Ted Williams Shows Your Circumstances Don’t Control Your Outcome!

Ted Williams knows what ‘doing it tough’ means, after a decade of drugs, alcohol, homeless and penniless.  Are you going through some crap in your life right now?

Sometimes in life we find ourselves in circumstances which overwhelm us to the point we can’t see a way out.  There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel, no hope of a better future.  Before I share my insights watch this video, an interview on MSNBC’s Today Show with a homeless man Ted Williams, The Voice:

Some things to ponder:

Homeless man Ted Williams holding sign

Ted Williams is the epitome of what I have been sharing for years and what The Secret DVD and The Secret book are based on.  If you apply the lessons learned from the short interview with Ted Williams it will change your life forever.

1. Never look at your circumstances as being the truth, or all that is possible.
   Ted Williams was homeless, hungry, penniless, a beggar, an alcoholic, a drug addict, a ‘reject’ in society; in fact his circumstances where probably far worse than yours … yet he knew he had a great voice; he knew that if he got the right person to listen he would get a job.

   Your circumstances don’t decide your outcome, you do! Only focus on what you desire, not on the present appearance of things.  Wallace D Wattles said over and over again in his book ‘The Science of Getting Rich’ that in order to achieve any degree of success we must ‘Think the TRUTH regardless of appearances.’ If you haven’t listened to my seminar you should, it’s free!: www.SignpostsToFreedom.com

2. Be thankful to God for everything you have and all that you are.
   Sometimes we feel so low that it seems we have nothing to be grateful for!  Ted Williams is grateful for life every day, he is grateful for his voice, grateful for the food and shelter he had, grateful for his Mum and his family.  Having gratitude is only part of the equation, this homeless man gave vocal thanks to the Lord!  Something many ‘spiritual’ people miss out of the equation.

   David in the bible knew the power of praise … he said many times in Psalms (Songs) to praise God.  Ps. 66:1-3 “Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth.  Sing forth the honor and glory of His name; make His praise glorious! Say to God, How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works!”
   Ps. 67:5 “Let the people praise You, turn away from their idols and give thanks to You O God.” Ps 144-150 is just full of praise to God.  As Ted Williams said, he now acknowledges God everyday in all his ways: Success without God is failure.

3. Believe that you have a God given gift … believe God.  
   I’ll be straight down the line here … I don’t know how people get by without a real relationship with God.  I don’t mean a religious knowledge of God and sin but a ‘father/son’ relationship.  We live in a world of doubt and fear and disbelief and it leads to so much stress and anxiety.  God says ‘fear not for I am with you … I will not leave you or forsake you.’

   If you are going through some ‘Ted Williams’ type experiences I urge you to call on God, even if you don’t yet believe He exists!  Is 59:1 says it so well: “Look! Listen!  God’s arm is not amputated – he can still save you.  God’s ears are not clogged up – he can still hear you.  There is nothing wrong with God; the wrong is in you.  Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God.  Your sins got between you so that he doesn’t hear.” WOW … God doesn’t move away from us, we simply ignore Him and then he cannot help us.

4. Have a 5-year Vision!
   Ted Williams knows what he wants in five years from now … to be a Program Director and to have his own apartment.  What’s your vision for your life five years from now?

   “Where there is no vision, people perish.” - Proverbs 29:18  Without a vision for our future we slip back into hopelessness and despair when faced with life’s challenges.  Make sure you have an empowering vision.  For Ted Williams to have a home is very empowering for Ted!  What will empowering and excite you for the next 5 years and beyond?

5. Take Action!

   
   

   

   Sign Ted Williams was holding

   Ted Williams may have ‘the golden voice” but nobody would know unless he took some action.  Too many people think all they have to do is mediate or pray or have faith and they will achieve their dreams … then they get disheartened and disillusioned when it doesn’t seem to work, often blaming other people for their failure.  The Law of Attraction is biblical, it’s a universal law … it works all the time whether a person believes it or not.  “Faith without action is dead!”

When you live this way you will be misunderstood by the many, you will even be laughed at, despised and even mocked by those closest to you.  Those ignorant of the Law of Attraction will try to drag you back into their world in which they call ‘Reality’, often accusing you of ‘taking on too much’, ‘daydreaming’, ‘having your head in the clouds’ or straight out ‘lying’ about your situation.  Yet, once truly understood, it is the only way to live.

I want to leave you with these couple more pearls of wisdom:

• Speak only what you want, not what you don’t want.  “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it, for death or life.” – Proverbs 18:21
• God’s decree regarding your future: “I know what I am doing.  I have it all planned out – plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.  When you come looking for me, you’ll find me.  Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” – Jeremiah 29:11-13

“What is the greatest power known to man?”

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog on The Greatest Secret … in fact, those who have attended our “My Abundant Life” seminars or purchased the CD series will know the answer … Love!

Recently Rhonda Byrne (producer of The Secret) released a book called “The Power.” Guess what it is all about?!?

You might be saying, “How can love be the greatest power? Is it greater than faith?”  Absolutely … let me show you.  Read and meditate on the following passage:

“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

“If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

“If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.” (The Message Bible – 1 Corinthians 13:1-3)

I’m not speaking of the emotion of love, but rather the decision and lifestyle of love.  Yes, love is a decision. Often two people will ‘fall’ in love but never make the decision to love, they get married and wonder why they fight constantly, then divorce.  They never made the decision to love each other!  A decision means to cut off all other possibilities!

The Greek word ‘agape’ in the bible is translated as ‘love’; however the true meaning is ‘the God kind of love.’

We read on from the above scripture and we get a better understanding of agape love:

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

Love doesn’t strut,

Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others,

Isn’t always “me first,”

Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back, but keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. (The Message Bible – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

I don’t know about you, but as I read this I check myself off against the list and I find myself saying “God teach me how to love like you love!”  In fact, this is the only commandment that Jesus gave in the new testament:  “But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;” Matthew 5:44

Put the same love passage in 1 Corinthians 13 from another rendition and in first person and it is even more impactful:

My love endures long and I am patient and kind;

I’m never envious nor boil over with jealousy; I’m not boastful or have a high opinion of myself.

I am not arrogant and inflated with pride;

I am not rude and I don’t act unfairly.

God’s love in me does not insist on my own rights or my own way;

I am not self-seeking;

I am not touchy or fretful or resentful;

I take no account of the evil done to me, I pay no attention to a suffered wrong.

I do not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoice when right and truth prevail.

I bear up under anything and everything that comes, I’m ever ready to believe the best of every person, my hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and I endure everything without weakening.

My love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end.

Did you know that there is no fear in love … the bible says that “Perfect love (agape) casts out ALL fear.” (1 John 4:18)

If you have fear in your life you have to ask the question, “What or who do I not love?” A fear can be in the form of jealousy, hatred, revenge, anger, disease, poverty, lack, guilt, depression, competition for what someone else has, afraid of the future etc.

Love activates faith! (Galatians 5:6)  Faith without love is nothing more than the sound of a creaking gate, a noise that fades away to nothing.  “Now faith, hope and love abide in us; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)

We cannot know agape love with knowing God, because God is love (1 John 4:8).  Maybe one day we should look at the character of God as most people have a warped and incorrect understanding.

Please feel free to comment below and share your insights.

The Secret DVD and book revealed to many people the Law Of Attraction (LOA).

Rhonda Byrne, nor any of the other 25 Teachers (including Esther Hicks), discovered the Law of Attraction. It has been available to man since his creation. In fact, it is a law of creation which God put into place long before the earth existed.

Many people, of all religious beliefs and walks of life still don’t believe in LOA.

Like all other laws of the universe which God put in place, just because a person is ignorant of the law doesn’t stop the law from working to its fullest capacity at all times. You may not believe or know about the law of lift, yet it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You may not believe in God, that doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist.

Simply put, the LOA is “What I believe and speak I create.”

So is The Secret (which was never really a secret) the greatest power on earth?  Absolutely not!

I heard Bob Proctor say in his “Born Rich” seminar once that faith was the greatest power known to man. I have to disagree with him. Yes, faith is a mighty power. If fact the bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb 11:6). Actually without faith it is impossible to believe God exists.

Abraham (in the bible … not Esther Hick’s group of spirits) is called the father of Faith. Abraham believed whatever the God said; he acted on God’s word and Abraham was made very rich, and he was made the father of many nations, later know as race of people called the Jews.

• Jesus said to a sick woman who believed in Him and touched his clothes, “Your faith has made you whole (totally healed and complete).”
• He also said to his disciples, “All things are possible to those who believe.”
• Paul the apostle said, “We walk by faith, not by sight or appearances.”
• He also said, “For it is by free grace you are saved through your faith.”
• Jesus also said, “When you pray, pray believing that you already have it and it will be yours.”

It would seem than that faith can do just about anything!

Many people think “all I have to do is believe and I can have it.” Hang on a minute … that’s not true. Faith without action is dead, nothing, zip, zilch!

I get emails which read something like this: “I’ve watched The Secret 53 times and keep believing in the law of attraction yet nothing has changed. I’m still sick, broke and unhappy.” That is like sitting on the floor cross legged with your fingers shaped in a circle and humming, expecting the money to drop out of the ceiling!!! Now that is just plain dumb!

So faith without action will not help you get what you want let alone your dreams and goals. Faith with action is a mighty power, it will feed the hungry, heal the sick and mend the broken hearted … but it is not the most powerful force know to man!

So what is?

Read my next blog to find out the most powerful force on earth. With it you can have whatever you desire, without it you are but an empty noise!

I started conducting the Science of Getting Rich seminars before The Secret was even conceived by Rhonda Byrne

After The Secret came out every man and his dog got on the band wagon.  Some people created SGR packages and have been selling them to the naive public for hundreds, and some, thousands of dollars.  One well known Guru even created an illegal ponzi scheme with it and has been selling it for US$2,000 … just for the Science of Getting Rich book recorded on audio on an MP3 and in a leather binder … WOW!! (He quickly stopped the ponzi scheme when found out and changed it to a big commission affiliate program) One on the important keys in the book Wattles speaks of is fair exchange of use value for cash value.

After I saw this happen I decided to give away the complete recording of my 2 1/2 day Science of Getting Rich seminar for FREE.

It’s not just an audio of me reading Wallace D Wattles book … an actual live workshop recording where I explain in plain English what the Science of Getting Rich really means and more importantly, How To Apply The Secret In Your life!

I believe that this information, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles, can change the world.  It can make every person far more abundant and prosperous than we can possibly imagine (Yes, EVERY person).  I still learn from the material every time I go through it.

My goal is to get it into as many people’s iPods, MP3 players, cars and homes as possible.

Thousands have now downloaded the FREE Science of Getting Rich seminar and listened to it.  I get Facebook messages and emails every week from people telling me how my simple explanation of it has changed their life.  Here is what a new Facebook friend wrote to me today:

Anna Valenzuela German 02 May at 04:24

David~

I have just completed my 2nd installment of the SGR program. This is totally mind blowing!! You have done an amazing job on breaking this down for me to totally understand it. I was not expecting this…Thank you!

Friends and even strangers have approached me and asked how I can be so positive and happy all the time. I try to explain information like this and even given them copies of The Secret. And like you said…they either take it or reject it. I feel I have been able to move forward with todays audio you sent me. I am totally absorbing all this info!!

I came across all of you by pure chance and it has changed my life completely…I am so thankful and grateful~

Anna~

Thanks so much Anna … I am honoured that I can play a part in your life.

I have broken the whole 2 1/2 day Science of Getting Rich seminar up in easy listening 15-20 minute bites. You get one audio file every two or three days which makes it so easy to listen to and digest.  Even if you have read the book, attended a SGR seminar or have it on audio by someone else, you will find this totally different and life changing.

I had a multi-millionaire tell me recently that he has listened to my audio at least 35 times from start to finish!

I would like you to do 4 things for me (for yourself really):

1. Go there now and get started (It’s free, no upsell, no strings attached): http://www.signpoststofreedom.com/
2. Leave me a comment below once you have listened to it
3. Recommend it to your friends, family, Facebook or Twitter by clicking on the appropriate “Share The Wealth” icons below.  You can even email them directly from this page.  It could change their life!
4. I have been thinking of making available my Science of Getting Rich workbook and recent videos of the seminar.  Let me know if you would like either by leaving me a comment.

As Wallace D Wattles said:

• It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich.
• If you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so.
• It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the science of getting rich because it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies.
• If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God, and to humanity.
• You can render God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.”

Thank you.

How To Apply The Secret – The 7 Steps To Creating Abundance & Prosperity By Using Your Imagination. The Secret behind the Law of Attraction and all success and wealth.

The Secret Book & DVD

Like many of the Secret Teachers, I get a constant influx of emails regarding The Secret DVD and book. These days the comments are “I just watched The Secret DVD and it is amazing, thank you for your contribution” or “I’ve watched The Secret DVD over and over again, I try to do what it say and nothing has changed. What am I doing wrong?”

These questions certainly highlight missing links between The Secret movie and how to apply the Law of Attraction. Many people watch the movie, get all excited about manifesting abundance, think about a life of prosperity yet never take any action towards achieving it. It’s like sitting at the kitchen table and humming in meditation while expecting money to fall through the ceiling!

It may be possible however we don’t seem to have evolved to that level of manifestation yet. Let me share a few key steps that you can do to massively speed up the manifesting of abundance and prosperity in your life. When I mention abundance and prosperity I mean in all areas of your life: Spiritual, Mental, Physical, Social and Financial.

Know Exactly What You Want

The biggest reason people keep getting poverty and lack in their lives and not having the abundance and prosperity they seek is they do not have a clear mental image of exactly how they want their live to be. Most people know what’s wrong in their lives and can give you a big long list; some even know how they don’t want their lives to be but very few know the perfect life they would like to live every day.

By another name it is called a Vision – “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 28:19); perish into the grips of poverty, lack, sickness and fear.

I experienced this personally before I understood the law of attraction. I was over $50,000 in debt with no electricity and the phone switched off because I couldn’t pay the bills, no job, no education, on government social security benefits and a wife and four children to feed. Every day I focused on the bills coming in the mail and how much money we didn’t have. I felt paralysed with the fear of poverty and couldn’t see a way out. (The fear of poverty is the most distructive of all fears – we will share more about that another time.)

Once we truly understand the Mind, its connection with God and our Body, and our minds’ purpose, we can no longer live by focusing on our current circumstances. One of the six faculties of the conscious mind is our imagination.

The purpose we were created with an imagination it to be able to create the image of how we want things to be regardless of how our life presently is. The challenge is that for most people their imagination faculty peaks at about 8 or 9 years old and hasn’t been used much since. By the time we become a teenager we are told to get our head out of the clouds and be realistic. Most people become really good at imagining how terrible things will be, they become filled with doubt and worry. We must re-train our imagination, create beautiful pictures of exactly how we desire our life to be and then live in that image with faith, expectation and love.

Here are steps to re-focus your mind and re-train your imagination:

1. Know exactly what you want. Take out a pen and paper and write down what is NOT working in your life how you want it. Could your marriage be better? Do you have the money you need to do and buy the things you want to? Do you have an illness or are you often sick? Are you unhappy? Are you working at a job you hate? Do you live in a home or area you don’t like?
2. Now write out on another sheet of paper in present tense exactly how you do want each of those things to be. Don’t just write “I want a better relationship.” Write out, in detail exactly what you want to do have and become. For example, “I have a loving fulfilled relationship with my husband. We spend time every day together communicating and falling more in love. We enjoy frequent romantic times together, like walking along the beach hand in hand or sitting enjoying a coffee together.” Describe your life exactly how you want it to be.
3. Once you have completed that task, throw away or burn the first list you made of what is not working. You don’t want to read or focus on that ever again.
4. Re-read your new life at least twice a day. When you wake up first thing in the morning and just before you go to sleep at night. Just like a child pretend that it already is, add emotion to it as if it has already happened. Re-writing your new life increases clarity, emotion and expectation.
5. Only speak to others of how your new life is. Our words create our world so our confessions or what we speak out about our circumstances creates our circumstances. If you continually speak to others about what’s going wrong in your life then that is what you attract. Start speaking with excitement about how your new life looks.
6. Have Faith … only believe! Many people just want good things to happen and want abundance and yet doubt about whether it can happen or worry about the worst happening. This is using the law of attraction to create a life that you don’t want as we will always attract what we emotionally focus on. Worry and doubt create the huge emotion of fear. We must LET God, let the power, work through us without being anxious about whether the end result will happen or not!  I think Jesus said it so well when he told us in Mark 11:24 “For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.”  Note the words “Have faith that it HAS been given to you … and you WILL have it” Some translations say “If you have faith…” or “If you believe…”
7. Be expectant and grateful. Expectation propels you into action and draws you closer to your goals. If you really desire something in your life there are certain steps you must take. For example if you desired to travel to Hawaii for a holiday you would have to decide when you are going, buy a suit case, inquire about tickets, hotels etc. What do you need to do right now if you truly expect your new life?

Gratitude is the other key ingredient which is often overlooked by people but absolutely essential if you want to attract anything more into your life.

If you are grateful for what you already have and expect more with the faith that you will have it, your life will be filled with a greater abundance that you now cannot comprehend. You must be grateful for your new life as if you already have it!

There are conditions of receiving and that is first of all knowing what you want, asking, and then believing you have it already! In less than 30 days and very little effort you will completely alter your focus and bounce out of bed every day with the vision of your new life.

Your life and circumstances will begin to change and you will see miracles start to unfold.