If we are to achieve prosperity-bliss-consciousness, we can’t be focused on our weaknesses. We have to be focused on the best of everything all the time. And that comes to down to the old saying coined by Earl Nightingale, “We are what we think about all day.”

But even before that, we need be aware of what we’re hoisting to our face and passing through our lips on a daily basis. Nutrition is primary. You are what you eat is primary. There’s no way around it. The wealth and health equations can no longer be discussed as mutually exclusive topics and no longer divorced from each other. If you’re trying to focus on the best of everything all day but you feel like crap…..it’s kinda like pressing the brake and gas pedals at the same time.

At any rate, the action of giving and receiving is magic. It’s so obvious and so profound and mysterious. When there’s an exchange of love, there is a particle exchanged. Love is the fundamental energy that holds us all together.

I agree that action are more fruitful when they’re aligned with our mission or our purpose in life. It also helps if they’re in line with our strengths, gifts and talents. Working outside of those saps our energy, while working within them brings us energy.

“It’s later than you think.”

~Melanie

A good example of taking action in the wrong way is when I went to college. I was like most people, thinking that the bachelor’s degree would give me the “necessary qualifications” and more marketable in the job market. Maybe that’s true. But it’s a bad first reason for going to college.

The frequently cited statistic of bachelor degree holders making more money is a correlational relationship, not causal. It all comes down to giving. What value do you add to your employer? A bachelor’s degree in and of itself has little, if any value to an employer — only the value you bring to the company is really important. Attending a university, I was required to take a lot of classes that did not interest me. So in essence, I was trading money and time for a degree in some classes. By the the last couple of years of college, I was realizing that what I was becoming was much more important than what I was going to receive (a degree), and so I did my best in all of my classes to make even the most irrelevant subject somewhat relevant to me, and thereby made the classes much more fulfilling.

About a year ago, when I first started to study The Science of Getting Rich (upon the recommendation of Bob Burg , I thought of action as another neurosis. Just as the word “diet” is a neurosis in this country, the word “action” had similar mental baggage attached to it. Increasingly, I am finding that action is one of the most enjoyable parts of the manifestation process. It’s like one of those Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks. After the reader makes a choice, the plot branches out and unfolds, leading to more decisions and eventually multiple possible endings.

“If you decide to start back home, turn to page 4.
If you decide to wait, turn to page 5.”

That’s the fun of it. I’m just creating the story as I go, so that it’s much more entertaining. And am following Wallace Wattles’s advice: starting small, thinking big, and having fun. And I am beginning to realize that the mystery and surprise of the journey is more important and real to me than the destination.