Have you ever wished you had access to some superhuman superpower that would make you all-powerful and aid you leaping tall buildings with a single bound, or simply overcome some mountainous obstacle in your life?
Well, the crazy truth is you do have the power to overcome obstacles and make massive change in your life and if you really wanted to leap a tall building in a single bound, you could do it too. The only thing you need to learn is how to activate the most empowering superpower in the universe.
I’m not talking about some magical superpower like the biological regeneration, molecular manipulation, or even a super-sonic scream, what I’m referring to is something that everyone has access to however most people have no idea how to use this superpower to their benefit or to the benefit of others.
Have you guessed what this superpower is yet?
If you guessed that your power of choice is the most empowering superpower in the universe, then you are 100% correct!
Your power to consciously choose is the most empowering superpower you’ll ever need to develop. When you consciously use your power to choose, you stop being a victim of circumstances, events, and situations in life. You become the master of every moment in your life.
When you consciously choose a path or a direction in life, you are empowered to ask for and receive help. You give yourself permission to do what you want instead of doing the things you think you “should” do. You always have a choice in how you feel, how you respond, what action you will take, and where you want to go in life.
The biggest mind disease is thinking we don’t have a choice, when in fact we always have a choice. Some decisions are harder to make than others, however there are always options.
Here are some powerful north star choices:
“I choose me!”
“I choose expansion.”
“I choose LOVE!”
“I choose to be loving.”
“I choose to receive love!”
“I choose clarity.”
“I choose life.”
“I choose to create.”
“I choose to trust.”
“I choose to have faith.”
“I choose to hope for better things.”
And my favorite, “I choose ease!”
Of all these, the most powerful choice we have is choosing LOVE & Appreciation for ourselves.
Last week on the Women Think and Grow Rich Coaching and Conversation hangout, we talked about “Chapter 8: Decision – The Mastery Over Procrastination” from Napoleon Hill’s original edition of Think and Grow Rich.
And WOW! We blew this chapter out of the water.
Hill understood the power of decision and the entire chapter is about the courage it takes to make a powerful decision like the one it took to create The United States of America. One of the participants, said she could feel herself getting angry while reading this chapter. She is not the first person to say that. I’ve been facilitating Think and Grow Rich book studies and master mind groups for years and there are a few chapters that really stir the pot for women. Chapter 11 turns most women off untill they hear what it is really about and many people struggle with the chapter on decision.
A lot of passion goes into raising conscious awareness around any topic. We really had a passionate consciousness raising conversation about decision.
I love how naturally things move when I am tuned into the flow of consciouness that surrounds a great discussion. This week was no different.
There were 3 points that I wanted to make sure we touched upon.
1. Decisions come with equal amounts of opposition to the courage it takes to make the decision. This is important to know as a woman or even as a man who really wants to embody grace and ease in your life. There are decisions that require extreme amounts of courage to make, however most situations don’t require that sort of do or die decision making. When you make a decision you are cutting yourself off from any other option than what you are deciding. Choose and allow the universe to bring you whatever you need.
2. Choosing what you want and moving forward from a place of choiceis a much more graceful way to live. When you make a choice, you make it from a more empowered potition and you create space for your own foward movement without opposition. This may seem like word play, and you’re right. Words have a life of their own and when you choose what you want instead of making a hard decision to have it, you create a “resitence free zone” within your subconscious. One of the guest, Andrea from Toronto, brought up the resitence free zone of choice during the hangout. It is brilliant. And so true. But you have to try it. Start being conscious of the choices you are making every day. Then move your awareness to make choices from a place of desire. Choose what you want and what feels good for you. Making decisions from a place of choice about what you really want instead of making decisions about what you think you should do, have, or be is your powerful point of attraction. Don’t take my word for it, experiment with it.
Choose and allow.
3. The power behind a choice is trust. You can make a decision to have what you want or you can choose what you want, neither words will make any difference in your life unless you take forward action towards the thing you want.If you really want to tap into your personal power, get very comfortable with Trust. When you choose what you want from a centred state of mind and trust yourself enough to take just the next tiny step, that is all you’ll ever need. Every step you take after choosing what you want is the next step. When you learn to trust yourself and trust your creator source, you gain divine momentum. Trust is the fuel that keeps choice moving.
So much came up in the hangout. My greatest inspiration comes in response to the conversation, either live or via email, because I’m sharing what I know to be true.
We are the presence of love.
Bonus Point
This little bonus discussion toward the end of the hangout was so valuable at wrapping up the discussion on the power of choice.
One of the participants said, “I find myself fighting with two sides of myself. The bold me and the other part of me that just wants to stay in bed with the covers over my head.”
When you are in the space of duality, the magic pill is to just appreciate yourself. Self-appreciation is the magic pill. On days when you don’t feel like getting out of bed and you hear that little voice in your head start to criticize yourself for being lazy or unmotivated, choosing to appreciate yourself is a powerful way to shift out of self-pity to self-power. You might say, “Even though I’m feeling, lazy, I completely love myself.” Then you can make a choice to get out of bed or stay in and be lazy. Either way you are in your power because you are making a consious choice.
The more you are aware of the choices you make every day, the more you remain in your power. Being in a state of conscious choice and notincing the choices you are making every day, draws all of your power into the moment. You become aware of yourself and take resposibility for the choice you make. Being in the now, appreciating the moment, and choosing what is next for you now, is where all of your power lies.
Napoleon Hill understood what it feels like to be in a place of masculine power. Choosing and allowing is what it feels like to be in a place of graceful power. Get confortable recognizing what it feels like for YOU to be in YOUR power. This is something that no one can explain to you, you have to feel it and experience it for yourself.
Be patient with yourself too. You want to grow into knowing yourself as someone who chooses excellence, expansion, and more engagement with life, while being completely self-loving and self-appreciating. The emergence of this awareness may take a little wiggling into. It is there. You are already divinely and naturally aligned.
Until next time, Be Grateful, (And appreciate the work you do!) Think BIG, Take INSPIRED Action, and ENJOY the Journey!
Q: What do the Wright Brothers, Susan B Anthony, Andrew Carnegie, and even Helen Keller have in common?
A: They all achieved historical success AND they each had a Mastermind!
According to Napoleon Hill, in his success classic, Think and Grow Rich, “A mastermind is when two or more people work in perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.”
A business mastermind is a force of nature, constantly moving you forward towards your goals and plans, towards your definite purpose whether it is to fly, speak, build empires, or change the course of history.
Do you have a definite purpose?
If so, a business mastermind group may be the answer you’ve been looking for!
Have you ever wondered what the Carnegie secret is in Think and Grow Rich?
Napoleon Hill alluded to a hidden secret that Andrew Carnegie shared with him and which is in every chapter of Think and Grow Rich.
Here are some snippets from an email conversation with another coach, “Rick.” (Names changed to protect the innocent 🙂 Rick knew I had been a student and a coach of Napoleon Hill’s work for many years.
He asked the question, “What is the Carnegie Secret?”
I hope that our email correspondence will shed light or possibly start conversation and discussion on the topic… “What is the Carnegie Secret in Think and Grow Rich?”
The email went like this…
Rick: In Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill states.. “when you are ready for the secret, it will appear in every chapter” something like that. Have you ever figured out what that secret is?
Dawn: “The last person who asked me that question has disappeared and is guessed to be on his, “round the world” adventure trip that he created for himself…
How about you? Have you found “the Carnegie secret” in Think and Grow Rich?
Rick: “LOL The Secret in Think and Grow Rich, I have not found, but when I watched Bob Proctor’s “You Were Born Rich” video he states that the secret is writing a goal on a card and carrying it around with you everyday and looking at it.
What do you think?”
Dawn: “The goal card was the tool used by Bob as well as many others, however I think it is merely a catalyst for the secret to emerge. I have come to know that a part of the secret is knowing that you are 100% responsible for your life, down the the tiniest result.
There is a difference between thinking you are responsible and knowing (pure belief). The knowing comes from experience and experience from practicing the principles that Napoleon Hill talks about in his books, like seeing yourself in possession and really feeling it as you want it to be. This knowing comes from testing, and trying, and acting with persistence in the direction of your goal.
But there is a hidden secret that even those that ‘know they are 100% responsible for their life’ don’t usually discover until much later in life. That secret has to do with tapping into how you act when you feel you have everything you’ve ever dreamed of having, and how you act when you feel like you are everything you’ve ever dreamed of becoming. Most people don’t know how they’ll act until they have it, but when that gap closes and you feel yourself becoming everything you’ve ever dreamed of becoming, your attitude changes, your whole outlook changes… you begin to live your life as an expression of abundance.
Are you catching on?
Some people get this hidden secret in the first chapter because their life experiences up until that point make it clear that it is true. It is as if their awareness instantly shifts to “pure knowing” and belief that it is true.” It is energy, it is all energy.
“A peculiar thing about this secret is that those who once acquire it and use it find themselves literally swept to success, with what seems to be little effort, and they never again submit to failure! If you doubt this, study the names of those who have used it wherever they have been mentioned, check their records for yourself, and be convinced.
There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!
The secret to which I refer cannot be had without a price, although the price is far less than its value. It cannot be had at any price by those who are intentionally searching for it. It cannot be given away, and it cannot be purchased for money, for the reason that it comes in two parts. One part is already in possession of those who are ready for it.” Think and Grow Rich – The Author’s Preface
In the Science of Getting Rich, Wallace states that you don’t have to do any practices of magic or affirm anything. He explains that when a desire becomes a burning desire you no longer have to remind yourself about it (as with a card) it is a part of you. Getting to that point can take cards and affirmations and reminders of all sorts for some people. Most people however don’t allow themselves to feel they are worthy of their wildest dreams so they don’t dream them. Or remind themselves of them. They go forgotten, but most likely pushed down and repressed. The hidden secret I’m referring to sort of takes care of that feeling of unworthiness, once you begin to use it. It shifts how you feel about yourself.
Have you discovered what that hidden secret is yet?
We were born rich, and born to dream those big magical dreams about ourselves and our life. We were born to make an impact and to influence those around us. It is how we are wired…for growth and expansion, not just of ourselves, but to enrich the lives of others. We are wired to take risks.
There are people in our lives however who have conditioned us over time to “be practical”, “be safe”, “better not dream big, or you’ll be disappointed,” and worse yet, they have conditioned us not to share our wisdom and our magic with others.
My mentor’s copy of Think and Grow Rich. Powerful vibes!
The winners in life DO dream big, they do take risks and they take responsibility for their results. They TAKE Action in the direction of their dream every day AND they share their wisdom and they help others succeed. It is the law of life; Expansion!
So…What do you think? Do you think you have figured out the Carnegie secret? Or are you dreaming big, and blaming everyone else for why you haven’t manifested your dreams yet? Or are you dreaming big, and helping others dream big too?
Life is Wonderful! Enjoy the journey to your next level of success and always remember…
Appreciate Life, Think Big, Take Inspired Action, And Enjoy the Journey!
May 2023 update:
I recently decided to to look into what Andrew Carnegie had to say about success and found that the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, believed that the secret to success could be summed up in one phrase: “The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the right man to do it.”
Carnegie emphasized the importance of delegation and surrounding oneself with talented individuals who possess the skills and knowledge needed to accomplish specific tasks. He believed that a successful person should focus on their own strengths and leverage the strengths of others to achieve their individual and collective goals.
Carnegie’s philosophy was rooted in the idea that no individual can achieve great success alone. By recognizing and utilizing the abilities of others, one can accomplish far more than they could by themselves. This approach allowed Carnegie to build a vast empire in the steel industry and become one of the wealthiest individuals of his time.
It’s worth noting that while Carnegie’s perspective on delegation was a significant factor in his success, it is just one aspect of his overall philosophy. He also placed importance on hard work, continuous learning, philanthropy, and other principles that contributed to his accomplishments.
When you consciously choose a path or a direction in life, you are empowered to ask for and receive help. You give yourself permission to do what you want instead of doing the things you think you “should” do. You always have a choice in how you feel, how you respond, what action you will take, and where you want to go in life.
