In the previous post we talked about the incredible power of your subconscious mind, aka Automatic Success Attractor, to show you where you are putting your attention. Remember “you find what you’re looking for” and “what you focus on expands”.

I’m sure some of you are feeling frustrated over the economic challenges the world is facing at the moment. You may be experiencing some of the effects firsthand.

Maybe you have experienced loss of income or business. You’re not alone. Many businesses are have lost customers due to the slowing economy. Maybe you feel spooked and are unsure of what is going to happen and you might even be thinking, “what the &^*^% Doug! Are you saying I caused this? Are you saying I brought this on by my thoughts? Go pound sand dude!!”

No that’s not what I’m saying.

I am saying that now is the time to decide what you are made of!!! What are you going to focus on RIGHT NOW? Will you choose to whine about how unfair things are and thereby choose by default to be a victim or will you instead choose to be a victor and focus on what you want???!!!

Become Responsible

The “cold hard truth” is that you have no control over the outside world, and yet you do have complete and total control over your own thoughts and actions, therefore you have complete and total control over how you choose to react and responds to outside events.

Let me say that again: You are NOT responsible for external events in the world and the things that “happen” to you, you are however responsible for how you respond. Only you can decide to not take what is going on in the world personally and instead to refocus your energy on the fact that you now choose to be 100% responsible for the results you get in life based on 2 simple things: what you choose to focus on coupled with the actions you take.

Remember, taking an action gets you closer to where you want to be! Of course, not everything you do will work out just the way you want it to, just remember that on an average trip, an airliner is off course most of the time.

The pilot must use the feedback coming in from the instruments to get the plane back on course. That feedback about being off course can be looked as being very helpful and good information to have, -or-, it can be looked at a “failure” or “mistakes” – it depends on what you choose to focus on.

Knowing what doesn’t work is just as important as knowing what does!!!

You must decide right now that you’re ok with knowing another way that doesn’t get you  the result you were looking for! Decide right now to be open minded about new ways to live your life, new ways to do business, and if need be, new ways to reinvent yourself!

In the long run, tough times will force you to do things you know you should have done a long time ago but were just too “fat, dumb and happy” to bother with. (As the saying goes of course)

Perhaps you’re saying “But Doug, this sucks. I don’t like it.” Friend, you don’t have to like it, you just have to deal with it! What goes up will come down. It’s not personal; it’s just the way it is. You can’t argue or fool mother nature! Yet there is something you CAN do about it….

Stay tuned for part three coming in a day or two.

Until then, all the best to you and yours

Doug

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