Think and Grow Rich Chapter 1 -July 2008

Posted on July 30th, 2008 in Mental Cleanse MasterMInd Sessions, Personal Development, Recent Posts by Sarah Thompson

Sarah here~~

I am constantly amazed at the personal growth that I see in folks who particpate in the Mentoring for Free 30 Day Mental Cleanse- These are a few of the lessons submitted for Chapter ONE  - Please read these carefully, ponder the meaning and hopefully you will walk away with a clearer perspective of yourself.

This process has helped me to change the direction of my life from failure to success.  This is a personal development call where we teach people how to stop the chatter in our minds. So What is this? What Are we doing?

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Life Is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the
moments in your life that take your breath away.

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Chapter 1

Thoughts Become Things

It’s amazing that as I read through this chapter, my
mind brings to life so many memories. Many of failure
and some of success.

It would be so easy for me to write about how my life
has been impacted by so many of the principles that
are talked about in this chapter alone. However for
the sake of time and to keep this lesson short, I
will focus on two words.

Faith and Fear

When reading the part about the small colored child
who went in and demanded fifty cents from Mr. Darby’s
Uncle and refused to take no for an answer. It brought
to mind how I met my wife.

Here was a small child who stood with faith and
determination,stepped into fear to get what she wanted.

For me, after failing in two other relationships I just
about had given up. I was so afraid of what the next
relationship would bring. So fearful of what could
happen that my mind was stay focused on all the past
hurt and pain that I went through.

Finally I stopped focusing my energy on the negative
and started creating positive thoughts of what my ideal
relationship would be like. What I was willing to give
to the relationship and what I wanted in return.

I focused so much on it that I even started focusing
on the very person that I wanted to be with.

Here’s the kicker. At this point in my life I had never
been in a social gathering with her, Sure I knew Amanda
from a seminar that I attended, but that was it.

Then through a series of unusual events we started
seeing more and more of one another through mutual
friends. Boy did I have a crush on her.

Finally, Sue,  a friend of ours called me up and asked
me when I was going to tell Amanda how I was feeling.

Boy did it hit me then. FEAR. So much so that I was
sick to my stomach. At the same time there was about a
thousand volts of excitement coursing through my body.

I will always remember what our friend Sue said to me
on that call.

What you are feeling right now is what it feels like to
really risk in your life. What it means to step outside
your comfort zone.

So you have one of two choices turn and run from it, or
step into it.

Just like the little colored girl.

I decided to step into the fear that day. To take a
risk. Maybe the words were not perfect when I called
Amanda and maybe she could here the quivering in my
voice. But none of that mattered.

I stood in that fear, determined to say what I needed
to say and have faith enough that what was suppose to
happen would happen.

Faith and Fear at times go hand in hand. Many times
that fear is just the nudge of success setting in or
letting you know that you are getting close.

Well just like the little colored girl who walked out
with her fifty cents. That phone call to Amanda led to
our first date and eventually marriage.

Thoughts really do become things and everything that I
ever imagine and wished our marriage would be, has been
eclipsed by even greater outcomes.

Amazing what a little faith brings.

Live Limitless,
Ashley Bolivar
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The first time I was on the Mental Cleanse, I became
aware of all the negative influence that was in my life.

As I shut off the TV, radio, stopped being around
negative people, I really began to realize how much
my surroundings affect my thoughts. Then I met, I mean
really met my worst enemy, ME. Now this was harder to
shut down. A TV or a radio simply has a switch.

So I began to do my self talk throughout the day as
well as a daily ritual of meditation and things are
really starting to click in my blue brain.

I had a breakthrough in those first 90 days about my
fear of poverty. But what I realize now is that it
wasn’t so much the fear, but the thoughts that I had
that manifested the fear. Here is what I mean.

I would think about what things would be like when I
was financially free. Because thoughts are things,
right? So I would think, When I am financially free,
then I will really be happy.

So it is almost as if I was saying to myself, I can’t
be happy now if I am not financially free. So I am
realizing that I had it all backwords.  You need to
first be happy. Smile. Feel wonderful. Be blessed.
Thank God for your blessings.

Now in this happy state that I am in, I am in a
vibrational place where I am sending out thoughts
of expectancy. I know it is coming but in Gods time,
not mine.

The universe will give me what I think about. So now
I choose to be happy and blessed. I choose to expect
abundance. And abundance I receive.

It’s funny how we send vibrations out to the universe.
As if the universe wanted to give me proof…

I came across a book at the library by Deepack Chopra.
I turned to a random page and he was talking about what
we all really want is the same thing… to be happy.

When you have a conversation with yourself and ask
the question, what do I want? Answer that question
and then ask  yourself why? Then answer that question
and then again ask why. You will always come to the
same answer. “Because I want to be happy.”

It works like this…

“I want to be Rich.”

Why?

Because, I want to not have to worry about bills.

Why?

Because I will live longer and not feel stressed.

Why?

Because I want to be here to see my grandkids.

Why?

Because I want to enjoy them and my kids. I want to
live my life. I want to be happy.

You see it isn’t about being Rich. What I really want
is to be Happy!

We all want the same thing and we will all come to
the same answer when asking the question, Why.

Why not be happy now? Live as if I am already rich?

Because, you know I am. I am Rich. I am blessed. Live
an abundant life. The universe will only see me as rich
and prosperous and it will have no choice but to send
me what is expected.

I think, Michael, This is what you call owning your
life.

I appreciate you.
Wendy Krick
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Chapter One,
I really connected with chapter one when hill mentioned
that opportunity presented itself in failure. Its what
we do with failure that makes us great.

Back when I started my venture I was with a company that
I thought was great. My upline supported and encourged
buying leads. If that is what my upline did to go from
0 to $100,000 per month, then I will start. $600 later
I sponsored one lady that lived in Florida? She was so
excited, I could not bring myself to tell her to go and
buy leads.

So I told her the truth and I moved on.Opportunity
presents itself in strange ways. Hill states that
before success comes we are sure to be met with
temporary defeat. That could have been mine.

I have a good job, a beautiful family, a nice home.
My mother lives next door to me. I am blessed in so
many ways and now take the time to be thankful every
day for these things.

I tell you this not to brag but to explain my “Why”
as it relates to chapter 1.

All I every wanted to do is work. I could not wait to
turn 16 so I could start working. By the time I was 17
I did not care about school anymore, as a matter of fact
I was skipping so much that I began to fail classes.

Everyday in the afternoon I could not wait to go to
work? I failed a grade but continued to work…chasing
that dollar and trading time for it. When I was 18 all
of my friends were getting ready to graduate so I
decided to join the Army.

Well the recruiter told me that I needed to get my high
school diploma. Well I did not want to wait another year.
He told me about a program in Chapel Hill that I could
get my GED from in a couple of months.

I got the address and went that day. When I arrived I
told the lady I was here to get my GED. She began to
explain that I needed to take 6 courses, one at a time.

When I was done with each course I would test on that
topic. She stated that I could take as long as I needed
on each topic before I tested. There I was, like Barnes,

standing before that lady and all I needed to here was
that I could take as long as I needed.

So, I asked her if I  could take a test today. She
looked at me and thought for a moment, well sure. You
see I was there to get my GED. I left there that day,
after taking all 6 test and passing them.

I got drunk that night and laughed at all of the
“suckers” that stayed in high school. The next day
I joined the Army.

I repeated this once again in my life when I was told
that I could not get a job in law enforcement with only
a GED. Again I stood there saying I will do this..this
is what I want.

Today 14 years later I have been a police officer at
a department of over 500 sworn..worked most divisions.
promoted to corporal, first line supervisor and I am
currently on the list to make Sergeant.

Again….Barnes standing there….or that little girl
getting that fifty cents….man I loved chapter 1.

Its what I wanted to do and no matter what I was going
to do it.Mentoring for Free, The Success Team Builders,
…this big family is what I want to do. I feel at home
and so close to so many of you that I have not even met
yet.

I am master of my fate and Captain
of my Soul….how exciting is that?
Todd Bobal
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Chapter 1. Thoughts Are Things

This is my third time through the book…not counting
the times that I read it prior to the Mental Cleanse…
you know…the times when I couldn’t figure out why
this book was supposed to be such a big deal…it
even seemed a little boring to me then.

So much for the idea of a “30 Day” Mental Cleanse…
My First Time on Mental Cleanse started nearly
7 months ago on January 2, 2008.  I think my life
actually started in a new way on that day…And
Now…Finally…the Words “THINK AND GROW RICH”
are popping off the page at me as I read this chapter
so many times that I think I have it memorized.

The process has been so gradual that it’s tough to
even measure the difference in how I feel now
compared to seven months ago.  I think it is my
Belief level that’s changed….the KNOWING of it to
be the Truth and the Acceptance of that FACT
into my Being.  I no longer need to THINK ABOUT
whether or not I can believe that THOUGHTS ARE
POWERFUL…I KNOW IT NOW.  It’s difficult to
believe that I haven’t ALWAYS known it.  Every
day of our lives, we prove it to be true.

Maybe AWARENESS is what is happening now. It feels
like I’m about to explode with the realization
of this TRUTH.  And yet, I am also aware that if I
do not use this Basic Truth in a constructive way,
I am choosing to use this Basic Truth against My
Self.  And there would be NO reason that I would
choose to do that if I am remembering that my
Thoughts Are Powerful Things…
especially when I activate them with emotion.

I have grown to respect My Thoughts in a way that has
never happened to me before.  My Thoughts backed by
Definiteness of Purpose, Persistence, AND a BURNING
Desire for their translation into riches or other
material objects…Have I defined in my Mind Exactly
What IDesire?  Have I adopted that DEFINITE PURPOSE
and am I standing by that purpose UNTIL it has time
to become an ALL-CONSUMING OBSESSION?

My Answer is “YES” and I Must Remember At ALL
Times…IT IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THAT COUNTS!

I CAN THINK AND GROW RICH!
Friends Always,
Patti Blevins

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Chapter 1

From the story of Mr Barnes going into business with
Edison a great number of things can be learned…Mr
Barnes didn’t just show up at Edison’s door and
immediately go into business with Edison, It took
time. He did what he had to do and kept taking action
to be able to one day see his desire come true.

I see people in this business that seem to be success
ful over night while I am still working to get every
thing right and wonder what am I doing wrong? Then I
stop and think, I don’t know how long they have been
working on the same things I’m working on right now.

Michael went from nothing to the number 1 distributor
in his company in 33 months, but he had been working
on himself for twenty some years before.

I’ve been around this business for over twenty some
years but I haven’t been working on the correct process
until the last year and a half so why do I keep beating
myself up asking myself why I’m not where Michael is?

I must keep working on myself and taking the small
little actions on a daily basis and one day people
will look at me and say I want to be where he is and
all they will have to do is follow the recipe and ask
for help and then one day they will be able to help
others reach their goals.

The only way  I can truly fail is to quit and if I keep
working towards my goals the chances are that I will be
better off before I even reach my final goal.

Jerry Posey
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The Power of Networking

Posted on July 28th, 2008 in Marketing Tips, Recent Posts by mentortara

This man earns an extra $400 a month

This is an example of the power in word of mouth advertising. There is power in word-of-mouth advertising that can never be bought through regular advertising channels.

This man earns an extra $400 a month.
Another friend, Mike, knows everyone has to eat. Mike searched out a grocery company that didn’t want to be limited to a few stores or locations, but wanted to market groceries nationwide. Instead of opening and staffing supermarkets, they decided to operate a large warehouse and ship groceries via United Parcel Service directly to the consumer’s door.

Does this work?
The grocery company doesn’t have to invest capital in stores or shop assistants. The savings easily pay for shipping non-perishable groceries directly to the consumer’s door. The grocery company also saves a fortune by refraining from paying for full-page newspaper ads.
But how do they get their message out to potential customers across the country? Word-of-mouth advertising is the answer. Because people let others know about their convenient, price-competitive, to-the-front-door service, the grocery company can use its advertising budget to reward their “word-of-mouth” advertisers.
Mike simply says, “Are you tired of standing in checkout queues? Would you want your groceries delivered to your door for the same price? Read this.”
He hands the person a brochure explaining the service. If the person becomes another satisfied customer of the national grocery service, Mike earns a monthly word-of-mouth referral bonus.

How does Mike feel about this referral or networking concept? “It’s a lot easier to get a $400 word-of-mouth monthly bonus check for a little conversation than to get a $400 pay rise.”

Why it works
The networking, or referral, concept is simple. Businesses who participate love the no-risk advertising it provides. Individuals love getting their piece of the advertising pie for doing what they have been doing for free.
Among the types of products and services that successfully share their advertising budget with individuals are cars, appliances, legal insurance, food, clothing, sports equipment, buyer discount services, confectionery, health foods, travel, soft drinks, water filters, utility services, and the list can go on and on.

Somewhere, almost any product or service is now being offered through referral or network marketing. Remember, not every company will share its advertising budget, but surely one of its competitors will.


“Just two more referrals and …”

Phase 2 (The concept expanded)
Remember the Mr. Food supermarket? If you have an average family, you may spend as much as $500 monthly for groceries. In one year’s time, your purchases would add up to $6,000. You can see that every family added to Mr. Food’s customer base is very important to Mr. Food.
Let’s say you refer your neighbour, Alice, to the wonderful service and food selection at Mr. Food’s supermarket. Alice’s family purchases an additional $6,000 worth of groceries from Mr. Food. You are now responsible for $12,000 in grocery sales for Mr. Food’s supermarket. Surely, you’ll be earning a nice cash bonus.
But what if Alice refers her brother’s family to Mr. Food? That is an additional $6,000 in sales. Of course, Alice will receive a word-of-mouth advertising bonus for referring her brother, but what about you?
You didn’t actually refer Alice’s brother. However, if it wasn’t for you referring Alice, her brother would never have known about Mr. Food. You might consider yourself INDIRECTLY responsible for introducing Alice’s brother to Mr. Food.
Now you are responsible (directly and indirectly) for $18,000 in annual grocery sales for Mr. Food.
You $6,000
Alice $6,000
Alice’s brother $6,000

Total $18,000
What do you think you deserve for referring $18,000 in annual grocery sales to Mr. Food? 5 percent ($900)? 10 percent ($1,800)?
What if Mr. Food could stop its full page newspaper advertising altogether and let you be responsible for filling Mr. Food with customers? Does this sound difficult? It really isn’t. You see, you wouldn’t have to do all the referring yourself.
Imagine spreading the news of the wonderful Mr. Food Supermarket to five friends. If the five friends you told are not hermits, they could spread the news of the wonderful Mr. Food Supermarket to 5, 10, or even 15 of their friends. These individuals could pass the news along to their friends, etc.
It is possible, by sharing the news with just a couple of friends, that eventually, everyone in town could be contacted. That’s networking. Filling the Mr. Food Supermarket really won’t be quite as hard as you imagine.
Now, how much word-of-mouth advertising bonus do you deserve? You deserve the entire advertising budget. Of course, you would share it with your network of friends who helped you spread the news.
Can you see how receiving just two percent of an entire supermarket’s sales could be
If you haven’t thought of it already, I’m sure there is more than one supermarket in your area. There may even be a clothing store or a car dealership in your community also. The potential is mind-boggling!

Your words are as good as gold
How big are the advertising budgets of companies you presently do business with? Major corporations like Ford, Coca Cola, AT&T and other companies spend billions of dollars every year marketing their products and services.
These are just four of the hundreds of thousands of companies that advertise every day. The total amount spent on advertising is more than a trillion dollars each year. You don’t need to share in a very large percentage of a trillion dollars to live quite comfortably.

Just look around you to see all the advertising spent in your local area. It’s everywhere. For instance:
1. Billboards
2. Television
3. Satellite or Cable Television
4. Radio
5. Newspapers
6. Magazines
7. Direct Mail
But none of these advertising methods are as effective as word-of-mouth advertising. Potential customers will give far more credence to a friend’s recommendation than to a message on a $10,000 billboard.
There is power in word-of-mouth advertising that can never be bought through regular advertising channels. Smart companies are more than willing to share their advertising budgets for this powerful method of increasing business.

This lesson will be continued …

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A reason to forward Jokes !!!

Posted on July 27th, 2008 in Recent Posts by Sarah Thompson

Water bowl-This is why I send forwards 
This explains why we forward jokes.

READ IT TO THE END.

A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.


He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.


After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.



When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as  he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.


When he was close enough, he called out, ‘Excuse me, where are we?’


‘This is Heaven, sir,’ the man answered.



‘Wow! Would you happen to have some water?’ the man asked.



‘Of course, sir. Come right in, and I’ll have some ice water brought right up.’




The man gestured, and the gate began to open.



‘Can my friend,’ gesturing toward his dog, ‘come in, too?’ the traveler asked.



‘I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t accept pets.’



The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.


After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence.


As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.


‘Excuse me!’ he called to the man. ‘Do you have any water?’


‘Yeah, sure, there’s a pump over there, come on in.’



‘How about my friend here?’ the traveler gestured to the dog.


‘There should be a bowl by the pump.’



They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.



The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog.



When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.


‘What do you call this place?’ the traveler asked.


‘This is Heaven,’ he answered.


‘Well, that’s confusing,’ the traveler said. ‘The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.’



‘Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That’s hell.’


‘Doesn’t it make you mad for them to use your name like that?’


‘No, we’re just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.’


Soooo….


Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word.


Maybe this will explain.



When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You forward jokes.


When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward jokes.


When you have something to say, but don’t know what, and don’t know how, you forward jokes.



Also to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get?


A forwarded joke.



So, next time if you get a joke, don’t think that you’ve been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you’ve been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.



You are all welcome @ my water bowl anytime!


Two fantastic lessons from Ch.15- Lets Grow Up Together, shall we!

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in Mental Cleanse MasterMInd Sessions, Personal Development, Recent Posts by Sarah Thompson

Chapter 15:
HOW TO OUTWIT THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR

I know this is getting to you very late, I really
struggled with the devil himself on this chapter.
So much so that my back mussels went into
spasms.

Old Man Worry - Hill writes _
An unsettled mind is helpless. Indecision makes
an unsettled mind.

I guess I never thought of worry this way and I must
confess, I do my share of worrying. Growing up,
I worried if Mom would make it home from work,
or if Dad would come home upset and angry or not
come home at all.

I grew up in poverty, many times I remember we had no
lights or phone because there was no money to pay
the bills.Or we ate toast and milk for supper. In the
cold Minnesota winters, blankets from the Salvation
Army would hang on my bedroom wall as insulation
to keep the cold out, We only had a space heater
in the living room to heat our four room house, and that’s
not four bedrooms, just four rooms for the five of us.
I remember when I was a teenager being
approached at the grocery store for the keys to the car.
The car was being reposed. How cool was that for a
teenager to experience, NOT cool at all.

I can be a real camelion and hide what is going on
inside of me quite well. Until my body starts to speak
to me in painful ways. I don’t really know where I’m
going with this lesson, other than I recognize I have issues
with the six Ghosts of fear and I take warning.

So, with out going back to dig up any more stuff that’s
in the past, I am pushing
forward to claim my willpower and put it into
constant use, until, as Hill says it, until it builds a wall of
immunity against negative influences in my mind.
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I am charging ahead to conquer this beast once and for all.
If I stay close to the fire, close to my mentors and close
to my own thoughts, new habits will form and I will
“conquer self and force life to pay whatever I ask of it.

Thank you Michael, Linda and Sarah, for believing in me
while I re-build and strengthen belief in myself.

Your Friend for life,
Judy Narum

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Chapter 15
The Six Ghosts Of Fear

I have lived and breathed Fear of Poverty my entire life. Every single
person in my life has added a stitch to my custom tailored suit of Fear
of Poverty and it has absorbed into every cell of my being and made itself
at home there.

That is every person in my life until now.

Every person I have ever known (up until now) speaks badly of someone else,
second guesses their choices, plants seed of doubt, adds a negative thought
vibration. They all have some comment about people who have money to bring
them down a notch. That they didnt do legitimate work to earn it, the bank owns
them or they are drug dealers or some other put down to say that these
rich people dont
deserve to have wht they earned, and every other example that Hill
listed as symptoms.

I too have participated it that crap. Its like a gigantic
merry-go-round that you
cant get off and yet you need to question what happens if I dont?
It will be the battle of my life time.

I am married to a Green ( at first I thought him Red), his programming is very
deep rooted. He is not taking this journey with me. My mother is a
Yellow personality
also has some very deep hurts and has accepted poverty or so it seems
to me. I live
with her also along with my 17 yr old son. He loves “The Secret” movie.
So at times it seems its us against them. Trying to keep the negatives away.

None of them bad mouth, or try to hinder what I am doing with my MLM.
But neither
do they ask how its going. You can feel the doubt oozing off of them. This is
not a situation I can easily remedy. It will be a harder battle for
me to fight with
their extra resistance on me but I know I can win despite that.

I have to. I have to for my sake, but I also need to do it for their sake.
They were there when I needed them and I wont leave them behind. If at sometime
they are still not on board, then they and it will be them, that make
the choice to go.
And I will be okay with that.

As I travel this journey, I have grown gradually stronger, I can see
it. I do however
have some very bad days where I am really depressed and negative and
now I even fly into
rages. I never used to be like that.

At first I thought it was PMS But then the timing was off for that.
So recently I started
to look back to figure out when it started to happen.

I have come to this ah ha moment and realized that I started getting
crabby and moody
when I started my self talks a few months ago. Seeing as this is my
3rd time through this
particular chapter. Its the one I started the Cleanse on. 31 weeks ago.

So over a period of 31 weeks my moods have gotten increasingly worse.
Now I fly into a
rage over what seems like afterwards, nothing. I can not control
what comes out of my mouth.
I do not feel any positive emotions in this state. In a lot of ways
it feels like drowning.
Some may say that I am trying to push my husband
away because he is the one who takes the hit. But that isnt it. At
first it may have been
a test but its different now.

It feels as if my old self is being pushed out by my new self and self
talk. It is
resisting the changes and is putting up a fight to stay.

My good days lately have become more frequent. I feel more peaceful
and I feel more genuine
when I talk to people. Not just in my business either. I can feel my
money agenda subsiding
to.

But then the pendulum switches direction…I look in my bank account
and go over the budget
to make the puzzle pieces fit. I question how will there be enough to
go around. How will I
be able to go to my company’s convention in Aug.

I become angry because I KNOW if I would have set some money aside
each month starting when I
learned when convention was (Since last years convention) I could
have easily had my passport
in place, money for a plane ticket, which I could have probably also
paid for an extra ticket for someone
to join me, and my other expenses. But because of this ridiculous
fear of Poverty, I procrastinated
I made excuses. I used my husbands fear of me traveling alone as an
excuse to get in my way of
my dreams and desires. I sabotaged myself.

I really could write more on the effects Fear of Poverty has had on
me. But that won’t change the
fact that, it is what I choose today that counts more.

I battle my demon everyday that wants me to look at my past and my
failures, if I do that, I give it
the edge it needs to win. I need to focus on what I want, who I want
to help and who I want to be. I need to chant to
myself that “Thoughts Are Things and we reap the rewards of our
dominating thoughts.”

These calls are saving me. I may not speak up and share very often,
ok at all, but I listen. I learn
something from each person here. I feel safe and secure that I am not
the only one fighting this battle
I have my battle that no one can win for me but me, but I am grateful
for the warriors by my side.

Thank you Michael and Linda for this group. I know if it werent for
you and Sarah,
I would accept poverty as “normal” and suffered in silence the rest of my life.

So the battle continues…

Thanks for your love, belief and patience.

Henrietta Hakes

I Believe in You !!!!

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in Personal Development, Recent Posts by Sarah Thompson

Hmm,  What words can have more impact on Your life? I beleive only the words ” I love  You” . When I met my Mentor Michael Dlouhy, he said “Sarah, I will believe in You,until you believe in yourself” These simple words  backed by true emotoin uttered by a man I had not yet met in person, not yet exchanged hugs Changed my Life .

Who Do You Believe in? What Do You believe? a friend sent me an email this morning - about what she believes . take the time to ponder each one - then ask Yourself ” Do I believe in myself ?

Know this I will believe in You until You learn to believe in Yourself.  If You want to “OWN” Your life beging NOW get a copy of my book free here Success

Until then read the “beliefs” below and list Your own

I Believe…

 

 

A Birth Certificate shows that we were born,

A Death Certificate shows that we died,

Pictures show that we lived!

Have a seat . . . Relax . . . And read this slowly.

I Believe…

That just because two people argue,

it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue,
it doesn’t mean they do love each other.

I Believe…
That we don’t have to change friends

if we understand that friends change.

I Believe…
That no matter how good a friend is,

they’re going to hurt you every once in a while

and you must forgive them for that.

I Believe…
That true friendship continues to grow,

even over the longest distance.

Same goes for true love.


I Believe…
That you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.

I Believe…
That it’s taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.

I Believe…
That you should always leave loved ones with loving words.

It may be the last time you see them.

I Believe…
That you can keep going

long after you think you can’