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Sunday
There Will Always Be Those Who Thrive
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There are always those who thrive when masses are dying of sickness. There are always those who thrive economically when economic decline seems to be the order of your nation. There are always those who are clear-minded, even in environments of confusion. You do not need everyone, you do not need anyone, to align with your desire—only you need to align with your desire.
...Simply put: you’ve got to figure out how to feel good, no matter what. You’ve got to stop saying, "I feel good, mostly, but under these conditions; and that condition needs to change before I can feel better." Because now you are giving all of your power away to others who are making decisions about their lives, which have nothing to do with your lives.
Can I not be affected by them?
So, you say, "Well, how can I separate what they’re doing? It feels like what they’re doing has something to do with my life. It feels really connected to me. How can you say that it is not connected?" And we say, it is only connected because you are making it connected.
So then you say, "So, what do I do? I put blinders on? I hide myself? How can I drive down the street without being aware of different people having different opinions about whatever is in the news today? How do I keep from bumping up against things that my emotional Guidance System responds to? How do I keep from feeling outrage or concern or blame, or guilt? How do I live in this world and not respond to what’s going on?" And we say, we would not want you to live in a world where you are not responding to what’s going on. All we are suggesting is that you practice who you are and how you feel, so much, that your response to what they are doing doesn’t become more of who you are, than your response to what you are desiring. What we are suggesting is, that you think so much about who you are, and what you are doing—that what others are doing that feels like it is happening in relationship to you—is a miniscule part of the picture of that which is You.
We want you to be so grounded in your environment and attitude and Energy of Well-being, that when someone that you know contracts a disease, you don’t feel vulnerable, because, by association, you don’t superimpose their experience over yours. But you only are able to do that when you’ve practiced your own intent and belief in your own Well-being long enough that you don’t feel tentative. If you feel tentative, you’re easily swayed. If you feel tentative on your subject of your physical Well-being, then you are easily swayed into an Energy, or a feeling, of discomfort, and even sickness. In other words, it’s all about how you are projecting your thought—how you are practicing your vibration—what you are teaching yourself, vibrationally.
It all depends on your practiced focus
As we are moving forward here today, we will assist you in recognizing what the vibration of your Being is. And since nothing matters to you other than your personal, individual alignment with your personal, individual goals or desires, then that is where our work is.
We are not here to debate the rightness or the wrongness of what you, or anyone, chooses. We are not taking sides, for, or against, anything. We are here to help you understand that, as individuals, your life can be as wonderful or as horrible as you allow it to be. And it all depends upon the focus that you practice. And therein lies the basis of anyone’s success: How much do I practice the thoughts that bring me joy, and how much do I practice the thoughts that bring me pain?
Must we "allow" ourselves to experience pain?
So, if you’re walking along in a body that feels good and in an environment that feels good, and you see a raging, fiery, hot stove, do you think that it would be a good thing for you to learn how to walk up to the hot stove, lay your body up against it, and survive? Is that what The Art of Allowing is? Learning to allow or endure the most uncomfortable of situations, but keep your mouth closed and don’t squawk about it, is that what Allowing is? Not even close.
Allowing is: Walking through the room where the hot stove exists, and recognizing that there may be benefit from it, and utilizing that benefit, if there is. And if there is not benefit for you, then walking on by and ignoring it, understanding that others may choose to participate with it, or not. Walking through the room, having your experience with it, coming to your personal, individual conclusions about it, and then practicing thought that causes you, then, to live a comfortable life experience.
And so, you say, "Well, Abraham, that’s a pretty elementary analogy. I understand the value of the stove, and I can see where it can serve me or not serve me. And I’ve learned my place with it, and I can extract the benefit from it. And it is really rare, it only happened once or twice when I was really little, that, in my not knowing, I bumped up against it and had a negative experience. So, Abraham, are you telling me that everything is like that stove?" And we say, yes, exactly. Every thought, every condition, every exposure to every experience. You can participate with it; you can receive positive experience from it, or negative experience from it, but you get to choose. Or, you can receive no experience from it. You can make it a vibrational non-issue in your experience.
You’re not powerless in a power-seeking world
Where humans get into trouble, is where they say, "But now I have to find my experience or my relationship with this stove (or whatever) and I want everyone else to have the same experience with it. I want us to join together in clubs and groups, and I want us to express our harmony about the idea. And we will form bands of protesters that will push against those who disagree with us. And eventually, we will sort it out on a world forum, and we will come to one agreement." And we say, why does it have to be that way? Why can it not be individual agreement? And you say, "Because..." and here’s the crux of your worry, "because I’m but one person with one opinion. And those that do band together in their opinions will run over the top of me. I’m powerless in a world that seeks power." And we say, that is what we are wanting to help you to understand: We want to help you regain your clarity about your individual power. Everyone has it. No one can ever take it away from you. No one can ever do anything "bad" to you. No one can assert into your experience. Everything, without exception, comes only by your individual invitation to it.
So you say, "But, Abraham, I would not ask for something that I do not want." And we say, you do it all the time, because you do not understand the process of asking. The process of asking is achieving vibrational harmony with something. When you give something your attention and it becomes your dominant vibration relative to the subject, that is your asking. You say, "No, I’m asking for Well-being. How could not Well-being come into my experience?" And we say, because you often are not a vibrational match to Well-being. You’re finding too many things to fuss about. You’re finding too many things to be upset about. You’re finding too many injustices—too many things that make you feel negative emotion.
Nothing’s more important than to feel good
The only way that we have ever seen that any of you can use the Guidance that you were born with is by making this statement and really meaning it and coming to live it: "Nothing is more important than that I feel good. Nothing is more important than that I am consciously aware of the vibrational mix of that which I am giving my attention to. Nothing is more important than that I read the vibration of my Being in this moment, to know whether it’s a life-giving moment, or a life-squelching moment; whether it is the allowing of Well-being, or the disallowing of Well-being."
So, Deliberate Creating is not so much about looking out into the world and saying, "Oh, there are things that are good that I want to create or attract into my experience, and there are things that are bad that I don’t want to create or attract into my experience." Deliberate creating is more about deliberate allowing. Deliberate allowing is more like deliberate vibration. Deliberate vibration is more about deliberately feeling good—deliberately feeling good. Feeling good: not because there is a reason to, and not because the president is making the best decision, and not because my body looks exactly how I want it to look, and not because everybody is treating me in the way I think I should be treated—but feeling good because I want so much to feel good, that I look only where I feel good when I look. "I stopped saying to the world, or to my mother, or to my daughter, or to my husband, or to my friend, or to my government, or to anyone, I stopped saying, ‘You need to do something different so that I can feel good,’" which is so disempowering, because you know they’re not going to do what you want them to do! You can’t get big enough; you can’t get enough bombs; you can’t get enough armies; you can’t get enough resources to make them think like you do!
Your only path is to want so much to feel good, that you train yourself, thought by thought, subject by subject, in the direction of what does feel good, so that you allow yourself vibrational alignment with the Source and resources and circumstances, and events, that allow the perfection of your life—by your choice, to unfold.
Individually, you are each such powerful Beings
You are such powerful Beings! As we behold you individually, one by one, we say, you have as much power as the president of this nation for the controlling of your life experience. In fact, there’s not one of you in this room who doesn’t have more power than he does right now. The bombardment of ideas, the bombardment of perspectives, the bombardment of information, true and false, that he’s receiving—he cannot possibly align with Source under these conditions. You can.
So then you say, "Ah, that’s worrying. He’s making decisions and he’s not aligned with Source?" And we say, his worldwide influence is miniscule in comparison with the billions of people who are individually requesting, from their personal perspective, what they desire. Your government is not the vortex through which your Well-being flows. The vortex through which your Well-being flows is within you! It is vibrationally felt by you. It is, if you’re wanting to put your finger on it, it is right in your solar plexus where your emotional center is. And so, reclaim it. Make this statement and mean it: "Nothing is more important than that I feel good. Thought by thought, moment by moment, I’m going to open my valve and I’m going to let the good times roll."
A parking lot brawl, escalated
Let’s bring it down to something that’s easy to get your thoughts around for a moment. So, let’s say that there are two people who have a disagreement that you don’t understand, that are arguing in the parking lot. And as you walk by, you hear their argument, but you are used to things going well for you. And so, while you couldn’t help but hear them, you wonder, sort of, how you even got there. You don’t give it very much attention. But someone that you are with turns and hears them a little bit, and says to you, "Wait up for just a moment." Now, your natural instinct isn’t to get involved in something like this, but you have another intention, and that is to stay with the friend, or lover or mate, that you came with. So, while you do not have an intention to get involved in any argument, in fact, that’s not the nature of you, you do have an intention to stay with this person who has other peripheral intentions. And so, it turns out that the person that you are with has had a parking lot or two scuffles of his own, and is only peripherally interested, so he just stops for a moment and as he listens, he hears something that stirs something within him, and now he feels that he must take action, because he can see that the big one is clearly going to beat up on the little one.
And so, your friend now gets involved, and now you’re involved. Now, somebody else comes, and somebody else comes, and before you know it, you have a whole lot of people that are, sort of, gathered around this issue that really did not have anything to do with the beginning of it. But the more you listen, and the more you begin to talk among yourselves, the more you begin to take sides. And then you can clearly see that this one is right, or you can clearly see that this one is right. And now, because of your involvement with it over a period of a few days or weeks or months, or years, it begins to feel very personal to you as you begin to really relate to the issue. And so, you get these things activated within yourself. And so, that, in a very scanty way, is exactly the sort of thing that escalates into these culminations that evolve into world events. It is our promise to you, that if mass consciousness were not involved nothing could ever escalate to be something that is played out on the world stage. It would play out in the parking lot. But the more people get involved in it, then the more energy is around it, and then, the more large the events must come about.
Twin Towers, 9/11/01, and culminations of Energies
When your Twin Towers were struck by airplanes on 9/11, it was a huge culmination of energies that had been going on for a long time. But when you think about it, it was a very small representation; it certainly was not a world war; it certainly was not a world event. It was proportionate to the energies that had been stirred. But now, as a result of all of the attention that’s been offered to it, it is becoming a bigger energy. And it could not amass that energy, if there were not millions of people that are getting collectively involved with it. In other words, it’s just a parking lot brawl that got bigger—that’s all it is.
But a leader of a nation… In other words, Jerry says, from time to time, "Why don’t George and Saddam just go fight it out?" [good idea] And Esther says, "Because Saddam would whup George, and then we would be in trouble. In other words, I’m not sure I really want the balance of power to rest on that. We will start choosing our presidents with different criteria, if that were the new rule of the world."
So, that’s why, the two statements that we made earlier, we really want you to hear both of them. One: there will always be war, whether it’s in a parking lot, or it will be as big as you choose to participate within and give power to it. But second: Well-being is always the dominant Energy. And so, you speak it in terms like, "The pendulum is swinging." And we say, don’t make someone else’s parking lot brawl about you. Don’t become involved in it. Don’t let them bring you into it. Don’t let them make you use it as your excuse to deny the Energy. If you are really wanting to bring your government to the place that it cannot wage war, then don’t get involved in it and add your Energy to it, you see. It is so wonderful when you realize that you can be joyful without anybody else ever figuring it out. And that the majority of people, when they focus upon their own experiences, do live in joy. We would make the parking lot brawl, no matter how big it seems, a non-issue to our vibrational experience. And if everyone would do it, there wouldn’t be enough Energy for George Bush or Saddam to have a war. They’d be having a parking lot brawl.
Abraham-Hicks
There are always those who thrive when masses are dying of sickness. There are always those who thrive economically when economic decline seems to be the order of your nation. There are always those who are clear-minded, even in environments of confusion. You do not need everyone, you do not need anyone, to align with your desire—only you need to align with your desire.
...Simply put: you’ve got to figure out how to feel good, no matter what. You’ve got to stop saying, "I feel good, mostly, but under these conditions; and that condition needs to change before I can feel better." Because now you are giving all of your power away to others who are making decisions about their lives, which have nothing to do with your lives.
Can I not be affected by them?
So, you say, "Well, how can I separate what they’re doing? It feels like what they’re doing has something to do with my life. It feels really connected to me. How can you say that it is not connected?" And we say, it is only connected because you are making it connected.
So then you say, "So, what do I do? I put blinders on? I hide myself? How can I drive down the street without being aware of different people having different opinions about whatever is in the news today? How do I keep from bumping up against things that my emotional Guidance System responds to? How do I keep from feeling outrage or concern or blame, or guilt? How do I live in this world and not respond to what’s going on?" And we say, we would not want you to live in a world where you are not responding to what’s going on. All we are suggesting is that you practice who you are and how you feel, so much, that your response to what they are doing doesn’t become more of who you are, than your response to what you are desiring. What we are suggesting is, that you think so much about who you are, and what you are doing—that what others are doing that feels like it is happening in relationship to you—is a miniscule part of the picture of that which is You.
We want you to be so grounded in your environment and attitude and Energy of Well-being, that when someone that you know contracts a disease, you don’t feel vulnerable, because, by association, you don’t superimpose their experience over yours. But you only are able to do that when you’ve practiced your own intent and belief in your own Well-being long enough that you don’t feel tentative. If you feel tentative, you’re easily swayed. If you feel tentative on your subject of your physical Well-being, then you are easily swayed into an Energy, or a feeling, of discomfort, and even sickness. In other words, it’s all about how you are projecting your thought—how you are practicing your vibration—what you are teaching yourself, vibrationally.
It all depends on your practiced focus
As we are moving forward here today, we will assist you in recognizing what the vibration of your Being is. And since nothing matters to you other than your personal, individual alignment with your personal, individual goals or desires, then that is where our work is.
We are not here to debate the rightness or the wrongness of what you, or anyone, chooses. We are not taking sides, for, or against, anything. We are here to help you understand that, as individuals, your life can be as wonderful or as horrible as you allow it to be. And it all depends upon the focus that you practice. And therein lies the basis of anyone’s success: How much do I practice the thoughts that bring me joy, and how much do I practice the thoughts that bring me pain?
Must we "allow" ourselves to experience pain?
So, if you’re walking along in a body that feels good and in an environment that feels good, and you see a raging, fiery, hot stove, do you think that it would be a good thing for you to learn how to walk up to the hot stove, lay your body up against it, and survive? Is that what The Art of Allowing is? Learning to allow or endure the most uncomfortable of situations, but keep your mouth closed and don’t squawk about it, is that what Allowing is? Not even close.
Allowing is: Walking through the room where the hot stove exists, and recognizing that there may be benefit from it, and utilizing that benefit, if there is. And if there is not benefit for you, then walking on by and ignoring it, understanding that others may choose to participate with it, or not. Walking through the room, having your experience with it, coming to your personal, individual conclusions about it, and then practicing thought that causes you, then, to live a comfortable life experience.
And so, you say, "Well, Abraham, that’s a pretty elementary analogy. I understand the value of the stove, and I can see where it can serve me or not serve me. And I’ve learned my place with it, and I can extract the benefit from it. And it is really rare, it only happened once or twice when I was really little, that, in my not knowing, I bumped up against it and had a negative experience. So, Abraham, are you telling me that everything is like that stove?" And we say, yes, exactly. Every thought, every condition, every exposure to every experience. You can participate with it; you can receive positive experience from it, or negative experience from it, but you get to choose. Or, you can receive no experience from it. You can make it a vibrational non-issue in your experience.
You’re not powerless in a power-seeking world
Where humans get into trouble, is where they say, "But now I have to find my experience or my relationship with this stove (or whatever) and I want everyone else to have the same experience with it. I want us to join together in clubs and groups, and I want us to express our harmony about the idea. And we will form bands of protesters that will push against those who disagree with us. And eventually, we will sort it out on a world forum, and we will come to one agreement." And we say, why does it have to be that way? Why can it not be individual agreement? And you say, "Because..." and here’s the crux of your worry, "because I’m but one person with one opinion. And those that do band together in their opinions will run over the top of me. I’m powerless in a world that seeks power." And we say, that is what we are wanting to help you to understand: We want to help you regain your clarity about your individual power. Everyone has it. No one can ever take it away from you. No one can ever do anything "bad" to you. No one can assert into your experience. Everything, without exception, comes only by your individual invitation to it.
So you say, "But, Abraham, I would not ask for something that I do not want." And we say, you do it all the time, because you do not understand the process of asking. The process of asking is achieving vibrational harmony with something. When you give something your attention and it becomes your dominant vibration relative to the subject, that is your asking. You say, "No, I’m asking for Well-being. How could not Well-being come into my experience?" And we say, because you often are not a vibrational match to Well-being. You’re finding too many things to fuss about. You’re finding too many things to be upset about. You’re finding too many injustices—too many things that make you feel negative emotion.
Nothing’s more important than to feel good
The only way that we have ever seen that any of you can use the Guidance that you were born with is by making this statement and really meaning it and coming to live it: "Nothing is more important than that I feel good. Nothing is more important than that I am consciously aware of the vibrational mix of that which I am giving my attention to. Nothing is more important than that I read the vibration of my Being in this moment, to know whether it’s a life-giving moment, or a life-squelching moment; whether it is the allowing of Well-being, or the disallowing of Well-being."
So, Deliberate Creating is not so much about looking out into the world and saying, "Oh, there are things that are good that I want to create or attract into my experience, and there are things that are bad that I don’t want to create or attract into my experience." Deliberate creating is more about deliberate allowing. Deliberate allowing is more like deliberate vibration. Deliberate vibration is more about deliberately feeling good—deliberately feeling good. Feeling good: not because there is a reason to, and not because the president is making the best decision, and not because my body looks exactly how I want it to look, and not because everybody is treating me in the way I think I should be treated—but feeling good because I want so much to feel good, that I look only where I feel good when I look. "I stopped saying to the world, or to my mother, or to my daughter, or to my husband, or to my friend, or to my government, or to anyone, I stopped saying, ‘You need to do something different so that I can feel good,’" which is so disempowering, because you know they’re not going to do what you want them to do! You can’t get big enough; you can’t get enough bombs; you can’t get enough armies; you can’t get enough resources to make them think like you do!
Your only path is to want so much to feel good, that you train yourself, thought by thought, subject by subject, in the direction of what does feel good, so that you allow yourself vibrational alignment with the Source and resources and circumstances, and events, that allow the perfection of your life—by your choice, to unfold.
Individually, you are each such powerful Beings
You are such powerful Beings! As we behold you individually, one by one, we say, you have as much power as the president of this nation for the controlling of your life experience. In fact, there’s not one of you in this room who doesn’t have more power than he does right now. The bombardment of ideas, the bombardment of perspectives, the bombardment of information, true and false, that he’s receiving—he cannot possibly align with Source under these conditions. You can.
So then you say, "Ah, that’s worrying. He’s making decisions and he’s not aligned with Source?" And we say, his worldwide influence is miniscule in comparison with the billions of people who are individually requesting, from their personal perspective, what they desire. Your government is not the vortex through which your Well-being flows. The vortex through which your Well-being flows is within you! It is vibrationally felt by you. It is, if you’re wanting to put your finger on it, it is right in your solar plexus where your emotional center is. And so, reclaim it. Make this statement and mean it: "Nothing is more important than that I feel good. Thought by thought, moment by moment, I’m going to open my valve and I’m going to let the good times roll."
A parking lot brawl, escalated
Let’s bring it down to something that’s easy to get your thoughts around for a moment. So, let’s say that there are two people who have a disagreement that you don’t understand, that are arguing in the parking lot. And as you walk by, you hear their argument, but you are used to things going well for you. And so, while you couldn’t help but hear them, you wonder, sort of, how you even got there. You don’t give it very much attention. But someone that you are with turns and hears them a little bit, and says to you, "Wait up for just a moment." Now, your natural instinct isn’t to get involved in something like this, but you have another intention, and that is to stay with the friend, or lover or mate, that you came with. So, while you do not have an intention to get involved in any argument, in fact, that’s not the nature of you, you do have an intention to stay with this person who has other peripheral intentions. And so, it turns out that the person that you are with has had a parking lot or two scuffles of his own, and is only peripherally interested, so he just stops for a moment and as he listens, he hears something that stirs something within him, and now he feels that he must take action, because he can see that the big one is clearly going to beat up on the little one.
And so, your friend now gets involved, and now you’re involved. Now, somebody else comes, and somebody else comes, and before you know it, you have a whole lot of people that are, sort of, gathered around this issue that really did not have anything to do with the beginning of it. But the more you listen, and the more you begin to talk among yourselves, the more you begin to take sides. And then you can clearly see that this one is right, or you can clearly see that this one is right. And now, because of your involvement with it over a period of a few days or weeks or months, or years, it begins to feel very personal to you as you begin to really relate to the issue. And so, you get these things activated within yourself. And so, that, in a very scanty way, is exactly the sort of thing that escalates into these culminations that evolve into world events. It is our promise to you, that if mass consciousness were not involved nothing could ever escalate to be something that is played out on the world stage. It would play out in the parking lot. But the more people get involved in it, then the more energy is around it, and then, the more large the events must come about.
Twin Towers, 9/11/01, and culminations of Energies
When your Twin Towers were struck by airplanes on 9/11, it was a huge culmination of energies that had been going on for a long time. But when you think about it, it was a very small representation; it certainly was not a world war; it certainly was not a world event. It was proportionate to the energies that had been stirred. But now, as a result of all of the attention that’s been offered to it, it is becoming a bigger energy. And it could not amass that energy, if there were not millions of people that are getting collectively involved with it. In other words, it’s just a parking lot brawl that got bigger—that’s all it is.
But a leader of a nation… In other words, Jerry says, from time to time, "Why don’t George and Saddam just go fight it out?" [good idea] And Esther says, "Because Saddam would whup George, and then we would be in trouble. In other words, I’m not sure I really want the balance of power to rest on that. We will start choosing our presidents with different criteria, if that were the new rule of the world."
So, that’s why, the two statements that we made earlier, we really want you to hear both of them. One: there will always be war, whether it’s in a parking lot, or it will be as big as you choose to participate within and give power to it. But second: Well-being is always the dominant Energy. And so, you speak it in terms like, "The pendulum is swinging." And we say, don’t make someone else’s parking lot brawl about you. Don’t become involved in it. Don’t let them bring you into it. Don’t let them make you use it as your excuse to deny the Energy. If you are really wanting to bring your government to the place that it cannot wage war, then don’t get involved in it and add your Energy to it, you see. It is so wonderful when you realize that you can be joyful without anybody else ever figuring it out. And that the majority of people, when they focus upon their own experiences, do live in joy. We would make the parking lot brawl, no matter how big it seems, a non-issue to our vibrational experience. And if everyone would do it, there wouldn’t be enough Energy for George Bush or Saddam to have a war. They’d be having a parking lot brawl.
Abraham-Hicks
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1. The money consciousness is an attitude of mind; it is the open door to the arteries of commerce. It is the receptive attitude. Desire is the attractive force which sets the current in motion and fear is the great obstacle by which the current is stopped or completely reversed, turned away from us.
2. Fear is just the opposite from money consciousness; it is poverty consciousness, and as the law is unchangeable we get exactly what we give; if we fear we get what we feared. Money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence; it engages the best thought of the best minds.
3. We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice. The man who at least is not fair in his intention is simply ignorant; he has missed the fundamental law of all exchange; he is impossible; he will lose surely and certainly; he may not know it; he may think he is winning, but he is doomed to certain defeat. He cannot cheat the Infinite. The law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
4. The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are molded into form; our problem is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new, to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race rather than the goal, for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than the possession.
5. You can make a money magnet of yourself, but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people. If you have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and favorable conditions and recognize values, you can put yourself in position to take advantage of them, but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to assist others. What benefits one must benefit all.
6. A generous thought is filled with strength and vitality, a selfish thought contains the germs of dissolution; it will disintegrate and pass away. Great financiers are simply channels for the distribution of wealth; enormous amounts come and go, but it would be as dangerous to stop the outgo as the income; both ends must remain open; and so our greatest success will come as we recognize that it is just as essential to give as to get.
7. If we recognize the Omnipotent power that is the source of all supply we will adjust our consciousness to this supply in such a way that it will constantly attract all that is necessary to itself and we shall find that the more we give the more we get. Giving in this sense implies service. The banker gives his money, the merchant gives his goods, the author gives his thought, the workman gives his skill; all have something to give, but the more they can give, the more they get, and the more they get the more they are enabled to give.
8. The financier gets much because he gives much; he thinks; he is seldom a man that lets anyone else do his thinking for him; he wants to know how results are to be secured; you must show him; when you can do this he will furnish the means by which hundreds or thousands may profit, and in proportion as they are successful will he be successful. Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie and others did not get rich because they lost money for other people; on the contrary, it is because they made money for other people that they became the wealthiest men in the wealthiest country on the globe.
9. The average person is entirely innocent of any deep thinking; he accepts the ideas of others, and repeats them, in very much the same way as a parrot; this is readily seen when we understand the method which is used to form public opinion, and this docile attitude on the part of a large majority who seem perfectly willing to let a few persons do all their thinking for them is what enables a few men in a great many countries to usurp all the avenues of power and hold the millions in subjection. Creative thinking requires attention.
10. The power of attention is called concentration; this power is directed by the will; for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of anything except the things we desire. Many are constantly concentrating upon sorrow, loss and discord of every kind; as thought is creative it necessarily follows that this concentration inevitable leads to more loss, more sorrow and more discord. How could it be otherwise? On the other hand, when we meet with success, gain, or any other desirable condition, we naturally concentrate upon the effects of these things and thereby create more, and so it follows that much leads to more.
http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTMKS47.html
(...from the book, "The Master Key System," by Charles Haanel, 1917.)
Hi Alice. :)
Greetings, citizens of Sederville. :o)
Have you heard the New Westerns?
http://www.majorityreportradio.blogspot.com/
(contains Sam Seder Show Open Mic blogger links)
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1. The money consciousness is an attitude of mind; it is the open door to the arteries of commerce. It is the receptive attitude. Desire is the attractive force which sets the current in motion and fear is the great obstacle by which the current is stopped or completely reversed, turned away from us.
2. Fear is just the opposite from money consciousness; it is poverty consciousness, and as the law is unchangeable we get exactly what we give; if we fear we get what we feared. Money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence; it engages the best thought of the best minds.
3. We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice. The man who at least is not fair in his intention is simply ignorant; he has missed the fundamental law of all exchange; he is impossible; he will lose surely and certainly; he may not know it; he may think he is winning, but he is doomed to certain defeat. He cannot cheat the Infinite. The law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
4. The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are molded into form; our problem is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new, to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race rather than the goal, for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than the possession.
5. You can make a money magnet of yourself, but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people. If you have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and favorable conditions and recognize values, you can put yourself in position to take advantage of them, but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to assist others. What benefits one must benefit all.
6. A generous thought is filled with strength and vitality, a selfish thought contains the germs of dissolution; it will disintegrate and pass away. Great financiers are simply channels for the distribution of wealth; enormous amounts come and go, but it would be as dangerous to stop the outgo as the income; both ends must remain open; and so our greatest success will come as we recognize that it is just as essential to give as to get.
7. If we recognize the Omnipotent power that is the source of all supply we will adjust our consciousness to this supply in such a way that it will constantly attract all that is necessary to itself and we shall find that the more we give the more we get. Giving in this sense implies service. The banker gives his money, the merchant gives his goods, the author gives his thought, the workman gives his skill; all have something to give, but the more they can give, the more they get, and the more they get the more they are enabled to give.
8. The financier gets much because he gives much; he thinks; he is seldom a man that lets anyone else do his thinking for him; he wants to know how results are to be secured; you must show him; when you can do this he will furnish the means by which hundreds or thousands may profit, and in proportion as they are successful will he be successful. Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie and others did not get rich because they lost money for other people; on the contrary, it is because they made money for other people that they became the wealthiest men in the wealthiest country on the globe.
9. The average person is entirely innocent of any deep thinking; he accepts the ideas of others, and repeats them, in very much the same way as a parrot; this is readily seen when we understand the method which is used to form public opinion, and this docile attitude on the part of a large majority who seem perfectly willing to let a few persons do all their thinking for them is what enables a few men in a great many countries to usurp all the avenues of power and hold the millions in subjection. Creative thinking requires attention.
10. The power of attention is called concentration; this power is directed by the will; for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of anything except the things we desire. Many are constantly concentrating upon sorrow, loss and discord of every kind; as thought is creative it necessarily follows that this concentration inevitable leads to more loss, more sorrow and more discord. How could it be otherwise? On the other hand, when we meet with success, gain, or any other desirable condition, we naturally concentrate upon the effects of these things and thereby create more, and so it follows that much leads to more.
http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTMKS47.html
(...from the book, "The Master Key System," by Charles Haanel, 1917.)
Hi Alice. :)
Greetings, citizens of Sederville. :o)
Have you heard the New Westerns?
Sunday
The Battle of Ideas
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http://www.majorityreportradio.blogspot.com/
(contains current Sam Seder Show Open Mic blogger links)
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The real battle of life is one of ideas;
it is being fought out by the few against the many;
on the one side is the constructive and creative thought,
on the other side the destructive and negative thought;
the creative thought is dominated by an ideal,
the passive thought is dominated by appearances.
On both sides are men of science,
men of letters, and men of affairs.
On the creative side are men who spend their time in laboratories,
or over microscopes and telescopes,
side by side with the men who dominate the commercial,
political, and scientific world;
on the negative side or men who spend their time investigating law and precedent, men who mistake theology for religion,
statesmen who mistake might for right,
and all the millions who seem to prefer precedent to progress,
who are eternally looking backward instead of forward,
who see only the world without, but know nothing of the world within.
In the last analysis there are but these two classes;
all men (And women.) will have to take their place
on one side or the other;
they will have to go forward, or go back;
There is no standing still in a world where all is motion. ...
-Charles Haanel-
Have you had your hugs anD rugs today?
http://www.majorityreportradio.blogspot.com/
(contains current Sam Seder Show Open Mic blogger links)
----------------------------------------------------------------
The real battle of life is one of ideas;
it is being fought out by the few against the many;
on the one side is the constructive and creative thought,
on the other side the destructive and negative thought;
the creative thought is dominated by an ideal,
the passive thought is dominated by appearances.
On both sides are men of science,
men of letters, and men of affairs.
On the creative side are men who spend their time in laboratories,
or over microscopes and telescopes,
side by side with the men who dominate the commercial,
political, and scientific world;
on the negative side or men who spend their time investigating law and precedent, men who mistake theology for religion,
statesmen who mistake might for right,
and all the millions who seem to prefer precedent to progress,
who are eternally looking backward instead of forward,
who see only the world without, but know nothing of the world within.
In the last analysis there are but these two classes;
all men (And women.) will have to take their place
on one side or the other;
they will have to go forward, or go back;
There is no standing still in a world where all is motion. ...
-Charles Haanel-
Have you had your hugs anD rugs today?
Monday
Something Special Is Happening in Dubai
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(Click title link at top for complete Dubai article.)
This is a common observation from many first-time visitors to Dubai,
but it carries greater weight today for one simple reason:
Dubai is a city that means business.
It also has the figures to back up its tremendous economic feats.
GDP rose 263% between 1990 and 2003,
proof of Dubai’s status as the fastest-growing city on earth.
With a population that is expanding 5% annually
and the number of tourists projected to reach 15 million
by the end of the decade,
the city is well on its way to sustaining growth
for years to come.
But for His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President
and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai,
this is only the beginning.
Sheikh Mohammed announced the government’s bold vision
with his Dubai Strategic Plan 2015
and highlighted how Dubai will become
the city of the future.
The Strategic Plan for Dubai is based on five indicators:
1) Economic Development
2) Social Development
3) Infrastructure, Land and Environment
4) Security, Justice and Safety
5) Government Excellence
According to the Dubai Strategic Plan,
sustained economic development
is based on six vertical building blocks:
travel and tourism, financial services,
professional services,
transportation and logistics services,
trade and storage, and construction.
In addition to the six vertical building blocks,
the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015
highlights seven horizontal enablers:
human capital; productivity; science,
technology and innovation;
costs of doing business and living;
quality of life;
economic policy and institutional framework;
and laws and regulations.
The six vertical building blocks,
coupled with the seven horizontal enablers,
are evidence of the meticulous attention to detail
that Sheikh Mohammed and his government have shown
toward Dubai’s future.
Already recognized as the leading financial services hub
for the region,
and home to a premier aviation industry,
an ever-growing tourism sector
and a vibrant real estate market,
Dubai is set to cement its position
as an economic powerhouse
based on diverse and innovative revenue streams.
The implementation of this proposed strategic growth path
will drive GDP growth to 397 billion dirhams (US$108billion)
by 2015
and increase per capita GDP to US$44,000.
This approach will strengthen Dubai’s healthy economic mix
by ensuring a focus on key sectors
while further promoting diversification.
The development and advancement
of Dubai’s economy and infrastructure
play an important role
in its strategy for a brighter future.
But, as Sheikh Mohammed highlights
in the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015,
the future of Dubai is not only about
infrastructure and towers.
It is about people,
with a particular emphasis on social development
— a vital issue for Sheikh Mohammed.
Dubai’s government and leaders have embarked
on a positive, holistic plan for its future
with concrete goals within grasp.
Excellent governance set with strong
corporate responsibility
and social development
will truly make Dubai a city
where the future begins.
-
...from the July 23, 2007 edition of Forbes Magazine
but it carries greater weight today for one simple reason:
Dubai is a city that means business.
It also has the figures to back up its tremendous economic feats.
GDP rose 263% between 1990 and 2003,
proof of Dubai’s status as the fastest-growing city on earth.
With a population that is expanding 5% annually
and the number of tourists projected to reach 15 million
by the end of the decade,
the city is well on its way to sustaining growth
for years to come.
But for His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President
and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai,
this is only the beginning.
Sheikh Mohammed announced the government’s bold vision
with his Dubai Strategic Plan 2015
and highlighted how Dubai will become
the city of the future.
The Strategic Plan for Dubai is based on five indicators:
1) Economic Development
2) Social Development
3) Infrastructure, Land and Environment
4) Security, Justice and Safety
5) Government Excellence
According to the Dubai Strategic Plan,
sustained economic development
is based on six vertical building blocks:
travel and tourism, financial services,
professional services,
transportation and logistics services,
trade and storage, and construction.
In addition to the six vertical building blocks,
the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015
highlights seven horizontal enablers:
human capital; productivity; science,
technology and innovation;
costs of doing business and living;
quality of life;
economic policy and institutional framework;
and laws and regulations.
The six vertical building blocks,
coupled with the seven horizontal enablers,
are evidence of the meticulous attention to detail
that Sheikh Mohammed and his government have shown
toward Dubai’s future.
Already recognized as the leading financial services hub
for the region,
and home to a premier aviation industry,
an ever-growing tourism sector
and a vibrant real estate market,
Dubai is set to cement its position
as an economic powerhouse
based on diverse and innovative revenue streams.
The implementation of this proposed strategic growth path
will drive GDP growth to 397 billion dirhams (US$108billion)
by 2015
and increase per capita GDP to US$44,000.
This approach will strengthen Dubai’s healthy economic mix
by ensuring a focus on key sectors
while further promoting diversification.
The development and advancement
of Dubai’s economy and infrastructure
play an important role
in its strategy for a brighter future.
But, as Sheikh Mohammed highlights
in the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015,
the future of Dubai is not only about
infrastructure and towers.
It is about people,
with a particular emphasis on social development
— a vital issue for Sheikh Mohammed.
Dubai’s government and leaders have embarked
on a positive, holistic plan for its future
with concrete goals within grasp.
Excellent governance set with strong
corporate responsibility
and social development
will truly make Dubai a city
where the future begins.
-
...from the July 23, 2007 edition of Forbes Magazine
(Click title link at top for complete Dubai article.)
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