The journey to designing a balanced life with passion, peace, freedom, joy, love and prosperity begins when you decide to change the direction of your life. It's a quest from ignorance to awareness to ultimately enlightenment about yourself and what you want out of life.

This article is the first of many related to the prosperity doctrine. Each subsequent article will build on the previous. The most important step is the one that you make to move forward and commit to yourself to learn and grow. Commit to start today, at this very moment to change yourself and enjoy the fruits of your transformation. No excuses, because there aren't any. Small improvements consistently applied result in huge changes.

First let's begin by defining wealth. What is wealth? According to merriam-webster.com, wealth is having an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources. Now we all know what valuable material possessions are, but what about resources? When you think about it wealth really is a relative term. What one person considers valuable another may not. Wealth is personal and so much more than financial security!

Simply, wealth is:

Whatever Excites And Lightens The Heart!

Being truly wealthy and successful in your life is a way of living and thinking. It's a lifestyle, a state of awareness and consciousness. It's better defined as prosperity.

Sadly, most adults don't have a clue how to develop awareness. Why do you think? While individual circumstances may be different, the underlying problem is still the same. We've been raised in a society where we are praised for having the right answer and penalized for being wrong. But have you ever stopped to think that humans learn by making mistakes? By being "wrong"? Take for example learning to ride a bike. Were you able to just jump on and go? No, you had to fall off a few times (or many times), but you got back up and kept trying. Somewhere along the line from childhood to adulthood we lose our natural instinct to learn through trial and error. Why? Because traditional society and education doesn't accept failure. What if Thomas Edison had given up? We'd be sitting in the dark! Edison failed over 9,000 times to invent the light bulb, but he didn't view this as failure but the discover of over 9,000 ways NOT to create a light bulb! What a difference. I'm sure glad he didn't give up at the first sign of failure! Edison's triumph was a result of his beliefs and desires.

Ask yourself, who are your working for? Who is getting all the benefits of your labor? Has your education taught you how to manage money, have a healthy relationship, raise children, stay healthy, maintain proper nutrition and most importantly setting goals for YOUR life? Are these things important in life? Is it really possible to magnetically attract wealth and abundance in your life? Quite simply, YES!

Did you know that it is expected that 97% of the population will either be dead or dead broke by the age of 65? The percentage still kicking at age 65 will have to either continue working until they no longer can or rely on friends, family or the government in order to just get by in life. Again ask yourself why…

If you ask any successful person how they achieved wealth and they will tell you it's 90% faith mixed with 10% action. You have to have faith in yourself and act upon that faith. Faith without action is unfaithfulness. You are only kidding yourself. How you think about yourself determines how you feel and how others feel around you. Faith and conscious thoughts are the foundation of wealth. Consistent, positive thoughts are what creates magnetic attraction. If you are skeptical, just look around you. Is anyone you know wealthy? Is anyone you know on their way to becoming wealthy? Then how do you know how wealthy people think about themselves or how they think?

By mixing faith, thought and action in the right way you can discover what the wealthy already know.

What's the definition of insanity? According to Albert Einstein, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results…" Does your life resemble this statement? Maybe it's time to try something different?

Wealthy people have been taught secrets to gaining wealth that aren't taught in traditional education, by society or at home. These principles separate the wealthy from the "poor" in life. It's the little things that mean a lot.

In Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki's best seller "Why We Want You To Be Rich" said:

"The rich are getting richer but America is getting poorer. The middle class is shrinking. America is becoming a two-class society. Soon you will either be rich or poor."

Whoa, that's scary. Remember money alone is not wealth or prosperity. However, having money sure can held with the down payment! Imagine what you would do if money were not an issue in your life. If you were able to do all the things that you wanted to, wouldn't you be on your way to true wealth and prosperity?

The starting point for creating a life by your design is to have complete faith and commit to embark on your journey today, right where you stand. No ifs, ands or buts. If you are truly committed to living a life of prosperity, then you must change and in order to change you must take action. Take the steps necessary to learn how to magnetically attract wealth and prosperity to you.

Did you know that 87% of the population is unwilling to invest in their most valuable asset? 87%! What is your most valuable asset? It's you. No matter what happens, an investment in yourself can never lose value or be repossessed or foreclosed! If you spread all the money in the world out evenly, where do you think that money would be in 20 years? It would be right back in the hands of the wealthy. Why? Because they recognize the power of learning and growing themselves, and since that can't be taken away, they would simply start all over again with complete faith.

Follow the road less traveled and transform your life today! You owe it to yourself to live a life of wealth and prosperity. Look for the second installment soon…it will ask the difficult question, Who ARe You?

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