How do we coordinate all these contrary parts of self, contradicting beliefs, conflicting emotions and have some sense of being our true self? That is the age old quandary. A spiritual psychological approach with a lot of wisdom provides a five part process that I find very helpful. Psychosynthesis instead of Psychoanalysis. Bring together instead of separate into parts (although that is a helpful step in the beginning).

Recognition
Acceptance
Coordination
Integration
Synthesis

To truly be successful, we need to have all of our self on the same page. If the scared part of us is afraid to act, the cynical part of us completely assured that nothing ever works out, and the hopeful part of us thinking only positive thoughts, what do you think we radiate out to the universe? We are broadcasting very mixed signals, very conflicting feelings, and certainly opposite beliefs. Our vibration is confusing. What does the universe listen to when we are sending out such a mess of conflict?

Recognition of the conflict is the first step. Become aware that we have a small part inside, and a critical part inside, and an adult inside. Becoming conscious of the little “Family” of selves inside who have different thoughts, different beliefs, and different feelings is very helpful. Becoming conscious of our inner confusion is the first step because we are beginning to Recognize aspects of ourselves.

While not easy to do at first, Acceptance that we are a mixture of confusing signals is the next step. Beating up on ourselves is NOT the next step. Although if you have a critical part inside, you can bet that it will certainly want to go into action and tell you that you are bad and wrong for having such an internal bunch of feelings and thought. That is why you really need to reach for acceptance. Because you are able to step back, breath, see yourself, and accept yourself as you are. I have written a whole category on acceptance, which you might find helpful.

Coordination is the third step in which you take your new awareness (recognition), your new acceptance of who you are just as you are, and you begin to coordinate your personality in such a way that you can harmonize all these different points of view that is sending conflicting messages into the universe.

In future posts, we will cover these very critical steps of the process of making the signals you send out from yourself to be what you want to be emitting, rather than having yourself be reactive to whatever is happening to you. Yes. This personal journey is work. But the benefits are so worth it, and you can DO IT. IT is possible. So hold the faith. Care for yourself and others, become aware of what you think, feel, and believe, and come back here to read about the next steps.

Other articles you might enjoy related to this are:
Shift Your State
Success Strategies When You Forget
Self Awareness
Survival and Contracting

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When you are caught in stress and the busyness of living it is sometimes hard to remember your dreams. In the last blog, I told you that I could go two places to paint some landscapes that are not far, but would be fun. I had already forgotten those ideas when it came time to write this entry. I had been moving. It has been raining. I forgot. And as a result was a little less of myself. Reaching up out of ordinary life allows you to be more vibrant, alive, full, radiant, and imaginative. Dreams pull you like a magnet towards something that you want.

Treat dreams as though they are cocoons that have radiant energy life forms in them, waiting to burst forth someday to reveal a powerful form of you.

We don’t have a lot of societal support for dreams, so keep them to yourself or share them only with people whom you can trust not to put you down. I have had even my best friend really pooh pooh my most precious dream so be careful with them.

Accept your dreams. This is Step Two. Let the dreams exist. Make a special place for them. Give them their own book. If you’re really brave, get a sketch book in which you can write, and draw, or paste pictures, and add color. Don’t worry about being a great artist. Concentrate on what your dreams are, and then write them down, draw pictures, or paste in pictures from magazines. As you think about them, say to yourself “I accept my dreams.”

Create a Dream Box. Spend an afternoon browsing through magazines. Cut out words, phrases, pictures, images, and articles if you want that represent something you want. Then as life continues on, you can continue to add more to your dream box. My daughter and I went to TJ MAXX and found these wonderful boxes for less than $5.00 a couple of years ago. My daughter filled her box with pictures of horse gear she wanted to buy, furniture she would like to have, and things that made her feel good when she looked at them. My dream box has pictures of couples boating or going to the beach, and a wonderful aqua colored piece of cookware that I will own.

If you are a scrapbooker, then make a wonderful scrapbook showcasing dreams.

A friend of mine made a dream journal of the dreams he had at night, and got lots of images from National Geographic magazines to represent the dreams he recorded. You too can make a dream journal but make it for your waking dreams.

A pocket notebook that you can keep next to your wallet might be all that you need. Just keep notes on those slippery dreams, and add more, as you get the inspiration. Right now, I have a dream box, a small notebook that I carry all the time, and a larger notebook, where I make notes to follow up. For example. I dream about painting watercolor paintings outdoors. There are several organizations that do plein air painting during the summers. So in my small notebook, I write “Paint outdoors this summer in the San Juan Islands.” In my medium size notebook, I write the results from my web search of the names and dates of where I need to go, and anything else that I might run into that relates to that dream. I sat in the library one day, and reviewed artists magazines, and looked at the artists whose work or whose color paintings gave me a fantastic response. I wrote them down in my medium size notebook because those are things I can do to help me towards the dream itself. They give me inspiration, and possibilities. Two artists that I looked at live out in the San Juans. Perhaps I will take a trip and go to their studios.

See. That’s the way dreams work. They begin to inspire juice and thoughts that are possible and actions you might take. Action of any kind is Step Three. When our dream shrink or get forgotten, we lose our imagination, our thinking gets small, our perspective shrinks.

So catching those dreams in some way is really important. The more colorful and vibrant you can describe them, the better. And since it is a dream, you don’t have to be concerned with the “what is”. You can fully indulge in the idea. My daughter dreamed about the biggest and best horse barns. I dreamed about the greatest painting trip to Scotland. She’s now living on a horse farm as the barn and horse manager. I’m living in an exquisite area that has plenty of landscapes I can paint (and weather and topography that looks a lot like Scotland).

Cherish those dreams. They are leading you someplace. Dreams help you shift states. Writing down your dreams help them to manifest. Looking through your dream box helps you upgrade your vibration and be inspirational.

Imagination is an important function in achieving success. Click here to read more about imagination. Imagine your dreams coming true. Be choiceful and focus on what it will be like when a dream comes true. Turn your focus and attention away from the “what is” today - including the fact the what you want is not here. Because that just highlights what’s not here. Savor the thoughts of “Won’t it be wonderful when…” For more information about this topic, review the category Focus and Imagination.
So cherish these dreams. They are important.
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Dreams and Survival Thinking usually don’t exist in the same space. Dreams can’t even exist in the same sentence hardly. Dreams are those wonderful wishes that you would love to come true some day. Living in Southern France for six months, getting to know people in that community, and painting wonderful watercolor landscapes is one of my favorite dreams.

Everything man creates or acquires begins in the form of desire, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.
–Napoleon Hill

Survival thinking and being comes when we are having challenging times, like when we are out of money or out of a job. When there is not enough gas in the car to get to work or money to catch a bus, and all you can think about is not having enough money, most of us fall into survival thinking and being. The embers of our desire seems like cold ashes and there is nothing to take into our imagination workshop.

The thing about the survival state of being is that our thinking contracts to a very small world. We are living in a period when there is a lot of focus on the economy. Unemployment is higher, foreclosures are higher, and people are more conservative about spending money. What is the story you are telling yourself about the economy and your personal finances right now? Is it anything like, “I better keep my head down, or I might lose my job?” Or “jobs are really hard to find right now.” Don’t these last two paragraphs just eclipse any thoughts about going to the San Juan Islands and visiting Friday Harbor this weekend for example? Chances are the “what is” of what’ happening with the economy and how it affects you personally has shifted you more into survival thinking.

To be successful means a shift to a whole different perspective. We can’t be thinking positive thoughts, if we are consumed by the contraction of negative thoughts. We can’t be reaching to a goal, if we are scared and afraid to reach out.

One thing I realized is that I forget my dreams, when I contract into survival thinking. When we are too tired, when we are stressed about some personal issues, when we don’t have enough money, sometimes when we are not physically well, we condense into the “what is” of our life, and forget that there is a great deal more on which we can focus.

You have to have bigger horizons on which to focus, if you want to be successful, and thrive. This past week I found a notebook where I had been writing down my dreams, goals, desires for the future. The notebook began with a list of fun things, and then had gotten overrun with quotes. So I went to the Dollar Store and bought another small notebook that I can keep all the time, and when I remember one of my dreams, I capture it in my little notebook.

As I have been writing them down, I realized that there were several things I could do this week and this month that could give me a flavor for my dream of painting in southern France. I can drive over to Anacortes to Deception Park and have paint out all day in exquisite landscapes. If I wanted, I could take the ferry next week to Guemes Island and for $5.00 have paint out in the San Juan Islands. Both of those activities are very doable and very inexpensive, and wonderfully exotic. Both of these have been available to me for a while, and I had forgotten that opportunity, because when I get into survival, I forget about doing things while help me to thrive.

Dreams help us expand our horizon and remember there is more to our world than the current “what is.” Dreams help us imagine outcomes that we want. Dreams tantalize us to grow and expand. Dreams can help us hope and expect our dreams to come true. Imagining what it will feel like to have our dreams come true is an essential step towards success. Almost every person who has performed as an actor or musician, had dreams of standing on stage with a microphone and having everyone listen to them. Imagining paves the way to success. Dreams are the precursors to imagining. You have to have something to imagine. Those desires and dreams let us go a little soft inside, and let go of the hardness that comes with scarcity and survival.

Next time we will talk about some strategies to help capture our dreams. Until then, know that your dreams of what may be are critical to making them come true. And if you are so inclined, click on some of the colored text in this blog, and it will take you to other articles that are related. Remember. You are so much more than what you seem right now!

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Law of Success is based on Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches according to Napoleon Hill in his classic Think and Grow Rich. If you are lucky enough to own the unedited version your copy of Think and Grow Rich contains 387 pages. Much of the essence to the secret he was trying to explain was edited out of the version most of us own. Napoleon Hill wrote “The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no more than a hundred times throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight. Where THOSE WHO ARE READY, and SEARCHING FOR IT, may pick it up.. . . .If you are READY to put it to use, you will recognize this secret at least once in every chapter. “

That secret was edited almost out. It is possible to obtain an unedited version by going here. Let’s look at the thirteen steps he identifies as the Steps to Riches which are his version of the law of success.

1. Desire: “Dreams are the seedlings of Reality”
2. Faith: When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into it spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
3. Auto-Suggestion: Autosuggestion is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature.
4. Specialized Knowledge: Knowledge…becomes power only when, and if it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.
5. Imagination: The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind. Through the faculty of creative imagination, the finite mind of man has direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
6. Organized Planning. Everything man creates or acquires begins in the form of DESIRE, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATION, where PLANS for its transition are created and organized.
7. Decision: Organized Planning gives you instructions. These instructions will be of no value to you UNLESS YOU DEFINITELY DECIDE to organize them into a plan of action.
8. Persistence: Sustained Effort is the essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL…
9. Power of the Master Mind: Organized effort is produced through the coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a DIFINITE end, in a spirit of harmony. When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of HARMONY, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. It is true source to which every great leader turns.
10. The mystery of Sex Transmutation: HE STIMULATES HIS MIND SO THAT IT VIBRATES ON A HIGHER-THAN AVERAGE PLANE, USING ONE OR MORE THE TEN MIND STIMULANTS (one of which is sex). He CONCENTRATES upon the known factors…and creates in his mind a perfect picture of the unknown factors…He holods this picture in mind until it is taken over by the subconscious mind. When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sex, the obstructions between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence are removed. (This is not a complete description of this chapter.) The Power of Desire, Faith, love, Sex, Enthusiam, Romance and Hope are the seven most powerful positive emotions, and the ones most commonly used in creative effort.
11. The Sub-Conscious Mind: The subconscious mind is the intermediary, which translates one’s prayers into terms which Infinite Intelligence can recognize, presents the message, and brings back the answer in the form of a definite plan or idea for procuring the object of prayer. Before your prayer will reach Infinite Intelligence, it probably is transformed from its original thought vibration into terms of spiritual vibration. Faith is the only known agency which will give your thoughts a spiritual nature. (Dr. Hill describes a radio station metaphor)
12. The Brain: The subconscious mind is the “sending station” of the brain through which vibrations of thought are broadcast. The Creative Imagination is the “receiving set,” through which the vibrations of thought are picked up from the ether.
13. The Sixth Sense: The Sixth sense if the vehicle through which Infinite Intelligence may and will communicate voluntarily, without any effort from, or demands by, the individual. The Sixth Sense is that portion of the subconscious mind referred to as the Creative Imagination. Understanding of the sixth sense comes only by meditation through mind development. The sixth sense probably is the medium of contact between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence.

His last chapter is How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear – Clearing the Brain for Riches)

Hope you have enjoyed this brief synopsis of Think and Grow Rich - presenting 13 steps of the law of success.

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The following is a list of Law of Success Strategies.
Click on the topic to go directly to the articles in Success Strategies.

Success Strategies and When You Forget

Tell A New Story; Strategy of Law of Success

Focus and the Law of Success

“Prosperity Success Secret to Create Your Day”

“Prosperity Success Secret of 17 Seconds”

Holding the Question A Success Technique

Inspirational Practice, a Law of Success Strategy

“The Secret To Optimism, Success, Positive Attitude and Being Happy”

“Tap Your Wisdom”

Write It and It will Appear

Shift Your State

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How we feel about ourselves depends upon what lens we are looking through. Another way of saying it is how we are identified inside. If there is a scared, little part of me, then that part sees through a lens of doubt and fear. When I am centered in the adult competent and wise part of myself, then I have ample self confidence.

There is an exercise called “Who Am I.” Take a piece of paper and write down the left side, the numbers 1 through 20. Then one at a time, write an answer to the question “Who Am I?”

Who we are is often evoked by a reaction to what’s happening in our life. Those people who are self-confident have more anchors to the part of them that feels strength, upbeat, is optimistic, and knows how to problem-solve. Where ever we are identified, we set up a field of resonance. If you feel small and a bit of a victim, then you will attract circumstances and people who will see you as small and as a victim. When you are centered in the strength and possibilities of yourself, you attract people who see you that way.

Therefore Self Confidence is an important attribute to the Law of Success. It gets you into the Zone. (Click on any of the highlighted words to take you to another article related to self confidence.) You can coach yourself through doubt and fear into self confidence to utilize the Law of Success. You can help yourself return to self confidence by remembering your strengths. You can retrain your thoughts by applying the four cornerstones:

HAVE NO FAULT THOUGHTS
IDENTIFY ISSUES AS A SITUATION
THIS WILL PASS
THIS IS ONLY A SMALL PIECE OF THE PUZZLE

When we don’t feel self-confident, it is hard to look for a job, ask for a raise, or begin a new venture. We can enhance our self confidence. We can reach within to the spark of life and fan the embers. Take little steps. Choose to look for something you like about your self. Remember times when you did something well. The more time you spend changing your thoughts and visualizing your success, the more self confident you will become and then the Law of Success will operate smoothly with you.

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Synchronicity could be one factor behind the Law of Attraction. When we set up an intention and send it out from ourselves, it is like sending out an alert to the Universe. We are saying, “I intend this, or I desire that, or I want a job, or a partner, or a promotion” for example. The Universe begins lining up people and events that are related. Synchronicity happens.

This past summer, I had to suddenly move. Because I had been ill for months, I wanted a place where I did not have to pay very much money for rent, or a place where I could trade my time and energy for rent. When I looked online for rentals, a listing for a caretaker needed had just been posted 3 hours earlier. I called immediately and got the job. Synchronicity compelled me to look, and the property manager to post within hours of each other. It turned out to be a very good match for those of us who live here. We have similar values, and have a community of like minded people. That was powerful synchronicity at work.

Watch for Synchronicity in your life. It is there more than you think, and it supports your success.

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Have you ever found a set of goals that you wrote some years ago and found that some or many have happened? A lot is happening behind the scenes when we write something down.

First, we are placing focus on an intention. Usually as we write about our intent, we detail it, and perhaps imagine what our goal may look or feel like to us when it has happened.

Second, we put ourselves on alert. According to Henriette Anne Klauser,

Writing down your dreams and aspirations is like hanging up a sign that says, “Open for Business.” Or, as my friend Elaine puts it, by writing it down, you declare yourself in the game. Putting it on paper alerts the part of your brain known as the reticular activating system to join you in the play.”

You start subconsciously filtering what you see, hear and experience alerting yourself to anything related to what you wrote about.

Third, we put the Universe on alert that we are wanting something pretty specific. Synchonicity brings events circumstances and people to us related to what we have been writing about.

You’ll naturally be attracted to articles, books, songs, conversations about your goal.

I have been thinking of being open to have a romantic partner. When I dream at night, sometimes the dreams respond in literal and comic terms. Out pops this dream one night that said to me that my goals around partnering are stunted. That was helpful and it was funny. It let me know that I need to do some better imagining about what I would like in this partner.

Perhaps I will write to my partner about how much I am looking forward to meeting him and what fun we will have together. And I will keep on doing my personal work to be the kind of self that would attract my partner. My self-confident, humorous, generous self seems shadowed a bit by some old anger. So I’ll clean that up as I get clearer about the kind of partner I want to be, and the kind of partner I wish for.

In the meantime, I write to record the physical dreams I receive. I write to flesh out the dreams I have of the future, and I write to help myself imagine myself as a partner. Writing it down will make it happen.

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My daughter loves horses and has ridden for many years. She wanted to become a working student for a horse trainer and live on a horse ranch. A year or two ago, she made that intention. I didn’t know how it would happen. We were in a new state, did not know anyone who had horses.

Two years later, through a series of connections, a friend of hers told her about a working student position. She took the position, and then moved with the trainer back to the horse farm. Her intention was magnetic. Intention is a force to be reckoned with.

Holding an intention will help you focus on your commitment. My daughter intended on becoming a working student who lived on a horse farm. She is now living that dream.

Happiness works that way as well. So does success. “I intend to be happy today. I intend to have a successful day.” These sentences can be combined with a few minutes of visualization, and you most likely will have a happy and successful day. Law of Success uses intention in many ways. We will write more articles about intention and the Law of Success.

In the meantime, intend to have safe driving journeys and good food today. Intend to have positive thoughts about the people you love. It makes you feel really good.

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It showed up in the form of an illness that became life threatening. As a result, I had to surrender to the Universe and wait as The Mystery of Life takes me on its own journey. When I was in my late 20’s, I had a mega dream from which I woke with my heart pounding. In the dream I was on the back of a huge wild beast. I was infinitesimal by comparison. The beast was going its way, I had no control. I could barely hang on.

Recent events helped me remember that dream. That metaphor for the greater Mystery of Life helps me remember that Life is so much bigger than us. The Universe is so much more vast than us, and there are times when we need to surrender to the greater Power that is. And there are times that actually force us to do that.

My illness has done that. But in the process great transformation is occurring and I am looking forward to sharing that as time goes forward. Hope you are all well.