Do -- Have -- Be? The world wants to know . . .

One of the authors that Rhonda drew material from for The Secret was Charles F. Haanel. I wish to spend this article discussing this quote from one of his works:

We must BE before we can DO, and we can DO only to the extent which we ARE, and what we ARE depends on what we THINK.

Put in another form: THINK --> BE/ARE --> DO. Or, "What we BE is what we ARE".

Got it?

I doubt it.

Hardly anyone has really figured this one out. WE are all mostly still believing that the process is DO, HAVE, BE; As in what you do determines your results, which determines what you have, and then what you have or what you have accomplished already says who you are.

It says we are defined by our actions, which seems true at first glance, but the way it should be is that our actions are defined by us . . .

Based on who we are.

Yes, that is the great issue we all face . . . we spend all our time on DO without any pause for THINK. Perhaps we have all been reading the book: Do and Grow Rich?

Certainly not. The book is THINK and Grow Rich, by Napolean Hill, 1937.

Wallace Wattles offers what might be considered a cynical viewpoint on this, but he basically says that men will endure all kinds of hardships, walk miles and miles through the snow up hill both ways, and basically do everything possible to stop himself from having to exercise some mental energy, to stop himself from having to think.

You could argue that this is a good thing. Someone needs to work on the factory floor. There are thousands of mindless jobs out there that someone needs to do.

But it does not have to be you!

So yes, we need to think. But we need to think in terms of what we are really wanting, and what we are really wanting will come to us via what we are creating.

And 999 times out of a 1000, you will not get to be that creative while working for someone else.

No, this needs to be YOUR creation, not someone else's.

Keep your day job (at first); but go to work immediately thinking about what you would love to create. It could be an eBook, a business, a business system. Perhaps a beautiful painting or video. Perhaps a beautiful or a rockin' song. Not sure what to do?

What are your talents?

So everyone has at least one talent. We will call yours (your first one) talent X.

So takes some time to BE (in your mind) someone who serves others and provides value by being an X'er. An X'er is someone who serves the public with talent X.

Put your thought behind How can I be a better X'er? How can I provide X value to more people than I currently reach? What can I create that is in the true spirit of X? How is the best way for me to get paid for sharing X with the world? How big will X business need to be before I can do it full time, because it is what I love to do?

A quick word for any who believe that you should hobby your X talent or that it is more spiritual to share your X talent without getting paid for it. I know you were taught this by your parents or you learned it at church. I do not wish to disagree with your parents or your church; but please consider the following . . .

1. And by the sweat of your face you will eat your bread all the days of your life; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Yes the Lord did say this to Adam. ----- We are meant to be paid for our work that provides value to others. We are not meant to volunteer all of our time for free.

2. Being paid for what you are creating will not stop you from volunteering your time for free to other worthy causes. In fact when your creation gets big enough and it can be safely be run by others on the payroll, you will have a lot more time to volunteer for worthy causes, as well as the money to do it!

3. The happiest folks are those who make their living doing what they love. If you are not ever paid for doing what you love, you will never be able to spend that much time doing it!

4. In conclusion, you must be paid for your creation, or you will have difficulty finding the time to build it bigger. The "magic of life" is not for the hobbyest.

So here is what will unavoidably happen as you put thought energy into how to be an X'er:

-- You will start to get inspiration about actions to take. You actions will be marketing actions and technical actions. At first, and always, the marketing actions are most important.

-- Your continued thought and mental energy will put the Law of Attraction to work for you. You will attract the money, the people, the books, the mentor, or whatever else it is that you need in order to build your X creation.

-- Your actions will set up business systems that allow you to get paid for providing value to others. Once the initial system is set up, then your (inspired) actions will be on how to market the X to a wider audience, and how to train others to help you with X and provide even more value to even more people.

So unlearn the DO -- HAVE -- BE mentality, it may have got you to where you are today, but it will not likely get you to the next great amazement.

Learn THINK -- BE/ARE -- DO.

You get to decide what you will be with your own thoughts. The actions will follow and they will be inspired.

WAIT for the inspiration, but do not stop the mental exercise while waiting. Put the thought energy to work, detach from the HOW, and wait for the inspiration.

You do that and you will create something that changes your life, and improves the life of so many others.

I would like to hear what you have created using this process. Leave me a comment!

Joseph