Chapter 1 Asking, Attracting and Advancing
Your conscious mind is at the center of all the things you do and all the things that you want to do. That is your natural mode of communication and the traffic cop that regulates what you do at any point in time. What do I mean by traffic cop? Well, for most of us who have yet to internalize and advance our ability to remain in a state of mindfulness and meditation 24/7, we are directed and controlled by the commands of our conscious mind, save for the situations where we are overwhelmed or where we are taken off our stride. Our conscious mind retains control over most of our thoughts and actions and it does so by the means of a language that it seems to whisper in our inner ear.
Youâve heard this language at numerous occasions and still, we take for granted the fact that this is the voice that we should be listening to in almost all the things we do and all the things we think about. But it should not be - at least it should not be the one if we are serious about becoming successful beyond the wildest dreams of almost everyone we know personally.
That voice is the speech issued from the conscious mind and it has its good days and bad days. Our first step should be the ability to recognize when it has its good days and when it is undergoing its terrible moments.
Our second step would be to change the way those bad days manifest so that our conscious mind learns how to flip out of a bad day and sail along smoothly as it would on good days.
You may have noticed that there are some days where think you are invincible. You feel like you can take on anything and anyone and come out a winner: nothing can get you down. These are, of course, your good days.
Then, there are the bad days, or ânot-so-goodâ days, where you know the moves, but you just canât get your feet in sync or you just canât get the words to come out right. You feel like a bumbling buffoon. Trust me: you are not the only one. We all have those days. For some of us, itâs more of those days that occur than the good ones, and for others, itâs less of those days that comes and more of the good ones. As logic dictates, the people who have fewer of those bad days and more of the good days are going to be the ones with a higher probability of success and take a shorter course to achieving greatness.
Remember Alexander the Great? - well he must have had a lot of those good days because a bad day on the battlefield is one where you donât walk away victorious and since he achieved what very few men achieved - conquering most of the known world in less that twelve years, he most certainly had more good days than anyone else I know.
However, I donât think that success just randomly came to him, I am pretty sure he had to work hard at it; Just like how I had to work at constantly transforming my terrible moments into great times and recognizing those bad feelings before they manifested in my actions.
Recognizing the bad days is a key part of you being able to align the forces that can make things happen for you.
Why? If you are not having a great day, whatever you are about to ask for or whatever you are about to work on, are not going to be tainted by something that can actually be controlled.
The best way to begin is to be vigilant in your current state at all times. If you are aware of your present condition then you can do whatever it takes to get your bad days fixed and get to achieving success. The best way to remain aware of your present condition is to be in a constant state of mindfulness regardless of the distractions that come across your path.
As you advance through your daily tasks, there is potential for numerous distractions to come your way. The challenge is that these distractions sometimes can be disguised as opportunities. Just by stopping to evaluate them can sometimes throw you off track. This means that you have to be careful with what may seem like good potential. But then, the question that arises is how do we recognize potential opportunities? The answer to that, and the previous concern about being distracted, is the same. If you can fine-tune your state of mindfulness in all the things that you do, what you will be left with is the instantaneous ability to sidestep distractions yet recognize opportunities.
One point that you need to understand about opportunities and distractions is that seeming opportunities that are out of sequence with your task at hand are actually distractions. If you are in the midst of doing something yet the thought or event that props in front of you seems like an opportunity for something else, you should walk away from it.
A separate discussion of opportunities is a worthy departure from the main subject of the book. As you can see, there are opportunities and there are distractions. Opportunities that are not in sync with your current tasks and have no benefits whatsoever to you, are distractions. But opportunities that advance your objective are real opportunities.
There is only one source where opportunities emanate from and that is the universe. You have to attract the opportunities you need and not leave it to chance. In fact, the only place that opportunities are left to chance is in your conscious mind. Everything that you ask for will show up at some point. Remember that saying, âBe careful what you ask for, you might just get it.â? Well, itâs incorrect. There is no âmightâ about it. Whatever you ask for, you will get. So, indeed, you need to be careful what you ask for because when it comes, it could be distraction. How can an opportunity be a distraction? Well, I can see how that can be confusing. Opportunities can be distractions because they do not further or advance your current task that is designed to fulfill your inspiration.
It becomes a problem because it takes you away from doing something that you are in the midst of doing while not adding value to it. This happens because your mind has asked for the second opportunity and so the universe has granted it. Indeed you can be the cause of your own distractions. You will not have these kinds of distractions if you keep your mind focused on the tasks and objective at hand and that is part of the reason why you should read how to meditate yourself into success.
Every opportunity you get is because you asked for something that relates to it in some form. Opportunities donât just show up. You have to ask for them. Whatever you ask for will come to you because the universe hears everything that you ask for when you are in a certain state and it responds by aligning the opportunities for you to take.
There have been many instances in my life where I have been careless with what I asked for. The result was that I got every single one of them and they were not all as good as I thought they would be.
Many of you will misunderstand this part about asking for things and getting the opportunity. When you ask for something on a whim, you will get it, and when the opportunity comes, you look at it and you are torn by what to do. There is only one thing to do, let it go. But the next time teach yourself to be cognizant of what you ask for.
On the other hand, if you are constantly focused on one area and you are constantly asking for all that relates to that goal, then the opportunities that you get will be related to it. When you combine your mindful state to the things that you ask for, then what you get are the puzzles of the picture that you are looking to assemble.
Success is made more efficient if you ask for things that you are mindful of. The asking is done in a different frequency than just opening your lips and muttering a voice, it is done instead by a vibration in your soul. But you must be able to verbalize at least part of it. If not, it is almost certain that you have no idea what you are asking for. The ability to ask and your act of asking tend to align your conscious and subconscious to the point that your entire soul vibrates in unison.
This is the key to asking, and that forms the basis of your ability to succeed in any area you need to.
Itâs not about repetition where you keep asking for the same thing over and over again. Have you tried doing this? I have. And it doesnât work unless somewhere along the line you are vibrating it out to the universe and it comes true. You may think itâs the repetitive asking thatâs making it happen. Itâs not. Itâs the vibration you are sending out to the universe.
But there is one aspect that you can do physically to be able to move this along. You must be able to ask for it in a cogent and real manner in your conscious mind. Your ability to sound it out and be able to vibrate from hearing it will take you much further than the blind repetition of it.
Have you ever heard a song or a piece of music that just gets you going? You feel the inspiration and you feel the vibration. Thatâs a form of vibration that gets you in the right zone. That zone and state of being are like a tuning fork that hits the right note and when you transmit, it's like a carrier wave on a radio transmitter. It goes straight out to the universe and the law of attraction pulls you towards your goal and pulls your goal towards you.
You are then given the opportunity to make things happen and make things into what you want them to be.
That is the asking that you need to enforce and that is the kind of asking that will make a difference in your life.
Distractions, veiled or otherwise, are very different from opportunities but they feel like the same thing. That is why they are insidious. You think they are there to help you but what they will do is drag you backward. The skill you need to develop is to be able to id...