The POWER of Thought

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the first prosperity diet entry. Early on, my mentor labeled me as “the prodigy of prosperity” because of my ability to create immense financial and personal prosperity in my own life, as well as in the lives of those I mentored. While some can play the piano, others can dribble a basketball or sing a beautiful tune, my talent and ability lies in being able to inspire others to reach for the best in their life. (I can not sing for sure-even my Mom says so!). Seriously, while I am proud as anyone would be to be recognized with such an ability, I am humbled by it as well. I believe we all have a perfect TEN residing inside and that sometimes it just takes someone who is willing to invest in us to draw it out. And that is what the prosperity diet is all about. It is my way to offer to the readers the nuggets that have been instilled in me by some of the greatest, most powerful minds in the world today-my mentors. This wisdom has given me the ability to create the success in my own life that I always dreamed of. I hope the prosperity diet will be a blessing to your life and I believe if you will plug in, you’ll find that it will.

In 1959, author David Schwartz published a book entitled “The Magic of Thinking Big”. I first read this manuscript in 1996 at the age of 21. It, along with Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, rocked my world. Growing up in a loving, but non-prosperity minded family, the philosophies Schwartz and Hill wrote about challenged my paradigms to the core.

Today, I am going to write about the POWER behind our thoughts, in particular the power of GIGANTIC thinking. Hopefully today’s entry will challenge you as Schwartz and Hill did for me 13 years ago. So, here we go…

Not long ago, I was having dinner with my good friend Alin Popescu in D.C. Alin is one of the top Executive Recruiters in the business of finding and placing talent. As we talked over dinner, Alin mentioned something to me that I found astonishing. Approximately 10X more applicants apply for jobs in the $100,000-$150,000 range than do at $250,000 and above. I asked Alin to verify his statement and also why he believed it to be true. “Applicants just don’t believe they would get the jobs, because they feel their previous salary is going to indicate what they will qualify for in the future.” I challenge you to think about this for a second. Does it cost anything to apply? What’s the worst that could happen if it were rejected? Is there a rule that says one should only apply for a small number of jobs or jobs within the salary range they are accustomed too?
The obvious answer is no yet thousands, millions, of job seekers do this everyday.

So often we are trained to be content with where we are or as the little guy. We here “there are to many chiefs and not enough Indians” or we see examples of individuals that have waited entire careers for their chance to reach the top. What I am here to tell you right now is that while this is one strategy for achieving your dreams, to believe it is the only way is hogwash. The size of your bank account as well as your happiness account is based upon the size of your thinking. If there is a vision that burns inside you it is there for a reason. It was placed there by the creator himself. The world tries to tell us that to want more is bad, that there is something wrong with desiring more. We are told to forget our dreams, forget the large home in the gated community, forget that private school for your children, forget the better life. Settle. Be content with what you have. In other words, be resigned. To me, this is the same as lying down and waiting to die.

Who hasn’t heard the statement, “success isn’t worth the price.” So often, well meaning people make it out as if you have to sell your soul, your family life, your conscience, your values to reach the top. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever stopped and looked at the lives of those who tell you this? How does their happiness in life rank on a scale of 1-10? How is their health? How does their bank account look? How are their relationships? You see the reality is, people are many times like crabs in a bucket. Crabs in a bucket will actually pull down one of their 10 legged friends if they start to reach the top and look as if they might escape. Get this: your friends and family will do the same to you. Its not that they don’t love you, many times their intentions are well, but the result is the same. Until we get out of the bucket, we will never reach our potential. Quick note: if you have never read Bruce Wilkinson’s book “The Dream Giver” pick up copy online today.

The reality in the world today is that there are to many Indians and not enough chiefs. Ask any leader, whether in education, business, the church or non-profit. I see it all of the time in my business. Individuals get involved that have tremendous talent and potential. Yet, because of there limiting beliefs, they go always end up where they’ve already been. If they are accustomed to $10,000/month, that is exactly where they land.

My question to you today is, what great thing, dream, desire or goal do you have in your heart? Understand, the longer that dream has been there, the more its an indicator that its divine. Dreams and inspirations that are long term are divine in nature. They are an expression of your true form. Remember, the good book says the creator-whomever you deem that to be-made you in His own image, or likeness. They says the streets in Heaven are paved with Gold. That means if He likes it, there is nothing wrong with you desiring it as well.

Tomorrow we’re going to dive more into HOW we begin to pull these big thoughts, big dreams and big plans into reality. What I challenge you to do today is begin to uncover them. For some of you, you’ll discover there is a little dust to be cleaned off. That’s OK. Your dreams and inspirations never die. Sometimes they just need to be discovered again. Think big and you’ll live big. You’ll live in big happiness. You’ll live in big accomplishment. Big in income. Big in relationships. Big in respect.
Start now, right now, to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you.
Life is to short to be little

Are you thinking big today?

In power,
Stevie W.