| If you have been unsuccessful in your past 'quest | | | | Give what? While it is very important to have the |
| for success' it is probably because you have been | | | | right mental attitude you must also combine this |
| going about it in the wrong way. It's never too | | | | with the right kind of actions. You may be |
| late so don't give up but read on and learn how | | | | relieved to hear you don't necessarily have to |
| 'The Secret' can help you attract prosperity, | | | | give material things. What you can do is to be a |
| success and abundance into your life. | | | | genuinely honest, caring person, be the best you |
| Maybe you, like thousands of others, have tried | | | | can be at work, in your home, with people you |
| positive thinking and affirmations in an attempt to | | | | meet. |
| attract prosperity, success and abundance but | | | | You may feel that you can't do any more than |
| with negative success so you have given up after | | | | you are already doing, but by going that extra |
| a few weeks, or even months. Perhaps you | | | | mile you can make a big difference both in your |
| mistakenly thought that all you had to do was to | | | | own life and to the life of others you come in |
| think these thoughts and sit back and wait for | | | | contact with. Make someone else happy and you |
| prosperity, success and abundance to happen. | | | | are giving something to the world. It may not |
| When this didn't materialize you naturally felt | | | | take more than a genuine smile from you to |
| disillusioned and fell back into "I'm stuck in this | | | | make someone's day. It didn't cost you anything |
| job", " I'm never going to find another job", "I'm | | | | but it may be just the thing that person needed |
| never going to get out of debt", "I'm never going | | | | at that particular time and it will put you firmly on |
| to find the man/woman of my dreams". There | | | | the road to attract success, prosperity and |
| are so many negative things going on in people's | | | | abundance. |
| lives that it is impossible to individualize all of them. | | | | Only today I read in my local paper two letters |
| But stop and consider this a moment. If, just by | | | | sent in by readers, with a photo of a road works |
| thinking these thoughts, you could attract all the | | | | traffic controller waving at motorists and wearing |
| prosperity, success and abundance you want, | | | | a huge grin. Despite freezing conditions over the |
| then you and most everyone else would be rich, | | | | past fortnight he used this very effective charm |
| famous, in a loving relationship, etc. But if this | | | | to turn what could easily have become road rage |
| were the case, then incredible as it sounds, the | | | | into something some motorists actually looked |
| world would most probably be in a state of | | | | forward to seeing on their way to work. When |
| decline. | | | | the road works are finished no doubt there will be |
| Why? Because there would be no incentive for | | | | sighs of relief but the man and his cheerful |
| people to try and better themselves, or create | | | | manner will be sorely missed. |
| new and improved ways of doing things as it | | | | Showing compassion to others is another way of |
| would all come too easily. How many people do | | | | 'giving'. What a moving story came out of the |
| you know who have led a busy and interesting life | | | | devastation of the 2009 Australian wildfires - |
| who on retirement declined rapidly either mentally | | | | pictures of a volunteer fireman showing |
| or physically because they no longer had the | | | | compassion to an injured koala, shown drinking so |
| mental stimulus of their past daily routine. How | | | | gratefully from the fireman's water bottle, have |
| often you read of children of rich parents having | | | | been seen around the world and gave us all not |
| such a struggle to cope with life because they | | | | only a lump in our throats but also renewed our |
| have had too many material things handed to | | | | belief that compassion and kindness is still to be |
| them on a plate. It's all come too easily without | | | | found, often in the most dire circumstances. We |
| them having to lift a finger for themselves. | | | | would do well to remember that for every evil |
| What has this to do with attracting prosperity, | | | | deed committed there are countless good ones, |
| success and abundance into your life? Everything! | | | | very few of which get a mention. |
| There is an old saying that "you don't get | | | | Can you see that making small changes and |
| something for nothing". You must be prepared to | | | | efforts will make a difference in your life and the |
| GIVE before you RECEIVE. Give something to the | | | | life of others? For a start you will feel better |
| world even if it is only in your miniscule corner of | | | | about yourself as you affirm, with sincerity, to |
| it. | | | | yourself the following few words. "If I give to the |
| Learn how to give and then you will attract and | | | | world the best that I can then the best will come |
| receive prosperity, success and abundance in | | | | back to me". |
| return. | | | | |
