If you build it, it will come…

Some of you were expecting a list to make good on the challenge to prosper, and my answer is that the internet is littered with sites that tell you how to change the light bulbs and save ten percent on your utility bills or schemes to win the lottery next week, and I leave that to them. However, later we will begin to look at specific things you can do. But right now the point I am attempting to make is that you can change all the light bulbs you want or even win the lottery and very little will change in your life. We have all heard and read stories of people who won the lottery and ended up broke within a few years if not worse.

First, change your thinking and then true abundance will follow. It is not a new concept but as old as man himself. Consider this passage from the Old Testament: “You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.” Haggai 1:6

I included the audio about the man with cancer in part III to illustrate a point, the point being that as long as that man believed the worthless pills he was taking were beneficial to him (directed focus) the cancer in his body melted “like snowballs on a hot stove.” And the moment he stopped believing, his body stopped healing itself. Like that man, we come into the world as children and are willing to believe that anything is possible. And yet, as we grow into adulthood we gradually stop using that ability and develop reasons why we cannot achieve things and actually begin to set limits on what is possible.

So, our first step is to begin to ask ourselves if there were no limits what would be the essence or features of the things we want. By features I mean how would we plan to use it, what would it add to our lives, what are the things we might need to know to fully make use of it and finally how we would feel once we had made maximum use of it.

Some of you have immediately said to your self “I’d like ten million dollars” (it used to be only a million but I guess inflation has added to the dollar amount). The next question should be what is it I hope to do with that money? Have more peace of mind and not have to worry where my next meal was coming from. Have my house paid for and not have to make mortgage payments. Or, travel and visit all the places I’ve always dreamed about. You are now probably getting the drift; you need to get behind the motivation and be perfectly honest with yourself in terms of what it is you actually want and how you plan to use it. Once you have done this, you might even discover you really don’t need ten million dollars to live out your fantasy and there are other means available to you. This is why you have to be very clear in terms of the things you think you want.

And so, your challenge prior to the Part V is to take a moment and quietly write out all the things you would want if there were no limits. Brainstorm and throw in as many things you can think of that you have always dreamed about having. Then, once you have completed your list go back and ask yourself what is it that each one of these things will bring to your life and what you hope to get from it. The results may surprise you…
It might prove helpful, for those of you viewing this blog starting with Part IV, to go back and read Parts I – III just to get the full flavor of how we arrived at this point.