The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

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Recently, I was reminded of the “Fear of Happiness”. (I’d thought I’d put that particular fear out of my head. Funny how much like onions we all are. Peel one layer and there’s just another below it.)

It was a stunningly beautiful morning. In fact, the most spectacular day we’ve had all summer. A day where the sky was a brilliant blue, no clouds and the air was crystal clear! I was overjoyed to be able to experience such a day. It seemed like we hadn’t had a day like that in many years.

I wanted to express my gratitude for this amazing day and I found myself afraid. Yes, afraid… I had the fear that if I expressed my happiness over this beautiful clear day that the next day there would be a forest fire and we wouldn’t see the sky for weeks after.

Well, I expressed my gratitude anyway after Bob pointed out to me that what I was experiencing was the “Fear of Happiness”. I was afraid my happiness would trigger something bad …And not just in my life but in the lives of everyone in Montana, where I live, and the surrounding area. That was heavy!

The next day there was a little fire in the valley that was quickly put out. Although we haven’t had another day of the crystalline quality of the one before, we haven’t had any forest fires in the area and we can see the sky. I daily express my gratitude for that exceptional day and that we continue to have good air quality.

In Bob’s post “Fear of Happiness” I found these paragraphs most relevant to that incident:

Have you ever felt uncomfortable or had the feeling of dread when something good (that makes you feel happy) suddenly appears in your life?… Wondering when “its too good to be true” is going to kick in and bring everything back to the way it was?

Hey, I’ve been there. For many years I thought that I simply didn’t deserve joy and fulfillment in my life… So, I made sure that I didn’t have any. You see, when you honestly believe you don’t deserve good in your life you will sabotage whatever good does appear in your life… I know, I did it many times… And in those moments when I knew I was engaging in activities that would quickly undermine the good thing… It was as if I heard the combined voices of every negative person and bad experience from my past suddenly confirming that I was not worthy of happiness.

You can read the rest of the post here…

Because I experienced that amazing day, I was worthy of the experience. If you are experiencing something wonderful in your life and it’s making you afraid. Look at where the fear is coming from. You’re having the experience, that means you are worthy!

So remember: if you find yourself in a place where you’re afraid to acknowledge and be grateful for something wonderful that’s happening in your life, stop and recognize where that fear is coming from… your “Fear of Happiness”.

Take care and let us know if we can help,

Gwen Baran

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P.P.S. “The Romance Trap” will be available this week…

This strange countdown to higher cost gasoline proves to me that complacency has overwhelmed and curtailed the kind of consumer outrage that would in years past resulted in immediate Federal Government action.

Case in point:

Back in the ’70′s the speed limit was rolled back to 55 mph and it saved gas plus we all got a lot better gas mileage because of of it. Today’s cars get their best mileage at about 62-65 mph… Reducing from 75 mph to 65 mph could save the average driver 10-15% fuel… but nobody’s talking about it.

There could be an organized national no-drive day. Everyone picks one day a week and simply does not use their car. Probably very doable with an immediate result because you’d have a full day’s worth of fuel not pulled out of the pipeline each week. Fuel stocks would rise, price would go down…but nobody’s talking about it.

Have you changed your personal driving habits over the last few weeks?

Or are you just pulling out the credit card and your denial as the cost of filling up your twenty gallon gas tank heads toward 100 bucks?

By the way did you know that at the current price of oil, which is around $135 plus (as I’m writing this), the actual cost of a gallon of gasoline should be around $6 or more! You see, that high priced oil hasn’t hit the refineries yet.

Did you know that if you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn the heat up a frog will not jump out of the pan of hot water…no matter how hot it gets. Is this happening to you? Are you becoming “frog soup”?

The ripple effect of high oil prices is forcing one of the largest inflationary spirals since the 1970′s. Dow chemical announced an across the board 20% increase to their customers starting next month… Watch for this type of thing to start happening with a lot of “raw materials”…

To put things into perspective: This is a price increase at the most basic level of the raw ingredients used to grow food and make things.

FYI: A twenty percent increase in the cost of raw materials doesn’t reflect itself in an item costing 20% more. By the time you purchase that item you will pay 5 to 10 times that cost. If the raw material cost an additional $5 to the manufacturer, you will pay $50 – $100 more for the item… not $5 more.

This is one of those times in your life when you should get out some paper and a pencil and start figuring out how you are going to adjust your lifestyle to the upcoming changes. It’s better to have some kind of strategy than sit like a frog while the water gets hotter.

The Intentional Prosperity™ System provides the information and techniques to create whatever lifestyle changes are necessary for you to have abundance in your life.

No matter what the price of gasoline happens to be.

-Bob Baran

What if someone approached you and presented you with a fantastic proposition:

“Begin right now to live your dreams…

Money will not be a problem. Everything will be taken care of for you. Debts wiped clean, more money than you could possibly spend. Just stop what you are doing and begin immediately to live your dreams”…

Could you do it?

Now you have to face reality:

Will your (husband, wife, children, relatives) support and encourage you to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity? Could you walk away from your job knowing money will not be a problem? What about your other commitments, relationships and friends? Would you be able to keep them and begin right now to live your dream life?

If your dreams were handed to you on a silver platter with no strings other than you must begin at once to live those dreams …Could you do it?

Or would you be shocked to find out that your life has become a series of barriers which prevents you from living your dreams?

The greatest barrier being your inability to “see” how living your dreams, should be enhanced and supported by all of the other things which make up your life. If you couldn’t begin right now to live your dream life and “bring your existing life” along with you, then something needs to change. The relationship with your life is the first thing you need to think about.

Does your life serve you and your dreams or do you serve your life?

What if you could begin living your dream life right now? How many seconds or minutes would pass before the first “doubt” or potential problem comes up? Write it down and make a list. It may prove to be very self-revealing … and the best place to start the process of transforming yourself so you can live your dreams.

-Bob Baran

Even with the best directions there will always be a trial and error process involved with taking the journey from where you are to where you want to be in life.

Think of it as the learning curve.

It should be viewed as a process of internalization. These are the steps you take in order to make the understanding and implementation of that understanding “second nature”. In other words, once you “get it” you are able to apply the new information automatically whenever the need arises.

You’ve probably already experienced this many times before. (It’s a natural process) Whenever you begin to do something new, you go through a learning curve. It always gets easier to do the new thing as time goes on. Ironically, this doesn’t always apply to those “new” things you may embark upon which are associated with self-growth.

Let me explain:

You’re not a finite piece of software or a machine. Yet, in order to get from where you are now in your life to where you want to be, you still have to understand and master your own “operating system”.

What differentiates your operating system from any other type of software or machine is that your “OS” has infinite capabilities, is fully relational and constantly evolving.

1. Infinite capabilities: The outer limits of your imagination constitute an ever changing limitation to what (you believe) is possible in your life. As you recognize the limitation you have placed upon yourself you can choose to change it. (your belief) Remember: This point within yourself is never permanently fixed. The “edge” of what you believe “is possible” is always what you currently accept it to be. At any given time, your imagination, coupled with your belief, determines that “edge”. Think of it as the current height of your personal “glass ceiling”.

2. Fully relational: This means if you change one aspect of what you imagine or believe, your attitudes, opinions and other beliefs begin to realign in relationship to that new belief. This is the part that can cause a bit of frustration at times. Especially when the new belief creates a conflict with previously held beliefs. It takes time for the new belief to fully propagate itself into your “consciousness”. So you are going to entail some trial and error during this part of the process. Think of it as “testing” whether or not the new belief holds up under real-world situations.

This is going to require some paying attention, on your part, when these situations arise. You will have to consciously apply the new belief to the situation and determine whether or not the results are what you hoped for.

3. Glass ceiling: This is always a temporary situation! For all intents and purposes, it’s an invisible resistance to actually living the belief or dream. You can “see” it but you’re not “there” yet. Your learning curve is what dissolves the glass ceiling and turns a belief or dream into reality. Just remember: Because you can “see” it means you are already in the process of dissolving the glass. Just don’t give up on the learning curve before you’ve achieved your desire.

One of the great lessons of life is that you can create your own future…and that it will always be what you expect it to be. Change your expectations and your future changes. Your new reality will be the result of your internal evolution coupled with your external actions which support your expectations. The real learning curve are those trial and error activities which will serve to either reinforce or discourage your belief in those expectations.

Ironically, whether or not an outcome from a trial and error activity reinforces or discourages your expectations will always be a decision only you have the power to make.

-Bob Baran