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
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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
Jumping up and down before buying a lotto ticket will not be mean you will win a lotto ticket nor will jumping up and down before you do something mean success but what it does guarantee a totally different mindset and the attitude that you will approach the task with.
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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Quite right Renee. She had the attitude of gratitude. Someone who was spending their last dollar could easily be disappointed that it was ONLY $50. Why was it not $5000 and dwell how little would be able to be bought with it.
She had twice the fun because of her attitude.
I absolutely agree. Which also goes back to gratitude – celebrate what you have and receive, even if it is “only” $50.
But there is a lot you can do already with that kind of money, so she is absolutely correct to BE happy
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
“…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 Ray,
I don’t know that book (but I am going to google it now) but it sounds very interesting. And I am pretty sure the result must have been amazing for every one.
We are so entangled in our mistrust towards everything and always expecting the negative (if not the worst) that “the universe” probably has jumped at the opportunity to have some trusting people all of a sudden.
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
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!!!:)
Jazz,
I’m just wondering if you look back at this post and see that it really did work for you! *grin*
Cheers,
Pete
Pete´s last blog ..peteboyr: @bullhunter Thanks, Sean. Just reviewing the webinar, and will get to your blogs after that. Big night ahead, pizza on the way!
Hi Pete,
I’m not sure that the crazy dance helped but it was fun. The thing that really helped me was visualising my success and I did that every day.
I think we really do underestimate the power of the mind. I still have a lot to learn but I try to manifest that success mindset every single day. I see myself being, doing and having what I want every single day.
Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Finding Your Passion
Hi Jazz,
looks like you have done very vivid visualizing again – you are way ahead on the competition
You are a fast typer/reader who has a lot of good things to say.
Congratulations!
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
Hi Renee,
Yes, the visualising really works. Besides, I really love this competition. It’s heaps of fun and I get to learn a lot. This one is really challenging me to apply what I’m learning. I’m sure I’m going to be a better internet marketer by the time this is over.
Also, I have to type really fast. There are a lot of very talented competitors.
Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Finding Your Passion
I think you already are a winner. Hope you are celebrating already.
Maybe you have a good speedy reading talent as well as speedy fingers. Putting the new knew in place will also help your speedy success.
Is this the passion that you spend most of your time on?
Seems like celebrating the now is a great way to help make the mindset shift to focus and accept the goals we set as being reality. This makes it much easier to work towards the goals, as they are something we are already comfortable with, rather than a daunting challenge.
Perhaps when people are told to save for a rainy day, to work hard so they can finally relax and enjoy a great lifestyle in retirement, really what this is doing is to telling people that they can’t celebrate now, they have to hold off until the future. But in doing so it may be resigning people to a future far less than they could have otherwise had, and preventing them from having the lifestyle they want today.
And I must say Jazz, given you are leading the competition at the moment and powering through the posts (205 at the moment), I respect your right to celebrate the $1,000 right now. Although I did notice that Renee is not too far behind (on 140) and Lina is rapidly gaining in the post count (on 118). Good luck to all who are in the running!
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Hi Tom,
I’m trying really hard to apply what I’m learning from Sean and Napoleon Hill. Celebrating the success before I have it is my way of encouraging it to appear in my life. Positive feelings create positive actions and positive results. As Sean says, successful people know they will succeed prior to commencing a task. I am determined to be a successful person.
Hi Jazz,
You are a successful person You are here , I am also as I am still here, not giving up makes us successful
Rita
Jazz has every right just like the rest of us to use (just as Jazz says) Sean’s teaching’s & apply it to her life by living the life as a successful person. And she proved how successful she is by winning the challenge – she was the MOST hungriest!
Samantha Banfield´s last blog ..How To Make Money Quickly
Hi Jazz,
you totally got it. Positive FEELINGS are the key (in my humble opinion), not just positive thoughts. Feel it, hear it, touch it, smell it – like the lady who was already dancing because she knew she was a winner.
You know that you will succeed (and you have proof already
) – so you know how it feels. And in case you start wondering ever again if you are a winner – feel it again and there will be no doubt that you are!
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
Hi Renee,
You’re right. The more details we add when visualising our success; the more real we make it. After all, we have to convince our subconscious that it is already so.
Once our subconscious believes our visualisation is real; it will make it so. As Napoleon Hill says “Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”
Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Finding Your Passion
Hi Jazz,
you just inspired me to read Napoleon Hill again. It is a great book, and the more often you read it the more it will sink in and become part of my (your) subconscious knowledge. And therefore it is easier and easier to apply every day.
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
I’ve found it good to feed my subconscious is to listen to appropriate audios on my ipod. I can be listening and concentrating but then something else takes my focus but I leave it going as allow my subconscious to listen for me.
Artemis Limpert talks about that in her Educating Your Expectations. She even suggests having it pay quietly while you are asleep.
I tried that once. I knew my mind was listening because when I woke up in the morning I could recall hearing a voice although I couldn’t remember what it said.
However it is not something I would do nightly. I just tried it as an experiment and was pleasantly surprised.
Oops I meant to also say that one of my audios is Think and Grow Rich and I heard some things that I never really picked up when reading the book.
And you will get the rewards for your efforts. We don’t achieve great things by putting effort it.
The more time spent working effectively will get you your results quicker.
To be successful, surround yourself with successful people. I am already walking that path and am celebrating the success as I go too.
I like that concept, “The energy of possibility”. Hmm. How do you measure it?
Wal Heinrich´s last blog ..Internet Marketing Why? How?
Maybe you could measure the energy of possibility by the smile on your face or by how much fun you are having?
I would say it is endless. Why?
Possibilities are endless, and therefore the connected energy must be endless as well
That’s definitely looking at the bigger picture with the possibilities of energy. I like it.
I’ve always liked Mahatma Gandhi’s saying: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
I try and live with this in mind by appreciating every little success I make in my daily life and take on as much new information I can that I feel will benefit me in the future. I’m constantly thinking of the successful things to come into my life too, like that new car, the dream house and the freedom I’ll have when that time comes.
Colin´s last blog ..People Who Discourage Us
Hello Sean,
How true is that statement “Celebrate Now Instead of Later”. Later might be too late.
I have a strong feeling that 2010 is going to my year. I have being setting goals and achieving them. My mindset is in a better place than it was last year, or the year before. I can feel, I taste, I can smell, I can see and I know that this is my year to Celebrate. I am chasing Dreams and they are coming into my life mnre and more. What you put out there with thoughts do happen
Cheers
Lisa
Lisa Wood´s last blog ..Searching For Gratitude Rocks
Celebrating now would be so much fun. You could always celebrate after too. Double the gratification!
Though the celebration after could be a double celebration – one as having achieved your goal and at the same pre-celebrating the next goal. Party! Fun! Party!
I guess I would still have two celebrations instead of one combined.
Or just learn (through constant practice) that my whole life can be a celebration of small and large successes
Renee´s last blog ..Self Improvement Books – What Are Your Favourites
I like that idea Sean Celebrate before you win be happy and the energy will flow i think i might go buy a scratchy tomorrow. good vibes bring happy feelings.
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G’day Sean,
That’s what I call a real positive idea ! Creating success / wealth / victory in your mind and the SLOA will materialise it. Brilliant. Really generates heaps of energy.
Cheers
Harry
ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE
Harry Lynn´s last blog ..How Proud Can One Be ?
And you need to be hungry for it – more hungry than you have ever been.So you will have the air of success and be HUNGRY… and take action based on how hungry your need is to achieve that success to build momentum…
Samantha Banfield´s last blog ..How To Make Money Quickly
Hi Sean
I am a positive thinking, feeling, in the moment, wow I am a winner junkie! and I have proven to myself over and over that the subconcious mind knows no distinction between what is real and what is imagined. Knowing that I can put any ‘image in action’ into my mind and my whole self will start to think, feel and move towards that image, then hey, I am a master creator.
It took many years to learn this, but there was a tipping point when I refused to entertain negative thoughts when they popped up by their own volition, and suddenly I recognised the negative thought, let it go and replaced it with a positive.
I am whatever I choose to be. It’s my lifelong experiment and so far it has worked to perfection.
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It will continue to be a lifelong experiment and it is always evolving as we learn new ‘ways’ and I don’t believe there is a point where we will not it all.
WOW what a top idea. Let`s all draw in the energy for whatever it is we are attracting..
Energy is so useful .It creates things, even more energy..
You might not get positive results each time you do this by celebrating your success before you actually have it but you are by far increasing the opportunity for it to come to you next time because of the the increase in positive energy.
Each time you do it, it will become easier and you’ll feel real great too.
Absolutely, positive energy is the key to inspiration & happiness : )
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I remember in your first video, Sean, how strange and slightly scary (sorry can’t remember your actual words) it was to tell your work mates you were replacing your income in two years and that was enough to create the energy to make it possible.
I’m sure you continued on working diligently as you had previously but just with a different mindset.
Thanks sean,
This sounds like a concept that I will have to try, I am going to start a success diary as you have suggested in one of your other posts & i think I will add a section about how life has changed since achieving a certain goal (even when you haven’t yet) & see how it effects my success attraction.
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