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Sometimes I get tickled pea-green over lavender, especially when I receive an email like this…

Please remove me from your list. I don’t want to know about how to do business, I just want to make some money.

This puzzles me. You see, the only way I know to make money without doing business is by getting a job. So, if you don’t want to know about how to do business and you just want to make money, then get a job.

Unfortunately, all too many of the promoters both online and off lead people to believe that they can “make money” without applying sound, time-tested, and proven business methods.

I guess I’ve spent too long in the “real” business world (over 50 years) and the only things I have ever written about are “real” business methods that have worked for generations upon generations of “real” business people. That’s why some of my reports have sold well for over 30 years – with only minor updates.

Methods never change in the “real” business world. Applications change almost daily.

Real business just keeps on working for generations. Flash-in-the-pan “make money” programs have to be continually updated with new launches because they don’t rely upon real time-tested and proven business methods.

You’ll have to decide whether you want to try to “make money” using the latest magic formula of the week or do real business and make a fortune.

Think about it.

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About this article’s author:

J.F. (Jim) Straw began his long, successful career in business at the age of nine when he sold his first cans of Cloverleaf Salve and copies of GRIT newspaper. As a mail-order marketer with over 700,000 customers worldwide he has sold over four-hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) worth of products and services by mail — everything from beauty supplies to heavy equipment, burglar alarms to sleeping bags, fishing lures to women’s wigs, automobiles to wheelchairs, investment opportunities to seafood, consulting services to “how to” courses. His book Physio-Psychic Power – The Ultimate Success System is to be published by Kallisti Publishing.

You can become a millionaire in one year or less using the tried and proven methods Jim can teach you. Visit http://www.businesslyceum.com/BeAMillionaire.html.

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The “wealth consciousness” (or the “money consciousness,” the two will be used interchangeably in this article) is more than merely thinking that you are wealthy or that you have a “right” to be wealthy. It is a way of looking at the world and seeing opportunities, possibilities, and avenues for wealth creation.

Have you ever heard someone described as having a “mind for business”? Or that someone has the “Midas touch“?

To what are they referring?

They’re referring to that person’s ability (talent, skill) to see a way to make an activity or product or service profitable. Let’s use Bill Gates as an example.

The “secret” to Mr. Gates’ wealth is that he saw profit and a business opportunity where NO ONE ELSE saw one. At the time, the entire computer industry was focused on the hardware as the way to make money. When Gates pitched IBM on licensing his software (something which at the time was quite revolutionary) and he stipulated that he could license to other companies, IBM approved, their thinking being that you make money with the hardware and not with the few cents in the licensing fee for the software.

That is the deal that began Mr. Gates’ rise. It made him millions.

THAT is the money consciousness. Looking at a “deal” and making it a better deal.

Get it?

The same with Steve Jobs and Apple: They got many of their ideas from the Xerox PARC facility because Xerox did not see how those technologies could make them money. One (Apple) had the “money consciousness”; the other (Xerox) did not. (Although it must be said that they had and continue to have it it many other areas.)

So, it’s not a matter of gratitude nor of “putting the Law of Attraction into operation,” it’s a matter of looking at the things around you and seeing the economic possibilities with them. Develop a solution to a problem you (and perhaps others) have. See the world with new eyes and ask yourself the question “How can I make it better?” Look at the world around you like you’ve never before seen it and perceive the value in it.

Finally, take what you’ve found and make money.

You will have found the “money consciousness.”

Learn everything about the money consciousness with Charles F. Haanel’s Complete Master Key Course.

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Your thoughts are physical vibrations of energy and real forces. The thoughts you are choosing to entertain are creating your life every moment. Any thought habitually repeated with emotion and feeling makes an imprint on the subconscious.

There is a direct relationship between your thinking and the problems and opportunities of your life. By working with your thought and beliefs, you can choose your reality.

Changing your thoughts and beliefs changes everything. What you believe is the attracting force by which life experiences are drawn to you.

You are a creative law unto yourself, so whatever you believe is right. What you see in your mind is what you get. All that we experience has its root cause within.

Open up your mind to various options and possibilities. The only real boundaries are those that exist in your mind.

Listen to what you are thinking and saying. How you perceive and frame your situation in your mind is very important because it’s being imprinted into your subconscious. Your subconscious picks up everything you say. What you say over and over again is what you’re programming your mind to believe.

Only speak of what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t live a life allowing your own thoughts and words to work against you. The power to get what you want and not get what you want is in your words.

Discipline your thoughts to focus on the positive side of life to keep negative forces from working against you. You will become what you talk and think about all day and every day.

Serious self-reflection is a tool to discover what you want out of life. You can’t get ahead without clearly defined goals and a plan to achieve them. Knowing where you are and where you’re going will determine your future situations and circumstances.

As you make the decision to do something, the plans and ideas will begin to flow. Don’t worry about how you’re going to do something or how it will happen. Opening up your thoughts will cause opportunities to open up.

The opportunities and problems you meet in life are related to your thinking. Your beliefs form an energetic vibration attracting or repelling events, circumstances, and people. Since you attract according to your beliefs, each belief should be carefully examined. Once limiting or empowering beliefs take root within the subconscious, they will be reflected back to you as experience. Therefore, you must examine which beliefs are working for or against you.

Free yourself of undesirable beliefs and embrace new ones that will work in your favor.

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Jawara D. King

About this Article’s Author: Jawara D. King has emerged as one of the world’s finest spiritual teachers of our time and is a frequently invited to speak at schools and Universities. He has been interviewed by The Center For Union Facts, ABC-7 news, NBC-4′s Chris Gordon, MSNBC, and other television networks. He is a certified spiritual counselor and an internationally renowned author, researcher, and speaker in the field of self-development, consciousness, enlightenment, inner peace, and grief counseling, and facilitates clients in personal growth and discovery, appearing frequently on radio talk shows. He is the author of the spiritual classic WORLD TRANSFORMATION: A Guide To Personal Growth And Consciousness.

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I am somewhat sensitive to sounds. If I hear something out of place — an errant squeak, a slightly off-balance picture on a shelf that knocks as it wobbles when a person walks by it — I have to investigate the source of the sound and fix it so as to make it stop.

When I heard a small, barely audible knocking in my office a couple of weeks ago, I just thought it was the wind.

Then I felt everything swaying ever so slightly. I still thought it was the wind.

It lasted longer than a burst of wind usually lasts, though.

That’s when I received an email that stated that my area was struck by a small earthquake.

Holy cow! What the heck is going one here?

I know that some of you in places like California are laughing at me. I’ve seen the web sites showing the “damage” from the earthquake that originated in Virginia: the toppled lawn chairs and shaken knick-knacks.

You must understand that this was my very first one! Ever. It was the first for probably everyone in my area. It was … Weird.

Moving forward a couple weeks later to this past weekend, my area found itself once again being toyed with by Mother Nature.

This time it was flooding.

The Susquehanna River rising and almost covering the Market Street Bridge in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

A couple places in my area were decimated. Our downtown was evacuated and people expected the worst. The levees that were built to withstand waters of up to 41 feet held strong even though the river crested at over 42 feet.

It’s been somewhat crazy. I even quipped that if hordes of locusts appear, I’m calling game over!

My area isn’t the only place. There are fires in Texas. Flooding in other places. Hurricanes.

What’s the point of all this?

Already in my area, clean up has begun in earnest. People who have lost everything are assessing things and planning their next move. Businesses are moving as quickly as possible to get things up and running.

Human nature, even when forced to the brink by Mother Nature, perseveres and prevails.

In our individual lives, we cannot control everything that happens. As Forrest Gump said in the movie, sometimes “crap happens.” (I sanitized that for our all-ages audience.)

What counts is how we react to the crap. What counts is what we do after the crap has passed. What counts is that we keep on keeping on after all the crap is thrown at us.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Friedrich Nietzsche who exhorted “Build your houses on Vesuvius.”

Life, no matter how safe we try to play it, will always toss something at us. It will do its best to knock us down a notch. It will take its best shot time and again.

We’re better than that, though. We’re stronger. We’re smarter.

So dream big and plan bigger.

Talk loudly and act boldly.

You might fall and fail. You might lose and be defeated. You might end up battered and broken.

But you’ll overcome it. You will prevail. You will stand tall.

That’s just what tough “sum-bitches” like us tend to do.

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One of my favorite quotes — one that guides much of my life and work — is a Japanese proverb:

Your garden is not complete until there’s nothing more you can take out of it.

A garden cannot have EVERYTHING in it. If it does, it ceases to be a garden and instead becomes a mess. A tangled mess.

Beautiful gardens are those in which the person who tends to it carefully and with great thought removes that which is not necessary.

The result is that those plants and flowers that remain are able to get all the nourishment they need and thus they grow strong and true.

People who see the garden or who walk through it notice the care and fore-thought that went into the planning can care and they appreciate the beauty that surrounds them.

The same holds true for your life.

As you remove that which isn’t necessary to you, you begin to nourish those notions and ideas and things that do mean something to you.

So, first you remove the weeds.

Next, you remove the things that, while not weeds, tend to occupy your time to no end.

After that, you remove the not so important flowers and plants. This is where it gets tricky because it may be a close call between what you will keep and what you will discard.

Life is full of tough choices, though.

And they need to be done.

You will finally come to the point that there will be nothing more that you can take from your garden.

What you will be left with is your completed garden. If you tend to it and care for it properly, then you will have a resplendent garden that you will be proud to show.

Sometimes, life and work and play isn’t about acquiring or attaining. It is about removing, trimming, honing, and discarding.

Think about that quote for a little while. I think that as you do that, it will make more and more sense to you.

“Your garden is not complete until there’s nothing more you can take out of it.”

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