5 Practical Steps to Attract Prosperity and

The 4 Secret Motivation Killers that the

Top 1% Know About
Posted on January 16, 2014 by Hengameh Fazeli | CATEGORIES: money and finance,
motivation, self improvement, success
Prosperity is not all about hard physical efforts and long working hours. There are many
people out there who despite working 10-20 hours a day, are not very prosperous. It means
that besides intelligent hard work, there should be other factors affecting our prosperity level
as well. You might have heard many stories and might have read many articles about positive
thinking, law of attraction and visualizing you are rich; in fact all these ideas and systems are
using the same principle; the principle of energy!
In fact prosperity is a type of energy that flows to people who welcome it.
According to Master Choa Kok Sui, Money is like a woman! If you say you dont like her,
she will go away.
So one of the basic requirements to have lots of money is to welcome it with open arms.
Often people in spirituality have negative thoughts about money. There are many people who
think, money is not good, money is the source of all evil and spiritual people are not
supposed to be prosperous.
Think about it! Often lack of money is the source of evil! And if money is in the hands of the
right people, it can help and reach out to many more, and can be used for the good of
humanity!
The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the
betterment of life. Henry Ford
So the first step to get more prosperous is to remove poverty consciousness and all
negative thoughts and beliefs about money and prosperity and then move on following the
below:
1. Give Away Money
If you look at the lives of many billionaires, you can see something common in them; they all
do charity work!
Warren Buffett, David Geffen, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and George Kaiser are
examples of such.

Based on the Law of Cause and Effect, also called the Law of Karma in traditional
literature, what you give, will come back to you tenfold.
So if you want money, you need to give money away to charitable organizations and to
people in need and the amount you give should be proportionate to what you are willing to
receive. Giving donation and tithing is in fact one of the fastest and most reliable investments
to gain more.
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running
over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to
you. Luke 6:38
The Law of Karma can be explained in the farmers language, so simple to understand. A
farmer who wants to harvest a specific crop, should plant the seeds first. The farmer cannot
tell the universe that let me harvest first, then I will plant the seeds coming from my harvest!
It has never worked that way.
In inner sciences, the Law of Karma is believed to be very exact.
You may accept it; or you may not; but the Law of Karma doesnt care whether we believe it
or not. It is exact just as the Law of Gravity. It is up to us to harness it to our benefit or to be
controlled by it.
The rule is so simple; if you want money, you should give away money!
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
2. Avoid Stealing
Stealing generates the negative karma of poverty. Avoid stealing physically, emotionally and
even mentally.
Basically we are not supposed to take things that do not belong to us. Stealing money is a
very obvious type of stealing and therefore normally easy to practice by most, but also watch
out for piracy, misusing office belongings, coveting the spouse of another and the credit that
rightly belongs to others.
There is a saying that cheats never prosper.
In fact envious thoughts and feelings are also a type of stealing as they create sticky thought
forms that go and stick to the persons aura, pulling him/her down.
An inability to feel happy when other people are successful will pull you down. Avoid
enviousness. Master Choa Kok Sui
Watch out for all these behavioral patterns!
Furthermore try to be on time in paying your debts. If you have a business also try to pay
your staff well and on time. If you have payments to settle and rentals to pay, make them on
time.

If you delay in paying other people and you pay less than what you need to pay, money will
come back to you with delay and less than expected. In fact underpaying is also a form of
stealing.
3. Save and Invest
Saving is what many people fail to practice which can really get a prosperous person go
bankrupt.
There is proverb saying, The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.
From your income it is recommended to save at least 10%. You may gradually increase your
monthly saving to 30% after you paid all your debts. After all a penny saved, is a penny
earned!
What can help you save better and avoid using your saved money is to open a separate bank
account for your savings; otherwise there is a tendency to spend your savings in times of
difficulty.
Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of forced saving. Suze Orman
By practicing the science of giving and tithing, within few months time or a few years you
start seeing money flowing to you like a river. The mistake of many people here is buying
expensive cars and houses in installment, which leaves them with plenty of monthly debts.
This affects their tithing and saving capacity.
When tithing is stopped, they income reduces gradually. What is left here will be less income
and more debts.
Dont fall into this trap!
Be realistic. Think, analyze and then spend money.
Besides saving money, it is also recommended to invest. Investment provides more
opportunities to gain more, but try to maintain plenty of liquidity at all times. Have you heard
people say the poor usually get poorer and the rich get richer.
If you invest in the right business, more money comes back to you. But before you invest,
assess the risks and make a right decision. Think about the worst situation. If something goes
wrong, can you handle the risks?!
If you want to start your own business calculate your expenses and the profit. One of the
common problems in business is the inability to calculate the profit and expenses so
sometimes the expenses tend to overpass the profit.
Try to make your business and your projects self-financing.
4. Buy Good Quality
Good quality is not always the most expensive!

In fact it is not the matter of buying expensive or not, what is important is to buy good
quality.
There is a proverb that says: I am not rich enough to buy cheaply.
It sounds like a paradox but it is actually true. If you spend on buying cheap stuff, you might
need to buy them again in a couple of months, as they wont work long enough. So it is better
to pay higher once, and save the future expenses.
Furthermore buying cheap stuff normally costs you time, repair time to time and sometimes
frustrations. In fact cheap always cost you more in the end.
As the Germans say what is cheap is most costly!
5. Create Prosperity Consciousness
Prosperity consciousness is basically what helps you attract money.
In order to get more money therefore we need to change our attitude towards it.
If you are among the group of people who cannot ask for money for all the work or service
you have done, or you feel guilty about it you have poverty consciousness. If you think you
cannot get rich, or you do not deserve to be rich you need to work on this aspect. If you think
having lots of money will affect your character and you are afraid of getting rich, you have
poverty consciousness. Unfortunately these kinds of attitudes and beliefs are more seen
among people in the spiritual path as there is an old belief that prosperity and spirituality
does not come together.
It is in fact time to revise our thinking pattern. Money is basically a form of energy. It is
concretized energy and is neutral; not good nor bad. It brings power and of course
responsibility.
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Think about it, if spiritual people get more prosperous, wouldnt they help more people in
need?! Wouldnt they give more money to charity, which removes poverty from the world?!
And wouldnt they support more humanitarian projects that can benefit the whole world?!
In fact according to one of the spiritual teachers of our time, Master Choa Kok Sui,
Spirituality and Materialism are like the two wings of a bird. We need both to fly.
Besides changing our thinking pattern, we also need to improve our look. It is not the matter
of wearing expensive cloths and accessories but to project a prosperous look.
Dressing well and being neat and clean help us to look more presentable to others and to
ourselves. It also improves our self-confidence.
Using positive affirmations can further help us create prosperity consciousness. You may
recite in a daily basis:

I am prosperous and happy, money flows to me like a river, money rains on me like a
waterfall, money comes to me easily and abundantly, so be it!

Try the above and see how you change your earning capacity and financial state in a matter
of few months to few years! These steps are not written by one person or one nation, many
spiritual teachers and successful businessmen were repeating them over and over again time
after time. So they work. The bottom line is just practice and dont give up until you see the
results!
Whether you think you can or you think you cant, your right. Henry Ford

Being an architect by profession who loves spirituality and alternative therapy, Hengameh
Fazeli joined Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga school, developed by Master Choa Kok Sui,
in 2007 and later became a Pranic Healing instructor in 2009. Since then she is experiencing
tremendous improvement in all aspects of life including health, career and personal life.
Currently she is the author of PranaWorld.net and she conducts regular healing sessions and
Pranic Healing workshops.

The 4 Secret Motivation Killers that the

Top 1% Know About
Posted on December 9, 2015 by BenFishel | CATEGORIES: featured, motivation, self
improvement
Most people have motivation all wrong.
We often get generic advice telling us to think about what motivates us? or what gets us up
in the morning? or a favourite amongst millennials, find your passion!
But the truth is, most people already know what drives them to action, they know what they
can (even if only sometimes) be passionate about.
Motivation however, just seems very intangible to most of us. One day we have it, the next
we dont. Its like an unidentifiable superpower that some people have, and others, well they
just dont.
Most of us have someone in our lives, whether its a close friend, or a co-worker, or even just
someone we see regularly in the media, who just looks like theyve mastered it. They never
look like theyre struggling to get up early, or to go to the gym, or power through the goals
that theyve set for themselves.

We sit at home and think, what is it they have that I dont? Why does it look so easy for
them?
The truth is, motivation is incredibly complex. But a large factor that we often overlook is not
what creates motivation its what kills the motivation we already have.
To revisit an old metaphor, the problem often isnt the carrot nor is it the stick its
the vitality of the horse.
But how do we make sure that youre a healthy, happy, hungry horse?
We have to overcome the secret killers of motivation. And here are 4 time-tested ways to do
so.
1. Develop a sense of urgency
Urgency is a key ingredient in the development of motivation. But we sometimes ignore it in
favour of more Hollywoodesque aspects such as having a selfless goal or being motivated by
tragedy. The truth is, the one thing all motivation has in common is that it gives you the
feeling that you need to get whatever it is done right now.
Its the idea that we dont have unlimited time. Having a sense of urgency prevents you
from losing focus, because when you brain believes something is immediate, it ignores
all the mindless chatter and skips that one thing to the front of the queue. Without
urgency, were likely to push our goals to the back of our minds in favour of other more
immediate tasks, regardless of how trivial they are.
To cultivate urgency, you need to convince yourself that whatever your goal is, it is THE
most important thing in your life. Thats why its actually better to do your creative work
before you do your breadwinning work. When you can convince your mind that the goal
youve set for yourself is more important than you making money to eat, then youll have
mastered urgency.
2. Close all possible open loops
What does this mean?
Well typically an open loop is something that is kept in our mind, whether in the foreground
or background, that hasnt yet been solved. We usually have dozens of these running at once
from picking up the groceries, to finishing a report, answering emails, texting friends and
calling family members were leaving loops open.
Each of these open loops will sit in the back of your mind and sap your psychological energy.
Think of it like leaving a dozen apps open on your computer or tablet next time you come
back the battery has been drained even though you dont feel like youve been using it!
The same thing happens with these tasks in your mind. And that energy is key to maintaining
your motivation.

Try to make it a habit to write down all open loops first thing in the morning, completing
anything that can be done in less than 2 minutes immediately, and assign a time and date to
finish anything else.
3. Manage your inputs
An input is any information that is going into our brains that we have to process. We
obviously cant control a lot of what comes in, but for what we can, the majority of managed
inputs ought to help push you towards your goals.
This means that it should be relevant, positive, and energizing. Unfortunately, most of what
comes up in our social media feeds doesnt really fall in this category. Were bombarded with
mindless videos, fear mongering news, half-baked opinions and content that is largely
irrelevant or damaging to our self-improvement.
Make sure you either cut out most of your social media use or news watching
completely, or at least manage it so that you have positive and relevant stories coming
up in your feed every morning.
When youre on YouTube or Facebook its very easy to get to distracted and watch or read an
hour of completely useless content which leads me to the final hidden killer of motivation.
4. Make the right micro-choices
When it comes to making a big life choice; choosing a school, applying for a job, buying a
house we typically take a lot of time to arrive at a decision.
When it comes to making a smaller life choice; where to go on your next vacation, what
colour to paint your living room walls, what phone to buy next, we usually take a bit of time,
but we try not to waste too much energy on them.
When it comes to making micro-choices however; what we should eat for lunch, what we
should read on our 5 minute work break, whether we should push through an extra set at the
gym, what TV Show we should watch, we usually race over these and move on in fact, a lot
of the time we dont even see these as decisions were just responding to them on autopilot.
But the truth? These decisions are far more important than the larger ones, over weeks,
months and years these micro-choices shape our lives completely. Motivated people have
learned when to recognize that a micro-choice is being made, and why it is so important to
choose the right one.
Try to be mindful of the micro-choices in your life the more seriously you take them the
more momentum youll gain, and the more easily youll stay motivated.
Overcoming these four motivation killers will make it much easier for you keep up the
momentum and follow through with your goals.
What is your best advice for making sure you stay motivated?

Benjamin Fishel is a freelance writer and co-creator of Project Monkey Mind where he
helps young professionals and solopreneurs channel their passions and live a life worth
leading. You can download the free Project Monkey Mind eBook; Smash Through the 9
Barriers that Stop you from Chasing your Dreams.
Read more at http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/4-secret-motivation-killers-top-1know/#KhhvAqghoDpqk2IS.99