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By James Clayton NapierSep 12, 20041 topic

INTENTION POWER -- WHY Intentions Are Powerful

âExpectation sends an exciting message to our neural system. While it lasts we are alert and most likely to be rewarded.â --Max Gunther, The Luck FactornnEver feel like youâre banging your head against a wall trying to figure out the game of life and how to play it?nnAn ancient Sufi story illustrates the plight of so many friends whose stories of trying this, that, and the other thing, who feel almost intangibly they are somehow losing their lives in the process of tryi

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierAug 23, 20041 topic

TV News: A Mirror Reflecting the World It Covers or Making It A Better Place in Which to Live One Story at a Time?

âImages can either imprison or liberate us.â âRoberto Assagiolinn Feature stories are vanishing from TV news broadcasts. The public speaker, television feature reporter, and movie maker are storytellers. While there is an underlying structure to what the person in each venue does, a structure the audience is often unaware of, there seems to be a trend these days away from content (a central focus) and a movement toward the shock value of an experienceâwhat is said, wh

Primary topic: Television and Radio Programming

Television and Radio Programming

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By James Clayton NapierSep 1, 20041 topic

Multidimensional Search Engine Optimization: Will the Real Innernet User Enter and Sign in Please?

In the pre-Internet days of my childhood, I pulled my red wagon each morning to the Alger, Ohio, post office to fill it with that day's bounty from all over the world (it wasn't âjunk mailâ to me!). I wanted to connect with the larger world I knew existed beyond my small farming community (population 1,000) in Northwest Ohio.n nEverything there [in the cornfields behind our home], was as it ought to be (or so it seemed to me). Such happiness looking back--those long, leis

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierJul 21, 20041 topic

Relocation/Travel Astrology â

âHence the first principle in changing oneâs character is to seek another environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and draw from us a better music.â â Will Durantn nI was 17 and growing up in the Midwestern farming community of just under 1,000. My youthful intent, looking out over the cornfields of Ohio, was to find my best place on the planet, move there, and stay the rest of my life.n n67 moves later (many of them short-term broadcasting assignme

Primary topic: Astrology

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By James Clayton NapierSep 23, 20041 topic

The Luck Factor, Possibility Thinking, Serendipity, and Good Fortune âToo Much For a Person to Expect in One Lifetime? Part 1â

Never say âNoâ to a great idea simply because it is impossible. âDr. Robert SchullernnJuly 4, 1939, during a doubleheader between the New York Yankees and Washington Senators, one of the most memorable events in the history of major league baseball occurred.nnLou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, after ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games (a record only recently surpassed by Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripkin), announced to the world he had been striken with amyo

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierAug 20, 20041 topic

The Infinite Passion of Life

A single improvement is often enough to produce far-reaching consequences in oneâs fortune. â Max Gunther, The Luck FactornnFor most of us the prospect of a invigorating beginning in a new Location, a fresh start in life â re-energizes us. It brings about a feeling of what I call that let-out-of-school feeling.nnâWhy is this let-out-of-school feeling so important to our emotional health and well-being?â you may be wondering (I hope you are!).nnBecause the ability to

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierOct 19, 20071 topic

Dollars Want Me!

The year? 1903. The Wright Brothers' new "contraption" actually flies for a few seconds at Kitty Hawk. Henry Harrison Brown's essay, "Dollars Want Me: The New Road to Opulence" is published in NOW, A Journal of Affirmation," and becomes a bit of a sensation. The reason? I suspect the title "Dollars Want Me" was, for many, proposed a new way of thinking about money. "I want money," "I need more money," "There's not enough money coming in to make ends meet," is what we commonly

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By James Clayton NapierSep 23, 20041 topic

Possibility Thinking, The Luck Factor, Serendipity, and Good Fortune âToo Much For a Person to Expect in One Lifetime? Part 2â

Opportunity, says a famous writer, is like oxygen. It is so plentiful that we fairly breathe it. â Quoted by Robert Collier, Riches Within Your ReachnnnNot long Ron called me. A year earlier I had taken his 12 Keys to Effective Salesmanship Course in Austin, Texas.nnâWhere are you calling from Ron?â I asked. âI canât hear you. Too much traffic.ânnâIâm at the pay phone--hold on, thereâs a truck going by, I canât hear myself, can you hear me now? Iâm calli

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierSep 24, 20071 topic

Positive Thinking, Life Energy, and Your Health

Dr. John Diamond is a pioneer in holistic medicine. He developed Life Energy Analysis in the 1970’s (originally called Behavioral Kinesiology). Diamond discovered a link between the meridians of the body and emotions and his work encompasses a wide range of healing research into alternative approaches to raising and maintaining one’s Life Energy.nnIn his book Your Body Doesn’t Lie, Diamond asserts that “All illnesses start with a diminution of the Life

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierSep 6, 20071 topic

Best Places to Live

n Best Places to Live — A Journey of Explorationn By James Clayton Napiernn“Truth is always present; one only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind to read its oracles.” — Ralph Waldo n n When I was a teenager Ricky Nelson sang a song called “Travelin’ Man.”n “I’m a travelin’ man, made a lot of stops, All over the world….”n The role of travelin’ man was not my intention when I eyed my future. My i

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierSep 28, 20071 topic

The Good Life: I Sure Wish I Felt Better!

It’s difficult to feel good about your life when you don’t feel great physically.nnWhat follows is a daily program for balancing your meridians and maintaining emotional health. I’ve encapsulated material from Dr. John Diamond, Gwenn Bonnell, and Gary Craig (founder of the Emotional Freedom Technique), as well as the great Emile Coue’ who is best known for the phrase, “Day by day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”nnLet&#82

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierSep 28, 20051 topic

Your Life, A Masterpiece

nnWealth is so close to you. So are good friends and good times. You can have the desires of your heart, fulfill many of your dreams, nourish your spirit, live a life of emotional prosperity, and strike a big gushing oil well of opportunity, as weâd say in Texas, and itâs easier to do than you might imagine. If you're interested, read on.nnThis is an article about turning defeat into triumph. Although we may not feel like it, how do we affirm today, this day, will be a gr

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 19, 20071 topic

The Best Male Music Vocalist You've Likely Never Heard Of

This is the story of a truly great singer, a “crooner” from the 1920’s, whose music I would hope, after I tell you about him, you will say “I’ve got to hear his recordings, especially if he’s as great as the guy writing this article says he is.” My view, a prejudiced one, is that he is the best forgotten male singer who ever sang with a big band orchestra. It’s also the story of the invisible threads of “coincidence”

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 19, 20041 topic

SUCCESS â What Is Your Success Profile?

What is your success profile? The following questions are designed to assist you in getting you to know yourself a whole lot better. Only then will we'll talk about success â and how to make it happen!nnThe first five questions are from Dr. Robert Schullerâs many books about possibility thinking. The rest are modified from many other sources. These questions, answered truthfully, will activate the Law of Attraction and place it squarely in your corner. nnYou owe yourself

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 13, 20071 topic

How To Make Money

nI just finished, out of curiosity, looking up how to make money on the web. Make money investing in real estate, business ideas that will make money for you, money making ideas, easy ways to make money, ways to get rich, ways to make money fast, and yes I even saw “get paid to surf.” Notice I didn’t mention “make money in MLM’s,” because it appears to me you have to get in at the beginning, usually, to make some money; those who come in la

Primary topic: Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

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By James Clayton NapierNov 19, 20071 topic

Harness The Energies Of Your Subconscious Mind For Wealth

In his book The Magic of Believing, Claude Bristol wrote about a woman he knew whose name was Opal Whitley. "It was uncanny," he said, "almost supernatural, the way circumstances suited themselves to her plans."nnDoes your life feel it's as magical as was Opal Whitley's?nn"I am wealthy," "I am healthy," "I am cheerful," "I am a money magnet," "I have faith and confidence in my future." How many times can you tell yourself these things without going unconscious? Especially whe

Primary topic: Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

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By SelfGrowth ContributorOct 12, 20071 topic

Making Public Speaking Enjoyable

The incident is still as real in my mind as it was the day I saw it happen when I was a eleventh grader. Public speaking class. We were to give a three to five minute speech about ourselves. They were OK, nothing to get excited about, and then Byron R.’s turn came. Since that April spring day I’ve heard many speeches, but I’ve never seen anyone as nervous as Byron, which was surprising to all of us because he was one of the school tough guys, or so we though

Primary topic: Persuasion

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By James Clayton NapierAug 1, 20041 topic

Self Improvement/Spiritual Development: THE ART OF BLISS

âThe lucky renew their energy through the activity in which theyâre engaged.â â Max GunthernnHow strong is your commitment to what you say, in your heart of hearts, you really want? Is there anything you can start doing today to power up your dream?n n18th and 19th Century German poet, scientist, and author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, âUntil one is committed, there is hesitation, the chance to draw back, always making for ineffectiveness. Concerning a

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 31, 20071 topic

Is The Law Of Attraction Really A Law?

Is the Law of Attraction a Law? To answer, let's define the Law of Attraction. "I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative," says Michael J. Losier in his book Law of Attraction, The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't.nn"We speak learnedly of the Law of Gravitation, but ignore that equally wonderful manifestation, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World," William Walker Atkinson w

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By James Clayton NapierSep 27, 20071 topic

What's Holding Us Back From More Money, Health, Success, and Love?

nWhy is it that we’re sailing along, making good progress it seems, and suddenly hit a roadblock, a dead end, and why is it that this seems to occur over and over and over — as a repetitive pattern? Could it be, possibly, that our energy batteries are reversed?nnLet’s answer that question by briefly examine psychoenergetic reversal. This is an intriguing concept. Howard Brockman says psychoenergetic reversal is “a category of self-sabotage that can blo

Primary topic: Motivation

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By James Clayton NapierAug 5, 20041 topic

Business/Career Relocation â Know Your Guiding Star

"Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical. Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's valu

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

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By James Clayton NapierSep 14, 20071 topic

Healing Words

nHow powerful are healing words? What impact do they have on our immune systems? Emile Coue' had an answer and, though few know his name today, his success with restoring his ill clients back to health was nothing less than astonishing.nnHow did he obtain such remarkable results? The power of suggestion and autosuggestion combined with the magnetic charisma of his personality along with the belief of his patients that when he told them they were getting better and better ever

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierOct 2, 20071 topic

Am I Dreaming My Life Or Is This Really Happening to Me?

nThe fall of 2000 a two hour PBS special featured the fifty year career of improvisation comedian Jonathan Winters. Winters, a fixture on TV during the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s is known for his unscripted, seat-of-the-pants comedy. When asked where his ideas came from, Winters mentioned a higher power. “I certainly like to think that I’m in charge and I know exactly what I’m doing and what I’m going for,” the 74 year old comedian sa

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By James Clayton NapierSep 27, 20071 topic

Use Your Awakened Imagination to Believe Your Future In!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Professor Albert EinsteinnnOur Power of Imagination IS our Fortune! Let me tell you why I believe this statement.nThe lecturer Neville Goddard speaking on October 6th, 1969 in Los Angeles told his audience, “Your life is nothing more than the out picturing of your imaginal activity, for your imagination fulfills itself in what your life becomes.”nnWhat does that mean? Goddard’s lecture was t

Primary topic: Motivation

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By James Clayton NapierOct 22, 20071 topic

TV: Welcome To "Why Can't I Figure Out What To Do With My Life?"

MUSIC DOWN:nnCUE THE TALENT:nnWelcome to “Why Can’t I Figure Out What to Do With My Life?” I’m Ray Burton.nnAnd I’m Symantha Hartoon. Our guest on “Why Can’t I Figure Out What to Do With My Life?” is Fred R. Fred of San Diego, California. Mr. Fred has, in the last ten years, held 67 different jobs, none longer than three weeks. Fred, thanks for your time.nnFRED: My pleasure, Samantha. It’s not like I have anything else on

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By SelfGrowth ContributorOct 12, 20071 topic

Self Growth Made Easy

Long before I heard the phrase self growth or self improvement, I was trying, as a teenager, to better myself, to improve my prospects in life. One day, thanks to a churlish English teacher of mine, the answer was given to me out of the blue. I'd like to share it with you the answer that changed my life.nnn“It is told of Balzac, the great French author,” Sidney Greenberg writes in his book Treasury of the Art of Living, “that he once spent a long and unrewar

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierSep 28, 20071 topic

Wake Up and Live (It's Later Than We Think, But Not That Late!)

When are we going to start having more fun in life, laugh more, tell more jokes, and enjoy who we are without being addicted to a harmful substance as so many are these days? I've been thinking about this lately — perhaps watching a little too much TV cable network news has been the reason, and what follows is me talking to myself and you, if you have time to read this article, listening in. Here goes!nnnnThe subconscious mind (with apologies to Freud), in my view, does

Primary topic: Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology

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By James Clayton NapierSep 26, 20071 topic

Living Life With Your Purpose, Not Someone Else's Purpose

How — and where — do we find the inner peace, calm, and happiness we always seem to be seeking but so few actually experience except in short bursts? Let’s turn briefly to a book called Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem for some answers. nnSatprem points out that mankind lives “dispersed in a multitude of thoughts,” which means inwardly he/she “lives in a surreptious racket.” Our mind’s need for knowledg

Primary topic: Motivation

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By James Clayton NapierSep 15, 20071 topic

The Secret: What is the Secret of the Law of Attraction?

What is the secret behind how the law of attraction works? nnIn the early years of the 20th century a lawyer, who wrote books under many different names — for reasons known only to himself — penned a book called Thought Vibration or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World. His real name? William Walker Atkinson.nnHe wrote that there is a “mighty law that draws to us the things we desire or fear; that makes or mars our lives.” Atkinson claimed &#8220

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By James Clayton NapierNov 29, 20071 topic

Are You Getting All You Want Out Of Life? Rename Your World!

nAre you getting all you want out of life? Here's a little technique that, if you use it, will open a new world of intriguing and exciting opportunities. This technique is called "renaming your world." Renaming your world engages the "Law of Attraction" as an ally working for our success - instead of an opponent working against us.nn"Will you consider with me the possibility of creating a new world?" Dr. Rebecca Beard inquires in her 1951 classic Everyman's Search. "Have we n

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By James Clayton NapierSep 27, 20071 topic

Business, Career, Money, Success: Know Your Ruling Star!

"Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical. Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's valu

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By James Clayton NapierSep 10, 20071 topic

Inside You Is A Place Called Home!

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbellnn— The Cornfield —nn When I was a child I loved spring and late summer-into-early-fall.n n These seasons were my invitation to walk the cornfield behind our house. It led from our house to the town cemetery situated at the top of a hill.nn I would walk for hours each week across this wide open playground that never failed to ignite my i

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By James Clayton NapierOct 4, 20071 topic

Success, Career, Money (Are You Crashing From Dream Deprivation?)

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,” Joseph nCampbell wrote, “so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”nnAre you just a little surprised by the kind of work you’re doing these days, where you live, how much money you’re making — in other words, how your life has turned out? Is it the life you dreamed and hoped for when you reached your present age or, wanting to work and make money only from what made

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By SelfGrowth ContributorOct 18, 20071 topic

Is It Possible That Being A Success Is Easier Than We Think?

She was a woman way ahead of the times in which she lived!nnFlorence Scovel-Shinn told us how to be a success in this world and did it better than thousands of other authors who tried to coax from success its secrets. A model, artist, illustrator of children's literature in magazines, and for much of her life. Her self-published book in 1924, The Game of Life and How to Play It, is as imaginatively real now as the spirit of its message during the heyday of the roaring twentie

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By James Clayton NapierOct 31, 20071 topic

Rid Yourself Of Money Worries

I just returned home from a visit with two friends who have worked night and day on a dream. The expenses have drained them financially. A state code inspector left their building about two hours ago and he was one of those people who has no flexibility - "The code's the code, that's what I enforce, the code" - and several stipulations he's enforcing are downright stupid and very expensive. He doesn't care. He gets his paycheck. My friends are down to their last few thousand

Primary topic: Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

Wealth - Creating Wealth and Building Wealth

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By James Clayton NapierJan 24, 20051 topic

Happiness

The e-mail said, "I've got to do something about this stress. If I don't, a heart attack could be the next thing I'm dealing with," my friend said. "All I want is to be happy, but I don't know whether that's possible any more." While I did not have the specific answers he was looking for, perhaps you'll find my reply useful in your own search for happiness.nnnHi (my friend's name),nnI was glad to hear from you. Thanks for filling me in. Sounds like a busy time in your life. I

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierSep 20, 20071 topic

Happiness: Could You Identify It In A Police Lineup?

You're working long hours to earn what writer Stuart Wilde calls "biotickets" to pay your bills. Yet, take home pay is becoming a misnomer as less and less of what's supposed to be taken home is making it to your address. nnIt seems we're also putting in a lot of time searching for that elusive word HAPPINESS and happiness seems to be the one thing that's eluding us these days. Too many people I know feel they're losing their lives in the process of trying to live them!nnSo,

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 20, 20071 topic

TV Shows - Welcome To This Week's Edition Of Failing Forward!

MUSIC DOWN — Cue the talent, please:nnGreetings and welcome to this edition of Failing Forward. I’m Chuck Weatherby.nnAnd I’m Patricia Myercroft. Our guest today is G. Raymond Spurley, CEO and President of FastTrackWiring Software Inc. Mr. Spurley brings an impressive record of corporate failures he has overseen before being hired as CEO and President of FastTrackWiring Software Inc. located in California’s lovely Silicon Valley. Mr. Spurley, welcome t

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By James Clayton NapierOct 10, 20071 topic

You're Surely Not Saying Improving My Attitude Will Make My Life Better, Are You?

Wealth is so close to you. So are good friends and good times. You can have the desires of your heart, fulfill many of your dreams, nourish your spirit, live a life of emotional prosperity, and strike a big gushing oil well of opportunity, as we’d say in Texas, and it’s easier to do than you might imagine. Interested? Read on.nnThis is a book about turning defeat into triumph. Although we may not feel like it, how do we affirm this will be a great day for us?nnThe

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierSep 8, 20071 topic

Money and the Law of Attraction

nDo you want more of what life has to offer, including greater wealth? Life is the greatest wealth so let's start from the premise that you're already wealthy (just not monetarily!).nnLet's see how we can use the law of attraction, marry it to the power of intention, and start attracting more of the things we believe make up a life full in rich experiences and years worth living.nnSurely I'm not the culprits holding the self back from experiencing the good life, am I? Well, m

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By James Clayton NapierSep 20, 20071 topic

Success: Who Is Dreaming Your Future?

Every person I've ever met who got anywhere in life wanted to be a success. Success, however you define it, is dependent on more than doggedness and perseverence, shrewdness and cunning, or living enough years that success finally gives up and thrusts itself upon you.nnSuccess begins with a dream, a plan, a blueprint that you will tweak many times before success finally happens. "When the soul wishes to experience something," Meister Eckhart wrote, "she throws an image of the

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By James Clayton NapierOct 7, 20071 topic

There's No Place Like Home, So Where's My Place?

Is it time for you to pack up and move on, to seek greener pastures, to move to a better place where you’re not only appreciated but your luck is better? Where you’ll meet new people and new people will meet and be intrigued by you? A place where you can relate your story and, unbelievably, these strangers listen to you? Yes, Ralph Waldo Emerson did say, and rightly so, “It is a luxury to be heard.”nnIn about thirty seconds of reading time I’m go

Primary topic: Happiness

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By James Clayton NapierSep 26, 20071 topic

Lessons From Keywords and Search Engines (How to Optimize Our Lives), Part 1

In the pre-Internet days of my childhood, I pulled my red wagon each morning to the Alger, Ohio, post office to fill it with that day's bounty from all over the world (it wasn't “junk mail” to me!). I wanted to connect with the larger world I knew existed beyond my small farming community (population 1,000) in Northwest Ohio.nnEverything there [in the cornfields behind our home], was as it ought to be (or so it seemed to me). Such happiness looking back--those lon

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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