The Power of Gratitude

Wealth Building: The Economy Is in Your Perspective

The media can be so gloom and doom about the economy that they never take the time to mention that within every problem is an equal and opposite opportunity. Here's some great blogs and articles about wealth building, investing and finances in today's economy:

It’s All About Personality – The Traits You Need to be a Successful Real Estate Investor
by Wealth Building Expert, Brenda Cote
Are you intrigued by real estate investing and wondering what traits you need to be successful? As a successful real estate investor who worked her way up the system, I believe that anyone can overcome anything, but having certain characteristics and personality traits definitely helps. Here are a few character traits that will help you...

Estate Planning for Real Estate Investors
by Real Estate Investing Coach, Nancy Spivey
Traci Ellis, my wonderful real estate attorney friend in Atlanta,  was the guest of my teleclass today on Estate Planning for real estate investors. Among other things, Traci shared , “Although our mortality may not be our favorite subject, it is an important subject to address because what we leave behind is our legacy.” 

Yes, Investor Funds Are Still Out There!!!
by Real Estate Investing Coach, Nancy Spivey
Don’t believe everything you hear.  I’ve heard all kinds of stories from people and the media over the past few weeks about how there is no more money for funding deals; and it’ s just simply not true.   One ezine that came out this week stated that there are no more stated income loans.   

Organize Your Money
by Financial Freedom Expert, Sharman Lawson
Organization is the key to a balanced life! Organization saves you time, energy, frustration, and confusion. To be organized means to be efficient in the way separate elements are arranged into a consistent structure. In other words, everything has its place, find the place, and when you're done put it back. In all my years of counseling people in the area of personal finances, one of the biggest issues that cause money woes is the lack of organization.

Prosperity: How to Survive the Downs
by Prosperity Expert, Leslie Householder
Have you ever met someone whose finances seem to be falling apart and they’re happy anyway? Have you ever wanted to say, “Hey, what on earth do you have to be happy about?? You’re supposed to be miserable and depressed about your finances!” There are those who are simply in denial, to be sure, and who hope that the problems will go away if they just ignore them. However, there are others who feel happy even when things are going down because they know a secret.

How Will Your Prayers Be Answered?

This segment of Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life Story covers the question of "How?" How will your prayers be answered? What part of the "how" is yours and what part is God's?

From Whence Comes My Deliverance?

This is the 10th segment from the "Become the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life Story" and it talks about the question of "Where?" Where will your answers come from? Where will the things you want originate?

You're Invited to My House!

Hi!

Every year, Marcia Lynn McClure (my friend, business partner and fellow-author) and I hold a fun evening for meeting and greeting our fans out west. This year, we're adding another meet and greet to the schedule here in the Tennessee/Georgia area. Marcia is coming out to visit, and we're holding this get-together at my house on

Saturday, April 12th
6:00-9:00pm
Ringgold, Georgia (just south of Chattanooga, TN)

My chef husband, Greg, will be serving some of his gourmet delights; and Marcia and I will be available to sign books and chat with you. I'll have some copies of my latest "You're Here for a Reason: Discover & Live Your Purpose" available. You can come/go as needed during the open house time frame. If you read either of our books (or use one of my sites like IdeaMarketers, BelieversAtWork, or SheLovesGod), we'd love to meet you!

If you're interested in coming, please drop me an email at marnie@pwgroup.com and I can send you directions.

When Will My Prayers Be Answered?

This is the 9th segment in the video series, "Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life." A lot of us want to know when our prayers will be answered. Why is it taking so long? Several things come into play. First, every seed has a germination period and with idea seeds, unfortunately, there's no seed packet to tell us how long it's going to take. A second reason is because we often slip into fear and doubt and those mental attitudes retard seed growth or can be equivalent to ripping your seeds out of the ground before they have time to sprout.

In my book, You're Here for a Reason: Discover and Live Your Purpose I talk about how gratitude, envisioning, and going forward in faith can help "fertilize" your seeds so that they grow in a timely manner. But sometimes, you just have to wait...just like an expectant mother must wait for the birth of her child. This video segment discusses what to do during those waiting periods...

Is What You Want What God Wants for You?

There's a lot of talk about the law of attraction these days. But one thing I've never heard any of the gurus discuss is the fact that you can use the law of attraction against yourself. You can use it to obtain things you want but that are not in your best interest. So, it's very important to first get a confirmation about whether what you want is what God wants for you. The 8th video in "Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life" series teaches how to get a clear confirmation about whether God is behind your decision. If He is, you can move forward in faith knowing it will happen in the perfect time and way.

The Science of Luck - Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In honor of St. Patrick's day, I thought it would be fun to take a look at luck and where it comes from. Back in the early 90's one of my friends frequently observed, "You're so lucky. Everything just falls into place for you." I sort of resented her comment because my first thought was, "I do a lot of work to get this lucky!"  Not that I resent working. I love my work. As Warren Beaty said, "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." 

While loving what you do and working consistently over time at it can make you appear "lucky" there's a whole lot more to luck than that. There are lots of hard working people who aren't lucky with money, relationships or their health. For example, one wouldn't consider my financial challenges of the late 90's and early 2000 "lucky." Yet even those challenges brought me priceless information about the science of luck!   

When I met Leslie Householder in 2000, she taught me her definition of luck. In "The Jackrabbit Factor Ecourse: Why You Can!" she says, "Forget about LUCK. Think of L.U.C.K. as Living Under Correct Knowledge. Live by law, and you are lucky. People will start to say about you, 'Everything just seems to come her way.' Or, 'He is always so lucky.' LUCK is Living Under Correct Knowledge."   

People are unlucky because they lack correct knowledge. What kind of knowledge? An understanding of universal law!

There are 9 laws that, once you learn and understand them, will activate Leslie's definition of L.U.C.K. in your life. They all fall under the Law of the Harvest. I talk about them in depth in my book, "You're Here for a Reason: Discover and Live Your Purpose," as well as in my DVD program, "Faith Precedes the Miracle," but I'll outline them here:

1. Sowing and Reaping (aka The Law of Cause and Effect or karma) - what you sow is what you reap. Put out good, and you'll reap good results. Do bad things and you'll reap bad results. If you plant a cucumber seed, you'll get a cucumber. Be aware that people aren't soil, though. If you help one person it doesn't mean that person will turn around and help you. They might, but many times the kindness or service you send toward one person will come back to you from a completely different person. You control what goes out, but not how it comes back to you.
2. Pruning - (aka The Law of Polarity). Fruit trees have to be pruned in order to bear more and better fruit. What appears to be a harsh thing (cutting off a limb) is actually merciful. Within everything "bad" is an equal and opposite "good." Things just are. We make them bad or good by the way we perceive them. Some perceive death as a bad thing. Others consider it "graduation" from mortality into a heavenly sphere. Look for the good and you'll find it. Look for the bad, and you'll find that too.   
3. Growth and Decay (aka The Law of Creation) - everything is either growing or dying. It's either coming into form or going out of form. We bring things into form with the thoughts, words and actions we give our energy and faith to. We send things away from us by doubt, fear and negativity.
4. The Law of Attraction - Does an acorn worry about where it's going to get bark and leaves or how it's going to grow so tall? No, it just pulls everything out of its surroundings and trusts that what it needs next will be brought to it. By faith what we need is brought to us and by action we receive it.
5. The Law of Sacrifice - abundance only comes through sacrifice. You can either eat your seed corn or you can sacrifice it to the earth by planting it. If you plant it, you'll reap many times over. Want more time? Sacrifice your time serving others. Want more money? Sacrifice your money to assist others. Want people to come into your life and teach you what you need to know next? Reach out and teach people what you know.
6. Seasons (aka The Law of Rhythm) - there is a season for everything. You rarely reap in the sowing season. Spring always follows winter. If you're having a bad day, know that a better tomorrow awaits.
7. The Law of Gestation - every seed has a set germination period. A bean takes a few months to grow. An oak takes a hundred years to mature. A baby takes 9 months in her mother's womb. Ideas are seeds and they take time to gestate and mature. Be patient and nourish them with time, energy and faith.
8. The Law of Relativity - nothing is big or small, hard or difficult, bad or good until we compare it to something else. Most of us use this law against ourselves. As Christian coaching expert, David Evans says, "We compare our insides against another person's outsides." We compare our marriage to what we perceive another couple's marriage is like. Theirs may seem blissful, but do we really know that? Everything is relative, but God is bigger than it all. There is no problem so big He can't solve it.
9. The Law of Diminishing & Increasing Returns - there are early harvest crops and late harvest crops. With early harvest crops like beans or tomatoes you see results fairly quickly and any additional effort past the harvest will reap diminishing returns. No matter how hard you work or pray, you're not going to get more beans off your bean plants after their bearing season is over. If you go to your job and you get paid every two weeks, you've just received an early harvest crop.
   
   Then there are late harvest crops. These take time and their results are slow to appear, but when they do, they increase exponentially. Late harvest crops require time and consistent effort. If you give them that, you'll receive increasing returns. Marriages, families, and businesses are all late harvest crops. You often see very little return in the short run, but their payoff is tremendous in the long run if you've faithfully worked and waited.   

There you have them ... the 9 laws of the harvest that comprise "The Science of Luck." Understand them, study them, and work in harmony with them; and soon people will be raving about how lucky you are.

Motivations Are Everything - Why Do You Want What You Want?

This segment of the "Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life Story" discusses motivations. Why do you want what you want? Of all the who? what? why? when? where? and how? questions of life, this is the question you have the most control over and it is the most important of all to get right.

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

This is the 6th video segment in "Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life." It covers the importance of asking specifically and why sometimes we don't get exactly what we want because we aren't getting specific enough.

Helping Other People - The Right Way and the Wrong

Many times our trials and challenges are caused by other people. Perhaps they're making poor choices about finances and that's affecting us. Or maybe they are struggling spiritually and causing us anxiety. Whatever the case, there is a "right way" to interact with others and a "wrong way." If you can get clear on the distinction between the two, you can alleviate a great deal of stress in your relationships.

I used to fret over loved ones who were making poor choices and not reaping the blessings they could. I took ownership of their problems and tried to "fix them." I was convinced that if I said the right thing or did the right thing that they would see the light. I also felt a great deal of guilt and responsibility if I wasn't able to help them. Then I learned this principle and was able to let go and trust God in the "Who" matters of life. That's what this segment of the "Becoming the Hero or Heroine of Your Own Life" videos series is about.

I'd love to hear from you if you find this segment helpful. :)