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		<title>The Path To Riches, Envision Your Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>There is a path that we all must take in order to become rich.  The path may be a little bit different for each one of us simply because we are coming from different backgrounds.  At some point in our lives, however, that path will merge into one...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a path that we all must take in order to become rich.  The path may be a little bit different for each one of us simply because we are coming from different backgrounds.  At some point in our lives, however, that path will merge into one.  </p>
<p>The first step in becoming rich is to know for a fact that you will become rich and that there is nothing that will stand in your way from achieving that goal.  If you allow negative thinking to enter into your life then it will suppress you and keep you from living life to the full.    </p>
<p>Many people think that they are being oppressed or that they were meant to be poor.  Other people, who work their entire lives, are never are able to achieve becoming rich.  They give themselves over to the thought that they are happy with their current condition of life.  They are not able to envision something greater for themselves, therefore, they are never able to achieve it.  So knowing that you are going to be rich and being able to clearly see that goal is the first step in achieving wealth.    </p>
<p>The next step in becoming rich is to take whatever situation you are in and to grow out of it.  You never see anything in nature simply give up because it does not have the right kind of soil to grow in.  A plant will take whatever situation is put in and make the best of it.  It will grow to its fullest extent and naturally gravitate towards the light and then throw off more seeds for itself.  The only things in nature that will ever give up are humans.  If you allow yourself to have this mindset and do not grow in the soil in which you were planted, then you will wither and die in it.    </p>
<p>So take the first step into a larger life.  Realize that you will be rich and you will be able to achieve your goals.  You cannot live life to the full without having wealth.  You can not expand your mind and body together without having the means to take the time to do so.  So make sure that you are always growing regardless of the soil in which you are planted and reach towards greatness because it can be yours.</p>
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		<title>All Life Wants To Create More Life And Maintain Better Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>What is it that all life wants to do?  They want to create more life, and maintain a better life for themselves.  For example, if you were to take a seed and drop it on the ground it would naturally find a way to grow.  That is why you see things such as pieces of grass coming up through an asphalt driveway...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is it that all life wants to do?  They want to create more life, and maintain a better life for themselves.  For example, if you were to take a seed and drop it on the ground it would naturally find a way to grow.  That is why you see things such as pieces of grass coming up through an asphalt driveway.  The grass does not think that it is unable to achieve growing simply because it is in bad soil.  What it does, rather, is to push its way up through the bad situation to achieve something better.  What does the seed do at that point?  It gravitates towards the light and takes the best position possible and then it creates more seeds that will grow as well.  </p>
<p>This is the simple law of nature, that something will take whatever situation it is in and make the best of it.  Not only that, but it will achieve greatness in that it grows to the full and then accomplishes its final purpose.    </p>
<p>The same should be true for any of us.  What we really want in life is to be able to achieve everything possible.  It is not going to happen if we have the mindset that we are not going to ever get anywhere in life.  If we find that we are planted in difficult soil then we must find a way to grow in that soil until we are able to achieve our goal.  </p>
<p>It is impossible to ever live life to the full without having wealth.  If you are going to expand your mind and your body to the fullest extent then you must have the means to be able to experience life in any way that you want.  That is why even though you may be planted in soil that is not perfect you simply must find a way to grow.  You must recognize that there is an end goal and then you must reach out for that goal with everything that you have.    </p>
<p>So don&rsquo;t give into the thought that you will never achieve something simply because you are planted in soil that is not right.  Fight your way through to the surface and grow to your fullest extent.  Have it in your mind that you will achieve your goal and that goal can be yours.</p>
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		<title>Developing a Prosperity Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 07:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Do you feel prosperous in every area of your life? If you&#8217;re like most people, you probably feel blessed in some areas, but maybe not so much in others. It is possible to expand your mindset to not only see more prosperity around you but also attract more prosperity into your life...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you feel prosperous in every area of your life? If you&#8217;re like most people, you probably feel blessed in some areas, but maybe not so much in others. It is possible to expand your mindset to not only see more prosperity around you but also attract more prosperity into your life. </p>
<p>First, it&#8217;s important to recognize the difference between a mindset of prosperity and scarcity/fear/lack.</p>
<p>Someone focused in scarcity/fear/lack believes there is never enough to go around: never enough money, resources, love, opportunity, friendship, passion, excitement or fulfillment. This person erroneously perceives a shortage of everything desirable, and thinks he or she must grab to get whatever he or she can before someone else comes along and takes it. This person sees the glass as half empty and dwells on problems and challenges instead of blessings and joy.</p>
<p>In contrast, someone focused on prosperity believes just the opposite of the scarcity/fear/lack focused mindset, that there is more than enough for everyone so there is no hurry to grab what he or she can right now. This person with the high &#8220;Consciousness Of Wealth&#8221; believes in a never-ending flow of prosperity and joy and knows you can take your time and enjoy the moment. The glass is not just half-full, it&#8217;s overflowing from a constantly bubbling stream feeding it from beneath.</p>
<p>How do you switch from scarcity/fear/lack to a &#8220;Consciousness Of Wealth&#8221;? By choosing a prosperous outlook moment to moment. You have to be willing to ignore your old inner messages of lack and emptiness, and begin replacing them with new messages of hope and plenty.</p>
<p>Here are three simple ways to begin:</p>
<p>1. Become aware of the prosperity all around you.</p>
<p>When you visit a large supermarket or department store, pause for a moment and notice the massive prosperity in the form of material goods surrounding you. All of these things were created from nothing, and turned into something useful by a person with a vision. Think about how this process could be used to bring more prosperity into your life.</p>
<p>2. Keep affirming you have more than enough.</p>
<p>Remember, someone in scarcity/fear/lack dwells on what he or she DOESN&#8217;T have, while someone with a healthy &#8220;Consciousness Of Wealth&#8221; focuses on what he or she DOES have. Rather than worrying about having enough, affirm that you have enough. Say things like, &#8220;I always have plenty of money&#8221; and &#8220;I am so incredibly blessed&#8221;.</p>
<p>3. Give.</p>
<p>When we feel like we don&#8217;t have &#8220;enough&#8221; our first response is usually to hold onto what we have a little tighter. This sends a powerful message of lack to our subconscious mind. Instead, start sharing your time, money and resources with others. Do this feeling grateful and confident knowing that whatever you send out will return to you tenfold. You don&#8217;t have to give on a large scale either, just a few dollars or an hour of your time can generate a new cycle of prosperity.</p>
<p>Keep up with activities like these and before long, you&#8217;ll find yourself automatically feeling more abundant - and attracting greater wealth, love, joy and opportunity all around.</p>
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		<title>What 2 Words Turned Me From &#8216;Sick and Scared&#8221; to &#8220;Healthy, Wealthy, Happy and Successful&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Back in my school days I was a wreck...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in my school days I was a wreck. Actually most of my childhood.</p>
<p>I was really shy and I remember even being self-conscious walking to school when the school bus went by because I was afraid people would laugh at me.</p>
<p>In school, I was the one the teacher knew had the answer, yet was afraid to raise my hand and volunteer it because I might screw up and be teased - so when no one else offered the answer and I was called on, most of the time my voice crackled or I stuttered and what I feared did come true.</p>
<p>Then there was the bullying, people throwing spit wads, Andrea Leffingwell making fun of me.</p>
<p>All these things were the result of having a lot of health issues growing up and my mom worrying a lot and trying to protect me from the world. That caused me to be scared of the world and not feel comfortable in my skin.</p>
<p>I was concerned all the time about what people thought of me, I was afraid of being laughed at, and was quickly becoming an A1 Junior Worry Wart myself.</p>
<p>What turned everything around for me?</p>
<p>When I was 15 for some reason this 2-word phrase came to mind one day, and I said it over and over and over and over&#8230;. Until it came true. The phrase? &#8220;Think positive. Think positive.&#8221;</p>
<p>As simple as those 2 words are, they&#8217;re the secret that led to me overcoming my fears, claiming my power, becoming secure and confident&#8230; and as a result of that polar shift in consciousness - very successful!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying it all turned around overnight, and in fact &#8220;Think Positive! Think Positive!&#8221; became a personal mission for me, and I repeated this mantra to myself I imagine hundreds of times a day for about two months.</p>
<p>That concentrated attention was enough for me to go from feeling small and scared to *being* optimistic and, well, positive. And my results changed quickly because of that change in thinking, to the point where I very much enjoyed my senior year in high school, started building upon my successes until I felt like I could do anything (and was doing it!).</p>
<p>Over my 22+ years in personal growth I&#8217;ve come to know how all this came about - both my previous worst fears and current greatest successes, and the lesson can have a profound effect on limiting your failures and multiplying your successes - all as a result of those 2 little words: &#8220;Think Positive! Think Positive!&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve heard of the book responsible for making more people wealthy than anything in history, &#8220;Think and Grow Rich&#8221;, as well as &#8220;As a Man Thinketh&#8221;, another prosperity classic.</p>
<p>Both are based on the universal truth that what you think about most often, you create in your life.</p>
<p>Before &#8220;Think Positive! Think Positive!&#8221; became my mantra - and experience - I put a lot of energy (attention and focus) into being afraid of people making fun of me. So what happened? People made fun of me.</p>
<p>After saying this mantra over and over at least 9,000 times, because &#8220;what you focus on you create&#8221; is always true, positive things started happening to me.</p>
<p>More importantly, my *thinking* was forever changed, and that positive mindset is what led to my life getting better and better year after year, to the point where I&#8217;ve been able to make a difference to tens of thousands of people also looking for help thinking positive - and having more positive experiences.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re Positive you want to improve your life, I suggest you Think long and hard about using the power of those two words to transform what you experience, as well.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the 5-Word Formula to Easily Ensure Your Success?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Let me ask you an important question, and I hope you give it the attention you deserve to:</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you find yourself thinking more about things that make you smile or things that upset you?&#8221;</p>
<p>Really look at this issue. Because people who are happy and wealthy keep their eye on the prize...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me ask you an important question, and I hope you give it the attention you deserve to:</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you find yourself thinking more about things that make you smile or things that upset you?&#8221;</p>
<p>Really look at this issue. Because people who are happy and wealthy keep their eye on the prize. They know exactly what they want and have a detailed plan they keep front and center in their thoughts every day to get there.</p>
<p>In contrast, the majority are people who struggle to make the ends come at least close to meeting. They think more about their challenges, obstacles, threats and &#8220;why can&#8217;t I get any breaks.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two common expressions explain the &#8220;5-Word Formula to Easily Ensure Your Success&#8221; that touch upon both ends of the spectrum.</p>
<p>To describe what&#8217;s going on with the successful people who discipline their mind and think only about &#8220;the task at hand&#8221; always moving toward their goal, we have this expression (which also touches upon the opposite &#8216;habit&#8217; more people can relate to):</p>
<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re hot you&#8217;re hot, and when you&#8217;re not you&#8217;re not.&#8221;</p>
<p>The other phrase people use to describe that phenomenon is &#8220;things seem to go from bad to worse&#8221;.</p>
<p>Notice how the following expressions also roll off the tip of your tongue more - because we all hear them more often, with more people dwelling on what makes them upset than thinking about their successes.</p>
<p>The first is that someone &#8220;got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning&#8221;. The other is, &#8220;when it rains, it pours&#8221;.</p>
<p>What are your additional thoughts about the question I asked you earlier, &#8220;Do you think more about things that make you upset, or things that make you happy?&#8221; More importantly, what can you do to become more aware of what you&#8217;re thinking about, and how it affects what happens to you each day?</p>
<p>After exploring that, answer this powerful question: &#8220;How can you train your mind to keep your thoughts only on things that make you happy (and why that&#8217;s so important to BEING happy)?&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get back to our initial question we raise in the title of this article which subtly gives you the way to creating your life the way you want it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important because almost everyone experiences some things they don&#8217;t want, and they give their power to those things, which only makes it worse or causes other things they don&#8217;t want to happen.</p>
<p>This simple &#8220;5-Word Formula to Easily Ensure Your Success&#8221; will change your life if you put it into practice beginning this moment:</p>
<p>&#8220;Energy flows where attention goes.&#8221;</p>
<p>What does it mean, and how can you use it - today - to start getting the things you want? Important questions.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about an example so we&#8217;re clear on how this works. Let&#8217;s say Joe&#8217;s having a good day until he gets the mail and finds his $800 mortgage bill.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s only got $150 in the bank and he swears out loud as he thinks&#8230; &#8220;How am I going to come up with $800 in a week when I don&#8217;t get paid for another two weeks, and half that&#8217;s already spent?&#8221;</p>
<p>What he just did was put a lot of power into something unwanted, through the way it made him worry and scared. In fact, he went into what I&#8217;ve coined &#8220;negative manifestation&#8221;, because getting upset about that bill shifted his attention to where he starts finding all kinds of other things he doesn&#8217;t want, and the downward spiral continues.</p>
<p>In contrast, let&#8217;s imagine Jen who gets her mortgage and immediately smiles and lets out a happy sigh as she pulls it to her heart and thinks&#8230; </p>
<p>&#8220;Wow, I&#8217;m so grateful to be able to comfortably afford to live in such a great place! This (bill) reminds me how much I&#8217;ve enjoyed living here and how happy I am that I&#8217;m rich enough to make these payments month after month.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s also explore if somehow she had that same $650 shortfall to come up with in the next week, although it&#8217;s unlikely she&#8217;d get into that position because when you stay away from scarcity thinking and feeling, the resources quite naturally flow and you always have plenty.</p>
<p>So this is farfetched to think about, yet let&#8217;s say hypothetically Jen created that same predicament as Joe. She wouldn&#8217;t give it any concern, knowing she empowers whatever she thinks about.</p>
<p>Instead, she&#8217;d use this thought to trigger (in her case inspire) possible solutions, and she would express this confidently and with faith:</p>
<p>&#8220;I feel really good *knowing* I&#8217;m prosperous and I keep my awareness on all the ways more prosperity keeps *showing up*.&#8221;</p>
<p>Because &#8220;Energy Flows Where Attention Goes&#8221;, which she knows is always true, she has developed the habit of keeping her thoughts on things that make her feel good. That attention will lead to more good things for her to become aware of.</p>
<p>One of the components of &#8216;The Carnegie Formula&#8221; I&#8217;ve created is &#8220;The Master Key System&#8221; that Napoleon Hill endorsed, and one of my favorite quotes from The Master Key describes this surest way to success in just three words:</p>
<p>&#8220;Much gathers more.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keep thinking about good things - you&#8217;ll find even more good things to think about.<br />
Think about things you don&#8217;t want - you&#8217;ll find more things you don&#8217;t want to think about.</p>
<p>Stop for a few moments and think about the first examples that come to your mind.</p>
<p>And notice whether they&#8217;re examples of &#8220;much good things gathering more good things&#8221;, or things you didn&#8217;t want gathering more. That&#8217;s important to be aware of to help you realize whether your mind is supporting your goals - or hindering them.</p>
<p>Because what we think about is just a matter of how we&#8217;ve trained our mind, and that&#8217;s fully within our power to change.</p>
<p>When I was young I had all sorts of health problems and my mom was always worried about me. As a result I was sick a lot.</p>
<p>I grew into a &#8220;worry wort&#8221; myself and didn&#8217;t enjoy my school years at all until I became about 15 and somehow woke up to my own positive nature.</p>
<p>[Notice how this is another example of this formula working, because I was always afraid bad things would happen to me, and lo and behold they usually did happen.]</p>
<p>At 15, though, I started saying over and over in my head, &#8220;Think positive. Think positive.&#8221; </p>
<p>It started working - the energy through my attention flowed in that direction and I started having positive experiences.</p>
<p>No matter how you answer the question about what you&#8217;re focusing more of your attention on, make sure you realize you can begin to change that, today. It may not happen overnight or in a week or two if you&#8217;ve been in &#8220;negative manifestation&#8221; or at least the habit of thinking about what might go wrong&#8230; for decades.</p>
<p>Yet it will happen, and I&#8217;ve seen almost miraculous changes in people within a month of doing my &#8220;Master Key Class&#8221; as part of &#8220;The Carnegie Formula&#8221;.</p>
<p>The important thing to remember is the Law of Inertia that says &#8220;An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Your thoughts are as they are because you&#8217;ve gotten into the habit of thinking that way. And when you decide to change that, you&#8217;ll have to overcome that inertia &#8212; which you do by continuing to feed your mind with the more supportive thoughts until they take over and replace the old thinking.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the sure path for &#8220;much&#8221; to &#8220;gather more&#8221; in your life&#8230; Because what can I say, &#8220;When you&#8217;re hot, you&#8217;re hot!&#8221; :-)</p>
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		<title>What the 1-Year-Old Taught in 4 Seconds that I Had Not Learned in 22 Years of Personal Growth Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will come.</p>
<p>Today was that day for me, and &#8220;The Teacher&#8221; was an infant girl, no more than a year old, who was being pushed down the street...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will come.</p>
<p>Today was that day for me, and &#8220;The Teacher&#8221; was an infant girl, no more than a year old, who was being pushed down the street. In just that brief few seconds she conveyed the wisdom of a lifetime, a knowing and understanding beyond words that I&#8217;ll do my best to help you taste, through the power of the written language.</p>
<p>There I was on my walk going over some things in my head and caught up in my own stuff, when the movement of the approaching carriage caught my eye and this small toddler was just beaming! In that second of catching her gaze and seeing those wide-open-and-radiating-joy eyes, I instantly got it.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt seen this yourself, that big smile and pure joyful look the infants give you, probably with that laugh of happiness, and it instantly makes you full of happiness, too, just seeing it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the kind of look that brings people in from miles away (it seems like) to gather around and go &#8220;ga-ga&#8221; over the beautiful baby.</p>
<p>These admirers - usually moms themselves - know that look, and they know the power of that look. Yet they don&#8217;t go beyond it to reflect on where its power comes from, or to explore how that same &#8220;beingness&#8221; that leads to the baby *having* that look is something they can have, too.</p>
<p>You know how that look affects you - because all happy babies have it. And you know how it instantly pierces through all &#8220;your stuff&#8221; and brings you to &#8220;Perfect Joy&#8221;.</p>
<p>For example, just from that brief encounter, the rest of my walk home my smile was beaming wide, and almost an hour later and it still is - I just can&#8217;t help but be extremely happy and joy-full, thanks to being &#8220;hit&#8221; with the pure essence of joy from that young child!</p>
<p>Can you feel it?</p>
<p>Go back there yourself, maybe from watching your own kids expressing their beingness the same way at that age. Got that same big smile I have now? Great. Stay there!</p>
<p>And pass this same &#8220;Joyful Being&#8221; to someone else, because it *IS* contagious and it&#8217;s meant to be shared. Near the end of my walk I saw a neighbor whom I&#8217;ve only previously waived to as he drives by, and this time he was mailing something.</p>
<p>He said, &#8220;And how are you this fine morning?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Excellent!&#8221; I said with my smile so big my mouth was half open. &#8220;How are you?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Great! I couldn&#8217;t be better,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Chances are he&#8217;ll share that &#8220;Infusion of Joy&#8221; also with his wife, and who knows where it&#8217;ll go from there.</p>
<p>What I want you to realize is that &#8220;This Gift&#8221;, this state of Joyful Being that makes you feel so good, and it&#8217;s so intense it must spread from you to others, making them as happy and joyful as you&#8230; that gift is available to you all the time. It&#8217;s already within you.</p>
<p>In fact, you haven&#8217;t lost that same beingness this small baby was in when she gave this gift to me, before I gave it to you. You may have misplaced it, but you haven&#8217;t lost it. It&#8217;s just a matter of remembering it&#8217;s part of who you are, and *knowing* it&#8217;s what you&#8217;re meant to express&#8230; every day!</p>
<p>Several years ago I started the &#8220;Touch Someone&#8217;s Life Today&#8221; Campaign after I was just walking down the street and a woman walking the other way gave me a big smile, which I graciously returned.</p>
<p>That innocent gift from a friend I had not met made me feel good and feel inspired to help others feel good, too.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the power of this gift we&#8217;ve both been given today, from this small child, and it really does make a big difference to others when you reach out to give them unconditional joy.</p>
<p>Thing is, Newton&#8217;s Law works in this case, too, where &#8220;for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction&#8230; Because it&#8217;s impossible for you to give joy to others without you getting as least as much joy back yourself.</p>
<p>Can you think of a more immediate or better way to get yourself feeling great, than to give someone else something as easy - and pure - as a warm smile? (Try it on for size :-)</p>
<p>Or how much more happy would you be by making the commitment to do just one thing to &#8220;Touch Someone&#8217;s Life Today&#8221; each day? Or even better, if you made the decision right now that you were going to go back to your &#8220;Joyful Being&#8221; - when you were beaming happily just like this infant girl who started spreading &#8220;The Happiness Virus&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>Until it becomes quite natural (and inevitable) for you to radiate that pure joy and happiness to others.</p>
<p>How much more happier then would you be?</p>
<p>Based on how great I feel as a result of being touched in such a pure way by the unfiltered &#8220;beingness&#8221; of that baby, I can guess the answer to that question for you&#8230;. &#8220;Infinitely more happy!&#8221;</p>
<p>So then, as I ask you one more question, and I&#8217;ll give you a hint, the correct answer is &#8220;No&#8221;: &#8220;Is there any reason for you to not make that decision and go back to that same state of Joyful Being you had when you were a baby?&#8221; So do that now!</p>
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		<title>Profiting More from Creative Ways to Use Your Old Products, Even the Duds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I read the other day about a European company that created a technology for stores for example in a mall to keep teens from hanging out in front of their businesses or loitering.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a device that makes a high-pitched frequency that teens can clearly hear yet which most adults can&#8217;t, because people typically lose the top and low end of the hearing range as they age...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read the other day about a European company that created a technology for stores for example in a mall to keep teens from hanging out in front of their businesses or loitering.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a device that makes a high-pitched frequency that teens can clearly hear yet which most adults can&#8217;t, because people typically lose the top and low end of the hearing range as they age. </p>
<p>Teens hear the noise and it&#8217;s annoying so they don&#8217;t stay long in the stores. Adults don&#8217;t hear the noise so it doesn&#8217;t bother them and they shop &#8220;in peace&#8221;. That&#8217;s the theory, anyway, and it didn&#8217;t catch on or wasn&#8217;t a big enough market for its developers to become rich.</p>
<p>Instead, though, someone took that basic premise and turned it around, finding a market using the &#8220;strengths&#8221; of the technology in reverse.</p>
<p>On the one hand the high-pitch sound only the teens can hear was a nuisance to them in stores, yet could there be an advantage to this technology that would allow only teens to hear something that adults cannot?</p>
<p>That kind of &#8220;how can we turn this around and find another application for this&#8221; question I&#8217;d encourage you to ask constantly to expand your mind, open you up to greater resources and huge profits.</p>
<p>How did the company answer that question? Their technology is being used in cell phones, as the ring tone.</p>
<p>Think about it. 16-year-old in English class. Blue Tooth ear bud in ear. Cell phone rings. Teen reaches down and casually touches phone to answer it, softly whispering into mic probably concealed behind her hair on the ear bud.</p>
<p>Teacher clueless the conversation even happened.</p>
<p>Student heard nothing from the lecture and didn&#8217;t learn anything, and probably distracted or amused other students. Teacher oblivious.</p>
<p>Yet you can imagine how popular that feature would be to the youth market, and I could see the first person to use it at school being a trend-setter and it spreading fast throughout the youth market&#8230;</p>
<p>Making a fortune for this technology company that initially had wanted to keep kids away, and potentially limiting a lot of educational successes.</p>
<p>(I&#8217;m not saying I support the technology and I can see schools banning that ring tone if they can find a way to enforce it with adults not generally even hearing it.)</p>
<p>What I am saying is I respect the creativity in taking &#8220;X&#8221; that was a dud, let&#8217;s say, and using it&#8217;s unique qualities in another way to have potentially a huge impact.</p>
<p>Perhaps a better example that illustrates this is another technology that&#8217;s been around a long time that&#8217;s also coming to cell phones.</p>
<p>GPS - Global Positioning System.</p>
<p>Initially GPS satellites were launched by the military to monitor troop movements and assist the government with surveillance.</p>
<p>Then in the 1980s the government allowed private companies to start offering GPS tracking equipment and today its standard on many cars as a way to find the nearest pizza place or the quickest way to Grandma&#8217;s house in rush hour traffic.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also the latest mobile phone feature, where you can get audible directions based on where you&#8217;re at. Old technology, used creatively to help people find what they&#8217;re looking for and fill a need.</p>
<p>And it looks like the cell phone companies are going to charge extra for this service, making it a direct profit center for them.</p>
<p>However, I envision a time when this also becomes a security issue, where parents buy their children cell phones for the sense of security knowing the parents can always find their children through tracking the phone.</p>
<p>You see how that&#8217;s an example of a possible way to modify an existing technology that could become very profitable.</p>
<p>I suggest you take a look at the various challenges you have and ask yourself what tools can you use differently to resolve them, and you could find yourself with a multi-million-dollar idea, as well as a mind stretched far beyond its current boundaries and perceived limitations.</p>
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		<title>What Quote from &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; Can Make You Rich?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klatt Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We all know how much &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; influenced our culture today, yet what one single lesser-known quote from the series can make you wealthy?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give you one clue: It&#8217;s not from Yoda, and it&#8217;s not about The Force&#8230; or is it?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not directly about choosing to follow your passions and avoiding temptation, although indirectly it does speak to the same &#8220;Secret&#8221; Napoleon Hill mentions in &#8220;Think and Grow Rich&#8221; more than 100 times&#8230; which is also the essence of &#8220;The Force&#8221;.</p>
<p>Before I reveal which quote I&#8217;m talking about, let&#8217;s shift gears a moment to talk about an interesting e-mail that was passed around a week or so ago.</p>
<p>I saw it on a popular marketing forum, which surprised me, because it talked about some &#8220;UV&#8221; ray sent to The Earth from beyond which magnified the power of our thoughts 1 million times.</p>
<p>The &#8216;ray&#8217; isn&#8217;t the important thing - what is important, which also ties in with the Star Wars quote that can make you wealthy, is the principle behind it.</p>
<p>Just think for a minute what would happen to you if everything you thought about instantly happened&#8230;</p>
<p>You see an attractive woman in a video and fantasize about being with her&#8230;...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all know how much &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; influenced our culture today, yet what one single lesser-known quote from the series can make you wealthy?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give you one clue: It&#8217;s not from Yoda, and it&#8217;s not about The Force&#8230; or is it?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not directly about choosing to follow your passions and avoiding temptation, although indirectly it does speak to the same &#8220;Secret&#8221; Napoleon Hill mentions in &#8220;Think and Grow Rich&#8221; more than 100 times&#8230; which is also the essence of &#8220;The Force&#8221;.</p>
<p>Before I reveal which quote I&#8217;m talking about, let&#8217;s shift gears a moment to talk about an interesting e-mail that was passed around a week or so ago.</p>
<p>I saw it on a popular marketing forum, which surprised me, because it talked about some &#8220;UV&#8221; ray sent to The Earth from beyond which magnified the power of our thoughts 1 million times.</p>
<p>The &#8216;ray&#8217; isn&#8217;t the important thing - what is important, which also ties in with the Star Wars quote that can make you wealthy, is the principle behind it.</p>
<p>Just think for a minute what would happen to you if everything you thought about instantly happened&#8230;</p>
<p>You see an attractive woman in a video and fantasize about being with her&#8230;. and voila she&#8217;s wrapping her arms around you. You see a pizza commercial and &#8220;30 minutes or less&#8221; becomes 30 nanoseconds and it&#8217;s blazing hot in your lap. You hear a hot rod zooming by your house and think &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t that be cool&#8221; when suddenly you&#8217;re accelerating to 165 on the open road.</p>
<p>Really think about this a minute, though. Would you want that kind of power? Could you handle it?</p>
<p>For example, just as quickly as your thought turns to driving fast in a red Ferrari, the thought creeps in there&#8230; &#8220;What if I blow a tire?&#8221; or &#8220;What if I get caught?&#8221;</p>
<p>And sure enough, that thought *also* happens just as quickly as &#8220;the good thought&#8221;.</p>
<p>In an undisciplined mind (which is about 98 percent of the population by the way) it&#8217;s true that &#8220;for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction&#8221;.</p>
<p>In this case, we apply that as &#8220;for every positive thought, there is an equal and opposite thought&#8221; there waiting in the wings to blow out the tires of the things you want.</p>
<p>Most people move so fast between thoughts, they&#8217;re not even aware of how many negative ones they&#8217;re unconsciously empowering - which is why so many people have at best mixed results, and most people in fact have more things they don&#8217;t want than things they do.</p>
<p>Plus, they&#8217;re taught they have very little power to create their lives exactly as they want - when in fact that&#8217;s the *only* power they do have.</p>
<p>(Napoleon Hill says The Creator, using Infinite Wisdom, gave us control over just one thing, and that one thing is all we need to have everything we want.)</p>
<p>Can you guess what that one thing is? You got it! Our thoughts.</p>
<p>When you first start focusing your attention on your thoughts, you realize how scattered or across the board they are.</p>
<p>Then you start intentionally keeping your mind on the things you want, and gently guiding your thoughts away from the random or scattered influences and distractions&#8230; especially the fears and habits that often limit and block people from having those things they want.</p>
<p>This brings us back to the little-known quote from &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, which when you understand&#8230; and apply it, can make you wealthy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s from &#8220;Episode I: The Phantom Menace&#8221; and the scene has the young man who will grow up and be re-born as Darth Vader losing his temper and becoming frustrated with the training from his experienced Jedi Master mentor.</p>
<p>Obi-Wan Kenobi says, &#8220;Be mindful of your thoughts, young Anakin, for they betray you.&#8221;</p>
<p>The master saw plain as day that the student was focusing his power (The Force) on things that made him upset, causing him to lose focus on mastering the way he&#8217;s creating the things he wants - and causing him to create more things he doesn&#8217;t want.</p>
<p>Instead, think of Luke Skywalker training with Yoda in the swamp where he learns to focus his thoughts and raise the X-Wing Fighter out of the marsh. (Until he loses his focus and the ship drops.)</p>
<p>This is not something sci-fi that applies only in &#8220;A galaxy far, far away&#8221;. In fact, it&#8217;s right out of the original &#8220;Think and Grow Rich&#8221; that was released way back in 1937.</p>
<p>And it is very much within your potential to control and master this power. Because the way you use your thoughts determines everything that happens to you.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what Obi-Wan means by saying that our thoughts betray us.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s talking about non-focused thoughts, and the metaphor of what happened to Anakin as he became consumed by &#8220;The Dark Side&#8221; is unfortunately what happens to almost everyone. They&#8217;re taught to believe things happen by chance or luck, or only to people with the right education, sex, race, background&#8230; to someone other than them.</p>
<p>That nonsense IS &#8220;the Dark Side&#8221; and it&#8217;s all dis-empowering garbage that if people give any attention to, their thoughts, too, will betray them.</p>
<p>And they&#8217;ll barely get by and have a lot of struggle along the way.</p>
<p>Instead, this moment, I&#8217;d like you to turn that all around, and use that quote as &#8220;The Force&#8221; for good in your life. Use it as your personal mantra and&#8230; &#8220;Be Mindful of Your Thoughts&#8221;!</p>
<p>&#8220;For They Betray You&#8221; - just heed that as the warning, that your thoughts are what create your life, so if you focus your thoughts on what you want, on being rich, that&#8217;s what will happen to you. And if you focus your thoughts on fear, crime, scandal&#8230;.</p>
<p>The quality of your experiences portray the quality of the previous thoughts you had. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important for you to &#8220;Be Mindful of Your Thoughts&#8221;.</p>
<p>Therefore, starting this moment, I&#8217;m asking you to constantly ask yourself&#8230;</p>
<p>- &#8220;How can I use that to become more wealthy?&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;How can I apply that quote to keeping my focus on additional ways to become richer?&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;How can I apply that (newspaper article, interesting web site, advancement in health, study showing people&#8217;s buying habits, whatever you see and hear and find yourself thinking about) to becoming wealthier?&#8221;</p>
<p>By doing that, what you&#8217;re really doing is using your power to Think and Grow Rich! Being Mindful of Your Thoughts will lead you to pocketfuls of the riches that result.</p>
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