Today's Blog Topic: The Power of Thought

Today's quote is from Wallace Wattles, author of the book: The Science of Getting Rich.
This book was featured in the movie The Secret.

"To think health when surrounded by the appearance of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants."

Because of the fact that we live in a mostly negative world, we must take action everyday to control our mental focus. If not, then we will be controlled and brainwashed by our environment which would include the media and the people in our life. We must have vision, or else we will settle for what is around us instead of what we want to create in our thoughts. It is imperative that we work to control our thoughts and keep then on the things we want, and off of the things we don't want.

As Wattles explains in his book, there is a definite science to wealth attraction and getting the things that we want. Things don't happen by chance. To reach a level where we are a master mind, this is something that we all should strive to achieve.

All Men Are Created Equal. Some Work Harder in the Off Season.

quote by Emmitt Smith

Emmitt Smith is the NFL's all time leading rusher. I think that he is qualified to speak on topics such as work ethic. Work ethic is something I believe a great majority of people in America do not have much of. I believe God blesses all of us with so many gifts. Gifts that we take for granted and that we do nothing with. We look at what other people have or how they are and we wish we could be like them, not realizing that what another person has done we could probably do as well. But the majority of people are lazy and do not want to work hard.

We need to realize that people like Emmitt Smith, or any huge success for that matter, got that way because they put the time in and worked hard. Will Smith is quoted as saying that he has a "ridiculous, sickening work ethic." I believe that this is the kind of mentality we should adopt in regards to work ethic. If we desire to be live our dreams, a smart thing to do is to study people who have achieved massive success and copy them. Today let's learn from these great men and make a decision to strengthen our work ethic.

Words of Wisdom from 50 Cent

Motivational speaker Eric Thomas tells a story where 50 Cent (one of my favorite rappers) was interviewed on a movie set where he was also doing the soundtrack. The reporter asks, “50, when do you sleep?” 50′s reply, “Sleep? Sleep is for those who are broke! I don’t sleep. I have an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.” Today, 50 Cent is worth $216 Million.

We all have an opportunity to make our dreams a reality. But very few of us are willing to put the time in, to make the sacrafices, to pay the price to make those dreams a reality. If any of us are broke, then we have no business sitting around watching TV. Not even for one minute. We need to be hustling. We need to getting up early and studying successful people, studying wealthy people, studying relationships, working on our side business, taking classes, exercising, working a 2nd job if we have to. We have one shot at life. Today we need to choose not to stand on the sidelines of life. Let's get into the game.

"By Any Means Necessary."

- Malcolm X

I believe that this is the attitude that we must have if we are going to achieve greatness, or just to simply make our dreams a reality. When we decide to do something, its done. The decision has been made. Now all we have to wait for is for the universe to see our vision. Malcolm X had a definite goal in his mind and he was willing to do whatever it took to make that vision a reality. We must adopt this kind of focus in pursuit of our goals and dreams. Failure simply cannot be an option. We must not be concerned about what others are doing or compare ourselves to anybody. Whatever we spend time thinking about is going to come true. Keeping this in mind, we must keep our thoughts positive an focused on the things that we want and off the things we don't want. This will help our vision come into fruition quickly. If we get knocked off our path to our goals one day, that is ok but we must immediately get back on track.

Let us not play small today. It does not serve us or the universe to behave in this way. We are being called to do great things with our lives. In the eternal words of Malcolm X, let's find a way to make our dreams a reality "by any means necessary."

"When One Door Closes, Another Opens; But we often stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."

quote by Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

One of the easiest things for us to do is to live in a time other then the present. We dwell on our past failures which prevents us from moving forward and achieving our full potential. The best thing that we can do is just to let go of the past. We have absolutely no control of it whatsoever. We waste an incredible amount of mental energy dwelling on the past which robs us of time and energy we could be putting into our dreams and goals. Remember, what we want also wants us. But we must move on from the past. The present moment is all we have.

Let's focus on today on the future that we can have an impact on. There are endless possibilities in this world that we can take advantage of, but we must let go of whatever past events or persons are holding us back.

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

quote by Jack Canfield

I think the last sentence of this quote is what most people are not willing to do, and that is to take action. This is where we must separate ourselves from the majority of people on this planet. Everything we want in life is readily available to us. But we must put the work in. We must be willing to make the sacrifices necessary for us to see our dreams become a reality. Our focus must be razor sharp. By deciding exactly what we want, we help to bring those things into our life faster.

We must study about the things we want. If we want to become wealthy, we need to study wealth. If we want to be happy, we need to study happiness. We can not leave these things to chance. We must model those who have already achieved what we want. By doing this we bring the things we want into our lives even faster.

Don't Accept Second Class Behavior From Yourself or Others

- quote by Eben Pagan

This must be one of our daily motto's. We need to repeat this to ourselves daily. In regards to other people, certain boundaries need to be established. Sometimes we need to make it clear to people that their actions are unacceptable, and that we simply will not tolerate them. We need to be clear what our values are and stand up for them. We need to be as solid as a rock when it comes to our character and our integrity. Another choice we can make is to simply not hang around people who act in ways that go against what is acceptable behavior to us.

The same must hold true with our own behavior. When we get off track, which is bound to happen from time to time, then we must immediately get back on track. If we do something that is out of character for us, we need to forgive ourselves and move on. Let us not dwell on our past mistakes. If we make a mistake, it is OK because we are human beings and we are bound to make mistakes from time to time. If we know that we are performing below our potential in this great game of life, then this is totally unacceptable and we need to step our game up.

At all times you are either getting better or getting worse. You can not stay the same.

This is a belief that we should and must adopt for ourselves. Everyday we must be making improvements in ourselves. If not, then we are going backwards. Staying in the same place is the same as getting worse.

Tony Robbins has a phrase that he has trademarked: Constant and Never Ending Improvement. Even if we make small improvements in our daily lives, those improvements begin to stack on top of one another. Over time, we can shape a new reality for ourselves if we work to improve daily. Let's ask ourselves today: What can I improve on in my life today? What area of my life am I not happy with that needs some time and attention? What habits of mine need to be stopped immediately? What new behaviors/daily would I like to start daily? Let's choose the path of growth today, and not fall into the trap of complacency and laziness.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried until he was well past the age of 40.

Another person who got a late start in life was Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentuckey Fried Chicken, who didn't open his first restaurant until he was 65. If we are under the age of 40, then there is definitely still plenty of time to acheive our goals and dreams. Just because we have tried a couple of things in the past and they have not worked out, that is no reason to settle for less then what we really want. The world is full of people who have tried and failed several times before they finally achieved their goals and made a significant contribution to the world. The easiest thing that we could do is to quit and think that we'll never acheive our dreams. If we have this kind of thinking, then we need to get off our ass and get inspired. Let's learn from our past and realized that we have already acheived a lot. Additionally, let's learn from others who had it worse then we had it and went on to become super successful.

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

- quote by Zig Ziglar

Our daily habits are very important and we must pay attention to them. One important thing that we should be doing everyday is to motivate ourselves everyday. In order for us to stay on top of our game daily, we must motivate ourselves each and everyday. We must read about people who achieved greatly despite having to overcome serious obstacles. We must have gratitude daily for the gifts that we have been given. It's easy for us to feel sorry for ourselves and think that we have it really bad. The reality is lots of other people have overcome so much more then we have and have went on to achieve super successes. Every single person on the planet has a story about what happened to them. Get over it. The past is in the past and no matter how much we think about, its not gonna change. Let's inspire ourselves today to create the reality that we choose so we can enjoy the future of our choosing.

We Become What We Think About Most of The Time.

quote by Earl Nightingale

How much time have we spent today thinking about our goals and dreams? Are our goals in writing where we can review them and read them several times daily? How do we expect our dreams to materialize if we don't spend time thinking about them every single day. Instead of watching other people live out their dreams on TV, how about let's spend that time visualizing our ideal selves.

We get good at what we repeatedly do. If we spend a lot of time sitting on our ass being lazy, we are becoming an expert at that. Leisure and rest is important, but we will have plenty of rest time when we're dead. Let's spend time getting good at things like exercising, networking, reading and learning, or working in our chosen profession/business and becoming a master. We must spend time working on our goals if we want them to materialize in our lives.