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Wealth and Your Attitude

Book Review: Sell the Feeling by Larry Pinci and Phil Glosserman

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Article: Wealth and your Attitude

I recently wrote a post about wealth on my personal journal. In it I wrote about various people, places, and other parts of my life that made me feel wealthy. The one thing I didn’t write about was money, not because money isn’t a reality in my life, or even a form of wealth, but because having money in and of itself does not make a person wealthy. It’s what you do with the money that determines the wealth it generates for you. A person can be technically rich, and yet live a miserable life. Is that person wealthy? Not really. The satisfaction a person feels with his or her life is what generates wealth.

Don’t get me wrong though…having a sound financial plan, and good attitudes about money is an important cornerstone of wealth. In fact your attitude, in general, is what really determines the wealth you manifest in your life. If you’re a chronic complainer, always looking at what seems to be going wrong, then no matter how much money you have, you’re still not wealthy. In fact, chances are you’ll end up sabotaging yourself in some manner unless you change those attitudes.

The attitude you apply to your life is a good barometer of what is happening to you internally. If you feel unhappy on a consisten basis, try figuring out what makes you unhappy. By figuring it out and changing it, you can change your situation and your attitude, which in turn can help you start finding other opportunities for happiness and wealth.

The attitude we apply to life determines what we get out of life. If you consistently find yourself looking for the negative in everything, then that’s exactly what you’ll find. Some of the work I do with my clients involves helping them reframe their negative attitudes into positive outcomes, by showing them how they can take a situation that seems to be negative and change the motivation for that negativity into a desire for a positive outcome. Look at your motivations and ask yourself what emotion or desire is fed by that motivation. For instance if you find yourself saying:

I don’t like working at this job because it takes time away from pursuing my art.

Look at how the negative is emphasized over the positive. A solution isn’t offered in the above sentence. But if you reframe that sentence and your way of thinking, you change your attitude and encourage your abundance in life.

I will find work that allows me to pursue my art is a much a better sentence and way of thinking than the previous example.

Next time you find yourself feeling negative, try looking at how you think about and phrase a situation and see if changing that around can help you change your attitude and increase your awareness of opportunities that manifest wealth.

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Book Review: Sell the Feeling by Larry Pinci and Phil Glosserman

The authors utilize a story based approach to explain how successful sales works. The story format is a useful way of sharing ideas. At times though it can work against the message of the authors, particularly as they try to sell readers on going to their website. I suppose they might argue that it’s good selling, but at the same time, it also can work against what they really to explain. There’s the occasional little contradiction as well, but overall the explanation behind how sales works, and steps you can improve your sales makes the book worth a read or two. I know it reminded me of some of the skills I have at my disposal that I sometimes forgot I have. The stories and illustrations provide good examples of the principles involved and that can make it helpful for someone trying to learn how to sell.

4 out of 5 stars.

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Upcoming workshops

June 7th, 2008 from Noon to 6pm

Come to The Guiding Tree at 4831 SE Division St, Portland OR 97206 for the follow workshops offered by author, innovator, and life coach, Taylor Ellwood:

Body Consciousness: A new paradigm for embracing your body and living your life

In this interactive workshop, we will combine reflective internal meditation with breathing practices and path working techniques that will leave you feeling connected to your body and revitalized in how you live your life. If you’ve felt dis-ease or unhealthy, this workshop will offer you a new paradigm about your body and what it has to tell you about the healthy life you can live. Even if you feel healthy, come to this workshop and get in touch the consciousness of your body.

Come ready to:

• Connect to your body and appreciate it for the miracle it is.
• Listen to the consciousness of your body to learn how to live healthier Work with your residual body image to help you pinpoint how you can change your relationship to your body.
• Learn a meditation that you can use to talk with your body at any time.

Breathe Easy: Simple techniques to energize your life with breath

Each breath taken offers you the potential to live a full life. In this interactive workshop, we’ll learn breathing techniques that will help you feel more energized and aware of your body’s health. When you leave, you will know how to use breath to both relax you and dissolve internal tension and stress.

I will show you how you can even change negative behavior patterns into positive life affirming outcomes.

Come ready to:

• Dissolve internal tensions and blockages Identity and change negative behavior into positive outcomes Breathe easy and enjoy life with renewed vigor Learn how to empty your body of negative emotions and revitalize your energetic self.

Become Who You Want To Be: A Workshop On Identity and You

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or have you wished you had more confidence in what you did or felt more focused in achieving your goals in life? How would you feel if you could create a new identity that would let you feel that confidence? In this workshop, I’m going to introduce you to an innovative method where you can create a persona and become that persona when you need it. I will show you how to identify key attributes that will help you define the persona that you create. You will use those attributes to create a Neuro-Linguistic Programming anchor which you can then use to invoke the persona when you need it.

Energize your life: Techniques for creating change in your life

Your energy is your life. If you feel drained after a long workday or being around certain people this workshop is for you! You’ll learn the principle that where your attention your energy flows. We’ll try on some energy work techniques you can use to maximize the energy in your life, while also safeguarding it from energetic leeches and other potential problems. When you leave this call, you will come away with new skills you can use to energize your life everywhere you go.

Come prepared to:

• Learn how to sense your own energy and other people’s energy.
• Adapt yourself energetically and emotionally to your environment.
• Protect yourself from energetic leeches, drama llamas, and anyone else who makes you feel drained.
• Recognize where your attention is going and your energy is flowing so you can reclaim your energy for yourself.

Total cost for the day: $80

Total cost for your sense of health, well-being, and abundance: priceless.

To register call (503)-239-7458 or call (503)-869-0163 or contact us here.