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[Juanita Waterman Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

In Network Marketing some have said we must be Positive and think Abundantly.
What has been your experence? Has it REALLY worked.
Or is it just Fluff and hype to keep people from quitting? What are your thoughts?

[willie robertson Contribution Level: 4]

I would think you'd have to have some sort of positive outlook it you expect things to get better and you should beleve in abundance, else you'd wouldn't know it when it did show up at your door step or you'd shun it.

Any and everything that I have accomplished up to this point in my life was, I believe, due to me having a positive attitude and a belief in abundance.

I believe we in the home business opportunity arena have gone to an extreme and over hyped the two terms considerably now days.

[Juanita Waterman Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

You really said that better then I did. You are right I really hate it when someone use to tell someone they were not positive enough. But it has been my experience people who have been negative for 25 years can not try being positive for 2 months and then say it don't work. LOL If you have been negative and coming from Lack it is going to take some time to have it work for you. Thanks for your input

[Adam Taha Contribution Level: 8]

In Network Marketing some have said we must be Positive and think Abundantly.
What has been your experence? Has it REALLY worked.
Or is it just Fluff and hype to keep people from quitting? What are your thoughts?

Being grateful isn't fluff. People don't know what they got. I use to walk from when the sun was about to rise, with a long bar wood, sometimes steel, with two tins of steel on each side. I'd walk to the well that was very far away.

I'd be back home and the sun was already setting.

When it was food, I would stand under the heat of the blazing sun. I'd sing and tourist would give me money. I'd make bikes, toys out of coca cola cans and all sorts of junk and my hands would get cut. But I made the money to feed me and family, grandma and neighbours too.

I was 9 years old.

So, when I am in UK, well, now Paris, but when I turn tap on, water flows, I stare and wonder if I'm still dreaming or if this is real. For my wife to walk by to put kettle on and then I know it's real.

No kidding, I was walking the other day, it started to pour and people were moaning about how their hair is getting messy because it's raining.

How it rains all time.

And I'm like, "I wish you knew, how far I had to walk for water. How long I prayed on my knees for water. How long I'd stand when the whole land was dry. Wish they had just one week of that life I lived, then they'd never say these words again."

But then I realise, that's how it is for some. They live in a different world I use to live and can't fault them. They don't get it and most will never get it. They think being positive is thinking how good life is. It's not.

It's about being grateful for what one has. Fore how can a person ever attain MORE if they are ungrateful for what they already received? How? Not a chance and that's where the problem for many people today is.

Most will never get it.

So being positive, loving the abundance of life AND doing the work too, is not fluff. It's gratitude, for each day one has been given.

Each day, for one to amend their mistakes. Another day, for one to uphold a promise they didn't yesterday. One more day, to find that someone and say sorry. One more day, to push oneself to make a dream come true.

One more day to hold their mother. One more day to go and forgive their father. One more day to make someone smile and feel important.

One more day will be on the lips of every man or woman, when death comes. For they will ask..

"Just give me one more day. It's not my time. I haven't done what I really wanted."

Then, a day with all it's seemingly problems would be like an ocean of treasure.

So no. It's not fluff. It's wisdom for the wise.

Adam Taha

[Juanita Waterman Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

Your experience makes me think of why I do what I do. I love that you did what you did for your family as a child that was huge.
But when experiences like that keep us from thinking Big because we get comfortable with where we are because it is better then were we were.
for example I grew up in a violent home and I thought if I could just save my kids from that they would be ok.
Long story short you got to give kids more then just a home were no one hits each other..
I learned that the hard way I was just so grateful for not being beaten and my children being safe and having food that I did not know to ask for more or that I was even capable of getting more or doing more.
I did not know there was more for me. So I did not grow for 47 years. I was stuck. Then one day I meet people like you who Do more, Be more, and Give more and their past did not hold them back. Stories like yours gave me hope I could do it too. And the only way they got there was through Personal Development. Work harder on yourself then anything else and you will grow. See yourself now as if you have already Succeeded in every thing you want. Took me 47 years to start to see that vision and I will never look back. I am grateful and I am empowered and I use my power to bless myself and Beyond. Thanks for sharing your Story Adam

[Adam Taha Contribution Level: 8]

Thanks and my pleasure.

Yes, ones own challenges can affect ones own thinking and it does take time to unplug and be ready to recieve.

I've never really thought of not asking for more or give more. The reason being is what I saw as a kid and still do - except these trees today don't shed same thing.

It's a story I use to share.

There was a tree outside our clay house. I'd sit under it everyday. Through the seasons, it would grow it's leaves, then shed them. It do so every year and it would drop ripen dates. So, if a tree itself is showing me and saying to me through every year, there's more - why would I think I can't ask for more?

It was there, talking to me but not in words but in a way for all to reflect on. The tree has been there longer than most human beings - and yet it still gives even today. I go back now, years later, it be there and my uncle said it is still there but bigger now, and giving much more.

Every year, it would rain, and it kept doing so every year and I saw this in our country as a kid. So why wouldn't I think there's not enough.

The ONLY time, I ever saw things about 'less' or 'running out' is when I came to the western world. Newspapers talk about less, running out, and about money not being enough. Politicians weak leaders, don't lead but try and scare people and create mischief. Businesses use the scarecity part, of less, of not going to be around if you don't act now.

It was like I've been observer, seeing all this and seeing people fall for these things.

So when I hear there's less, something running out, I know it's not so. And I just think about the tree, when it kept giving me dates every year, and when it rained once every year.

Even when there was no food, food came in the end. Even when there was no water, water came in the end. Even when there was no money, money came in the end. Always these things would show up.

That is why, much of what I have, was not done by hard labour, but rather thinking first. Car was given from someone I don't know. It just came. Laptops, four of them came from someone I only met once. Opportunities came, from people I don't know. Many things came...

But they all were born first, and imagined it first in my mind. The with 100% belief, no worry of what I didn't have or need - I put action in. Either it comes today or it comes later, it is ok. I'm patiant, I'm just an observer of life, travelling through and it's there but I just need to just go and meet it and not just wait for it.

And so wealth, success, talent, skill, knowledge, influence, power didn't come straight away for me.

Some took a year, some took 10 years, some took a week after thinking about it, some took even less but in the end....they came. And that's due to that Tree someone planted, or God planted, to tell me...

"All you need, is in the imagination of man and woman. The gold mines yet to be discovered, minerals yet to be received, opportunities yet to come, people yet to meet, pleasures, riches, and wealth - yet to be born. Just be ready in thought and action and they are yours"

So nothing is going to run out as many think it is. Fore if it does, how then can our imagination still dream big, still can expand more than any machine in thought?

Because I protected my mind, and have no newspapers, no TV, very careful to guard the eyes, ears, tongue. If there was less, how come we still speaking, words still flowing, every second, everyday, throughout our lives.

Is this not then wisdom for the wise, to think that there is no end to abundance?

Adam Taha

[Juanita Waterman Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

This post has some very Valueable lessons in it. I love learning about Positive thinking and Abundance thanks for Blessing me with your Replies! Love J

[Roger Aburto Company: Talk Fusion Global Contribution Level: 4]

Hi all of you! Roger here!

If thinking positive and abundantly were enough...the samurai would have defeated the Japanese army that fight them(the samurai)with their best weaponry available at that time.The best warriors in Asia were erased...even though they were the best kind of warriors...skillful and mentally disciplined to a perfection.

If thinking positive and abundantly were enough the Dalai Lama and the army of monks in the Tibet...by this time would have defeated the Chinese oppression...even though the monks spend all day praying and using their mental powers with high intensity and discipline...they simple can not break free just doing that...

Well... in business...let's say is similar...thinking positively and abundantly is VERY GOOD...yes it is GREAT...but simple it is not enough...you will need a plan...and not any plan...you need a GREAT PLAN and a excellent strategy to get through the obstacles...and accomplish what you really wanted.

Yes! we need to think positive...and abundantly...but you need BE- DO- HAVE ...and positive and abundant thinking fit only in the first category which is BE....sssooo in order to HAVE...you must DO something about it.

Even our beloved GOD...HE bless... not good intentions...HE only bless plans and strategies!

With out a workable plan would be like...Alice in...


You all be well,

Roger Aburto

[Richard De Haven Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 2]

I say false if you believe you need to think Positively and Abundantly to be successful. I know a few very negative sky is falling millionaires. People of various negative and positive beliefs and thoughts live a wealthy lifestyle.

Now if you really want to live a fully rounded life filled with Joy and abundance that you love then positive thoughts are the way to go.

[Denise Taylor Contribution Level: 1]

I think it's true that one needs to think positively, but people shouldn't be naive and unthinking, either. If one is negative all the time - can't do that, it's impossible, what's the use type of thinking - then why even bother? Best to go lie down and give it up. But if one can think positively it can drive them to overcome things that would normally get them down. It can make all the difference between success and failure.

But answering Craigslist ads that claim you've been the long lost heir of some prince in Everstanistan, if you'll only just give them your paypal account number . . . well, that's an entirely different matter.