Back in the late 1800s a company sold “Ambition Pills.”
Their ads claimed the pills could cure anything, including sagging motivation.
Today we might call such a pill a placebo, because it’s the belief in the pill that does anything, and not the pill.
The problem is, the pills being sold in the 1800s were made with strychnine – a poison.
Take enough of those pills, and you could die.
That’s a pill that does something.
I’d guess that the company didn’t last long and their “Ambition Pills” were taken off the market.
But you can find variations of them today.
People want a “magic pill” – whether a book, a formula, a tool, a technique, or a capsule, to help them overcome what they feel they can’t do on their own.
The thing is, virtually any tool you use is only as effective as your belief in it.
If you don’t believe in something, it generally won’t work for you.
If you don’t believe in the Law of Attraction, for example, your belief will filter all facts and only find any evidence to support your belief.
If you DO believe in the Law of Attraction, by the same token, your belief will cause you to seek and find all the evidence to support THAT belief.
I have a medical doctor friend who says, “All of medicine is just the placebo effect.”
If you look close, you can see what is really at work here:
Belief.
Anyone taking an “Ambition Pill” in the 1800s got results or not due more to their belief than to the pill (which was obviously deadly).
There are even companies today selling pills as stated placebos.
They make no claim at all for their pills.
They are simply selling inert pills — and openly telling you so — that you can take to support whatever intention you want.
Obviously, since the pill does nothing, and is made of virtually nothing, the only way it can help you is if you believe it can.
Belief.
There it is again.
Belief.
Knowing that belief is the operating element here ought to make you curious about how to change your limiting or negative beliefs.
You can change them on your own, of course, with hard work and ruthless honestly, but you’ll have much faster results, and an easier time of it, if you simply do one thing:
Get a trained coach.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
When I hired an expert coach, my life transformed.
That’s why I created Miracles Coaching® almost ten years ago.
It works.
And it can help you, too.
A Miracles Coach can help you see your own beliefs — which, because the beliefs are your “world” and control what you see, you can’t very easily find on your own.
A Miracles Coach can help you change, delete or erase a limiting belief, too, which you may not know how to do by yourself.
And a Miracles Coach can become your ally, friend, and accountability partner in your life adventure.
But I wouldn’t ask you to take just my word for the power of this coaching program.
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Expect Miracles.
Ao Akua,
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I don’t watch movies about zombies or vampires, not unless there’s some comedy in it or a psychological insight about the rest of us, but recently I watched a documentary called, How to Be a Billionaire, which got me thinking about zombies.
Let me explain:
The three billionaires featured in the film are all big thinkers.
And I’m talking BIG.
They are not zombies at all.
One wants to create passenger flights to the moon (!) for you to take your sweetie for a honeymoon. At the same time, he wants to bring back ore from the moon and sell it back here on Earth as a precious metal. He expects it to be a trillion dollar business.
Another created a social media site with his wife and sold it for $850,000,000. Apparently AOL saw the value in it for reaching millions of people. But when it bombed under the new ownership, the couple who originated the site bought it back – for only $1,000,000. They are now investing in even more businesses and revamping their own original software.
Yet another billionaire is creating life-like looking robots of people like you, with the idea of eventually installing your consciousness in them (!) so you can live forever. Yes, he’s really working on this attempt at immortality.
Each of these billionaires is thinking so big, it may appear insane.
In fact, one of the billionaires said, “If you go to a party and tell your idea to people and they don’t think you’re crazy, then you’re not thinking big enough.”
That’s so important, I want to repeat it –
“If you go to a party and tell your idea to people and they don’t think you’re crazy, then you’re not thinking big enough.”
Besides thinking on a scale most people never entertain, none of the billionaires were pursuing their dreams for the money.
They felt the dream and the pursuit were more important than the money, though they welcome the money to continue the dream and the pursuit.
It reminded me of Walt Disney’s famous quote, “I want to make money from my movies so I can continue making movies.”
All of this got me thinking about my own mission in life.
Am I thinking big enough?
In April I’ll be releasing my new book and new online course, called The Awakened Millionaire.
The book is a manifesto written to set a fire under people to ignite them to go for their dreams, pursue them with passion, and be OK profiting from them, too.
The book is a stir to action subtitled “A Manifesto for the Spiritual Wealth Movement.”
The online course will be through The Awakened Millionaire Academy, and will be a complete how-to on transforming yourself into an Awakened Millionaire.
I’m psyched about all of this, but the documentary made me question how big I was thinking.
The billionaires thought in terms of reaching a billion or more people.
I was thinking in terms of reaching a million.
Obviously, I need to think bigger.
As I brainstormed ideas on how to elevate and expand my dream, I thought of “Zombie Millionaires.”
It would be a great book.
Probably a great movie.
I doubt I’ll do either, but the idea of Zombie Millionaires made me realize that most people pursuing money are like zombies.
They are dead to their dream.
They are sleepwalking through life.
They have stuck beliefs about money.
What if I awakened the zombies of the world with my new book and online course?
I’m kidding around on one level and expanding my mind on another.
I know a fellow making a movie about zombies who learn meditation. It’s his clever way to get people to practice meditation by drawing them in with a story about zombies.
Whatever I do with all this isn’t important.
What you do with it is.
So, are you thinking big enough?
Are you reaching a million people?
A billion?
More?
What would you do if you thought like a billionaire and were devoted to service and making a difference on a grand scale?
What would you do if you were an Awakened Millionaire?
Ao Akua,
PS – If you want to know more about how to become an Awakened Millionaire, please go see http://awakenedmillionaireacademy.com/