How To Become Wealthy: Steps To Wealth Part 1

Steps To Wealth
Wealth means different things to different people. To someone on Social Security, and living in a bedsit, it could mean their own apartment and regular employment, but what would it mean to a millionaire? Another yacht, a few more millions, several more houses? Who knows? Wealth is an individual thing. What I think of as wealth could be something completely opposite to your ideal. Your own definition may not even include too many material things. Perhaps happiness, relationships, good health or something spiritual are more important. It doesn’t really matter.

The important thing is that you can attain your wishes if you go about playing the game of life properly.

I realise that this is quite a sweeping statement but I nevertheless believe it to be true. You and I have the ability to control our lives. Fate is often used as an excuse for not achieving and realising our true potential. It is so much easier just to say, "It wasn’t meant to be," or, "I could never do that." It is also true that life can throw up a lot of obstacles in our path, but many of these we cultivate and bring upon ourselves. Just as we can create disappointments, difficulties and problems we can also create happiness, prosperity and good fortune. The choice is ours.

Whatever our present lifestyle this can be changed beyond recognition within two years. This can be for the better or for the worse. Our future days and years are based upon our thoughts, words, deeds, actions and beliefs of today. If we can control these five things we can be master of our own universe.

The First Step.

Before any of us can bring about what we believe to be our perfect life we need to know exactly what it is that we really want. We wouldn’t go to a railway station and ask for a ticket, without knowing where it was we actually we wanted to go. It is the same with achieving our wishes. We have to know precisely where we want to end up. Is it a nice little semi-detached house or a mansion by the sea? What income do we want? How much money in the bank? And with whom do we want to be sharing our lives - and what about being happy? Money isn’t much good if we are depressed and miserable. Good health is also important.

We have to sit down and really think what it is that we want - in detail. It can be a long job deciding, but it shouldn’t be treated as a chore. When we know what our desires really are we can start achieving them.

Once you have finally decided what you want put your thoughts on paper.

To some, sitting down and thinking about, and then writing out, what they really want from life will seem a waste of time or they may feel silly or embarrassed doing so. It is, however, one of the most productive ways to spend a day. We can all learn a lot from this exercise about the life we are leading, where we want to go, relationships and we could even discover the real purpose of our life and the true meaning. It is possible that we may reach the conclusion that we want something completely different to what we first thought. Perhaps money and possessions aren’t really that important after all. Our true vocation may be something more like helping or sharing with other people in some way. Is this what would make us happy?

Whatever is on your list must be your own thoughts and ambitions and not those of a relation, spouse, teacher or be something that you have been taught or brainwashed with since childhood. It is important to keep secret any wishes that you feel those close to you may laugh at or criticise. Other peoples’ negative comments can deflect us away from the things that we really want and need to express to reach fulfilment.

Once you have completed your list you need to divide your wishes into three sections.

1. What you want right now.
2. Your medium term wishes and ambitions.
3. Your long term perfect life.

Under section 1 you may have such things as paying off your credit card, spending more time with the children, losing a few pounds in weight, earning more commission, being more understanding with your spouse, getting a new job and so on.

Section 2 may possibly include buying a new car, earning a higher income, having money in a savings account, a holiday abroad, a new relationship, new furniture etc. etc.

Section 3 is what you see as your perfect life. Perhaps a house overlooking the sea, a Mercedes in the driveway, a high income, money in the bank, a stress free happy life with your partner and children, lots of time to travel the world and help others. Whatever it is that you really want - let your imagination run wild.

The next thing to do is to look at your list again and become more specific with everything. What exactly is it that you want? A 'higher income' isn’t being specific, nor is 'money in the bank'. How much income do you want? £1000, £5000, £10000, £50,000, £100,000? Or more? How much money do you want in the bank? What sort of car do you want in your driveway, the model, make, colour. Do this for everything you have listed and then decide when you want those things.

All wishes, ambitions, targets and objectives should always be 'time-bounded'.

But be realistic. If you say something like, "I want a million pounds/dollars by next month", you probably won’t believe this to be possible and neither will your unconscious mind - especially if you have been moaning about not having any money for years and years. But, in saying this, there is no reason why you can’t become a millionaire, if that is truly what you want, just give it a longer time frame.

As an example, if one of your 'wishes' is a 'higher income', this could be changed to something like, 'I want an income of £5000 per month by September 2013’ - or whenever.

If you do all of this you will know exactly what you want from life. You have your map - now get out and get it! It doesn’t matter if you can’t think of how you can possibly get all of these things. It may sound strange, but this isn’t important. Just start imagining that you have already got the things on your list. And do something, anything, to take the first few steps.

How To Become Wealthy: Steps To Wealth Part 2

Why The Devil Smokes

The Returning Car Number Plate Coincidence

My thanks to JC for providing the following coincidence. It's a bit complex but this makes it all the more amazing. The actual car number plate mentioned, in the story, has been withheld for privacy reasons.

"In 1972 I sold an Austin A40 car to someone who lived near High Wycombe, Bucks.

In 1976 I bought a second hand MGB from a dealer in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks. A month later my wife said that she thought that there was something strange about the number plate of the MGB. She looked in the files and found that it was exactly the same number plate, both letters and numbers that was on the A40 sold 4 years previously.

Fearing that that there may be something illegal about out 'new' car I obtained details from the DVLA. This is what had happened.

The person who purchased the Austin A40 from me moved to Norwich with the car and sold it to someone in Norwich sometime later.

The new owner of the A40 also owned an MGB and legally transferred the cherished number plate to the MGB.

That MGB was later sold to someone locally in Norwich who subsequently moved to Chalfont St Peter a few miles from where I lived, and traded the MGB in for a new car.

I saw the MGB advertised and purchased it without realising that the registration number was the same as the A40 when I owned it.

So some four years later and with three intervening owners, the number plate returned!

What are the odds on that happening? It has to be tens of millions to one! We still have the number plate, we could never let it go now. It has been transferred on every time my wife has changed her car."

Other Coincidence and Synchronicity Stories:
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Ladette To Lady Grandfather Coincidences

Jesus Spoke To Her Son

Today's post is somewhat different because it has a definite religious slant. I received it by email and it has also been published on the Beyond Religion website. I won't add anything else, see what you think.

"We believe in God, but we have never gotten into organized religion. I didn't have our son, Michael, enrolled in Sunday school as a child. We never talked about religion, God, Jesus, etc. to him or anyone else.

When Michael was about two-and-a-half or three, he walked out of his room one day, came into the living room and started telling me all this stuff about Jesus. It was basically about Joseph, Mary, their trip, Jesus' teachings, his dying on the cross and coming back to life. All kinds of things he couldn't have known since he wasn't in pre-school and couldn't have overheard it from any of our friends.

I asked him how he knew all this. He said matter-of-factly, "Jesus told me," like it was something that happens everyday. It floored me when he told me Jesus was the one who told him all this information. He didn't even know who Jesus was before that, didn't even know that name. I think Christ wanted him to know about him, and my husband and I weren't doing our job of teaching him about the spiritual life. Jesus decided to do it for us. Needless to say, I immediately enrolled him in a Sunday school.

He took to the classes very well. This happened many years ago. He definitely believes in God and Jesus even though we had never taught him anything about any of this. He went from not knowing anything about Jesus to being a believer.

That was the one and only time he has ever mentioned anything like that"

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Stigmata And The Copycat Wounds Of Jesus

The Marathon Runner Who Knows His Place

It was the Brighton Marathon in April with something like 8000 runners taking part. One of these was Mark Robinson or Robbo to his friends. He's 30 and from Oxford, England.

As you can see from the happy looking photo Robbo was assigned number 1555.

So, guess where he came in the race? Okay, I'm sure you've got the answer right as this blog's always on about coincidences. He finished in 1555th place.

He said about the race: "The run itself couldn’t have been more perfect for me, the conditions were ideal, the training had been perfect, and the support that lined the streets was larger than last year. It really does make a difference when strangers cheer your name."

And for those who need to know such information: Peter Some was first with a time of 2:12:03 and Svietlana Kouhan was the first woman at 2:29:37.

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30 Year Old Library Book Coincidence Story

Loads Of Paper Money And The Cornish Banknotes

I've got a whole bunch of paper money, currency banknotes from around the world. I accumulated many of these from when I used to publish worldwide magazines. I accepted all currencies but there were lots that the British banks wouldn't accept. I've many from places like Iran and Iraq - some brand new with Saddam Hussein on the front. Well, new at the time I received them as this was pre-Bush and Blair.

Amongst the collection I was rummaging through a couple of days ago was one from Cornwall - yes, Cornwall in England!

The following day, by coincidence, I got talking to someone locally and they asked if I remembered the time when a group in Cornwall tried circulating their own Cornish banknotes.

"Not only do I remember," I answered, "I have one from 1974."

This Cornish currency was issued by the Cornish Stannary Parliament under the name of the Cornish National Fund.

I won't go into the full details of the Cornish Stannary Parliament (CSP) but there is a section of the Cornish people who campaign for the restitution of Cornwall's legal right to govern itself, and do not recognise the British Parliament at Westminster, London. The reasons are quite complicated but fuller details can be seen on the CSP website. The general opinion is that Cornwall is a county of Britain and not a separate country or region.

The self styled Clerk to the Stannary at the time of these banknotes was a man called Frederick Trull. However, in 1975 Trull attempted to 'arrest' court officials at St.Austell's Magistrate's Court when he was being tried for a motoring offence. He produced twenty-five pages of documents to try and prove that the court had no jurisdiction over him in Cornwall. He obviously lost the case and was found guilty of using threatening words and behaviour with intent to breach the peace.

As Trull's signature (see on banknote above) was on the Cornish banknotes issued in 1974 they were all burnt - but I still have one copy - number 2450!

Reverse of the 10 shilling Cornish banknote

Strange, but you never know when whatever you have been looking at will pop up in conversation a short while later. Coincidence or Synchronicity or Chance?

P.S. While on the subject of currencies the Euro has had it's problems and there have been suggestions that it could collapse and countries would have to revert to their original currencies: Francs, Guilders, Marks, Lire and so on. Interesting, as I have a German 50 Million Mark banknote! Think the German's would honour this, if the Euro did collapse? After all it is genuine!!

Other Money Posts:
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Finding A £10 Note Coincidence
Magic Talisman Attracts Money

Key To Creating Our Desires And Conquering Pain With The Mind

I remember many years ago when I first read about the power of the mind, and what this could achieve, I was told that to create successfully you need to have self control of the emotions. As Solomon said, "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."

Back in my early days I was pretty relaxed about life, it's only as I've got older that things tend to irk me at times.

So what are these emotions that hold us back from what we are trying to create using the power of the mind?

There are four, according to what I was told:

(1) Fear
(2) Sensuousness
(3) Sex Desire
(4) Vanity

And these are probably correct as it's difficult to conceive any emotion that doesn't have it's origin in one or more of these four.

Self Control for many is a hard thing to achieve but it is also the way of greatness. Napoleon said if he could keep his anger below his chin he could control men. George Dewey won the battle with the Spanish fleet because he controlled himself and then his men. His command to his captain was a relaxed, "When you are ready, Gridley, you may fire."

Okay, we my not want to control others but this is what Richard Ingalese, an author and occultist, from the early 1900s wrote:

'Every time you lose self-control your aura or photosphere becomes so actively inharmonious that all creations you wish to draw to you are repelled. You cannot be a successful creator upon the spiritual, mental or physical planes unless able to control your emotions sufficiently to enable that which you have created to come to you.'

This is why when we visualise we should be relaxed mentally. To create with the mind isn't a clenched fist moment it's stating and seeing what is wanted calmly knowing whatever is required will come about. We simply have to picture clearly, release and then switch off and let the Universe do it's stuff.

I won't go on about this for too long, I like to keep posts of a readable length, but there is one more thing in favour of self control of the emotions. In Ingalese's words:

'One can never escape from pain until self control is acquired. One can never reach the place of peace until the conquest of self is made.'

There we go - food for thought!

Other Mind And Visualisation Posts:
Visualisation Of The Mystic Masters
The Secret Of Visualisation
The Universe Gives Me A Visualisation Lesson