There are those who preach that writing positive
affirmations and sticking them on the fridge door will,
by itself, magically produce health, wealth and
happiness.
Although this is a very good and effective way to change
the way you think and take on more empowering beliefs,
it is not a magic pill that will, by itself produce results.
Let me be very plain. Actions alone produce results.
Knowledge, understanding and wisdom can teach you
the best way to act and thus produce better results; but
knowledge alone, understanding alone and wisdom
alone do not produce tangible material results. It
requires action to produce results.
It is necessary to do before you can have. Of course, you
are empowered to do more or behave in a better, a more
effective way, when you have more knowledge and
understanding, but you still must take action before
anything actually happens. You can have the most
glorious vision of a mansion in your mind, but unless
you actually build a roof, the rain will still fall on your
head.
Maybe, if you are some super enlightened soul, like the
almost mythical Babiji, you can sit in some cave in the
Himalayas and manifest all kinds of things without
doing the doing that the real world expects; but I am not
capable of that magic and I suspect that you are not
either, so do not pretend otherwise. It is fantasy to expect
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that you can be still and not do anything and somehow,
produce an ideal life. You must take action.
I have written much about how, in order to have more of
what we desire in life, we must first do more and, that,
in order to do more, we must first become more. In fact,
the focus of the majority of my articles and books is
about how to become more. I reiterate, time and time
again, how important it is to acquire the specific
knowledge of success if you want to have the success
you desire.
I also make it a point to emphasize that knowledge alone
is not power; that it is applied knowledge (or action) that
provides the personal power to create. Nevertheless, I
get many emails from people telling me that they have
spent years studying and learning the metaphysical
principles of success, without having any demonstrable
increase in abundance, prosperity or material success.
"Why?" they ask does this stuff not work for me.
In most cases, after some direct discussion, I find it is
because these people are not actually doing the
necessary things to make a practical application of their
education.
Just as you can obtain a degree in medicine, but cure no
illness or save no lives if you do not actually work at
being a doctor; you can know all the principles of
success, but if you do not actually put them into practice,
they will not work to produce results for you. You must
act.
You can, for example, fully understand how the Law of
Attraction works and you can have a harmonious mental
attitude; but, if you want to create material abundance or
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financial success and you do not enact what you know
by applying it within the available and proven ways to
produce success, then your knowledge and education is
wasted.
Mark Twain once commented that people who do not
read good books are no better off than people who
cannot read. I will elaborate on that to say that people
who know, but do not apply, the knowledge of the
conscious and intentional creation of success are no
better off than those who are ignorant of the possibilities
open to them.
Many people mistake the self-satisfaction they get from
acquiring knowledge as being sufficient unto itself. It is,
perhaps, enough, if your only goal is to become more
educated. It is not enough, however, if your goal is to use
that education to produce measurable effects in your
personal world.
Financial abundance, or success, is attained, not just
because you know certain things, but when you also DO
certain things. Things like applying money management
techniques. Things like creating or providing valuable
goods or services that people will pay you to obtain.
Things like marketing your goods and services so that
people will know what value you have to offer.
Prove your understanding of the metaphysical principles
of success and creation by taking action.
If you have, or represent, a product or service that would
appeal to a certain segment of society, then use your
understanding of the Law of Attraction in your
marketing activities. Don't expect those people who
want and need what you have to offer to just somehow
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find you. Your harmonious vibrations won't stand out
that much amongst all the noise and commotion of the
world unless you do the necessary marketing.
Enhanced or advanced knowledge and education
produces an enhanced ability to perform; but it is the
performance, your actions, that produce the results (or
circumstances or effects) in your life. Your actions do
speak louder than your words. Don't just tell me, or the
world, what you know and understand; SHOW me and
the world by enacting that knowledge in practical,
result-producing, ways.
The ultimate value (and proof) of what you know is in
the application or use of that knowledge. Do the doing
and you will produce results. Face up to the fact that if
the results you have in life are not to your liking, then it
is likely that your doing is incorrect. If you don't know
what to do to create success, then get the knowledge of
success; but don't stop there, do something about it.
Make the application.
Of course, indiscriminate action is not an effective way
to produce your desired results. You can run around like
crazy, climb 100 mountains, cut down forests full of trees
and be generally frenetic enough to power up a small
city without producing the exact results you wish to
have.
You must do the correct things in the correct way. That is
why you must get the knowledge... so that you will
know what to do. Become more, so that you are capable
of more. Then, do more of what needs doing. Then, and
only then, will you get to have more of what you want.
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I'll say it another way... enlightened actions produce
desired results. Understanding how things work is not
enough. You must also do the things that work.
You can sit and stare at your navel all you want, but if
you don't actually pull the lint out, it will still be there
tomorrow.
Yes, you absolutely must take the time and have the
discipline to do the inner work first; but in the end, you
must take deliberate, consistent and intentional action if
you want to produce the results.
The formula is: Become > Enact > Attain.
Become what you need to be
in order to
Enact what needs to be done
in order to
Attain what you desire to have.
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Quick Review:
Knowledge alone is not power. It is the direct and
specific application of knowledge that empowers.
Direct Action Steps:
Create a daily to do list each night before going to bed.
Review it throughout the day.
You will find each day feels more productive when you
complete items on your to do list. You will also find that
you are more productive and manage to stay on course.
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“When you follow your bliss... doors will open where
you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. ”
~ Joseph Campbell
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