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This morning I contemplated the role Gratitude plays
in abundance and personal peace.

During the Millionaire Mind Intensive and in the follow-up 90-day Wealth Conditioning program, T. Harv Eker stressed the importance of acknowledging and recording what we have to be grateful for in our success logs. Many of ‘The Secret’ teachers stressed the very powerful the energy attached to thankfulness and its role in manifestation. In our creative visualizations we are encouraged to feel the blessing of attaining our life’s passion. These daily meditations are exercises of universal gratitude. Many of us express thanks daily, in the form of ‘Grace” before our meals.

We say thank you many times during our day as an automatic response. My personal quest this week is to be aware and meaningful when I say thank you. I want to feel my thanks, not just say thank you as a conversational habit. To understand and express gratitude is one of the ways we can nurture our ‘inner-game roots.’ The fruit of gratitude is very sweet. As you go through your week, smile, say and feel thank you as often as possible.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

~ Melody Beattie, Unity Chaplin

“The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come. If it is a new thought to you that Gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

“The good things you already have come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.”

~The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

This during this next week our thoughts will turn to gratitude and peace many times.

WEEKLY GRATITUDE ASSIGNMENT

Keep a journal of gratitude or peace. Gratitude is a steppingstone to inner peace. It
Is nearly impossible to feel upset and grateful or peaceful at the same time.
Count your blessings by keeping a gratitude journal, as recommended by Sarah
Ban Breathnach in Simple Abundance. Write down, either daily or weekly, everything for which you feel thankful. Record both the little and big things in your life and keep the journal up to date.

You may also choose to keep a peace journal. Write down the times you have felt
at peace during the day or week.

According to Wikipedia, the world’s favorite free encyclopedia.

“Gratitude is the substance of a heart ready to show appreciation, or thankfulness; it is not simply an emotion, which involves a pleasant feeling that can occur when we receive a favor or benefit from another person but rather the combination of a state of being and an emotion; often accompanied by a desire to thank them, or to reciprocate for a favor they have done for you.”

What does Gratitude mean to you?

How do you express gratitude in your daily life?

Do you have a practice or meditation that helps you anchor the feeling pf gratitude in your heart?

If so, please share it with the rest of the Millionaire Mind Support Network™ members.

Millionaire Minds Have Grateful Hearts!

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Take Action—
Nothing happens until someone does something!

The ‘Secret Key’ to the Law of Attraction is someone needs to TAKE ACTION!

T Harv Eker often says that he has been meditating for years, and has never opened his eyes to find a bag of gold nestled in his lap, even if he has been sitting in a perfect lotus position. Once you know what you want and have focused your thoughts and emotions intently on your vision, do something. Do anything to move yourself toward your vision. Take some small action; it does not have to be perfect action. Don’t focus on your perceived lack financial resources. If you choose not to subscribe to ‘Business Week’ or the ‘Wall Street Journal’ at this time, you can spend a leisurely evening in the business section of your well-appointed (Public) library and look for that moment of inspired business strategy or the Million-dollar idea. Keep focused on your vision, your desired outcome and take the next step and then the next.

Manifestation takes action. It doesn’t have to be “hard or difficult” but you need to be an active participant in the acquisition of your dream.

Napoleon Hill says:

“Do not wait for a definite plan, through which you intend to exchange services or merchandise in return for the money you are visualizing, but begin at once to see yourself in possession of the money, demanding and expecting meanwhile, that your subconscious mind will hand over the plan, or plans you need.”

Napoleon Hill is clearly stating that when you’re seeking to manifest abundance or anything else you wish, DO NOT WORRY if you’re unsure of what action you need to take. Once you fully focus your creative energy and thoughts towards what you’re trying to attract and the answers you require, the right action steps will come to you. They may come as an inspired thought or an AAHHAA- moment or simply a moment of clarity while meditating or something that jumps out of a book or article you are reading, or something mentioned by a friend in passing. We live in a universe of infinite possibilities. How inspiration comes to us is not important. Simply TRUST that the answers we need are here for us when we are ready to hear them.

America’s great capitalist inventor, Thomas A. Edison, allowed Napoleon Hill research access and gave Hill’s book, “Think and Grow Rich” his endorsement. Edison claimed that most of his ideas came to him through intuition. He was once quoted as saying, “Ideas come from space. They float around our heads, just waiting for us to catch them in our thoughts.”

To quickly create a flow of innovative ideas, maintain your millionaire mindset and stay in alignment with your goals— you need to apply definite action.

Do something - ANYTHING - to move you towards your goal.

Definite Action, when applied towards your definite goal, creates the miracle of manifestation through the Law of Attraction.

Analysis—paralysis is the sworn enemy of action.

Do not fuss about the RIGHT thing or the PERFECT way. Worry wipes out energy. Save and use your energy to live your life and act on your creative vision.

Don’t expect your vision to be dropped off, before 10 am tomorrow morning, by FEDEX.
Napoleon Hill suggests, “…take a few steps, ‘baby-steps’, towards your goal. As you take action, events and coincidences will guide you towards the end result.”
Live the ‘active’ Law of Attraction and be amazed at the joy and happiness that enters your life!

Hill, after studying almost 500 of the most successful people of his era wrote,

“Once you apply the process… When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

—Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Millionaire Minds Take ACTION!

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Think and Grow Rich Continues from 07.27.07 blog…

Meditation and Visualization…

… Now is the time to focus on what you wish to attract into your life — health, money, and love. Use your creativity and intuition to feel how would you manage your time talent and treasure if you had complete freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want.

Visualize What You Want

While you are in this state of relaxed meditation, visualize yourself having that which you choose to attract. For example, if you’re choosing to express your passion through a different career or a new business venture, see yourself having this experience.

I envision myself joyfully writing in my office, communicating with clients by phone or email, opening envelops containing checks from happy customers, filling out deposit slips, and taking them to my bank. I visualize my online checking account and seeing dozens of direct deposits from my publishing products websites.

Hmmm… I’m taking a moment… yuppers I’m feeling the love.

Be expansive in your vision, see yourself enjoying the leisure activities your new business venture or career upgrade affords you: visiting and dining with friends in your beautiful home, or a favorite restaurant; spending fun times with your family during weekend excursions or tending your much-loved butterfly garden. Create images that reflect the quality of your ideal lifestyle. If you want a weekend get away spot - see yourself lounging lakeside, reading a book or just basking in the gentle sunshine…feel the lake-cooled breezes on your face.

This type of sense-oriented meditation practice is called “Creative Visualization”.
It’s creative in the substance you’re attracting to you — creating — that which you visualize.

Use Your Senses

In creative writing classes, the active use of the five-senses is always stressed. To really convey feeling, make your vision’s imagery unmistakably realistic, with richly textured, vibrant images. Incorporate how something would taste, or feel to your touch or how would it sound when you heard it.

Visualizations, fully experienced, with imagery expressed through all the senses, bring better results.

There are many paths to creative visualization. Some of us experience our senses differently. Many people have a dominant sense. For some it may be sight, you can see the lakeside getaway; for another, the smell of the pine forest that surrounds the lakeside; others can feel cool lake breeze against their face. Work with the senses that are, for you, most vivid. The more sensual your visualization, the more quickly you bring it into physical manifestation.

Humans are Emotive Beings

Remember the process of manifestation equation —T-> F-> A = R

THOUGHTS lead to FEELINGS, which lead to ACTIONS that yield our RESULTS

Our feelings, these human emotions, intensify our personal power of attraction, so feel the joy, happiness and excitement of your ideal outcome. Live your dream using the strongest emotions available to you. By intensifying the emotions associated with your creative visualization, you are actually experiencing your creation in the NOW — as far as your subconscious is concerned, manifestation, signed, sealed and delivered. The ability to experience the feeling level, to really FEEL the emotion of having IS the manifestation process.

For the Greater Good…

Each of us has an altruistic project of our heart.

Our inner steward longs to do something great — IF ONLY — I had the time, treasure and talent.
You have unlimited time treasure and talent — manifest it through your creative visualization practice!

Many of us are simply not moved to a high-energy, motivational vibration by visions of material possessions. Reaching a high level of positive emotions in creative visualization practice means imagining others who benefit from our ability to increase our universal access to time, talent and treasure. To feel the “Greater Good” energy and emotion, tap your senses. Make the image real. Feel emotions and see others benefiting.

Use your creative visualization practice to express the heart-level vibration you feel when gifting a favorite charity or making a love offering to a source of spiritual inspiration. These feelings are the soul’s way of letting you know you’re in alignment with your purpose and personal passion. Feeling joy in the act of giving indicates an appropriateness in your thoughts, feelings and actions. Creative visualization that centers on helping others, seeing their smiles and feeling their happiness, builds a powerful, positive emotion, that in turn makes the process of manifesting faster and smoother.

This whole process, just about ten-minutes a day, is enough to focus the Universal energy, the stuff of manifestation, to attract the many blessings of your heart’s desire.

However you choose to express out-folding of your dream, when you can feel the experience in every cell of your body, you can manifest your dreams at will.

This creation, this vision, is whom we choose to be, in the moment, full of joy, while expressing our special gifts. In this vibration of manifestation, the action steps need are clearly in alignment and easily accomplished in the HERE and NOW, not somewhere in the great, by and by.

The final step…continued, 08.01.07 blog entry, Think and Grow Rich— Part Three — Take Action

Millionaire Minds Take Action!

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“If you’re one of those that believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It’s not true!”

“Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work alone! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to DEFINITE DEMANDS, based upon the application of DEFINITE PRINCIPLES, and not by chance or luck.”

— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

One of the things I admire about T. Harv Eker is his unabashed pursuit of continuous education. In training sessions he often refers to the eighteen months after he sold his business as a time of intense study. He cheerfully recounts how he took every class, listened to every audio book, studied every book he could to help him understand and master the inner game of wealth. Eker often quotes from his teachers and mentors and suggests books to Millionaire Minded students.

One of the books he and is trainers often quote is Think and Grow Rich.

Think and Grow Rich is one of those classic books almost everyone has on their bookshelf. Many of today’s “New Thought” gurus draw inspiration from the writings of Napoleon Hill. If fact, it was after I read Joe Vitale’s “Meet and Grow Rich” that I decided to revisit Napoleon Hill’s masterwork. I got the audio book and listened to one CD each evening. I took notes and contemplated his suggestions and observations, made so many years ago, yet still so relevant today,

Napoleon Hill, T. Harv Eker, Stuart Wilde, Joe Vitale, and the other “Secret “ teachers are saying the same thing:

• Knowing What You Want
• Moving into a Meditative State of Mind
• Creative Visualization
• Taking Definite Action

Journey Starts HERE

NAME IT— CLAIM IT — OWN IT — SHARE IT WITH OTHERS!

Know What You Want

This statement is NOT self-evident.
The first time I heard Stuart Wilde bark, “What do you want?” I just stared at my CD-player. I truly did not know how to frame an answer. The reason Janet Bray Attwood’s “The Passion Test” swept to best seller status, is her approach helps lots of folks clearly defined what they want.

KNOWING what you want is not just about setting clearly defined goals. The big question is, are those goals and the action steps they precipitated, in alignment with you purpose — your true heart’s desire. It is amazing the lengths people go, to deny their special talents and pursuing the one thing that fully expresses their perfection.

Focus Your Intention

Once you’ve identified your goals, write them down — feel the power in committing your goals to paper. If you are like me, you will probably “key” them into a WORD document on your computer. After word-smithing “your heart’s desire” documents, print several copies. Post a few copies where you will see them every day. Keep a copy in your billfold or purse. Place one copy in special folder in your personal meditation or contemplation space.

Lastly, with focused intention, transcribe your document, in your own handwriting. This is for your eyes and your heart. There is something holy about the act of personally writing something with pen and paper. This tactile act of creation somehow connects your mind/ heart energy. To me it seems more tangible than packets of data, thrown in a certain order, against specified matrix of toner particles.

Moving into a Meditative State of Mind

Next, pick a time of the day, where you can focus, uninterrupted, on your “passionate purpose” for about five to fifteen minutes. My best contemplation time is first thing in the morning. I just lay comfortably in bed for a few minutes after I wake-up, and “gift” myself with the time for a daily “meditation” practice. This is when I find it easiest to just “Be” — to relax into a peaceful state where I can connect to my subconscious. I don’t fuss about esthetic meditation techniques, I just breathe deeply and regularly, focusing on the feelings around reaching and enjoying my goals. I smile — mouth, eyes and heart. I feel the joy of having my dream.

Now is the time to focus on what you wish to attract into your life — health, money, and love. Use your creativity and intuition to feel how you would manage your time talent and treasure, if you had complete freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want.

Continued, 07.30.07 blog entry, Think and Grow Rich— Part Two — Creative Visualization

We all have Creative Millionaire Minds!

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Kind is Cool!

In Joe Vitale’s “Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth, he discusses the importance of living a good and moral life. As he talked about the importance of kindness as a core value, I felt his energy, the essence of kindness, move through me as I listened to his voice.

As I relaxed into that wonderful, feeling-level of giving and receiving simple kindness, I noticed that although we have called ourselves “Humankind”, and kindness may be simple, it also seems somehow rare.

How can we bring more kindness into our lives?

In one form or the other, we have heard the answer all our lives. Some call it the “Golden Rule”, some the ethic of reciprocity, or yet others recite Matthew 7:12, “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” All of these thoughts suggest we practice kindness in every aspect of our lives.

If we want kindness we must give kindness.

The beautiful “sound thought”, “Let There Be Peace on Earth”, sung in many non-denominational churches, culminates with this stanza:
“Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
In peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.”

To me, peace is a manifestation of universal kindness, and the seeds of that kindness are given to each one of us to nurture grow and share with the world.

Synchronicity is always with us. I focused on universal kindness during my morning meditation and on my way to my desk, I noticed a book, “The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness” by Linda Kaplan Thaler, with co-author Robin Koval

You might not recognize, Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO and chief creative officer of the Kaplan Thaler Group Inc., (one of the fastest-growing advertising agency in America) by name or occupation, but you love her duck.

Who doesn’t love the trusty and trustworthy AFLAC Duck?

Kaplan Thaler attributes her company’s success to a corporate culture of niceness. In her 2006 book, The Power of Nice, she shares her winning business strategy — kindness as an antidote to an increasingly ruthless competitive environment. In the book, Kaplan Thaler explores the fallacy of America’s zero-sum business culture: Unless you lose, I can’t win — think survivor-like “reality shows”. She reminds us that deceitful machinations are not the stuff of true winners. The “ME vs. YOU mentality” is simply not a sustainable strategy.

I’m smiling as I write this, and thinking, “Do I find her approach brilliant because she agrees with me or, or because her approach simply makes for a good business practice?”

Linda Kaplan Thaler, winner of dozens Clio awards, explores collaborative success and argues that good deeds are returned, not punished. Her book is well thought out and engagingly written, offering core values, case studies and exercises to help make niceness habitual. Exercises, like turning personal disappointment into positive energy really work and encourage the reader to approach the business of life differently.

The book is written in a conversational style and makes the reader feel like they are part of an engaging discussion that explores the possibility, “What if everyone approached life with kindness?” Kaplan Thaler addresses the Power of Nice Principles; Bake a Bigger Pie; Sweeten the Deal; Help Your Enemies; Tell the Truth; “Yes” Your Way to the Top; Shut Up and Listen; Put Your Head on Their Shoulders; and Create a Nicer Universe.

I love reading something that makes me smile and encourages the feeling of hope and joy. Kindness-centered business — its yours for the sharing.

As my granddaughter Audrey would say, “Mean is so yesterday.”

We all have kind millionaire minds!

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All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!