Prosperity Works

July 22, 2005

In this issue:

• Prosperity point: Finding Prosperity, Not Just Cash
• Recommendations
• Looking for Letters!

Prosperity Point: Finding Prosperity, Not Just Cash

I'm on a plane again, this time traveling from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. Our movie tonight is the Oscar winner" Million Dollar Baby." Hillary Swank plays Maggie, a woman from a poor, hillbilly, uneducated background with a dream to become a boxer.

It's not easy, but her drive and enthusiasm ultimately attract the people and places she needs. And she becomes a fighter. It's not long before she's earning some real money.

Dutiful, loving daughter that she is, as soon as she can she buys her mother a house. It's a modest house, but compared to the trailer the family called "home," it's a mansion. She presents it to her mother as a gift.

In one scene, Maggie drives with her trainer (that's Clint Eastwood's role) to give her mother and sister the keys to their new home. Maggie's proud but apprehensive as they walk from room to room.

Is the mother grateful? Does she acknowledge the daughter's selfless, loving act? Hardly.

In a blow worse than a left hook, she complains that she might lose her welfare benefits, her government support, if they find out she has a house. She's worried that she'll lose her poverty status if she's not blatantly poor. And she simply doesn't know how to be anything else.

Maggie found out that giving someone wealth doesn't make them rich. Her mother had a poverty mindset that she'd grown accustomed to. It fit her like her old clothes, and the idea of giving it up was beyond her capacity. She was poor, she defined herself that way, and no one was going to challenge her or prove her wrong.

In Mike Litman's book "Conversations with Millionaires," he includes an interview with personal development coach, author and speaker Jim Rohn. Jim talks extensively about what he learned as a young man from his mentor. In one example, the mentor talks about becoming a millionaire. Wouldn't it be great to have a million dollars, thinks Jim. No, says the mentor. If you set a goal to acquire a million dollars, you'll never be a millionaire. Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it.

Is there a lottery where you live? How often have you heard of flat-broke lottery winners who were flat broke again in a couple of years?

Gaining a million dollars (and more!) didn't make them millionaires. It didn't change their mindsets. It didn't give them the attitude of gratitude, the spirit of generosity, the wealth sense that they would have learned had they grown into an abundance mentality. In their minds they were still flat broke, so naturally the universe accommodated them.

As we think about the law of attraction, it's easy to visualize attracting wealth as if we were magnets and cash was paper clips. But we don't just flip a switch and make it so. We need to "magnetize" ourselves so that once those paper clips stick, they stay stuck.

Maggie's mother wasn't magnetized. The paper clips were alien to her. The lottery winners weren't magnetized. The paper clips fell away. Our job is to build that magnetic pull so that it's natural.

There are plenty of "paper clips" to go around. Once we've become strong enough magnets, they won't be hard to find.

Today’s Recommendation: Have You Discovered What's Holding You Back?

Here's a name you should know: Stephen Pierce.

Stephen has quite a story. Expelled from school (for the last time) in the tenth grade, at about age fifteen. Evicted from his apartment and ultimately staring at the wrong end of a gun - he still has the bullet in his leg as a souvenir. Fast forward to now. He believes that he has truly uncovered the single reason why most people fail to attain their goals in life despite reading all the self-help literature in the world.

It's called the Power of the Third Influence and Stephen reveals exactly how it can be your friend or foe. (It's never neutral.)

Stephen's latest creation has only been available to members of his exclusive coaching club.

Now, you can access the same secrets they have used for less than 1% of what they've had to pay for it.

Now, here's the warning. A huge online company (bigger than Nightingale Conant) has discovered Stephen's Secrets of Creating Wealth and is negotiating to buy the whole inventory lock, stock, and barrel.

Stephen has agreed to set aside some copies of this set for members of my list.

Folks, I urge you to learn more about Stephen's Secrets of Creating Wealth right now. You'll find it here.

If prosperity is a goal, how can you pass on a book with just that title: Prosperity! If you don't have your copy of the Prosperity book package yet, visit the order page to see how you can download it now, day or night.

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