Take Small Deliberate Steps to Accomplish Your Goal

Wherever you are on your life’s journey, do what’s at your hand to do. Don’t sit around waiting for your purpose in life to show up one day. Seek it; pursue it. The way to go after your destiny is to take small deliberate steps to explore what interests you. Some people know what their passion is early in life and are able to run with that passion. But if you happen to have several interests, none of which is so compelling that you would give every other interest up in order to follow one, then simply take each interest, one by one, and take one action each day to explore it.

Your commitment to do just one act every day related to a goal you have set for yourself has powerful significance. You may begin with only one step that you can see ahead of you. But after you take the first step—and sometimes it’s the only step you can see to take—another step, not visible to you before you took the first step, will emerge for you to take. You may never be able to fully script your life’s journey in advance, but it will always emerge as you move forward, one step at a time. It’s like driving through a thick fog that has been forecast to hang around for several days. You can decide to pull to the side of the road and wait until the fog lifts, or you can drive slowly in faith and inch toward your destination. However, unlike a fog, life does not lift in several days—it tends to go on interminably!

So, you are forced to come to grips with the Law of Faith. You can’t take a step forward in the fog or the dark or into the unknown without having accepted the Law of Faith at some level. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that what you’re doing will turn out right, whether you can see clearly now or not. Living by the Law of Faith means simply believing that your life has meaning and purpose, even if you don’t know what it is yet. The Law of Faith teaches you that you don’t have to know—indeed, you cannot know—everything. All you need to know is that if you muster the courage to move ahead, the way will be opened for you to advance. The Law of Faith is completely unrelated to your religion or religious preference or nonpreference—it is related to your belief in you and your knowing that you are not alone in the universe. There is help out there, waiting for you to summon it and appropriate it. The biblical definition of the Law of Faith is still true:

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Hebrews 11: 1-3 NIV)

Every person who has achieved success at any level has believed that whatever his or her goals in life were, they were achievable. In almost every case, great achievement has come to those who moved past criticism and the negative comments of those who kept telling them that what they were after was impossible to attain. What drove them on was their adherence to the Law of Faith.

Every solid created thing that you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands is made up of things that you can’t see with your eyes or touch with your hands. All matter is made up of elements that are made up of atoms and their three components: protons, neutrons and electrons—none of which is visible to the naked eye. In the same way, every new invention, every great idea, every forward advance in science begins in the invisible realm and only later manifests itself in the visible realm. In other words, everything that comes into existence begins with and is brought to its birth through the Law of Faith. But, that’s just the beginning—and not the end—of the story, as your own life experience and the biblical record maintain:

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. (James 2:17 NIV)

So, the Law of Faith teaches you that faith alone is insufficient to get you where you want and need to be. In order for your faith to be effective, you must act—do something—that puts your faith into action. If you say that you have faith that the big chair in the corner can hold your weight, and yet you refuse to sit in the chair, then you don’t really believe the chair can hold your weight. You cannot believe yourself into success without taking relevant and timely action to get you there. Your faith is what inspires you to take one step at a time to get to your next destination. But it is your action spurred on by your faith in yourself that takes you to the next destination!

The Universal Law of Leadership

The Universal Law of Leadership teaches that your ability to develop leadership skills is crucial to becoming a person who maximizes the personal development and highest and best use of yourself, the resources you receive, and the resources you create for the benefit of yourself and your family.

Leadership has been defined by many people in many different ways. One great definition of leadership is "communicating to people their inestimable worth and unlimited potential to such an extent that they actually come to see it in themselves." (This definition of leadership is perfect for creating a healthy home environment for the entire family, and especially for raising self-confident children!) Many others have said that leadership is the function of those who guide, direct or otherwise control the activities of others.

At a fundamental level, however, leadership simply means having influence that affects the behavior and/or world-view of others within a particular sphere—whether that influence is negative or positive.

Negative leadership is coercive—i.e., it requires raw power (external force) to maintain and sustain itself. Examples of negative leadership include: 1) the power of the gun—“Do what I say or I’ll blow your brains out”; 2) the power of the law—“Do what I say or I’ll lock you up or shoot you down”; 3) the power of economic reprisal—“Do what I say or I’ll fire you—better yet, I won’t hire you in the first place”; and 4) the power of hate propaganda that exploits our fears—“Do what I say or illegal aliens, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and terrorists will take over ‘our’ country.”

Many people who follow negative leadership do so because they feel forced (threatened) to do so for personal survival, political, economic, social or religion-based reasons.

Positive leadership, on the other hand, is inspirational—i.e., it requires soul power (internal values) to perpetuate itself. Examples of positive leadership include the power of being, the power of behaving, the power of belonging, and the power of believing.

The power of being is the God-given power that you have by virtue of your having been created in the very image and likeness of God—i.e., you have the capacity (power) to bring into being what does not presently exist in the material world. You have the power of imagination which leads to innovation and drives all creativity.

The power of behaving is your ability to decide how you will act on your own and in concert with others—it is freedom, the power to choose.

The power of belonging is the strength you feel when you work together with others to accomplish goals which you could not possibly accomplish by yourself. It is cooperation which produces the power of the Master Mind—collective thinking that adds the Universal Mind to the group and empowers the group to produce new ideas, products, services and new approaches to problem-solving.

Finally, the power of believing is the catalyst that allows you to overcome every obstacle in order to achieve your goals—it is faith, the power to see and bring into being the invisible. People who follow positive leadership do so because it resonates with their own internal value system and because they choose—in freedom—to follow.

Which kind of power—negative or positive—has impacted your life more? Please write your comments below and share what you think and how you feel about negative and positive leadership. I’d really like to learn what your experience has been, so please share your thoughts with me below.

The Universal Law of Abundance

The Universal Law of Abundance teaches us that we live in a world of abundance and not lack. All the water that has ever been on planet earth is still here. Although it is constantly recycling itself and changing its form from liquid to solid to steam and gas, not one new drop of water is added to our water supply, nor is one old drop of water subtracted from our water supply. We are drinking the same water that our ancestors drank.

In the same way, all the gold that has ever been on this planet is still here. All the wealth that has ever been amassed on this planet is still here. So, in terms of resources, everything that has always been here is still here, either in original or transmuted form. Consequently, we lack nothing related to resources available to us.

Now, if you accept this universal foundational principle, then it will affect the way you think in two specific ways. First, you will tend to be upbeat, grateful and, more likely than not, you will feel optimistic with hopeful expectancy about your future. Second, you will have a positive attitude that whatever your goals in life, you will succeed in achieving them.

Your mindset—the way you think, what you think most about, and how you think—determines what you believe, regardless of the facts. Even if there is no lack, but you believe in your mind that there is lack, then—despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary—you will continue to see every glass of water as half-empty and on its way to being emptied forever. Accordingly a mindset of lack produces the opposite of abundance for you, and supports your excuses for not developing yourself to your greatest potential, and keeps you from leveraging the resources that you already have in hand. In addition, a mindset of lack promotes the false belief that you are powerless to create your own resources.

People who believe in lack begin most of their conversations with “If I only had this or that,” or “if those people over there would only stop doing this and start doing that, I could do thus and so.”

If you decide not to accept the Universal Law of Abundance, then it will affect your mindset in two specific ways. First, you will tend to be downcast, ungrateful, and more likely than not, you will feel pessimistic with fearful dread about your future. Second, you will have a negative attitude that whatever your goals in life, you will not succeed in achieving them.

If you believe you can be, do and have more in life, then you can be, do and have more. If you believe that you can’t be, do and have more in life, then you can’t be, do or have more. The way you think—your mindset—determines your destiny.

The ancient aphorism is still true: “As a [woman] man thinks in [her] his heart, so is [she] he.”

The Law of Speech

One of the open “secrets” of success that can be of enormous help to entrepreneurs is the Law of Speech. The Law of Speech says that whatever you speak about yourself, your family, circumstances or situations will come to be because you have God’s DNA, His power of speech. Everything that was created by God, with the exception of humankind, was created by God’s word—His speech. Speech is more powerful than anything else because it creates out of nothing whatever is consistently spoken.

Speech does not follow religious guidelines or moral laws. It is a universal law that is morally neutral. It is available to you and everyone else. Those who use the law well, prosper. Those you don’t, fail. What this means is that whatever you speak continuously will come into existence, whether the spoken thing is good, bad or indifferent. The Law of Speech is one of the central laws that drive systems, products and service innovations. New systems, products and services begin their existence as non-material ideas that people have the courage to speak again and again. Invention begins with speaking the rearrangement of known created things into a new form. It is the power source that God has placed in your hands that allows you to create your own future.

This understanding of the Law of Speech teaches you to promote your own health and welfare. Such positive speech sets the atmosphere in which all the powers in the universe are unleashed to create for you what it is you continue to speak. But there is more.

The Law of Speech requires that you not only speak wholeness, but also commit your active intention—your focused life-force—to the object of your speech. In other words, your speech must be accompanied by specific actions that are aimed at realizing or manifesting what you have spoken. Speech without deeds is useless in the same way that faith without deeds has no value. It is positive speech that must overcome the inertia of the status quo to produce the desired new outcome. That is why focused attention (intention) is the catalyst that brings about the birth of the created thing that has been set in motion by positive speech followed by positive action.

   

You must understand that successful entrepreneurs do not have in their vocabulary such phrases as I can’t, it’s impossible, I don’t deserve and I don’t believe. These are the limiting negative words that people who don’t have the courage to take responsibility for their own lives and livelihoods use to justify their enslavement in a prison of self-loathing, self-doubt and unbelief in their own unlimited possibility as creators, inventors and innovators.

If you are looking for a way to free yourself from the economic and social limitations that are affecting your life, then use your positive speech and create the future you want for yourself. Speak your dream, write it down, and then work toward it!

What has been your experience with the power of speech? Does the concept make sense to you? Has it worked, or not worked for you? Leave a comment below and let’s have a conversation about it.