Dare to Prosper - Finale

Well if you have kept with me you will have started an amazing journey of taking control and regaining the power to live an amazing life. Now comes the final piece and the one that most people either don’t know about or will give me the most grief about why they can’t do it. They will give me all the reasons that this makes no sense and they can’t and my response to you is this is the only one that if you fail to do will definitely not get you your desires. This step alone is not the cure all but when used with the other 9 steps definitely works magic. This law of the universe is one that is so amazing that once you activate it revolutionizes the other 9 steps.

Step 10 the magic of 10; you give 10% of your income away to person or place that empowers you (church, ministry, speaker). This key is really simple – whatever you get in income you give 10% away. You may have different places you can give to but they are not the magic. The places you give are considered the soil that you plant your seed in, and you want to plant in places that have helped you grow as a person. The magic is that you give. You give expecting to see returns. Just like if you planted a seed you would expect to see some kind of harvest, well this law is no different. You plant 10% and you expect to see a return. Just like gravity it doesn’t matter what your religious persuasion because this is a universal law not a denominational law. I know that some churches teach this concept but the law is the law. Anyone who applies the law will reap its benefits.

I can hear you now but I can’t afford to make payments now how do you expect me to give 10% away. If you are struggling then it is even more important that you give your 10% because you are putting yourself in position to get more. If what you have isn’t enough wouldn’t it be nice if you could get more. Part of the thinking that you have to get over is that by giving you are not diminishing what you have instead see it as an opportunity to increase what you have by planting a seed that will reap you a harvest.

I challenge you to just do it and then see what happens. This step is the only one that I have seen over and over again do amazing things for the giver. It also will become a way of life when you realize that the greater my need the more that I need to get into the habit of giving my 10% on a regular basis. The thing of about this law is you are already giving 10% but maybe not realizing it. You see this law of the universe has a downside and that is if you don’t give of your own it will be taken from you in other ways (disasters, car problems, health issues, unemployment) You see just like the law of gravity it is very unforgiving when we do not adhere to it.

Laws of the Universe are just that – they don’t care who you are or what you believe – they work just the same. So now that you know what those laws are you can use them to create an amazing life or you could choose to ignore the laws and live lives of quiet desperation and constantly ask yourself why is this happening to me? You get to choose! So choose wisely.

Thank you!

Dare to Prosper - Part IX

Step 9

Expect it to happen!

This step always surprises me as to its power and one that I truly enjoy implementing in my life. It also amazes me how few people actually put this one into practice. It is almost if there is an element of doubt still lurking in the recesses of their mind that somehow tells them that they can’t have what it is they really want. This could be embedded lies that are preventing them by telling them that they may not be worthy or people like them don’t get what they really want. It could be years of failure that has become a self-fulfilling prophecy as to bad things happening to them. They may have conversations in their head that rob them of their destiny and support their belief that good things won’t come to them or if they do they are tied to bad things as a result. It truly is amazing that in so many cases we are our own worse enemy and the thoughts that we think.

So today I want you to prepare for what ever it is you are desiring.
For example if you want a new home: go by new towels or some thing that you would want just for your new home. If you want to have a baby – go out an buy a cute maternity top. It doesn’t have to be big or expensive it is only a token of what you are expecting to have in our life. If you want to go to some exotic place – buy something you will wear when you get there. The whole point of this step is to do one proactive thing to solidify in your mind that what it is you desire you will get. One of mine was I wanted to live in the mountains and go hiking so I bought hiking poles while I was still living in Illinois. I looked kind of funny walking the streets of Bolingbrook with my poles but today I live on a mountain and I hike almost every day and truly my poles come in handy. When I wanted to go to Alaska I got a key chain and whenever I opened a door I reminded myself that I would one day go to Alaska and I did. Right now I have a little wooden lawn chair sitting on a book shelf because my next desire is to have a cabin in the woods with a wrap around porch with great views of the mountains. So it doesn’t matter what it is but that you have some tangible thing that you can see and touch and be reminded that one day your desire will be yours.

Dare to Prosper - Part VIII

I think one of the greatest laws of the universe is this next step. It amazes me as to how few people understand its power and use it for their good, instead use it to destroy themselves and those around them.

What I love about all these steps is no matter how old or young you are – no matter what your life has been to this point you have the power to change your future. Step 8 is all about power – your power. Daily speak your affirmations of prosperity (all that is what is it you want!)

Determine that words of your mouth will decide your future!

A. The words of your mouth have gotten you to this point and it will get you to your future.
B. What are you saying?
C. What ever you focus on grows
1. Do you focus on what you don’t have or what you do have?
2. Do you focus on need or abundance
D. Your vision is in direct proportion to the words you are speaking
1. Are you speaking life or death
2. Prosperity or poverty
3. Health or illness

You have the power to speak your future into existence. You already are doing it by default and the life you have today is as a result of what you have been speaking.
Your assignment is to speak what you want it to be not what it is right now.

Dare to Prosper - Part VII

This step is really a bit of a mind trick. I have been told that the mind does not separate what is real and what we imagine to be real. I have always thought that was interesting. Here is a simple trick to test this – think of something that you are really afraid of and imagine you are in a room with that thing or doing that thing. You will find your heart racing and your body has all of sudden changed physically. I find some people can actually break out into a cold sweat. Yet the event has not happened the item it not in the room with them but their imagination created the physical response in their body.

Step 7 is all about using that power to get what it is you want and that is to Mentally picture what it is you want as already yours.

Power of Imagination is amazing and so few people have tapped into it for their good. Most people instead use their imagination to imagine all the negative things that could happen to them. What a wasted use of such great power. So it is not a matter of using the power it is a matter of using it for creating your future.

Assignment: Spend time daily literally meditating on what it is you want your world to look like. In fact,every time you find yourself worrying, or contemplating on the negatives of your life. Grab that thought and replace it with your Clear Concise Mental Picture of what it is you want. It may not be easy initially but as you continue to take your thoughts under control you will find that it works wonders in your world.