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Sometimes I am tempted to take that leap of faith.

Why not take it? Are you really going to starve? What if following your dream means temporarily renting a single room and riding the bus and not traveling and buying your clothes at the thrift store and minimizing what you spend money on?

I'm not saying this is the way but what if? What do you have to loose?

At one point, I lost everything. (I talked it about twice on the forum) You know what? I survived. I did all the above mentioned things and more in order to survive.

Yes, I stood in line at the local food shelter to receive free food. I took free clothing, I couldn't even pay the electric bill. I moved from a house with a pool and 4 cars into a tiny trailer.

I had to borrow $100 to rent a uhaul to move the stuff I had remaining. I had to close my bank account because of being in the negative. The day I moved I had $18.00 in my pocket.

I've lived it and it's no big deal. It's not the worst that can happen.

You know what has resulted from all that? Abundance. Just this pass week I've eaten at three very nice restaurants. I now live in a studio out of choice. I actually enjoy it. The location is exactly what I want.

One more thing, I do believe you know what needs to happen to make your film. If you did it before than you know exactly what to do. Really stop worrying about getting rich and start following through with your dreams.

Appreciation from the Heart,

Richard De Haven

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Originally posted by Teruchan:
(Did I ever tell the story of how I happened to meet a 3 time Mr. Korea bodybuilding champion and got trained for free for months in Korea?)

No, do tell. I have a feeling it did not happen by worry, fear, or wanting something else. But, I know I could be wrong.

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At one point, I lost everything.

There is a song by the group Chicago called, "If She Would Have Been Faithful". In it, there is a classic line, "I had to lose to win."

Indeed, if Madame Destiny would have been faithful in every instance when she had us down on our knees, would we REALLY be any happier today?

When I 'lost' things that I deemed important such as money, a certain relationship, or health, I noticed that I also lost things that were even more important to my future success; my attitudes of arrogance or over-aggressiveness for example.

And when I started 'winning' again, I always came out with something far better than I originally lost. Plus, the bonus prizes that were included with my new lot were pretty amazing, too; patience, understanding and compassion were some of my biggest gains.

Still, it isn't easy when your little comfy world that took you so long to get just the way you wanted gets 'shaked and baked'. If you could remind yourself that the bigger the shake, the better the bake, perhaps the discomfort of life 'happening' would be a little easier to accept.

the cage has been rattled; the sleeping dog has been disturbed; lotsa stuff gonna happen now!

All the best from Toronto,
Russ

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Now, I can imagine the environment, the country and type of apartment I want to live in. I can imagine my dream studio equipment and the travel I would love to do. I can imagine orders coming into my site and the income I would love to have. Not as easy as visualizing a film, but I have a good imagination. The thing is, I never get inspired as to any specific action to take, whether towards these things or not. In fact, I have no idea what action I might take that could be moving towards these things. I have no idea of any action I could take to improve my present business, generate more income so that I might be able to travel, or devote more time to making a film etc.

Yep...I can imagine and feel like I am already there. But I am never inspired to do anything but be alone and feel these feelings.

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Originally posted by azsunbeam:

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Originally posted by Teruchan:
(Did I ever tell the story of how I happened to meet a 3 time Mr. Korea bodybuilding champion and got trained for free for months in Korea?)

No, do tell. I have a feeling it did not happen by worry, fear, or wanting something else. But, I know I could be wrong.

You are right. This was during my strange manifestation phase. I got to do a lot of traveling around Asia, staying in 5 star hotels, visiting ancient temples and tombs, sometimes without a dime in my pocket. I was constantly meeting interesting, and often rich and generous, people and hanging, traveling or staying with them for a period.

I don't remember the specifics of whatever vision I was holding at the time. It is possible that it wasn't clear enough, since, while travel is always a part of it, I really desired to have the money to do these things my way and on my schedule.

Anyway, one of the interesting people I met while in the Philippines was a Korean bodybuilding champion. We clicked very quickly, being able to talk about all the old school bodybuilders, and started hanging out all the time. I soon went back to Korea with him and, even though he is a personal trainer who trained top actors, (like this guy, star of the hit drama Boys over Flowers for those who know it) and sports players for $150 USD or more per hour, we trained together, for free, for months. When I return to Korea I will certainly train with him again.

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I can imagine and feel like I am already there. But I am never inspired to do anything but be alone and feel these feelings.

That desire to “be alone and feel these feelings” may actually be a true ‘inspired act’ for you, for where you’re currently at. But then, from reading several of your posts, I imagine you are inclined to say, “Yeah, I do this but I don’t see any results. I don’t see me getting any closer to having what I want. So, what good is it?” I read a story from Jack Canfield (co-author of the Chicken Soup For The Soul’ book series) that might illustrate the value of this kind of practice.

One thing Jack’s story seems to infer is, the ‘good’ of this kind of practice may not come instantly. Nor may it be obvious or apparent. I believe it partly depends on how much you’re willing to play with it, without also continually questioning it.

It seems to me it’s something like developing a better eating, thinking and exercise regime in order to become fit and/or improve your health. You can’t be looking for instant results. You have to have some degree of trust in the process. Here are some details of what Jack did with this.

Jack said he was mentored by W. Clement Stone (a man who amassed a personal fortune of over $500 million in the 1960s) and Stone told him to pick a goal that was pretty big, but one that he could imagine might somehow be possible. Jack picked the goal of having $100K in a year, at a time when he was earning a little less than $9K as a teacher.

Jack followed Stone’s protocol, which was basically to imagine and feeling as if he had the $100K. He was to do this imagining in the morning when he got up, and at night before going to sleep.

Jack said he went so far as to tape a note with $100K above his bed, so that he would see it before going to sleep, and first thing when he woke up. And Jack said he went into this routine, doing is as diligently as he could,… imagining and feeling, imagining and feeling what it might be like to have the $100K.

Jack said, for about 30 days nothing happened. He didn’t get any hunches or clues or insights. But he went ahead and kept doing it because he believed in Stone and, since he worked with Stone he could see how Stone lived this kind of thinking.

But then, about 30 days into this, Jack said he got the idea that maybe a book he had written might possibly get him his $100K. He did the math and figured that if he sold X number of books and earned X dollars royalty from each book, he could get $100K if he sold X number of books. But again, Jack said he had no idea if this was possible, or even how to do it. But he mentally filed the idea in his mind, and kept at the imagining practice.

Then, in another week or so, Jack said he was shopping and happened to glance at the tabloid newspapers that are on the racks in the checkout line, and the thought occurred to him that, if he got his book in one of these it might boost sales dramatically. But he didn’t know how to go about doing that, or what was the best way to go about doing that, so again, he just filed the idea away, and kept on with the imagining practice.

Then, some time later, Jack said he was at a party and he ‘just so happened’ to talk to a lady there, and he mentioned he had written a book. And she asked about it, and it came out that she actually worked for a newspaper of the sort that Jack had thought about that day when he was shopping. He said the experience was so eerie that he mentally started humming ‘Twilight Zone’ theme to himself. They exchanged numbers.

Then, at some other point, it occurred to Jack that there were probably other authors like him, who were also wanting to sell their books. And he thought, if he were to publish his own book, and maybe start a publishing company, he could publish others and then he wouldn’t have to rely on just his book to make his $100K.

Long story short, more of these kinds of ideas and ‘coinicidences’ came about so that Jack was able to construct a plan of action that included many of them, and at the end of the year Jack had amassed around $98K. He said it all came about fairly easily, without any undue or extraordinary effort. He said, although it wasn’t the $100K he had been imagining, he figured it was close enough to deem the experiment a success.

It seems to me, a part of the reason this process seems to take time is physiological. When we began thinking differently (imagining with feeling what we want) we are actually rewiring the hardware of our brains. We are actually forming new neural pathways and connections. And these, over time, will spontaneously create new awarenesses. It seems it’s a little like building a mental radio or radar tower. But this ‘mental radar or radio station’ will not be able to ‘pull in’ the ideas until it becomes substantially formed within our brains.

In the mean time, our current ‘radar’ may be tuned to pulling in and attuning to ideas of lack, disbelief, etc. So, there might naturally be this resistance that has to be understood.

But once the new neural connections become strong enough and begin to override our former ‘lack’ programming, we enable ourselves to recognize opportunities and creative ideas.

It’s been said that the ideas we need, to create whatever we want, are already in existence. But we need to attune to them, so that we can perceive them. Otherwise, they may occur to us, but we don’t pay attention to them and are unable to utilize them.

Just like, many (maybe all) people probably have all the raw potential they need to be fabulously fit and healthy. But in order to realize this kind of health and fitness a person needs to adapt to the protocol that would make this happen. And, as any great trainer will tell you, the largest part of this protocol is mental, in what we believe and our attitude towards or with what we desire. This doesn’t happen overnight. But it can happen ‘easily and effortlessly’ if we really develop a solid routine of, as SOGR says, entering “at once into the full enjoyment of the things you want,” kind of regular routine.

Phil

Stories like this Jack Canfield musing have also been another source of confusion for me. I've heard and read this story before. In fact, there are similar stories locked in the archives of this very forum. That is, people who already had some product, a book or invention for example, that was languishing on the shelf somewhere, then, after they learn this knowledge, that product takes off, sells, and they get a ton of money.

In all cases, it seems the person did nothing outside of sticking to their vision or visualizing with faith and gratitude. People called them. Opportunities came to their doorstep. Everything fell into place without effort on their part because there product, or channel for money to flow through, or contribution to world, whatever one chooses to call it, was already existing.

Is that how it is supposed to work? If that's the case I have many products already done that I know are worthy of such great sales. It doesn't matter if it's "just me" who thinks so, because we all know of horribly bad books, movies or music that sells millions and makes people rich. I have two books, one by a major publisher, one self published. I have a DVD also by a major publisher and quite a few self published videos on my own site. I have been told, by a business coach once, that I am sitting on a gold mine with my site and products. I would much prefer these products get their due than any other path to riches!

Here is one thing that concerns me though. In none of these cases did the person seem focused on that particular existing product and its success. In fact, some of them didn't even remember they had their existing product sitting around. As you said, Canfield had his $100,000 note and visualized, with feeling, that $100,000 lifestyle. I have never heard or read that he ever visualized his book being successful, even after he had the idea that it could be. He stuck to his $100,000 lifestyle vision.

Nothing would make me happier than to have my existing books, films or other products, or even my services, get their due. It would surely make me very rich, and then I can effortlessly move on to new books, films and so on. Imagine being able to write my next book or make my next film while being "emancipated from financial worry", not caring how long it took, in a totally relaxed environment of peace and tranquility. That would be living.

This is a very interesting topic of discussion. All the advice is really helpful. Teruchan, I definitely feel your frustration. Below, Richard De Haven states

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I just raised over $98,000 for a great show. It was a success but believe me it wasn't all bliss. I do have to do things I really don't like but they must get done and I have to force myself to do it.

I seem to have a problem finding the motivation to do some things that I do not like, but are necessary to get done. Richard stated that he had to "force" himself to do this. SOGR principles state you should take "inspired" action. Forcing yourself to do necessary things does not seem like "inspired action" at all. When achieving a dream (for example, creating a profitable business) there are aspects that need to be taken care of, or you won't be successful. If you want a profitable business, your bookkeeping and records have to be on point. That is not something I really have an interest in. As Richard stated, he hired people to do the undesirable actions for him, but he still had to take some part in the actions that he didn't like. SOGR doesn't really state how to deal with other aspects of your dream that need to be taken care of. I have trouble enough keeping up with my personal bills and recordkeeping. And it's not because I don't have the money to pay my bills. I am just not good at keeping up with deadlines and filing. Do I need to create CMI's that deal with me being a good recordkeeper in my business? I don't get this.


Teruchan, with the example Phil provided about Canfield, it seems like the universe will drop hints for you to achieve your goal. These hints could intail products or services you have already created, or new ones for you to create or look for. My understanding is that the hints will be ones that will drive you toward a product or service you would MOST enjoy selling, promoting, or creating. If this product or service is something you already have created, then go with it. If not, then you will be brought to the right product, service, or idea.

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My understanding is that the hints will be ones that will drive you toward a product or service you would MOST enjoy selling, promoting, or creating.

To add to this, the hints will be in the direction of the best option at the time in my opinion, be it something new or something already created.

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Originally posted by Teruchan:
Stories like this Jack Canfield musing have also been another source of confusion for me. I've heard and read this story before. In fact, there are similar stories locked in the archives of this very forum. That is, people who already had some product, a book or invention for example, that was languishing on the shelf somewhere, then, after they learn this knowledge, that product takes off, sells, and they get a ton of money.

A key point I was trying to make about Jack was, his book did NOT garner him his success. It was only a PIECE of the puzzle.

And, this, to me, is how this often works. We get pieces of the puzzle. And if we're observant and diligence, eventually enough of the pieces fall into place until one day, we SEE the picture and we know EXACTLY what action(s) to take to complete the picture (i.e., achieve our success or goal).

Your current products may only be a PIECE of the puzzle, of the picture of the financial abundance and freedom you want.

Phil

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Everything fell into place without effort on their part because there product, or channel for money to flow through, or contribution to world, whatever one chooses to call it, was already existing.

And THAT is the Certain Way in a nutshell, Teruchan.
I will tell you that I didn't have ANY particular product to sell, just my love of my craft. So the trick for me was to GET HAPPY, and find any excuse I can to STAY THERE as much as possible while doing what I was doing. And at the time, I was working in a health store, waitressing, and thowing pots in between that.

The whole KEY is to FEEL good. THAT is what takes effort...until it becomes a habit, then it's easy. I was so used to feeling like crap all the time that it became a lifelong habit of "stinkin thinkin". I had to break the habit and get grateful or fail. So that's what I did and continue to do every day. But like anything, it's gets SOOOO much easier with
practice.

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I have been told, by a business coach once, that I am sitting on a gold mine with my site and products. I would much prefer these products get their due than any other path to riches!

Let me tell you that I was ONE ANGRY BITCH!!! I felt as though I had been born at the wrong place at the wrong time, with a useless talent for art. I had won all kinds of awards as a young person, and couldn't have cared less. But SOGR gave me hope, and by the time I found this website, I was willing to do ANYTHING.

Are YOU willing to do whatever it takes? This program is NOT for the feint of heart. It requires diligence, persistence and rigorous self-honesty. Are you ready to get honest with yourself and change your attitude? It's what I had to do by whatever means necessary, hence EFT. The first thing I had to do was to LET GO of the ANGER. Anger is what was covering the real emotion, FEAR, which was holding me back.

If you haven't already, start a gratitude list. Be kind to yourself. If you're angry, find a way to deal with it, or it will certainly poison your best efforts.

Wishing you the best on your journey,
Julia

In response to Phil...a few posts back...well then I will keep focussing on finding those quiet little moments that make me happiest. I never thought of getting up a half an hour earlier to sit by myself in the living room and think happy cmi ish thoughts as inspired action, but who knows? And I am still late for work everyday.