“Why do 97% of people fail?”  OR the oppo-same phrase, “How to be part of the 3% who succeed.”

The other day I read an email from one of the many 3%ers that I subscribe to and in their email they say the following:

I don’t use “hype” or BS or “launches”
I think that crap is just an insult to
good people’s intelligence and it’s
a shell game approach to siphoning
as much money from people as fast
as you can and then dumping them
into some “forum” or support ticket site…

That’s not good energy.
It’s not a good way to build anything
long term…

If you are being pessimistic and skeptical you’ll probably think that this is a copy-pasted bit of psyhco-babble that is not an original thought by the current ‘author’. And you just may be right. But do you want to be right and be stuck and poor or do you want to read past the BS (yes they have used launches et al to get them to where they are today)?

If you stick around long enough in this business you begin to grow a BS filter that eventually has no negative emotional response.  You se it’s just how things have been done.  Raise your hands if you have been on the losing end of the ‘shell games’ mentioned above.  So if you have been burned before – probably more than once – then why are you still hanging around?

Do you have sucker stamped on your forehead or do you hope to pass the buck and  ’get yours’? Well, I have news for you.  If this is where your mind is at, you will always be stuck in the losing end because you are simply not vibrating at the desired frequency range. Put more simply, your mental state sucks.  And it will suck your bank account dry too.

I’ve found that if you are consistently doing the right actions and still aren’t succeeding yet, then it’s probably the conversation going on in your head [BELIEF SYSTEM] that is holding you back.  No amount of action will be able to overcome a screwed up lack-and-limitation mindset.

If this is YOU, my advice is to FULL STOP and take a break from being busy and stop avoiding the problem.  Spend as much uninterrupted time as you need to work on adjusting your frame of mind.  Visualization of your ideal life is a great place to start. Ignore the side of your brain that wants to shout, “but this is just a fantasy, not your life as it is now” and have fun.

Remember when you were a kid how effortless it was to play imagination? That’s what you need to do now.  Be like a child and remember your dreams if you have forgotten them. You start where you are now.

“Do, or do not. There is no Try.”

You are a result of your thoughts. If there is nothing else you learn on this planet, you will learn that this is the rule in this reality and the rule of many other realities. Thought creates experience. Why not give yourself a gift and begin to think of yourself in a capacity that is exceptional, magnificent, and uplifting; free yourselves from the need to have the rest of society agree with you.Validate yourselves. For some of you, this is very difficult. How do you validate yourself when you are in the habit of not doing it?

Your words are either empowering or dis-empowering. We want you to have the courage to live your light, so we want to emphasize to you and convince you in whatever way possible that your thoughts formulate your world. Eliminate the words   trying from your vocabulary. If you were to pay money every time you say these words, you would be in great debt. You are in a great debt of dis-empowerment or impotence. Should implies that you are operating under someone else’s sovereignty. We would like to remind you that you are sovereign unto yourself.

If someone is trying to put out a newsletter or trying to change their patterns, they can try for the rest of their life. Trying is  . Whenever you use the word trying, you will not accomplish anything because trying is an excuse: “I tried to do it. I tried. I tried.” In your own life, use the words “I am creating,” “I am doing,” “I am manifesting,” “I am intending,” and “I am bringing about.” Forget “I am trying.”

When you become a doer and are able to manifest what you want in life, you set yourself up as a mirror for many people. There has been a belief that there is a limited amount of everything and that only one person or the other can be a doer or manifest-er. When you begin to show that you can bend the laws they want and they can’t get it unless you don’t have it.

If you put yourself behind others and are afraid of having what others do not have because you think there is not enough, you do not understand that as you allow the divine principles to work in your body and anchor themselves upon the planet that you become a living example of light. You allow the underlying purpose of light to move through your vehicle and you become a living example of what others can do. This is the high vibration that we intend to teach all of you. We want you to understand that there is no limitation.

There is no limitation on the entire planet. Each person on the whole planet can operate in cooperation and in a uniqueness of being. Whatever gifts of spirit and materiality come your way, don’t think that you are more lucky than others. Instead, simply understand that you are able to get the divine principles to work in your physical body and that you can show others how. You can say, “Listen, it works. I have been able to do it. You can do it as well.”

We spend hours teaching people about not being afraid to manifest. Each of you is frightened because you grew up with an ethic that says, “Only if you work for something is it of any value. If you do not put in hard work, you cannot get things.” It is imperative for all of you to look at this idea of hard work and where it came from. Look at your parents and the belief systems they have had. We are talking about birthing a consciousness that represents the new human species that learns how to do things effortlessly.

If something is not being done effortlessly, then forget it. If it looks like if is too much work, something is telling you it is not the way. Only when something comes together effortlessly and simply fits, with no one doing too much to it, is it right. If you all begin to live like this, you will completely change how the species of consciousness approaches life. It is not irresponsible or a cop-out-it is a new way of carrying bricks from one place to another.

One time we talked about a big pile of bricks with a group of people and asked them, “How do you move the bricks?” They all said, “Well, you pick them up one by one.” And we said, “No one ever thought of hiring someone else to do it?”

If your assignment is moving bricks from here to there, how are you going to do it? Your first answer may be, “Well, I will move them. I’ll pick them up.” However, you could go call someone up and say, “Move these bricks for me.” If you do that, you are still doing the assignment. You are doing what needs to be done. Do you think we are going to chastise you if you don’t do it yourself? No. You are still getting the job done. You see the difference?

Money seems to be an issue with everyone. You all have very definitive beliefs about how money comes to you. The more you believe you must work hard for money, the harder you are going to have to work. Many of you believe it is quite normal to work hard for money, and that if you don’t work hard for money then it is “dirty.” Let us ask you to remember the word effortless and incorporate it into your vocabulary. Say to yourself, “I am effortlessly intending that this come about.” To be effortless is to command to reality to bring itself to you in a way that gives room for plenty of energy to be expended in other experimentation.

Remember, your reality is a result of your thoughts. If you believe that things are hard, what are you creating? Many of you have spent lifetimes honoring and respecting family members or people of society who you believe are uplifting citizens and who represent to you a certain work ethic and value system. You have not thought to question this work ethic or to see if there is any other way. So you believe that in order to get money you must expend a great amount of energy, or you must be employed by someone who is going to give it to you, or whatever. These ideas are completely and totally erroneous. We cannot emphasize that enough. When you are allowing, Spirit will compensate you in a variety of unexpected ways. The only reason this has not happened before is that you just haven’t believed it was possible. When you believe things are possible, reality changes.

State of mind is the name of the game here. We cannot emphasize that to you enough: how you feel about reality and how you program reality is how you are going to respond to it or how it is going to present itself to you. That is why we say, “Go for it! Be outrageous! Do what excites you! Do the impossible!” You can do it. You can do whatever you want to do. You will transform your world no matter what state the world is in.

[Excerpt taken from Bringers Of the Dawn]

When people have misplaced trust in someone they see as an authority figure, they shirk their personal responsibility for their own life and the actions or inactions they choose.

When this occurs, they can get themselves into trouble.  They allow the collective voice – some might call it peer pressure – to override and drown out their own voice.

Where, oh where was their mindset?

To me this illustrates how most people are followers and allow someone else’s judgment overrule their own innate wisdom. Individual boundries are dangerously overridden by pressure to conform.

“I’m feeling pretty bad, maybe I should stop and get out.  Well, everyone else is still in here. I’ll look weak if I leave.  I’m in better shape than many of them, I should be able to take it.  We’re safe here, right?  They are incouraging us to sit it out cause it’ll be so worth it.  Breakthr…”

“Group think” is a phrase that pops in my head. One thing that I doubt very much WASN’T going thru their mind was any sort of Critical Thinking.

According to the article, [read it here - James Ray 2 deaths in Sedona], over 50 people had paid $9000-$10000 for the privilege of attending this 5 day retreat.  Hmm…. So James was charging $1000 a head per day for a take of over $500,000 for a week’s work.

Why do I bring up the money?  It makes me question the mentality of the attendees.  Do they think that the price of going somehow insulates them from potential harm?  As in, if it’s expensive, it must be good and safe.

What a load of dookie.  That is a peeve I have with the industry.   Any punk ass on the street (many of them came from there) can orchestrate a ‘big breakthrough success’ fabricated or real, and then that’s all the credentials they need to justify such absurd fees for the privilege of being in the presence of their hubris. I’m not signaling out Mr Ray nor am I implying one way or the other if he falls into this catagory. However, it pays to be aware that this industry does attract more than it’s fair share of charlatans and for that, one MUST not lose connection to their inner voice.

It’s incredible to be able to command that kind of speaking money – like ex presidents and celebs.  But when you get right down to it,  it’s a bit nutty. It’s one thing to think highly of yourself and what you have to value, but it’s another to simply bilk people out of their money simply because you can.

Maybe it’s just a numbers game.  After all, big music acts only charge 20-300 for a ticket, but they have 1000s of concert goers, whereas these seminars and speaking engagements have to make up for the lack of numbers by charging 10-100x’s more money.

Update: This article really lays it out: The New Age Sweat Lodge Death Controversy.

Like Deepak Chopra talking about going into the GAP, we must allow ourselves to enter the Vortex of our desires which are waiting for us to ‘snap out of it’ so to speak.

For now, I want to share a video that was filmed back in 1996 that gives a different perspective on how people think – a bit of MINDSET and Psycology for ya if you will…

Watch the Mindset here.

Question/Comment:
i SORRY I COULDNT HEAR THAT GOOD, IS IT A GOOD BUSINESS TO INVAST IN BECAUSE, I JUS GOT LAID OFF AND HAVE 4 KIDS UNDER THE AGE OF FOUR, I CAN’T WASTE ANY MONEY

My Answer:
Your comment reflects your mindset. Here’s the short of it – yes, Shaklee is an excellent company – one of my friends built her business over 2.5 years in the early 80s and did very little since then to maintain it – and she still averages $85K to over 100K a year. That may not seem like a lot compared to other opportunities promising 30-100K a month, but this is a company that’s been around for over 50 years with seriously dedicated users of their products. They have an impeccable business and environmental record as well. And all during that time – including the current depression we’re in, her business remains steady.

That said, you are asking the wrong question. Remember, only a fool would say their program or product is crap. But you have to see past all the hype and ‘marketing’ and understand what’s really going on here.

A savvy marketer who knows what they’re doing will make money with anything they promote.

I’m tired of seeing too many people spend their hard earned money and waste their time looking for an easy fix or get-rich-quick solution because that rarely works – well, actually, it does – for the person selling them.

I would suggest you educate yourself first before spending any money on a business.

It took me years to understand how these businesses work – it’s about making yourself a better you – building value in yourself – learning new skills. . . Building relationships with others that are like you. . . and building a LIST – yes… the list of contacts is how those ‘big marketers’ make their money. But they worked hard to build that list back when they were a ‘nobody’ and weren’t making much money at it.

The overnight successes you may hear about didn’t really happen overnight.

It’s like how bamboo grows…. Years it lays beneath the surface where no one sees it… but one day, it breaks ground and from then on it grows inches every day.

I would recommend getting on my free marketing newsletter to start educating yourself on how to do this the correct way.

But being me, I thought, the question, “What is my purpose in life?”  or any of it’s variations are not a very clear or concise way of phrasing the TRUE question our souls are asking. . . Words have power. . . intention. . . focus. . . and all that. . .

I had recently learned from a friend who had a life changing moment when he was talking to Bob Proctor when Bob asked him the question, “what if you could make your yearly income your monthly income?”

The point of that question was it challenged and shook up his entire way of thinking about how life works and how life ‘is’.

You want change or answers?  You need to ask the right questions.

So I spontaneously came up with what I thought was a better  more specific way of asking the universe (or whoever) that question… The wording goes something like this:

How can I best use the talents and gifts I have and want to further develop  so I can be the greatest good to all and have the most personal enjoyment and satisfaction from doing so?

Now the next step is to listen and pay attention to the answer the universe sends you back and you’ll be ready to move forward.

The idea of starting a business is alluring to so many people.  There is the vision of wealth, providing opportunities and security.  Also there is pride and purpose- knowing what you’re doing is for you and your family.  And of course, one of the most appealing reasons is the freedom of being able to work from home and choose your own hours.

These visions are wonderful and, in many cases, attainable.  In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, there are over 17.6 million businesses with one or more owners but no paid employees.
So why are so many aspiring entrepreneurs left on the sidelines?

It turns out, there are three reasons.

One, as you can imagine, is good old fashioned fear.  Fear of the unknown.  Fear of failure.  Believe it or not, fear of success.

The second reason is a lack of knowledge.  “Where do I start?” “I don’t have enough resources.”  “I don’t know anything about marketing.”

And the third reason, which I will be discussing in this article, is about the business idea, itself.

Business Idea Paralysis

What is business idea paralysis?  Quite simply, it’s a condition that prevents people from starting a business because they get held back in the idea generation stage.  Basically, they are stuck in neutral.  Below are the two most common reasons why:

The Pet Rock Syndrome

In 1975 a gentleman named Gary Dahl created a product called the pet rock.  Many of you have probably heard of it.  In case you haven’t, it was nothing more than a rock set in a box on some straw.  Within 6 months, Dahl had sold over 5 million of these pet rocks for $3.95 each.  It cost him less than 30 cents to produce the rock.  So, when you do some basic number crunching, he made over 15 million dollars in just 6 months – selling rocks.

What does this have to do with anything?  Well, quite a bit actually.  Imagine how much your life would change if you could sell something as simple as a rock and become a multi-millionaire in just 6 months.  Pretty tantalizing isn’t it?  Unfortunately, it has tantalized people so much that they never end up starting a business.  They only end up chasing their own “pet rock” gimmicks that never catch on.

The reason is simple.  Some people just haven’t been blessed by the idea gods.  The gods have failed to spring upon them the multi-million dollar idea that they believe they need.    No matter how hard they try to come up with the next pet rock, they can’t.  If you don’t believe me, take a look at how many get-rich-quick schemes are being sold today.  If people can’t think of the next great idea, then they will buy the idea from someone else.  Well, guess what?  It doesn’t work.  Mr. Dahl was an aberration.  He hit the winning lottery ticket.  Chances are you won’t.

After you have wiped the pet rock syndrome from your head, beware of the next, equally as paralyzing syndrome that can keep you from getting to business with real, tangible ideas.

Peace, Love and Happiness Syndrome

On the other end of the spectrum we have the peace, love and happiness camp.  This group is a little more realistic in their pursuit of a business idea.  Their problem, however, is that they love too many business ideas.  In fact, they love them so much that they can’t decide on the best one.  They become paralyzed by trying to figure out which idea is best, and ultimately, never try any of them.

These types of people, I have found, are extremely visionary.  They love to explore all of the different business angles and long term visions.  The problem is they don’t take action because their heads are filled with amazing ideas and forecasts for success.

If you fall into this camp, I have bit of advice.  Stop it!  You need to choose an idea and then let your mind run wild within the boundaries of that idea.

How Do You Find the Right Business Idea?

There are two schools of thought on how to come up with the right business idea.  I’ll discuss them below:

The Traditional Approach

The traditional theory for finding the right business idea states that you should find a need and fill it.  In other words, you need to pay attention to your surroundings and look to see where there might be an opportunity to offer a new product or service that people may need.  Once you do, that’s what you will build your business around.

There is no question that this method of generating business ideas work.  It has led to many great inventions and innovations over the years.   It is for this reason that pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars.  They develop new drugs to satisfy a need, such as a heart condition.  You can also see the traditional approach at play with today’s green technologies.  New, “green” businesses are trying to fill the need for clean, renewable energy.

There is one problem with this method, however.  It can be quite expensive and time consuming.  First, you have to develop the product or service.  This includes spending a lot of time and money on market research and sampling.  Second, you have to spend a lot of money on marketing to not only introduce the product or service, but to also convince people that they really do need it.

If you’re a typical entrepreneur with limited funds and expertise, this may not be the best method of generating business ideas.

The Give Them What They Want Approach

There is a second school of thought about coming up with a business idea that in many ways is far less risky and is much less expensive.  This theory is based on the idea that you should come up with an idea that already exists.  Or, simply put, offer people a product or service that they are already buying.
Wait a minute, you may say, but doesn’t that mean there is more competition?  Isn’t the market already saturated?   Um, I would reply, tell that to Netflix.

In 1997 the originator of Netflix reportedly hit upon the idea for movie rental-by-mail when he was forced to pay $40 in fines after returning an overdue videotape of the film Apollo 13. Renting movies was not a new business “need” that needed to be satisfied.  In fact, Blockbuster had been renting movies for over 10 years, and in 1998 had served nearly 60 million people who rented more than 970 million movies and video games.

Netflix took a proven market (movie rentals) and simply enhanced the service by offering movie rentals by mail, with no late fees.  The result:  today, Netflix has over 10 million monthly subscribers while generating  an annual revenue of over 1 billion dollars.  Blockbuster, on the other hand, is struggling to stay afloat.

The point is that if you know what people are buying, a good business idea is nothing more than simply enhancing the product or service and/or marketing message.  It’s a lot less risky and more often than not, a lot less expensive.

About the author:
David Mickelson is the managing director of Entrepreneur Field Manual, a leading resource for entrepreneurs. He has been involved in every aspect of small business for 20 years. He has bought and sold small businesses, started small businesses, and consulted for small businesses. David graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Finance.

You can visit his website at http://www.entrepreneurfieldmanual.com or check his daily business updates at http//www.entrepreneurfieldmanual.com/blog.
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But for right now, I’d like to share one of my ‘Mindset Mentors’ who is full of timeless wisdom.

Deepak Chopra.  Yup, that guy.  Take a look around his site – there’s a lot of really good information.

Here’s a link to a video he had with his son Gotham Chopra – really really good – observations on people who are completely out of touch with what’s going on around them – - – all that separation consciousness and much much more!

I see people getting caught up too easily to focusing on what is – especially what the mass media tries despirately to convince you of what the state of the world is.  In this instance I’ll be referring to the Economy.

Here’s where you need to pay attention. There are 2 economies.

1. The Economy - which is what the mainstream media screams in your face on a daily basis.

2. Your Economy – which is what you think and do everyday.

Economies, like anything in life are cyclical.  It just so happens that we’re in a trough right now. There are always growths and recessions. . . booms and busts.  It’s natural.

Those who flourish in these so called ‘down times’ have a mindset of eagerness and abundance and positivity.  We are focusing on all the amazing opportunities around us in a ‘been waiting for this’ attitude.

Pay attention to trends – like how people want more fuel efficient cars and cheaper holidays and diversions, part time business opportunities and financial education.  People are looking for new ways to make money. In our industry this is great news as more people are openminded – assuming they can get beyond their fears of lack and limitation.

Did you know that the richest people today got their big break during the Great Depression of the early 20th century?  More millionaire were created then than any other time until recently.

So here’s what you do: 2 THINGS

1. You need Specific (right) KNOWLEDGE

2. Take Immediate Action – you need momentum here, so don’t drop the ball

Remember, there is no “THE ECONOMY” there is only “YOUR ECONOMY”.

Just like those who made their fortunes in the great depression, you won’t let the media

dictate your decisions and actions.  Reject conventional wisdom that does not serve you.

Develop and ‘internal economy’ mindset. Choose to see this economic slump as a great opportunity. What you focus on expands.

Know what to do – that’s taking the right action.  Huge wealth will be created and redistributed in the coming years.

I won’t tell you what to do here as there is no blanket solution that fits everyone.

I will leave you with this – grab a free copy of the Science Of Getting Rich to get an idea of the mindset you should cultivate to make things happen in the near future.

all is well,

Terry