Tropical Finances: Conquering the Law of Sowing and Reaping

The Law of Sowing and Reaping: There is the Law of Sowing and Reaping, which says that you can only reap the abundance that you have sown in prior periods. We have written before, in other sections, of the time it takes for the Law of Attraction to bear fruit, as they say. This is a part of the reason that when you first discover the Law, you can't immediately manifest abundance, or the relationship you want, or whatever else you have been hoping for. It is only when you are sowing continually, that you can begin to reap continually. If you want a new German or Italian sports car, and you have never saved any money, never had a part time job, never put in overtime, never started a business to generate a second income, and never finished school, you are going to have to do some sowing before you are going to reap that car! This is the Law of Attraction in process. Mike Dooley says that you have to master where you are right now, and start pitching balls to the Universe so that the Universe can hit you a home run. This activity is sowing. This mastery is sowing. Once you are engaged at this level, and visualizing your dream(s), you will find that you are inspired to specific activities, or to read or learn from certain texts or authors, or you may be inspired to meet with certain mentors or masters. You must follow your inspiration -- or it will stop. Inspiration only comes to those who attend to her suggestions, so don't offend her. As Napoleon Hill says in a wonderfully helpful analogy, "success is a love who must be courted" and the best teacher is ambition. How can we court success? In the same way that you would court a person, you must first have clarity about your goals, and the self confidence or trust that you will achieve your goal because you just know that you are not going to give up before you have won the prize. It is necessary to be positive, generous, and happy, just as you would be when dating a beautiful woman. This Law of Attraction analogy of Napoleon Hill is consistently helpful. If we are fearful and doubtful, we know that this will not work in a dating situation. Just so, it will not work with the Law of Attraction because we will attract more of that which we fear rather than that which we are visualizing. When you read that like attracts like, or that you will attract the results of your vibrations, this is what they mean. You will attract whatever best matches your strongest emotions. It is best to make sure it is courage rather than fear. Doubt does not work with the Law of Attraction, either. As Jesus said, "Believe." Whenever he made a request of his father, he believed it was granted. He never doubted His father's love or his father's agreement to perform miracles whenever asked, and you know of his ability to perform miracles. Recently, I was with a 3 year old who loved watching construction. He was a fan of "Bob the Builder", but, he was also intrigued by the opportunity to watch real work by real men using real equipment. He learned to appreciate the time it took; watching the preparation, the work, and finally, the ncleanup. He would patiently wait with the excavator "shovel" operator for the dump truck to arrive. He would not let me leave until the men finished the job, even when we could see that they were filling the hole and would soon place the metal road grates over that. It did not take long before local workmen were waving to him. He was 3 years old and cause and effect, sowing and reaping, beginning, middle and end were concepts already being birthed in him. During this period, he, one day, called to me with great excitement, "Nancy, Nancy, I see my car!!" I looked up, expecting to see his father in the family car, but could not find anything that resembled it. Instead, all I could see was a new, shiny, pickup truck parked across the street.... "Are you looking at that truck?" I finally asked. "Yes," he nodded. "That's my truck!" That was several months ago, and still when he sees that truck, or one just like it, he says the same thing. "Look Nancy, there's my truck!" What could exemplify the correct use of the Law of Attraction better? He had imagined a truck. He saw himself as the owner in the present time. He did so with imagination and enthusiastic emotion. He believed it was his. He had even found a way to accept it into his life because he admitted that his father would have to drive it for him until he got a driver's license.... As adults, we can add activity based on inspiration, and gratitude. Depending on how big our dream is, we will expect a learning curve. If we are manifesting a cup of coffee, we won't have much interference, but if we are manifesting that new sports car, we might be inspired to start a new business or to start a new department for our employer. If the dream is the sowing, this is the watering and fertilizing. We will have to wait for the reaping until we have learned what we need to learn and proven our persistence. nnAs an Example: I was, last fall, inspired to start a website. I am sure this was a direct result of my visualization of financial success through multiple streams of income. I didn't know anything about websites, but was willing to learn. I thought about it and began to plan what I would have as part of a website. This thinking and planning took several weeks. Then, I was in another person's website and noticed just at the bottom of the page, a notice that the page was built by a particular site builder. I moved my cursor down and found that I could click on the notice, which I did. This took me to another website that explained everything anyone would need to know about how to build a successful website. Voila! Inspiration and instruction manual all in one! I saved the site to my desktop. I realized that I needed to do more thinking about this. The web builder was not free, although they promised one free month with sign up. My plan was to have everything ready, so that I could build my site in that first month and be ready to monetize right away. As Anthony Robbins and Jeff Olsen say, nwhen learning something new, learn from the masters and you will do it right the first time. A few months later, I had a rough idea of what I would do, but had not yet made the leap of faith and bought the site builder. I was talking with a colleague, a publisher, about my recently completed book, and she mentioned that all the contemporary best selling authors promoted their work on their own websites. She asked me if I had one.... As Jack Canfield in the movie The Secret, would say, "Der, ner ner ner, der ner, nerner." Now, when I say that the Universe may challenge you with some adversity, or will place some hurtles in your path, I know this from experience. At about that time, I was using my laptop at home, and my cat knocked over a glass of water. This laptop was about one week past its warrantee. So now, I not only had to invest dollars that I didn't have in the site builder program, but also in either repairing my old laptop, or buying a new one. I also didn't know when I would find the time. I wasn't discouraged, but saw this as an opportunity to get creative. As if to reward my positive attitude, at about that time, my bosses told me that they were going on vacation, and that I would also have a 3 week vacation with pay! My partner received a tax incentive check, or economic stimulis check from the government just as that vacation was beginning! So, any barriers of time or money were instantly wiped away! (Did you ever doubt that unexpected income is possible?) We purchased the web builder and began to follow the "10-day Tutor" using my desktop computer (while my laptop was being fixed). Planning and building the site did not take 10 days. I only had 14 vacation days and worked day and night to get the website up in that amount of time, but that was the last nweek in April and just the beginning. 4 months later, I am still working on it. However, I am here to say that everything they tell me to do, I do, just as Anthony Robbins and Jeff Olsen would have me do. And, just as they promised, all my rankings have increased, and my traffic has increased, and our website popularity is growing by leaps and bounds! We have passed many websites in our niche that have been up for months or years longer. I have to admit that this would not be fun for someone who does not enjoy writing, however, I can promise you that if you do, even if you don't have any idea what a website is, we can teach you how to do it. If you enjoy writing, it will be a complete pleasure. I don't know if there is anything more satisfying than designing and building a site based on something you love, and finding that there are millions of people in the world community who are excited to be learning about your subject from you! If you would like to learn more, please visit us at http://www.mindbridge-loa.com/legit-work-at-home.html. nnChange: I have heard that there are seasons of wealth, Spring and Fall, birth and death and rebirth, but I no longer believe that this is a necessary truth. This has been true in my life when I was dependent on a salaried position. Periodically, the income growth would seem to stagnate, and I would find a new job, or change departments, or invent some new process and be rewarded for the inovation. Yet, I could not seem to get past the periodic stagnation, or winter season. Robert Kyosaki teaches us to build multiple streams of income. I believe this is the key to moving your financial life to a tropical paradise where there is no winter. He talks about building financial streams that are not dependent on your time or your money. A website can do this. Your customers can come from anywhere in the world, and they come 24 hours a day whether you are there to greet them or not. There is, as Joe Vitale says, no limit! The income potential might be infinite, or very close to it, depending only on your idea! The site building program that we used will help you to find which idea of yours is the best. It will help you find the most lucrative niche before you even start the writing. This, we promise, is a tremendous time saving benefit. Prepare yourself for change. Be grateful for inspiration and new ideas. Enjoy the ride, whatever it is for you. Prepare to reap abundance! nnnnnn