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Are You Making it Harder Than it Has to Be?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Leslie| 6 Comments

Positive Thinking Tip: Goal achievement is a learned skill, like a toddler learning to use a phone. When it doesn’t go the way you expected, hang up and try again!

When making a phone call, if you dial the numbers right, it works. Children who have never used a phone often have trouble making it work right for a while, just as we can have trouble making the laws of success work to achieve our goals.

It takes practice!

When a goal doesn’t happen the way you expected, it’s easy to get discouraged. Actually, that IS the COMMON thing to do. The uncommon thing to do is brush yourself off and ask the hard question:

“Where did I go wrong? What more do I need to know? In what way am I making this harder than it has to be?”

Common people may ask those questions, rhetorically, but not with a real intent of finding the answers. Actually, sometimes they don’t WANT the answer, because it’s just easier to say, “That law of attraction thing doesn’t work.” Truly, it’s easier to put the blame for failure on things outside of oneself.

**** OUCH! ****

(Now, if you’re offended, you may be surprised at the TURN this article takes next.)

On the other hand, UNCOMMON people ask the hard questions with a firm INTENT to find the answers. They SEEK for the answers, even if it means they have to admit that there may be more to learn.

Uncommon people will get uncommon results. Uncommon people will enjoy an uncommon lifestyle. If they DO ask the hard questions and find the answers, then the next time they pursue a goal, they can apply the new understanding, and can get better results.

Or not…

Here’s why: For me, this question / answer /new attempt process happened HUNDREDS of times before I actually saw it really work even ONCE. I know hundreds of ways it DOESN’T work. Each failed attempt showed me something else that I needed to tweak about my approach.

Think about it… The first time a kindergartner tries to use the telephone, chances are good that s/he will dial the number wrong. When that happens, it would be foolish to say, “This phone doesn’t work!” The PHONE works fine. The user just needs to be extra careful to dial ALL the right numbers, in the right order, with no extra numbers inserted along the way.

The law of attraction works FINE. You’ve just got to be careful to dial ALL the right numbers in the right order, and not insert any extra ones along the way. When you do it right, it unfailingly works the way it should.

And the good news is that when you see it work once, you gain confidence, and eventually realize that it can work for you EVERY time. In fact, it can become second-nature, just like using the phone. Then, after experiencing some success, you discover that it can even be easier than THAT… like discovering the redial button.

But I have some BAD NEWS…

The one element that does NOT go away, no matter how slick you are, or how smart you get, is the TEST to exercise faith when all appearances indicate impending disaster. Yes, no matter how good you get at the process, and no matter how much money you make, you’ll always get plenty of opportunity to exercise faith, make sacrifices, and stretch yourself OUT of the comfort zone to accomplish the next goal.

You just get to a point where you learn to accept the difficult nature of the process. Sorry to burst your bubble.

The knowledge I share here does not avert the challenges, it just gives you the power to overcome them when they show up… the power of subconscious goal achievement in spite of difficulty… the power to have PEACE of MIND through the process.

And yes, you CAN HAVE your victory. You can have the MONEY you need. You can find the job, or succeed in business… You can have the FREEDOM you seek!

Just try again, and learn from your mistakes. That’s how you win.

Find out what else you may need to know, so that you can achieve that oh-so-elusive goal. I want to help. Read the Jackrabbit Factor story free, so I can reveal the common mistakes people make with the law of attraction; or if you’re ready for more advanced answers, start the 12-week Family Time & Money Freedom (FTMF) home study course.

You can succeed!

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Celebrating 10 Years

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Leslie| 1 Comment

(Continued from “Who is Leslie Householder?“…)

But along with all the UPs of this journey, I’ve also had my fair share of DOWNs, disappointments, frustrations, and defeat. I hit brick walls, I get mad, sometimes I just want to hide under my covers for days at a time.

Over and over I’m tested on what I know to be true, and over and over (after a period of maddening trials and doubts), it proves itself true all over again.

One day I hope that I will have learned it so well that I don’t have to keep going through the refiners fire under increasing levels of heat. Maybe one day my Maker will be able to look at the work in progress that I am and finally say, “It is finished.”

One thing that has helped me pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again, is to go back through the materials I created ten years ago when I was just plain excited and invincible, and when I was applying the principles with untarnished enthusiasm and expectation. I still believed that the principles were simple, so the process should of course be easy, too.

With that childlike faith and ambition, the success pretty much came predictably, and it was my excitement that carried me to it.

But then the challenges began to grow tougher. That innocent faith had to be coupled with grit and dogged determination.

And then just this year, I began to unearth some of the trainings I created in the early days, and began to listen to them again. Some of them I had completely forgotten about, but in a beautiful way, the older, more tired me began to re-learn some important principles from the younger version of myself.

It awakened some things in me and restored my faith in the process. It restored my faith in myself, and in the Lord who helps me.

I found the strength to start dreaming again; and inspired by what I was re-learning, I decided that for the 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of my business, I would make all of those trainings available to anyone else who needs a lift…

For the 10-year anniversary of ThoughtsAlive – (we’re so clever…) it’s just 10 dollars!

For less than the cost of eating out once a month, it will give you the regular diet of mind-food that will pick YOU back up, dust YOU off, and help you START ALL OVER AGAIN, too.

In my life now, the hope, the vision, and the expectation for good things is flowing again. And as a result, so are the blessings.

So join me on this journey of reawakening those long-since buried dreams. As the poem says, rest if you must (like I did), but do not quit.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

So let’s stay on the right track now together.

You’ll find that we, as human beings, tend to make things more complicated than they need to be. Wake up again. Come see what I mean…

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Americans… Take Heart

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Leslie| 1 Comment

I read a Facebook comment by someone who seems to have given up on their country, so…

I wanted to share why I’m still optimistic.

Truly, the people who are resigned to the direction this country is headed are doing the country no favors.

True, it may take an act of God to turn things around.

So the least we can do is live to qualify for that kind of intervention. It may come to the point where that’s all the hope we have left.

But that’s okay, because I do believe in God, and I do believe He loves this country and the freedom it has historically offered its people.

How can the people qualify? They begin to qualify by getting curious, concerned, and self-educated.

Secretary of Agriculture Benson said it best – that to qualify we must:

  1. teach our children that freedom is a gift from God,
  2. learn about the Constitution from the point of view of the founding fathers,
  3. make quality family life a high priority, and
  4. become involved in your local community, supporting people and laws that align with the principles of freedom.

One of the problems is that anyone who swears to an oath of office is swearing to uphold the Constitution as it IS, not as it was originally designed. So it doesn’t matter how good we think a candidate is or isn’t, the problem lies in the laws that we the people have passed. The problem lies in the amendments that whittled away at the balance of power that was designed to protect us from overzealous leaders – whatever their party.

It’s not about any particular candidate; it’s about principles.

We the PEOPLE need to understand correct principles, so that we will be able to see through the politics, past the lies and slandering, past the legislation that is spun to the public as doing one thing when in reality it does entirely another, and see the core principles that are either being upheld or violated by our leaders, legislation, and by those who want to be in office.

As we learn to see the principles clearly, and get educated on what principles (if any) the various candidates stand for or stand against, we’ll all be much more educated citizens, and more capable of doing our small but important part to shape this world into something we can be pleased to hand over to our children and grandchildren.

I’m confident that God will help us. But how far gone it gets first, and how peacefully it can be turned around, depends on each one of us. It begins with educating ourselves.

Be smart… don’t rely on the media or government sponsored programs to teach you or your children about the fundamental principles of freedom. More often you’ll see the government talk about the social programs that are needed to make sure everyone is safe and protected.

So which is better?

A Vote for Broccoli

Enough for now. More to come as the debate heats up I’m sure. In the meantime…

God bless America!

Learn more about the Principles of Freedom

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What you can Learn from a Locksmith

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Leslie| 4 Comments

Positive Thinking Tip: When results don’t come as fast as you want, trust that each epiphany along the way gets you one “tumbler” closer to your next victory.

Perhaps the reason “one book” or “one seminar” or “one program” was a MAJOR turning point for one person, but nothing more than a small stepping stone for another, is because achieving success is like opening a combination lock.

There are a finite number of discs that need to move into place before the lock will open.

Some people are raised in such a way, or have a natural-born inclination to live in harmony with the laws of success.

Sometimes those people have all but ONE of the discs already in place, so just one book or seminar or conversation with a mentor is all they needed to set them free and launch their lifestyle into the stratosphere.

Others have hundreds of discs that need to move into place.

But each time you increase your mental capital by learning more about how success really works, and by trying and failing and learning the lesson the experience contained, you allow yet another disc to rotate into place, and the good news is: that disc can stay in place for good.

One day, with just one more try, one more class, one more book, one more seminar, or one more conversation with a mentor, that FINAL disc will move into its proper position, and the lock WILL finally spring open.

You’ll probably tell everyone that that was THE BEST event or book or conversation there ever was… because it facilitated the most tangible results in your life.

The truth is, that each “aha” moment leading up to it was just as important and critical to your success as the last. If just ONE of the previous epiphanies had not happened, then that final event, book, or conversation would probably not have been the final disc.

So keep learning, keep seeking the next epiphany, because you never know… it just might be that final disc for you. If it isn’t, at LEAST there’s just one less disc to go.

Even if you’ve experienced a breakthrough before, taking it to the next level will always require the opening of another lock, sometimes just a little more complex than the one before.

But don’t worry, you’ll open them all, by just rotating one simple disc into place at a time.

Remember:

Your desire is simply a “possibility” seeking expression through you… honor your dream, don’t give up on it. One step, one rotated disc at a time and you’ll surely get there.

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