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We are not programmed to recognize opportunity. Someone presents us with a great one, and we pick it apart, telling the person all the reasons why we can’t do it.

Unfortunately, that’s normal. That’s our subconscious trying to keep us safe by preserving the status quo.

So in order to see the true nature of the opportunities in our life, we have to learn to evaluate them from a broader perspective.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been leading you through an exercise to help you do just that. Before moving on to step 4, here are brief versions of steps 1-3 again.

Step 1. Write down your “need,” the amount to the penny of your monthly bills. If you are meeting your need every month, write down what you want, your financial goal.

Step 2. Now, make a list of every opportunity that comes to mind that could help you meet your need or want. No matter how far-fetched or unappealing or scary the idea may seem, write it down.

Step 3. Every opportunity has at least one challenge associated with it ~ something that makes you think the opportunity would be difficult or impossible to pull off.

The most common challenges are not enough money or time, issues with a loved one or prior commitments. Look at your list and write down the challenges that arise as you think about each opportunity.

Step 4. Now, what opportunities are those challenges presenting for you?

Each challenge you wrote down is another opportunity in disguise. It’s an opportunity for you to overcome that challenge and grow.

Once you meet a challenge, you grow past it and don’t have to grow past it again. It may still appear in your life, but you won’t perceive it as a barrier.

For example, let’s say your need is $7,546.35 a month, you’re not meeting it every month, and you want to become a mentor to others in your industry. One of the opportunities on your list is an invitation to teach a class with someone who’s already doing that. One of your challenges is sharing the costs with that person. You think you can’t afford it. The opportunity in that challenge is that you will have to start learning how to manifest money in your life. And as you learn how to do that, you’ll stop seeing money as a problem.

Another challenge might be a lack of confidence, so the opportunity is to raise your confidence. By the sheer act of stepping into your new role, you will give yourself an experience your subconscious can’t deny, and your self-confidence will naturally rise. In the future when you teach, confidence will become less and less of an issue.

So, next to each challenge on your list, imagine what the opportunities might be.

You don’t have to do anything yet. Just let yourself SEE what’s possible. See where the next stage of growth for you might be.

If, after completing your list, you feel excited at the prospect of stepping into that growth, congratulations! That’s the key to overcoming any challenge. View it as an opportunity, and then step into it, and there’s nothing that you can’t do.

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program that is open to everyone! Each week, I'll select and personally respond to one question received via the above “The Neagle Code” page that I feel in my heart will help the most people. (You may choose to remain anonymous if you wish, with our full support.) It is my deep, heartfelt intention that ~ in answering your questions ~ I may provide you with the Universal Truths that in committed application, will set you free. Simply submit YOUR burning question at: www.DavidNeagle.com/ask-david to participate.

If you have a need or desire, the opportunity to fulfill that need or desire is also present in your life. That’s the promise of the Law of Polarity. By the way, the same is true of any problem you’re having. Its solution is already in your life.

So the question is, where is it? As I’ve said, often hiding in plain sight.

Last time, I started guiding you through an exercise to help you find your opportunity. Before I move on to step 3, here are steps 1 and 2 again:

EXERCISE:

Unmask YOUR Opportunity, Cont.

Step 1. On a piece of paper, write down your “need,” the amount to the penny of your monthly bills. If you are meeting your need every month, write down what you want. What is your financial goal?

Step 2. Now, make a list of every opportunity that comes to mind that could help you meet your need or want. No matter how far-fetched or unappealing the idea may seem, write it down. (We’ll record and evaluate your objections in steps 3 and 4.)

If you haven’t censored your ideas, you should have opportunities on your list that scare you—that threaten your subconscious’ aim to keep you safe by preserving the status quo.

You also probably have some ideas on your list that would not be advantageous. Your subconscious may have you thinking it’s the perfect solution, but it would actually make your situation worse.

For example, during difficult financial times, people sometimes go back to school for a degree that puts them deeper into debt but doesn’t help them get work when they graduate. Going back to school is not always disadvantageous, but people sometimes do it because they’re afraid to push themselves in their business to make sales or get creative in how they market or become more visible. The trouble is they’ve only put off their problem. Their fear is going to be waiting for them in two or four years when their financial hole is even deeper because of the student loan debt.

To help you choose wisely among your opportunities, go on to step 3.

Step 3. Every opportunity has at least one challenge associated with it—something that makes you think the opportunity would be difficult or impossible to pull off.

The most common challenges are: not enough money or time, issues with a loved one or prior commitments. There may be a particular seminar you want to go to, but you have something else scheduled at that time or you think you don’t have the money or your spouse is already upset that you’re traveling so much.

The opportunity may also require you to face your fear of rejection or embarrassment. You may have to take an unpopular stand or even move to another location.

What challenge(s) come up for you as you consider each opportunity on your list? Beside each item, write them down.

In the next step, we will shine the light of reason on those challenges, so that you can begin to see them as simply more opportunities to take you where you want to go.

PS: The Neagle Code: Directions for Life is a weekly no-cost
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I told you last time that the opportunity to get what you need or want is around you, but it’s likely hiding in plain sight.

Opportunities come to help you grow, so yours will surely require you to face a fear that’s holding you back. For example, years ago, the opportunity to triple my income in a year required me to leave the relative security of my job on the loading dock and face a subconscious fear of fire by a fuel truck.

In fact, the more threatening your subconscious finds an opportunity, the more hidden it may be. To you, it might not even exist.

Sometimes you are aware of the opportunity that could take you light-years from where you are, but you talk yourself out of it. You tell yourself you can’t afford it, so-and-so will be upset or it’s not the right time.

The Boat that Launched My Business

For example, a year or so after I left the loading dock, I was making good money. I had made other leaps and bounds in my life, and I was curious how I had done it. I wanted to understand the mechanism so that I could keep it going.

I was really drawn to go a Tony Robbins event in another state that cost $3,500. I remember thinking, I have to go to this. But I didn’t have the cash.

One morning, I was standing in my kitchen with a cup of coffee in my hand, looking out the window and thinking about the event. My gaze fell upon my boat in the driveway, which I had just paid off that week. I thought, If I sold my boat, I’d have the money.

That boat was really important to me. I grew up hunting and fishing and around the water, and it was the first really nice thing that I had bought for myself. It seemed crazy to turn around and sell it.

But then I realized that if I could figure out what I was doing to be successful and consciously control it, I could have as many boats as I wanted.

That clinched it. I sold the boat, went to the seminar, bought myself a computer, and began the process to become the multimillionaire business owner I am today.

EXERCISE:

Unmask YOUR Opportunity

The opportunity to have what you need or want is around you as well. And no matter how hidden it may seem, on some level you already know what it is, so here is a simple exercise to bring it to consciousness.

1. At the top of a piece of paper, write down your “need,” the amount to the penny of your monthly bills. Remember, in order to get what you want, you first have to master your need. If you are meeting your need every month, write down what you want. What is your financial goal?

2. Below that, make a list of the opportunities that exist in your life right now to meet your need or want. No matter how far-fetched, list everything that comes to mind.

Some of them won’t appeal to you, but that may only reflect a skewed perception. Don’t censor your ideas. Just let them flow from the Universe to you.

Your next step is to determine which of the opportunities can deliver your goal. I’ll show you how to do that next time.

PS: The Neagle Code: Directions for Life is a weekly no-cost
program that is open to everyone! Each week, I'll select and personally respond to one question received via the above “The Neagle Code” page that I feel in my heart will help the most people. (You may choose to remain anonymous if you wish, with our full support.) It is my deep, heartfelt intention that ~ in answering your questions ~ I may provide you with the Universal Truths that in committed application, will set you free. Simply submit YOUR burning question at: www.DavidNeagle.com/ask-david to participate.

PS: The Neagle Code: Directions for Life is a weekly no-cost
program that is open to everyone! Each week, I'll select and personally respond to one question received via the above “The Neagle Code” page that I feel in my heart will help the most people. (You may choose to remain anonymous if you wish, with our full support.) It is my deep, heartfelt intention that ~ in answering your questions ~ I may provide you with the Universal Truths that in committed application, will set you free. Simply submit YOUR burning question at: www.DavidNeagle.com/ask-david to participate.

The opportunity to get what you want and need is around you right now. The Law of Polarity states that if you have a need, the way to fulfill that need must also be present.

The problem is, opportunity doesn’t actually knock. It hides…in plain sight.

Opportunity doesn’t want to hide. It’s there to give you what you need, but you can’t see it because your subconscious mind doesn’t want you to.

Your Subconscious Mind Controls Your Perception

Your subconscious is designed to keep you safe by keeping you where you are and preserving the beliefs you were programmed with. It does this by projecting a reality that is in harmony with those beliefs—a “reality” that also controls your perception and interpretation of outside events.

If an opportunity around you threatens those beliefs, your subconscious will prevent you from seeing it at all or will convince you that it’s harmful.

The Opportunity I Didn’t See

I experienced this myself. For two years, I had an opportunity in my life that would lead to tripling my income in less than a year, but I didn’t see it.

This particular opportunity not only challenged the negative beliefs around money that I’d been programmed with, but it also required me to face a very deep fear.

For two years, every week, part of my job on the loading dock had me talking to the driver of a fuel truck. When I reflected on his job, I thought, “Why would anyone want to drive a ‘bomb on wheels’?”

I saw it that way because a tragic fire when I was very young killed my uncle and two cousins, and my whole family was afraid of fire. My mother wouldn’t even allow candles in the house.

That fear controlled and limited my life in ways I didn’t even realize. In order to begin to have the life I wanted, I had to vanquish it.

Fortunately, my motivation to leave the unsafe situation my family was in, living next door to a drug dealer, was strong enough that when the driver told me about a job opening, I didn’t dismiss it, as I had in the past. In fact, I challenged him, making him bring in a pay stub because I didn’t believe he made as much as he did.

Long story short, I took the job, and in less than a year went from $20,000 to $60,000. Not long after that, another opportunity led me to what I’m doing today.

Action not Therapy

The bottom line is if you don’t have what you need or want, some fear and/or belief is holding you back.

Now, don’t run to therapy and try to figure out what that is. Instead, look around for the opportunity that will have you face that fear, build a new belief system, and give you what you want in life.

In order to do that, however, you have to be able to see the opportunity that your subconscious is hiding from you.

How do you see what you can’t see? I’ll walk you through that next time.

PS: The Neagle Code: Directions for Life is a weekly no-cost
program that is open to everyone! Each week, I'll select and personally respond to one question received via the above “The Neagle Code” page that I feel in my heart will help the most people. (You may choose to remain anonymous if you wish, with our full support.) It is my deep, heartfelt intention that ~ in answering your questions ~ I may provide you with the Universal Truths that in committed application, will set you free. Simply submit YOUR burning question at: www.DavidNeagle.com/ask-david to participate.