Wow, the last few days have just been amazing. Over the last two years I have learnt so much and I want to share it all with you. The problem is I want to share it all with you now and when I try to get it out I just freeze because I don’t know where to start. But three important things I have learnt are; 1. Be open to what the Universe is showing you or opening up for you; 2. Watch what is happening around you and with wonder and intrigue and learn from it. 3. Go with your instinct, do not question it.
I then went to my Audible account – this is where I purchase and download all the books I listen to. I searched Florence Scovel Shnn, and guess what? A lot of her books were on special and I had 3 credits available 🙂 (thank you Universe). So I purchased 3 of her books.
This morning I had to go to Melbourne so decided to download the books I had purchased. I worked out what one I wanted to listen to first and planned my trip. Hopped in the car, connected my phone so I could listen, opened the program and pressed play. It turned out that what I had wanted to play and what I had started were different. Instead of getting upset or stopping the book, I let the Universe provide and listened to it anyway 🙂
The book I was listening to was The Secret Door to Success, which turned out pretty appropriate considering my posts of the last few days, once again the Universe providing for me. I have really resonated with this book, it only went for 2 hours but I got so much out of it. So much so that I want to share the book with you over the next few blogs.
In the first chapter, it talks about the secret door to success and how we are all searching for it (sound familiar?) How we always ask successful people what their secret is but never ask an unsuccessful person. It says that there is success for every person, but it seems that for most people that success is behind a door or a wall, a bit like the wall of Jericho in the bible.
Behind that door or wall is your city of great treasures, your divinely designed success, your heart’s desire. You can choose to leave the door or wall there and never achieve success or you can knock that door or wall down. But we need to establish what it is made of, often it is made of resentment – resenting someone, or a situation. If you resent someone else for being successful then you are blocking your success. For people who’s wall was built of resentment Florence would get them to say – What God has done for others, He now does for me and more.
For people who’s door or wall was build of lack she would get them to say – The walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and I enter my Promised Land, under grace.
Florence teaches that when you make an affirmation of Truth, your wall of Jericho totters. It is the word of realisation which brings about a change in your affairs for words and thoughts are a form of radioactivity (the Law of Attraction). She tells you to take an interest in your work, enjoy what you are doing so that the secret door to success opens. To make what you are doing interesting to other people and to be interested in it yourself so that others will find you interesting and to smile, all of these will open the secret door to success.
How many of you sit around and talk to your friends about EVERYTHING that has gone wrong, living in the past and complaining about your misfortunes? I think we all do. But according to Florence talking too much about your affairs, scattering your forces, brings you up against a high wall. You need to stop it now, stop talking about all the bad things, let them go.
Many people are up against the wall of discouragement. Courage and endurance are part of the secret to success. In Napoleon Hills Book – Think and Grow Rich: The Original 1937 Unedited Edition
Florence states – the road to success is a straight and narrow path; it is a road of loving absorption, of undivided attention. You attract the things you give a great deal of thought to. So if you give a great deal of thought to lack, you attract lack, if you give a great deal of thought to injustice, you attract more injustice.
Her affirmation for this is – The walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and I enter my Promised Land, under grace.
I am amazed that this was written about in the early 1900’s and yet, 114 years later we are still teaching ourselves this. We need to work on ourselves and then spread the word. Teach your children, brothers and sisters, parents, grandchildren, friends, anyone who will listen, that they can ALL be successful if we only thought positive thoughts, loved what we were doing and smiled 🙂
