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My new, free ebook The Power of Affirmations, helps you to focus the power of the universe to improve your
- money and finances
- health
- work and career
or any area of your life.
If you have ever had problems using affirmations, or even if you haven't, if you have been using affirmations for years or if you are a complete novice, The Power of Affirmations can help you. Click here to download it now.
In order to achieve the next stage in your success, and move to the next level, you need to acknowledge what you have already accomplished.
The more you concentrate and focus on what you have already achieved, the more easily you will achieve your next goal. This is called the Law of Increase.
The same abilities and qualities that helped you to get where you are will help you to move towards the next stage.
Affirmations are positive statements which we can use to help us achieve our goals.
The problem with affirmations is that we don't get instant results. We can't just start doing affirmations and immediately see the kinds of results we want to see. So we get discouraged.
As soon as we start moving in a positive direction, we immediately become more aware of our negative thoughts, tendencies, habits and beliefs. They come up for us BIG TIME. But don't freak out. This is just part of the process.
You can use affirmations to improve your money situation, work and career, health, or in fact, any area of your life.
A quantum leap is not the same thing as making small, gradual changes. A quantum leap is a major leap forward.
To make a quantum leap in your business, your career, or any area of your life, you have to take a leap of faith. Know that if you put in the effort, if you take action, you will get the rewards you seek.
You need to take massive action. And that action will be based on what you have achieved in the past.
Part 2 is about the three stages of successfully manifesting what we want. Click here to read it.
Strategy 4 - Learn from Positive Role Models.
History has given us many, many Black achievers. And there are more and more Black people achieving success every day.
For example, Diane Abbott, MP, the first African Caribbean woman to be elected to the House of Commons, is now in the running for the Labour Party leadership. To read my interview with her, see Black Success Stories.
Often, we don't know about Black achievement. These stories are not readily available. We need to seek them out.
Read about successful Black people. Learn about what they achieved and how they achieved it. Study their lives and apply this knowledge to your own life.
In Part 1, I blogged about why Black people are not achieving our full potential, and the need to understand the problem. This is the first step towards finding a solution. Know your history, and learn the lessons of history.
What is your vision for 2010?What change or improvement do you most want to see?
I know that real change is possible.I’ve seen it and I’ve created it myself, in my own life and in other people’s.You can create it too.
My vision for 2010 is for everyone to have a better life.Yes, I do mean everyone.Including you.
A world in which everyone has enough to eat, to spare and to share, in which children do not go to bed hungry.
A world in which there is no conflict in Iraq.In which there is no need to send troops into Afghanistan, or anywhere else.
A world in which violence is not seen as a solution.In which there is no domestic violence.Where parents do not beat their children or use intimidation to control them.
A world in which there are no so-called "honour killings".
A world in which women and children are not trafficked for the sex trade.
A world in which people do not exploit each other.
A world in which children are not drugged and forced to fight as child soldiers, amputating people’s hands or killing adults and each other.
A world in which the economies of whole communities do not depend on the drug trade.
A world in which tasers and other forms of police violence are not used to control the population.
A world in which people are not executed, where human life is respected, and all life is treated as sacred.
A world in which we find solutions to resolve our differences in ways that respect the needs of all concerned.In which we all live together in peace and harmony.
My vision for 2010 is for peace on earth.I’m sure you share this vision.I sure know I can’t do this on my own.We need to work together on this one.
Peace on earth is totally achievable.By us.Together.
We can heal our families. We can heal our communities. We can heal the world.
When people of African heritage succeed and prosper, everyone all over the world benefits from our success.
Peace on earth begins within – within each of us.When we create inner peace, this points the way to how we can create peace on our planet.
This is not a vision just for 2010, it’s for the rest of my life, and yours, and your children’s lives, and their children’s, and so on.
We can change the world.We can create global prosperity and global peace.Together, we can achieve this.
I will be interviewed by Diana Broomfield on her radio show this Saturday, 5th August, 4 p.m. EST (9 p.m. UK time). I hope you will join us! Click here to listen online.
I will be talking about my books, my courses, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and much more.
Did you know thatJohn H. Johnson, founder of Ebony magazine and the Johnson publishing empire, studied biographies of Black achievers and freedom fighters such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass? It was important to him to follow their examples as he climbed from poverty to wealth and business success.