Yes, You Were Born to Millionaire Money -
The Trick is
Letting it Out
A Review of Bob Proctor's You Were Born Rich."
Bob
Proctor's "You Were Born Rich"
isn't like T.
Harv Eker's
or any other of the modern genre of millionaire books. Because it's
thoroughly rooted in the classics - which have been making millionaires
and billionaires before any of us were born.
Proctor
was handed a copy of Napoleon Hill's Think and
Grow
Rich when he was an under-educated young man - and took it to
heart to
make his own millions with an international business. He kept studying
this book over and over, then went to work for Earl Nightingale
to
really learn the ropes. After over a decade at Nightingale-Conant, Bob
struck out on his own and has continued his multi-millions work -
helping others to find their own wealth and abundance.
The word "finding" is key - as he maintains like others that this is simply a native state.
His book doesn't take off with heart-pounding prose, but builds carefully and logically as he goes. And while he's at it, he drops some real jewels of philosophic understanding which tell you exactly how deep his roots go.
Proctor chases any problem you may be having with money back
to your own concepts about it. He posits:
- But money is also a servant - you get it to work for you; you don't work for money. It's an effect.
- Money has to circulate. Unless it's invested and put to work, it does nothing for anyone.
The point is to develop your native Prosperity Consciousness, banishing all fear:
"We are floating in an 'ocean' of thought-energy, where all the knowledge there ever was or ever will be, is present. We are also surrounded by abundance. Indeed, everywhere we look in nature, our eyes come in contact with abundance; for nature knows no such thing as 'failure.' Therefore, there never has been, and there never will be, a lack of anything, except conscious-awareness. But if you are going to begin to penetrate this world of wealth, it is absolutely essential that you begin to think. In other words, you must open your mind to the stream of thought-energy which will create an image, or a consciousness of prosperity, in your mind.
"It is imperative that you begin this new way of thinking at this moment, because as you do, every fiber of your being will become filled with this new thought-energy. Your body is comprised of millions upon millions of cells and each one of them is influenced in its movement by thought impulses. So the second you begin entertaining relaxing thoughts, your body becomes relaxed. The instant you begin entertaining worrisome, fearful thoughts, your body becomes rigid and tense. As you begin to hold thoughts of prosperity and begin thinking of yourself as a very wealthy, prosperous individual who is surrounded by an ocean of thought energy, swimming in a sea of plenty, your body and mind will instantly move into a prosperous vibration and you will begin to attract - just like a magnet - everything necessary for you to become wealthy."
Now as you continue on with Proctor, you'll see not only Hill and Nightingale, but also Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Thomas Troward, and a host of other well-studied and best-selling classic self-help authors. Bob didn't start out on his seminar-crammed life without thorough study and immersion into these.
As with Eker and all the authors he personifies, he says that it is entirely possible:
"However, the majority of people have not been born into that kind of an environment and so they were not surrounded by that type of thinking. We must, therefore, develop an understanding of:
1.
how we have been conditioned,
2. why we are getting the results we are
getting, and
3. how we can change our way of thinking
or our conditioning.
"That is not an easy thing to do. It takes much discipline. It takes a tremendous desire. It takes a lot of diligent effort, which is the probable reason so few people ever actually change. Yet I want you to know that regardless of how difficult it may be, it can be done and it can be done in a relatively short period of time. The compensation you will receive for your effort will delight you. I know because I have done it and I know many, many other people who have done the same thing. Now it is necessary for you to do it."
And he also holds there to be three planes of existence which effect this - much as Huna and Eastern philosophies hold:
"To understand this abstraction better, you must keep in mind that you are living simultaneously on three distinct planes of existence.
1) The Spiritual Plane of
Thoughts (Highest Potential)
2) The Intellectual Plane of Ideas (Middle Potential)
3) The Physical Plane of Results (Lowest Potential)."
The point here is to simply drop the belief that you are working in the physical, or even the mental. Just work from the spiritual first and foremost - your thoughts and actions will be guided from intuitive understanding from that source. The more you let go, the more you can achieve whatever it is that you are looking for. "Man plans, and God laughs." So let yourself in on the joke...
Proctor's approach is through Image-making and risk-taking. Of course, you pay off all your debts, and invest wisely. The key point to both of these actions is in your own personal faith. First, faith in yourself and your goal. Then extend this to others around you.
It has to do with your own mental image which you create, as we covered above. It is just that same "We become what we think about," which was the Strangest Secret that brought Earl Nightingale his springboard to fame.
He also covers that it's up to our own harmony with the ideas we wish to bring into our lives.
"Although it is true that everything you will ever want is already here, it is up to you to get into harmony with it. Clearly, you will never get into harmony with prosperity, if you insist upon holding images of lack and limitation in the storehouse of your marvelous mind. Since you are always magnetized toward something, it follows it can never be anyone else's fault, when something comes into your life you supposedly do not want. Understand you have ordered it and it is being delivered to you, right on schedule!
"You will never obtain any substantial measure of material wealth if you insist upon living your life as if you were looking back through the rearview mirror of your automobile. Nevertheless, this seems to be a very common error which many people have turned into a pernicious habit. That is to say, many of us spend most of our present moments, "floundering mentally," in the time zone of the dead and should-be-forgotten past.
"Your problem - whether you realize it or not - is that you haven't created the space for the beautiful image which you are trying to create. Therefore, you must resolve yourself to let go of all of these obstructions, to enable you to make a space for the good you desire."
If there is a last point, it is again borrowed from Hill: Persistance (see chapter 9 of "Think and Grow Rich".)
Proctor is a rare bird - and certainly over due for the fame which "The Secret DVD" brought him.
In a later article, I hope to bring you a combined series of steps from his and Eker's books, as well as those classics they've both studied. A recipe from the secret of millionaire minds - that anyone can follow if they only choose that Burning Desire.
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