Weird day so far. I overslept, which I rarely do. I was having a dream that I’d been dating celebrities, and had just came back from some event, heartbroken over Terrence Howard, only to fall in like with a visiting guest Djimon Hounsou.

He was totally feeling me and made it known. Great dream.

I woke up feeling like love is just around the corner, with someone with long-term intentions, whose feelings I won’t have to guess at or wait an eternity to hear about. Funny as I’m interested in a light skinned man who is a Cancer – every one I’ve ever dated is worth waiting for BUT they seem to take forever to tell you how they feel. Long friendship then courtship process. Then there’s a mysterious dark skinned man who is really into me, but he’s SO hot I can’t be around him because my clothes try to jump off my body.

A Scorpio, of course.

Anyway, later I’m walking back to the house – only half a mile today because I’m incredibly sore in my left leg, which is weird, because the one with the problem is the right.

And I decide to listen to my financial success subliminal instead of regular music. It’s not on ten minutes when I find a dollar on the sidewalk. Weird stuff like that always happens when it’s on. I’ve decided that represents the goal amount I want to generate in my next joint venture, that it’s going to just show up unexpectedly, and when it does, seem like not a lot of money to me.

Let the church say amen.

Today, I wanted to record two things.

One is the feeling of absolute exhilaration I’ve been feeling on and off since Saturday. In my heart I can feel with vivid clarity that something special is about to take place, something beautiful and magical, and something that is going to change my life for the better, something that will enhance the lives of those around me.

Secondly, is that I had a checkpoint this past Friday. I may have explained what a checkpoint is, but if I haven’t, here you go: it’s a combination deja vu and extremely powerful feeling of positive premonition and destiny. Within a week or so or having them, some manifestation far beyond any abundance I could possibly have imagined comes along and blesses me as hard as it can.

I call them checkpoints because of the feeling I have when they happen. It’s as if God is saying, “You’re in the best possible place in the best possible path of any of the available ones for you to have chosen from.”

And I went through a little rough patch there for a week or so after bringing a great many positive things to me. So Thank God.

In the last post we talked about how 17 seconds of unfocused, non-contradicting thought it equal to about a workday, and that about 2 hours worth would amount to about a year, working every day of the week. (If you could somehow work 24 hours a day, it would be more like 6 hours.)

It’s not a theory I can prove, nor do I know where to find evidence. All I know is that thinking things out first works really well for me. A friend in my Mastermind group also told me this works on a larger scale, in his experience, as in actually Doing a project, not just the planning stages.

Let’s do an experiment of our own to see if we can improve our lives with this theory.

That would mean we have to find out the meaning of “focused, un-contradicting thought“.

Let’s break it down.

Focused thought is when you keep your mind on one thing only.

Think of a goal you want to accomplish in the next week, or better yet, an item from your to-do list that’s not to-done.

For this exercise, accept whatever comes. Get a stop watch or alarm, and set it to go for 17 seconds. When we’re done, scroll down to the next part of the exercise.

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All done? What was your experience?. Before I taint you with the idea of what normally happens, take a minute to write yours down, if it helps, do the 17 seconds again, but write everything you think. (I didn’t tell you to do that before because about 60% of folks get mixed up trying to do both).

This will work SO much better for you if you don’t peek, I promise. It’s not an assessment of whether you’re good or bad at something, You just want to see where you are so you can realistically gauge how hard or easy this task will be for you.

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Finished? That was fast.

Most people can think of one thing for 17 seconds with no problem.

Where we run into issues is in keeping ourselves in creative language.

That’s the non-contradicting part. Think of the manifestation process as a three-part deal. The first part is discovering what you want, goal setting, planning, life management, whatever you want to call it.

The second part, which the film the Secret is largely, but not completely, focused on is the right type of thinking, that’s where the whole asking, then believing, then receiving part comes in. And this is also part of what Dr. Robert Anthony is talking about. Your mental focus is the seed of the tree that is your life. Bad seed, bad life.

Sidebar: Now if you planted bad seeds in life unwittingly, is it your “fault” that you get a bad tree. No. But you’re responsible for recognizing and changing it, now that you know that what you have is not what you want.

Review your experience with the 17 seconds of thought, get your notes if you had them.

Did you have all positive thoughts about your goal? Most people don’t. Even experts at positive thought, law of attraction, manifestation or personal development find that their thoughts are riddled with worry.

Mine went like this (I purposely didn’t go through the steps I normally would, such as worry in reverse, so I could give you the experience closer to how most people will have it.)

I have to write that sales letter for the group mentoring traffic generation thing.

God, I should have done that last week. I’m so lazy.

Well, no, I’m not lazy, I’ve just been busy. And I hate the name. Plus I put it off so I could do it from a place of “I want to help people get more clients and customers” not “I want to make money to pay debts, pay for health costs, find a great place to live here and go to Africa for a month or a year”.

Maybe I shouldn’t even do it. I can only handle 25 people at a time. I could make that membership site into an audio site instead. No, that’s stupid. Maybe it’s not.

Aaaaaaand time. Took longer to type than it did to think. So what happened there?

1. First I said I was going to do something.
2. Then I berated myself for having not done it.
3. Then I rationalized why it wasn’t done.
4. Then I rationalized again.
5. Then I thought about not doing it.
6. Then I went off on some other tangent that had nothing to do with the original purpose of the thought.

That is not focused thought.

We all think we’re being focused in our thoughts, but we’re really not.

Thought, unchecked, unpracticed, is a messy, sticky, jumbled mess.

What makes it unfocused?

Well, first, I didn’t stay on the topic. Second, when I did stay on the topic, I thought about things I didn’t want, rather than on what I wanted.

Can I go back in time and change events to make it so that I remembered to do the sales letter last week? Probably, according to Einstein’s theory of relativity. But I don’t know how.

So there’s no useful reason for me to beat myself up for not having the task done yet. It’s not as if making myself feel bad prevents me from procrastinating in the future.

Now we know what unfocused thought it. What is non-contradicting thought?

It’s when all the thoughts you’re having about something are in harmony. Instead of thinking, “Maybe I should do that. No, I shouldn’t. Well, maybe i could IF” – we want to pick one thing, and believe it’s possible and attainable, then act and think accordingly.

My entire thought train should have been about doing the sales letter.

- what to say
- how to make it come across the way I actually feel, rather than as a used car salesman
- folding in the fact that I can only serve a certain amount of people at a time as a reason why they need to sign up the first time they see the page.
- how to get it done quickly and effectively
- how much it will cost

Those are the things that would have been on my mind, under normal circumstances.

Next time, we will talk about how a person with a disciplined, productive mind would sound, and how to become that person. Until then, try this experiment.

Whenever you think of something you have to do or a goal you want to reach, keep your thoughts about it positive for 17 seconds. If you fail, start over. Keep the language creative.

You’ll find that if you concentrate, you can keep a thought from finishing a cycle of negativity, by just letting it float by, or changing the direction mid-thought.

Let me know how you did on the exercise below.

Dr. Robert Anthony says, in the How to Be Rich series says 17 seconds of focused, non-contradicting thought is equivalent to 10 hours of physical work. So if keeping a positive thought in your head about what you want to attain, is about the amount of work as a work day, then 7 times that would be like a week of work with no break, or about 2 minutes of thought (119 seconds).

And four times that would be like a month of work (476 seconds) which works out to a bit less than 8 minutes. There are 12 calendar months in a year, but let’s go by 365 divided by 28 and see how much thought could equal a year of work.

13 months times 8 minutes.

104 minutes, or an hour and 44 minutes. If I could spend an hour and 44 continuous minutes doing focused, non-contradictive thought, it would be a year’s worth of work?

Seems hard to believe, and I don’t know if that is accurate, or where he came up with the proof. What I do know is that

1- People constantly ask me how I can be so productive, especially when it seems like I spend all my time helping them.

2- In the same way very wise people think carefully before they speak, I strive to think carefully before I act. Meaning I try to work out as much in my head before my pen ever hits paper.

That goes for writing poetry, writing a sales page, creating a traffic plan for a site, putting together a blog post. When I do that, I make fewer mistakes during the process, and since it already exists in my head, I get work done faster. I wait as long as I possibly can to bring something from my mind into reality. Of course, some things can only be worked out once they are in physical form, and I allow for that too.

But of all my best-selling products, ALL of them were 80% written in my head before I typed, spoke, or videoed a single word.

How is that helpful? It’s helpful with not wasting time un-creating.

Think about it. If you try to go somewhere you have just a “general” idea of without directions, you’ll probably get a little lost at some point.

“Oh, no, wait, this is the 1100 block. I wanted 903 West Haven Avenue.”

And that’s fun, to get a bit lost when trying to find a place you haven’t been to before. As a bonus you can learn your way around an area better.

It’s not so much fun in life.

It took me a year of wrong turns to figure out how to rank well in Google, and another six months to figure out how to show people to DO what I was, instead of doing it for them. I have never promoted this page, except for pinging and a few blog comments, and in Yahoo it’s number one for Tinu, out of 1.7 million pages.

Not a competitive listing but it’s crazy that I know how to do this so well that I literally rank by accident.

To get really personal with it, how long has it taken most of us to find the right person in our lives. Most of us just happen to fall in love, we don’t actually plan to find someone we feel is compatible, and make a conscious choice that the person we want must have these specific qualities we want. Nor do we make the changes we need to make to be suitable for that person.

No, we kinda meet at work, and they do this thing that gets on my nerves, but I’ll live with it because I love them. And later that thing they’re living with leads to a divorce.

Would half of marriages end that way if we really picked correctly to start with? How many times have I subconsciously selected unavailable men?

And yet, even 17 seconds of focused, non-contradicting thought is so hard to accomplish. It sounds easy, but let me tell you what “focused, non-contradicting” means.

We’ll talk about that in the next post.

Right here, now today, I know it. I’m gonna tell you in a minute. Let me tell you the back story first.

I stumbled upon how I could make $24,000 in about two days. I thought it was the secret to making $2500 in about two days when I ventured to do it — I really wasn’t expecting to be so successful. This wasn’t something I discovered alone. When I partnered up with a certain friend of mine, our combined energy created this.

And if that wasn’t enough, the following weekend, we created it again. This was about two years ago.

Now, you’d think that since I figured out this secret, all I have to do is

1- Do it again, and,

2- Do it every week.

But I’ve been afraid.

You see, shortly after this monumentous thing happened to me, when I figured out how to make a lot of money in a short amount of time, it was all taken from me. To put it simply, there was a middle man collecting the money. To add insult to injury, other money this middle man was holding for me, I didn’t get either.

And this middle man decided I couldn’t have my money. Until recently, I didn’t get any of it. Even now, I only get a little taste here and a little taste here. The details of why, and what I eventually decided to do about this to fight back don’t matter here today. The fact is that I figured out how to never have that problem again.

Which begs the question why?

Why in the name of all good things don’t I just do the same thing that I did again? What’s the big deal already?

I’ll tell you why.

It’s because I’m afraid. Specifically, I’m afraid of that feeling, that awful feeling that comes from having something you worked hard and honestly for ripped from you.

That honesty part is very important. Because the lure of easy money, of getting money the wrong way but also getting hurt in the process is very real and present.

I’ve been offered the opportunity to do things very shady to things that are technically legal, but morally wrong. Literally millions of dollars had been offered to me to take the easy way out, but I’ve always declined on ethical grounds.

I wanted to make money the right way, and waiting to do just that really made me feel smart when I finally made money the way you’re supposed to, through hard work and the value exchange.

And having it taken away made me feel like the world just has it in for small business owners online. I got into my head that “they say” we’re only allowed to make so much money before we’re smacked back down into our “place.” Coming to my realization helps me see how this just isn’t true.

The feeling of realizing that someone’s not just taking everything your whole life had been building towards, but also eliminating the positive cash flow your business had finally attained ate me alive, to the point that I fell physically ill, the complications of which I am still recovering from.

And the feeling was so much more devastating in contrast to the feeling, only 24 hours prior, of having generated so much wealth in so little time, based on the fact that I partnered up with someone who complimented me perfectly as a short-term business partner.

Now, having realized that consciously (instead of subconsciously, where I’m sure it lurked for years). I am filled with a sense of bliss. A sense of complete power over my own destiny. I can’t describe it to you. I only know this.

My pledge is: I am going to take a risk that big again. I’m going to do an even bigger project, with even more exposure, and even more partners. And I will succeed.

The reason I know it is that my failure wasn’t a true failure, it was a learning experience. No matter how it shakes up in any other view, I did make that money. No one can ever take that away from me. Because I know now that even if I were to fail,

1- I know how to survive it, and
2- I know how to keep my business from going bankrupt because of it.

Of course, this time, if the middle man doesn’t give me my hard-earned cash, I’ll just have all my customers ask for a refund, immediately, instead of trying to run a world class project on a shoestring budget.

There’s something else I was afraid of, too, that I’m taking the pledge not to be afraid of anymore, starting today. I’ll write about that soon.

What are YOU afraid of?

And what are you gonna DO about it??

It is said of the Universal God Ra:

“Speak Universal Master”, he says after having become.

“it is I, the becoming of Kepera, when I became the becoming of those who became after my becoming, for numerous are the desires coming out of my mouth, when the Earth had not yet been formed, when the sons of the Earth who were not yet made: the snakes, out of whose dwelling I came, Out of this NUN* where I was among the dispirited, no place was found for me where I could stand up.

“I found in my heart that which hould be useful to me and in the void that would serve me as a foundatation, when I was alone, when I had not begotten Shut (space) when I had not yet spat out Tefnut (water), when no other divinity that would have been made with me had yet become. Therefore, I conceived myself in my own heart and the becoming of my numberous becomings of my becomings in the becomings of the children and in the becomings of their children.”

* NUN is understood to be a thinking nothingness/void or self-aware pre-spirit without form, where No Thing exists but It.

I contemplate this as a possible answer to questions like: If God is All, How Was God Created? Is God the God of Himself/Itself/Herself/Themselves?

Or, as we are individuated pieces of God, has God individuated non-mortal pieces of God’s own Spirit to rule over other individuations of her/his/its non-mortal Spirit?

It also gives me food for thought in terms of manifesting joy or success into one’s life. If we’re individuations of the same spirit, as is set forth in Conversations with God, then isn’t it possible that we have this power of creation somewhere within us, and must only learn to tap into it?

Because, if we think of ourselves in that same embryotic state of Godhood, and then become self-aware, in that self-awareness, are we not then capable of the same types of creation? Only, with a time delay implemented for our own safety?

I believe learning to create is one of the central purposes of mortality. It’s as if we’re on a test stage in this plane that we call reality, like the practice section of a video game. All the same rules of nature apply as when we’re in full game play mode, however, we can only cause a limited amount of destruction, and a limited amount of pain.

Until we over come all these things, including space, including the time delay of fulfillment. Then we have the power to create or destroy our world.

A friend and I wrote about this concept of Kepera in terms of people we were in love with at the time, which I’ll post next.

Wikipedia – Kepera also spelled Khepera means to come into being in Egyptian.

It’s called Worry in Reverse.

Before I explain how to worry in reverse, I want to talk a little bit about worry. We all do it, and I used to be a top offender. It’s amazing how much time we humans seem to waste on an activity that changes nothing but how emotionally tortured we are about life.

Not to mention the possibility that, if our theories about the Law of Attraction are on-target at all, we could actually actively be making things worse by observing them in a negative light.

But Law of Attraction aside, what exactly does worry get us? I used to think, preparation for the worst and elimination of surprises. But never in life has the absolute worst thing I could imagine happened. Even when things went wrong, they didn’t go as badly as I pictured.

Worry just changes our mood. And think about it, even if it’s not true that your mood has bearing on the outcome of events, you’re losing two things whenever you get into a bad mood that could be avoided.

1. The potential joy of the moment.
2. Perspective.

Who wants to give away joy needlessly? Not me. Life is too short. By the time we start to get the hang of things, it’s time to pack up and ascend.

And perspective may not seem like a big deal. But don’t you always make better choices, see things more clearly, and find better opportunities for success when your mood is better?

The fact is, we have complete governance over our thoughts, if we chose to – easier said than done, but it’s still a choice.

Worry is reverse is simply taking the habit of worry and pondering a positive outcome to the problem instead. In the next, shorter article, I’ll go over some easy steps on how to do this.

photo credit: wotthe7734

A struggle I would constantly have with learning to create good realities is getting stuck thinking about things that I don’t want to florish.

And of course, that’s what I would get, the things I don’t want, because I was calling them to me by thinking of them constantly.

I’ve recently found that in addition to worry in reverse (which I’ll describe another day), singing out loud stops my brain from thinking, and heightens my mood. I follow that up with repetition aloud of phrases.

What phrases? Doesn’t much matter as long as it’s positive.

I like to repeat the conditions that I would like to appear, for example, “They’re going to say yes to my quote.” or “This will be a fun meeting.” (I know. I didn’t think fun and meeting belonged in the same sentence either! But it’s actually possible.)

Or I focus on what I’d like to create next and say my thoughts out loud. Another good one is spelling words backwards out loud.

All of these things make it much harder to think of things you don’t want. Don’t make it harder than it is – all you need to do is take your mind off the things you’re worried about.

photo credit: Airton kieling

I’ve been thinking a lot today about how to create the best mental foundation for the physical reality I’m in, and I was reading my Thoughts from the Universe that I’ve been missing the last 73 days. And I came across one that stresses visualization…. and you know what?

Ever since around my mid-20s, I lost a big part of my ability to visualize somehow. I think maybe when I was trying to get over some heartbreak or another, I stopped visualizing long enough for those neurons to stop firing together.

And yet? Spontaneously I sometimes can still envision things when I don’t think about it, so I know I still have the ability, just not the control. In the meantime I’ve just been practicing positive focus as worry in reverse, which has helped dramatically as well.

So. Anyway.

I realized what I need to do, and this will help me re-learn visualization. All I need to do is focus on remembering the last time I saw something that looks like what I want to have – imagination takes over from there.

For example, I start out thinking… I’d love to have a proud and peaceful moment with my mother when I see her tomorrow. And I wondered how to visualize that. I thought, hey she’ll probably look happy. And the last time I remember seeing her with a smile popped into my head!

So all I had to do was take that picture from Saturday and let my imagination adjust and expand it. Try and and let me know how it works for you.