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Dress For Success — How You Dress Affects Your Life

As you can see from the above image, the man using the snowblower has dressed himself in a manner that will allow him to successfully achieve his objective — clearing a specific area of snow. Coat, hood, hat, goggles, ear mufflers, gloves. He has dressed himself in such a way that he can continue continuously working in a frigid environment until the area that he wishes to be cleared is done. Flip-flops, cut-off shorts and a summer Hawaiian shirt are not going to get it done for him. With that type of get-up he may suffer some type of negative physical effects due to exposure to the below-freezing cold. Or he will be back inside the house every few minutes to get warm thus making the job a never ending affair. Or after a few minutes in the freezing cold, he may decide just to forego clearing the area of snow and give up.

Dress For Success

In the world of manifesting whatever it is that you want in this world, you must likewise dress for success. Many get dressed each day in their clown suit, putting on a shirt of frustration, pants of anger, a belt made of all manner of different fears, shoes permeated with doubts and and top it off with a hat soaked in bitterness. Life just seems to be one long never-ending struggle with momentary flashes of happiness. One problem gets solved and two more show up at your door to bedevil and harass you. It doesn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t. If you dress yourself properly, your life can be good, even in the midst of having to deal with problems. The man in the image above still has to deal with the raw cold and snow. It doesn’t magically go away but he is dressed in such a manner so as to allow him to be completely successful in dealing with the snow and cold.

How You Dress Each Day Is Up To You

So just how do you dress for success? This has nothing to do with wearing expensive Armani suits or Gucci leather shoes. It has everything to do with how you attire your inner self each day, each hour, each minute. It has to do with what inner clothes you choose to put on every day. Put on the shirt of the crystal clear vision of your objective. Make it vivid, not foggy or squishy. See every part of your vision from every angle. Know it as well as you know the “proverbial back of your hand.” Next, put on the pants of your intention. Know your purpose. Once you have strongly decided on your vision, let your “pants of intention” walk only along those paths that lead you to fulfillment of your vision. Refrain from turning to the left. Refrain from turning to the right. Let those pants lead you directly to making your vision your reality. Thirdly, hold up your pants with the belt of faith — strength of belief that will keep your pants from falling to the ground. Strength of belief that you would not have this vision and intention unless it was completely fulfillable. Finally, wear the shoes of your gratitude — true gratitude that there was nothing on earth that was able to prevent you from manifesting your vision, fulfilling your intention and justifying your faith. You do not have to pay a fortune for Armani suits and Gucci shoes in order to dress for success. Getting dressed with true power clothes — vision, intention, faith, gratitude — is totally free. You do not have to spend so much as a penny but you do have to put in some hard work. You can choose to dress for failure or you can choose to dress for success. How you dress each day is totally up to you. What type of clothes are you choosing to put on today?

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Evidence Of Things You Can’t See

Suppose for a moment, that you were a police investigator. You go in to the office of your supervisor and say to the boss, “Chief, I have some evidence in that case we have been working on. I feel that it is enough for us to make an arrest.” Your boss says, “Great, what did you find?’ You reply, “Well, there’s just one thing. The evidence, it’s there, but you just can’t see it. We’re gonna have to present our case to the DA and tell them the evidence is there but they just can’t see it.” Well, there could be several responses from the supervisor, none of them particularly pleasant. Definitely could imagine you being put on admin leave and them scheduling you for a visit to the department psychiatrist. In successful manifesting efforts however, this is precisely the case. You have to fully “buy in”to the desired results as real, as real as the nose on your face, before you actually get to see the results. It ain’t easy Magee, but — if you can pull it off, you’ve won the grand and glorious jackpot — the ability to manifest every sort of good thing into your life.

Let’s examine those concise yet incisive words from the book of Hebrews, chapter 11 — Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Now the word “faith” has been tossed around every which way over the centuries. Faith is an extremely strong and effective power in your life but it can definitely be misplaced. One of the most famous examples of misplaced faith is the tragedy of the followers of jim jones and the drinking of the kool-aid at jonestown. Also, the ubiquitous guy in the psychiatric facility who thinks and believes and has faith that he is Napoleon is another case of misplaced faith. Something has gone wrong with his mind. I ain’t no psychiatrist and I don’t have all the answers to everything. Nevertheless, over the millenia that human beings have walked the earth, all manner of things have indeed been manifested millions upon millions of times via the avenue of faith. Faith — The actual substance of what your heart hopes for. Faith —the concrete evidence even though your eyes cannot see it. This is the stuff that true power consists of. And the fact of this matter is that you, right now, have full access to this faith stuff — if you so desire.

The formula for manifesting laid out in the book of Matthew, chapter 21, is so simple, so uncomplicated, so concise, that most human beings in this world of ours, zoom right past it. Believe…..Receive. In case it got by ya, I will repeat it — Believe…..Receive. You may immediately say to this, “Oh, you just don’t know what I have been through. I believed and believed and it never came true and the disappointment was crushing.” You are not the only one to have walked down that particular road. I can tell you from first hand experience that when I say I have been crushed by disappointment, it was like I was in one of those auto junkyard “car-crushers”. However, like a bee to honey, subsequent prayer just led me right back to those same words in the book of Matthew: Believe…..Receive. That Inner Voice that the Quakers talk about also said to me, “and this time pal, get rid of all those nasty doubts and fears that you’ve got hidden under the bed”.

The evidence of things that you know are there but that you just can’t see them. I think the gist of the whole thing is, you might not see them, “but you can choose to feel them” — if you so desire. In a nutshell, this is the seed of every manifestation you undertake in your life.

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Success Formula of the Mongols

Genghis Khan – Mongolian Emperor. Steel Statue

When discussing the many empires that this world of ours has seen, the most famous is probably the Roman empire which lasted over a thousand years. Did you know however that that Mongol empire of Ghengis Khan and company of the 1200’s was the largest world empire in terms of pure land mass? The Mongol empire comprised an astounding 17% of the entire land surface of the earth. By comparison, the Roman empire comprised 3%. How was this possible for Ghengis Khan and the Mongols (sounds like a musical group – OK everyone let’s give it up for Ghengis Khan and the Mongols) to accomplish this. It all started from a tribe of seven including his mother, in Outer Mongolia. The Mongols would go on to conquer and subjugate everything and everyone in their path stretching from Pacific shores of China to Hungary in eastern Europe. At one point, it was even thought that the Mongol empire would stretch all the way from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

Vision…..Intention…..Faith

If you make the choice to explore further about this staggering feat, you will find that the Mongols had three overriding facets to their success: vision, intention and faith. Their vision was crystal clear – the world having just one ruler, the Mongols. Their intention was just as clear – to fulfill their vision by conquering and subjugating everything and everyone in their path. The final ingredient in their recipe was their faith. In the group mind of the Mongols, they were already rulers of the world. Their credo was conquer and subjugate or ——-. Oh that’s right, there was no “or”. There was no “try”. Absolutely everything was on the line, their families, their possessions, everything. They utilized everything at their disposal, conventional and non-conventional, traditional and non-traditional to make their vision their reality.

2021

As you mark down your new year’s resolutions for 2021, refrain from marking them down as part of a wimpy wish list. Mark them down with a crystal clear vision of your desires. Edit the list to a hard core of desires. Mark them down with a relentless, ferocious intent to make it happen. Then take that critical final step, without doubt the hardest step, to actually believe and feel as if your desire is already real right now. Clearly, see, feel, smell, hear, touch your vision. If your mind keeps telling you that it can’t happen because of this and because of this and oh yeah, especially because of that, then just make the choice to spend some time feeling the happiness, feeling the joy, feeling the bliss, without specifying anything but the fact that wonderful things are happening to you and for you right now. It will not hurt you. You will receive one thousand percent more benefit than spending that same amount of time and energy fretting and worrying. Just do it. Grow your faith. What you must do is simple but what you must do is not easy. You must make the choice to work on it. If you “feel it”, you will “real it”, just like Ghengis did.

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Your Very Best That You Are Able To Do

There is a morning prayer that goes like this: “My Creator, help me to make my best effort today better than it was yesterday.” Whenever I pray that, I usually follow that up with with apologies to my Maker if my past ” my best” was actually a crappy version of “my best”.

Having vision, intent and faith in a particular goal, no matter how tiny or large that goal is, means that you simply can’t bullshit yourself when you say “I’m giving it my very best shot”. Ask yourself every time “Are you really?” In the image above, I have no idea what the runners particular goal may be with his run. My perception is that he is giving it his very best whatever the goal is. Every muscle, every part of him seems laser focused on achieving what he is trying to achieve. No posing for the camera. No looking to the left or to the right. No smiles for the camera. Only total concentration and effort in achieving whatever it is that he has set out to achieve.

When you are engaging in specific activity to manifest a particular desire that you have, doing what the man in the image above is doing, putting one foot in front of the other with total concentration and focus, is usually what’s gonna eventually get it done for you. We all need to just kick back and relax from time to time. However, you cannot say to yourself “I’m doing my best” and then spend three to four hours watching tv every night. Of course if what you desire to manifest is a history of watching of tv, then you have succeeded. Congrats. If that is not your manifestation desire however, then you have failed at truly giving it your best and you are just sabotaging yourself. Self-sabotage is definitely one of mankind’s favorite hobbies, and one of the most detrimental. Telling yourself that you are doing your best, when in fact you really aren’t, is an insidious con job that you put over on yourself almost always with bad results. I know because I have been there. I think that we all have to some degree.

At the end of each day, spend a bit of time before you fall asleep, reviewing your activities for that day, starting from when you woke up and continuing over the course of the day. It doesn’t have to be a long time. Five minutes will do. Review objectively. Do not spend time berating yourself where you observe that you could have done better. That does you absolutely no good. You must remember that the scriptural command to “judge not” also includes yourself. If there is no place where you observe that you could have done better, then congratulations, you have had a most great and wonderful day. If there are areas where you could have done better, simply note it to yourself and vow to to work on that in the future. If you do this, you will find that “your best” does, over time, become better and better. The result of that is the prize you are after, the prize we are all after….. greater and greater success in your manifesting your desires.

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To Get Your Desire……….Feel……….”As If”

The answer to your question is fourfold: vision, intent, faith, gratitude. I thought I would head you off at the pass on this one. I will get to the question later in this post.

Today’s post is about the one thing that should be at the top of your list as to what to learn about manifesting. It is the concept of feeling as if you already have that which you desire. I am going to give an overview of the concept in this post but if you wish to study it in depth, I refer you to the writings of the sage Neville Goddard.

You are soverign. That means that despite whatever circumstances or events are occuring now in your life, you and only you get to choose how you feel inside. Despite whoever you are regularly interacting with in your daily activities, you and only you get to choose how you feel inside. Despite the time of day or night, despite sunshine or rain, despite any driver on the road, despite any loss or any gain, you and only you get to choose how you feel inside. There is no such thing as “he made me so mad” or “she really knows how to push my buttons”. You choose…..every time…..all the time. Just how you choose to feel makes up the very content of your life.

When you initiate a thought of desiring something, being a child of God, the Universal Mind immediately sends the object of your desire on its way to you. The subconscious mind, which is your connection to God, goes to work at once to create what you desire in keeping with what is seen as your true belief. By “true belief” is meant how do you really, and I mean really, feel inside about your chosen desire. Doubt immediately sends the object of your desire on a detour. Is your desire merely a daydream or “a wish and a sigh”. Do you feel you want it but that it is out of reach based on past happenings in your life or what you have observed in the lives of others or what others have told you. Do you feel that it is within reach but you are not there yet. Do you feel that it is a possibility for you and you will get it someday. Or…..do you choose to feel…..inside of your self….that it is yours now…..right now. If you chose the last option, then you have entered the doorway of the room of life’s treasures. Help yourself to whatever you want.

Holy scripture states, “And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Can it get any clearer than that?! It does not say all things you beg for or whine for or hope for but don’t want to be disappointed if things don’t pan out for you. Scripture says in no uncertain terms, “whatsoever”, which means everything and anything. There is a very crucial catch however to the equation. You have to believe inside that you already have it. That is the tragic stumbling block for the vast majority of human beings.

Now, to get to the question associated with the answer denoted in the first paragraph, it is quite simply, “How can I get myself to that point where I feel inside as if I already have that which I desire? Four facets to engage are: (1) create a crystal clear vision of your desire; (2) fire up within you a ferocious intent as far as having it; (3) completely trust that Universal Intelligence has lovingly provided it for you in the best way; (4) express and demonstrate gratitude for your desire being fulfilled. In future posts, we will discuss this concept further.