After you have set the goal you want to reach, you have visualized having already reached it, and you feel what it feels like, there is another step.  You must be open to receive.  You must "allow" your goals and dreams.

I have often been asked, what does "allow" mean?  Allow means to have unwavering faith that your desires are manifesting.  Allowing means removing ALL doubt from the equation.

WOW! In my opinion Napoleon Hill did it again. His book, Outwitting The Devil was written in 1938, hidden away and not published until now. It was hidden because it was felt the material was so controversial that it would literally destroy Hill. After reading the book, I now wonder if Hill himself didn't fall victim to the "Devil" he interviews in his book.

In his bestselling book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill gives us the 17 principles to achievement. In Outwitting The Devil Hill presents us with the numerous ways we all limit ourselves, sabotaging our success.

I find it very interesting that Napoleon Hill confesses in Outwitting the Devil that he knew the 17 principles of personal achievement, but did not know how to apply them! This was a very revealing confession. Napoleon Hill had spent over 20 years of his life interviewing the wealthiest men of his time as well as more than 25,000 men and women considered failures in order to organize and write Think and Grow Rich. Now here he was broke, wondering in a sea of indecision with no idea how to apply the philosophy he had spent so long compiling. For more on that piece of the story, you will want to read the book.

It is remarkable how Hill weaves the key reasons people tend to fail and strategies about how to overcome these short comings through a so called "interview with the Devil".

Hill, or I should say the Devil, points out to us that our biggest limitations are indecision, fear and a lack of a definite purpose. Through his interview Hill also uncovers how we tend to fall to the influence of our environment and give up when facing adversity. Hill cleverly disguises a discussion about the Law of Attraction by describing a "tool" used by the Devil called hypnotic rhythm. In the context of the book, the focus is being put on how "the Devil" takes us over through our continued thoughts of failure, fear, adversity, etc. obviously attracting to us more of the same. It makes the Devil's job much easier and puts his whole "take-over" on auto pilot.

You may be thinking at this point why Hill and his family felt this book could destroy them. In the book, the Devil describes the many ways he uses organized religion and our educational system to recruit people to his side. Simply put, religion uses fear and education stops self-thinking. Brilliant!

There is something Hill pulls out of his interview that I strongly disagree with. During the interview it is stressed that there comes a point in our drifting (indecision and lack of purpose) where there is no hope for return; no way out.

I believe, no matter what stage of life we are in, once we are aware of and take control of our thoughts, feelings and actions we can live the life of our dreams.

I encourage you to get a copy of Outwitting The Devil. Then decide for yourself if you are allowing your self-imposed limitations to stop you from achieving the greatness you are here to achieve. The wonderful news is there is no time like RIGHT NOW to begin living your dreams!

You can find how to order Outwitting The Devil by Napoleon Hill along with several other of my favorites by going to my Library . When you are in my library, just click on the picture of the book.

Michael E. Gerber gave us something wonderful to think about.  Gerber said, "The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.  The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."

Why not CREATE what you want  instead of waiting to see what might happen next?

We all have within us a great Freedom.  This is the Freedom to choose how we want to live our life.  Most people go through life allowing other people, circumstances and situations to choose their life for them.  On this Independence day, let's all celebrate our God given right to choose our life and then go out there and LIVE IT!  Happy 4th of July!!!

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Joe Vitale once said "Limiting beliefs are like thieves in the night."  He went on to say "If you aren't doing as well as you like, the only person standing in the way is the one you look at in the mirror every day."  These are very powerful statements worth taking a hard look at.

I think the first question we should ask ourselves is what is a limiting belief?  A limiting belief is anything you believe, have been conditioned to believe, etc. that keeps you from being, doing or having what you desire.  A couple very obvious examples of limiting beliefs are:

·          The world is flat.  If you sail to the edge, you will fall off.  How silly was that one?

·          Nothing heavier than air can fly.  Boy, if we all bought into that one the Wright brothers never would have introduced us to the airplane.  Look at us now! 

Something that is very interesting about the two examples I have given is that people really believed them.  In the time, people really believed the world was flat.  People really believed the Wright brothers were crazy to even think they could build something that man could fly in.  We look back now and see how ludicrous these limiting beliefs were.

When I work with individuals and corporations, I show them how their mind works and where these limiting beliefs live.  I also show them how most of them got there and how to send them packing.  You see, there is no limit to what we can be, do and have.  Our wonderful Universe, God, whatever you want to call it, wants to give us everything we want.  The Universe knows NO limitations.

The trouble is we get in our own way by wanting something but not believing we can have it.  I'm here to tell you right now, the ONLY limitations we ever have are those we impose on ourselves.  You may think that's a harsh statement, but it's true.  We may not be aware of what we are doing to ourselves, but it is true we get in our own way.

Think about it.  How many times have you looked at someone doing something and thought to yourself "I would really like to do that.....but I can't"?  How many times have you purchased a lottery ticket believing you would not win?  I could go on all day here giving example after example of how we as human beings throw up roadblocks to achieving our greatest desires.

It's time to STOP holding ourselves back!  What are we here for if not to LIVE, and I mean really LIVE our lives.  There is no glory in getting to the finish line and saying, "Whew, I survived without too many scratches."  No!  I say, let's get to the finish line and say "WOW what a marvelous ride!"

I encourage each of you to look in the mirror right now and say "YES I CAN......I WILL NO LONGER ALLOW ANYTHING TO GET IN THE WAY OF ME ACHIEVING MY DREAMS".

As we make it a habit to look for the good in others and in situations, we will find we experience more good in our lives.  The Universe is eager to give us what we are looking for.

Achieving your dreams requires stepping out of your comfort zone!

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is “rider” and who is “horse.”

There is no compromise or negotiation when it comes to who will run your life. Either you take charge and live a productive life of your choosing or you allow yourself to be ruled by circumstances. But there will inevitably be setbacks. In the old West, a cowboy expression went, "There never was a horse that couldn't be rode, and there never was a rider that couldn't be throwed." Like everyone else, you will have days when everything goes right and you are on top of the world. Relish those days, enjoy them, and remember them. Recall the euphoria that accompanied them when you need an extra measure of positive thinking to get back in the saddle after you've experienced an embarrassing and painful fall.......Napoleon Hill