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Over the past several months, I’ve shown you the steps for manifesting cash in your life. In this final article of the series, I’m giving you all of the main steps again to get you started on creating financial freedom.

As I’ve said, financial freedom is not about how much money you have. It’s an awareness of being able to create any amount of money you need, whenever you need it.

Here are those 10 crucial steps:

1. Change Your Evaluation of Money
Many people see money as a necessary evil, when the truth is, money is an idea from the Universe that has allowed us to create amazing things. We’re not supposed to worship money but neither are we supposed to vilify it. We’re supposed to master it as a tool for pursuing our dreams and fulfilling our purpose.

2. Recognize that Money Is an Effect and You Are the Cause
Money follows the Law of Cause and Effect, which states that every cause has an effect, and every effect has a cause.

Money (or the lack of it) in your life is an effect that you cause to happen. It’s a direct result of what you’re doing or not doing.

Change what you’re doing, and you will get a different effect.

3. Embrace The Law of Polarity
The Law of Polarity states that if you have a need or a desire, the opportunity to fulfill that need or desire exists in your life as well. If you embrace that truth, really embrace it, you’ll keep looking until you find the opportunity.

4. Identify Your Need
Your “need” is simply the amount to the penny of your monthly bills. So pull out your checkbook or accounting software and do the calculation. If you’re already meeting your need every month, what do you want? What is your financial goal?

5. Identify Why You Need It
Why do you have those particular bills?

You need what you need for a reason. You created the circumstances in your life that you need that money for.

Chances are that situation is a repeating story in your life. Once you’re aware of the story you can take responsibility for it and, in the process, empower yourself to change.

6. Adjust Your Set Point
Most of us have a set point, an internal sense determined by our subconscious of how much money we’re “supposed” to have. If we’re thrust into sudden wealth, such as by winning the lottery, our subconscious kicks up a fuss to bring us back, like a thermostat, to where we’re “supposed” to be.

To adjust your set point, begin to reject any ideas that reinforce lack and also nurture your faith in abundance.

Two simple ways to do that is to stop using coupons and waiting for sales. If you want something now, and you have the money for it now, buy it.

7. What Is Your “Why”?
In order to keep moving forward despite difficulties or fear, you must have a compelling reason, a “why” that motivates and drives you.

Why do you want more money? What is your compelling reason for upleveling your life?

8. Become Aware of the Opportunity to Get What You Need.
The opportuntity to get what you need and want is around you right now. The problem is, the opportunity may be disguised as something unappealing, something you don’t want to do.

Below is an exercise to unmask your opportunity so that you can see its potential for you.

Step 1.
Brainstorm. Make a list of every opportunity that comes to mind that could help you meet your need or want. Don’t censor, write everything down.

Step 2.
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.

Write down the challenges that arise as you think about each opportunity.

Step 3.
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 past it.

So for each of the challenges you listed in Step 2, write down the opportunity for growth that it holds for you.

9. Choose the “Right” Opportunity for You
You now have a list of unmasked opportunities. One or two of those opportunities will take you closer to your goal, while others will not. As you may have seen when you did Step 3 above, your subconscious can make opportunities seem fortunate when they’re not or unfortunate when they’re the perfect one for you.

To be sure you choose the right opportunity, run each of them through The 4 Questions.

Question 1. Is this opportunity something I want to be, do or have?
If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 2.

If you answered no, move on to your next opportunity. However, to make sure that you’re still seeing the true nature of your opportunity, look at your list of disguised opportunities in the challenges you associated with this opportunity in Step 3 above. Is one or more of those disguised opportunities something you want do, be or have? If you answered no to the opportunity, but yes to the disguised opportunity, move on to Question 2.

For instance, I had an opportunity years ago to leave the loading dock to drive a fuel truck. If I had answered Question 1, I likely would have said, “Hell no, I don’t want to drive a bomb on wheels!” However, when I acknowledged the disguised opportunity to overcome my subconscious fear of fire while doubling my income, I would have said “yes,” and moved on to Question 2.

Question 2. Will the opportunity take me closer to my goal?
If your need is $6K a month and your opportunity is a full-time job for $25/hr., it will not help you meet your goal. Instead, it will further ensnare you where you are.

If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 3.

Question 3. Is the opportunity in harmony with the laws of the universe, the primary law of more life?
“More life” means more freedom, abundance, prosperity, etc. Would the opportunity bring you more life? If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 4.

Question 4. Would this opportunity violate the rights of others?
Would it take away someone else’s choice? You’re looking for the answer “no” to Question 4.

If you get three yeses and a no, the opportunity will move you in the right direction and you can feel confident about taking it.

10. Take Action on the Opportunity.
Once you’ve determined the right opportunity for you, step into it completely, expecting success, and see it all the way through to its conclusion.

That’s it. It really is that simple. When you follow the path that I’ve laid out, doing the inner and outer work, pursuing your opportunity all the way, keeping your “why” before you, you will collect the money you need or want.

It will be there.

And you will experience that sweet taste of financial freedom at last.

In my most recent article, I shared the first of two favorite tactics of the subconscious mind to keep you where you are.

That first tactic is our tendency to look for the magic pill, the easy solution, rather than choosing the option that requires us to change and which, therefore, leads to success.

The second tactic is what I call the rabbit hole of the subconscious mind.

The Rabbit Hole
Often when people get stuck and feel they can’t move forward, they think that a block stemming from a childhood trauma of some kind is holding them back. So they start focusing on what that could be, thinking if they could just remember or figure it out, they’d be able to release the block and start moving again.

The trouble is they’ve just fallen into a trap ~ the rabbit hole of the subconscious mind. They could stay on a therapist’s couch for 20 years, looking for memories, talking about change but not making any, and, therefore, unlikely to make the real growth that leads to the big wins.

It’s Your Excuse
The thing that’s holding you back is your excuse: what you say to yourself in the moment about why you can’t do something that would take you where you want to go.

For instance, when you say, “I can’t go to the event because I don’t have the money or I don’t have the time,” that is in your imagination. You do have the money. The Law of Polarity says that’s true. If you have a desire, the way to fulfill that desire is also around you. And you have 24 hours in every day just like everybody else. You get to decide what to do with it.

Your Excuse Is Perfect for You
But you don’t see it that way, because your subconscious mind knows the perfect way to stop you. The excuse you come up with is totally logical, makes sense emotionally and is tailor made just for you. It’s so perfect, you can’t see any way around it.

And if you don’t bring in some other knowledge or perspective, you never will get around it. It’s another trap. And you will remain stuck.

How to Get Unstuck
You need people in your life, like a coach, to call you on the excuses you use to hinder your growth. You need to become aware of what you say to yourself so that you can stop believing it, and then employ helpful ways to make decisions.

For instance, if you’re considering whether to go to an event or take a class or start a project, ask yourself The 4 Questions I shared with you recently. If you get a green light, your answer is yes. Take advantage of the opportunity.

Stop making excuses and, instead, make the changes you need to make, and along the way you will grow. You will see your path lighted a step at a time before you, leading you toward your goal.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve given you all the steps you need to achieve your goal. (If you missed any of those steps, you can find them here.)

If success were only about taking the steps, we’d be done with this series, and you would be near your goal. I know that some of you are well on your way, and that’s great. The rest? Your subconscious is likely at work, keeping you where you are.

In the next couple of articles, I’m going to show you two of the subconscious’s favorite tactics. This first one you’ve likely been experiencing all your life.

The Magic Pill
In order to get what we’ve never had before, we have to change. Those changes may be in our self-perception, money attitudes, beliefs, actions and so on.

The trouble is our subconscious mind doesn’t want us to change, and we don’t really want to change either. Change requires uncertainty, vulnerability and discomfort.

So when we want something more from our lives, we tend to look for the magic pill, the magic formula, the magic system that will give it to us without our having to break a sweat.

How many programs are sitting on your shelf or in your computer unutilized? How much money have you spent chasing the next great thing?

Now, don’t get me wrong. There are absolutely phenomenal programs out there that could take your business to places you could only imagine. But those programs won’t work for you until you grow into them. It’s that plain and simple. They won’t.

What happens is, we buy one of those programs and the second we understand that we have to make a change, we stop. We put it away and say, “It didn’t work. It wasn’t the right thing for me. I’m looking for something different.”

We perpetually get on the train of looking for something different, never understanding that the external change we want actually has to come from within.

Get Off the Train
Your money, your goal is waiting for you behind that change you don’t want to make, that growth your subconscious doesn’t want you to have.

But you have the power to choose. And you can exercise that power.

Get off the train and recommit to the opportunity you identified during this series. Pursue it all the way to its conclusion, making the changes that are required and growing into your goal as you go.

If you do that, you will collect your money. The Law of Polarity says it is so.

But more importantly, you will grow. You will become the person who has that thing you want. So rather than just having a million dollars, you will be a millionaire. You won’t just have a brand-new business, you will be a business owner.

That change in you is what you really want. Don’t avoid it. Don’t run away from it.

Embrace it. Let it guide you to become the person you know in your heart you are meant to be.

So far in this series, we have taken these three steps:

Step 1. Identify your “need,” the amount to the penny of your monthly bills.
Your need is a snapshot of where you are. In order to get where you want to go, you have to start where you are. If you’re already meeting your need every month, identify what you want, your financial goal.

Step 2. Determine why you need it.
You created the situation or circumstances in your life that you need that money for. Taking responsibility for those situations can lead you to powerful life changes.

Step 3. Become aware of the right opportunity to get what you need or want.
Opportunities are all around you. One or two will lead you to your goal, but others will not. Over the past several weeks, I helped you determine the best opportunity for you. (If you missed any articles in this series, you can find them here.)

As I’ve said, the right opportunity + action = success. This leads us to Step 4, which is:

Step 4. Take action on the opportunity.

Once you’ve determined the right opportunity, step into it completely and see it all the way through to its conclusion.

You probably won’t know exactly how or under which circumstances the opportunity will bring you what you want, and this is where people falter. Before they step into the opportunity, they want to know what’s going to happen. What will be required of them? But it’s just not possible to know that.

In order to achieve something you’ve never had before, you have to grow, you have to face some challenges and you have to change. You couldn’t possibly know in advance what those changes will be. Trying to imagine and control those future changes will only hold you back because that creates doubt, fear, and anxiety. Before you know it, you’re not doing anything but sitting around thinking about what you know you should be doing.

You need to step into the opportunity, with faith, trusting the Law of Polarity, which states that the money you need is around you right now. You did the footwork, as I showed you to do, to find that perfect opportunity for you, so now you just have to trust the universe and yourself.

Expect Success

When you step into the opportunity, expect success.

Expecting success actually changes your actions. You’re willing to do much more than if you were harboring doubt. Therefore, your expectation of success actually helps to create it. For instance, if you expect your teleseminar to fill, you’ll keep working up to the very last minute. You won’t give up, saying, “I guess it wasn’t meant to be.”

Instead, you’ll say, “My teleseminar is filling. I know it is. I’m going to keep at it until it does.”

And guess what happens? You brim with ideas and actions, the universe starts to help you and your teleseminar fills because failure was never an option.

As I’ve said, people don’t fail, they quit.

When you step out in faith, expecting success, and pursue your opportunity all the way to its conclusion, you will collect the money you need.

It will be there. That’s the promise of the Law of Polarity. Like gravity it absolutely never fails.

Numerous opportunities are around us at any given moment. We’re drawn to a particular seminar or we want to start teaching; we’re offered a new job or we consider going back to school.

One or two of these opportunities will take us closer to our goal, but others will not be beneficial. Our subconscious can disguise our opportunities ~ making them seem fortunate when they’re not or making them seem unfortunate when they’re the perfect one for you.

Remember my story about driving the fuel truck? That opportunity years ago was around me for two years while I worked on the loading dock, but rather than seeing it as an opportunity, I used to say, “Why would anyone want to drive a bomb on wheels?”

And, yet, it was the right opportunity for me because, through it, I doubled my income while conquering the fear of fire that had been programmed in me at a very young age.

Seeing the true nature of your opportunities is crucial. That’s why, last time, I gave you an exercise to help you do just that. Today, I’m going to show you how to choose the right opportunity, the one that will take you to your goal.

You’ll need your answers to the last exercise, so here it is again:

Exercise:

Unmask Your Opportunities

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. 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. Each challenge you wrote down is another opportunity in disguise. It’s an opportunity for you to overcome that challenge and grow. Look at your list of challenges and imagine the opportunities they are presenting for you.

The Right Opportunity Is Key

The right opportunity + action = success. Every time, without fail. Since you may still have a few viable options on your list, to help you narrow the field to the best one, run each of your opportunities through the following four questions and only these four questions.

Question 1. Is this opportunity something I want to be, do or have?

If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 2.

If you answered no, move on to your next opportunity. However, to make sure that you’re seeing the true nature of your opportunity, look at your list of disguised opportunities in the challenges that you associated with this opportunity in Step 4 above. Is one or more of those disguised opportunities something you want do, be or have? If you answered no to the opportunity, but yes to the disguised opportunity, move on to Question 2.

For instance, if I answered this question with, “Hell no, I don’t want to drive a bomb on wheels,” I would then ask myself if I wanted to conquer my fear of fire while doubling my income. Of course, my answer would be yes, so I would move on to Question 2.

Question 2. Will the opportunity take me closer to my goal?

Be really honest. If your need is $5K a month and your opportunity is a full-time job for $20/hr., it will not help you meet your goal. Instead, it will further ensnare you where you are. If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 3.

Question 3. Is the opportunity in harmony with the laws of the universe, the primary law of more life?

“More life” means more freedom, abundance, prosperity, etc. Would the opportunity bring you more life? If your answer is “yes” move on to Question 4.

Question 4. Would this opportunity violate the rights of others?

Would it take away someone else’s choice? For example, if an opportunity would have you be secretive or deceptive with your spouse, you’re violating his or her right of choice because you’re making decisions that will affect your spouse, but not including him or her in the decision. You’re looking for the answer “no” to Question 4.

If you get three yeses and a no, the opportunity will move you in the right direction and you can feel confident about taking it.

After running each of your opportunities through the four questions, you may end up with one clear winner or you may find that a couple of them will actually work together to help you reach your goal.

In any case, your next step is to seize the opportunity and see it all the way through to its conclusion. I’ll talk to you about that next time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the last article, I asked you to identify why you have the particular bills that you do.

Today, I'm asking about a different why.

Why do you want to change? What is your motivation for up-leveling your life and business?

I ask you that because in order to keep moving forward despite any difficulties or fear, you must have a compelling reason.

You must become aware of a strong motivation within you to make a positive change, and then keep that “why” front and center.

Otherwise, if you don’t have that strong motivation, you might just give up on your dream.

My “Why”

Before I made my first breakthrough, I was living next door to a drug dealer. It was a very unsafe environment for my family, and I had to get us all out of there.

I had debt, bills, problems and pain, and I didn't want that to be my legacy to my family. I also was being exposed to success principles, and I didn't want to go to my grave without finding out if they were as powerful as they seemed.

Your Why?

What is your strong motivation to change?

Do you long to leave a worthy legacy for your children and others? Do you feel a calling you have to fulfill? Are you trying to get away from a toxic environment?

I know an author who worked 10 years on a book about an ancestor. Her “why” was, “If not me, then who?” If she didn't vindicate her ancestor, probably no one ever would.

The truth is, that statement is relevant for everyone. If you don't do what you're called to do, no one else will. Like Martha Graham said, if you block the life force that wants to come through you, it will never exist.

And if you don't connect with a deep motivation for expressing that life force, you may give up when the path becomes difficult or your subconscious creates chaos around you.

Don't let that happen. Look within and ask yourself: “Why do I want to better my life?”

Keep It Prominent

Once you know your “why,” think about it often.

Amplify it, extoll it, honor it in the ways that make sense to you. Make a video or audio recording where you talk about it in full, and then listen to it every week. Regularly engage in fantasy where you see your “why” play out. Make a visual representation of it, such as by putting up pictures in your office of your children or grandchildren.

Whatever you choose, keep your why front and center. That way, when you're experiencing difficulty or you have to do something challenging, it will pop immediately to mind.

For instance, early on when I encountered resistance to making sales calls, the ugly mug of my drug-dealer neighbor would appear in my mind's eye. You can bet, I immediately picked up that phone!

What could elicit the same response from you?

What is the “why” that will keep you barreling toward your goal?

Got it? Leave a comment below to share YOUR “why” with me. Perhaps together we’ll inspire others to do the same.