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		<title>Growing Up, Success, And The Law Of Attraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Griffin</dc:creator>
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<p>What do you want to be like, who do you want to be, what do you want to do when you grow up?</p>
<p><strong>Make A Vision</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Are there qualities of a particular person you&#8217;d like to incorporate?  Read about that person and see yourself doing those kinds of things, responding successfully as that person might.</p>
<p><strong>See And Feel The Vision And Take Action!</strong></p>
<p>Play this vision and add words to it to form a plan.  <a title="Napoleon Hill And Think And Grow Rich" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/napoleon-hill/">Napoleon Hill</a> gives a formula in <a class="zem_slink" title="Think and Grow Rich, Original 1937 Classic Edition" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-Classic/dp/1592802605%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1592802605">Think and Grow Rich</a>.  These words you should go over in the morning and before bed to burn them into your mind.</p>
<p>Then &#8211; begin to act &#8211; ideas will be coming to you about the actions to take and you need to take action.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Act NOW</strong> <strong>- Waiting Solves Nothing</strong></p>
<p>Remember, things won&#8217;t be perfect when you start and don&#8217;t think of waiting even an hour for things to be a little better.  The great <a title="Zig Ziglar Bio" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/zig-ziglar/">Zig Ziglar</a> asks, &#8220;do you wait for all the traffic lights to turn green before you leave home for the store?&#8221;  Of course you don&#8217;t &#8211; you&#8217;d never get there.  It is the same with your dreams and goals.</p>
<p>Run the movie in your mind, replay and enhance the vision &#8211; ideas will come and when you see the ideas you will act on them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Never Give Up</strong></p>
<p>Did you know that <a title="Colonel Sanders Overcoming Rejection" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/1243/rejection/">Colonel Sanders</a> was 65 and trying to figure out how to make it on <a class="zem_slink" title="Social Security (United States)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_%28United_States%29">Social Security</a> when he started <a class="zem_slink" title="KFC" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.646,-115.7507&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.646,-115.7507%20%28KFC%29&amp;t=h">Kentucky Fried Chicken</a>?  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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>And so the vision &#8211; the idea &#8211; 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.</p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Napoleon Hill" rel="homepage" href="http://naphill.org">Napoleon Hill</a> said it best &#8211; that everything you want to accomplish in life has it&#8217;s beginnings in an idea.   It&#8217;s up to you to keep the idea alive and take action on it.</p>
<p>Growing up means figuring out what it is you want to be and do and it is a realization that it&#8217;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 <a class="zem_slink" title="The Law of Attraction" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Law-Attraction-Napoleon-Hill/dp/1604590890%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1604590890">The Law of Attraction</a> Works.</p>
<h3>Are You Sabotaging Success With The Law Of Attraction?</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Karen-Saunders-720/law-of-attraction-76189.php">How to Use the Law of Attraction to Attract More Customers</a></strong></p>
<p>When you follow these recommendations you&#8217;ll be using the Law of Attraction to your advantage. Your business success will be a reflection of your new positive and deliberate creation. Be consistent and practice every day because this is &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lifelessonsformasteringthelawofattraction.com/lifelessons/2009/10/ex.html"><strong>&#8220;Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction&#8221;</strong><br />
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<p>Jeanna and Eva are regularly featured on radio and in the media, and are recognized authorities on the Laws of Attraction. Their new book, Life Lessons for Mastering the Laws of Attraction, is co-authored with <a class="zem_slink" title="Jack Canfield" rel="homepage" href="http://www.jackcanfield.com/">Jack Canfield</a> and Mark &#8230; It&#8217;s Kelly O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s much anticipated Marketing to Millionaires Mastery University, and I believe the information it holds could absolutely make the difference between success and failure for <a class="zem_slink" title="Small business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_business">small business</a> owners and entrepreneurs – just &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://automaticlifestyle.com/462/attitude-is-everything-must-see-video/"><strong>Attitude Is Everything</strong><br />
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<p>However this is what success in life is all about, your ability to adapt and have a winning attitude no matter what challenges we are faced with. You can always find something to complain about or be grateful for it is your choice.</p>
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		<title>Notes on As A Man Thinketh Chapter 5: The Thought-Factor In Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As A Man Thinketh challenges us to raise the level of our thoughts. James Allen describes some of our thoughts as &#8220;animal thoughts.&#8221; These are thoughts centered on survival and centered on momentary wants and comforts. Allen suggest that we raise the level of our thoughts and sacrifice many of these animal thoughts. A certain [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/2009/01/as-a-man-thinketh/">As A Man Thinketh</a> challenges us to raise the level of our thoughts.  James Allen describes some of our thoughts as &#8220;animal thoughts.&#8221;  These are thoughts centered on survival and centered on momentary wants and comforts.   Allen suggest that we raise the level of our thoughts and sacrifice many of these animal thoughts.  A certain level of these animal thoughts are necessary for survival but other than that our thoughts should be turned to higher things.  The Thought Factor In Achievement describes how raising the level of our thoughts will lead us to success.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You have responsibility for every aspect of your life.  Circumstance may have contributed but you alone have the responsibility for where you are and certainly on how you will change things.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts</p>
<p>Allen discusses those who do not understand the process but only see the result and call it luck.  Most people allow things to happen not aware that they can and should take the helm of the ship of life &#8211; these people settle for only these lower, survival thoughts.  A ship may be tossed by the sea &#8211; and certainly there are bigger forces in life than ourselves but a good captain can navigate life&#8217;s storms and make the journey successfully.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice, and a<br />
man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his<br />
confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of<br />
his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and<br />
self-reliance. And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the more manly,<br />
upright, and righteous he becomes, the greater will be his success,<br />
the more blessed and enduring will be his achievements.</p>
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<p>If you sacrifice some of your self-centered &#8220;animal thoughts&#8221; in favor of science, theology, sports, medicine, engineering, or anything of a higher purpose you will achieve in that area.  The mind is a great goal seeking mechanism but a mind focused only on survival and the needs of the moment will not accomplish outside of that small area.</p>
<p>Look for achievement and you will find it.   As A Man Thinketh is always talking about the quality of your thoughts.  The Thought Factor in Achievement leads you to higher ground if you want to do great things in life.</p>
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