It's `Cause and Effect`. REMEMBER?

- By Harvey Cohen


A Reminder to the Savvy-Minded. Why a reminder?

Because sometimes we are so caught up in the world of effect that we forget we are the cause to our success or struggle, not circumstances, not other people. We're too busy hoping to get lucky that we forget nothing happens by luck.

"The most incomprehensible fact
about the universe is, it is
comprehensible. Nothing happens
by luck or by accident. God
doesn't shoot crap with the
universe."....ALBERT EINSTEIN

There is one thing and one thing only that determines individual success or struggle, and it's not the `right' biz op or the ‘right’ circumstances, even though it may seem that way.

After all, there are those that struggle even in the best of times with a 'prime' situation or opportunity, while some quite easily prosper in a 'stinko' economy, even with a marginal or 'not so hot' situation or opportunity. There are those that successfully thrive in their endeavors doing and being what is considered unorthodox or ‘off the wall, while some follow all the appropriate and ‘tried and true’ success strategies only to go from one frustration to another.

Of course it is not unusual for the struggle-minded to think they are unlucky, while the success-minded think they are lucky. But we know better, don't we? We'd better.

The one thing that will determine personal success or struggle is.....you guessed it, 'attitude.' Yup, you heard it a gazillion times before; 'attitude is
everything.' Maybe it's not taken seriously enough. It should be. If you only knew. If you only knew. Just by being moreminded, more optimistic than you have a habit of being, you will bring more joy and success into your life than you have a habit of having. Wanna bet?

Recurring struggle is the effect of being too narrow-minded to be aware of greater life-enhancing ideas and incites that are easily available to anminded, optimistic person. Yes, greater life-enhancing ideas that flow with creative gusto from a success-minded person are blocked from someone with an attitude of negativity.

"The greatest discovery of the 20th
Century is; An 'attitude of mind'(CAUSE)
determines the quality of life(EFFECT),
not circumstances." ....WILLIAM JAMES,
Father of modern day psychology

Problem:
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A bathtub is overflowing. Water is coming in faster than it is draining out. Bummer!

Solution:
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a.- Mop up day and night, forever.
b.- Turn the faucet 'OFF'.

Note:
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Turning the faucet 'OFF' is the CAUSE, and the stopping of the overflowing is the EFFECT. Mopping up won't do it.

Strategies for turning struggle into great successes that do not include breaking the attitudinal habits that are the CAUSE to struggle in the first place is like mopping up all the time, getting nowhere. That's just the way it is.

*Your attitude is the powerful energy that will determine your success, not circumstances!

*Your optimistic attitude knows of uniquely creative ways for you to be successful in greater ways, whatever your endeavor, that no one has thought of yet.

*Your attitude is the energy that goes before you to attract or repel life-enhancing ideas and opportunities.

*Your attitude is an energy powerful enough to effect your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

*The evidence that an `optimistic, hopeful, positive' attitude is essential for living a fulfilling life is overwhelming.

*The good news is, narrow-minded negativity is a habit that can be broken.minded optimism is a habit that can be learned.

Success is not to be found with the ‘right’ situation, but rather any situation the success-minded optimist finds him/herself part of becomes the ‘right‘ situation or leads to the ‘right‘ situation.

Just by being more optimistic, moreminded than usual, you will be more aware of greater life-enhancing ideas than usual. The more that you are aware of greater life-enhancing ideas than usual, the less stress you will have because there is less to be stressed about. Not a bad byproduct of an optimistic attitude, huh?

The optimist has an advantage over the gloom and doom, victim-minded pessimist, in that; an optimist’smindedness has access to a greater level of creative awareness that a pessimist’s narrow-mindedness is too narrow-minded to be aware of.

If you haven’t tried being more optimistic, moreminded, you really haven’t tried everything.

You will surely make your journey towards greater success and joy, in all areas of your life, more meaningful and less rocky with an attitude that emits confidence and creativity.

Attitude is like gravity. You can’t see it, but it’s there anyhow. It’s worth your while to study its characteristics so you mold it to your advantage.

Yes, you will seek, look, investigate various ways and opportunities for reaching your desired personal and professional goals, but seek ye first the just enormous creative power of an attitude that reflects nothing less than the truth of your limitless creative potential. That’s the CAUSE that will bring EFFECTS even beyond your grandest aspirations. It’s CAUSE and EFFECT, remember?

For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Isaac Newton’s Third Law Of Motion.

Yes, attitude is everything! You might as well pick a good one.


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Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., author, lecturer, T.V. Host, conducts self-discovery seminars for personal and corporate growth.

He is co-director of the Beverly Hills Growth Center and creator of Camp Funergy (a camp for kids in grown-up bodies). He trains individuals for conducting 'OPTIMISM #101 Classes' for business and industry.

For free instant on-line access to his latest ebook, The Optimism Factor, send a blank email to: Optimism To enter the wit and wisdom universe of Harvey Cohen, visit www.aaaha.com.

 

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