Focus on Prosperity

I can imagine what a lot of people are thinking: “How can I attract more money into my life? How can I get more of the green stuff? How can I get more of wealth and prosperity? How can I, when I love my job, deal with the credit card debt that I have, and the realization that maybe there’s a ceiling on the money that can come in, cause it’s coming to me through my job? How can I bring in more?” Intend it!

This goes back to one of the things we’ve been talking about throughout the whole Secret. Your job is to declare what you would like to have from the catalogue of the Universe. If cash is one of them, say how much you would like to have. “I would like to have twenty-five thousand dollars, unexpected income, within the next thirty days,” or whatever it happens to be. It should be believable for you.

If you have held thoughts in the past that the only way money can come to you is through your job, then let that go immediately. Can you appreciate that as you continue to think that, it must be your experience? Such thoughts do not serve you.

You are now coming to understand that there is abundance for you, and it is not your job to work out “how” the money will come to you. It is your job to ask, to believe you are receiving, and feel happy now. Leave the details to the Universe on how it will bring it about.

Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep you in debt forever. Whatever you’re thinking about, you will attract. You say, “But it’s get out of debt.” I don’t care if it’s get out or get in, if you’re thinking debt, you’re attracting debt. Set up an automatic debt repayment program and then start to focus on prosperity.

When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on those bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you. You have to find a way of feeling good, so you can bring your good to you.

So many times people say to me, “I’d like to double my income in the next year.” But then you look at their actions and they’re not doing the things that are going to make that happen. They’ll turn right around and they’ll say, “I can’t afford that.” Guess what? “Your wish is my command.”

If the words “I can’t afford it” have passed your lips, your power to change that is now. Change it with, “I can afford that! I can buy that!” Say it over and over. Become like a parrot. For the next thirty days, make it your intention that you are going to look at everything you like and say to yourself, “I can afford that. I can buy that.” As you see your dream car drive past, say, “I can afford that.” As you see clothes you love, as you think about a great vacation, say, “I can afford that.” As you do this you will begin to shift yourself and you will begin to feel better about money. You will begin to convince yourself that you can afford those things, and as you do, the pictures of your life will change.

When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don’t have enough—“We don’t have enough for that, we can’t afford that”—then you’ll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don’t have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity.

Now that you know The Secret, when you see someone who is wealthy you will know that that person’s predominant thoughts are on wealth and not on scarcity, and that they have drawn wealth to them—whether they did it consciously or unconsciously. They focused on thoughts of wealth and the Universe moved people, circumstances, and events to deliver wealth to them.

The wealth that they have, you have also. The only difference between you and them is that they thought the thoughts to bring the wealth to them. Your wealth is waiting for you in the invisible, and to bring it into the visible, think wealth!

When I first understood The Secret, every day I would get a bunch of bills in the mail. I thought, “How do I turn this around?” The law of attraction states that what you focus on you will get, so I got a bank statement, I whited out the total, and I put a new total in there. I put exactly how much I wanted to see in the bank. So I thought, “What if I just visualized checks coming in the mail?” So I just visualized a bunch of checks coming in the mail. Within just one month, things started to change. It is amazing; today I just get checks in the mail. I get a few bills, but I get more checks than bills.

Since the film The Secret was released, we have received hundreds and hundreds of letters from people who have said that since watching the film they have received unexpected checks in the mail. And it happened because as they gave their focus and attention to David’s story, they brought checks to them.

A game I created that helped shift my feelings about my pile of bills was to pretend that the bills were actually checks. I would jump for joy as I opened them and say, “More money for me! Thank you. Thank you.” I took each bill, imagined it was a check, and then I added a zero to it in my mind to make it even more. I got a notepad and wrote at the top of the page “I have received,” and then I would list all the amounts of the bills with an added zero. Next to each amount I would write “Thank you,” and feel the feelings of gratitude for receiving it—to the point where I had tears in my eyes. Then I would take each bill, which looked very small compared to what I had received, and I would pay it with gratitude!

I never opened my bills until I had got myself into the feeling that they were checks. If I opened my bills before convincing myself they were checks, my stomach would churn when I opened them. I knew that the emotion of the churning in my stomach was powerfully bringing more bills. I knew I had to erase that feeling, and replace it with joyful feelings, so I could bring more money into my life. In the face of a pile of bills, that game worked for me, and it changed my life. There are so many games you can create, and you will know what works best for you by the way you feel inside. When you make-believe, the results come fast!

FINANCIAL STRATEGIST, SPEAKER, AND PERSONAL AND CORPORATE COACH

I grew up on, “You have to work hard for money.” So I replaced that with, “Money comes easily and frequently.” Now in the beginning it feels like a lie, right? There is a part of your brain that will say, “Oh you liar, it’s hard.” So you have to know it’s this little tennis match that will go on for a while.

If you have had thoughts of, “I have to work really hard and struggle to have money,” let them go immediately. By thinking those thoughts you emitted that frequency, and they became the pictures of your life experience. Take Loral Langemeier’s advice, and replace those thoughts with, “Money comes easily and frequently.”

When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset. It’s all about how you think.

I’d say 80 percent of the coaching that I do with folks is about their psychology and the way they think. I know when people say, “Oh, you can do it, I can’t.” People have the capability to change their inner relationship and conversation with money.

You have got to feel good about money to attract more to you. Understandably, when people do not have enough money they do not feel good about money, because they don’t have enough. But those negative feelings about money are stopping more money coming to you! You have got to stop the cycle, and you stop it by starting to feel good about money, and being grateful for what you have. Start to say and feel, “I have more than enough.” “There is an abundance of money and it’s on its way to me.” “I am a money magnet.” “I love money and money loves me.” “I am receiving money every day.” “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”