I own stock in several companies; I’ve always considered “long-term” stock ownership to be a great investment.  However, there’s this one company in particular whose stock I recently considered selling.

Right or wrong, I thought to myself, once this company’s stock hits $100 a share, “I’m going to sell!”

And then I thought, “Why do I feel so compelled to sell at $100 a share?”

And then the answer came to me, “I want to sell at $100 a share, because I don’t believe the company is worth more than a $100 a share.”  Right or wrong, good or bad, in my heart, I don’t believe they’re worth more…

And the truth is, I could be selling this investment “short,” but where I “check-out” of the deal is based on my perception of the company’s potential.

Are you listening to me?

Is it possible that you are selling yourself “short” because you are unable to perceive your potential?

A public company’s “stock” is only as valuable as it is perceived to be.  It will rise and fall based solely on perception.  And you to…will rise and fall based solely on perception: how you perceive yourself, and how others perceive you.

How Do You Perceive Yourself?

Just like the belief “that a stock will grow,” will actually cause it to grow (in fact: it’s the only thing that will cause it to grow), the sole thing that will cause you to grow is the belief that you will grow.  The faith, the belief, that better things are around-the-corner is the cornerstone of growth.

Do you really believe that better things are around-the-corner, do you really believe it?  If you do, then you will begin to take the actions that will cause growth.

“The market” rises and falls based on peoples’ perception of it rising and falling.  What fuels a recession is fear of a recession.  What will fuel your personal recession is fear of a personal recession.

Do you fear a personal recession, or are you anticipating a “boom?”

Don’t sell yourself short!

How Do Others Perceive You?

Companies work very hard to ensure that they are properly perceived by the public, because they recognize and understand the power of perception.

Perception is everything!  The perception doesn’t even have to be true; it just has to be perceived as truth.  That alone gives it power!  If you perceive that you’re going to succeed, even if you weren’t going to succeed before you perceived it, now that you can perceive it you’re going to succeed.

And if others perceive that you will succeed, their perception alone will lift you to higher heights.  People will support people who they believe are going to succeed.  Success is birth from support.

Your Thoughts

When you begin to see yourself as a success, when you wake-up to your potential, you will succeed.

You believing that you will succeed, really believing it, will cause you to come up with the ideas to make it happen.

Ideas are the seeds of manifestation, but they have to be shined on with passion, and watered by hard work before they grow up into reality.  But it all starts with how you perceive yourself.  How much do you think you’re worth?  It has to do with your inner thoughts, your inner dialogue, your inner belief, your inner vision; you can’t rise any higher than your internal image.  What you see, is what you get.

Changing Your Perspective

You change your perspective by changing your thoughts.  It’s the only way!  If someone tells you that you can change your life without first changing your thinking, then they are either lying or confused.

There is no change until you change the thoughts that continually occupy your mind.  There is no change until you change your perception; there is no change until you realize your own worth.

What do you see?

What you see is based on the thoughts that you continually hold in your mind.  As you think “thoughts” consistently, those thoughts are “burned” into your conscious, and will determine your actions and outcomes 100 percent of the time.

You have to change your thoughts; you have to change your thinking pattern in order to change your life.  That’s why I’m working on another mini-Audiobook titled, “The 7 Laws of Prosperity.”  I want you to have a tool that you can use to change your thinking when it comes to money.  A tool that you can listen to over-and-over again until you really start to see money differently, then you will begin to act in a way to create more money for yourself.

I want to create a tool for people who’ve struggle in their attempt to have their “perfect body,” because I know that nothing will change until their thoughts change.  I’m going to create a tool that people can listen to until they gain the thoughts of a person who has success in that area.  And I’m going to be honest, I’m going to tell you how “thin healthy” people think, and it’s not the same as someone whose overweight, it’s not.  And if you can accept those new thoughts into your mind, into your heads computer, then you will succeed in that area.

It’s only thoughts that stop you, I said, it’s only thoughts that stop you! “Wrong thinking” causes failure, inaccurate thinking causes failure.  But if you can get “right thinking,” if you can get right thoughts placed in your head over-and-over-again, you will succeed.

My first audiobook was like the operating system of a computer, it was foundational.  The next audiobooks will be tools designed to change certain thinking patterns, because when you change your thoughts you will change your life.  If you can systematically change your thinking, if you can put a good process in place that will reprogram your mind, then just as surely as the sun rises in the east and lays its head to slumber in the west, you will succeed.

In Closing

You have to fight to change your thinking; nothing is more critical.  Labor to gain the thoughts of those who’ve succeeded!  When you have their thoughts, you will have their ways, which will produce their results every time, but you have to first gain their thoughts.

Whose thoughts are you taking-in, are those thoughts telling you that you’re going to make it.

Someone telling you, “That you can make it, and how to make it,” is priceless.  Adopting those words and thoughts will change your life; this is how you succeed…

…When you change your thinking, you will change your life!

[It’s 5:00 am on a Sunday morning and I just finished writing this article: in the dark, in my bed, on my blackberry phone.  The inspiration and the words just poured out of me.  I know it was meant to help someone; even now it feels like I want to say more, but I'll stop here, and I'll see you at the top!]

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