OK it is time for me to ask you some pretty serious questions, questions that will require you to do some real soul searching and for you to be totally honest with yourself.

The answers to these questions may cause you to make some major changes in your life that some people will not like.

Have you ever heard the story about “Crabs in a bucket”?

You see the story goes something like this:

If you have a bucket full of crabs and then one crab decides it wants to get out, it will start climbing over whatever is in it’s way to start the journey of getting out of the bucket. But what happens when the other crabs (let’s call these it’s friends) start to see that the crab is trying to get out, the other crabs will reach up with their nippers and drag the crab back down and not allow it to leave…

This actually happens in life with us humans as well and I dare say it is happening with you.

Sure you may not have people (friends, family and loved ones) literally grabbing you by the leg and stopping you from getting out of the bucket (circumstance you are in), but I can guarantee you have people who:

* Don’t believe in what you are doing…
* Say they support you but don’t give you any real action behind that support…
* They may even be saying that you could never succeed in that…
* Or that is a scam

I am sure you know exactly what I talking about.

So what do you do?

Well this is where I want to help you. The people you hang around will have a huge influence on your results and your future. They say that “your income is the average of your 10 closest friends and peers.” So ask yourself, who are they and are you happy with that average?

This is where you have to make some pretty tough decisions. Do you want to be hanging around the crabs that want to continually pull you back into the bucket, or do you want freedom?

Now I know that making new friends is not always easy and it is not always possible to get clear of old relationships, so let me tell you what to do…

Start ADDING new people into the mix of people you hang with. If you are in a home based business or network marketing company, start hanging around the people that are already more successful than you and allow what they have to rub off on you.

This is one of the reasons why attending the meetings and events is so important. It is also a reason why being part of a positive powerful team where a network marketing system has been initiated will help you.

You see the more you introduce positive people into your life, the less the negative ones will want to hang around, OR they will change (Which is what we want to see happen anyway).

You get to be the light in their darkness…so to speak.

We have this saying in Australia and I am sure every country around the world has a saying that is similar…”You can’t sore with the eagles when you are playing around with the galas”

You see in Australia, Galas hang around on the ground a lot, picking up the crumbs and seeds. Even though in my opinion they are a beautiful bird, they are noisy and in some instances quite a pest. They don’t have the grandeur of an eagle or the presence.

So ask yourself, what are you going to do today…are you going to make a decision to bring some eagles into your life and allow them to help you raise up into the warm currents they sore on or are you going to continue to hang around on the ground with the eagles?

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OK this is  a tough post to write and it was an even harder revelation to have. Have you ever wondered why you get what you have?

Well you may or may not know, but I am a christian and I love God and what His Son Jesus did for me (and you, but that is for another time) and for a long time now I have been thinking about why certain things had happened in my life.

You know the type of things I am talking about, family getting unwell, areas within my business not doing what I want them to do etc etc etc…

Then one day I read the scripture in the bible that says: “God wants to give us the desires of our heart”.

As a christian I have always thought that that scripture was talking about the “good desires” of my heart…but know it means THE desires that are in there.

It is quite difficult to explain totally what I mean in a short blog post, but I will give you my best.

I want you to really think about what it is that is on your mind all the time. Are you concerned about your health, your business or your life and do you have a lot of “What if this happens and what if that happens…” you know those “what if…” statements.

You see, those thoughts and statements, the “what if” ones, if you are not careful, start to become your dominating thought and if that is your dominating thought, guess what you become attracted to!

That’s right…the “what if” so instead of making decisions that will grow you and your future, you make decisions that stop your growth from happening. You also attract the one thing you were afraid would happen.

I know this is true because it happened to me and since then I have seen it happen to people I know all over the world.

It is like Job (a guy in the bible) said: “My greatest fear has come upon me…” the thing that he was afraid of he attracted into his life.

So here is  my warning!
Get control of your thoughts, because if you don’t, they WILL get control of you. They are powerful and unless you turn your thought pattern around, your thoughts will start to become your actions and your dominating thought, will direct your way…

But there is good news!
If you learn to control your thoughts and change those negative thoughts to good ones, then your good thoughts, you know the ones that allow you to dream…will start to direct your path and help manifest into your life the good future that God had always had planned for you.

So what do you do?
1. Do a dream board
2. Read positive books (the bible is a great place to start – the new testament)
3. Listen to positive empowering CDs
4. Be careful who you are hanging around (you may need to change your circle of friends)
5. Get started in a network marketing business and team that is all about support.

When you do these things, you will find that your dominant thought will change, it has to and so will your results and outcomes.

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Do you have a dreamboard or do you even know what one is?

In my time with our network marketing company, I have built many dreamboards, I have done these not out of any real sense that they would do anything for me, but out of a sense of “I really should”.

The amazing thing is, even though I never put much weight into them doing anything, when I look at my old dreamboards, I see so many of my dreams that I placed have become true and I have to wonder if I had not of build my dreamboard, would they have happened?

I want to tell you something that happened for me this past weekend.

Over the last few years I have doing a LOT of personal development. My wife and I would have spent close to $50,000 just on personal development programs and the costs of getting to them. In that time I have learnt so much about myself and how in the past I have sabotaged my own success.

But this last weekend, something that I have been thinking about for a long time, actually got confirmed.

We truly get our hearts desire…

The problem is, what is your heart’s desire? Ask yourself, what do you meditate on day and night?

Do you meditate on how bad things are and what bad things are going to happen or do you meditate on the good things in life and what good things could happen? Because whatever it is you meditate on IS your hearts desire…SO BE CAREFUL because that IS what you will get!

Dreamboards help you to step out of negative thinking and start to move into the world of dreams and what could happen in a good way.

Let’s go a little deeper about what we think on.

When I say we get out hearts desire, I mean we truly get our hearts desire.

The bible even says: “I (talking about God) will give you your hearts desire”. You see your desire and your heart is a very powerful thing, so what is in your heart?

We had a pastor this weekend come to our church and preached on “surviving is not enough”, his message was powerful and it really resonated with me as it is the same stuff I have been speaking on for years.

But even though it is part of what I am saying, I realised that I was staying in my place of comfortable and not moving forward. I also realised that my dreamboard had been packed away and put up on top of the cupboard. (I pulled it back down this morning and put it back in a place of prominence behind my computer on the wall so I can see it all the time).

My thoughts had become lazy, they weren’t the thoughts that take you to a place of victory, they were thoughts that keep me where I am, which is not where I want to be. (I can see some of you now thinking, I would love to have what you have James, and you are correct, we are blessed, but I believe we are here to have and do a whole lot more than what we currently do.)

So I looked at my hearts desires and asked myself the hard question…

“If God were to give me what is in my heart today, would I want it and what is it that I was meditating on?”

I was shocked to see how much negative and self doubt was there, and I would consider myself a very positive person. I decided that I would get control again of my hearts desires and start to dream again and this is the power of the dreamboard.

Below you will see a very rough video I did, years ago on building a dream board. It is one of my old ones, but it will give you the basics.

Sit down this week and make sure you spend the time you need to dream again. Sometime powerful happens when you do:

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