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Secrets of Abundance and Prosperity
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Abundance and Prosperity Are For Those Who Are Prepared

by Daniel N. Brown

Preparedness plus chance equals success. Believing you can
succeed and preparing to succeed go hand in hand. Both are
an extremely vital part of winning in life. In fact, a
person will not even prepare to win if he does not even
believe he can. Otherwise, why would he put in all the
necessary effort it takes to succeed if he really doesn't
believe he ever will? 

Many people want to win in life, but their self-image limits
them on how far they actually can go. Your self image is how
you see yourself, and if you see yourself as a loser you
will not even prepare to win. The fact is, a person will
only prepare to succeed if he really and truly believes 
he can. 

Part of preparation is seeing yourself as a winner. You
cannot attract to yourself anything that is greater than the
way you see yourself. Therefore, if you become, you can
attract. Until you begin to think and act like the person
who has the things you desire you will not attract those
things. 

A common misconception concerning success is that it comes
from luck. How many times have you heard people say
something like, "He was just in the right place at the right
time" to explain away someone else's success? It's a myth,
just like the idea of the overnight success. The chances of
becoming a success due to luck are about as good as
winning the lottery--50 million to 1.

When you succeed, because you prepared to succeed, others
may try to explain it away as luck. How irritated will you be, knowing
how hard you had worked in order to prepare for the success
you enjoy, and someone says you were just lucky?

One must understand that champions aren't made on the day of
the game. That's simply the day the world recognizes all of
the preparation that took place before that day arrived. In
thousands of little ways, these champions disciplined
themselves to do the things that everyone else could've
done, but didn't.

The cheering crowds, television cameras, and reporters
aren't around when champions are made because they're made
in the early morning hours when everyone else is sleeping in
just a little bit longer, and in the late evening hours when
everyone else has given up for the day.  

The will to succeed is obviously important, but what's more
important is the will to prepare. 

Preparing to win is not doing the big things most people
think. It usually isn't the big things that will cause you
to succeed in life anyway, but it's all of the little things
that you can do over and over.

For example, the discipline to plan each day's work the
night before, no matter how tired you are, will have more
to do with your success than any big thing you will do.

Also, little things like hitting mute on the tv during
commercials so you can grab a little reading time. Not
a big thing, but reading is a necessary thing in
preparing to win.