Archive for the ‘Prosperity’ Category

If you’ve held a lack mentality for any length of time, you have likely reduced your awareness of the prosperity that exists all around you and become used to seeing lack and shortage everywhere you turn.

You know how they put blinkers on horses so they can’t see peripherally and become frightened or distracted? You’ve got your own kind of blinkers on – ones that blot out your ability to see true abundance. It’s time to take the blinkers off! This article will walk you through three simple steps that will help you increase your prosperity awareness.

1) Switch your perspective.

Because you’re so used to focusing on lack and scarcity, you may need to consciously switch your perspective in every situation until it becomes a habit. A good way to start is by paying attention to the times when you begin focusing on lack. If you feel stressed when it’s time to pay your bills, or you get angry when an unexpected expense arises or when you miss an opportunity – make a conscious decision to alter your perspective in these moments.

Rather than feeling stressed about paying your bills, affirm that you always have more than enough money to cover them, even if you have to juggle a few things around. Affirm that just like you received the money you have right now, you will receive more again. If an unexpected expense comes up, affirm that your resources are expanding to fill the demand. If you miss out on a great opportunity, affirm that opportunities are limitless in number, and vow that you will recognise and take advantage of them as often as possible from now on.

2) Tune into the natural abundance around you.

A great way to become aware of the abundance around you is to spend time in a natural setting. Take an afternoon visit to a local park, public gardens, or even your own back garden. Sit quietly and take in your surroundings. Notice the abundance of plant and animal life, and see how effortlessly everything blooms into life. Think about the process that takes place in the cycles of nature: how a seed is planted, watered and given sunlight and begins to grow into something beautiful.

Think about ways you can apply this same process in your own life. What seeds can you plant and nurture? What do you need to shine more sunlight upon, and what needs consistent pruning and maintenance?

3) Go on a prosperity hunt.

Have you ever participated in an Easter egg hunt? Adults hide colourful plastic eggs filled with toys and sweets, children go on a “hunt” to find them and keep whatever they find. You can do the same thing in your own life, but seek prosperity instead of eggs. Travel new pathways and look for prosperity wherever you go. Look more closely at the people you encounter, and expand your awareness of places and situations to find the hidden egg of prosperity that exists there.

Prosperity lurks under every bush, within every flower, in every location, in every smile you receive and give, and in every situation you experience in life. You just need to recognise it and embrace it and it will be yours.

Once your prosperity awareness is strong, you will more easily see the potential in every situation. Opportunities will seem to drop right into your lap, and you will feel eager to grab the abundance that is rightfully yours.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to create a more prosperous life for yourself is to start living with an attitude of gratitude.

How can such a simple technique create such impressive change?

When you consider that we classify most of our experiences based on our perspective, you can see the power of choosing our focus wisely. Let’s look at a simple example of the power of perspective:

Imagine a man that has no money; not even a few dollars to buy a meal. Suddenly a stranger appears and hands him £20. How would he react to receiving £20? He’d probably be overcome with joy and gratitude!

Now imagine a man that has £200, but needs £500 more to pay his rent by tomorrow. What would his reaction be to receiving £20 from a stranger? He’d probably be appreciative, but he would still mostly  be focused on what he DOESN’T have – the £480 still needed to pay his rent.

This isn’t about the sum of money involved, but the FOCUS chosen in by each man. You may think that a simple focus on gratitude won’t do anything more than help you feel better about your life, but it really does go much deeper than that.

Here are three powerful ways that an attitude of gratitude can change your life and increase your prosperity:

1) What you focus on increases.

The more you make an effort to see the benefits in each and every situation, the more benefits you will notice. Not only do you recognise more of the good stuff, you’ll actually begin to attract it. Like attracts like! The more grateful you are for what you have the more things you will attract to be grateful about. The more positive you are the more positive people you will attract. The more prosperous you think, the more prosperity you will attract. On and on it goes, for every possible quality or experience you want to receive.

2) You’ll be more receptive to opportunities.

In order to recognise and take advantage of opportunities, you need to be open to them! If you’re busy brooding about how terrible your life is, you’re going to be preoccupied and miss out on any opportunities that happen to come your way. Either that or you’ll be so cynical that even if you see an opportunity, you won’t act on it. A genuine focus on gratitude keeps you feeling happy and alert, so you’ll be more likely to see and grasp the opportunities you encounter.

3) You’ll feel better about your current circumstances.

Finally, gratitude can indeed make your existing circumstances seem better, even before anything has changed. Not only do you take time to appreciate the good things in your life, you also begin to feel hopeful and optimistic about the future. You begin to recognise the good parts of even troublesome situations, which can reveal solutions or at least help you develop a calm acceptance for anything out of your control.

Adopting a gratitude focus may not be a magic solution to all of your problems, but it can help you embrace a more peaceful, satisfied state of mind. And isn’t that what prosperity is all about?

Have you ever wondered about people who seem to naturally attract good stuff? They have no shortage of money, a circle of great friends, loving and healthy relationships, great jobs, limitless possibilities – everything seems to come so easily to them, while you struggle and scrape by.

These people know the secret to living prosperously – and you can learn it too! It’s simply a matter of changing the way you think, feel and act – which will change the results you get in life.

Here are three major components of living a prosperous life:

1) Follow your passions.

Those prosperous people in your life do not settle for mediocrity, have you ever noticed that? They likely have interesting jobs and they aren’t afraid to try new things. Each day is a new adventure for them, and they make a habit of squeezing every drop of joy out of life that they can.

You can easily do the same by first giving some thought to the things you feel passionate about. What did you used to love to do when you were a child? What hobbies or creative pursuits do you enjoy now? If you can’t come up with any ideas right away, explore! Try new activities. Sign up for some classes and try new things. Let your heart lead you in whatever you do, and before you know it you’ll be living passionately too.

2) Believe in the possibilities.

Prosperous people know that as good as things are right now, they can always get better. They believe in the limitless possibilities that exist for their lives, and they quickly take advantage of opportunities that come their way.

You can begin to adopt this same heightened awareness by expanding your concept of what is possible for your life. Keep affirming that your life is not static. Everything within and around you is in a constant state of flux – nothing stays the same, ever. Learn to embrace change, consult your inner guidance and take action on improving your life, and you will automatically call in greater opportunities.

3) Believe you deserve it.

Prosperous people have no doubt whatsoever that they deserve the goodness in their lives. They are open to receiving all the blessings and abundance they believe they deserve, and they gracefully (and gratefully) accept.

You may not feel that you have worth issues, but ask yourself how you react when someone gives you a compliment or an unexpected gift. Do you express your thanks and gratitude, or do you try to refuse it or dismiss it? If you are in the habit of turning away goodness in all its forms, you might have an underlying belief that you don’t deserve it. Start building a stronger belief in yourself and affirm that you deserve much more than you have now. Express gratitude for the blessings in your life, and when good things come your way – embrace them!

If you keep up with these activities on a daily basis, you will transform yourself into one of those people that seem to have a prosperity magnet embedded in their brains.