You create your life, your world, your destiny

Your entire life is nothing but a holographic echo of everything that you are (and have been, for so long) saying to yourself without saying it.

What do I mean by "everything you are saying to yourself without saying it"?

Simply that your unconscious and recurring thoughts, especially those that have a certain emotional energy attached to them (excitement, anger, frustration, enthusiasm, etc.), create your reality.

In other words:

Thoughts now = Realities later

This is why I say that "your life is nothing but an echo of previously held thoughts."

Your life was created previously by you, in your mental world.

This is not a new idea. Stephen Covey wrote in his best-seller two decades ago, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, that all things are created twice: mentally and physically.

James Allen wrote, over a century ago, a marvelous little book titled "As a Man Thinketh" that teaches the same principle: as you think, your life shall be.

I would say, "As you THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, your life IS."

(Here's a little secret for great success: create social environments or working environments where you have NO CHOICE but to think positively or greatly or excitedly. Then success will come to you effortlessly. Think easy, smooth-flowing thoughts of success, and it will come. Don't work so hard! This is what I call "Desire without doubt, focus without force, succeed without strain." I will write more about this.)

What I mean is, as you hold a certain thought and keep it excited, it will grow and eventually BECOME your life.

Some people may say, "But Peter, my Supreme Master, how can this be? How can my thoughts, which are so private, become a public reality?"

I would say: "My young apprentice, hear this: as the seed is unseen until it grows underneath and one day becomes a giant tree, so your thought (of great success) is unseen by others until it becomes a giant success story for the world to marvel at."

Now, as teacher, I cannot know what a person is thinking. But as I look at his or her life, and I know what he or she HAS BEEN THINKING IN THE PAST!

He or she is presently getting EXACTLY what he or she has been thinking about in the past!

This is what Anthony Robbins, the psycho-mystical author, refers to as a Magnificent Obsession. In other words, what you think about, you bring about.

Another way of putting it: What you really, really want, you truly, truly get.

The secret is to act like AS IF you already got what you really, really want.

This brings us to a secret practice that made Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, so successful. He is considered to be one of the greatest capitalists of our time. His secret is "to imagine the ideal person you want to be in five years, and start RIGHT NOW acting, feeling, thinking, dressing LIKE THAT PERSON."

When I say "acting", I don't just mean "doing things" but doing them convincingly and with conviction (felt by both you and any reading, listening or viewing audience), the way an actor would "act" out a specific role in a play or movie.

Here is the reason why most people fail. They think the thoughts of success, but they don't feel the emotions of success. Emotion is just energy in motion, so without emotion, there is no energy with which to create your life -- the way you want it to be.

Many people, especially men, think that emotions are "feminine" and getting "in touch" with one's emotions is feminine. It is not.

All humans have emotions and emotional sensitivity and expressivity, it's just that history on our planet is such that women have been more socially encouraged to SHOW and SHARE their emotions more frequently. Why? Because women traditionally have been playing a dominant role in the domestic sphere where they raise children and foster communication in the home. In such social environments, verbalizing one's emotions and feelings play a key role in making one feel good and making others feel good.

But for men, historically, "feeling good" through expressing one's emotions so as to come closer and closer to the place of "feeling good," has not been as important as killing animals. After all, somebody had to bring home the bacon!

So the fact that historically, women have preceded men in discovering and practicing their attunement to their emotional states, doesn't mean emotions or the means to access and tap into them is a "feminine" thing.

Men too can tap into their emotional power, and reap the rewards. When we look at successful men like Richard Branson or Gandhi or Noam Chomsky or Al Gore or Anthony Robbins or Mark Cuban or Donald Trump, etc. isn't it obvious that they learned to tap into their emotional power to create the life they want?

Al Gore is an interesting example of someone who obviously is smart, yet did not succeed in politics because he lacked emotional intensity. Now, look where he is and how emotional he gets!

What others can learn from Mr Al Gore, Nobel Prize winner, is that one should focus on subjects that one is DEEPLY INTERESTED IN. That's where one's emotions will be powerful, and carry one -- like powerful winds carrying a sailboat -- to one's chosen destination.

In short, the more you feel, the more you create, and as you create, you come closer to who you truly are: the creator of your own world, your own life, your own destiny.

Donald Trump's secret, part 2

"Show business is real business."

Donald Trump said something like that in an interview for a business magazine I read a while ago.

That is one of his impenetrable secrets: he considers his life on Earth to be nothing but a "show" or spectacle, and he is the writer, director, producer, actor (or star) and audience. He is a world onto himself. He marvels at who he is, and his own opinion of who he is and what he's capable of is of supreme -- supreme as in majestic, sovereign and all powerful - importance.

The opinions of others, whether it's 100 people or 6.5 billion on this planet, are of absolutely no relevance to him. In fact, other people's opinion have absolutely NO POWER over Donald Trump's thinking or feeling at any point in time in his life. People's feelings about him simply do NOT matter to Trump (although those feelings are of GREAT importance to the people's having them, for they reveal to such people -- if they are wise enough to recognize it -- that they cannot see their own Greater Self, and because they cannot see their own Greater Self, they cannot recognize it in Donald Trump.

This is why T. Harv Eker, as well as his trainers, often mention Donald Trump as a success story to draw inspiration from. They say that Trump is who he is because he has an inner blueprint inside of him -- a permanent part of him -- that constantly says, "I am a billionaire."

Trump would feel truly depressed if he were "only" a millionaire. If he had only 100 million dollars in his bank account, he would feel frustrated.

Another one of his secrets is that he realized that wealth is emotionally created. So in a way, all the books he wrote (or had ghostwritten) are misleading people, although of course that was probably not his intention. His books (and the books of so many "success gurus" or financial freedom authors) are misleading because the central idea is that "we, the authors, know something you don't, and if you read his book, you too will know the secret and begin your path to financial freedom and wealth and everything you desire."

In other words, such books are based on the premise that a person is lacking, intellectually, certain knowledge or experience or knowhow, and that by reading the book, a person can gain the knowledge required in order to succeeed (no matter how he or she specifically defines "success").

The true secret, the REAL secret lies in how you FEEL about yourself. If you feel GREAT about yourself, you can accomplish GREAT things. If you feel AMAZING about yourself, AMAZING things will happen to you. If you feel INCREDIBLE about yourself, INCREDIBLE things will come to you.

Donald Trump may seem arrogant, "full of himself" and irrationally optimistic when he says things like "this building (which I'm building) is the best thing in the world, The Apprentice is the number one TV show on Earth" etc. but in fact, such statements REVEAL his secret to wealth and success: pay attention to YOUR opinion of yourself, YOUR evaluation of yourself, YOUR estimation of yourself, for those are the ONLY things that matter to your success.

He does a service to millions of people because as viewers watch him on television say such extravagant things, they usually feel one way or the other: inspiration or annoyance. People who feel annoyed by his seeming "self-centeredness" are usually poor and struggling in life.

However, people who feel inspired by his example are usually either rich already, or rapidly on their way to wealth.

Indeed, what I am saying is that Donald Trump's secret is:

Success and Wealth = Magnificent Thought + Emotional Energy

If you want a more memorable acronym, I offer:

Success, Wealth, Everything You Ever Want In Life = M.O.R.E.

where M.O.R.E. = Magnificent Obsession + Raging Energy

This post reveals to you some of the most powerful secrets on this planet, yet only people who truly care about Great Success will print this post and re-read it over and over again.

I will write more about this topic.

Donald Trump's secret for wealth

Donald Trump is a billionaire. However, unlike other billionaires like Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Mark Cuban, he went into the hole in the early 90s when he incurred debts of over two billion dollars.

I don't know about you, but if my accountant told me one day that I owed two billion dollars, I would ask him for the nearest bridge and go there to jump!

Of course, I know that you really appreciate this blog, so I would wear a parachute, because I don't like to let people down! :-)

Anyways, my point is that Trump probably knows something that the other billionaires don't.

So I've been studying him: on TV, through his books (I've read them all), through books and magazines talking about him, etc.

The good news is: I found his secret.

His secret is a little strange, because it's the kind of secret that is so obvious and so visible to everyone, yet most people completely miss it!

Every time you see him talking on television, whether it's in one of those real estate infomercials or on his hit TV show The Apprentice, he "generously" reveals his secret for all to know. Yet, most people don't get it.

In fact, as soon as he's about to reveal his secret, people become really annoyed and begin to have negative feelings about Trump.

Yet, his secret has not only made him a billionaire, but it has also allowed him to come back from a debt of two billion dollars to his current billionaire fortune. (I'm really pumped up, it's the first time I use the word "billion" three times in the same sentence!).

If you want to know this secret of his, send me an email at peter@careerknowledge.net.

I ask you to do this because if I give away the secret, you would say, "Hmm. Interesting. So true!" and then you would forget it.

But if you ask for it, then you will remember and perhaps apply it so you too can become rich!

Success authors can lead you to fail

Gutenberg has certainly performed a great service to mankind by inventing the printing press, since it made knowledge easily accessible to a much wider audience.

The Internet is an extension of that idea of making knowledge MORE accessible.

Here's the problem. In today's world where so many people are searching for answers, especially answers that will help them to succeed in life (no matter how they personally define "success" -- health, wealth, relationships, etc.), people turn to success "gurus."

Often, those gurus offer success "formulas" and people, suitably impressed by the fact that those books have been on the best-seller list, begin to study those formulas and try to apply them in their own lives.

That's when everything falls apart!

Not only the formulas do not work, but when people finally realize that they don't work, they become even MORE discouraged than before they read the book or went to the seminar!

In all fairness, a few success gurus do clearly point out (that is, warn people) that their formulas only worked for them, and that it is up to readers to pick up ideas that will work for them. T. Harv Eker is one such author and speaker.

In the end, all self-help books should be called Self-help books. To the extent that they inspire you to find the higher Self within you who will guide you, then those books have performed a valuable service. However, if such success books distract you from looking within yourself (where you find your true power) and turn your attention to external techniques or tools, then those books rob you of your power. (The Internet, in particular, is a powerful tool, and many young people mistakenly believe it will solve their financial problems when it is not the case at all).

Ralph Waldo Emerson put it best when he wrote: "Happiness is difficult to find within, impossible to find elsewhere."

683. Master one book to gain power

Below is a question I answered on Linkedin Answers. Since it relates directly to this blog, I thought I'd share it with you.

My point is that talk is easy and cheap. It doesn't commit a person, nor does it focus a person's attention. Writing, however, is a different story. Writing requires mental focus, and when you write a blog, the focus is even more intense since you know others will be reading your material!

I went even further with this blog, by adding a Subscribe button. This puts pressure on me to write high-quality, success-oriented articles. I'm heading toward great success because I decided two years ago to focus ONLY on success and share the "secrets" with anyone who's sincerely searching for success.

My advice to people is to start writing. It focuses the mind like nothing else! You will know PRECISELY what it is that you know, and you will feel more confident, valuable and powerful.

If you've read ONE book, then you can start a blog and write at least 10 posts or even more. If you've read several books, then you can write a lot. The whole idea is to concentrate mentally and capture the essence of what you know. Understanding will result and lead to personal power.

A wise man once said to me when I was a kid: "The man who masters one book, is more powerful than the man who reads 100 books."

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Tell us which success-oriented writers do you think we should read and why?

Hi Zale, I think the best success-oriented writer that a person should read is the writer who appears in the person's mirror.

For so many years, I've read so many "success" authors. You know, the "usual suspects": Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, etc. I fully understood the information I was getting, and appreciated it at the intellectual level, but nothing changed in my life.

Then something happened two years ago, when I began to write about success (see blog below). So many great things have happened as a result of me trying, often desperately, to put down on paper what I do know about "success."

My purpose was not to "teach" anyone since I wrote the blog primarily for myself, so I could gather in ONE place all the success thoughts and habits and "secrets" I came across. Maybe one out of 50 posts is good, but I didn't care too much. I just wanted to focus my thoughts on success.

The insight I learned is that until a person begins to "transmit" thoughts of success (that is, become a radio broadcast station), success will not happen -- no matter how many books one reads. The more success energy and vibrations emanating from a person, the more success that person will receive in life. Maybe this is why they say that "nothing succeeds like success."

The most dangerous thing in one's life

It takes a lot of positive thinking and much support from others (friends, family, allies, etc.) for good things to happen to us. Yet, it takes only ONE thing to destroy it all. The following video shows that most dangerous thing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rpq-4zYU4o

To succeed, you need 4 types of power

Would a man feel desire if he did not have, in front of him, a beautiful woman? Very unlikely.

Yet, desire -- for love, for money, for knowledge, for greatness -- is critical for success. Napoleon Hill made this point very clear in his book Think & Grow Rich (I would say, "Desire to be rich, then you will THINK about how to get rich, and you will eventually find a way to become rich.")

Desire comes from having a clear goal, and this goal must be written down and reviewed almost every day. The more you stare at your goal, the more you "burn" it into your mind, and then your subconscious mind will go to work for you to unleash your super-mind -- all the latent power within your mind.

Brian Tracy explains brilliantly this process in his book Maximum Achievement. I highly recommend purchasing a copy of that amazing book. I've read it so many times already.

Having a desire which comes from a goal reviewed daily will give you emotional power, but you need other types of power: intellectual, spiritual and financial.

Let's start with financial power.

The truth is that society is structured in a way that makes you LOSE financial power every day. Specifically, 5 days a week, 9 to 5, employers make it harder and harder for people to earn a buck. This is because shareholders want an increasingly higher return on capital, so managers have no choice but to try to make their workers produce more with the same amount of resources and support.

This creates enormous stress. Shoshana Zuboff describes how enterprise logic creates this stress for workers in her book The Support Economy (www.thesupporteconomy.com).

Not only does it get harder and harder to earn money at work because capitalists want to exploit "human resources" as much as possible, but it is also becoming extremely easy to lose your money AFTER work. I refer, of course, to all the companies that target consumers and are spending millions of marketing dollars to convince people to buy what they, in fact, don't really need.

Let me summarize the situation clearly: 9 to 5, they make it harder and harder for you to earn money, and after 5 PM, they make it easier and easier for you to lose your money. Often, they even succeed in convincing people to spend the money they haven't yet earned! It's called credit, of course.

For instance, more than half of the people who go for expensive eye laser surgery, now opt for a "financing plan" from the clinic. It might make sense to incur a debt to buy a house, because it's a necessity, but does it make sense to carry a debt to buy medically unnecessary services? I wonder.

The bottom line is that until a person understands how all of this works, he/she will forever lose financial power and be trapped in a vicious debt cycle. As a result, he/she is forced to work for 10, 20 perhaps 30 years for an employer.

It seems that physical slavery has been abolished, but economic slavery is still alive and well.

People spend their entire lives trying to make money in order to "own" things (often bought on credit), without realizing that their very lives are "owned" by capitalists.

This is why I say that when you buy a house, the bank buys your career. In other words, when they give you the keys to the house, you give them the keys to your career.

There's nothing wrong with that, of course, if you found a career that suits you. Unfortunately, upon graduation, most people normally don't spend months trying to design an ideal career. Rather, they try to get -- as quickly as possible -- a job. Then, from that initial job, they try to make a career out of it.

I will talk more about the apparently invisible conflict between "owning a career" vs "owning a house."

Back to financial power. It's easy to imagine people losing financial power every day, when you look at the enormous amount of advertising that goes on in society. Advertising or marketing is basically "selling at a distance." Advertising messages make people more likely to buy a certain product or service, so they do exert a kind of mental influence over people's behavior.

Often, marketers use a ploy known to drug dealers: they give it to you for free the first time, because they KNOW that you will be hooked for life.

Speaking of free products, this brings me to the third sort of power that people lose continually: intellectual power. The time that people spend watching the news or "free" entertainment from television, is in fact time that they could have spent reading books to empower their minds.

Jim Rohn, the well-known motivational speaker, put it this way: "A formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune."

The fact is, the more books you read, the more intellectual power you gain.

So far, we've talked about emotional power, financial power and intellectual power.

The fourth type of power is spiritual power, which comes from your values, your beliefs, your convictions. Spiritual power is what makes you invincible.

If your goal is to become financially independent one day, then you will need spiritual power. You will need to feel invincible.

(to be continued).

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