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ARTICLE: Proactive Daily Living: Benjamin Franklin's TOP Secret Remedy For
TOMORROW-itis
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By Randy Gilbert (c)2001
Benjamin Franklin never made it to Hawaii, but I'm sure that he would have enjoyed its idyllic weather and heavenly beaches. Having grown up there, I know that he would have also been attracted to Hawaii's people, not because they take "air baths," but because he would have loved Hawaii's rich diversity.
What does diversity have to do with Proactive Daily Living?
Diversity drew me into buying a fantastic book that others might have passed up; it's called, "Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color" by Iyanla Vanzant. I'm only a person of color when I'm sunburned; however, I have a deep love for all people of every color, every language, and every religion. The daily meditations in Iyanla's book are superb! They reach way down deep - way under a person's skin - they speak right to your heart, mind, and spirit.
Now, what do daily inspirational readings have to do with Proactive Daily Living?
EVERYTHING!
My life changed radically when I discovered that Dr. Franklin's TOP secret remedy was the daily reading of information and inspirational sayings that improve a person's life and character. This was an amazing discovery. It cured me of TOMORROW-itis and has brought me success and abundance.
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Do You Have TOMORROW-itis?
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Here is one way to tell if you have TOMORROW-itis. Ask yourself, "do I read something everyday that improves my knowledge and character?" If your answer is no, then you have it.
TOMORROW-itis makes you think either you can be better tomorrow without effort, or that you can wait until tomorrow to be better.
Dr. Proactive, how do I rid myself of this malady?
Do what Dr. Franklin did; learn Future Thinking. Future Thinking is one of the key elements of proactive thinking. It means that you plan for the future while living in the present. Therefore, you do the things daily that give your life power and direction, so that you will achieve your goals in the future.
When a ship is drifting, or when no one is steering it, it is said to be "not under command." If you don't take the time to direct your life each day, then YOU are not under command. You are either drifting with the tide or someone else is controlling your life. If you don't gain control, you are in danger of going aground on one of life's many rocky shoals.
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Dr. Franklin's Two-Task Remedy
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Ben Franklin was one of America's first success experts. His TOP secret remedy for TOMORROW-itis consisted of two (2) daily tasks. They are a "must-do" for every person who wants to live a life of success and abundance.
The first must-do task is spend a little time each day engaged in reading or some other type of learning activity. This has an amazing potential for increasing your wealth, especially if you are reading books in your specialty or expertise area.
Dr. Franklin passed this success habit on to others by writing his best seller, "Poor Richard's Almanac" series. He was an excellent writer and made the information and inspirational sayings in his books fun to read. Through his writings, Dr. Franklin has helped hundreds of thousands of people achieve greatness. You and I can be among them if we continue to read something informative and inspirational every day.
The second must-do task is spend a little time meditating on what was learned and thinking about how to use it to improve your life or your character.
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He Practiced What He Preached
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One of the things that Dr. Franklin did to "practice what he preached," was to set aside time each day to take his "air bath." He used this time to meditate and to practice the science of breathing.
The science of breathing reinforces living in the moment, because you can't wait until tomorrow to breath, you need each breath NOW. Breathing is simply inhaling the good air and exhaling the bad. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale; it happens naturally.
The science of breathing links this natural function to the mental concepts of taking in good ideas and forcing out the bad. For example, inhaling courage, exhaling fear, inhaling strength, exhaling weakness, inhaling abundance, and exhaling poverty.
Try it for a few moments each day in a relaxed sitting position. Inhale faith, exhale worry, inhale hope, exhale futility, and so on.
Try linking this practice to what you've been reading. For example, when you read this article, you are inhaling encouragement and exhaling laziness. When you meditate on it, you are inhaling wisdom and exhaling failure.
This kind of Proactive Daily Living was the secret to Benjamin Franklin's own success and abundance. Now it is your TOP secret too. Either use it, or lose it.
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About the Author - Randy Gilbert is the author of SUCCESS BOUND, from which portions of this article are extracted. Randy is highly regarded as an authority on Proactive Thinking, which is why he goes by the name "Dr. Proactive." You can contact him at
Randy@DrProactive.com. To read summaries of each chapter, see the reviews of other authors and leaders, or to buy his new book go to
http://snurl.com/rgilbert.
Copyright 2001 by Randy Gilbert. Permission is granted to copy, reprint, or host this article on a website, so long as the entire article is used and the author's name and contact information remain unchanged, and "Used by permission" is denoted.
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Attitude, more than anything else, so often spells the difference between success or failure.
But what kind of attitude are we really talking about?
There are two kinds of attitudes we are interested in defining here. The first is very negative. Instead of
seeing yourself at the top of your own very powerful and growth-rich, personal matrix, you instead view
yourself as someone helplessly left at the bottom. The second, however, is very positive. It is with the
second, altogether positive, attitude we are most interested in.
Everyone who adjusts their self-image to view themselves as the top of their own organization,
causes that organization to grow. It might not matter whether such a person were starting out in
a one month old company or a nineteen year old company. Such a person has the attitude that says,
"I'm here now. Let's make it happen!"
The beautiful thing about the mlm industry is how it provides unlimited opportunities for everyone to
create their own powerful organizations, beneath the umbrella of the mother company. Whenever I go
into an opportunity, I always have the one and self-same attitude: "I'm here now. Let's make it
happen!"
This is not a personality disorder, nor should it be confused with egocentricity. I do not view all
things in relationship to myself, nor do I imagine I am the center of attention for the Universal
Mind. What I do, however, is start with the attitude that enables me to gauge my own results,
without worrying about how my neighbors are doing. I call this: Focus.
Many people would be much better off, if they would only make the slightest and simplest adjustments in
how they picture themselves. Picturing oneself as "I can't," merely produces that very result. With
a little deliberate concentration and a dash of stubborn focus, one can just as easily hold up a
personal self-image of "I can." There is little difference between the two. Each is an image. Each
goes to its end result. The only difference is, "I can't" will take you where you wish you didn't
have to be, but "I can" will take you to where you truly want to be. The stress is there for both, so
the choice is whether you'll steer your mind in a productive path, or whether you'll watch in
dismay, as your mind takes your hopes, aspirations, and dreams, and summarily dashes the whole lot of
them forcefully against the rocky shoreline.
Many years ago, well over 20 years ago, I took a job where I had to sell something over the
telephone. At first, I couldn't do it. I felt awkward, embarrassed, and I held an "I can't" picture of
myself clearly in mind. Well, I sat down and I made a little plaque for myself, that read:
"I CAN - I AM - I HAVE
i can sell - i am selling - i have sales"
I sat this little plaque in front of me and looked at it constantly. I began to replace my negative
expectation with a forced substitute: I can, I am, I have, I can sell, I am selling, I have sales.
Immediately, I began to succeed. First one, then another. Then some more. In a week's time, my
confidence was running so high, I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to fail! And that's
the big, big difference: My expectation had been replaced with an "I can" self-image.
I suspected there might be some wonderful psychological discovery in all of this and that's
why I was inspired to buy such books as "Think and Grow Rich," "Psycho-Cybernetics," and a host of
self-help books that all talked about the power of a person to deliberately set the course and
expectation of his own mind. That this power remains largely a secret is a crying shame, because
it is so much easier than one might imagine.
The thing a person must admit to oneself is that one really does have a CHOICE. The personal self-image picture and expectation can be and should be
CHOSEN, not merely accepted wholesale, tragically on face value alone. All this talk one might hear
about setting goals, in general, is a method for manipulating the mind into producing a more
favorable outcome than it would, if left to drift aimlessly about on its own.
The same thing can be said of so-called "self-hypnosis," or "A Daily Declaration." Then you will
hear much talk about "The Power of the Sub-Conscious Mind." Well, without getting into all the
debatable issues that one finds, when delving too deeply into the subject of the human mind, the
simple fact remains that: each of us can choose the attitude and expectation we wish our minds to focus
on. And that's powerful.
Just look at the difference between someone who works their business with the viewpoint
of being at the top of their own matrix, as opposed to someone who holds the negative image of being
left at the bottom. The results are stunningly contrasted. Both are given an equal playing field,
but the one grows and gains and keeps growing and gaining, while the other languishes in defeat,
waiting for someone else to come along and make a change.
Will we understand that it is not a difference in personality, but a difference in ATTITUDE? That is
the crux of the issue here. It is not a matter of in-born, natural talents and personality traits. It
is only a matter of better management of the near-automatic capacity of the human mind to go after,
reproduce, and achieve whatever is held up as a self-image to it. Both the negative person and the
positive person are doing essentially the same thing. Both have a self-image. Both have minds that
are bringing that self-image to bear. But, the one is holding up a favorable result, while the other
is assuring his own demise. Therefore, let the one who is negative, deliberately change to a more
favorable self-image and let that revitalized expectation chart the new course.
Make yourself a little plaque and keep it in front of you always: I CAN - I AM - I HAVE.
Look what wonderful things you can put in:
I can succeed. I am succeeding. I have success.
I can win. I am winning. I have won.
I can have more money. I am receiving more money. I have made more money.
I can become a better person. I am a better person. I have become a better person.
Are you getting the idea?
I CAN - I AM - I HAVE are the three power-keys to the confession of faith. They can change your life
through continuous application of their preferred outcome potential. They can help you set your
attitude to working for you, instead of against you.
And most importantly, they virtually assure that you, too, will be THE TOP BLOKE!
Gregory Locke
CEO iNetStar, Inc.
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