Tag: success

This week's question from my portal “The Neagle Code: Directions for Life” comes from an individual who wishes to remain anonymous.

Question:

What do you suggest for those who have yet to make any money at all from their business?

Answer:

This is a question that has popped up often in the past, but I think it’s extremely important for EVERYONE, no matter how much they’ve made in their business. It’s one of THE keys to business success.

You’ve probably heard me talk about the importance of knowing where you are, right? Well, in this case if you’re going to set goals for yourself, it’s important that you get very honest with yourself about where you are right now in your business and your life.

Once you’ve done that, set your first goal. It could be a financial goal, “I’m going to make $1,000.00 this month.”, or it could be a benchmark goal, “I’m going to gain one new client this week.” It really doesn’t matter, as long as you can see yourself attaining the goal.

You must be able to get behind it emotionally for you to truly to EXPECT your DESIRE to manifest. (Remember manifestation is a two part process: desire and expectation.)

After you’ve set your goal, you MUST TAKE ACTION. This is the place that trips up most people. I have many students that tell me they know what they should do, but they just can’t make themselves do it. This place is what I call your blind spot. You know you should be doing something, and yet, you catch yourself on Facebook instead of making sales calls.

Once you’ve taken action, you ADAPT to what happens because of that action, and you remain open to new opportunities.

The cycle then repeats beginning with you setting a new goal, “I’m going to make $2,000.00 this month.”, and pretty soon and in a very short time, you’ve created a successful business.

The time it takes you to build that business depends on how quickly you move through the steps, and how long you allow yourself to flounder around before getting help if you need it.

The great thing about this cycle is that it pertains to new business owners who haven’t made a cent in their business, and it also rings true for entrepreneurs who are already at the 5 or 6 figure mark. It’s the same for everyone. And it’s what I use to help my students achieve their dreams both financially and personally.

So, I guess the question would be; why aren’t you making any money in your business?

Abundance is all around you.

Come on, get going…

People are waiting for you to shine your brilliant light, so what are you resisting?

“Just Believe”,^®

P.S: 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.TheNeagleCode.com to participate.

P.P.S.: May I ask you to help me spread the word about this program? Is there someone you care for who is stuck, or struggling, or lost, or unhappy? Because if so, I would very much like to help. No matter their question, no matter their predicament, no matter if they’ve never heard of me before … if they would like to ask for help via www.TheNeagleCode.com, my Team and I will do our very best to provide that help.

For a while, I’ve been challenging you to make a quantum leap in your business. Now, many of you have leapt, and you're experiencing the success you’ve always longed for.

But others are trapped in a mindset imprisoned by doubt and skepticism. The idea of jumping from your present level of achievement to one that is several stages higher in one bold stroke is hard to imagine.

It’s understandable if you’re having trouble; you haven’t been trained to think in those terms. An exponential leap, particularly one that takes less effort and happens much faster, is an alien idea.

And, yet, it is possible.

Think about this: experts generally agree that people typically use only about 10% of their true potential. If we accept that argument, and even if there were no other resources outside of yourself, you still could do 10 times better than you’ve been doing.

So how do you break out of your self-imposed jail?

You surrender.

You give up some of your old beliefs and sacrifice some of those thinking patterns you've considered “sensible.”

Practice Uncommon Sense
As Price Pritchett states in You2, you practice uncommon sense. Common sense puts a ceiling upon how high you can reach. It keeps you thinking small. Uncommon sense allows you to become extraordinary.

The first step to uncommon sense is to suspend disbelief.

You don’t have to be convinced, yet, that you can make a quantum leap, but don’t keep believing those old ideas about your personal limit.

Hold off for a while on believing anything. Just act as though you have complete faith. Do what you would do if you just knew you were going to succeed.

Don’t give doubt any mental space, because doubt and worry will shackle your mind if you let them. After that, fear sets in and you'll be stopped dead in your tracks.

If you must be skeptical, challenge the thoughts and beliefs that argue against your quantum leap. Put those old, inhibiting ideas to the test by going for what you want with every ounce of focus and determination that you have.

Trick Your Doubt
If you still find that doubt is gripping you, try this little mental trick: instead of holding back because you don’t have proof that you can make a quantum leap, look for evidence proving that you can’t succeed. This is a little mind bending, but stay with me because the maneuver causes you to start doubting your doubts.

So, tell yourself, okay, I’m going to leap and prove that I can’t achieve my dream. And then leap. In that moment, you just knocked the legs out from under doubt. The effect is similar to the release you feel when you go toward what you fear. Now, free of doubt’s inhibition, just act as though your success is guaranteed.

What Happens after Doubt’s Demise?
After you leap, what happens next? Legendary field commander General Patton put it best in a journal entry to his wife during World War II. He wrote, “I believe that one’s spirit enlarges with responsibility…. When this job is done, I presume I will be pointed to the next step in the ladder of destiny. If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.”

You envision a big future for yourself. Perhaps that vision includes a big task like Patton had. You may want to establish a school or a foundation or a new business, and you may be afraid that you can’t handle it. But what Patton said is true. You don’t have to worry about whether you can handle it because, with every new responsibility that is placed upon you, your spirit will grow to match it. Your capacity will enlarge. Your abilities improve.

That is what following your divine purpose is all about. It’s about stepping out and allowing yourself to grow within the sphere of what you’re doing.

It’s about becoming the person you are meant to be, one giant leap at a time.

Of the 17 Laws of Success that Napoleon Hill wrote about, the number one law most people overlook is “Accurate Thinking.”  The major reason for this becomes apparent when you begin to study human behavior.  “Accurate Thinking”  can only be accomplished if one is to learn to think accurately.  Not only are most individuals never taught how to do this, their egos actually resist having to make this personal change.  The average adult has a very difficult time accepting the idea that they don't think accurately.  Interestingly enough, the more education and success they have managed for themselves the more ego that is usually built up and the more they resist these ideas.

I have witnessed many people who have paid for an expensive education (attaining various levels of success) meet terrible trouble once they are on their own in an entrepreneurial venture.  The reasons for this are often explained by the entrepreneur pointing out what “circumstance” brought down his/her business.

With the EGO in control they hold tightly to their story and continue their downward spiral until they either change or become so frustrated and overwhelmed they quit.  What's fascinating is another person can experience the same OR WORSE set of circumstances and not only does is not bring down their business, but it's used as a launching pad for even greater success.

When you break from the bondage of an employer and decide to follow your own path, you must understand that your success depends on a completely different set of rules than you played by before.  The new path that you are on is filled with new decisions and the way you make these new decisions must come from this new form of “Accurate Thinking.”  Prior to this, your decision making process was almost entirely based on weighing facts and circumstances ONLY and then making seemingly logical decisions based on prior knowledge.  This knowledge came from the rules you had previously been told as truths for your life.

One of the most troublesome decisions a person must make is when money is involved.  Usually it is the lack of money that is the problem.  It looks something like this:

The lack (or limit) of money a person has in their possession is a hard fact to them.  Yet they are attempting to follow their dream and whenever a person does this they are met with various opportunities that are essential to the fulfillment of the dream.  What is not understood is each opportunity requires the person to step into an uncomfortable place and overcome whatever challenge keeps pressing their situation.  In all cases, you are presented with the same challenge, though it may appear to come in different forms. If you look closely you will see the core of the problem is the same.

When the problem is money and it controls your decisions, you are not following the spirit within you, rather you are following a limited situation BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME THE SITUATION.  This requires a new kind of thinking –  “Accurate Thinking.”  To acquire “Accurate Thinking,” you must learn not only the concepts behind it, but you must experience it and integrate it into who you are as a person.  Now ask yourself this very important question.  When opportunity to advance  comes your way what is the underlying cause of your decision to either do it or not do it?  The universe will give you whatever you ask for but if you ask from a place of lack you will never get what you want or need.  The success you want is real, the wealth you desire is really here for you and everything you need to help bridge the gap between where you are right now and where you want to go is being presented to you everyday.  If you are thinking accurately you will see it.

Recently, I saw Larry King interview Donald Trump.  On the show, Donald shared how he makes it a point to speak at the Learning Annex whenever he can.  In speaking with the promoter of the Annex event, he said he realized all of the people in attendance were really pumped up about becoming successful in their lives and that he (Trump) didn't believe that many of them could be successful.  Larry King asked him if people were capable of learning how to be successful and Donald's reply was a little shocking.  He said that while you can teach some people how to get better at whatever they are working to achieve, most success was genetic. In other words, if you weren't born with successful genes then you would never really achieve success.

Now I have great respect for Trump, but he is missing an immense piece of our
human potential.  All people are born with the ability to win – they actually have
to learn how to lose!  Failure is a learned behavior and can change in ANYONE
who wants to change it.

Even the lack of wealth in a person's life is a learned behavior, and so
much of it is backed with negative beliefs.  People keep seeing their world the same way, seeing their business the same way and seeing their income the same way.  Maybe Trump was never around someone who worked hard at changing those beliefs and later achieved massive success.  Or maybe he has and he believes it's still in their “success genes.”

I do know this though – I have worked with people from all over the
world and with some guidance, coaching, and willingness to look deep into what
is controlling their thoughts and behavior they can change their income and
their success.

So here's your Income Acceleration Tip:

Don't let an ignorant belief or another person control what you do or what you earn.  Come to the realization that if you have the desire, you have the ability – you just need to bring it to the surface and do something with it.

The first step in earning large incomes is to simply believe that it's possible for you.  Once you start to entertain that idea it will lead to the next one and the next one.  Believe it or not – it is the ONLY road to success there is, and while people may have been born at different
places on that road we are all still on it.  Yes even you!

Many people come knocking at its door but few ever enter.  The land of success does exist but it's a funny thing trying to enter it.  I tried for many years, but nothing happened.

It's as if the pull or the draw to the door of success is very seductive.  It lures you, coaxes and tempts you towards it.  It says, “Come and enter this new land that is waiting for YOU!  Just turn the knob and step in.”  It would be so easy, but as we get close to the door, uncertainty of what is really on the other side creeps in like a lurking shadow from a dark alley around your mind.  It takes on an imaginary perception.

There are rules for success (otherwise known as laws), and many who have entered this Secret Land have told others about the laws.  Without fail, many who desire to enter and hear the laws are not willing to follow them.  They often want to change those laws to fit their own uncertainties and twisted ideals of what success should require.

FACT: Success does not care what you think of its laws, & it is not going to change them any time soon.

You must be willing to embrace the laws or remain on the outside of this Secret Land called SUCCESS.

One of the first Truths of Success is that you must let go of the THINGS that you cling to the most.  We must release the things we find security in, such as money, time, poor relationships and false jobs.  Each person has a vast amount of success inside, something they could be sharing with the world that would give them great satisfaction.  Something that would enrich the lives of other human beings.  Each person includes YOU!

If you understand at all you have to admit that something is pulling at your heart.  There is something inside you that wants to come out – if only you would just let go!

Of course there are the many trappings of adult life that you have created that seem like real boundaries to your success.  These include the responsibilities you have created for yourself out of your own ignorance, however they are nothing but illusions that begin to disappear once you make a committed decision to move forward on your dream.

Actually the Land of Success and most of what it requires to enter it was with you at birth.

Real Secret: Most of what you have been taught about the world is nothing but lies and fables designed to control you (which up until now has worked pretty well).

There is a reason you are reading this…

There's a very good reason it has come into your life at this time.  The question remains, “Do you grasp the reason why?   What have you put on hold?  What haven't you explored?  What is deep in your heart?  Who do you really love?   Do you acknowledge these things in your life?”  You should because this thing called life is not a practice run.  You are in the real game.  You step forward and really play.  The door is in front of you – come on in, we're waiting!

Since I was a child, I have heard that when an ostrich is afraid, he buries his head in the sand to hide from the danger threatening him.  I have asked several people who know something about ostriches, and I am convinced that ostriches do not do this.  Someone has maligned the poor bird by assigning him a trait of certain human beings – but not ostriches.  When an ostrich is frightened, he either fights or runs.

However, think how the characteristic of trying to hide from our fears manifests itself in some people.  In the movies, when person is terribly frightened, they usually scream and cover their eyes with their hand so they can't see the horror or danger by which they are threatened.  When a person is operated on, he closes his eyes so he cannot see himself get hurt.  When we see a terrible accident, we turn our faces away so we can't see it.  We close our eyes to most unpleasant sights.  When we smell something unpleasant, we hold our noses. When we hear something unpleasant, we put our fingers in our ears. When we think something unpleasant, we take a does of sleeping pills or tranquilizers.

This trait of hiding from disagreeable facts is especially manifest when someone is trying to make suggestions to help us.  It is paradox that the recipients of advice should feel no annoyance when they ought to feel it and yet feel so much when they ought not to.  They are usually not vexed at all for having committed the fault, but very angry at being reproved for it.  On the contrary, they ought to feel grieved at the crime and glad for the correction.

One of the things that often holds us back in our success is the deliberate attempt we make to hide from the facts when the facts are unpleasant. Advice is seldom valued, though there is a great deal of advising and very little listening.  Usually we do not want advice – we want flattery.  And yet one cannot easily be our flatterer and our friend at the same time.  Some people actually owe more to bitter enemies than to pleasant friends.  The former sometimes speak the truth; the latter seldom do.  An enemy is often a friend in disguise who stings us into action.  He tells us the truth about ourselves.  Cato asserted that wise men profit more from fools than fools do from wise men, for some wise men try to avoid the faults of fools, but fools seldom try to imitate the good examples of wise men.

No criminal ever calls himself a criminal.  Jesse James thought himself a benefactor to society.  Napoleon said, “I believe I will be without parallel in history, that a plain man shall have attained to such amazing power without committing a single crime.”  All this, of course, is self-deception. It is a crime to deceive other people, and it is a calamity to deceive ourselves, especially when we pass the point of no return.

If you REALLY wish to improve yourself, you need someone on the sidelines to coach you and to observe your mistakes and warn you against repetition. Without someone to tell you the truth about your annoying mannerisms and bad habits and inexcusable mistakes, you may fall into the pit of self-delusion where disaster lurks.

Criticism is the hardest medicine to take, but it keeps us awake, while the kindness of a courteous friend is an opiate that puts us to sleep. Everyone ought to have a person who can cut into the tissues of his attitudes and habits occasionally, not to kill him but to bring him back to life.  It's easy to see faults from the sidelines, but everyone has a blind spot where he himself is concerned.  If we are so fortunate as to have someone who will occasionally give us the facts about our problems, we shouldn't get angry at them.  We should listen and keep our heads out of the sand and our eyes and ears open.

We should never deceive our friends, but even more important, we should not deceive ourselves.

Whether you learn from such legendary marketing and business experts such as Dan Kennedy or the more modern solo-preneurs, all of them agree with the idea that your business, income and wealth all begin with a certain mindset.  Over the years I have never heard a better explanation than the one Raymond Holliwell gave in his book, Working with the Law.

Holliwell pointed out:

“If you are not succeeding, if you lack any good thing, look more closely to the cause.  It is not outside; it is somewhere within.”

Notice where you fail to use the Law correctly to think rightly.  There are 3 points in everyday life where one may fall into a snare & delusion:

Do you expect something for nothing?

Does it make you feel good or please you when you get something without paying for it?  If so, you are violating the Law.  Your returns will always be unsatisfactory.  No matter where you go be willing to pay your own way.

Have you known some person who hangs back when you go out for an evening's entertainment? They stand back and let the other fellow pay for the show.  People like that lose hundreds of dollars when they try to save themselves a few bucks.  The quality of thought they entertain REPELS many dollars they could attract. If you knowingly cheat another one of a dollar, it may cost you many dollars for the mistake.

Do you hunt for things that are called cheap?

Are  you are bargain hunter?  Cheap thoughts can only bring cheap returns.  Those who wait for bargain days will always have to take bargains, but remember – there are no bargains in life. If you have gained monetarily, you may have lost in other ways.

You place yourself in a vibration that lowers your present state.  It forces you below your proper level. It limits your thought to a state where you support underselling, cutting, bankruptcy and dishonesty on the part of the seller. He must deceive, cheat or lie about the price of the bargain (or some other article), because he is in business to make a fair profit. You become a party to the violation and come under its penalty.

Do you begrudge spending money?

Do you hate to pay your bills?  Release your money cheerfully, even if it be that last dollar you have.  Decide what your need is & if it is of greater value than the dollar in your hand, then spend the dollar cheerfully.  In this way, you comply with a law.

Oftentimes, we get to a low level and we begin to tighten our purse strings.

We begin to hold back.  This is like closing the faucet! It limits the supply from pouring in to you. The Law inevitably produces its own exactness as a rule of action. It's a Divine Law and tolerates no violation.

I recently found myself in a conversation with an individual who asked me why I don't cut my own grass.  He said,

“David, it must cost you a fortune to have your lawn cut. I would never waste money paying someone else to do something I can do myself.”

I asked him if he was on a fixed income, and he replied that he was.  I then asked him,

“How much do you think you could earn if you took all the time you spent on house chores and invested the time in learning how to better yourself and build a business that would earn you money each and every month – whether you worked or not?”

He was silent for a while and then said, “I don't know.  Is it REALLY possible?”  I looked at him and said, “Not only it is possible, but I can show you how to do it.”

The first words out of his mouth after that were, “What is it going to cost me?”

I replied, “A fortune!”  He told me that he suspected it to be pricey, but then I explained how he was filling his entire life with busy work that was costing him the ability to earn his fortune.

Hire others so you can have greater focus on creating the life you want.  Here are some suggestions of the things you should NOT be doing:

Cutting Grass
Doing laundry
Cleaning your house
Washing your car
Grooming your pets
Cooking your meals
Managing your bills
Fixing things around your home and office.
The list goes on and on….

Keep in mind as your income grows, you are creating more jobs for people who really do need them. That's a good thing.  As you grow, you help others do the same thing.  Hiring others to help you succeed adds to the world!

In your business start with VA's (virtual assistants) to help you with all of the weakest (or most problematic) areas of your life.  Save your time and allow yourself to focus on what you do best. Then you can watch your income grow!

What is the real trade you make for the work you do?  It's pretty obvious we are trading our time and our talents in exchange for money when we are employed by a company.

But do we ever consider the real trade being made? You might be be saying to yourself, “What else am I trading?” Do you realize every second of every day you spend working is time gone forever? You never get that time back – you have traded the only life you have for it.

Now I realize most of the world has bought in to the idea we need to work and I agree.  It is necessary for people to earn money to maintain the standard of living of their choice.  But do you realize how many people are working just for the money?  In many cases, they don't like what they do and they don't particularly like the people they work with either.

Ask yourself this important question: “If it was not for the money, would I continue to do what I am doing? If your answer is “YES!” then you probably love your work.  But if your answer is “NO” then  you should start to give some serious consideration to what you would love to do.

I believe that our personal work should always bring us great satisfaction.  If you love your work you give the best of yourself and it shows.  You can create a worth while product or service that will truly benefit humanity.  Have you ever noticed how all of the talents human beings possess benefit others?

If you love your work every day becomes an absolute joy.  It's true – you will still have some problems and challenges.  Those are good because those challenges cause us to grow.  Without challenges everything would pretty much stay the same and the world would be a very boring place to live.

Take some time to explore the idea of what you would love to do.  Don't spend one second thinking of why you can't do it – just let yourself begin to dream again.  I believe every person has something special deep inside that they would love to do with their life, and they were either never taught to explore that side of their soul or somebody squashed it in the past.  Maybe the fear of failure has stopped you from pursuing your dream? Maybe the fear of what others would think about your dream has stopped you?  Realize this – you are an incredible person and the very fact that you can dream of doing something is verification you can do it.

You would not be able to conceive of an idea if it were not possible – this is the great secret of success!

You might think to yourself, “How can you say that?  You don't even know me?” You're right – I don't know you, but I know what created you, and you were given UNLIMITED potential.  Because you have such awesome potential, wouldn't it seem a bit more logical the world you choose should be worthy of you?  I think it should.

Many people have had past experiences that have created emotional blocks, which makes it difficult for a person to dream or succeed.  These blocks can be removed so you can achieve greater and greater success.  Your life can (and should be) the wonderful masterpiece it was created to be, however you must believe it can be that way.

Make sure everything you do is worthy of YOU!!

Everywhere I go people ask me questions about whether or not it is right for them to ask for more.

“David, is to okay for me to want to be more, do more and have more?”

They also think on some level if things don't work out and what is wanted is not achieved, then there must be some force in the Universe working against them, or the timing is not right for what they want.

I would like to add a bit of perspective from my own experience and the ideas of Raymond Holliwell, author of The Laws of Success.

One of the most difficult concepts for people to grasp is the power that lies within themselves to create.

I recently returned from my ERS seminar in Vegas where I taught people how to literally manifest money.  Each person started with nothing, and by following very specific laws they learned how to create money right in their very hands.

People typically have a difficult time understanding how serious I am about their ability to manifest money, but the outcome is phenomenal. Most attendees become very emotional about what they have learned to do, and they realize their lives have just changed forever.

Holliwell put it this way:

“The principle explains that no desire is felt until the supply is ready to appear.  No mind can be conscious of a need or a desire unless the possibility of its fulfillment exists.”

Do you know how powerful that makes you?

You cannot ask too much of the Law, for it is unlimited and the supply is inexhaustible.

You can get only what you can conceive – what you can understand.  You can only get the equivalent to what you give.

It is critical you study and learn from the right people.  All of your success will come in the form of an opportunity, and you must give something in exchange for each opportunity.  If you step back in fear you lose.  That is the law.

Remember…you have attracted everything and everyone into your life for a purpose, which is to move you into being what you want to be.