Your Dreams Into Reality

Use these effective strategies in your life to reap the rewards of living those big dreams for real:

1. Want it for the right reasons. Before you go off chasing big dreams, stop and ask yourself, “Do I really want this for me?” Sometimes, it’s so easy to get caught up in what your family wants or what society dictates that you eventually lose sight of what’s important to you.

* Really stop and think about how your life would change if you achieved that big goal.

* Feel confident to tweak your dream so it’s exactly what you want for you, and not what would make others happy.

* Consider if the end result is really worth all that you’re required to put in or sacrifice.

2. Take smaller bites. Once you’ve decided that your big dream is really yours and yours alone, you’ll need to create a game plan for achieving it. A big part of that is to break down your humongous goal into smaller, more attainable goals.

* For example, if turning your dream into reality has large costs, break down the expenses into smaller amounts that your income can accommodate over time.

* If your goal entails great personal changes, divide these changes into a series of small, achievable steps that lead you closer and closer to your goal.

* Once you’ve broken things down, set realistic targets for achieving the mini-goals and hit them!

3. Network. As the saying goes, “No man is an island.” Take advantage of the knowledge, skills, help and support of others around you to help you meet your goals.

* Seek mentors that have already met goals similar to yours.

* Discover how others in similar situations to yours have overcome challenges to meet their goals.

4. Sacrifice. Most successful people today could tell you of sacrifices they had to make in order to attain their goals. Turning big dreams into reality takes time and effort, but the end result is living the life you desire. However, if you continue to do things the same way you always have, you can only expect to get the same result!

* For instance, do you have unhealthy spending habits that are hindering your progress toward your goals? Put some frivolous expenses on the back bench in favor of expenses that are directly tied in with your dreams.

* In order to bring some time into your schedule to work on your goals, perhaps you could substitute some of the time you spend watching TV with actions that lead you closer to your goal.

There’s no reason that you can’t turn your big dreams into bigger realities. You’re the only person who dictates what you can and can’t achieve! Use these tips to start on your journey towards transforming your dreams into reality. You’ll look back and smile when you make it happen!

Napoleon Hill

What do you want to be like, who do you want to be, what do you want to do when you grow up?

Make A Vision

If you are 55 or 10 or any age you should answer the question, why?  The answer can be your vision that you flesh out to use the law of attraction.  It can be the vision you use to lead you to success.

Are there qualities of a particular person you’d like to incorporate?  Read about that person and see yourself doing those kinds of things, responding successfully as that person might.

See And Feel The Vision And Take Action!

Play this vision and add words to it to form a plan.  Napoleon Hill gives a formula in Think and Grow Rich.  These words you should go over in the morning and before bed to burn them into your mind.

Then – begin to act – ideas will be coming to you about the actions to take and you need to take action.

The whole idea of a vision is to create a burning desire which will sharpen your observation and create the desire to spur you to action.  Another part of your job is when dis empowering things come along that you manage them.  Do whatever it is so you will act and keep acting.

Act NOW – Waiting Solves Nothing: Success And The Law Of Attraction

Remember, things won’t be perfect when you start and don’t think of waiting even an hour for things to be a little better.  The great Zig Ziglar asks, “do you wait for all the traffic lights to turn green before you leave home for the store?”  Of course you don’t – you’d never get there.  It is the same with your dreams and goals.

Run the movie in your mind, replay and enhance the vision – ideas will come and when you see the ideas you will act on them.  This is success and the law of attraction in action – make no mistake the law of attraction needs action to work.

So why grow up?   Just keep asking yourself what you want, what and who you want to be when you do grow up.  Asking those questions keeps your mind open to possibility.

Never Give Up

Did you know that Colonel Sanders was 65 and trying to figure out how to make it on Social Security when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken?  He lived on for many years and saw it become a huge success and saw it make him a great deal of money before he died.  KFC started on his idea that the fried chicken recipe he had developed in his roadside restaurant in Corbin Kentucky was worth something.  Colonel Sanders created his own future with principals of success and the law of attraction.

A thousand people told him no as he traveled town-to-town, often sleeping in his car, trying to find someone to buy a franchise.  A thousand said no before he got his first yes.

And so the vision – the idea – the action must be bolstered by cultivating your thoughts so that you too can take some rejection, some knocks, and discomfort as you work toward your success.

Napoleon Hill said it best – that everything you want to accomplish in life has it’s beginnings in an idea.   It’s up to you to keep the idea alive and take action on it.

Growing up means figuring out what it is you want to be and do and it is a realization that it’s more than wishing, you have to do something.  But the magic combination of these things will get you anything you want and that is how The Law of Attraction Works.

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There’s Only One Person Who Can Help You

Napoleon Hill writes of a man who came to see him one day.  The man’s business had failed and he left his family because he couldn’t take care of them.

The man was unkempt, but the day before he had been given one of Hill’s pamphlets and now the man had come to Hill’s office seeking help.

Hill told him that he was sorry that he could not help, but that there was a man in the building who could help and Hill would introduce the man.

Hill led the man into the next room and stood him before a curtain.  When Hill pulled the curtain back the man was looking in the mirror.  Hill explained that this was the only man on earth who could help and there he was in the mirror.  Hill goes on to tell of the mans later success (“Hills Golden Rules“).

Self Reliance

Poor Richards Almanac put it this way: “God helps them that help themselves.” The great Emerson wrote: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

And so it is with all of us.  This is not to say that a hand up does not help from time to time but – any real forward movement lies in our own hands, our own actions, in our own mind as Emerson said, “self reliance“.

What keeps a person from doing the things he or she knows to do?  What keeps a person from moving forward?

That question usually comes down to 1. beliefs, there is a belief that the thing is impossible, OK for someone else but impossible for me; and 2. lack of a compelling reason – there is no vision or purpose to pull you forward nor is there a sufficient monster coming up from behind to force you to move.

So most of us just sit there.  Jim Rohn (or is it Les Brown?) talks about an old dog lying on a nail poking up out of the wood floor of the front porch.   The dog is whining but just lays there.  The nail is annoying but just doesn’t hurt enough to get the dog to move.

Greet The Future Each Morning

What reasons do you have to move forward with your dreams and plans?   What compelling vision of success can you make so you can see the outcome of those plans, a vision so compelling that you are drawn happily into the future?

“See the vision and make it plain on tables that he may run who reads it…”  That’s how the Bible puts it in the book of Habakkuk, it’s a little different context, but the idea is the same.

Write down your vision of the future, nurture that vision until you take off running towards it everyday.  You see your mind is the only thing that will get you off your ass.

You can’t beat yourself into doing anything that is truly worthwhile.  But a compelling vision that you repeat to yourself, consistently and often enough, is a vision that you will come to believe.  It’s a vision that will shine a light on how you are going to accomplish it.  It’s a vision that will cause you to jump out of bed everyday and run to greet it.

There are many paths to learn greet the future this way – using the law of attraction and creating a compelling vision.  You can learn more about a compelling future in The Science of Getting Rich Program: www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com/sgr/

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All human advancement is built on failure

If you are learning new skills, exploring new markets, entering a new sport, no matter what you are doing… don’t be discouraged when you don’t do it perfectly.

Sometimes a toxic environment whether home, or the wrong friends will taint your thinking and cause you to believe that you shouldn’t pursue your dream because you are not doing it perfectly, because you go out the first day and have no sales to show, because you struck out at bat, because you broke on the high note, because, because, because… Whose voice is that in your head telling you to stop. Whose voice is telling you you are not good enough.

Listen to the voice of your heart, listen to your dreams; aren’t your dreams a message from God? Aren’t your dreams sacred communication to you from the universe? Whose voice should you listen to?

I recall scriptures from Habbakuk: “…be utterly amazed, for I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” This is how our dreams are. We may have difficulty believing them: “me the top sales-performer?” “Me, valedictorian?” “Me the new manager?” “Me write a book?” Learn not to question those urgings from within they are God seeking to work through you.

Again from Habbakuk: “Write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run who reads it.”  I’ve always loved that scripture.  Write down those things from your heart and read them, run to carry them out.  Not every effort will produce results, you may fail more than you succeed especially at first, but continue.

As always Kalil Gibran has something good to say: “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”  This is what we are talking about here at the core of this post is the element of faith.  This doesn’t have to be religious if you don’t believe in God.  It’s about you, have the knowledge within your heart.

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Just do it, so went the Nike commercials and it was some of the best advice that anyone could get.

We plan and perfect and find reasons to wait and the thing never gets done.  I recall a presentation by the great speaker Les Brown, he talks about the dreams that are buried in the graveyard.  Dreams that the dreamers just never got around to.  Years and years go by and people dream of that book or that business they wanted to start:  but what happens?

The time is not right, I just need to get these pieces in place, and the list keeps going on and on.  When something is satisfied another piece is added.  Soon there is so much burden and overhead that the thing is never done.  It lessens the person it takes a little piece out of his soul.

The thing is you have to get yourself right.  Sometimes some life changing event will happen and force change on us but the natural way to accomplish is to program your self for it.

This is why The Science of Getting Rich puts so much emphases on visualization: seeing your results now.  Your mind is powerful and the visualization of either good or bad things causes it to trigger these powerful mechanisms.  SGR also teaches a spiritual component that causes the object of the visualization to be formed then in the “thinking substance.”  Today’s thought explains the process by quantum physics, in fact there is a whole movie about it called: “What If.”

See yourself doing it, ideas will come, take action.  Continue to visualize – look into the future and see your success, then get more ideas, take more action, visualize more and repeat.  It’s good to write these things down, keep a journal of your visualization and what you are seeking, of the ideas that come, and of the action you have taken.   Review the journal and use it to help with your visualization.

Les Brown says the biggest dreams are in the graveyards.  Don’t let yours end up there some day.

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Remember the dream you had, did you just lose sight of it, was it just too difficult? We give ourselves a lot of reasons for not following through on the things that seemed like a good idea. Maybe we are trying out the law of attraction and well, we think, maybe it really doesn’t work and this is just too hard. If we give up enough we set the pattern of sabotaging ourselves every time. If we give up…

Follow through on your good ideas, on your self-improvement plans, on your dreams. You can do more than you thought you could. And that voice inside, saying, “keep going, don’t quit, it’s all heart from here, come on, your very best, keep going…..”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

Hold the vision of the life you want is a prime tenant of the Law of Attraction. This law of attraction process is also empowering and is a big part of Nancy Wylde’s life. Nancy writes about the women’s empowerment in a book called “Ticket To Freedom.” The book chronicles the authors transformational moments in moving from a life structured by other peoples ideas for her and how her life should be to a life of freedom – a life that she has created. Nancy compels all women (men too) to examine the beliefs they maybe living with and the effect of those beliefs on their lives. She explores self improvement technologies that she has employed to advance her life.

Nancy’s story in Ticket To Freedom is compelling and I asked her for an interview. It begins with her story and finishes with a discussion of methods that you (woman or man) can use to gain the empowerment you need.

The Empowerment of Women Interview

The book teaches anyone who reads it to build self-esteem and create a vision of and move toward the life you want. It’s a great read.

Nancy’s mission is to empower women and this is not to disparage men but rather she has seen the life of a single mother raising children. She is from Australia where not so long ago a woman left alone with children may well have meant that they had just all received a death sentence because of the harshness of the countryside.

Read more about Nancy and empowerment of women (and men) at: http://www.nancywylde.org, Nancy Wylde Biographical Info and at her blog: www.NancyWylde.Wordpress.com.

Your dreams, do you know what they are or have they been completely washed away.  You had them once and you built them into a glorious castle and now, where are they?  Like building a sandcastle by the ocean, the opinions of others and the day to day things of life,  like the water of the ocean, taking a little bit of it each time the tide comes back.  Soon your dreams, like the sand castle, are leveled and you cannot tell where they were.   So what does the law of attraction and universal laws have to do with this?  Be patient – you are attracting the answer.

When you did have a dream, what was it? Was it a dream? Was there something you once wanted to do but you got the message from somewhere that you didn’t have the gas to get it done.  Still can you see even the faintest image of your dream?

Whatever it was take it out and turn it round and round in your mind. Dust it off and look at it from all sides. Polish it up. Just do this once a day for a week or two. You will begin to notice other ideas coming about it. Act on them. It doesn’t matter how small the ideas are or how small the actions but begin to act on them.

Every night as you fall asleep muse over this idea. If you are sedating yourself with TV to fall asleep stop, tune into your own channel and make this dream whatever you’d like it can become as big as you make it.

Now the crazy part, your dreams will become your reality if you start taking these small steps.

This process is based on the law of attraction and it is working in your life right now, perhaps you are just not attracting the things you want.  Look in the sidebar to the right for an audio book called “The Science of Getting Rich” and download it, it is free. This is not some screwball book but will help you get the things that you want in your life rather than just taking what shows up. Listen to it and keep listening to it until it becomes part of you, part of your thinking.  This is one of the best single sources on the universal laws ever written.

Live an inspired life – not a life of have-to or should’s. Live your life – yours – believe in yourself and in your dreams and the law of attraction and the universal laws will work for you.

The Law of Attraction by way of The Science of Getting Rich

Master the law of attraction, what if you could master it?  Did you know The Science of Getting Rich tells you exactly how to attain mastery?  What would mastery mean to you? Can you see yourself as master? Can you step into that vision and feel it? Your beautiful home, the ones you love around, and a knowing that you can advance in the direction of your dreams and overcome anything that might seem to be in the way. You might never have read the Bible but somewhere you heard the words of Jesus: “I tell you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ if he doesn’t doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.” And you think that is the place I am in, I do not doubt in my heart and any mountains or problems that seem like mountains move out of my way. You are the master of the law of attraction.

The Science of Getting Rich

In 1910 a rather strange man named Wallace D. Wattles wrote what has become a classic success book: The Science of Getting Rich. This book while always getting a little attention through the years has become hugely popular again since the release of The Secret movie. Rhonda Byrne, the creator of the movie has said that The Science of Getting Rich was a major factor in the movie.

The Science of Getting Rich doesn’t use the words: “law of attraction” anywhere in it – yet in reading the book it is unmistakable that the law of attraction is what it is all about. Hold the vision of the thing you want in the invisible thinking substance that makes up the universe. Profound for 1910, today people discussing the law begin to talk about Physics and discoveries in quantum mechanics. We were perhaps better off with the simpler language which is part of the charm of Wattles book.

Master The Law of Attraction

Hold the vision, see the vision and step into it, experience it. At some point you will learn what to do and you must act. Wattles says: “By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.” A lot of people leave out the discussion of the action part when talking about the law of attraction. It is nice to think that all you have to do is dream, and your dreams will see reality. The idea of action says you might have to work at it a little bit too.

Yet it is this very “action” that activates the law of attraction and this is a key part of what wattles focuses on in The Science of Getting Rich. It’s all there in that book, laying in the open, and not “Secret” since 1910. On the previously linked website you will find not only a free E-book but also a free audio book of The Science of Getting Rich. We believe it is one of the best presentations of the book available on the web. You can also subscribe to the podcast dealing with the Science of Getting Rich, The Law of Attraction, Think and Grow Rich, As A Man Thinketh, and many other topics. All here at www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com and all free.

If you are looking for a program to help you further understand and master the Law of Attraction, check out The 11 Forgotten Laws. The 11 Forgotten Laws is a program for sale by Bob Proctor one of the teachers in The Secret.

Bob Proctor along with Michael Beckwith, and Jack Canfield also have a program to help you better learn The Science of Getting Rich. It is a program I listen to everyday.  They have woven real experiences along with the book and spun it in the way that only those teachers of The Secret can.  Find it at: www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com/sgr.