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Lesson One: Changing Your Mindset

Prosperity Mind is not an accident. It is cultivated daily.

I was on the phone with a friend from Texas last night. He asked about a mutual friend we have. “He’s been exposed to you a lot,” he said. “Why do you think he keeps sabotaging himself?”

“You know what?” I replied. “He really hasn’t been that exposed to me. He’s been to three or four of my seminars. But he’s not on Breakthrough U (my coaching program). So he spends five or six hours with me once a year, and then he goes back to thousands of hours worth of counter programming. He never had a chance.”

And that’s a shame.

The guy we’re talking about has been working hard to succeed in a variety of different businesses for the last ten years. And I mean he works hard. And means well. And he wouldn’t intentionally hurt a flea.

Yet I’ve seen him crash and burn four times in that time span. The latest meltdown was a few weeks ago.

And he is a bright guy. Universally well-liked, and he never stole a freight train. So why does he keep failing?

Two things come to mind, and they’re both relevant to what we are talking about here. They both are a big part of your mindset, and the kinds of changes you have to make in it to move from victim to victor.

The first problem with my friend is that he refuses to live by one of the universal laws of prosperity. That is the concept of trading value for value. Or put another way, the only free cheese is in the mousetrap. Like a lot of people today, he has an entitlement mindset. He sees that he is struggling and others are not. So he thinks it’s only fair that they should somehow provide for his advancement.

So he is continually aligning in business relationships with people who have more resources than he does. Each of these arrangements is supposed to enrich both parties, but they always end up coming up short. There is always just enough to pay his expenses, but nothing left for the other partners.

Now he doesn’t do this maliciously, or deceptively—or even consciously. He just always comes up a little short and he regales you with his tales of woe. And you look into his big brown eyes and you offer to give up your profit if it will help him out. Or at least that’s what I did . . .

The first time. So I naturally thought that being his patron saint the first time around, he would work to ensure that I was taken care of in round two.

That was a $25,000 lesson for me. One that I don’t need to learn any more, thank you very much. But this isn’t about me. The subject was why this individual keeps snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And that takes us to the second issue . . .

Self-sabotage.

Now this guy certainly doesn’t see it that way. He sees it as a whole chain of unlucky outside circumstances. He blames the economy, his partners and other external factors. He is certain that he wants to be successful, so the possibility that he could actually be sabotaging his own success doesn’t even occur to him. And if you were to suggest it, he would brush it off without so much as a cursory thought.

Like most people—he evaluates everything about himself based on the evidence of his conscious mind.

And what a foolish mistake that is. Millions of people self-sabotage themselves daily. And most of them are not even aware of it.

Their rational, logical conscious minds tell them that they want to be healthy, happy and prosperous. Let’s face it. Who wouldn’t?

But then why are so many people sick, depressed and broke?

Because on a subconscious level—they don’t believe they are worthy. Perhaps their church, temple or synagogue programmed them that they were a worm by the time they were eight years old. Maybe their parents got divorced when they were ten and they thought it was their fault. Perhaps their father worked ten hours a day in a tough manual labor job, and now they feel guilty for earning more money than he did.

They spent hours a day, plopped in front of the television. So you can safely assume that they were completely brainwashed by the media by the time they were ten years old. They have learned:

We could come up with a thousand reasons they may be programmed for lack and limitation. And a thousand reasons that you may be. Now like my friend I described earlier, you may have attended a couple seminars of mine, read some positive books and set goals for positive outcomes. But do you know how many thousands of hours of counter-programming you are still receiving?

Are you really screening the books you read? Did you eliminate the news outlets? Have you stopped watching 90% of the shows on television? Did you eliminate all radio talk shows from your diet? Do you excuse yourself from the conversation when it turns to gossip, lack and negativity? Have you replaced former friends and acquaintances in your life that were negative? Do you schedule and restrict the time you spend with negative family members?

If you didn’t answer ‘yes’ to ALL of these questions, I worry about the tremendous amount of lack programming you are being exposed to on a daily basis. If you did answer yes to all of the above, what that means is that you are likely getting “only” about fifty exposures to negative programming a day!

So in either case—what are you doing to counteract this programming?

It may be much more important than you know. It is that constant daily programming you receive that determines your mindset. And it is your mindset that determines your eventual level of achievement in everything you do.

Example. Suppose you get offered a chance to participate in a business opportunity. You could approach this in a number of different ways, each one would be dependent on your mindset.

You could jump in blindly, without doing any research, just because you are enamored with the idea of getting rich. You could enter a very bad situation and lose a lot of money. This happens to people every day.

Or, scenario two, you could figure that any deal you find out about is already too late. You could figure the “insiders” get all the sweetheart deals and it’s probably much too good to be true. So you pass up the chance to buy Microsoft when it was $10 a share.

Another scenario occurs when you get offered a situation; you have confidence in yourself; you study it thoroughly and you make a sound decision.

There are other possible scenarios, but you get the idea. How you will react to it is determined almost entirely by your mindset. You are made or unmade by your mindset.

It’s important to remember that your mindset and expectations will be determined by the thoughts you give precedence to. James Allen equated your mind to a garden.

If you leave the garden uncultivated, whatever the wind blows in—plants, weeds or whatever is what grows there. If you consciously plant it, and cultivate it—you keep it weeded and grow the flowers, fruits, or vegetables you desire.

If you don’t screen out the kind of stuff we discussed earlier, those are the weeds that blow in and choke out your prosperous, healthy and happiness thoughts.

So when do the negative thoughts end? I don’t know that they ever do. The sheer enormity of how much negative and lack programming you will be assaulted with over the course of a lifetime makes that seem unlikely. (But let’s not affirm that!)

When you really analyze and think about this regularly—you will start to notice these thoughts. And once you do that, they lose most of their power.

And your mindset starts to change . . .

You change your core fundamental beliefs. You believe you are supposed to be healthy, happy and prosperous. You believe you are worthy. And when you are confronted with dozens of situations each day, most minor, some bigger, and even some that are major—you expect good things to happen to you!

You expect to find that tie you need to complete the perfect outfit, you anticipate winning in a sporting event, you figure you are next in line for that promotion, and you expect your business ventures to be successful.

In any event, if you keep counter-programming—you will win the fight. Because once you control the programming—you control the mindset. And once you control the mindset—you control your destiny!

--RG

*Chapter excerpt from "Prosperity Mind" by Randy Gage.

Prosperity Action Step

One of the biggest threats to prosperity is the often submerged subconscious belief that you don't deserve prosperity. Incidents that might have happened when you were five, ten or 15 years old could have created residual programming that keeps you in lack thought.

1. Think about who was your first "lack and limitation" role model.

2. What are some of the negative beliefs that you might have received from them?

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