| The First Step To Bringing It Into Your Life... | | | | For instance, when something good happens, do |
| What does prosperity mean to you? When most | | | | you immediately look for the other shoe to drop, |
| people think of the word, they think of wealth, or | | | | sure that something bad will follow? If you get an |
| being financially independent. They picture yachts | | | | unexpected bonus at work, are you sure that |
| or fancy mansions, exotic vacations and | | | | means there will be an unexpected home repair |
| expensive sports cars. But that's really only one | | | | or emergency that takes the money right away? |
| small part of the picture. | | | | These types of thoughts are what you need to |
| Prosperity is so much more than money or | | | | get out of your head. |
| material possessions! It's about becoming | | | | When you do this, when you clean out the clutter, |
| successful, finding good fortune and living a joyous | | | | you allow space for prosperity to come in. You |
| life filled with abundance. It's about creating a | | | | allow the sun to once again lighting the darkness, |
| prosperous mindset and looking at the world, and | | | | and you find precious things that you thought you |
| yourself, through new eyes. Perception is reality. | | | | would have lost forever amid all the chaos - |
| If you view the world through scarcity, scarcity is | | | | hope...possibility...potential. |
| what you will find. It you view the world as being | | | | Prosperity is found by having an open mind. A |
| abundant, you will find abundance all around you. | | | | closed mind will never see all the opportunities and |
| To become prosperous, you must first open your | | | | wonder that exist in the world. A closed mind lives |
| mind up to the idea of prosperity. | | | | in scarcity. An open mind recognizes that there is |
| To do this, you must first clear out the clutter. | | | | unlimited abundance, and is grateful for that fact. |
| Imagine your mind as a living room filled with | | | | Living in a state of gratitude, and seeing the |
| stuff. There are boxes, tables, chairs, | | | | abundance that already exists around you, is |
| newspapers, toys - so many things that the | | | | another way of opening your mind and bringing |
| windows are hidden behind the layers of stuff, | | | | prosperity into your life. Again, I'm not necessarily |
| and the floor is nowhere to be seen. It's a dark, | | | | talking about money or material possessions. You |
| stifling and extremely depressing environment. | | | | can be grateful for the sunset you saw, your |
| Do you think you'd be able to get a new nice | | | | child's laugh, a hug from a friend, or a clean bill of |
| sofa in there, or a coffee table? Of course not! | | | | health. Prosperity isn't some future event that |
| There's no room! In order to bring something into | | | | you have to work toward. It can happen |
| your life, into your consciousness, you must give | | | | instantaneously. You become prosperous the |
| it a place to reside. Prosperity thrives in a joyous, | | | | moment you choose to invite prosperity into your |
| open environment. It needs room to grow and | | | | life. But to truly master the concept, you have |
| multiply. | | | | not only embrace it, you must become it. |
| This means getting rid of all the negative | | | | You have to open your mind and see not just the |
| thoughts, and limiting beliefs that have piled up | | | | world, but yourself, as a prosperous and abundant |
| over the years. It means taking care of all those | | | | being - filled with unlimited talent and possibility. As |
| lingering doubts and fears that have taken up | | | | Gandhi once said, "We must first be the change |
| residence in your head. | | | | we wish to see in the world. |