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Welcome to Issue 3 of A Design For Life
 
For this issue I have been thinking about thinking. It is estimated
that we have in the region of 40,000 thoughts per day but that up
to 90% are the same as yesterday and if we are not careful will be
the same tomorrow. 
If we wish to see improvement in some areas of our lives then a
good place to start is to become more conscious of our thoughts.
This is often most evident in our language. For the rest of today
make a concerted effort not to use self defeating words and phrases
such as I can't, I would like to but (insert your favourite excuse
here)!!. 
A more extreme method of monitoring your self talk is to wear a
thick rubber band around your wrist and snap it whenever you catch
yourself uttering a self limiting or fear based phrase. The
physical reminder will act as an anchor to maintain more positive
language and thoughts.

CAN YOU IMAGINE YOUR ABUNDANCE?

Science tells us that we can only perceive, or literally see, that
which we can first conceive. There must be a firing of recognition
in the neurons of our brains, either in imagination or in
actuality, for us to register an object as a real. If you can't
imagine driving that luxury car or sitting on that white sandy
beach then it stands little chance of becoming true. 

Over 400 years ago when Portuguese explorer Magellan's fleet sailed
around the tip of South America he stopped at a placed called
Tierra del Fuego in modern day Chile. Coming ashore he met some
local natives who had come out to see the strange visitors. The
ship's historian documented that when Magellan came ashore the
natives asked him how he had arrived. They assumed that the sailors
were gods dropped from the sky. Magellan pointed out to his fully
rigged sailing ships at anchor off the coast. None of the natives
could see the ships. Because they had never seen ships before they
had no reference point for them in their brains, and could
literally not see them with their eyes.

How can this affect us in our sophisticated modern lives? Surely
with the availability of 24hr television and exposure to the
Internet we have seen all there is to see? Well maybe not,
financial expert Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best selling Rich
Dad Poor Dad series, explains that the only way to improve our
financial reality is by firstly raising our financial IQ. By
firstly becoming aware of the numerous paths to prosperity and the
abundance of opportunities to create wealth we can in time learn
how to take these opportunities. 

John D Rockefeller was quoted as saying "I have ways of making
money that you know nothing of".

Did you know for example, that more millionaires were made during
the great depression of the 1930s than at any other time in
American history? Or that there are over 30 methods to buy a
property using none of your own money? Or the many ways that you
could potentially profit from a falling stock market as well as a
rising one?
 
Continues on the SuccessBlog