Feb 27 2008

Money With Soul

People will tell you that in order to be prosperous you have to have a certain level of education, intelligence, knowledge, know the right people and so on and I am telling you it is simply not true. There are more rules around money and how to make, spend and manage it, than any other subject and when someone gives advice they are generally telling you about their rules.

The most important thing you need to understand about money is that it is energy, nothing more, nothing less. How much abundance you allow into your life is always your choice. I say this with great conviction because not only did I change my own financial circumstances using the prosperity principles I teach in my Money with Soul course, I have helped tens of thousands of other people change their lives as well.

During the seventies I was a single parent and my children and I lived below the poverty line. I am so grateful to have had such an experience because it enabled me to discover just how powerful I really am.

Each week my best friend would visit us and she always brought me a book on prosperity. Authors such as Catherine Ponder, Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone became my coaches, and I knew way back then that I was meant to teach prosperity principles one day.

I know a lot of people say you have to have a plan in order to succeed but I have always found that all I have to do is make a decision, and obviously support that decision with my thoughts, words and actions, and opportunities come to me. Nine years after my youngest child was born I was living in a lovely home and running a women’s investment advisory business. Not only that I was regularly quoted in newspapers and asked to talk about money matters on radio. At every step in my journey from poverty to abundance I simply invoked another prosperity principle.

Eleven years after reaching my lowest point I ran my first course on prosperity. I needed that length of time to learn about myself and life before I could start teaching others. Some of the things that I have learnt are:

There are only 2 emotions that block money coming to you and they are fear and resentment.

Understanding your money values can make it so much easier to achieve your goals.

If you don’t ask you don’t get.

One girl recently wrote to her credit card provider and asked them to reduce the interest on her credit card, they wrote back saying the rate had been reduced by 8%. Another asked her bank to reduce the interest rate on mortgage and they did. A woman wrote to me from the Maldives just after it was hit by the tsunami a couple of years back. She wanted to help the Maldavian people but she didn’t have the money to do my life coach training course. I gave her the Ten Step process at no cost, saying if she applied the principles she would manifest the money to pay for the rest of the course. She did. She is now doing some extraordinary work and reaching a large number of people in her country.

When I look back on those early days one thing I recall is how easy it was to go from where I was to where I wanted to be. The only time my life has ever been a struggle has been when I have gotten stuck in my emotions and when I’ve let the good habits that supported me slip.

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Anne Hartley runs a life coach training school in Australia but trains coaches and workshop facilitators world wide. She is the author of several books on success and happiness.

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Feb 19 2008

Increase Your Level Of Inner Peace

Published by Other Authors under Life, Spirituality

Do you want to have more inner peace? You can accomplish your goal by taking steps that will help you grow physically, mentally and financially.

Focus on your health. Get plenty of aerobic exercise and eat an abundance of nutritious food every day. Do activities such as jogging, cycling, swimming or brisk walking at least thirty minutes almost every day. Follow the established nutrition guidelines.

Reduce the amount of time you spend harboring negative emotions. Do not get mad over little things. Avoid carrying grudges and hatred in your heart.

Handle your stress properly. When you feel tense or pressed, take a deep breath and remember that your performance, health and level of inner peace will be affected negatively by an overload of stress. Have you heard the phrase that says, “Rise to the occasion?” When it is very important to perform at your best level, you must relax and totally concentrate on your task.

Do not be ashamed to cry or express your anger in a harmless manner. If you want or need to cry or scream, please do so because it will help you feel better; furthermore, suppressing your grief or anger will hurt your immune system.

Laugh alone and with others at things that are funny but harmless. Laugh at things that have already happened. If you think of something funny around others, do not laugh too loudly.

Think positively. Turn negative experiences into positive experiences by contemplating the benefits that may come from what has happened. For example, if you lose a few dollars you put into a side pocket or shallow back pocket, you can use this error to become more careful and avoid losing a lot more money in the future.

Do not dwell on the past. This is counterproductive and will not bring you peace of mind. Only use bad memories of your past to avoid repeating your mistakes.

Think about your good experiences as much as possible. Use these good memories to become happier.

Be courteous to others. Being mean brings guilt and a lack of inner peace.

Volunteer your time at least occasionally. Help others in need.

To increase your chances of feeling comfort and peace of mind in your golden years, prepare for your retirement. Create and stick to a budget. Save at least ten percent of your income. Take advantage of any retirement accounts provided by your employer.

Use your physical and mental energy to do good things. Do what you can to make a difference.

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Todd Hicks owns Skill Development Institute, an enterprise that provides a keyboard typing lesson and academic study guide. He has a communications degree and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. To become a great typist or student, visit Skill Development Institute. http://www.ktaassde.com

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Feb 16 2008

Abundance

When I think of the word abundance it reminds me of laughter, wealth and happiness. And when I see it written down, I see three separate words: A - Bun - Dance. Then my imagination goes wild, and I think how brilliant it would be to invite all my friends to ‘A Bun Dance.’ I would make up the invitation as follows:
DRESS CODE: Anything Goes—as long as it’s bright, fun and makes you look and feel like a million dollars.

FOOD: Gourmet Meets Street—with hotdogs, caviar, double chocolate mousse and Swedish Fish for added color.

MUSIC: Eclectic Mix—jazz, soul, zydeco, rock n’ roll and harp (for those who want a quiet corner to talk and ponder upon life’s riches).

VENUE: Anywhere in America—since it truly is a place of abundance.

I realized this yesterday when I was driving behind a big, old truck piled high with garbage that looked like it was about to topple on top of the car behind—which in this case was mine. It wasn’t household rubbish like plastic water bottles, rotten vegetables or old mascara brushes—this was construction demolition left over from an old house in which a bald teddy bear and a chipped china cup had been abandoned to finally bite the dust alone.
The truck was homemade as if a hard-working family had tied wooden boards together on top of a rusting chassis for hauling waste at a cheap rate. If it had been on a different road like some part of India where families live on garbage heaps collecting things of value to sell—there would probably have been lots children sitting on top of it.
And this truck—it was such a blessing to me. It made me realize that I have everything and everything that I have is full to the brim. As I sit in my small apartment, which is fragrantly perfumed by a big bunch of ‘thank you’ lilies gifted from friends who just stayed the weekend, I accept and welcome all that life has given me. I am surrounded with abundance; gifts over the years from family and friends: a vase of happiness bamboo shoots, a small flower ornament, and a pot bought from a vacation spot called Shangri-La.
My life is so spilling over with abundance, it is hard to even count up my blessings for fear that I have too much–and that is why I must. If I don’t see the magic all around me—it will not exist. I will simply be sleepwalking through my life and missing out on all that this planet has to offer—and believe me—where we live—it has EVERYTHING to offer.
A teacher once said, “If anybody should be happy, it should be us. We have so much. We have toilets, refrigerators, stoves, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, garbage disposals, water coming out of the walls (even hot, if we turn on the hot water), cars, clothes, and a lot of food.” He went on to say that having money is difficult for most people because if they have lots of money they have no more excuses.

It’s true isn’t it? If you had all the money in the world to do exactly what you want to do—you would have no more excuses not to do it. You would write the book, paint the picture, exercise every day to have the healthy body you want, hire the chef to cook your perfectly balanced meals, climb to the base camp of Mount Everest, scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef. What would stop you?

NOTHING.

So what is stopping you now from doing exactly what you want? Because it isn’t money—it isn’t a lack of anything. There is so much abundance all around us that we have no excuses not to live our lives fully, with passion and enthusiasm every day. There are too many people doing too many extraordinary and amazing things with very little money or resources to make money an excuse. There are too many opportunities and so much abundance here in America for lack to be the excuse.

The only thing between me and what I want to do is me! Me telling me either, “I CAN do it!” or, “I CAN’T do it!” So let’s make an invitation to ourselves and have A Bun Dance! Let’s wake up every morning and do a little jig around the bed and into the bathroom and sing in the shower. Because if you have a bed, a bathroom and a shower you are already way ahead of the game for most people on the planet—you are already living an abundant life!

Here’s an invitation for A - Bun - Dance…and don’t read ahead. Just do it as you go along.

1. Stand up and put both feet on the ground.
2. Raise your right hand as far up to the sky as it will go.
3. Jump up and sing and make an affirmation like this
‘I have ABUNDANCE. I have EVERYTHING I need, want and DESIRE. My life is working PERFECTLY. I LOVE my LIFE and EVERYTHING in it.’
4. Do this as many times as you like.
5. Rejoice in your ABUNDANCE!
6. Expect magical things to happen.

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Val Gee has published four books with McGraw-Hill, The Winner’s Attitude, Super Service, The Customer Service Toolkit and her latest, OPEN Question Selling. Before co-founding McNeil & Johnson with her husband, Val worked as a sales rep for Pitney Bowes, and gained top sales award in her first year. She began her writing career as a consultant and instructional designer developing and producing hundreds of employee training programs for companies such as Motorola, Hyatt Hotels, Siemens, Baxter Pharmaceutical and many more. Over the past ten years Val has been facilitating seminars based on her books to companies such as: Computer Associates, GE Financial, Pepsi, Xerox, Advocate Healthcare, McDonalds.

Val is a certified yoga instructor, member of the Authors Guild, ASTD, AMA and the British American Business Council. Before making the USA her permanent home in 1983, Val studied in the UK at Lords Commercial College, St. Aldates Business College Oxford and Bedford College. Married for over 37 years, with two daughters and two grandchildren, Val became an American citizen in 2005.

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