money mindset

Use Your Imagination To Attract Money

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world.” Albert Einstein

The power of imagination is one of the greatest forces in the universe.

The ability to form mental images comes form imagination. Imagination helps provide meaning to your experiences and understanding to knowledge. People make sense of the world through imagination.

Dr. Robert Anthony says “The most dynamic aspect of imagination is the act of forming mental images of what does not yet exist in the physical world.”

Go back and read that sentence again… put it on an index card, post note… any where you can see and read it.

You might want to read the affect your subconscious mind plays in creating your current reality.

You’ll notice I mention “The subconscious mind does not differentiate between visualizations and real situations.”

Your subconscious mind cannot… I repeat… cannot distinguish the difference between an actual experience and what is vividly imagine. This is where your emotions and creativity reside.

See Yourself With Money

Start picturing yourself with the money you desire. See yourself with the things money will buy for you. What do you really want? Visualize yourself having, doing, and being the things you want.

It’s important put yourself into the picture. See the details – colors, places, smells and people. The more vivid the better.

If you change the picture, the change in your behavior and performance follows automatically. You’ll act and behave like what you visualized in your imagination. Once it takes hold in your subconscious, you won’t need to affirm or visualize it any more.

The Visualization Formula

Affirmations + Imagery + Emotion = Success

Verbalizing – Affirmations: Words can build or destroy your life. Watch your thoughts. What you say to yourself determines practically everything you do.

Visualization – Imagery: Your subconscious responds to the pictures and images you hold on your mental screen. You have the power to mentally create a new life for yourself

Emotion – Feeling: No creative act can perform without emotion. Your subconscious responds to your feelings and emotions more than anything else.

Imprinting Your New Money Vision

Imprinting happens when your subconscious mind accepts your new visual image of your desired end result.

Step One – Your Goal

Your subconscious only understands specific commands. Since you’re going through the money mind set challenge, I guess you want more money in your life. (secretly who doesn’t)

Get specific on the amount. Personally, for me, the amount usually isn’t the goal. I usually pick something I want to use the money for. Ask your money honey what you should ask for… let your money honey guide.

Step Two – Affirming the End Result of Your Goal

Write out a simple statement to the end result you want. Write it out in a personal, positive, present tense form as though it were already reality. Writing out your affirmation triggers your brain’s reticular activating system. Read this article for more information on the reticular activating system.

Step Three – Picture the End Result

See yourself in your mind activity involved in the achievement of your end result. The more detail the better. You’re displaying your old picture with a new one.

Step Four – Feel the Emotion That Goes With Your Accomplishment

Your subconscious responds to feelings more than words. Think of feelings and emotions like super food feeding your subconscious.

The more feeling and emotion… the faster the end result will materialize. Feel the joy and satisfaction of the accomplishment. You can even add the words, happy, joyful etc. to your written affirmation.

Step Five – Willing to Accept

You will never allow yourself to possess more money than you think you deserve. Make sure you willing accept what you ask for. Start accepting the fact you deserve wealth.

Don’t fall into the “HOW” mindset. This will stop the process. Following this process takes a lot of trust and faith. God takes care of the how. Learn to trust your intuition… your inner voice….

You can substitute Universe, Higher Power etc. for God

Stay Unstoppable,

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How to Attract Money Into Your Life

by Ann Rusnak

How to Attract Money Into Your Life

Recently there has been an explosion of discussion regarding the Law of Attraction. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s actually quite simple. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. In other words, you’ll receive good things or bad according to what you focus on.

If you focus on the positive in your life, then more positive things will come your way. If you spend your time and energy focusing on the negative, then you’ll attract more negative things.

You can use these principles to harness the power of the Law of Attraction to attract more money into your life.

Follow these strategies to attract money:

Express gratitude. If you want more of something, like money, you must first express gratitude for what you have presently. Gratitude is a powerful positive emotion. Be thankful for all that your Creator has provided you this far.

You must be sincere in your thanks. If you don’t honestly feel the gratitude, then you won’t be able to attract more of what you want.

Stay focused on what you do have. Remember, if what you feel and focus on is actually your lack of money, it will only attract more lack back to you.

Picture yourself with the money. Visualize it in depth, as if you already have it. You want to see yourself holding the money, touching it, and feeling how happy you are with it in your life.

Imagine sitting down paying all your bills and buying expensive gifts for those that you love. This will send a positive message out that is to be returned to you.

Be consistent with sending out these strong positive thoughts and feelings. Mixing it up with negative ones about money sends a conflicting message.

Rid yourself of negative thoughts. It’s imperative that you eliminate as many negative feelings as possible. Make a conscious effort to find the positive in everything because your negativity won’t be rewarded with positive results.

Are there others out there who are positive? You bet! Do your best to find and emulate these people.

>When life hands you a bunch of lemons, it’s time to make lemonade. Find the silver lining or take action to make something positive out of the situation.

Have Faith. There are countless documented cases of people who received their heart’s desire by using the principles found in the Law of Attraction. Those people are no different from you!

Faith is a positive feeling. If you truly want to attract more money into your life, then faith is a must. You have to believe deep down that something like this can and will happen to you.

It’s time to truly believe that you’re deserving of anything you desire.

The Law of Attraction has helped many people live their dreams. By following its simple principles, it can happen to you as well. Profess an open mind, a willing heart, and a joyful spirit and, in return, you will be rewarded with whatever you request!

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Entrepreneurial Success: Enhance Your Mindset to Increase Your Revenue

by Ann Rusnak

Entrepreneurial Success: Enhance Your Mindset to Increase Your Revenue

While the first step to become an entrepreneur is locating a profitable business idea, the true foundation of entrepreneurial success rests within your mindset. A good idea can take you only so far. However, true determination to stop at nothing to achieve your goals can carry you through to the finish line.

You may have hundreds – if not thousands – of competitors in your field. Many of them sell the exact same product as you. Yet, one business may be raking in huge monthly revenue, while the other can barely get off the ground

So, what separates these two businesses? It’s the difference in mindset of the entrepreneurs behind the ventures.

Motivational speaker Jim Rohn said, "Income rarely exceeds personal development."

The successful businessperson boasts a heightened business mindset that leads to higher revenue. The unsuccessful one may know a thing or two about business, but she’s okay with doing the bare minimum.

Below is a chart that displays the key differences in the mindsets of a successful and unsuccessful entrepreneur. Adopt the mindset philosophies of the successful entrepreneur and you’ll happily discover that your profits increase as well!

The Mindset of the Successful Entrepreneur

Always reaches higher and focuses on the up-sell. She knows how to turn $5 into $20. She is comfortable charging higher fees the value she brings to the market.
She has an elevator speech prepared and will recite it to anyone who’s willing to listen.
Values the power of marketing and employs proven marketing tactics. She markets whether business is booming or in a lull.
Believes in her ability to achieve the best and constantly takes herself beyond her comfort zone for the greater good of her business.
Believes that customer service is just as important as promotion and providing quality products.
Is a problem solver. She can allocate funds as if it were her natural talent. She knows how to run a tight ship in order to keep revenue up and overhead down.
Values her intuition over the advice of another. She truly understands what’s best for her business.
Keeps moving when things are slow. She’s always quickly moving on to the next task that must be done to improve her business.
Thrives under pressure. She’s always attentive and alert. When her business begins to see red, she is an entrepreneurial hero. She makes corrections to turn it around.
Implements sound ideas into her existing business plan in order to increase revenue, customer service, and promotion.
Stands her ground. She confronts naysayers with a cool attitude and a firm intent. She notices everything and handles all confrontation with class.

The Mindset of the Unsuccessful Entrepreneur

Believes that good enough really is good enough. She believes that a dollar in revenue is better than no revenue at all.
Feels embarrassed to toot her own horn and often downplays the complexity of her business.
Employs marketing tactics only when business is slow. She’s all about cutting corners, and when business is booming, marketing expenses seem unnecessary.
Allows her personal low self-esteem to translate into her business leadership. Because of this, her marketing, networking, public perception, and revenue take a hit.
Customer service is an afterthought. She takes personal offense to most customer complaints.
Is a problem solver only when it comes to menial issues, but she cracks under pressure when the hard times come knocking.
Ignores her intuition and runs to all the wrong people for advice before taking action.
She takes advantage of the slow times in her business to indulge in her personal life while she should be working.
May thrive under pressure, but it’s her fear that keeps her going rather than her optimism. This same fear can cause panicky, unwise decisions.
Lets her ideas lie dormant until her business is bringing in more money.
Stands her ground and he does so with an overly aggressive and threatening attitude. Her business mindset is out the window when he feels as if she’s being taken advantage of.

As you can see, a heightened mindset – a willingness to succeed and take risks for your business – is the foundation for attaining higher profits. My Mentor once shared a secret to her meteoric business rise. She said she devoted as much if not more time on herself as she did in marketing.

Devoting time to developing the mindset of the successful entrepreneur, you’ll experience the success you’ve been dreaming about in your business.

Action Step:

Make a list:

Write down the successful mindset traits that are already a part of you.
Write down the successful mindset traits that need more developing
Write down the unsuccessful mindset traits you need to eliminate.

How much time will you devote to keeping and developing your successful mindset traits and eliminating the ones that hold back your dreams?

Authentic Self: I Cried When I Read This Report

by Ann Rusnak

I debated about closing the doors to my Thinking Outside the Clock business several years before I finally did it.

I allowed several people to talk me into keeping the business going even though my heart wasn’t in it. If the doors were to remain open, then I needed the business to go to the next level to make it worthwhile.

Hiring a coach to assist me to uplevel the biz became a priority. I found a coaching team with a lot of promise. To work with them, an interview and an assessment process was required prior to acceptance.

The results of those assessments brought tears to my eyes. It did more than bring tears to my eyes. I could barely talk on the phone. I tried to hold back the emotion in my voice so I could carry on an intelligent conversation with my coach.

How did that assessment validate me?

Despite my best efforts to control my emotions, I couldn’t. The waves of anger quickly turned to sobs of relief. I was validated! My authentic self, my core identity was validated! There in black and white in the written words of the results of the assessments…I am validated.

Get Rid of Those Evil Dreams and Goals

When I was a kid, like most kids, I shared my dreams with my parents. Big mistake. I wanted to be wealthy. Yep even at a very young age. I mean very young. In fact I can’t remember a time I didn’t want to be wealthy. Wealthy looked good to me…still does.

I grew up with the message that "money is the root of all evil."

I also grew up with a lot of extreme emotional and physical abuse about money, and other things.

My parents told me that to aspire to obtain wealth was selfish and/or a self centered attitude. Man I don’t know how many time I was told what a selfish human being I was. And of course that kind of attitude was "a ticket to hell."

Ooops!

That’s a totally wrong life pursuit for someone coming from a religaholic family who believes the only honorable pursuit one can achieve is to become a priest…

So double Oops on me!… I messed up again, I came into the world as the wrong sex. No priesthood for me!

Wealth and God were incompatible according to my upbringing and I was therefore totally screwed.

Growing up I received a litany of rules concerning life and money:

"Happiness is not found here on earth."
"All rewards come after you die."
"We’re not here to enjoy life."
"Money is evil."
"My dreams and goals came from the devil."

It became my parents mission to save me from myself and my high driving, ambitious personality. My goal from childhood: To become "filthy" "stinking" Rich, was completely unacceptable to my parents.

I just wasn’t buying their messages about the evils of money, which drove my parents even more nuts.In fact, one day my father thought I was missing my mother’s message that I’d be doomed to hell if I kept pursuing wealth, so he yanked me off the kitchen chair, dragged me to the stove and placed my hand above the flames.

I was totally conflicted between what I felt was my destiny to be wealthy and my needs as a child to please my parents.

The Cruelty of Invalidation

Invalidation is an aggressive and lethal form of emotional abuse. It encourages an individual to believe that their thoughts, beliefs, values or physical presence are inferior, flawed, problematic or worthless.

Invalidation kills creativity, confidence and individuality. Repeated invalidation will cause confusion and distrust of your own emotions. It can fragment your identity – who you think and feel you are. You feel "wrong" as a human being, you begin questioning yourself and you keep asking, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’

My parents unknowingly did a lot of damage to my identity. My core identity was very fragmented and it took me over 4 years of intensive therapy to recover my sense of self.

I Knew It …I Knew It…I Knew It!

When I was staring at the results of that assessment, I finally understood why my parents couldn’t remove my money drive.

This particular assessment looked at a person’s core values/attitudes…essentially what motivates them. A person’s values/attitude determine the WHY of their actions. There are six basic interests or attitudes in all of us.

Theoretical
Utilitarian
Aesthetic
Social
Individualistic
Traditional

It’s the top two values/attitudes that are a person’s key drivers – what they are most passionate about pursuing.

It’s what juices you up…You will feel positive when talking, listening or doing activities that satisfy your top attitudes/values.

My top motivator?

Utilitarian!

The Utilitarian score shows a characteristic interest in money and what is useful. This means that an individual wants to have the security that money brings not only for themselves, but for their present and future family. This value includes the practical affairs of the business world – the production, marketing and consumption of goods, the use of credit, and the accumulation of tangible wealth. This type of individual is thoroughly practical and conforms well to the stereotype of the average American business person. A person with a high score is likely to have a high need to surpass others in wealth.

Catch the word passionate…This is a very high motivator for me.

So, while under my parents’ roof, I was literally being punished for being me.

Awareness and Owning It

"He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise." ~Lao Tse

I love that quote.

The unique combination of all of your qualities including your talents, gifts, assets, abilities, interest, skills, insight, experience, memories, beliefs, wisdom and purpose are what make up your true authentic self… your true inner ME. or what I like to call your Magical Essence™

Awareness is the first key to boldly stepping into your Magical Essence™, your true core.

Once I figured that out… the next step was to "own" it. To become very comfortable with that part of me. No guilt. No apologies. There are some of us that God created with money as motivating driver. Just like some have blue eyes.

Even as a young girl, I was always doing something entrepreneurial.

I believe God brings us into this world already equipped with natural abilities that will insure our success and happiness when we are able to properly recognize, nurture and develop those abilities.

He gives all of us dreams to use those talents. God never gives a dream without also giving you everything you need to see your dream realized.

God places those talents in us to use for our joy, happiness, self expression and fulfillment.

When my main motivator was denied, I felt miserable and unfulfilled. I also experienced money chaos by pushing money away. When I came to peace and accepted my true self, my Magical Essence™, the money finally began to stay in my life.

Even more rewarding is the inner peace, calm and joy I experience no matter what is happening in my life. (you can read more about that journey here)

Ignoring and denying your true nature can cause stress, anxiety and depression,… often leaving you with the feeling something is seriously missing in your life.

There’s something special inside all of us. Never underestimate what is inside of you that makes YOU special!

Sometimes our background teachings program us to feel guilty about desiring money and nice things.

Your thoughts and beliefs do have the power to either attract or repel the things your desire in your life.

Tired of your desires, goals and dreams not coming true? Begin by questioning your beliefs.

There is a Magical Essence™ in all of us… Something inside us insists we plan for victory not defeat, for happiness not misery, for peace of mind not for a life of worry, anxiety and fear.

There’s something special inside all of us. Even you… although at this point you may not believe it. Never underestimate what it is inside you that makes you special.

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Attitude of Gratitude

by Ann Rusnak

Gratitude

You’ll find many books on financial success sitting on my bookshelves. The majority of them contain a recurring subject matter concerning the flow of money.

Even Wallace D. Wattle’s classic "The Science of Getting Rich" devotes an entire chapter to this subject.

The Law of Gratitude – Being Thankful

Wallace D. Wattles says: "gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which ALL blessings come…

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that the soul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the one which never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment…

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method.”

Gratitude Keeps Lack Mentality Away

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are… Wattles

Gratitude starts with expressing thanks for everything in your life right now.

I must admit, when I started developing an attitude of gratitude, it didn’t come easy. There was much upheaval in my life and it appeared like nothing was happening according to plan.

My best friend encouraged me to give thanks during the stormy times. I thought she was nuts. Following her advice, began feel sense of hope coming upon me… something I hadn’t felt for quite some time.

I started to notice all the good in my life and stopped focusing on what I didn’t have.

The Power of Appreciation

How many times do complain about the lack of money… yet you walk past a penny, nickel or dime on the ground without picking it up?

The universe provided you with a gift that you didn’t accept or didn’t think it was "worth" enough for you to bother picking it up.

If you don’t appreciate the little gifts, why would the universe give you more?

Think how you felt when you gave something and the recipient didn’t appreciate it? Did it make you feel like you wanted to give more to this person?

Whenever you find unexpected money, no matter what the denomination, say "Thank you Money Honey!"

Morgana in her Proven Steps to be a Money Magnet book says money doesn’t always show up in dollar amounts. She gave an example of going to the doctors and receiving a clean bill of health. Thank your money honey… something wrong would cost more than the doctor visit.

She said she give thanks for no line at the DMV.

Always give thanks and acknowledge with gratitude for what you already have. Appreciate what you have right now, no matter how little it seems to you.

Think how you would feel and react if you receive genuine thanks and appreciation for all you did. Imagine how God with unlimited resources will react when you show appreciation.

Gratitude really does keep you connected to God, Universal Source of all things.

The Gratitude Box

To help develop this new attitude and habit, I created a Gratitude Box using a small box for organizing photos. I wrote Thank You God in big letter on the lid. I took blank sheets of paper and cut them up into note size blocks. I put the "note" size piece into the box with a pencil.

Every day for 30 days, I wrote out a thank you note to God for something I was grateful for… some days it could be several thank you notes. I even thanked God in advance for something I requested but didn’t receive yet.

WOW… talk about major changes… more and more blessings kept coming into my life. I still do the thank you notes to this day.

Take a good look at what you’ve got right now, you may find yourself happily surprised and then watch how it will begin to blossom and increase.

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Cheers

PS Share something you’re grateful for today