Tim Levy: More Energy = More Money

This post was originally published by Tim Levy on TimLevy.net 

Your Infinite Power To Be Rich

I am having an interesting insight this morning as I read a book called ‘Your Infinite Power To Be Rich’ by Joseph Murphy, which is available on Amazon. I ran into this book at someone else’s house actually during a recent trip to New York, staying in an AirBandB.com apartment in Brooklyn. It happened to be on the top of the shelf and I grabbed it while I was taking a moment at one point or another.

It’s one of these books that is about the principles of attraction very similar to books like ‘The Secret’ and movies like ‘The Secret’, and some of my own literature including ‘The Life Summit’. And what I like about it is that it’s written in a very different way because it was written in 1968 and in this particular case it has a much more Christian, religious overlay.

Different Terminology

And my insight this morning is that so much of this is fantastic, powerful and true and that I have different language to express the same thing! It spends a lot of time talking about ‘divine abundance’ and ‘divine surplus’. I would say something similar in a different way.

The Energy Of Money

Here is how I would say this.  It is a fact to me that money is simply a form of energy and there are a variety of forms of energy in the world:

• There is electrical energy which powers the lights;
• There is physical energy or kinetic energy which is what we use to run around;
• There is emotional energy which is how we interact as humans, it’s that energy you get from a great hug or a good conversation which makes you feel all better;
• There is the energy associated with status, a sort of ego’s energy if you will, like the way you feel when you have won an award and you feel terrific.
• And so on ..

And there is obviously the lack of energy which is when you feel bad, you feel low, you lack clarity and you lack abundance and so forth. And I’ve gone into that whole thing in great detail in a book called ‘Creativity and Innovation’.

The Source Of Energy

So if we know that energy is money and we are after more money then clearly we need more energy!

The question is where does that energy come from? 

Well there are different ways of thinking about this. One way of thinking about it is that that energy comes from you.

I am a believer in the idea that energy comes through you as there are simply too many things in my life that can’t really be explained any other way.

• Where does the energy which becomes all of my books come from, the insights and the ideas?  I feel like there is a co-creation going on at the very least.
• Where does the energy come from that becomes art work, and music, and songs, and literature, and new ideas for technology, and business, and leadership and parenting, and everything else.

Where does that energy come from?

I think it comes from God, from Spirit, from the Muse or from non-physical elsewhere. This energy comes through you and into the world. During this process, you can co-create with that energy and your own intention, your own mind, your own vision.

So if energy comes through you and if you want more energy to be expressed (e.g. as money), how do you do that? 

Connecting To The Source

Simply put, energy comes through clear consistent and persistent connection to spirit.

What that means is if I start a day and I just jump in and I let the day run me, in other words I am running someone else’s agenda for me, I am responding to client needs, or parenting needs, or children needs, or whatever is around me that is banging on my door to get my attention, if I just let my day happen in response to that I have the day that happens to me. However, if I stop and sit, and pray or meditate, or do whatever my ritual is to connect to that extraordinary source of infinitely abundant Devine energy, the same energy that grows every blade of grass in my lawn and every tree in the forest, that inexhaustible expression of creativity. That same energy, if I can connect to that, and bring that insight, and that connection, and that energy to my day then surely my day brings more energy than I can just bring on my own. And when that energy comes through me abundance follows as a natural expression. i.e. money is a simple form of energy. The more creative I am, the more insightful I am, the more connected I am, the more money shows.

More Energy, More Money

So that’s how I’d put it. More energy = more money. And more connection = more energy. Therefore, more connection = more money. Simply, right? It’s math.

My financial status, therefore, is a measure of the persistence and consistency of my connection to spirit that allows that infinite energy to come through me and be expressed as things like money.

I appreciate that that is a little long winded, but that is an energetic terminology to explain something that has been explained so many other times. And it’s important because the only periods of lack in my life have been when I have failed to connect to that source. The only times oflack have happened when I have failed to focus on these fundamental truths.

Components of Strategy

Professor Richard P. Rumelt described strategy as a type of problem solving in 2011. He wrote that good strategy has an underlying structure he called a kernel. The kernel has three parts: 1) A diagnosis that defines or explains the nature of the challenge; 2) Aguiding policy for dealing with the challenge; and 3) Coherent actions designed to carry out the guiding policy. President Kennedy illustrated these three elements of strategy in his Cuban Missile Crisis  Address to the Nation of 22 October 1962:

1.    Diagnosis: "This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."

2.    Guiding Policy: "Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country, and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere."

3.    Action Plans: First among seven numbered steps was the following: "To halt this offensive buildup a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back." ^[7]

Rumelt wrote in 2011 that three important aspects of strategy include "premeditation, the anticipation of others' behavior, and the purposeful design of coordinated actions." He described strategy as solving a design problem, with trade-offs among various elements that must be arranged, adjusted and coordinated, rather than a plan or choice.

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Creating a Company That Thrives on Change

Most people would agree that people don't like change. I would disagree, let's face it, babies cry until you change them.  We take vacations because we want and need a change. However, we all know there is a dark side to change, the type we don't like.  In order to turn change into an advantage, it's important to understand how to turn the negative side of change to a positive.

By creating a working culture that understands change and how it can be used, you will create personal, professional and organizational advantage. You can thrive in this world of increasing, dynamic change.

The Dark Side of Change

The type of change we don't like is the change we didn't see coming and it impacts us personally.  When change comes to us from the outside in, it surprises us and we then react to it. That's why so many companies are teaching employees how to become agile, so we can react faster.  What is interesting to note is that most changes are there to see before they impact us. For example, when do people get burglar alarms?  After getting robbed.  Once you learn how to see the change coming before it impacts you, you have time to turn it into an advantage.

Understand The Dynamics of Change

In order to prepare employees for embracing change, you and your company need to understand the types of change, how to see them, and how to influence their impact. To this end, I have divided change into three simple elements, which I find effective in helping both individuals and organizations turn change into advantage.

The first is embodied by the concept of cyclical change. You're in the midst of cyclical change every day: weather cycles, biological cycles, and business cycles. There are over three hundred known cycles that give you a window into the future, and once you look for cyclical change, you will see that cycles are everywhere; you just have to be aware of them.

The second type of change can be viewed as linear change. This is a one-way movement of change versus a repeating cycle. Once this type of change hits, you're never going back to the old way. For example, once you get a smartphone you're never going back to a dumb phone. It's one-way change that provides you with many predictable opportunities as well as consequences.

The third type of change happens when a linear, one-way change is accelerated to an exponential level. Because exponential change is about doubling - two becomes four becomes eight - it starts out slow and then rapidly picks up speed.  Advances in what I refer to as the three digital accelerators: the exponential change in processing power, digital storage and bandwidth, are changing our world on us at an ever increasing, predictable rate.

When you look around and determine what cycles you experience in your business, as well as what linear and exponential changes have been happening, and then look out from there, you can turn these predictable changes into advantages.

Instilling Confidence Through Certainty

It's not enough to use these three types of change to better anticipate the future -- you need to create a work environment that is ready to act upon your forecasts. To get employees at all levels to embrace the changes that will impact them and influence their future, you have to instill confidence by providing certainty.

We live in an uncertain world, but it's certainty that provides the confidence to make bold moves. Certainties can be identified by separating what I call hard trends, trends that will happen, from soft trends, trends that might happen. A hard trend is a projection based on measurable, tangible, and fully predictable facts. A soft trend is a trend that "might" happen and that means you can change or influence a soft trend. Thus, both have the power to shape the future.

For example, saying that Baby Boomers will age is a hard trend -- it will happen; it's a Future Fact. But saying because over the past ten years fewer people have been becoming doctors means there won't be enough doctors to treat aging Baby Boomers is a soft trend -- it's something we can choose to address or ignore; it's a future maybe. Being able to tell the difference between the two will enable your organization to transform its culture into one that profits from change, uncertainty, and burgeoning trends.

With a workforce actively and confidently sorting changes into the three types and then identifying them as hard and soft trends, your team will have the confidence to drive change from the outside in.

To this end, it's also a good practice to let your employees know one more certainty: that their roles will change over the next five years. Tell them, "The people you report to can define what your new role is, but it would be better if you dictated your new role based on hard trends that are shaping your industry. You can either allow yourself to become less relevant or even obsolete, or you can see where your career is going and get the training and tools you need to become increasingly more relevant and thus thrive."

A Workplace Of Change

Finally, realize that how you view the future shapes how you act today. And how you act today shapes your future. Therefore, your Futureview will determine the future you. What is the Futureview of your employees, business partners, and customers? When you manage the Futureview and elevate it based on the hard trends and the certainties that are before you, your employees will actually embrace the changes before them. Remember, the good old days are not behind us. They're ahead of us when we understand how to use change to our advantage.

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Warren Buffett’s Best Advice for 2015

Mind Control - The key to your next promotion?

London (CNN) One of the most successful businessmen of all time, Henry Ford, once said: "Whether you think you can, or think you can't -- you are right."

The implication is that your mind is a powerful tool -- if not the most powerful tool -- in securing your success.

So, how do you begin to leverage that power?

"Goal setting is possibly the most powerful skill a person can have," says Mayne author of "Goal Mapping." "The key is to command your subconscious. It is like your own personal navigation or satellite system."

Research tells us that the subconscious might indeed be a powerful partner.

According to a study by former Stanford cell biologist Lipton, the conscious mind can process roughly 40 bits of data per second, while the subconscious mind can process over 40 million per second.

Goal setting is possibly the most powerful skill a person can have

Studies also show that if you plant a goal in your awareness - your 

subconscious will keep you working towards it - even without you 

being aware that you are doing so.

Essentially, your conscious mind can be compared to the front screen of your computer, while the subconscious is like the internal control program that runs the show, says Mayne.

The trouble of course, is that we generally have no clue what's going on behind the scenes of our consciousness -- let alone how to direct it.

Get out the crayons

One way to start taking charge of your subconscious, says Mayne, is to get out the crayons.

"Typical goal setting involves only words, and words have limited power on the subconscious."

"Drawing up a map of your goal does two things," he says. It engages both the analytical and creative side of the brain -- creating more clarity and more access to the subconscious."

Putting a box of crayons in front of leaders and asking them to draw a picture, may seem a rather bold move.

But, the reviews are impressive.

British Telecom uses goal mapping with new employees and in performance 
reviews.Microsoft's United Kingdom division had their best results ever,
the year they were introduced to goal mapping.

"We got a lot of credit for that," says Mayne, "and they then asked us to duplicate it in an online program, which they have used with 65,000 of their people around the world."

The process, he says, is similar to the use of visualization in sports -- where the technique is well-known and well documented.

But drawing, he says, can be especially helpful to people who have a harder time visualizing.

"Science tells us again and again, that athletes who visualize sinking the putt or getting it in the hoop do a better job," says Frank Niles, Ph.D., social scientist and managing partner of Scholar Executive Group.

"Those moments when you think about an experience and get excited about it -- what happens to your pupils, your skin, your breathing -- that is exactly what visualization does. It primes you to act. You are basically tricking your brain into thinking you are an expert already."

World kickboxing champion Katalin Konya, says mapping out her goal, helped her to win the championship.

"It is hard to explain what it does, but it gives me a feeling of 'yes, I can do it,' and 'yes I can achieve it.' I usually explain it as a bridge between my dreams and my reality."

Konya didn't just draw her way to a kickboxing championship -- just like you probably won't dream your way to a senior VP position.

The steps to success

Effective goal setting involves planning, practice, and action.

"You can visualize the mountain peak, but if you don't know how to get there, you wont get there," says Niles.

"The difference is known as process versus outcome visualization. Break the goal down into small steps, and that basically sums up what science tells us about how visualization works," he says.

And that may be why goal mapping is so effective.

In one study, University of California researchers had a group of students visualize doing well in an exam, and another group visualizing taking the necessary steps to reach the goal.

The results were clear in favor of the group who visualized studying, reading and gaining required skills and knowledge.

They not only did better, but spent longer preparing, focused more attention on the steps needed to reach the goal, and reduced anxiety in the process.

"Goal settting is a science," says Mayne.

"A lot of people think goal setting is something you do once per year, around sports. But we should all be setting goals for ourselves all the time."

Nothing's impossible

Mayne's first goal? Learning how to read at 29.

"I grew up in a traveling family, and never really went to school," he says.

At the age of 30, having just learned to read -- his passion for learning and teaching people how to set goals, took off.

So, whatever your goal, you may want to get out the crayons, and convince your subconscious you've got what it takes.

Because whether you think you can or think you can't -- you may be right.

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