Truth reveals itself in a multitude of ways. There are as many ways as there are people.

Truth can even attach itself to the end of a dollar bill. It doesn’t discriminate.

In only twenty-five days, I had just made what would have amounted to half of my entire annual salary back when I worked for other people.

And there were still 5 more days left in the month!

Great stuff. Follow me here, though…because I’m about to take you on a quick turn around a corner and I don’t want you to go flying out the passenger seat door!

Now, one thing you want to do when things are “rolling” and you have momentum is this: keep pressing forward.

For years I’ve moved amongst and shared the company of multi-millionaires. This idea of pressing forward is the success principle they have taught me and it obviously works because the results speak for themselves.

It’s one of the reasons why my income flowed so quickly those 25 days.

So I was ready to do that…to keep pressing forward. I said to myself, “let’s shatter the company’s best month record.”

It was definitely within reach.

That is, until something unexpected happened.

Having practiced “listening inwardly” for many years, I’m pretty good at knowing when there is a green “go ahead” light and when there’s a red “stop right there” light.

I was getting a “stop right there” signal.

So I did…and I disappeared.

“Keith, you had momentum and you just ‘disappeared?’ What gives?”

Well, here’s the thing: I’ve learned how to “synchronize” or align myself with life.

Now, think for a moment about what I just said. If you’re learning how to align with life, then you must have had some practice being OUT of alignment with life!

I definitely have…we all have. You can’t get “out of life” – but you can get out of harmony with life.

And I’ve learned over the past 19 years that it’s a much smoother ride if I make it a point to stay IN harmony with life instead of opposing it.

IN harmony doesn’t imply that you have to accept and keep everything that comes your way. Many people are spiritually young and still learning about how natural laws operate in their daily lives. By the way, that’s code for, “some people will use you as a doormat and walk all over you if you let them.”

IN harmony isn’t about that. It’s about discerning which attitudes, choices and experiences will foster or perpetuate your harmonic relationship with life itself.

So while I strive to create wealth for myself and my future family, I am also ready to “shift” my focus whenever that becomes what I need to do to stay synchronized with life and connected to my real self.

I’ve disappeared for about a week now.

I’m still teaching my Wealth Mastery students. I’ve hibernated for days though, watching an 18-video training series and doing some very targeted research on the internet.

I immersed myself in my moment – a moment that has stretched out from one day to the next, and to the next.

Very little money has come in during this time because I haven’t been marketing my business.

It’s ok, though – I am exactly where I needed to be…doing exactly what I need to be doing.

You see, there is ALWAYS going to be a next dollar to be made, another latest movie to see and another immediate crisis or fire to put out.

However, high above the noise, in the quiet abode of your own real self, is the space where important “shifts” and recognitions occur.

It is within this ‘time out’, or getting temporarily off your own wheel, that your success process speeds up.

This sounds exciting but is it real? Or am I simply being poetic?

It’s real.

In fact, while I was researching, I received an email from someone teaching the same information I was looking for!

Coincidence…or Synchronicity?

Then I went and researched that person’s product and ended up finding a series of 7 video lessons discussing the very same observations I had scratched into my “Strategic Notebook” only hours earlier while thinking about how best to shape my business model.

Exciting? Yes! New to me? No…this is how I live my life. Good things flow to me (wealth, opportunity, relationships) simply because I am committed to the harmony of what I can become – which is really what I have always been and I am now simply accepting…claiming as true.

If you’re reading this and wondering, “Hey, how come I don’t have that experience?” try instead asking yourself, “Hey, how DO I have that kind of experience already?” The more you look for it (instead of chasing it), the more you will see it.

You are the commander of your ship.

So command it!

I talk more about this on the new ‘Redefining Yourself for Maximum Achievement’ CD which you can get here:
http://www.realitycrusher.com/ns-freecd.html.

Well, looks like it’s time to disappear again. By the way, the idea isn’t to become a hermit and stop engaging in life.

Quite the opposite, actually.

The more you recognize your real self, the more effectively you will commune with people and the world around you.

You take time off from your ‘wheel,’ enter the place inside yourself where there is ‘no time’, gain in wisdom, awareness and understanding, then APPLY your new perspective within the physical world.

This is the secret that comes attached to the end of a dollar bill. This is the secret that life whispers to you every day in countless ways.

Be well, aim high and enjoy the adventure!

Keith Matthew

I hurried to get part of the magazine layout printed and over to my boss so she could give her ‘stamp of approval’ before the messenger came to pick up the disks and bring them to the printing plant in Vermont.

That was in 2005. Back then, my home between 10 and 6pm was a small cubicle. No windows, no door…

Just a small cubicle.

My boss didn’t have a door either but she DID have a window where sunshine flooded in each day.

Micheline didn’t want to be there either. But the rent was due on the 1st for her too, just like everyone else. We were both actually grateful for our jobs because the department was downsizing and people were “disappearing” left and right.

Sound familiar?

Well, today it’s all a fading dream to me.

Today I press a button and cash rushes toward me, people get the tools they need to improve their lives, and good things happen for everyone.

Today I have my own successful business. I am the ‘Commander of my Ship’. When I get on the phone with a subscriber or a customer, I often hear, “Wow, I can’t believe it’s really you!” or “I was just listening to one of your CDs!”

But it wasn’t that way at the very beginning. When I first started out, I had a website that just sat there. No, worse. Really: it was the ugliest thing you’d ever seen!

Don’t believe me? Here’s Ugly PROOF!
http://www.selfmasterysecrets.com/images/myfirstwebsite-uglyproof.jpg

That was back in January 2003. Let’s look at all the progress I made up until February 2005: Cli.ck Below for MORE Ugly Proof!
http://www.selfmasterysecrets.com/images/myfirstwebsite-2yearslater.jpg

Wow, Keith – you were a powerhouse! You were growing your business in a big way!

Nope…I was stuck in a job and stagnated. And why?

Because I didn’t understand this one principle that always leads to great things:

“Set Your Success Wheels in Motion”

My success wheels were NOT in motion. And so I was going nowhere.

I’m talking about myself here to give you insight. This article is about YOU, though. Apply what I’m sharing here to your own life.

Are YOUR Success Wheels in Motion?

Are YOU doing something each day to move you toward realizing your dreams?

Or are they just “dreams” that you have?

What I’m about to reveal to you here can be worth THOUSANDS of dollars to you.

…if you follow through and practice it.

No, actually it can fill your wallet AND your entire life. It’s an abundance principle that never fails. And it’s so simple you will wonder why you are not practicing it already.

Ready?

The abundance principle that always leads to success is this:

“Become an ACTIVE participant in your life.” Do things…

Make choices, take action – take action continuously

Life does not like to stagnate. Stop hoarding your money, your love, and your SELF.

How can you come to know yourself (your Self) if you don’t bring yourself OUT into the world?

Let loose and LIVE. I’ve made bad choices. All successful people do. We are not perfect. I am so FAR from perfect!

But I have discovered one of the success secrets.

It’s about FLOW. Keep your energy flowing, keep interacting with life and you will always find that, overall, good and sometimes even GREAT things happen.

Why did my life change back in 2005? Not because I played it s-a-f-e.

My life changed because I stepped “outside of the box” I had agreed to live in.

I mean, how symbolic can you get? I’d been living in a cubicle!

Not anymore though.

I sold a marketing book on Amazon.com to the author of ‘Conversations with Millionaires.’ But I wasn’t satisfied with that. No way. Instead of mailing it with all the other orders, I HAND DELIVERED the book right to his office door.

Everyone in the office looked at me like I was an a-l-i-e-n. Next, I created CD designs for his products. There’s much more that followed but the main idea is this:

Set Your Success Wheels in Motion. And keep them in motion.

STAY *IN* MOTION. Talk to people, try new things, make mistakes…interact with life.

I promise you: you will be well rewarded for your efforts.

People don’t yet know the story behind www.777SelfHelp.com. Dr. Joe Rubino and I went through several partners and about 4 website names before we finally got the site off the ground.

When we first launched, the site quickly became one of the top Self Improvement sites on the internet.

Why? Because we ‘Set Our Success Wheels in Motion” and we kept them in motion.

I’m not talking about “persistence” or “perseverance” as Napoleon Hill taught. I”m talking about placing yourself square in the middle of life – see what happens.

So there you have it. It’s a simple success secret – and it will lead to powerful results in your life.

“Set Your Success Wheels in Motion.”

Don’t stand in front of an attractive woman, a handsome man or an abundant future and “hope” your thoughts attract her, him or it to you. People who wish often end up lamenting what “could have been.”

Move TOWARD what you want and then allow the pieces of your ‘life puzzle’ to sort themselves out.

Your Friend in Success,

Keith Matthew

P.S. To transform your life into a constant experience of abundance, harmony and success, go now to:
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Even as you read this right now, there’s a battle being waged for your attention freedom.

The physical world is a place of duality:

Hot Cold
Male Female
On Off
Yes No
Up Down
Win Lose

How many times have you swung the pendulum between happy and sad?

Join me on a brief trip of self-discovery.

I recently came to love a woman who lives clear across the world.

For two months I felt the joy of sharing/loving/growing.

Then I took the journey across waters to a distant land and my cup filled with experiences.

…intimacy, togetherness and adventure.

Four days later, the honeymoon was over.

She appeared before me with an old/new boyfriend who shook my hand and announced his engagement to her.

Happy swings to sad…and back across the world I went.

The war that wages for your attention freedom is filled with intent.

Our worlds each rotate upon the axis of purposeful randomness.

During the long trip back to my temporary home, I had time for reflection…plenty of time.

Perhaps it would take being in a plane 35,000 feet above the ocean, jetisoning nearly 600 miles per hour, for me to sit still and deeply reflect?

Reading this, you may have children needing baths or dinner, the 6 o’clock news permeating the room, or the tick-tock of a clock pressing you toward your 9-5 job.

For me, I had nothing but a seat, a window and duration.

What a gift sometimes it is to be trapped in a world that wants to speak to you about the secrets of your life.

By the time my 3rd plane had landed me back in Atlanta, Africa had begun to feel like a surreal dream.

But then, aren’t all of our moments that way?

When a battle wages, there are only two possible outcomes in the end: 1) “Surrendering to the enemy” or 2) “Conquering your destiny.”

The greatest changes in my life never did come squarely of my own efforts. But to be fair, the changes wouldn’t have come in the absence of those same efforts either. GUARD YOUR TONGUE – SNAKES MAY FLY OUT! I was in a supermarket while in South Africa, looking for crackers, when life brought me food for thought. A woman with proper posture was beside a tall thin boy: her son. I watched as he broke out into small dance moves, sliding his feet, making his body move to simulate the flowing nature that underlies all things.

“Cut that OUT!” growled the mother. She added a few more choice words I couldn’t make out. Probably something about how he couldn’t “BE” that way here in this place and this time.

I was horrified.

Why? Because she is restricting his attention freedom. She is subverting his desire to become all that he has always been.

There is a place where discipline and ‘freedom of becoming’ meet. I don’t think this mother and son have found it.

Later on, we grow up and, watching others dance, wishing we could too. If only we remembered that we COULD dance – that ordinary trips to the supermarket are “Battlegrounds for the Self” that can turn us into the “walking wounded.”

How many women have stories like, “I love him, but he becomes two different people. Sometimes he’s so wonderful and other times he’s unbearable.”

How many years of your life have you hoped for only the Light to come forward from your partner? That they love and respect you rather than do and say some of the things they choose?

We live among the “walking wounded” and a whole lot of healing needs to happen before we regain our attention freedom.

Oh but this article isn’t about, “poor you or me.”

The War of ‘Dual-ity’ wages within you and around you whether you claim the role of tyrant, victim or some other.

My message to you is one of hope, faith and determination. EVERYTHING counts…

The next time you pick up a cigarette and poison your body, know that someone has made you a slave.

The next time you call another person an *ss, even in your heart or mind, know that you are claiming your place among the walking wounded.

The next time your temper flares or your heart despairs, or you choose chocolate cake over apples and pears (God help us all ha, ha)…

..know that a war is being waged for your attention freedom and that particular battle has gone to the enemy.

Let your children dance in the aisles and teach them how to respectfully live in their POWER.

I’m no saint, I’m right here in the middle of it with you.

My mind has craved chocolate all day today. But I want attention freedom and to live a finer life.

NO ONE IS GOING TO BRING IT TO YOU…You MUST GO AND GET IT!

So as soon as I sign off here, I’m going to instead make a tunafish sandwich.

LIFE BEYOND DUALITY Flying to Africa, my heart was filled with love and possibility. The ride back home, though, was long and empty. Why me? What did I do wrong? What was the purpose? These questions cycled in my mind as I sat on a plane in a life of “doing time”.

Fortunately, beyond the exchanges of victim and tyrant exists a reality that far exceeds even the best of moments in a world of duality. Life’s riches multiply when we slip into higher perspectives. Because of my sincere willingness to change and grow, the very next morning I experienced ‘the grace of life.’

At 5am, sitting at the computer to do some work, I suddenly slipped into a higher state of being.

I could not have orchestrated such a change with my mind alone: it was a subtle and profound shift that had happened inside me.

In that moment, I let go of the wounds that were binding me. You see, as real as they were…they were not there. They never had been.

Finding myself in this “healthy place”, I decided, “let’s keep going!” And so I then released my past partners and wished them well.

I even went and got on the phone with my ex-fiance who I’d boycotted for many months! The healing power that lies beyond this world of duality had made itself known.

So…I let them all go. Truth is, I never found or lost them anyway. A war is waging for your attention freedom.

Acknowledge it.

Advance against the enemy…

Then let it all disappear so only the real remains.

I have a quick message for you that is going to help you go from hoping you were more successful to BEING more successful.

So here it is:

I’ve no doubt that, along the way, you’ve ‘dropped the ball’ so to speak. Probably many times.

I know I have. In fact it happened today. I had an important meeting to be at and, because of a difficult night (won’t waste your time with the drama details), I missed the beginning part of the meeting.

Was I NOT happy about that!!!

Here’s the thing though: we are ALL going to ‘drop the ball’ numerous times along the way to reaching our goals in life…

…along the way to realizing the potential of who we really are.

It’s going to happen! The sooner you recognize and accept that, the sooner you will start seeing greater results in all that you do.

PICK UP RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT OFF

But recognition isn’t what creates the greater results. It’s committing to picking UP the ball that you dropped and continue running with it.

Dropped it again? Pick it up again and ‘keep on keeping on!’

Some people are afraid to even CARRY the ball toward a better lifestyle for fear of looking bad or how others will think of them.

Successful people don’t dwell in that place. So if you go there and hang out, I’m sure you’ll be hanging out with the wrong people.

So that’s the message I have for you: don’t worry about dropping the ball on your way to success. Just make sure you pick it back up and I’m certain you will find the results you’re looking for.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew

P.S. – I had a great time this weekend at my friend’s Wealth Building Seminar.

To see pictures of me with Marshall Sylver and Les Brown this weekend, visit my Facebook page: http://keithmatthew.com/facebook

Write that down on a sheet of paper. It’s important to your success.

If you’re not guarding your time and you want to be more successful, then you have work to do.

Ask anyone if they are committed to their own success and most will tell you, “Absolutely!”

However, a closer look at their choices and actions says otherwise.

That’s because commitment to your own success is going to require “doing what it takes” and require “personal change”.

Yes, I said the “c” word…”Change.”

Everyone wants to change the outcome but how can you change the outcome unless you first change the viewpoints, thought processes and decisions you adopt?

That’s just how things work here.

Certain fundamentals never change (treat others as you’d like to be treated, you don’t get something for nothing, your freedom ends where another’s begins).

UPGRADING HOW YOU RELATE

But ‘How you relate with yourself and with the world”? That needs constant upgrading.

As you probably know, I did something most people would not do: I moved from New York, where I’ve lived almost my entire life, to Atlanta to get close to my friends who are multi-millionaires.

Not to hang out and drink beer – I did it because I want to take my 6-figure income and grow it to 7-figures.

Great. Here’s the thing though. I wasn’t experiencing the growth lately that I’d hoped for.

WAS MY MENTOR BROKEN?

Maybe my mentor was “broken”?

Well, we got on the phone together and hashed out what was happening.

One of the revelations I had was that I was being timid and “uninviting” myself.

Probably something to do with a fear of going from 6-figures to 7-figures.

Great! So now I saw my ‘blind spot’
(recognition).

Next comes ACTION.

I rededicated myself to my own success and re-invited myself to the party.

In fact, I ended up hanging out with my mentor all day yesterday. At one point, we were in a store and I saw he was buying a pair of sneakers.

I said, “you know what? I’m getting these SAME sneakers too!”

It may seem silly but it’s actually profound. Here’s why:

You want to be successful like someone you know?

REINVENT YOURSELF

Then CHANGE how you view the world and BECOME more like them!

See what it’s like to walk in THEIR shoes for an hour…a day…a month.

By the way, it’s ok to be a mentor and also have a mentor.

Mentors often have mentors and even mentor each other. They understand “the Success Principles of Life” and they put that understanding into M-O-T-I-O-N.

I pay my mentor A LOT more to help me get to my business to 7-figures than you would pay me to help you to reach 6-figures : )

LES BROWN, MARSHALL SYLVER

And because I am inviting myself to the party, later this week I’m going to be introduced to Les Brown, one of the all-time great motivational speakers, and possibly Marshall Sylver and Frank McKinney (a friend of Donald Trump’s).

Do you want to be invited to the party too? How committed are you to growing yourself and changing so that you can have everything you want?

Most people really want success but have trouble when it comes to committing to the process.

CAN YOU COMMIT TO THE PROCESS?

I’m looking for the people who are ready to be mentored to having a 6-figure income they can run from the comfort of their own home.

And I’m only looking for a few people because I can’t mentor more than 4 personally. Otherwise it takes up too much of my time.

If you are ready to invest in your own success so your family doesn’t have to be held captive by the state of the economy or by when your boss feels like giving you a raise, then “invite yourself to the party” too.

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How much easier would it be to have someone showing you exactly what to do to be successful creating wealth for yourself and your family?

I can go to my office, I can work from home…I can even work in another country like I’m about to do later this month.

I want this same lifestyle freedom for you.

But you have to show me YOU want it. Otherwise we end up just wasting both of our time.

If you think you could be one of the few people I mentor to success as we blast our way into 2009, then go right now to www.keithmatthew.com and fill out the questionnaire there. Don’t skip any questions.

If you’re going to skip questions when there are only 8 of them, what are you going to do when I tell you exactly how to be successful? Skip important steps?

The more info I get from you, the more I can see if you qualify for me to work with you personally.

Think about it…

Would you rather try and “figure it out” for the next few years and spend a lot of money in the process…or would you rather have someone who’s been there show you exactly what to do and guide you to your success?

THE HUNGER TO SUCCEED

If you’re hungry for success and ready to invest in yourself, then go fill out the questionnaire at www.keithmatthew.com and then give me a call at 678-368-4731. Why wait to hear back from me?

Seek me out and “invite yourself to the party”.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew
Self Mastery Secrets (dot com)

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Caught by surprise, I started to think it over while I gathered some info.

To give some perspective, Andrew Carnegie had offered Napoleon Hill the opportunity to interview America’s wealthiest people for the purpose of creating a success system, he secretly held a stopwatch in his pocket and gave young Napoleon no more than 60 seconds to decide.

Napoleon Hill came back with a resounding “yes” 32 seconds later and the rest is history.

Having had listened to Napoleon Hill’s recorded talks countless times, I knew the importance of being decisive.

I checked my calendar, checked my gut (always do) and came back with a resounding “yes”. Maybe not in 32 seconds but pretty quickly considering I didn’t even have a talk on Think and Grow Rich that I could give!

Those who know me know that I invest part of my time teaching clients and students to recognize opportunity where they normally may not have.

But this article isn’t about that. It’s about about what you DO when opportunity knocks.

Do you answer?

Or do you turn off the lights and pretend no one’s home?

I’d thought about saying “no thanks” to the talk because I knew saying yes would mean having to craft a brand new presentation, coordinating my roundtrip travel to New York, getting a place to stay and putting together a sales presenation for the end of the talk.

Not to mention the reality that for two days I’d be away from my business and not building it the way I’d planned.

But Keith, so then why the heck did you say ‘yes?’

Because “no” doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for new possibilities.

“No” pretty much puts an end to the conversation and you never get to find out where it would have led to.

I don’t mind using myself here as a live case study for you. In fact, it’s my pleasure if it ends up helping you in some way.

Success stories don’t happen all at once….they unfold over a series of events and choices. You don’t have to know all the details of how you’re going to get where you want to get to.

You just need to know how to say yes when opportunity knocks.

I knew there was a chance I’d stumble a bit during the talk because it was my first time doing it. My biggest concern was that I’d run out of content and not fill the full 2 1/2 hours because I hadn’t a chance to time myself before the event.

The great thing about answering the door when opportunity knocks is that you put yourself ‘in motion’ and end up growing while your “fanny” is in the fire. There isn’t much time to worry or be fearful when necessity keeps you in the moment.

I ended up taking on two new clients as a result of the talk (which at least covered my expenses from the trip) and now I have two more people I can help create better outcomes for themselves.

Answering the door when opportunity knocked has now pushed me into building out the infrastructure of my business (mastermind groups, a new mentoring program etc).

Undoubtedly this is going to lead to more knocks on the door and more wealth-building opportunities for both myself and my newsletter subscribers.

In fact, the day after I’d answered the door and said yes to speaking on the topic ‘Think and Grow Rich’, I was contacted and asked to coauthor a book on a similar topic.

An hour BEFORE the talk, I swung by my friend’s office in Manhattan and asked him about his recent trip to China. What came out of my 50-minute visit with him? Now we’ll be having regular mastermind sessions together along with other high-powered people (This friend recently pre-sold his next seminar and pulled in $200,000 – just to give you an idea of the company I keep).

Answer the door when opportunity knocks and great things will happen.

Normally I recommend you DO NOT talk too much about your successes when a cycle isn’t yet completed (ie, the experience isn’t finished yet) because it can compromise the outcome. That’s because you invite the energies of other people into your sphere and they can negatively impact your success vibration.

I’m ok with sharing this one with you though. Even if everything I’ve mentioned changes before you read this, I know practicing putting this success principle of “answering the door when opportunity knocks” into action in your life will always produce great things. So if everything changes, I’m certain it will change into something just as miraculous (maybe even better!).

Since this article is a live case study, it really has no ending…just a pause.

Practice answering the door and saying yes to opportunity – keep the conversation going and see where it leads you.

Then write me at keith@selfmasterysecrets.com and let me know how it turns out!

Keith Matthew

The first four times were for other people (birthday parties, graduation parties, and maybe a neighbor’s barbecue.) Truth is, it’s happened so few times I can’t even recall when.

To me, paying for ice was stupid. I mean, it’s frozen water! I’m going to hand over my money for frozen water?

When was the fifth time? Actually, it was only a few weeks ago. I’d been playing basketball and I felt this sudden, sharp burning sensation go up the arch of my foot.

Not good.

So on my way back home, I picked up a bag of ice to put under my foot and help it start healing.

I know of a mixed martial arts fighter that, each times after he trains, he submerges his whole body into a tub of ice.

I don’t know HOW that guy does it! As for me, I had put the bag under my foot for about 5 minutes and I’d had my fill. I guess you won’t be seeing me in “the octagon” with him any time soon.

I’ve probably used this bag of ice 30 times and I’m still not quite to the bottom of it yet. In fact, I have a cold drink beside me during this hot night as I write my article to you.

This bag of ice has had me thinking about the choices we make in life and why we make them. Are they based upon a sound success process? Or are they perhaps based on inconsistent definitions and irrational conclusions?

I’m starting to wonder…

Have you ever heard the saying, “there are lies…damn lies…and then statistics?”

What’s being suggested is that statistics are not reliable because they can be manipulated.

Seems to me that our decision-making process might also be under a lot of manipulation as well.

Manipulation by our present perception of reality.

Let me explain some more here with personal, more ‘concrete’ examples…

A year ago, I wouldn’t have paid $1500 a month for an apartment or home.
I found a place for $1200 that met my needs and kept me happy.

Later on, when I was trying to save my family and relationship, I was willing to pay several thousand dollars a month toward a mortgage.

Recently, in preparing for my move to Atlanta, Georgia, I was offered use of a ‘Carriage House’ for only $500 a month. My immediate thought was, “ok, it’s small but I can do this because there’s a chance the person who has the house might bail and then I’ll take it over.”

And my answer was ‘Yes, let‘s do it.’

Then I found out that pets weren’t allowed and I might not be moving in at all.

So I started looking at other houses in the area to see if maybe I’d buy one outright instead of waiting to shop around later.

By the time I revisited the home for $1500 a month, I’d realized that I would feel much better moving in for $1400 a month since it’s closer to the $1200 I’d been paying the past year.

But then I stopped everything, sat back, and replayed the viewpoints I’d taken on with all this house stuff. The first thing that hit me was how eager I was to take over the house when at first I couldn’t. I remember the feeling: it was like, “if I had this house, though it’s not my dream house, I’d definitely be happy and ready to move forward with it.”

One week later the house was suddenly available. Someone called me on that one, eh?

Then, tonight, I flashed back again to just a short couple of months ago when I was ready and willing to pay DOUBLE that amount on a house I didn’t want – just to hold my family together.

This article is about ‘valuation’ and how we relate one instance to another. It’s about how YOU value people, places and things.

Ponder me this: with all the dates you’ll have to go on and drinks you’ll need to buy in order to find someone you can love and who can love you back, doesn’t it make sense to just treat your partner or spouse better right NOW rather than end up losing them later because you held back and didn’t value them appropriately?

Less headache, less heartache, and you won’t have to keep swapping photo albums in the future. You can focus your time, energy and money on creating a brighter tomorrow with someone who cares about how your day went.

Most of my choices made perfect sense at the time. I bet yours did too.

But here’s the thing: we place a specific value on a person, place or thing in relation to other ‘stuff.’ What that ‘stuff’ is isn’t really the important thing to look at here. It’s the fact that we are creating values based on relationships of one to another.

Call it perspective, proportion, or propensity. You might even say we’re discussing ‘framing’ here (an NLP term). I don’t mind what we call it as long as we take a closer look at ‘what relates to what’…and why.

When I was 13, a girl I’d known for 5 years starting showing me she liked me.

‘Do you like me? Check YES or NO.’ And I thought those were the hard days of dating!

We played together and grew closer. One day, a friend of mine said, “You don’t really like Natalie, do you? Because that’s what some of the guys are saying.”

My heart said, “Yes, I do!” but instead came out, “Oh, no! you kidding me? No way! We’re just friends.”

My ‘liking Natalie’ had become tied to how my friends would see me.

We make choices, sometimes very important choices in our lives, based on how we relate things to one another and the value we place on them.

The value of what my friends thought of me outweighed the value of how I felt about my ‘could-be’ girlfriend. Fortunately, even at 13, I wasn’t THAT confused about the dynamics of life. I soon after went back and ‘fessed up’. Then everyone went back to throwing the ball around like we always did.

Valuations…

What value do you place on:

Your relationships?

Your career?

Your family?

Your religion?

Your environment?

Your appearance?

Your health?

Your own freedom?

Some people finally discover the need to place better valuations on all of the above only after they get older…because their time here shortens and they suddenly realize, “Hey, I want to play my cards differently! Deal me more cards!”

Oh, we all get more cards…but it’s a new hand in a new game.

I am discovering the importance of placing more accurate values on everyone and everything in my life and I warmly invite you to do the same. I think you’ll find the quality of living becomes higher and more refined once you do. And you will undoubtedly live a deeper, more fulfilling life the rest of your stay here because of it.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew

P.S. – I’m headed to the freezer to grab a few more ice cubes from the bag of ice that started this article. When the bag is done, I may buy another – or I may not.

But at least I now know what it’s really worth to me. Be well…

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How wonderful it felt to be loved and IN love?

‘They’ could do no wrong. To you, they were that PERFECT person you’d been looking for.

You beamed as you entered a room…and the world was your oyster.

Feels good, right? Sure it does.

Oh, and what about THIS…

Remember the day the honeymoon ended?

When you realized they were NOT so perfect? In fact they had a whole damn LOT of things wrong with them. How could you have been so blind? So naïve …so foolish?

You went your separate ways, though your mind and heart wished you could transport back to that blissful and orgasmic honeymoon.

Not gonna happen! This party is O-V-E-R!

And you feel the pain, longing and loneliness. That warm, fuzzy feeling quickly slips into the recesses of a land of distant memories.

Putting it plainly, THIS SUCKS!

If this is how it’s going to feel, I don’t WANT to find love! It’s not worth risking feeling so lousy over.

Ever feel that way before?

Sure you have.

Well, it’s the same with creating a life of wealth and success.

You have to at some point venture off into the unknown and take some risks.

Unless you have a mentor, someone who’s already arrived at where you want to get to, more likely than not you’re going to take risks that do not lead to what you’d hoped for. And, keep in mind, having a mentor doesn’t guarantee your success right away either. He or she keeps you from going down unnecessary paths and stacks the odds in your favor. They’re meant to be your guide; not your savior.

That said, if you don’t get outside your comfort level and stretch yourself, guess where you will be several years from now?

Right…pretty much where you are today. Actually, that’s an understatement. You see, life is always seeking to move forward or fall backward. And if you’re not pressing forward?

You do the math.

If you commit yourself to providing a better life for your family and the people you love, and you get OFF the safe path to nowhere, you will be pleasantly surprised with the results.

But you have to commit. You have to start “courting” your own future success.

If you want to fall in love, you have to go where attractive people are and engage them.

If you want to want wealth and success, you have to go where wealth and success lives and knock on the door.

Knock as many times as you have to. If you knock and no one answers (ie, you invest time or money into something and it turns into a miserable flop), knock again! And again!

Keep knocking and the doorway to your financial freedom WILL open.

It has to.

When I was in my teens, I cycled the hills of Harriman State Park in New York. One time, I was going downhill at about 35 miles per hour and, as a turn approached, suddenly I realized I wasn’t going to make it.

Boy was that NOT a good feeling!

My subconscious reaction was to ‘hit the breaks’. Imagine slamming on the breaks of a bicycle while going 35 mph!

My bike stopped.

I did not.

I went F-L-Y-I-N-G and did two somersaults once I cleared the handlebars.

I was banged up pretty good. My friend caught up to me and a car pulled over; they both looked worried and asked me if I was alright.

You see, the front wheel of my bike was completely bent in half!!! They were hoping my body was doing better than that wheel!

More than twenty years later, I still have physical scars on my left knee from that day…just like we sometimes get emotional scars when a relationship doesn’t work out…just like we have financial scars when a business opportunity takes our money like an ungrateful whore. Ouch! Did I just say that?

The first time I sat on a bike again and went downhill, I was fearful. I was fearful that I was not safe, that I was leaving myself vulnerable.

Sure, I could have stayed away from bikes the rest of my life. Just like you could play it safe the rest of YOUR life.

But then I wouldn’t be able to ride with my friends and you wouldn’t be able to give your family a better life.

Really: Don’t be Gun Shy, Broke and Going Nowhere FAST…

KNOCK on the door of success. Get back ON the bike as many times as you have to. Let the passion to give your family everything they ever wanted and needed propel you forward through uncertainty and into greater wealth and success. You deserve it and they do too!

If you’re searching for a mentor to help you create wealth online, go to www.keithmatthew.com and let me help YOU manifest and enjoy the life you desire. If you’re not looking for a mentor, then just get on that bike and ride. Ride, ride, ride…

But, while patterns can run their course for many years, ultimately we’re each destined to change – to have new experiences and take on new viewpoints.

That’s the beauty of life. Otherwise we’d never find our way.

After the bed was delivered, I jumped on it a couple of times. I absolutely loved it!.
Ok, now it was time to go out and buy some artwork.

I’d NEVER gone out on a mission to buy artwork for my home before. In fact, In the entire course of my life, I can probably count the number of pictures I’ve put up both at home and at work on ONE HAND!

Well, I came home that evening with two strikingly colorful pieces – one modern and the other abstract.

Why is this important to your own success? Well, each of us has a ‘Seat of Power’ we operate from. It’s a place we return to again and again for strength, confidence and of course…POWER!

This is why teams so often concern themselves with home court or home field advantage. They draw added vitality from their seat of power and their built in support system
(family, fans etc).

I really look forward to coming home and not having to defend a position or work anything out.

But what happens when your seat of power is barren, broken or dysfunctional?
Where do you go to revitalize, refocus and reignite your personal power?

It’s a terrible thing to be out in the world getting bumps and bruises, having experiences, and then you return home to an unsupportive partner or family waiting to wear you down even further. It’s SO important that your seat of power be a place or environment of safety and trust…a place you can kick back and strengthen yourself.

Can you strengthen and deepen your relationships with the people associated with your seat of power? Can you get them to support your vision more?

This is a question you must ask yourself and the answer has to be a resounding YES.
If it isn’t, then you have important work to do NOW…not later.

Napoleon Hill, responsible for the creation of so many millionaires, passionately emphasized the need to have complete harmony in your mastermind group. He said that you can’t have any kind of success if there is continuing disharmony within your core.

It has to be cut out like a malignant tumor or it will continue to rot away at what you’re creating.

I know this to be true – so much so that several years ago I dissolved my business partnership with my fiance and left the company we’d created together. It was not an easy decision, nor was it easy to disentangle all of the financial weaving we’d done up to that point.

Guess what, though: my income IMMEDIATELY shot up after making the move!

I’m not saying you have to leave your partner or leave your home. I AM saying that you have to do whatever it takes to gain harmony within your seat of power.

You see, your success and happiness depends upon it.

So go for it: start creating an ultra-plush environment for yourself…one with vibrant colors and supportive people. Trust me – you’ll be GLAD you did!

One great thing about children is their innocence. They don’t have this huge filter screening out right and wrong. If they want something or have a thing on their mind, they’re going to tell you about it.

To an extent, we appreciate the honesty and we excuse the inappropriate. they ‘don’t know any better.’ They’re children. But many of us ‘grownups’ are still trying to gain control of our own lives today. There’s a saying that goes something like this, “One man’s freedom ends where another’s begins.”

Why am I saying all of this? Because if things don’t seem to be going your way, and you’re not GETTING what you want in life, there’s a good chance you are not GIVING what you want. Take a look at the people in your life. The ones that may try to control you, or push all your buttons, or prevent you from being happier.

Take a look at your present situation…if you can’t find a better paying job or the right relationship or surround yourself with people who appreciate you more.

Now take a look at yourself and how you’ve been approaching situations and the people in your circle of influence. Ask yourself this: have I been approaching life the way I’d like life to approach me?

When you try to control others or encroach on their freedom in some way, you’re breaking natural law. Just as in societal law, you’re held accountable and have to ‘pay the piper.’ Sometimes paying a speeding ticket is easier. Because you can break a natural law, not be aware of it, and still have the effects reverberate back in your life.

Many people don’t realize they’re causing their own present situation. AND…by taking a deeper look at your life, you definitely can become more aware of what’s happening and why. In fact, after you start getting a knack for it, self awareness actually becomes more of a speci al journey. A gift.

The lesson? If things aren’t going your way, take a closer look at ‘what your way is’ and see if you’ve been inadvertently breaking a natural law.

Keith Matthew has been teaching personal development and wealth building techniques for 17 years. Visit http://www.selfmasterysecrets.com/ns-freecourse.html to sign up for a Free 7-Day Success Workshop.