One of the things that can make or break your journey to success is perseverance.  

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." Samuel Johnson

How many times have you given up in the past?  Once?  Ten times?  Dozens of times?  You are not alone!  Each of us has at some time ended up feeling as if we were fighting a losing battle and thrown down our sword.

As you well know, giving up means admitting defeat.  It means failure.  No one likes to think about that, but it is true.

Have you ever asked yourself what might have happened if you had continued instead of quitting?  Would you have been successful eventually?  Did you give up too soon, or was your goal not meant to happen?

Imagine running a marathon and getting angry because the finish line still has not appeared.  You sit down, take off your running shoes and brood.  It sounds funny, but that is what many of us do when pursuing our goals.

Moreover, in that little example is a hidden gem of wisdom:  we give up because we cannot see the finish line.  We mistakenly assume it does not exist.  We throw our hands up in frustration and quit.

If you can change this tendency, your life will never be the same.

Perseverance literally means to persist in spite of difficulties.  It does not mean persist until you run into an obstacle, or persist until it becomes easier, or persist only when you feel like it.  It means keep going no matter what.  No matter how rocky the road becomes, you just keep moving forward.

What will determine your willingness to persevere?  How badly you want your goal!  If you are not willing to persist in spite of difficulties, then perhaps your goal is not as important as you think it is.  Perhaps it is not what you really want, after all.  Only you know for sure.  If your goal is vitally important to you, you will do what it takes to achieve it no matter what obstacles you may encounter.

We make the choice to succeed moment by moment.

"The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."   — Napoleon Hill

Rachel Lavern

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

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Are you struggling and/or paddling in the same place?  I have found that few people are aware of the role of the Law of Gender when they are setting their goals.  The Law of Gender states that all seeds have a gestation or incubation period before they manifest in form. Goals are subject to this law just as physical seeds are.  Many of us have set a goal that did not materialize when we wanted it to. Sometimes this is because we did not give the goal sufficient time.  

Be patient.  Be confident that the things you want will materialize. If your goal is worthy of you, do not change your goal or, worse still, give up on it. Change your deadline.  I love a statement made by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich:  

"When riches begin to come, they come so quickly and in such great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years".  

None of us can know the gestation period of a thought seed.  I know, you do not want to have to go through that waiting period, you know, that what is described as the universal law of gender, that everything has a gestation period.

Have your ever planted a tomatoes in your vegetable garden?   When you planted your tomato seeds, did you go out six weeks after you planted it and fuss the seed because it is not bearing fruit yet?  Did you become frustrated, depressed, feel sorry for yourself because you planted this tomato seed and there still are no tomatoes six weeks later.  Of course, you did not.  Why?  Because you knew when you planted, the seed that there is a 90-day gestation period for tomatoes from the time you plant a seed until the time you can harvest tomatoes. To visit your garden  42 days after planting the seed expecting tomatoes is foolish. 

You do not let it depress you or discourage you. However, we often become depress or discouraged when our goals do not materialize by our target date.  We do not accept the period of gestation for our goals.  We want it now…in fact, we wanted it yesterday. Understand that the things that you desire need a period of growth, continue to do the core activities of a goal and you will ultimately meet with success.

Select a deadline date for your goal that you know is feasible for you.  Keep in mind that the date is, at best, an educated guess that may take more or less time than you had originally planned and is governed by the Law of Gender.  It can happen quickly.  Moreover, when it does, it comes in large quantities.  It is amazing!

If you are truly ready to stop wishing and start living the life you believe you deserve, it is time for Bob Proctor's Goal Achiever Success System.

Rachel 

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

©2010 You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. All Rights Reserved.

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne, creator of The Secret:

"How do I stop my negative thoughts?" – is a question that I have been asked many times. If you have ever asked this question then you will feel such enormous relief in knowing the answer, because it is so simple. How do you stop negative thoughts? You plant good thoughts!

When you try to stop negative thoughts, you are focusing on what you don't want – negative thoughts – and you will attract an abundance of them. They can never disappear if you are focused on them. The "stop" part is irrelevant – the negative thoughts are your focus. It doesn't matter if you are trying to stop negative thoughts or control them or push them away, the result is the same. Your focus is on negative thoughts, and by the law of attraction you are inviting more of them to you.

The truth is always simple and it is always easy. To stop negative thoughts, just plant good thoughts! Deliberately plant good thoughts! You plant good thoughts by making it a daily practice to appreciate all the things in your day. Appreciate your health, your car, your home, your family, your job, your friends, your surroundings, your meals, your pets, and the magnificent beauty of the day. Compliment, praise, and give thanks to all things. Every time you say "Thank you" it is a good thought! As you plant more and more good thoughts, the negative thoughts will be wiped out. Why? Because your focus is on good thoughts, and what you focus on you attract.

So don't give any attention to negative thoughts. Don't worry about them. If any come, make light of them, shrug them off, and let them be your reminder to deliberately think more good thoughts now.

The more good thoughts you can plant in a day, the faster your life will be utterly transformed into all good. If you spend only one day speaking of good things and saying "Thank you" at every single opportunity, you will not believe your tomorrow. Deliberately thinking good thoughts is exactly like planting seeds. As you think good thoughts you are planting good seeds inside you, and the Universe will transform those seeds into a garden of paradise. How will the garden of paradise appear? As your life!

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Are you aware that we can choose our thoughts? Thinking is not simply listening to a script running in our head.  We actually control those thoughts–we are choosing them. To be in charge of what we create, we need to choose our thoughts wisely.

Each time we think a thought, we are controlling energy.  Think of it as creating a blueprint to which energy can form and, in time, become tangible matter.

When we become conscious of what we are creating, we understand that everything is made from this sea of information…this one thinking substance.  This substance wants to be crystallized into reality.  In order for it to manifest, it simply needs some guidance from us as to what form it should take. Our thoughts send out vibrations that communicate with this conscious substance and the universe molds itself into the shape that you determine.

Most people create unconsciously.  They are are unaware why they live in lack, have poor relationships, or why life is hard.  I think it is much better to manifest a better world for myself by consciously select my thoughts rather than allow them to run amuck.  It is all a choice.

Rachel Lavern

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

©2010 You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. All Rights Reserved.

To consciously create, it is important for you to understand your desires. What is it that you want and why do you want it?  Are you good at knowing what you want and why you want it?

Most people are about 25 percent effective at knowing what they want. For those that really have decided on what they want, only about 10 percent have the clarity to know why they want it.  Anyone can improve this skill with practice.  Fill out the following sentence anytime you want to get clear on why you want something:

I want ________________________

because I believe that getting this will make me feel ___________________ and __________________.

For example:

I want to live in a beautiful home because I believe this will make me feel happy to be surrounded by beauty, organized, and in control of my life.

or

I want a new vehicle because I believe that getting this vehicle will make me feel powerful and in control.

or

I want a relationship with so-and-so because I believe that being in this relationship will make me feel secure and connected.

As you can see, it is a very simple exercise; however, it really brings clarity to your desires.

Dream big,

Rachel

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

©2010 You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. All Rights Reserved.

Once you realize your mind is a powerful source of creation, it is important to learn to follow this one simple guideline:  Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you do not want.

One of the best explanations of this is called developing one pointed thought. Ghalil, of Professional Dreamer, describes our thoughts as arrows being sent out into the direction of our desires. One-pointed thought, to me, means to keep your thoughts all pointed at the things you want.

When we are still creating unconsciously, we are in the habit of sending arrows of thought out in every direction. We vacillate, we change our minds, and we follow a whim for a few days, and then decide we want something else. This is not an effective means of creation.

Unconscious creators tend to spend much of the time thinking about things they do not want. What do you suppose they are getting? That is right. Things they do not want. How fun is that? However, when you understand how to direct your arrows–how to consistently think about the things that you DO want–the magic begins.

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you do not want. Pay attention to what you are thinking about. Certainly be kind to yourself along the way, but notice where your thoughts are. Are they on something you want? Or are you simply ruminating over all the things you would like different in your life? For the conscious creator, the time of “mind on auto-pilot” is over. Grab the reigns and begin to experience the life YOU choose and desire.

It might be helpful to think of yourself as supervisor over a huge construction crew. Each time you think a thought, the crew responds and begins to build the construction of your thought. You say, “I want a large house of brick” and the crew begins to gather the materials together. Perhaps you think this thought often, and crew is happily underway. Then you say, “No, I think I prefer stucco, and I would like it to be on the lake front–actually over the water.” Therefore, the crew changes plans and begins work on the lake house. “No, maybe a mountain cabin in the shape of an A-Frame.” Again, the crew stops what it has been working on, and begins preparation on your mountain home. Let us say you keep sending out these commands for a long time. Can you imagine the chaos? Soon you are complaining, “Where is my house? It has been long enough to build a house.  Where is it?” By now, perhaps your crew has started and stopped work on 1200 different houses! They would probably like to actually get ANY house build, but you are the supervisor, and the crew simply follows your orders.

Our thoughts are like these orders–these arrows we send out. Connect with the creative nature of your thoughts and use them wisely and with focused intention.

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

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Fish are immersed in a sea of water and they are likely completely unaware of the substance that has always surrounded them. People are immersed in a sea of unseen knowledge and communication–one that we are only beginning to understand.

I remember once sending some photos from our computer downstairs over the Internet to my wireless computer upstairs. Picture after picture would appear–the information was transferring perfectly. This is now a commonplace occurrence–something we rarely think about because it is so usual. Yet, as I watched my wireless USB cable blinking rapidly as it does when it is downloading information, it struck me as amazing and significant. Somehow, those pictures were literally leaving my computer downstairs and flying through the air all around me, and my wireless computer was picking up this signal and recreating the photos before my eyes. I could not see the little particles. I could not see the minuscule bits of information that were traveling at great speed. Yet they were there and I could see the blinking of the cable and the files being created on my computer. I could see these results of the unseen.

What else has an existence that we have not yet discovered? What else have we been unaware of? How often do we remember these particles or waves of information traveling all around us?

Learn to be okay with not seeing with your eyes and not touching with your fingertips. Learn to be comfortable working with the unseen.

Wallace Wattles called this sea of knowledge and information the universal substance, and it is a thinking, conscious substance that wants to manifest. It needs a shape to manifest in and we provide that shape (form) through the images of our thoughts. We literally live in a universe of “ask and receive.”

"What is essential is invisible to the eye", said The Little Prince.

The world of the seen manifests from the unseen world, and the known comes from the unknown. Those who create reality on a conscious level know the power of the inner world and an awareness of the truly miraculous nature of our universe.

Big hugs,

Rachel Lavern is a Certified LifeSuccess Coach and a business partner of Bob Proctor. She coaches individuals and businesses that want to gain greater personal or business success. She specializes in using Bob Proctor’s principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses. She provides workshops and keynote speeches across the country and teaches women entrepreneurs and business owners who want to earn a six- or seven-figure income how to become WILDLY SUCCESSFUL at selling.

©2010 You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. All Rights Reserved.