Archive for November, 2009

You Can Have It All

Friday, November 27th, 2009

You Can Have It All – When You Believe You Can

By J.Sewell Perkins, SCI – Author of Secret Abundance Files

Yes, you really can have it all. In fact, there are hundreds of “gurus” standing ready to tell you just what you need to do to qualify. On this subject there are books to read and websites to explore. Perhaps you’ve read/explored them all and here you are still searching for the right path, still on your quest for the secret to getting your piece of the pie of success.

Here’s a quick tip. You must first know what it is you’re searching for. Yeah, I know: Wealth – Freedom – Lifestyle, success, abundance, and they’re all worthy quests but what do they mean? I’m not looking for Webster’s definition but rather what they mean to you. In order to manifest (bring into your life) anything, you must first know what it is. It’s necessary to have an absolute and clear picture in your mind of specifically what it is you want. To approach your quest to have it all in any other way is the same as packing your car for a motor trip, filling the tank and taking off with no idea where you want to go. Admittedly that could be a great adventure under some circumstances, just not in the case of your journey to success.

An example of the meaning of Wealth-Freedom-Lifestyle and having it all could be having a life of total abundance in all areas. That means all the money you need to pursue the life you’ve dreamed of and the wellness and freedom necessary to enjoy the abundance of the dream-come-true. You must know exactly what it is you want.

Once you know precisely what it is you want, write it down and if it’s tangible get a picture of it and post it where you’ll see it frequently throughout the day.  Visualization is the key. Visualize yourself owning it. If it’s a house, for example, begin to live in it in your mind. If you don’t have an actual picture of the house, sketch one so you can carry it wherever you go and/or post it where you’ll see it throughout the day. Decorate it in detail right down to the candlesticks and candles on the dining room sideboard. When you’re out shopping, get pictures of exact items that will go in your new house. When the house is completely decorated begin the landscaping.

When all those steps have been taken, your job is not to figure out how to get the house; the Universe will take care of that. What you need to do is know that you already have the house, furniture and everything down to those candlesticks on the dining room side board. You must believe it is all already yours if you are to manifest it. To allow yourself to be in a state of wanting will keep you in a state of wanting.

Perhaps that’s a bit difficult to get your head around right now, but stay with me for just a minute. Think about this scenario: It’s your birthday and some of your friends invite you to their house for dinner and when you arrive you realize it’s a surprise birthday party for you.  I’m at this party and give you a birthday present, let’s say a new leather brief case…one you’ve always wanted and you love it but in the excitement of the party you go home without it. Now, let me ask you, do you own the leather brief case you’ve always wanted? Sure you do. You have no doubt that it’s yours you just don’t, at the moment, have it in your possession. It’s the same with wealth or anything else you want.

“Yeah”, you say, “but the brief case was given to me. No one is going to give me their house.” Maybe not (although that’s not entirely out of the question) but almost everything you’ll ever want in life is currently in the possession of someone else.

Frank, one of my clients, has first-hand knowledge of that. He saw a house that he fell in love with. At the time there was no way he could afford it. Did he let that stop him, of course not? He drove by the house with his camera and took pictures of it for his “visualization board,” a cork board on which he tacked a picture of everything he claimed for himself. He went so far as to look up the owner of the house and ask him how much he wanted for it. The owner was annoyed and told him it was his family’s dream home and it would NEVER be for sale and hung up on him. Frank called back and left his name and number on the guy’s answering machine with a message to the effect of… “Things change. Just know I’m here if you ever do decide to sell.”

Frank and his wife began immediately to select the furnishings. Each time they made a selection they put a picture of it on the “visualization board.” Friends thought they were crazy because it was obvious that Frank could NOT afford the pool house on the other side of the pool, much less the main house. Then there was that little matter of the fact that the current owner had told him the house would NEVER be for sale. Frank and his wife ignored all the so-called facts and in no time at all had the house pretty well furnished (in their minds and on the “visualization board”).

As time passed Frank’s business started to grow by leaps and bounds. Friends asked when he was going to leave the neighborhood in which he was currently living and buy something a little larger to accommodate his new family. He and his wife had just learned that they would be blessed with twin baby boys in about 8 months. The house they were living in was, as some described it, a closet with a bathroom and a kitchenette.

Five months before the anticipated birth of his twin sons, the phone rang and it was the owner of THE HOUSE, Frank’s house, as he had grown to think of it. Due to a family situation the owner had to sell and sell fast. Frank not only got the house, he got it at a great price. His wife began immediately to phone all the stores where they had selected furniture and made arrangements to have the furniture delivered to their new home. The only problem, if you can call it that, was that they had overlooked that fact that they would need patio furniture for around the pool.

Frank was not going to let little things such as the house not being for sale and his not being able to afford it get in his way. He claimed the house and he and his wife began living in it in their minds. Today they are living very happily in their home, the home that became theirs in their minds, on their “visualization board” and today in reality.

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL WHEN YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN!

If you have dreams that are still unfulfilled you need to know that you really can have a life of abundance. To learn more about the Secret Abundance Files click here.

An Exploration of Inner Self

Monday, November 9th, 2009

The Tiny Acorn

“Just as the tiny acorn contains within it a mighty oak tree, you have within you greatness beyond your wildest imagination.”

J.Sewell Perkins


DISCOVER YOUR INNER SELF

An Exploration of Inner Self

By J.Sewell Perkins, SCI

An interesting thing, the human mind… men and women throughout the ages have gone to great lengths and devoted their lives to a variety of discoveries without ever exploring their inner selves. While we surely must pay homage to those who have discovered continents, life-saving vaccines, outer space, etc., isn’t it interesting that discoveries outside ourselves seem so much more interesting and important to us than the exploration of our inner selves?

Many famous people throughout history have contributed much to our world as we know it today and yet so many of them never took the time to get to know themselves. There were, of course, those who devoted their lives to discoveries outside themselves and still managed to explore their inner selves as well. Those were the magnificent ones and we should seek their written works and biographies and learn from them…and that brings to mind one of my favorite quotations, actually it’s an old Zen saying…

Do not follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.

That’s great advice but only if you’re sure that what they sought is what you seek. Hopefully the thing you seek first and foremost is to discover your inner self.

Once you really know your inner self everything else you do will be easier. Too many people live and die without ever really having engaged in that exploration. They lived off the cuff, so to speak. By that I mean that they were as straws in the wind. When the winds of fortune or failure blew one way that’s the way they went. When the winds shifted to another direction, so did they. Never really discovering your inner self relegates you to the life of someone to whom things just happen, things over which you have no control.

So, what does this discovering one’s inner self really mean? How does one even begin to do it? Well, it starts with understanding why you do what you do, why you react to certain things the way you do. It’s important to understand why you’ve never realized your dream…if you ever even had a dream. You need to know why things rarely seem to work out for you the way they seem to work out so well for others.

The answer lies in what you think about and the way you think about it. We need to delve into how success or failure; happiness or misery; loving or loveless lives are a direct results of the thoughts you have about them. Yes, your thoughts do actually determine your destiny.

Memorize the following words until they become so much a part of your life that you know them as well as you know your own name…then begin to live them daily.

Be aware of your thoughts; your thoughts become your words.

Be aware of your words; your words become your actions.

Be aware of your actions; your actions become your deeds.

Be aware of your deeds; your deeds become your habits.

Be aware of your habits; your habits become your character.

When we know ourselves, truly know ourselves, it is then that we will know success.