FINALLY: The secret to a fulfilling life. It's not just money, although it often involves the choice to be wealthy. Nor is it more time. It's not even in having outstanding relationships, although all of these are indeed important.

A fulfilling life is deceptively simple - to achieve what you really want. So here you'll learn some basic yet practical...

Strategies for Increasing Wealth

The Law of Attraction says that what you put your energy into increases. And what you ignore diminishes, gets smaller, and eventually dies. So, to manifest abundance, you need to put your energy into abundance.

But how often do people instead see what they lack and focus only on insufficiency? They put their energy into what they don't have! The Focus Principle reminds you instead to focus, to put your energy into what you do want. And to be grateful for what you do have.

So what practical and responsible strategies for abundance are there to follow? Let's split them into two rather different categories, context and content:



Although usually ignored, changes to your context are crucial - and need to be first. The three tools of creation are your thoughts, your words, and your deeds. And because your thoughts come before you do what you do - changes to your context are the most important!

These principles are universal and relate to abundance of all forms - abundance of love, joy, relationships, money... Let's look at abundance of money since, no matter how much money people may have, many still think they don't have enough.

"Strategies for Where To Come From when You Do What You Do"

Changes to your context - where you come from when you do what you do - are the most important. Yet most people neglect their context and then wonder why no matter what they do, they don’t produce the results they really want.

As Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad says in 'Retire Young, Retire Rich'

Choose to be Wealthy

You already know that all your choices have consequences. So choose intelligently - choose to be wealthy.

But what does being wealthy mean? Let's look at the three steps to wealth:

• Financial Intelligence
  
  
• Financial Independence
  

• Financial Freedom
  

Financial Intelligence means you spend less than you earn, which also means you spend less than you have... This is the first step on the road to being truly wealthy. This choice will also have the happy result of getting you out of debt, it’s the intelligent place to start.

Financial Independence is the next step. Then you are independent of your job, you don't have to work for a living. This means your passive income is larger than your regular monthly expenses.

Financial Freedom is the last step. You are free to purchase whatever you want when you want. There are degrees here, which depend on your desires. How expensive are those purchases you and your family would like to make?

If you're already wealthy, you already know these important distinctions. These strategies are designed to help newcomers, not masters in this field.

Tell Yourself The Truth

Next, choose to tell the truth to yourself about yourself and your situation. If you don't, who are you deceiving? How often does deception of some form or another play a part in your unhappy circumstances. Rather tell yourself the truth.

To fool yourself is to choose illusion over reality, to prefer a life of pretense rather than what is actually so. When you can tell yourself the truth, and you've stopped fooling yourself, then you can start telling the truth to others...

Accept Reality Without a Struggle

Accept the present circumstances just as they are. Fully. Never struggle against the universe - the universe is stronger than you are. Just intend to be wealthy, and recognize that an intention is not the same as a need.

When you intend, you put energy into fulfillment, without any attachment or expectation for a particular result. Recognize than reacting to the past has created what is so right now - your current reality. So don't react, rather allow your actions to create what you do want for the future. Then you focus on your intentions.

Realize Needs are A Choice - Your Choice

If you don't mind what happens, it doesn't matter what happens - and you don't need any particular result. You are free of any particular need.

Needs often arise when you are unwilling to accept the consequences of your choices. They tie you down to particular circumstances, generally ones that limit your freedom. So be very careful what you choose to accept as a need.

When you expect that money will come and come soon, this suggests you have a need for the result. And that very need says that you don't have that result now. Needing - wanting - is a declaration that you don't have. Then the Law of Attraction comes into play, and the wanting - the not-having - continues to come true for you.

Don't focus on scarcity! Just know you need nothing. Know that in fact life will continue on as it always has whether you have more money or not. And recognize there is an abundance of everything in this world - including money. You are part of this world and you can share in this abundance, if you so choose.

"Strategies for What To Do,
How to Handle Your Affairs"

All strategies involve making a choice. There's always a price to be paid, and there's one to be wealthy. A big part of the price is deferred gratification. Making the choice to invest today and to defer the pleasure of consuming until tomorrow.

Becoming wealthy involves controlling your expenditures. It's amazing how many people are broke despite their large income. You need to live within your means, to spend less than you earn.

Never Spend It All

Recognize that when you are wealthy you have money left over at the end of the month. This means that you don't spend all your monthly income.

When you are wealthy, you always have money in your pocket. This means you can walk around with money and yet not spend it.

Until you can do both of these, you haven't yet developed the mental discipline you need to become wealthy. And I don't mean for a few days a month, this is every day discipline.

So which is more important to you? That attractive temptation in the shop window or being wealthy? Rather defer all temptations and distractions to when you are wealthy, then you can indulge yourself. Until then, don't allow yourself to be distracted from your goal.

Have Money in Your Pocket - Always

If money were truly abundant for you, would you have plenty of money everywhere? Yes, of course. Including in your pocket? Yes - cautiously - is the usual response. Don't worry, this is strictly practical advice, there's nothing pie in the sky here.

What is the largest bank note in the country? $1,000? Then take a $1,000 note, (NOT ten $100 notes), mentally write it off so that you aren't concerned if this $1,000 gets lost or stolen, then put it in your pocket in a different place to your normal spending money. And never spend it. Mental Discipline is needed here - never, ever spend it.

After a while, your sub-conscious will start saying, "Well, maybe I used to be broke, but nowadays I always have a bunch of money in my pocket (represented by the largest bank-note) and so I can't be as broke as I used to be." And then that - not being so broke - starts to manifest.

When you enjoy the feeling of having money in your pocket, that feeling helps attract more money to you.

Accept all Help Gratefully

Money is simply one particular expression of the flow of life. As are love, joy, appreciation... If you block the flow from going, you also block it from coming. Giving and receiving are just different manifestations of the same thing, different sides of the same coin.

So never turn someone down when they offer you anything. Always accept gratefully, and also give gracefully. Keep that flow circulating.

It's reported that masters say, 'To have everything, give everything.' I'm still working on this one!

Give Generously

When you see a worthy cause, your feelings, your vibe may often be to give generously. Then your mind jumps in. "Hold on a moment, I need money for this, money for that, for..." and you tend to stifle your instincts. Instead of giving generously you give a little - if anything at all. Rather go with the feeling. Give generously.

When you act as if money is scarce, your actions state loudly that you know money is scarce. But remember the Focus Principle! When you want abundance, then it's important to allow your actions to demonstrate that you know money is abundant.

You can't give if you don't have, so any act of generosity demonstrates that you do indeed have. So learn to give generously rather than stifle the instinct when someone asks you for money. And then the resultant good feeling tends to bring you more. And you'll find you do have more! Try it, it works.

Carry a Credit Card

What would be a large amount of money for you to lose? Maybe a few times your monthly income? If money were truly abundant for you would you have a lot everywhere? Yes, of course. Including in your pocket? Yes - rather more cautiously I hear you say.

Then carry a lot of money in your pocket! This requires mental discipline, yet when you're wealthy, you'll need the discipline not to spend everything you have. So start practicing now!

Now you may be concerned if you lost a lot of cash - so rather carry it in a safer form. Get and carry a credit card with a large credit limit. You can use this card, but treat everything you spend on it as cash, pay off the balance entirely every month. Always. This again needs mental discipline.

Give Money to Charity - Regularly

All actions are creative. But do your actions say money is abundant, or that money is scarce? If you regularly give money to charity, this says that you always have extra money to give away.

Now the easiest way to get a punch is to give one, to punch someone! Many people will retaliate, especially in a bar. Yet if you want to get a smile, rather give a smile. Many people will respond, whether they know you or not.

To create happiness, give joy away. If you want love, give love. So this principle says to give is to get, so give money with joy.

Give with a joyful heart. If you adopt the position that money is hard to come by - which many people got from their upbringing - then money will be hard to come by. Not a very sensible attitude if you desire to be wealthy. You've probably heard the important principle:


So know that money is abundant, rather than scarce!

Now it's impossible to give away what you don't have. When you give away money, your actions state that you have money, you know there is more where that came from, that money is abundant. You know the Golden Principle, 'What you give out, you get back', otherwise known as, 'What goes around comes around.'

So be the source of abundance for another. Find others who desire what you want, and find a way to give it to them. Then money can't help but become abundant for you. When you give what you want to someone who also desires it, you experience that you have it yourself.

Live on just 70% of Your Income

Now another question. If money were truly abundant for you, really abundant, could you afford to give some away? Yes. Then live live on 70% and give 10% away.

“But how can I possibly afford to do that?” I hear you ask. Budget!

Take your monthly income, split it into tenths. Live on 70% of it, seven tenths. Pay off debt with a tenth. Save or invest 10%. That leaves one tenth. What to do with the last tenth, you wonder? Answer: give it away!

"But I can't afford to live on my income as it stands, let alone on 70% of it," I hear you complain. Exactly! That is the problem.

You're not being financially intelligent and, until you willing to pay the price by living within your means, how will you ever become so? It all starts with you!

So be both financially intelligent and generous: First pay yourself by saving 10%, then live on 70% of your income, and give away 10%. Then get out of debt with the last 10% and, as you continue to do this, your financial situation will drastically improve.

This is highly practical advice. You live within your means, reduce your debt, and save for the future. You even budget for your generosity, which shows you that you can afford it. All of which requires you to know how much you have coming in and where it is going. Start today!

Your Dilemma

The temptation to spend, rather than be financially intelligent, is often very real.

Although a new business may have a negative cash flow to start with, this is not to say anything about such an investment. That's way beyond the scope of this discussion. We're basically talking about spending - rather than investing - here.

In the long-term, to spend more than you earn is unsustainable. Which is not to say you may not get away with it for a while. But all actions have consequences, and some consequences are more desirable than others.

At Life Strategies, you will learn how to work with these empowering distinctions, how to achieve what you really want to achieve, and not to end up with what you don't want. Learning the value of being financially responsible is an important step toward this.

Yet if this wasn't already abundantly clear to you, then self-sabotage has probably stopped you reaching this conclusion!

But I Know All This, some say

Some believe they know all this. But if the way you're currently handling your finances is bringing you any grief then you do NOT know it, although you may know about it. You can't fool the universe, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Much of the human race lives in denial. And this doesn't mean on the river in Egypt! We say we want:

• to care for the Earth, yet we chop down her rain-forests and plunder her resources as unlimited
  
  
• a society free of rage and violence, then we entertain ourselves - and our children - with TV programs of graphic rage and violence
  

• our young ones to be responsible, yet our school "Zero-Tolerance" laws take that responsibility away by mandating totally disproportionate responses
  

• the truth, yet we follow Adolf Hitler's strategy of lying whenever we think it expedient. After all - doesn't The End Justify The Means?
  

Do any of these strategies work to give us the outcomes that we desire? Isn't there sufficient evidence of their inevitable consequences right in front of our eyes?

If you are not experiencing the results you genuinely want then you cannot really know "All This." Your experience will change when you have changed.

If any of this speaks to your heart, then you know that truth has its own beauty. The elegance of truth gladdens the heart. If you continue exploring these truths, they will bring amazing joy into your life.

The difference between just knowing about, and authentic knowing, is a crucial distinction which makes a world of difference, one which self-sabotage has obviously been keeping from you.

Stop your Self-Sabotage

Achieving what you really want means learning how to overcome your self-sabotage mechanism. Everyone has one, and it operates all the time.

The self-sabotage mechanism generally operates through context, not through content. What's the difference?

• your context is where you come from when you do what you do
  
  
• your content is what you do, how you handle your affairs
  

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In the long run, your increase in effectiveness will increase your earnings by at least the same amount. And the increase is permanent. As Benjamin Franklin famously observed,


How much will a twenty percent increase in earnings amount to in dollars over the rest of your life?

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