| Ordinarily, when we think of "success," we envision a | | | | skills that you lack in work or other areas of your life -- |
| solid level of achievement that occurs over an | | | | including the technical skills required of your job; as well |
| extended period of time. Never does it occur to us | | | | as interpersonal skills, such as listening, writing, |
| that success can occur instantaneously, and even | | | | presenting, communicating, capacity to work through |
| infinitely -- contradicting our ordinary notions of what is | | | | problems, decision making, and so forth. Then develop |
| logical and possible. | | | | a plan to upgrade them, and carry it out. Watch as |
| Such instantaneous vast results can occur when we | | | | opportunities open up for you from the most |
| shift our consciousness to the positive. When we | | | | unexpected quarters! |
| overcome our limiting behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs, | | | | Take Responsibility in Life |
| life outside ourselves tends to respond with sudden | | | | Throughout our lives, we are confronted by situations |
| good fortune. Such wondrous occurrences are | | | | and circumstances that challenge our sensibilities. It is |
| instances of what can be called as "Life Response." | | | | how we respond to these challenges that often |
| With that in mind, here are several strategies to help | | | | determine whether or not we truly achieve in life. |
| you attract sudden and abundant success and | | | | Those who take responsibility accomplish and grow as |
| happiness in life. | | | | people. Those who blame others, or otherwise ignore |
| Accept the Given; That Which Life Puts Before You | | | | the symptoms, achieve less and stagnate. By moving |
| Life is constantly putting situations before us that we | | | | to a deeper level of consciousness, we can begin to |
| can accept, neglect, or reject. If we accept and take | | | | perceive that everything occurring around us -- |
| up these givens of life, sudden good fortune can come | | | | including the negative situations and circumstance that |
| our way. Consider which aspects of your life you've | | | | come our way -- are a direct reflection of our own |
| been reluctant to embrace. Once you understand the | | | | inner condition. If we then "take responsibility" in such |
| cause, make the concerted effort to overcome your | | | | situations by discovering and then reversing the |
| reluctance or hesitation. Watch life suddenly and | | | | corresponding negative elements in our selves - i.e. in |
| abundantly respond thereafter! | | | | our false actions and behaviors, and in our limited |
| Reverse your Wanting Attitudes | | | | attitudes, opinions, and beliefs -- life outside us can |
| The majority of the problems we encounter in life | | | | suddenly respond with great fortune. |
| originate in our wanting attitudes. However, if we | | | | Give Objects, People Greater Attention |
| reverse ourselves and make them positive, life can | | | | Everything in life -- including people, objects, stocks of |
| suddenly and abundantly respond. Consider the | | | | inventory, and money -- respond positively to attention. |
| negative attitudes you have towards other, and | | | | Consider which individuals and what objects around |
| towards life itself. Then make a concerted effort to | | | | you require more attention, and then come up with a |
| overcome one or two of the most problematic ones. | | | | plan for improvement. When you implement your plan, |
| When you do so, the infinite potentials of life will rush to | | | | not only will the objects of your attention blossom |
| your doorstep! | | | | before your eyes, but the infinite potentials of life can |
| Make the Full Effort | | | | suddenly rush to your doorstep. |
| We normally believe that putting out a certain amount | | | | Grow by Giving |
| of physical effort will produce a commensurate result. | | | | The happiest people have one characteristic in |
| Though, this is of course true, there is also another | | | | common -- they are continually giving of themselves. |
| perspective. It is that if we give in to life and make the | | | | While most of us are fully absorbed in our daily |
| necessary full effort -- expending all of our energies -- | | | | concerns and routines -- driven by our own needs, |
| life will take over and complete the work in no time. As | | | | desires, and ambitions -- the happiest of people literally |
| situations arise, consider where you can make a | | | | lose themselves in the feelings, thoughts, and |
| greater effort. Then take up that work in full. | | | | aspirations of others. Shifting your focus to the |
| Thereafter, notice if life supports your effort with | | | | concerns of others has this extraordinary capacity to |
| sudden good fortune. | | | | attract freshness and wonder. |
| Increase Your Psychological Strength | | | | Apply Personal Values in Your Life |
| Inner, psychological strength is an important determining | | | | A value is a belief, a mission, or a philosophy that is |
| factor in your ability to succeed in life. We have seen | | | | meaningful to you. Values can range from the |
| that those who are strong succeed; while those who | | | | commonplace, such as the belief in hard work, |
| are weak fall back or fail. We have also noticed that if | | | | self-reliance, and punctuality, to more psychological |
| you make the effort to exercise strength in areas | | | | values, such as concern for others, and harmony of |
| where you have demonstrated weakness in the past, | | | | purpose. Other examples of personal values are |
| life can suddenly and abundantly respond. Think about | | | | openness, tolerance, honesty, loyalty, perfection in |
| ways you have been, or are currently expressing | | | | work, respect for the individual, and family feeling. |
| psychological weakness in your work, in your | | | | Applying personal values in the details of our daily lives |
| relationships, or in other areas of your life. Consider | | | | generates a great power for success and happiness. |
| what was, or is at the root of the problem. Now come | | | | Think about two or three important personal values |
| up with a plan to exercise your strength, and then | | | | that have shaped your life. Now develop several |
| carry it out. Watch as life responds miraculously | | | | strategies to recommit to them. Or, come up with one |
| thereafter! | | | | or two new values, and fully implement them in each |
| Increase Your Level of Organization | | | | of your most critical daily activities. From that point on, |
| At first glance, "organization" does not seem like a | | | | life will continually be fresh, and filled with meaning and |
| very exciting topic for discussion. However, our own | | | | wonder. |
| experience is that there is no faster way to attract | | | | Follow the Process of Growth and Accomplishment |
| success than by adopting a higher level of organization | | | | Normally, when we make progress, it is a result of our |
| in life. There are a number of ways to organize | | | | response to the pressures and challenges of life. This |
| yourself -- through higher levels of cleanliness and | | | | is for the most part an unconscious form of growth. |
| orderliness, by further systematizing your accounts and | | | | Conscious growth, on the other hand, takes place |
| records, by organizing your time through a to do list | | | | when we self-conceive that which we want to |
| and calendar, and even by organizing your thoughts, | | | | become. We consciously grow when we aspire to |
| ideas, and concepts for greater logic and clarity. Such | | | | accomplish something, organize the details of our |
| efforts at higher organization have a tendency to | | | | vision, and then carry it out until our vision becomes a |
| attract sudden good fortune Consider various areas of | | | | living reality. Consider taking up a new opportunity, or |
| life where you can raise your level of organization, and | | | | developing a new skill, or making a major change in |
| develop a plan for improvement. Then make the full | | | | your career, or adopting an important personal value in |
| effort to carry out your plan. Watch life suddenly and | | | | your life. Begin by envisioning what you want to |
| abundantly respond from all directions! | | | | accomplish, and from there establish the major goals |
| Increase Your Knowledge & Skills | | | | to achieve that vision. Then organize the goals into |
| In an ever more complex, technology-driven society, it | | | | practical strategies and plans of action. When you |
| is important to have the highest levels of knowledge | | | | systematically carry them out -- supported by your |
| and skills. Raising either will not only increase your | | | | highest high skills, your most positive attitudes, and by |
| capacity for success in your work, but the effort itself | | | | making the full, persevering effort -- the infinite |
| can attract sudden good fortune. Consider the critical | | | | potentials of life will suddenly open up before you! |