Self-confidence

In my opinion, self-confidence is just an expectation of a positive outcome. When you have self-confidence and expect the outcome to be positive, then you are more willing to stay in the fight until you have reached your objective. You will become more willing to do whatever it takes to prepare yourself because you believe the efforts will pay off. It’s not having confidence by itself that produces success.

            Many people walk around full of confidence, but never have the expectation of a positive outcome. Work backwards. First, see the lifestyle you desire. See success first in your mind. This will then give you the self-confidence to start the project.

            Self-confidence is like the game of baseball. If you want to score, you must first get to first base. You can’t score from first base so you must do whatever it takes to get to second base. There are different ways to get to second base, or at least to move to third base. Here are the ways to score from third base. A hit will bring you in; a fly ball to outfield, and an error will bring you in as well. Even walking while the bases are loaded will bring you in. A wild pitch or a pass ball will do. A catcher’s interference will do it and a ground out that does not result in the third out will do it. You see, just having the confidence, you will score. The chances increase dramatically as you put forth the effort to increase your odds of scoring. Life is the same way.

            People cannot envision success because the distance from first base to home looks too far, so they really never try. Self-confidence without an expectation of a positive outcome, is just wishing and you and I both know that wishing alone will not accomplish anything. So grab a bat and see yourself scoring in the game of life. Expect to score and prepare yourself to do whatever it takes. Look at the faces of the winning team when they score the winning run. Then, look at the faces of the losing team and you decide which face is yours.

Today’s Exercise: Start seeing things from the end.

Today’s Affirmation: I am enthusiastic and confident.

Points to Ponder: Self-confidence is just an expectation of a positive outcome.

Ambition

The origin of the word “ambition” is interesting. The Mirriam Webster dictionary states that “ambition” originates from the Latin word “ambitio” which literally meant back then, the act of soliciting for votes. Over time, the meaning of “ambition” moved to an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power; desire to achieve a particular end. Even more interesting one of the synonyms for “ambition” is “aspiration.” Aspiration implies a striving after something higher than oneself and usually implies that the striver is thereby ennobled.

            In this chapter, we look at the steps that lead to success. First, there must be desire. A burning desire leads to ambition. Ambition leads to action. Action leads to success. Success and Happiness are the goals God asks of us.

Monthly Affirmation: I am enthusiastic and confident.

Positive Thinking

Faith is nothing more than a concerted effort to convey to your Subconscious Mind the thoughts that you want to manifest in your life. Faith means thinking of what you want not what you don’t want. Faith is discipline; it means refusing to accept the negative or to even think about the negative. It takes a bold person to make this stand and if you pronounce your faith out loud, you will stand the ridicule of all the negative people, which unfortunately is the bulk of our society.

Faith in a sense is trusting in God. Now most people trust in God, and they see no connection between how their lives are run and the intervention of God. Most people feel they have no direct contact with God until they die and then there is this big judgment party and you either go to Heaven or Hell. Imagine standing in line and your number is nine hundred forty-seven billion, six hundred million, eight hundred forty-six thousand, one hundred thirty-nine. That’s a long wait to find out where you are going. Now imagine going to Hell for eternity because of a few transgressions in your lifetime of one hundred years or less. Try to comprehend eternity. I remember in third grade in Catholic school I asked the nun if I ate meat on Friday and I died would I go straight to hell. She said yes, and it rocked my world. I told her that I had a Jewish friend who had chicken soup every Friday night. Is he going to Hell? Well, she realized she was getting in too deep, so she whacked me across the knuckles with a ruler and told me to sit down and shut up.

            I’m kind of curious, all those people who ate meat on Fridays during the 1920s to the 1950s did they get a pardon when the Pope did away with this sin. Think of all lives ruined because of a lack of understanding of our faith. Wouldn’t it be great if the great religions of this planet would teach love, kindness, positive thinking, and our connection to God and to every other human being on this planet instead of fear, pain, judgment, and everlasting Hell? People who die for their religion, die for nothing. People who die for faith, for their fellow human being, make the greatest sacrifice a human can make. God does not want us to suffer, to fail, or be despondent. God wants us to succeed, to feel good, to be happy, and love one another as ourselves. This is the message that Jesus and all the other holy lords have taught us.

“As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.” – Jesus Christ

Today’s Exercise: Make up your mind that God does not destroy itself.

Today’s Affirmation: The kingdom of God is within me.

Points to Ponder: Faith means thinking of what you want not what you don’t want. “As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.” – Jesus Christ

How to Lose Weight Using The Law of Attraction

If you have been trying all your life to lose or maybe even gain weight with no success, you may be going around it the wrong way.

You’ve probably heard of the DVD Movie: “The Secret”, you may have even seen it 2 or 3 times, but you think the movie is only about money.

“The Secret” is simple; it states: “What is liken to itself is drawn.”  Which means you are what you think about all day long.  So, if losing weight is what you are interested in, it is only natural for you to think you are FAT (or too skinny).  After all, every time you look in the mirror or step on a scale there it is staring you right in the face, and you mentally state to yourself: “I NEED TO LOSE _______ POUNDS.  MY CLOTHES DON’T FIT. I LOOK UGLY AND I’M ALWAYS TIRED.”

There goes at least 5 negative vibrational energy shouts out into the Universe to align itself with every other overweight, ugly, tired vibration floating around just waiting to align itself with you.  The results are that you don’t lose any weight you actually gain a few more pounds.

So, you try a diet.  Guess what?  The results are the same as the last 3 diets you tried.  You lose weight for a little while and then you put it all back on and then some.  So you look for an excuse.  “It’s in my genes, my family has a history of being overweight.”  “Every time I walk by the refrigerator I gain 5 pounds.”  Diets don’t work, and you give in by saying: “I’m doomed.”  You then give up, not wanting to put your make-up on, not going to get your hair done or even buying new clothes.  Now you are stressed out and you decide that eating an extra piece of pie or the whole pie isn’t so bad.

Let’s take a little bit of the blame off you…

10,000 years ago our ancestors huddled together in caves.  They went out as a group to hunt for their food.  When they were able to kill an animal the entire group would feast together for a week.  There was no refrigeration so they had to eat it all in one sitting, stuffing themselves.  The human body developed a hypothalamus gland, which in effect directs the food we eat to certain parts of the body.  For instance some food goes to our blood system, some to our muscles, some to be stored as fat and the rest to be turned into waste to be eliminated from our body.  Our ancestors, the cavemen, did not eat everyday; maybe a week or more between meals the hypothalamus gland would send a major portion of what they ate to be stored as a fat reserve to be redirected to vital parts of the body when food was scarce.  The problem with humans today is that their food source is not weeks away, but hours away and when they eat in excess this food becomes excess baggage.

So, losing weight is not a physical process but a mental one.

Let’s start with the movie “The Secret”, The Law of Attraction states: “We are what we think about.”  Every time you look into the mirror and say:”I need to lose some weight.” – the word need means wish and your subconscious only obeys orders not wishes.  So in order to lose that weight you must fully understand how the Three Minds work.

Our Conscious Mind is our physical body, it gathers data from our five senses.  This information becomes our memory and we are a product of that memory.

Let’s look at our five senses at work:

Taste: “Oh, I love the TASTE of chocolate cake.”

Smell: “Oh, doesn’t that freshly baked bread SMELL delicious.”

Sight: “Oh, doesn’t that big, fat, greasy cheeseburger and French fries LOOK like heaven.”

Sound: “Oh, I can HEAR my stomach grumbling just looking at that ice cream sundae.”

Touch: “Oh, I can’t wait to get my HANDS on that apple pie.”

Tell me you didn’t just put on three pounds reading that.

So, even though your Conscious Mind wants to lose weight, it is fighting a losing battle.

Our Subconscious Mind, it is a collection or data base of all the vibrational energies of every thought, word or feeling in the Universe.  These vibrations are waiting to attach themselves to whatever you think, say or feel.  Like all magnets a positive will always attract a positive and a negative will always attract a negative.

So, a statement like: “I need to lose some weight.” Is a negative command to your Subconscious Mind.  The word NEED means: “I don’t have it, I don’t know how to get it, I guess I’m stuck with all this weight it must be in my genes.  That damn hypothalamus gland must be working overtime.”

Because you have sent out a negative vibration, this negative vibration will attach itself to every FAT thought in the Universe and you will eventually justify the fact that everything you eat ends up on your hips.

The Universal Super-Conscious Mind is the link between you and God.  God did not create mankind with an imperfect body in mind.  Your body is the most sophisticated piece of machinery in the Universe.  Mankind cannot duplicate the human body.  All sickness, disease and imperfections of the body are caused b negative and erroneous thinking of the collective Conscious Minds of humanity.  To bring our body back to perfection will not be accomplished by science, medicine or any other artificial method.  Only our Three Minds working in harmony can change the condition of our physical body.  Our minds are perfect and when used right our bodies will become perfect.

Conscious Mind

It’s job is to decide WHAT we want.

Subconscious Mind

It’s job is to decide HOW to get it.

Universal Super-Conscious Mind

God will make it so.

Your Conscious Mind must decide WHAT the perfect weight is for you.  Let’s say that the perfect weight for you is ___(fill in a number)__ pounds.  You then give your Conscious Mind the command by saying:

“I AM enjoying my life, I have a perfect body for me.  My weight is __(desired weight)__.  My body will redistribute the weight so that I AM most pleasing to me.  With this new look I will upgrade my appearance to take advantage of my new shape.   My new hairstyle, my new clothes and posture will reflect the new me.  I will refrain from abusing my body by subjecting it to over eating, over drinking, drugs, worries, stress or any other harmful habit.  I AM PERFECT, GOD MADE ME.” 

Your Subconscious Mind will then vibrate these words and feelings to the Universe and will be joined by a multitude of positive vibrations that will automatically do the right think without thinking.  Your whole outlook on life will change and you will use this process to attain more love, happiness, prosperity and peace of mind.

Your Super-Conscious Mind (God) will simply smile and welcome back another prodigal son or daughter.

Learn all you can about The Law of Attraction.  Study it, practice it and spread the truth.  If you can do it anyone can do it.  Change the world one mind at a time.

Peace,

Len