A woman once decided to buy a lottery ticket with the last $1 that she had in her purse. And instead of simply going up to the machine, putting in her dollar and scratching off the ticket, she started by jumping up and down and yelling about how great it was that she won. She hadn’t bought the ticket and still celebrated her win. Sure, she looked like a fool to everyone else, but when she later bought a ticket and won $50, she realized that she was onto something. She was building an air of success around her.
Create positive energy
By celebrating your success before you actually have it, you are changing the energy that is around you. Adding more positive feelings to your life will draw in positive things toward you. So, by celebrating something that you want to happen, you are encouraging it to happen. And while you might not get positive results each time you do this, you will find that good things do happen to those who are grateful and excited to have them.
How you can celebrate now:
- Buy the size clothes you want to wear when you lose weight
- Keep a journal about how great your life is now that you’ve achieved a certain goal (even if you haven’t done it yet)
- Put up a sign of the exercise goals you want to reach with a note saying that you’re about to go beyond these goals
You need to find ways to bring in the energy of possibility into your dreams and your goals. Whether this means calling your friends and telling them that you ARE doing something or if it means that you keep a blog online of the way your life has changed since achieving a certain goal (even when you haven’t yet), you need to shift your mind into a ‘Yes I can‘ mode. And celebrating before you get started is more fun than waiting anyway.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 – 2008
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It feels simply wonderful and exhilarating to be living a very fulfilling life. I find that by expressing gratitude each day, this simply invites more uplifting experiences into my life. This blog post reminds everybody that the nature of their own happiness evolves based on how they think. We live teh life we think about!
So jumping up and down before buying a lottery ticket improves your odds of winning … ? I’m sorry but that’s nonsense and selective filtering
Hi James.
The article is about “building an attitude of success”. Successful people “know” they will succeed prior to commencing a task. Un-successful people “know” they will fail. I don’t believe people can win lottery by jumping up and down, especially not if that person if sceptical or cynical by nature. I do however know that people change their results in life by changing their attitude towards life.
“Whether you think you will succeed. Whether you think you will fail. Either way, you are right”
– Henry Ford
I think that woman has been a winner the moment she started to enjoy it. Someone else might have also won $50 and still been disappointed, so it is about your attitude.
Look at little kids – who can withstand that charm of a little kid that is totally convinced that something particular will happen / appear? As they are so sure that it will happen, everybody else around them will put their part in to actually make it happen.
But if you start of with the air around you “Oh, that won’t work anyway” – why should anybody else believe in you, if you don’t???
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“…but when she later bought a ticket and won $50, she realized that she was onto something. ”
This sounds a bit like what they espouse in the book – The Secret. Basically by asking the universe for something, it will come into being. Michael D Rowland teaches a similar concept in his training courses. Also I started to read a book recently called The Intention Experiment. I haven’t got too far into it but it is a scientific experiment with thousaands of people worldwide who are all asked to create something just by thinking about it. An interesting concept and has some connection to quantum physics. Hmmmmm! Food for specualtion perhaps?
Hi Sean,
Wow! I’ve never thought of celebrating a success before I’ve achieved it. I always celebrate the small successes along the way but I’ve never tried this.
It sounds like a great idea because you’re expressing gratitude and creating lots of positive energy around what you want. Like I said, I’ve not done this before.
But, I’m going to give it a try right now. Woohoo! I’ve won a thousand dollars!!!:)