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Money-Making Habit #8 Magnetize yourself To a
Program of Progress.
Ineptitude rivets your expectations to the floor.
Oscar Wilde
Your early programming directs your life and controls the quality of your results.
It is a powerful force in your life. Make no impact on everything you think and do.
We are creatures of learned habits! It was Van de Wall who said,
You have learned NOTHING,
until you have a new PERMANENT change in results.
Val Van de Wall
sTraTeGy 1-18:
start your day with a quiet time.
The process of change is often slow and tedious. One of the things that has
worked well for me is the practice of a daily quiet time. I start most of my mornings
reading, meditating or listening to something inspirational on tape. I’m currently
listening to a series by Dr. John Maxwell from Injoy Club. He’s a powerful Christian
communicator, and he gets me to focus on the spiritual side of life every morning. It’s a
great way to alter the programming with which I grew up. Some people start the day by
reading the newspaper or listening to TV reporters. What a dangerous thing to do.
It was James Allen who said, “People are anxious to improve their
circumstances, but unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” The
most awake people I know are always the best students. They are the ones listening to
tapes, reading, and working on improving themselves.
The other morning I read this,
“In every era, including our own, people have tended to believe that the days of
great wealth-gathering opportunity are over. The era just past has almost always looked
better.” *
It was fantastic! I was responding to some e-mails from people in Asia who feel the
current economic woes are dreadful. They said the very thing Gunther said in the above
quotation. These people felt since Asia is in such a difficult situation, that you can’t get