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Autumn is here…

Kids are going back to school. 

The outlook for your job/career/business is sort of blurry.

If you live in an area where seasons change, you’ll soon notice the changing outdoor colors.

If you live in an area with only one season, you’ll still feel something changing – even if you can’t see it.

Change is all around us.  It wins presidential elections.  It surprises you if you aren’t prepared. It’s the only thing that’s constant.

Change will happen whether we’d like it to or not. 

It doesn’t need a permission slip.

So, how do you handle change? What can you do for you and family to prosper in changing times?

Do you worry? 

Of course not.

You know that worrying is just another way fear shows up.  You know that not only do you produce nothing when you worry, it actually can be very dangerous.

How?

When you worry, you are meditating – but meditating on negative things – exactly the opposite of what you want to happen.

As you know, what you think about (or meditate on) will eventually become reality.  This is not a secret anymore. 

But it works both ways.  It is a two-edged sword.

Instead, how you handle change is to embrace it.

First, be open to it.  Learn (more on that next time).

See change as exciting opportunities that are just waiting to be found.

Next, sit back, relax…and begin to visualize.  God has given you a mind and universal laws that are more powerful than we can imagine.

Meditate, pray for, visualize on specific things regarding surround-sound prosperity:

• The kids are doing excellent in school academically, socially, and in every relevant way
• You now have a wonderful job/career – the one that you are a natural for
• Your business is more profitable every month and is growing exponentially
• You have so many prosperous ideas every day, you’ll need catch your breadth

Please make sure you get this very important note though:

This doesn’t mean you sit around daydreaming.

Far from it.  What you are doing is setting the expectations for you and your family to prosper in the specifics of life.

These expectations serve as guides/directions for the actions needed to be done by you, your kids, your company, etc.

Without these, your actions are just random – they have no meaning, no reasoning, no basis for existing.

Does that make sense?

A discussion about handling change cannot be done in one post.  For this reason, this is the first of a series regarding this topic.  In the meantime, remember: don’t worry about change, be happy with it.

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Do any of these sound familiar to you?

“I’m not good at math”

“I’m just not good at making relationships at work”

“I don’t see myself becoming a VP of the company”

“I’m just not a good presenter”

or, the ever popular…

“I’m not as pretty/popular/(plug in any verbiage here) as the other kids”

These statements have a few things in common:

1.) they all begin with “I”

2.) they are all negative

3.) they are all Self Limiting Beliefs (SLB’s)

Self Limiting Beliefs are destructive, anti-prospering phrases that are very commonplace anywhere you go.  You hear it at work, in schools, and sadly, in family homes.  SLB’s bring no value, no increase, and nothing good. 

As a family dad, it is your duty to root out any SLB’s from your surroundings – especially at home.  If you catch yourself saying these things, remember that what you think and say will eventually become a reality. 

Also, remember that your kids and those around you are paying attention.  It may not seem like it sometimes!  But the truth is that in time you will hear it back.

Instead, replace the destructive SLB’s with clear, specific, positive statements such as:

“I am an excellent problem solver”

“I enjoy meeting and helping people”

“I am prosperous in everything I do”

“I am a strong, healthy, faithful, generous, prosperous, successful, and happy Family Dad and Man of God.”

See the difference?  Continue thinking of other declarations…can you think of a way to make it a game for the kids?

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As the CEO of your family, you have the responsibility of not only guiding your family in the right direction, you need to set the right vision of where you’re headed.

As you know, you don’t just get into a cab and say drive – you give a destination.  Same concept applies for your family.

What are the financial goals for your family for this year, 5 years from now?

What do you expect your family to accomplish within those years?

What are the educational expectations you have set for your kids?

What kinds of relationships should you and your family invest in?

Are you appropriately communicating these goals and how are you monitoring them?

These are just some of a few questions you need to ask.  We will dive into each of these questions and more in the future.

In the meantime, a very important action you can do now is to actually visualize what hasn’t happened yet.  Each day would probably be impossible, but at least once a week, take time out to actually think and visualize. 

Visualize what you and your family will be doing, say 5 years from now. 

Where would you live?  What would you have?  How would the kids be doing in school?  How will your job or business be like?  Make a point to stay positive – to see it the way you want to see it.

The secret is that what you visualize intensely eventually becomes reality. 

So watch out because it works whether you visualize positive or negative circumstances.

As a family dad, visualizing you and your family prosper is as important as any other task you have.

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