I have a question and I am looking for more questions to explode it, a major brainstorm bigger than Ike08. 

I am a student of the Law of Attraction.   Mike Dillard, Perry Marshall, James Arthur Ray, Bob Proctor, Bill Harris and hundreds of others.  Wallace Wattles’ ‘Science of Getting Rich’ published in 1910 is a must read.  Chapter Two of MS “Developing the Mindset for Success” states “It’s not that you can’t do something. It’s just that you really don’t want to do it.”  I have wondered, how come, most of my life.

Twenty some years ago I read Buckminster Fuller’s book “Critical Path” to better understand his distinction ‘trim tabs.’  I am not lazy … well maybe I am… but I am really looking for the greatest outcome, the biggest bang, for the least amount of effort. 

I joined LinkedIn because a number of my best friends are participating. At some point I noticed the large number of people I was connected to and made a goal of being connect to 1,000,000.  I did not have a ‘by when’ but did give it a few hours a week after an initial push.  The closer I came to one million the more attention and intention I brought to the goal.  Today, 12 September 2008, my statistics page announced 1,199,423 new people in your network since September 10! I went past the one million mark and more than doubled my network in the last two days adding just a couple more people.  I declare a breakthrough and now have a goal of 10,000,000.

Recently, I updated my financial goal to earning $5000 a day, every day, regardless of the time I spend on the goal. That does mean that if I am putting in 10 hours a day to have this happen each hour must be worth, at some level, $500 an hour. The hours of TV time disappeared at a much lower goal as did other habits and ‘scripts.’ Adding a “By When” of Dec 2009 magnifies the problem with my mind set of scripts.

What’s stopping me?

ME (my initials too)

MS Chapter Two says ‘Your mind may be playing tricks on you!’ What we think and what we believe is mostly made up of stuff we ‘bought’ along the way and added to the mix of stuff already there.  We have created little scripts for ourselves that support who we are and what we are willing to do.  Mike in Chapter Two offers many of them… I’m too busy. I’m too tired. … I’m just not good enough.

I used to believe that many of these scripts came at such a young age they could not be erased or changed or altered.  ‘Whatever you resist persists’ was my primary reason.  Letting many of them atrophy has worked. I now believe I can find an effortless way to handle my most debilitating ones.

I am looking for the ‘trim tab’ to earning serious monthly income. I know the first step is noticing the little voice that says… “You can’t do that, you’re not ….. ready,  smart enough, good enough, worthy enough, young enough, old enough, connected enough…. The list is long and we seem to hang out with people who have the same scripts.  I have been studying the Law of Association and BetterNetworker is a great place to improve and expand your associations.  Chapter Two MS says “Your thoughts are the ONLY difference between you and Bill [Gates].”

I live in a sea of thought and conversations about what it means about me to make $5000 a day.  My interpretation and emphasis on selected scripts taken out of context over my lifetime is what stops me.  Knowing that makes little if any difference!  Up until recently the majority of people I came into regular contact that generated the kind of income I ‘wished’ for were not people I wanted to emulate.  I have an old script that says, “The things we like least in others, is the things we like least in ourselves.”  How I wired that is that I am my own worst behaviors the more money I have. 

Writing this unconcealed for the first time the next layer of my onion!  Turning the ‘wish’ into a commitment alters your days actions. What are the scripts that stop all of us, either as individuals or as part of a group?  Do any of you have scripts that empower you in the face of no agreement?  I invite and request you to join this conversation.  Imagine what would be possible if we all discovered our trim tabs to success and could provide the steps for everyone we know to do the same. I look forward to all your comments!