“The Middle of the road is where the line is, and that’s the worst place to drive.”
~Robert Frost

There are many situations in life where the life-skill of ASKING for WHAT You Want can make a big difference in our lives as well as in the world.

Here’s just a few…

• Asking for a raise
• Saying “no” to requests (there’s no power to yes, if you can’t say no)
• Requesting help with a task
• Requesting more information
• Requesting a billing adjustment
• FIRING a client
• Creating a Joint Venture
• Asking someone to participate in something you believe in
• Setting boundaries with children, a spouse, colleague, patrner, date, friend, employee, or employer, etc.
• Asking for Spirit’s assistance

The question is… do you know what you want? Do you remember?
Are you out there asking for exactly that?

Most of us don’t. We have been conditioned in lack and limitation and may have picked up the idea that other people’s opinions are more important than our own. We may also be holding the idea that it’s safer not to ask for what we really want so we can live-on with the hope that we’d get a “yes” someday rather than risk the “no” now which could dash our hope.

That’s called fear of rejection. And here’s the cure…

In service to getting what you want in life… and I really do mean everything… I encourage you to create, review, or update your ideal scene.

What’s an ideal scene?

Consider it a self-directed script for how you’d like your life to turn out.

It’s a collection of I-am statements that outline what you are up-to in your ideal life. Each statement is a positive assertion of your intention. Together they are a way of letting the Universe, God, or Spirit know where you are intending to move and are a powerful way of supporting ourselves in becoming more conscious Co-creators in our lives.

Here are a few examples of statements from past ideal scenes of my own that have worked for me:

“I am trusting in the divine unfolding of my purpose.”
“I am happily receiving $24,000 a week.”
“I am a fit and trim 170 lbs.”
“I am consciously aware of other-people’s point of view, and tune in without judgment.”
“I am enthusiastically creating a world of living masterpieces.”

Don’t let another minute go by that you are not consciously connected to what you want.

“Your own resolution to success is more improtant than any other one thing.”
~Abraham Lincoln

Let’s go out and ask for it.

Once you’ve connected with your heart-centered intentions don’t wait around letting them get stale or weak with self doubt… just stand up, make that call, open your mouth, and just ask.

When we move quickly into asking for what we want it keeps it light and leaves our requests free of all that baggage, weight, and strain that all the fears of rejection and unworthiness add to it.

“I am not bound to win, but
I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed, but
I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

~Abraham Lincoln

Just ask for what you want and drop all the over-responsibility for how it turns out.

DO IT NOW… EVERYONE, please consider what you are looking for today… and ASK for it right now! Ask for the perfect job. Ask for the referral. Ask for the funding. Ask for the solution. Don’t miss out on the connections you already have to get you moving in a bold new way.

“Oh Lord, thou givest everything, at the price of an effort.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

Love and Light,

With Delight,

~Justin

*Photo Courtesy of: nuttakit / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Only our stories get in the way of that feeling. Only our words. Stories are told with words, and words have chemistry in them. If my story today is that I am just “trying to make a living,” my whole brain and body chemistry become low and frustrated. But what if I change the words and instead of trying to make a living I am “creating a life”? New chemistry. Newer, better feelings. Better conversations with people. Excitement. A better life through chemistry.

A flower doesn’t have a story about what it is. It just grows and expresses itself. So, when I look at the story of you, I know how hard it’s been for you to maintain it. I am very mindful of that. I feel it along with you because I’ve put such a burden on my heart maintaining my own story!

From now on, let’s just grow. You and me.

Steve Chandler

Find more from Steve at www.ClubFearless.com

Mind 4 Money ~ LIVE:

The 4 Pillars of Financial Peace

“40 Minutes to a More SOLID Future”

RSVP now!

It could happen to any one of us… perhaps even today.

The Great Depression has come and gone and yet you may come home after a long day and turn on the television or catch wind of a few stories on the radio and find the financial depression very-much alive in today’s economy. You may know a few people who are looking for a job and have been looking for months with barely even a bite. You might even be experiencing the strains of recessive times yourself and look around and find economic instability virtually everywhere.

You may be asking yourself, “when’s this all going to turn around?” or “why are so many people I care about dealing with such tough economic issues…why?” You may even wonder, “Why are all these things happening to me? Why here? Why now? What am I doing wrong?” There is a very real and palatable potential for any of us in such times to lean on dismay, frustration, anger, despair, hopelessness, and even depression.

And you might also be one who paints with a pallet of questions of entirely different color…

Questions Like:

• How can I turn this around for myself and for others?
• How can I respond more positively to what I see in the world today?
• What parts of me are being called into higher service in the world today?
• How can my life stand as an inspiration so that I can make a meaningful difference in today’s world?

Through questions like these, you may begin to shift from seeing today’s world as a plague of “tough economic times” and instead, start seeing a world blooming with opportunities. When you can lift this issue to a level of choice and choose to make this shift to a new, more peaceful and creative pallet of inquiry, you literally become the change you would like to see in the world.

“But how” you ask? “How can I learn to live this way now and in a more consistent way?”

Enter Justin Rohner and the personally, as well as globally, trans-formative technology within Mind 4 Money.

Justin Rohner is a modern pioneer in the emerging field of sustainability and self-reliance. As an experienced entrepreneur, Dynamite Life Coach, and founding member of Astonishing Families International (AFI), he has developed, and continues to facilitate the extraordinary financial education found in the Mind 4 Money program.

Your Questions Answered

The format of the evening will be an engaging and interactive introduction to AFI’s extra-ordinary, soul-centered approach to financial education and include a complete sharing of:

• The 4 Pillars to Financial Peace
  1. Response: Producing a Personal Response to Your Current Circumstances
  2. Reality: Checking in with REALITY, gracefully
  3. Relationships: The Function of Priorities to Improve Relationships in tough times
  4. Revenue: Living the Golden Rule of Income Improvement

The evening also includes opportunities for:

LEARNING how the Mind 4 Money curriculum assists people in transforming their financial situation in a soul-centered, quick, and uplifting way.

EXPLORING key distinctions that will guide you to financial peace immediately

EXPERIENCING a dynamic tour of AFI’s Mind 4 Money Mastery Program.

MEETING Justin Rohner, President and chief facilitator of the AFI educational programs, and some of the founding faculty of the new Mind 4 Money education.

RECEIVING answers to your important questions about thriving in today’s economy and applying for the mastery program.

RSVP online as soon as possible.

Space is limited and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Post this invitation on all your social media networks! Local demands will define where we turn up next!

To RSVP, register by clicking HERE

The event is complimentary and open to Mind4Money grads, current students, friends, family, and colleagues.

All are Welcome!

Mature Junior attendees (ages 6-18) are also welcome

Prosperity - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Based on the success of our last few groups, I am starting a NEW Business Builders Intensive in the New-Year.

“Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water…”

“Your Time Has Come to SHINE!” ~ Simon and Garfunkle

We Will begin January 7th and 8th, 2011

FROM PREVIOUS INTENSIVES……………..

“I’ve experienced Justin Rohner’s intensives and their effectiveness is amazing. If you are SERIOUS about creating and producing your own prosperity, in a rapid and intense way, then you will make this commitment to accountability that Justin provides.

This group is not for people who want to sit by and watch which way the world turns, this is for people who are committed to producing and creating their own success in the fastest way possible.”

Steve Chandler
Author of FEARLESS: Creating the Courage to Change the Things You Can.
www.SteveChandler.com

Justin Rohner is a force to be reckoned with. He is a genuine, gifted, and giving teacher and his Business Prosperity Course is a guaranteed launching pad for personal and professional growth and prosperity.  The course’s collaborative and supportive setup was highly beneficial and ensured accountability and repeated revisits to everyone’s goals. This course set in motion significant and defining changes in my life and facilitated my personal and professional development.

I highly recommend Justin Rohner’s course to anyone looking to catapult their business life and to anyone searching for ways to bring the most of themselves into everyday life.

Maja Arnadottir
Life Designer
www.MajaDesignStudio.com

“Obtaining Justin’s service is like finally having a key to your own treasure chest. Once your treasure is unlocked, the cost of the key is trivial. The value of the key is priceless. Through Justin’s 6 month program (Practice Builders), I have been able to shift my confidence (and therefore business) to levels that I thought would take years to get to, but instead happened in weeks.”
Mauri Sutton
www.WorkplaceAstonishment.com
www.HisAndHersCoaching.com

If you really want to make FAST shifts in your business/life, then this could be the answer to your prayers.

Justin Rohner is like a stick of dynamite to complacency and self doubt. You will walk away from your Rohner experience with a radical shift in “being”.

Once you come down to earth, you will have some very bold actions to put into place. He is NOT just another Coaching school graduate. He lives as a coach.

Some guys have to “get focused” to have explosive and creative energy… however, with this guy charisma and explosive energy is his natural state.

Stephen McGhee
Author: Learning to Believe the Unbelievable: Living Life as a Miracle Leader
www.McGheeLeadership.com

On January 7th and 8th, 2011 at a hotel in Phoenix and again on June 25th at the same place, we will meet to engage in an active shift in our business success.

Only Twelve people will be selected to join me at this retreat where the focus will be on at least doubling one’s income.

“When we expand the mind to the concept of doubling, fresh ideas for breakthroughs emerge, because they have to.” ~Steve Chandler (100 Ways to Create Wealth)

I will be sharing exclusively and completely the tried and tested marketing techniques that are really working in this New Economy – 12 refreshing SKILLS to grow your business in an authentic and fulfilling way.

And there will be a few healthy surprises.

Each week following the initial retreat we will report back and reconnect. Each member will have access to me, one on one, each month as well as unlimited e-coaching for the entire six months as well as some one on one time each month that we will use to get in and make things happen for you and your company.

The Fee for the Intensive is $6,500. A deposit of $3,000 secures your seat and the rest can be paid in full prior to the start of our 6 months together.

Then, on June 25th we will all meet again to celebrate our successes, “reset our ZERO” and work as a collective mind wherever necessary to align whoever might not be at the doubling level yet.

~ To apply for this intensive, click HERE

Because I am limiting this to just twelve people, please move quickly to secure your place at the table.

Are You Ready to THRIVE in the NEW ECONOMY?

I look forward to hearing from you.

With Courage,

Today, Steve opens the invitation to YOU…

People want their lives to be different. People want success instead of failure. But then people begin sentences with “I don’t know how to….” and right then they are down the rabbit hole. They have become victims. The primary thought of a victim is “I don’t know how to.” And it’s always a lie.

People tell me, “I want to be a coach, but I don’t know how to….” whatever. And why would I want to help a liar like that? My whole book about the 17 lies was about that whole approach to life. So false and self-deceiving. (I only know it because I did it myself……..but only for 50 years.)

If you want to be a coach, coach. If you want to be a singer, sing. If you want to be a writer, write. If you want some money go ASK for it and then serve someone. Notice the common thread here…and I repeat this quote again by Aristotle,

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it. People come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just. By doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled, and by doing brave acts we become brave.”

~Aristotle

Want to make the shift?

Join the club…

In my foot race to the base of the mountain I passed close to 100 hikers, many of which I had seen at the top but still more were on their storied journey to the top. Along my path, there were those that were inspired by my trek, and those that resented.

Here’s a question for you…if someone sprinted ahead of you in your life on a path you were traveling, would you find yourself resenting them or would you find yourself inspired?

This was a question that crossed my mind about the same moment a woman, resting for a moment at the side of the trail on her accent to the top yelled out:

“People that run like you should be tripped!”

In Australia, UK, and New Zealand they might call this the “Tall Poppy Syndrome,” which alludes to an ancient Roman practice by the tyrannical ruler, Sextus Tarquinius, who killed all the prominent people in the city Gabii shortly after appointing himself king.

In the US people often call this the “Crab Mentality” where those who are wanting to rise above the collective vat of crabs is continually pulled back down by the surrounding crowds all clambering to the top.

In essence, the two stories tell of a societal phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are criticized or resented because their talents or achievements elevate them “above” or distinguish them from their peers.

I was raised on the belief that this was a social norm and many times in my life I held back my best effort for exactly this reason.

But today, I lay the myth to rest. Only ONE of the near 100 people I passed spoke out in open resentment. Many cheered me on. Some jogged with me for a time and I was thoroughly inspired by someone brave enough to “let er-rip” and show me what SUCCESS BEYOND APPROVAL SEEKING is all about.

So, when a Stephen McGhee, or anyone, sprints ahead of me on the trail of success… J I am choosing to be inspired! I will continue to choose and follow a different, more effective credo voiced by Benjamin Franklin Fairless, president of United States Steel Corporation (1950), who stated:

“You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.”^[2]

Be MOVED today and JOIN the FAMILY OF GIANTS…

And you too… will inspire many.

~ Take the Next Step ~

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Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

After an inspiring invitation from my friend and Super-Coach, Stephen McGhee some months ago to scale one of the highest mountains in the world in South America, I settled for something a bit closer to home… This last spring, I and two of my clients decided to hike to the peak of the tallest mountain in Arizona (12,633ft.,on Mount Humphrey).  It took us nearly 4 hours to reach the summit that Saturday. With all the signs and sounds of pain and exhaustion on the pathway to the peak, one would have expected to find an infirmary at the top. But, at the summit, we found a celebration.

The sore songs of the trail were silenced by sweet sounds of triumph, trophy, and breathtaking awe at the limitless view that surrounded us at every turn. While at the top, many stories were shared of the assent, good times, tough times, and little-known trail secrets. Some shared that they had made it to the peak in 3 hours, others 2.5, and then a man wearing little more than a loincloth, muscle shirt, and running shoes clamored to the top.

“How long did it take you?” I asked. He quickly glanced at his watch.

“a buck 16.” (in layman’s terms that’s an hour and 16 minutes)

WOW! I thought, he was twice as fast as ANYONE I knew!  “What’s your best time?”

“a buck 16,” he replied. “And this is my third time.”

In less than 3 minutes he turned around and bounded back down the mountain.

I was thoroughly INSPIRED by this man. My mind raced to see how this was even possible! 4,300 ft increase in elevation from the nearest parking lot at a distance of more than 5.5miles… lots of rocks and roots, loose gravel, and nothing but crumbled lava fields in the tundra above 11,000 feet. It would take a quick eye and even quicker feet because with that kind of terrain, at those speeds you can’t just run on the path, you have to spring from every rock and root as everything else is too loose to hold you.

I let the inspiration MOVE me…

And I made it down in a buck 9. (one hour nine minutes) THRILLING!

My nearest client didn’t hit the bottom for another two hours after I reached the base.

I have found, time and time again, that the moment inspiration strikes, that is the time to make a move.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Begin it now.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Faust, 1808)

quoted by W. H. Murray

(on his Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951)

Thinking back… it was a very dangerous thing I choose to do that afternoon atop the summit of  the my “little” Mount Humphrey. But, not only did I survive the descent… I soared! Nearly ever quickened step found solid root or rock, and for every one that didn’t, something else was there (a tree, or mound of dirt) to help me keep a strong and steady flow down the mountain.

So, step 1: Trust the process of creation and be moved by what inspires you.

By Justin Rohner

“A man there was, they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had.”

~John Bunyan

It’s so simple… we often miss it. There is a direct relationship between how we spend and how we earn. Although, it’s not a matter of quantity; it’s a matter of quality.

In my recent study of the generational effects of money, I found that those families with wealth that grew from one generation to the next had a distinct habit of being gracious and appreciative toward people and companies when they spent money. They were effectively “sold” not only on what they bought, but also on those who made the product or service available to them.

On the flip-side, those families whose wealth was on the decline and were effectively living a poverty process, had a distinct sense of annoyance surrounding similar expenses.

As my friend and best-selling author Steve Chandler has said, “If you have a tendency to think in terms of scarcity, you’ll shut down the inflow of wealth by choking off the outflow.”

So, you don’t need to start spending more, just don’t be stingy with your thank-you’s. Being stingy not only threatens your financial future, it degrades your value and your ability to earn.

The Golden Rule to Income Improvement is this…

Give as You Would Like to be Given

If you want to see how quickly this can influence your income, try this: before you go to that next big interview, contract negotiation, or income opportunity, treat yourself to lunch. Be sure to tip your waiter/waitress in advance and share with them how much you appreciate the work they do to improve your dining experience. As you dine, be on the look-out for the unique value they provide you. Acknowledge them for the good they do as they do it. And, if they spill your glass of water or break a dish, keep it light, think taller, lift your mind to gratitude still that they continue to put THEIR dishes in harms way to serve you.

Do this, and your interview presence will improve, your ability to land the new contract will be enhanced, and your ability to select a worthy income opportunity will be greatly refined.

As we move forward acknowledging the value and service others provide us each time we spend, the inner light that shines on our value brightens. We will stand a little taller. We will be a little better at what we do best. We will be more solid and confident in our own value. And in the face of challenge or opportunity, we will see more clearly the difference we ourselves can make.

Try living it for yourself.

The worst that could happen is a stronger, more grateful you.

For more FREE samples of Justin’s work on Income Improvement and Career Astonishment go to: www.MyMind4Money.com