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How To Use Your Brain To Get What You Want Pt 3

“…When you watch the movie you should feel incredible because everything you wanted you now have! It is your movie make it what you want. You are the writer, the producer, the director and the star make it what you want it to be! Spend time visualizing in this way. I will discuss more in the next post. Begin today…”

Continued from How To Use Your Brain To Get What You Want Pt 2

“As with all exercise and abilities we get better with practice. Do the best you are able to. You may surprise yourself with how easy it is. If it is not so easy at first, it will become easier as you continue to do this. Regardless, of how well or how poorly you do this deliberate visualization you must know and understand that you are already doing some version of it in your head most of the time.

Re-read that last sentence. You are already using the power of visualization to get the results you currently are getting. You bring about your circumstances. It all begins first within.

Your results are the end product of how you are already using your mind. Your life is the result of what you are already doing with or without awareness. You have or don’t have whatever it is in life because of how you have been and are presently using or not using your mind. There is no blame nor shame in that. You have been doing whatever you have been doing.

It brings you whatever your dominant thoughts are. If you focus on lack and not having enough and you don’t have all you want or need is it any wonder why. The problem is compounded because then when people don’t have enough they continue to worry about it and think about it.

If you want more you have to create more and that starts with your thinking process. You have to imagine and see and create what you want and stop focusing on what you don’t want. You bring about whatever you think about.

For many people they get wish washy results because they are 50/50 in their thinking. If most of your thinking is negative and your life is very much not how you want it you need to create much more positivity. You need to shift the balance over to the positive side. If you are 80% positive you are probably doing pretty well.

If you want to get better results you will have to bring some deliberate purpose to what you do and change some of what you are already doing. Then you can begin to get incredible results and my guess is that is what you would like to be getting.

Realize that you bring about what you think about.

Spend at time visualizing and creating what you want. If you have to do it in increments whenever you are able. Spend 5 minutes, 10, 30 minutes a day deliberately using your imagination to create what you want. Close your eyes and relax and visualize.

Re-read what you wrote down at least twice a day. Read it with all the gusto and energy and enthusiasm you can muster. Be alive, feel incredible and bring this energy to all that you think and do.” Rex Sikes

OK more next time. Enjoy this beautiful day!

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How To Use Your Brain To Get What You Want Pt 1

“..The results they get are due to the conditioning and training they undergo. They built the skills and habits needed to play and perform successfully, optimally. The truly successful people in this world do exactly the same thing. They know how to use their mind to get what they want and that organizes all of their efforts…”

Continued from Are You Using Your Brain To Get What You Want

“We make sense of the outer world by recreating it on the inside and we do this by pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes and smells. We use our five senses within and without to. We see pictures and movies in our minds while walking and talking and driving and computing with our eyes open and engaged, or while daydreaming, and or with our eyes closed napping or sleeping.

Memories are what we see, hear and feel, and what we imagine and remember on the inside. As we move through life we collect memories. We may be deeply, profoundly touched by the power of a positive or not so positive memory. Some memories may bring about nearly the same feelings each time we recall them.

We can close our eyes and imagine our present right now where we are as we read this, we can with eyes closed recall and see what surrounds us. We can hear both what is going on outside of us, noises and we can hear our inner thoughts, noises and voice as well. We can presently feel what we feel, our emotions and sensations or our butts against the surface of some material we sit or recline on.

We can also see future events happen in our mind, imaginary and unlikely or likely scenarios that we picture, hear, feel and respond to that have not happened yet. We can see happy future events and feel good about them or we can look at unwanted anticipated events and feel anxious or fearful.

Assuming we have all these neurological five senses or faculties intact and unimpaired we are able to do these. We all seem to have lead systems. Some people see images in their mind quickly then hear and feel. Or see, feel and hear. Another person may lead with sounds then see and feel or feel and see their movies. Others may lead off with the feeling and then images and sounds or vice versa. Smells and tastes likewise trigger full associations or memories, or pictures, sounds and feelings. Typically, it all happens very quickly.

I point this out because some people may claim a difficulty with whichever sense they are attempting to work with. Some might say I don’t see my pictures very well. In that case, listen or feel first and discover what happens to bring about the full representation. Explore playfully and find out which sense seems better developed or which you are better able to manipulate or work with.

We will explore more of this in more detail in upcoming times. Still, you can develop the ability to use anyone of these senses to a much greater degree by deliberately choosing to exercise your abilities. They ALL work powerfully in us (again assuming no neurological impairment) whether we exercise control or not, whether we are consciously aware or not of them. We are influenced by our internal activity. Those who succeed typically already know how to work with their inner world powerfully to get positive results.” Rex Sikes

More tomorrow. Have an incredible day!

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Are You Using Your Brain To Get What You Want?

You and I have exactly the same equipment as the wildly successful do. We have the same abilities as they do. We have the same amount of hours in a day and we all breath the same air. BUT the truly successful have accessed a cutting edge technology, a vastly superior scientific practice that puts them out front of all the rest. These successful investors, sports figures, celebrities, scientists, parents, and those who excel in every walk of life get different results from the rest of us, using the very same equipment, but using it differently and precisely. It is time the rest of us caught on and begin to capture some of that success for ourselves.

The successful people understand that it is an inner game. They know and use their minds with precision in ways the rest of us do not. Everyone has essentially the same capacity and we are all using our brains and mind power, more or less alike, but these successful people do things that the rest just do not do. Analogy time. Pretend everyone drives cars. We all drive cars and know how to but some people drive cars to great, wonderful, fun, exciting places while others don’t. Why do you suppose that is?

Let’s find out. Let’s begin to examine what we all do but that the successful people do differently. Let’s look at what puts them out ahead of the rest of us and that gets them where they are. I’ll explore this in a series of blog posts. So here we go, first point.

We all run movies in our head. Some of these images, sounds and feelings we are aware of and some operate out of consciousness. Whether we notice them or not we still make them and are influenced by them. We have a vivid and active inner life between our ears. What we do between our ears determines how much we experience life.

What we do in our minds determines whether we are proactive go getters, who create and get what we want, or whether we are more reactive and wait for things to happen to or for us. What we do inside our head determines our outlook on the world, our frame of mind, our attitudes and beliefs and whether we mostly enjoy our experience or maybe not so much. What we do determines whether we react more like habitual robots or respond with freer choice and free will. The inside determines the outside so much more than the other way around!

Some people use their minds very powerfully. These are very smart people. I don’t mean book smart people who know lots of facts and figures and have very high IQs. They may be smart in some ways but that is not the smarts I am referring to. The smarts I am speaking of are much more important! There are people who know how to use their inner world to make the outer world conform to what they imagine inside. It all begins on the inside!

They create and cause things to occur that bring them positive results. They understand how to use their minds powerfully to attract what they want. These people are not only smart and successful (however one defines success) but they are wise. They make wise choices with their abilities and their efforts to bring about more of what they enjoy. They attract and create more love, health, happiness, well-being, positive relationships, warm inviting home lives, family, friends, career success, and wealth because they understand how it all works. Thought precedes everything!

When you understand how something works you can utilize it to get good results. As we grew in our understanding of electricity we could harness its power. The same is true with the powers of our own minds. Your mind can and already does incredible things. Whether it is serving you to get what you want most of the time or not depends on how you have been using it. You and I use our minds all the time and some of the times we do so deliberately.

The more deliberately we can use our mind the better results we can guarantee. For all us to get better results, like those people who already are getting fantastic results, we need to deliberately consciously train our minds to work better for us in our own behalf. We train our mind to look for and go after great results.

People have trained their minds to get good at many things. Music and sports for example. Many get great results. Successful people in all walks of life use their their inner movie theater to visualize and get good in whatever area they are successful at. They use their mind to their advantage purposefully and deliberately. The less successful people aren’t doing the same things the successful are.

This separates the successful from the non-successful by a huge chasm. There have been many important books available for eons on how to run one’s mind and create one’s future. The point is people don’t transform by reading, they only transform by doing. It is practice that makes perfect not the fact that you know something you never apply. Application, action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

What the successful do, and have already done, the rest of us need to do. We need to train our mind, we need to instruct it in what we want to be and have and what we want it to do and then we let it do that automatically. We create positive habits through training and then we live and we create from those habits.

Consider the sports star who trains their mind and body to compete and who practices and drills everyday. This athlete trains hard so that when they play the game all of their training and conditioning becomes a reliable asset. DO you think they would have enjoyed the success they do and play as well without the effort? I think not. They rehearse so that ‘when the going gets tough the tough get going’. (Vince Lombardi).

The results they get are due to the conditioning and training they undergo. They built the skills and habits needed to play and perform successfully, optimally. The truly successful people in this world do exactly the same thing. They know how to use their mind to get what they want and that organizes all of their efforts.

We initiate and maintain the process. Yes, we still manage the process but we learned through positive habit formation to allow it to work automatically in positive ways. It is already running on automatic most of the time, but if you aren’t enjoying the good life you deserve, if your results are haphazard, unreliable, if you feel unlucky and or you aren’t getting what and where you want then you need to train it to do better for you. So let’s get to it. Let’s train our minds to run better so we go after and get what we want and deserve in life. Those who succeed typically already know how to work with their inner world powerfully to get positive results.” Rex Sikes

Have a marvelous day! Please continue celebrating, and finding things and moments to appreciate and enjoy. Look back on previous posts and focus on the positive.

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The Successful Flock Together! A Powerful Practice You Need To Know

It is always easier when we have some support from others as we learn and grow and develop new skills and abilities. Even though you keep your purpose and dreams to yourself and not discuss them (see previous post), it is healthy to be around other positive people who are moving ahead. If you want to be a mover and shaker hang with others who already are.

By thinking positive and feeling good most of the time you raise your energy level. You look and feel different. If we think of everything as energy you could say you vibrate at a higher frequency. This is good. You want to vibrate at the highest positive frequency possible.

Imagine that you transmit that frequency. You broadcast it everywhere. In so many ways you actually do. You look better, feel better, you reflect and radiate the positivity and strength inside you. When you do this you will naturally begin to attract people who vibrate similarly. Remember, birds of a feather flock together. Like attracts like. What you cause you get back in effect. People will be drawn toward your positive energy. Success attracts success.

This is wonderful because together we can accomplish much more than alone. We can support and encourage each other. Just being around positive people is so much more enjoyable. Those who are successful know this. Wealth attracts wealth, success attracts success. Celebrities hang around and marry other celebrities. People like people who are like themselves.

The powerful mingle and associate together, as do the rich and celebrities. Actually the poor hangout together too. Like attracts like. Birds of a feather… remember. If you want to succeed and enjoy more health and wealth and all good things, raise your vibratory level and begin to hang out with others who are of like positive energy, like positive mind and like positive pursuits. You are known by the company you keep and by your fruits. Those who surround you and gravitate to you can help you get where you want to go. Your thoughts and actions will determine whether you actually get there. Keep your energy high, positive, friendly and helpful to all!

SO what to do about the less than positive people. The negative people those who may rain on your parade. As people begin to practice positive thinking and transform their life some tend to shun them, they fear that their negativity may contaminate their positivity. I understand their concerns but I think it is silly and not a healthy way to think.

I actually refer you back to the principle: ‘whatever you think about you get’. Let me ask you this: If you fear the negative or being around negative people what might do you think you are actually creating or attracting to yourself? If you attract and become what you think about then you should understand that if you fear or worry about, or are even concerned with negativity then that is what you are creating and attracting. You need to be bigger than any negativity and you can be!

I think one should endeavor to be such a beacon that nothing can keep your light from shining bright.

You may wish to limit contact while developing your positivity muscle but I don’t think you have to. You want to begin to think the thoughts that you are a positive, powerful, magnetic attractor and creator and you move through the world powerfully. You can handle anything!

Don’t run if you aren’t being chased and don’t give power where it doesn’t need to be given. Don’t put energy into the negative, don’t resist it because what you resist persists. Instead, seek mostly the company of positive people and keep your focus on feeling wonderful. Stop and do not focus on someone being able to spoil your party. Be stronger than that. Live larger. Get more grand! Stay positive and be the light that darkness flees from. The light doesn’t have to do anything but shine.

After all, that is what we are aiming towards. We want to create more positivity and not be set off track by a little negativity in another person or from circumstances. In fact, it is best to be grateful and appreciate the person and the circumstances when they are less than glorious for providing you the opportunity to steer back to center, to stay rooted in your positivity come what may.

If you are tossed about on the sea on the way to your destination so be it. You have to make it through the rough water and the calm. Challenges provided much opportunity to learn how to overcome them and to hone our skills and to keep going no matter what. You don’t want rain to spoil your day. Learn to enjoy it and it takes all the sting out.

Focus on what you want. Focus on what you want. Focus on what you want. NOT on what you don’t want, or fear, or don’t like or don’t enjoy. Focus on what you want. Focus on what you want! Create what you want. Attract what you want. That is the whole point. Keep your mind on what you want! Become what you think about!

You are learning to manage your thoughts and emotions. You are learning to direct your mind. Everything becomes a glorious opportunity when you allow it and accept it as such. When you fight it and resist it you, at least temporarily, get off course. Getting off course is part of learning how to navigate back onto course. So remember ALL IS GOOD.

Yes surround yourself with quality positive people. Enjoy them. Focus on what you want and you become what you focus on most of the time. KEEP THIS IN MIND and let nothing distract you. When it does, accept that it did and steer back to center joyfully. Be happy you realized you needed to get back to center.

Through all of this each moment is an opportunity, a gift, to help you along the way. By successfully repeating positive practices, through repetition, you grow your positivity muscle. You make positive habits. In order to grow a muscle resistance is required. Allow it don’t resist it. Your muscle will grow much faster when your do those things and nurture it along. Being healthy comes from having healthy habits. This is true of both mind and body.

Celebrate and appreciate everything and you transform your being and your life in absolutely incredible ways! All is good. Surprises and delight abound even when you are not yet able to see them. Expect good things to come even when there seems to be no reason to think so.

Create and attract what you want to be, do and have. Stay focused and enjoy. More and more good things will come your way all along the way. You will find that as you become a more positive, powerful, radiant person you will attract more positive people and opportunities to yourself. Like does attract like! You put it all into motion by becoming the very person others want to be around. Be positive! The journey can indeed be marvelous!” Rex Sikes

Savor the seconds, make marvelous the minutes, delight in the day!

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We Become What We Think About! What Are You Grateful For?

“What can you find to celebrate today? What is something you really enjoy? Who has touched your life in positive ways for which you are grateful? Which opportunities have you discovered that have made a positive difference for you? Are there places in this world you have been to that you liked? What life lessons have contributed to you in amazing ways? Who, what, and where puts a smile on your face?

What is good in your life? Which people, places, activities, circumstances can you appreciate and emphasize? Who do you like, love and admire? What about you? How are you better off? What are your attributes and characteristics you are pleased with? What talents are you proud of? What new new things can you find in each moment to put your attention on that bring you new awareness and delight?

What positive powerful thoughts can and will you think today? What will be you mantra, your chant, your affirmations today? How many wonderful feelings can you find that make you feel energized and more alive? How much extra enthusiasm and energy can you bring to thinking about, saying and shouting your affirmations with gusto and joy?

What large and little things can you make more marvelous today by bringing you attention to them? Wouldn’t it be wonderful for you to make today extra special by managing the moments? Won’t you do a little bit by little bit to be happier, healthier and experience more well being? Why not make it a point to be positive most of the time? Will you look for the good, emphasize the good, find the silver linings in all your interactions with people and circumstances?

Will you practice some gratitude today? Can you fill your heart and mind with the very best you can find? Did you know that once you begin to look for all the good things you will start finding them? It may be a little difficult at first if you are not regularly in the habit of doing this, but as you do, when you begin, it will become easier and easier and you will discover many more marvelous moments to savor, did you know that?

Sometimes the wheel has to be greased to get things rolling but once you are moving momentum takes over. Like attracts like and you will find much more to delight in. You may not even be able to imagine all the marvelous benefits you will derive from doing this daily, yet, but you will discover so many more incredible things once you begin and follow through. Spend some today time seeing, hearing, feeling, reliving, positive memories and moments.

You do realize life is what you make it, don’t you? Today will go on and be however you experience each moment and and whatever you do with those moments that life offers, you do you understand that, don’t you? Today is completely in your hands, as is everyday, what will you do with what you have? How we experience each moment, each day, each week is completely up to each of us.

Find out how easy it is to transform your life when you spend the time necessary to do so. Can you keep this in mind too? It makes an incredible difference and can guide you: We become what we think about most of the time. We get what we think about.” Rex Sikes

I hope you take the time to make today and each day awesome!

Delight in this day!

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Show Don’t Tell! Successful People Show Others Talk: How To Start Getting Results You Want

Once you have decided on your definite chief purpose, THE major goal for your life, what you want more than anything else you write it down in detail. You read it to yourself a couple times a day with energy and enthusiasm. You visualize yourself already in possession of it, you see it in your mind, the way it would look and sound and feel once it has come to pass.

In your mind you act as if you already have it (because in your visualization you already do). You look for the best feelings to enjoy and savor throughout each day and you live with gratitude. When you do these you are well on your way to making it all happen. Actually, you are well on your way the moment you commit to making the decision and write it down.

It is a great place to start with the most important because why spend time on anything less than that. You always can have other goals and dreams you work on later but for goodness sake begin with what you feel is most important for you.

Once you determine what you absolutely want in life your mind gets to working on it. You nurture it along and keep it alive in healthy ways every day. As you repeat what you want by reading it and seeing it in your mind with energy you are keeping your self on track for brining it about. The more you feel wonderful and positive throughout each day the more you get back exponentially. The more you choose to be positive and find good feelings and feel grateful each day the more you supercharge everything. It all works together synergistically.

Here is an important piece that will help you greatly. ‘Don’t cast pearls before swine’. It is a Biblical saying.

While you are working at making your dreams come true – keep it all a secret. Keep your purpose a secret.

Don’t mention your goals and what you are working on. Keep it to yourself. People who succeed understand the importance of remaining focused and committed. They know how critical it is not to let anything or anyone take the wind out of our sails. They understand the benefit of secrecy and so should you.

One reason for secrecy is that this dream is yours and you cherish it. Enjoy it, value it, keep the energy high. It is your dream and it is important to you. Others may not feel the same as you do about it and may treat it with less respect than you. Do not give others that opportunity. Cherish your dreams, keep them important and alive and vital. Respect yourself and your goal.

Many of us when, we feel troubled, want to talk about our troubles. We talk to think it through, to take away the sting or the hurt and disappointment. We talk to dissipate the energy to get relief. We do it decrease its severity. Talking has the potential to dissipate and remove the sense of urgency so don’t do it. Don’t give it away. Preserve the energy.

You want your dreams to be urgent and dynamic and important. So keep your dreams and goals to yourself. Gather the positive energy, collect it and enhance it. You want the energy to stay high to stay positive and increase. You want to remain enthusiastic and dynamic and focused! Don’t do anything to dilute it. The reason we add energy and positive feelings to our written commitment and our visualization is because the unconscious mind understand powerful emotions.

How we end up with the results we get? This is important to understand and I have discussed it many times.

We get whatever results we get because we put them into motion by what we think about and feel at the same time.

The unconscious mind doesn’t care whether you want it or don’t, it makes wanted or unwanted results come about because of the instructions we give it. The instructions are what we think about coupled with our strong feelings.

We attract wanted or unwanted because of the emotions we feel when thinking about things.

This is how we end up with all sorts of unwanted things in our life. Something happens and we feel bad about it. We think about it over and over while we worry, are sad, upset, angry or fearful. We attract more of what we are thinking and feeling about. It is the feelings that drive the unconscious. Our circumstances are brought about as a result of this process. Our future and our present is determined by where and how we spend most of our time thinking and feeling.

If you want different results you need to think positive while feeling wonderful. That is the key.

Since the unconscious is a servo mechanism its only job is to perform the tasks given it without judgement. It carries out whatever it is given. If you don’t like the results you have been getting you need to change what you are doing. You need to focus on strong positive thoughts and feelings.

Then through repetition, strong repetition, dynamically charged repetition, you give clear instructions to your unconscious about what you want. Whenever anything comes along to knock you off course, your best possible choice is to steer back on course, return to positive thoughts and feelings as quickly as you are capable of.

Where and how we spend our time is what we get. We become what we think about most of our time. It is all about HOW we use our time that matters.

Another reason to not discuss what your goals are is to prevent people from feeling envy or trying to thwart your efforts or criticize and belittle you. Some people just want to bring others down while others get envious or resentful. Even our most ardent supporters and family can rain on a parade. They mean well and they love you but they steal your thunder albeit inadvertently or because they think there is a better course for you. If they don’t know your plans and dreams they can’t do this.

You also don’t want to come off as boasting or bragging. You want to make it as easy on yourself as possible. You simply want to be a positive, nice person others can enjoy being around. When you talk too much about what you want you are missing out on being with others. Listen and enjoy them instead of talking about what you are and will be doing.

When you have decided and made a permanent commitment to making what you want a reality things about you will change. Once you begin to focus on the positive and what you can do, and you begin doing it each day, everything does change for the better. You change, your energy changes.

As you focus on the positive and find opportunity each day to feel grateful and you spend the bulk of your thinking time on these you transform. Your energy shifts and people will notice. They may comment or they may ask. There is nothing wrong in telling them you feel good or wonderful. You can mention that things are going well without giving a sermon or telling them what you are working on inside of you. You can share with them that you feel grateful and think positive at the same time you keep your pearls sacred and safe.

There is a saying and it is important. It is better anyway when you are able to do this. You encounter less resistance. The saying is: ‘Show don’t tell’. They will see the results soon enough. So let them see them for themselves instead of telling them in advance what they are going to see. ‘Show them don’t tell them’.

Keep in mind all is good. Keep your focus on what you want and have fun. Don’t add stress, simplify and relax. Keep the faith and the momentum by what you think and do on a daily basis and you will surprise yourself. Enjoy and delight in the process. You can have everything you want in life and you can easily get along with others at the same time. By keeping these principles in mind you will. Enjoy the adventure have a glorious journey!” Rex Sikes

What wonderful results will you bring about today for yourself and others?

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Discover The Magic Of The Moment!

“Today stop and take time to enjoy the world around you. Notice what you have in your life that is good. Look at yourself and emphasize everything you like about yourself. Take a positive inventory. Look at the people you like and love and are grateful for. Bask in being surrounded by quality people.

Fill today with appreciation for everything and everyone. Celebrate and be thankful. This day, as is each day, is your day to do what you will with. Today is the only day you have, made up of moments. Make each moment marvelous. Make each count. Discover the magic of each moment.

Notice those who have been a challenge to you and be thankful they are there to help you grow. Difficult people and circumstances are a blessing. Focus on what you gain because of them, focus on what you have learned as a result. Everything can have a benefit, every dark cloud a silver lining look for these. Notice the good aspects of tough times and people. Appreciate all the delightful and difficult circumstances in your life. Notice the lessons learned through hardship and the joys along the way. Transform how you regard difficulty.

Find the reasons to feel incredible. Linger with these reasons.

Look for the good. Look for what is new. Adventure, explore, discover. Be as a child and be curious. Allow yourself to be filled with wonder. Allow yourself to become fascinated. Fill your mind and being with beauty today. Think the best thoughts. Choose the best feelings and accentuate them. Laugh, enjoy yourself. Be strong, be positive, be confident, feel powerful.

Relax, let go, accept. Take it easy, take it step by step. Put a smile on your own face, help put a smile on someone else’s too. Dream big today. Pretend you have everything you could ever imagine. Feel blessed. Discover. Find joy!

Whatever you do today, make it a special day! Bask!

After all this day is going to pass, it will fade away. It will only be a memory. Make the most of it while you have it! This day is your day! Discover the magic.” Rex SIkes

Have fun!

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Why Successful People Win and Why You Don’t – What You Need To Start Doing

“The question for you now is will you take finally take responsibility for creating the results you want instead of living as if someone else is in charge of them? Will you take control of your own brain?

Well, what will it be? I had to make this decision. What about you?

Once you decide to start to shift your dominant thought balance to the positive then everything changes. You need to keep focused and maintain it. Your life will change for the better because most of your thoughts are better.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thinking. Wherever you spend most of your time, there you are. Good or bad, positive or negative what your experience is like is completely up to you! Successful and happy people already know and do this.

When you finally take control everything does change but it still may take time. How quickly or slowly no one can predict.

I repeat myself, because through repetition we learn and we acquire habits. This is why re-reading is valuable but reading won’t change you. It can stimulate your thinking but it is by what you do that will change you. Success in all areas of your life can be yours.

You WILL have to stick with it awhile. It won’t happen overnight, at least, most probably, it won’t. So stop expecting it to happen fast and expect to be in there a while.

Still, expect it to happen sooner because you are organizing and focusing your energies to make it happen and still be realistic about it. Everything in its season. Be patient and enjoy the journey.

The point I am attempting to make is yes, expect good, swift, positive results but at the same time plan to stick with it. In order to get and keep the results you want you are changing your life, re-organizing your thoughts, you aren’t dabbling. If you try it and stop you won’t get any further than you get when you quit. If you stay the course your results can be astounding!

You have to keep the faith and maintain the practice for as long as it takes. No matter how long it takes you will go through it better and faster when you know you that you are able to and you do what you need to. It will take much longer if you fight it, hate it, mope about it or cave into it. Again, be patient and enjoy the journey.

As for challenges and obstacles know this: ALL defeat is only temporary when you know that you will ultimately win. Resistance is what makes the kite soar and the airplane rise. Without resistance we wouldn’t grow or develop.

There is a reason for everything even if we don’t understand it. There is hot and cold, night and day, good and bad (judgements) rough and smooth, push and pull. Life is made up of opposites too. So don’t let difficulty concern you.

Sometimes the successful people loose all the money and assets. It is a tough time BUT because of their attitude they know they can build it again. After all they did it before now they may just have to do it again. Attitude IS everything. It matters. Those that fail are those who give up and quit.

It is time to stop being victim and become the victor. Live with confidence and the ability to learn to make successful changes and you will live powerfully.

Successful people stick with it. They don’t dabble and give up. They set their sights, aim at the target and go for it. They pursue success and they get. So much of it is mind set. They feel they deserve it, they feel success and good things belong to them, they believe they have everything it takes to make things happen. Attitude is everything!

They know their abilities and what they need to do to make things happen. They also know who to align with to create things together that they can do easier when partnered up. (more about this at another time).

There was that moment when finally I realized it was time for me to become the creator of my experience and to assume responsibility for ALL of it not just part of it. I accepted responsibility for the tough times, the easy times, the failures and the successes. Whether it is ultimately true or not I decided to accept responsibility for everything in my life and for the entire path of my life.

It doesn’t matter if this is the way things actually are or aren’t the decision brought me new found power and energy. I discovered that if I acted as if everything that I did or happened to me was a result of me and my thoughts I would make sure I would NOW focus on what I wanted.

No longer would I spend time or energy worrying about what I didn’t have or didn’t want I would steer my mind to what I could do and could accomplish. In my new decision came incredible power and control. I opened a powerful positive doorway and stepped through it.

I also recognized, just like the rich, the powerful, the happy and the successful people that I deserved all the great things in life. I recognize that there is plenty for all, and that I could use my mind and abilities to make my life what I always wanted it to be. I no longer had to live in lack or happiness poverty I could be rich in all ways.

AND THAT that blew me away!

It is amazing. An entire new wonderful journey began and I find blessings in every day, come what may. After all it isn’t what happens to us but how we react or respond to what happens to us. As creator of my life if something less than glorious occurs I look for the good in it and how to make the situation better.

I have been training my mind to look for and find the good in everything. I concern myself with solutions rather than the problems and I find I have far fewer problems. There is much more joy, happiness and delight as a result.

If I can do this, and I mean this sincerely, if I am able to do this, ANYONE can!!! Certainly, you can! When it occurs to you that YOU can make your life so much more incredible than you can imagine right now, perhaps then you will do it. It is all up to you and the decision you make.

If you decide not to decide and put it off, or you decide not to, that is fine it is your decision. Things will be as they already are. However, should you decide to take control of your life, your thinking and your feelings, when you change your thoughts your life can change.

If you want your life to change you much change things in your life.” Rex Sikes

Celebrate this day you have! May you delight and enjoy!

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Powerful Tips You Can Immediately Use To Make Your Dreams Come True!

“…Believe in yourself and maintain you attitude. Focus each day on what you can think and feel and do to make your dreams come true. Avoid thinking about what you can’t do, don’t like or what is negative. Find the good and new each day to celebrate and your life, your present and your future will transform! It may happen slowly, as already mentioned, but it will transform so hang in their…

…We become what we think about most often. What we focus on we get. We get back what we put out. We reap what we sow. Energy flows where our attention goes. So think and feel and expect the best and you will get more of the same…

(Continued From: What People Think That Makes Them Fail)

FOCUS on what you want to create and have and enjoy. Put your thoughts and energy into what you want to manifest for yourself and keep your thoughts on this. Imagine it in detail, as richly and fully as you are able. Spend time watching the movies of your mind in full color, vivid, with awesome sound. Enjoy these inner films of what you can and will be doing and having.

See yourself as you want to be. What positive attributes and characteristics do you embody? How do you look, stand and move as you live your dreams? How do you sound? What do you say? Where are you? What are you doing? Who is with you? What do you have?

It is said, ‘If you can hold it in your head you can hold it in your hand’. Our inner thoughts create our present and future reality. So become the movie director of your inner motion pictures, make them compelling, fascinating, riveting, fantastic and so you get the future you want to have.

There may be no limit to what you can create that is wonderful for yourself. The only limits that exist are the ones you don’t explore going beyond. Anything may be possible. Think big, think strong positive thoughts and think these often each and every day and you will bring your dreams into being.

Take time to write and view and craft the future you and these inner movies. Make these as real as possible, focus on them and visit and watch them often each day. You will know you are on the right track when you run them in your head and you feel eager and excited. You will know you are on the way to making it all happen when you think to yourself, this is mine! When you know you are going to have it.

There is a big difference between a wish and an expectation. On your birthday you know you will get a present or more. You expect it! You may hope of wish for something you want to get but you aren’t sure if you are going to get it. You hope so BUT you know you will get a gift!

When you begin to feel secure, when you know the future you are creating in your head IS yours that is the feeling you want to have. It is not a question of IF at all you know it is going to happen. This is what is meant by keep the faith, believe it is going to happen.

Napoleon Hill stated, ‘That whatever you can conceive AND believe you can achieve’. Countless numbers of people have been proving him correct through all time. Take time to conceive it, design it, make yourself believe it, make it your dominant thoughts and spend the bulk of your day and night positively engineering it and you will make it happen.

To get to the point you where you are absolutely convinced you will accomplish your goals you will have to spend time each day making them happen in your mind and body. Live them on the inside to bring them about on the outside.

You will have to live with it and spend much of your time there as you go about your daily activities.

I am not saying all your time is day dreaming. Nope, you spend your day making your day marvelous and feeling fantastic. You spend your day doing whatever you need to do while feeling grateful and enthusiastic. You go about your present life with a powerful, positive attitude and the unshakeable conviction that YOU are creating and manifesting what you want.

Once you learn how to transform your present moments and you do so you understand how to transform your future AND vice versa! It is an incredible benefit.

You make your present moments wonderful. Plus, you spend portion of your day, after getting up and before going to bed, focused on what you want to bring into your life. A half hour is not too much to ask. Bring your attention to these thoughts whenever you are able to during your day. You create your future. You travel where you want to go in advance of actually going there.

You make the future moments in your mind, the present, that time when you have exactly what you want. You live and breath your definite chief purpose AS IF you already do actually have it.

A useful exercise (proposed by a very knowledgable person, but I forget the source at this moment and will look for the person’s name) is to imagine it is the day after you make your dreams come true. Let’s say you wanted a large exact sum of money by a certain date, say… January 1st. It is now the 2nd of January and you are telling someone how you made it happen. You describe everything you did to get that money by that date. You relive it in detail.

I added this next component and found it very helpful. You can even go further out, a week, a month, few months a year and even more then see in your mind and describe in detail how wonderful the experience is to have made your goal come true by that date AND then to have lived that lifestyle for this amount of time.

What did you become? What did you do since? What do you have as a result that you would not have otherwise? What did you enjoy? What did you solve? Where did you travel? Who have you met? HOw are you able to continue to bring about more positive changes? What are they? How has your life and others improved as a result of you taking charge? How wonderful do you feel? How incredible has your life become?

All these questions add depth, texture and nuance to your mental movies and are powerful to include.

The more vivid you are able to make it and the more wonderful positive enthusiastic energetic feelings you have as you think about it the more you impress all of it on your unconscious ‘servo-mechanism’.

Your job is to make certain all of you, your entire being, understands ‘This is who I am, what I am doing and what I am enjoying having!’

Think of it as a thought bank. Whatever you deposit in the bank you get back with interest. When you mostly put positive thoughts and images into the bank you will get positive interest back.

If you don’t deposit anything you don’t get a return. You drift.

If you deposit negativity, doubt, fear in the bank you get negative interest back. Whatever you deposit you will get back. Your mental movies and positive great feelings are what you deposit.

SO FIRST determine what you want to get back!

Many people neglect to do this. They do not think about what they are doing nor what they want to get in return. They drift. I know this because I did not do any of this for much of my life. I was an expert drifter when it came to setting goals. Sure I wanted things but I had no clue as to how to go about making them happen.

Keep the faith, focus on what it is that is positive, ignore the current results and keep moving toward what you desire. Make your present time the most marvelous time you are able because this is what you will end up creating. Your present condition becomes your future reality.” Rex Sikes

What incredible delights will you enjoy today?

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How To Get People To Help You Succeed

“When it comes to getting your goals and making your dreams come true you will succeed faster when you realize it is not only about you. This point is critical. The best approach to embrace is to realize that getting what you want is through becoming the best person you can be. It is really ALL about YOUR personal evolution.

Seek to evolve yourself. Aim for the highest. Apply the Golden Rule. Seek only to think thoughts and speak words and do actions that bless, heal and prosper everyone, including yourself. Become a creator who creates all good things, love, peace, kindness, generosity, enthusiasm, well-being, fun, delight, appreciation, co-operation and all other wonderful things.

Become a magnet and attract all these good things. Attract the very best.

When you align all of your thoughts in this way with what it is you want to accomplish you are much more powerful. You make your present so much more wonderful and you are creating a future worth having.

I think the most important aspect of what I am sharing is this.

You become the change you need to become in order to create the positive life you want and to make what you want happen.

Recognize your role as creator and determine to create an incredible experience for yourself and others. Realize you are a magnet and determine to attract that which brings joy to everyone.

Remember it is necessary to plant the right kind of seeds to get the crop (results) you desire. We become what we think about most of the time so think the finest positive powerful thoughts that benefit yourself and everyone else. Evolve into being the kind of person you would like to get to know.

It is NOT about the money or success, the career or the home, the car, the jewelry or whatever other things you want. Yes, you can get those but it truly isn’t about those ‘things’.

It is about becoming a person who lives abundantly and lives well. It is about becoming the kind of person who can easily make and attract the right kind of people, circumstances and the things, the cash or success into your life. It is about the who a person is not what the person has that is most important.

It is all about the who you are and less about the what you acquire. Who you become determines what you do. What you do determines what you have.

If you are in it to win and to help others win, others will be attracted to you. You will radiate positive personal energy and helpfulness. You exude a willingness to cooperate and align efforts.

When you are positive and powerful and a nice person you have a truly winning combination. Those who can help you will be attracted to you because they recognize your winner mind set AND that you are a great person to be around. Remember, birds of a feather flock together. Like attracts like!

If on the other hand, you are ruthless and care little for others or their success, while you might get somewhere, the likelihood is there will be more difficulty keeping it and enjoying it. Yes, you may get ahead but at what cost?

To try to succeed by leaving others behind or stepping on them to get to the top will not serve you well in the long run. You will get back what you put out. If not at first, eventually, because everything does take time. Keep in mind that the sun shines on the good person and the bad and it rains on both too. Seek to improve life for everyone and your life will improve much quicker.

When you radiate positive thoughts and energy you attract what you need to move forward. You become a beacon to other like minded and like spirited people. You are magnetically charged to attract the finest. When your thoughts are the best about others at all times you elevate yourself while holding others in high regard. You give out the best and in doing so you get back the best in return.

When we work together collaboratively and support each other there is a synergistic effect. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Everyone can enjoy success together. People who attract those of like mind and energy can create great things together. None of us ever actually make it all on our own. ‘No man is an island’.

Larger positive creations come about from collaborating with the right people. You can create more well being and accomplish more when you positively align with others who work for the same ends as you do than by yourself. Together you can build things you can not imagine doing alone.

It is is exciting to discover others in the world who think and feel the same. It is thrilling to align with them and create new good possibilities as you work together. When you radiate positivity you are able to attract people to you who have like desires in mind.

When you find good people who are all aimed at creating the same outcome you can make it happen quicker than if you were to do it all alone. This is the basis of a mastermind group. I will only touch on this briefly for now and explore it further later on.

It is an incredible world to be positive in and to find other positive people to enjoy. Having wonderful people to associate with is a marvelous opportunity. It is okay to be picky but it is not okay to be snobby.

Chose your friends and associates wisely whenever you can but there is no need to put down or ostracize anyone else. If you are really a positive person you won’t be bothered by someone who is not. It is just not the way you chose to be.

You don’t have to flee from negative people when you are powerful you just don’t let their negativity affect you. You can choose to spend most of your time with other positive, powerful, lovers of life whenever you are able. This is time well spent.

When you are filled with positive energy you attract powerful creators who share similar goals. What is positive energy? Thinking and feeling the very best. When you feel zest for life and little gets you down and you think and feel wonderful the preponderance of the time you are and have more positive energy. When you put it out there you get it back. Share it! RADIATE IT!

When you are feeling optimal you WILL be radiating it. You will be putting it out there. We are always radiating what is going on inside of us. We are always broadcasting our thoughts and feelings and attracting more of the same.

We can’t NOT be putting it out there. We are ALWAYS putting it out there. This is WHY it is CRITICAL to chose the best thoughts and feelings so that you start attracting back the best thoughts and feelings.

This is the reason why we CHOOSE to think and feel positive. This is why if you are not happy with the results you have been getting you must change what you are doing inside. You must not focus on the thoughts you don’t like but on what you DO WANT to attract. It is important to understand this! Many don’t so they are confused as to why they aren’t getting everything they want.

In order to get what you want on the outside you first must create it on the inside. You must plant what you want and nurture it along in order to harvest it in the right time.

Get it? I hope so. It has took me forever to begin to understand and appreciate how things actually work.

Positive energy is infectious for other positive people and can be uplifting for those who need a lift. At other times, negative people may just chose not to be around one who feels so good. That is okay, they may just need time to come around. Don’t be evangelical about anything or insist others change simply accept and allow for anything and everything. Allow each person to be who they are and do not judge them.

By allowing others to be who they are you are freer to be who you are. Isn’t that what you really want anyway, to be free. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be free to be who you are and to enjoy what you want when you want to? Others want the same.

When you are not in competition with anyone else and when you discover people who are on the same page it is absolutely delightful.You can even work towards getting the same results together. You can align and attain bigger results more swiftly than you may have gotten working alone.

This is important. When positive, powerful creators all want the same thing and work together co-operatively toward the same end they may become as if one mind. They can become a mastermind.

A mastermind group is a group of powerful positive creators who align their thoughts and efforts into making things happen that they could not do independent of each other. They are a valuable team and are incredible assets to each other.

They support each other in remaining positive and in and doing their very best. They inspire each other to reach higher. They are their to remind and uplift each other at all times.

Whether or not you have an actual mastermind group to create a mutual dream you can still enjoy achieving better results when you have a positive support group to assist you. We are resources for each other.

Remember, this concept of a mastermind group is that the whole IS greater than the sum of the individual parts. You can be more imaginative and creative and bring about more good together than you may do by yourself alone.

The bottom line is work for the success of all and all will help you succeed.

Create a wonderful life and attract wonderful people towards yourself. Help others do the same and together we do make our world more wonderful. So seek first to transform yourself not others.

You will succeed faster if your thoughts are genuine about the other person. When you are sincerely interested in helping them you get back sooner. When their interests are in your heart and you are helping them with no expectation of return THEN magic will happen. It works best when you are doing it altruistically and not because you want something from them.

Be genuinely helpful and dedicated to others and they can and will be likewise towards you. While it is true some people take and do not give nor return in kind do not let that dissuade you from giving. Give for the sake of giving with no thought of yourself and you will get back from those who care. You will be rewarded in other ways from other people and the greatest reward of all – is that you did something great for nothing! Take note of that. You did something good just because you could! That IS magical!

Fill yourself with positive thoughts, feelings and energy, AND wish well and do good for all others in mind and deed and you will get back so much more you will hardly be able to believe.

As with everything it comes in time.

Transformation is a process that happens through time in the same way plants and animals and people grow up and older. Some things you may notice more quickly while other things seem to remain the same. It is all happening, trust in that, and you will eventually notice the magnificent differences. So hang in there. Keep the faith and believe.

The first order of business is to become the who you need to be to get the results you want. Enjoy the process. Celebrate and delight and you will see the fruits of your labors. Then Go First, think well of others, help them and add value to them in whatever positive way you are able. Do good and good will come back to you. Help them success and they will help you succeed. Be a positive cause!

For every cause there is an effect. When you operate powerfully and positively at cause, by doing what I have been suggesting you, will get powerful and positive effects returned. That is the law!

It is all about cause and effect. Become the person who is the cause of all good things. Cause your world to be marvelous and you will have a marvelous world.” Rex Sikes

Surprise yourself in any number of amazing ways today!

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