Two Principles for Financial
Success
By
Brian Tracy
February 28,
2008
Excerpt From: Financial
Success
The Two Great Principles
for Success
There are two great
principles for achieving financial success. The first
Principle is what we call the law of attraction. The law of
attraction says that you are a living magnet. It says that
your thoughts create a force field of energy that radiates
out from you and attracts back into your life people and
circumstances in harmony with them. Any thought you have,
combined with an emotion, positive or negative, radiates
out from you and attracts back into your life the people,
circumstances, ideas and opportunities consistent with
it.
How to Attract the Success
You Desire
Many people feel that this is
perhaps the most important of all mental laws. It says that
if you have a very clear idea in your mind of your desired
goal, to become wealthy, and you can hold that idea in your
mind on a continuing basis, you will inevitably draw into
your life the resources that you need in order to achieve
it. Every person who has become wealthy or successful has
become wealthy and successful as a result of holding the
idea of wealth and success in their mind long enough and
hard enough, until they drew into their lives the resources
they needed to accomplish it.
Your World Reflects Your
Thoughts
The second principle is
called the law of correspondence. This mental law is very
powerful. It says, "as within, so without." It says that
your outer world is like a mirror that reflects back to you
what is going on in your inner world. And this law of
correspondence says that everything that happens outside of
you corresponds to something that's going on inside of you.
When we say that your outer world is a reflection of your
inner world, we mean both at a conscious and at a
subconscious level.
Visualize Your Goals
Clearly
If you consciously believe
that you have the ability to achieve your goals and you can
hold a picture of those goals clearly in your mind long
enough and hard enough, eventually your outer world will
correspond with it.
Three Reflections of
Success
There are three places where
we see this law of correspondence. First of all, your outer
world of people will correspond exactly with your own
attitude. You will always see your attitude reflected back
to you in the faces and the behaviors of the people around
you. If you have a positive, optimistic attitude, people
will respond to you almost immediately, even before you
open your mouth, in a positive and cheerful way.
Relationships Show You Who
You Are
The second area where we see
the law of correspondence is in your relationships. Your
relationships will always mirror back to you exactly the
kind of a person you are. When you are happy and optimistic
and at peace, your relationships will be happy and
harmonious and loving. But when your thinking is disrupted
or negative for any reason, consciously or unconsciously,
this will be immediately reflected in your
relationships.
Inner and Outer
Wealth
The third place you see the
law of correspondence is with regard to your wealth. Your
external world of wealth and financial accomplishment will
be a mirror image of your inner world of preparation. The
only part of the equation that you can control is your
conscious thoughts, and if you can keep your conscious
thoughts on what you want, on your images of wealth and
affluence, eventually your external world of reality and
experiences will reflect it back to you.
Action
Exercises
Here are two things you can
do to apply these principles in your financial
life:
First, guard your thoughts
carefully. Whatever you think about, combined with the
emotions of desire or fear, you will attract into your
life. Be sure that you are attracting what you want by
continuing to think only about what you want.
Second, keep feeding your
mind with new information, ideas and pictures of the person
you want to be and the life you want to live. By creating
this inner attitude of mind, you change the outer aspects
of your reality.
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