By living through the intention to leave a legacy of abundance you may prosper and will express a tendency to grow and expand your life organically. While a life founded on ethical values that are based on fear, loss, and neediness, it will fall apart as a building on a weak foundation. Because like attracts like, if your friends, family, and coworkers live in abundance you will tend to think and attract the same.
Resources for building the foundation:
A great plan without proper resources is as useless as a car without gas. If you are building a business, a lifestyle or an organization you need to be sure you have enough resources. Resources are not just money. It’s also time, supplies and assets that can be used to move your project forward. Emotional capital can make the difference from failure to success. People and emotions are the materials used to supply the good foundation. Selecting the most positive and successful will be the best building materials to achieve your overall goals.
Planning the foundation:
The greatest people in history have realized that the foundation for an amazing life requires selecting people who offer qualities that will advance your intentions. But, it’s a two-way street. In a proper relationship, both people will feel like they are getting the better deal. Coming from abundance they will generously share all they have with the other person. Selecting the right people to be in your circle of influence and planning is imperative. The house must have strong foundations, much as Jesus had Peter a foundation and a rock, you must select people you know you can trust and love, as you would a sibling. This is a solid system for success with planning and the foundation.
Add at least 20-30% more then what you need to succeed your goal and have backup plans with opportunities to make more money as needed for capital. This means always have extra savings and money, and be welcoming and offer to open the group or club to new members joining the club, circle of friends or organization. A new set of eyes and ideas can easily make the difference between success and failure.
Birds of a feather flock together:
Have you ever noticed that people tend to group together based on common interest? This is called report. In fact, the deepest report is when people fall in love and have a sustained positive relationship. Therefore, when you collect your closest friends, please take a note of what their value system is. If its someone who is exactly where you are in life, and they have no substantial experiences or skills outside of what you already are able to do or have done, they will not be able to guide you to grow and expand your horizons.
When you review you, friends, I recommend taking a moment to look for synergy. Synergy is when the sum of two or more in a group adds up to more than the sum of the two parts. In other words, it’s the spark of magic when two people get together and appear to create more then what the two people should be able to create. This is an example of the abundance that should be generated by any positive relationship.
Water flows to the lowest level:
When you are in a group of people, the group tends to emulate the other members of the group. This is a subconscious survival technique created to reduce the chances of being rejected by the group. Therefore, any member of the group will be a reflection of the people in the group. If the group is positive, and a new person joins, chances are that person will become positive or be ejected from the group. So please take the time to make sure that any groups of people you spend time with, have the qualities you wish to have as well.
Favorite five:
A simple rule in life that if you have more then 5 really close, lifelong bonded friends, that there will be a decline in the attention you can afford to any one member of the group. Even TV shows have show that this tendency seems to balance at approx. 5 people. Trying to grow your group the five can even be detrimental to the group as a whole, and may result in you losing your position in the group, so please choose carefully who wish to bring into the group. Moreover, if the member is too different from the existing 5, there is a chance you may get pushed out of the group as well.
As you select your friends, I recommend taking the time to pay attention to what qualities, experiences ideas the group has. To expect the group to monitor and curate your experiences may not be in your best interest. Instead for all members of the group to experience abundant mindset, that allows all the members to have a voice, and share their experiences to create appreciable growth to create a group synergy.
– J –