outlook will set the stage for attracting more money, finding opportunities and answers that already exist even though, right now, they're presently unaware of them.

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The Secret, What is the Secret of the Law of Attraction?

2007-10-29T23:51:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- As to the intelligence behind the law of intention and the question as to exactly what that intelligence is, I like to use the quote of St. Augustine here who said, “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

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Why Is It You Can Do Everything Right and Nothing Works?

2007-10-29T23:38:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- Why is it that we're sailing along, making good progress it appears, and suddenly we hit a roadblock, a dead end, and why is it that this seems to occur over and over and over - as a repetitive pattern? Positive thinking and your optimism is getting you nowhere. Things are worse than they ever were before. Your self-esteem is plummeting. Nothing, it seems, is going right. "What's going on?" you wonder. Has the Law of Attraction, in my case, gone haywire? This makes no sense at all." Could it be, possibly, the answer is that our energy batteries are reversed?

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WHEN ITS TIME, FINALLY, TO MOVE ON AND START OVER

2007-10-29T23:27:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- So maybe it's time for a new lease on life, a change of pace, and a beginning in a place that fosters and nourishes your creativity, supports you, and appreciates you as much as you appreciate it. Only you know your life situation. "The average thought-atmosphere of a community is the composite thoughts of the people composing that community," Ramacharaka writes. Some thought-forms travel away but most remain "...in the same way a fire in a stove may be extinguished, and yet the heat will remain in the room for a long time afterward."

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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE IN ONE DAY

2007-10-27T14:09:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- When we're stuck in a rut, it's easy to stay in that rut and to make very logical excuses for doing so. "You can know a score of subjects academically, be able to discuss a thousand books - and still be ineffective. The reason is simply this," Edwards claims. "Such people are locked within the 'circle of knowing' and until they can move into the 'circle of doing' they are without practical power. Here is where this book comes crashing through." 10 Days to a Great New Life shows us how to "bring your powers into play within the framework of your current set-up .

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HEALING WORDS

2007-10-27T14:01:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- How powerful are healing words? What impact do they have on our immune systems? Emile Coue' had an answer and, though few know his name today, his success with restoring his ill clients back to health was nothing less than astonishing.

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SECRETS OF A MAN WHO MADE MILLIONS FOR HIMSELF AND HIS CLIENTS

2007-10-27T13:37:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- Are you discouraged that things aren't going so well, despite your best efforts? "Doors that are worth entering," Collier writes, "are usually closed, but the resolute bang away at them." He also says, and this I love, that "It is just as easy to talk in millions as in single dollars."

"What part are you acting in the theater of life?" Collier asks his readers. "What place have you assigned to yourself on that stage? Are you one of the stars?" He then quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson who astutely observed that "Man surrounds himself with the true image of himself." We become what we think about throughout the day and night, Collier believed, and so "If the dominating thought in your mind is riches, that thought will draw to you opportunities for riches you never dreamed of."

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YOU'RE SURELY NOT SAYING IMPROVING MY ATTITUDE WILL MAKE MY LIFE BETTER ARE YOU?

2007-10-27T13:22:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- We live in a “mysterious universe,” one of design and, I believe, purpose. There are “fundamental principles” that bring us love, joy, peace and happiness and there are “ways of living” that do the opposite. Emerson tells us, “A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labours are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.” And then, this amazing statement, also from Emerson: “Truth is always present; one only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind’s eye to read its oracles.”

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LIVING LIFE WITH YOUR PURPOSE, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S PURPOSE

2007-10-27T13:17:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- Why does there seem to be so much repetition in the things we go through? Why do they seem to occur, in different guises and places, again and again? “A person becomes accustomed to selecting from the Universal Mind a certain fairly narrow range of vibrations with which he has an affinity,” Satprem writes, and while turning round and round in his cage “it is merely a new set of acrobatics in the same milieu.” We are restricted because we are, it seems, “perpetually capturing the same wavelength,” but once we can master silence, “we can run through the whole range of wavelengths and choose to reject [or accept] as we please.”

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USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO BELIEVE YOUR FUTURE IN

2007-10-27T13:10:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- Coue’...saw the reverse of conflict when he wrote that “When the will and imagination are in harmony, agreement, one multiplies the power of the other, and resistance will be overcome.” In other words Coue’ “believed in the power of emotion and instinct — (limbic and reptilian brains), to motivate our logic and reasoning (neocortex), to obtain our burning desires.”

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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT BEING A SUCCESS IS EASIER THAN WE THINK?

2007-10-27T13:03:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- Florence Scovel-Shinn told us how to be a success in this world and did it better than thousands of other authors who tried to coax from success its secrets. A model, artist, illustrator of children's literature in magazines, and for much of her life. Her self-published book in 1924, The Game of Life and How to Play It, is as imaginatively real now as the spirit of its message during the heyday of the roaring twenties...

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SELF GROWTH MADE EASY

2007-10-27T12:56:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- So, culling through years of notebooks, what follows are a few of the best quotes and phrases that were, when I first encountered them, gave me pretty much the same sensation White felt when he first encountered Emerson. I hope you enjoy this peek into my notebooks and that you’ll find an idea worth preserving.

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SUCCESS & THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL APPEAL!

2007-10-27T12:44:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from article: ....Dr. Wayne Dyer has said on many occasions that we train, we actually teach others how to react to us, mainly because we show them how to get away with it.

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THE POWER OF INTENTION, IS SAYING I CAN & I WILL SUCCEED ENOUGH TO SUCCEED?

2007-10-27T12:38:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- When our Intention is CLEAR we send out a powerful signal to an attuned Creative Life Force that this, more than anything else, is what we want to give as well as receive from Life.

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FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

2007-10-27T00:15:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- .....you have to go through the “awkward phase of change” before the activity becomes second nature and you become an old pro at it.

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MONEY AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

2007-10-27T00:05:00.001-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- “Thoughts are living breathing energies. They have a life of their own and an electromagnetic charge. At first birth they are singular in nature, yet very magnetic. They seek like vibrations as they travel encircling you throughout the day,” – Gillian MacBeth-Louthan

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POSITIVE THINKING, LIFE ENERGY, & YOUR HEALTH

2007-10-26T23:36:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- “Somehow the Life Energy of the ‘strong’ person is diminished by his coming into personal contact with someone with a weak Thymus,” Diamond says. “…a specific imbalance can be transferred from one person to another.” This is an intriguing statement when viewed in the light that Diamond claims most doctors and therapists he’s tested “who are caring and sympathetic practitioners of the healing arts” suffer from under-active Thymus glands. “Life energy,” he adds, “should be a consideration when we choose our friends and associates. And our husbands and wives, of course.” When our Life Energy is high, others will benefit from close contact with us. The “reciprocal thymus relationship” is what Diamond regards “as the basis of all ethical behavior.”

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WAKE UP AND LIVE, IT'S LATER THAN WE THINK.....

2007-10-26T23:19:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article -- I’ve learned that when you focus on what you want, you tend to go after it or, by the magic of what I call the configuration of events, it shows up and goes after you. In other words, it’s as if that which is sought solves a missing person’s report and finds you after searching all the data fields in the universal computer, what I call the invisible energy threads of information about you that’s out there (there are few, if any secrets since we’re all interconnected).

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SUCCESS -- WHO IS DREAMING YOUR FUTURE?

2007-10-26T23:02:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from my article: Success begins with a dream, a plan, a blueprint that you will tweak many times before success finally happens. "When the soul wishes to experience something," Meister Eckhart wrote, "she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image."

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY!

2007-10-26T22:48:00.002-05:00

Excerpt from my article: "Thousands of legitimate money making opportunities exist and perhaps you’ll find one that’s a perfect fit for you that doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg; without the arm how could you write them a check so hold on to your arm because as a person who also draws cartoons I can tell you an arm comes in very handy for what I do, as it does for all of us."

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