Joy Yang’s Blog

How well do you know yourself? A serious evaluation of your life is critical to getting what you want. If you need to get to Pittsburgh by Friday and you want to plan your trip, you’ve got to know where you’re starting from. So, if you want to reach your new goals, you have to know where you are now.

What achievements are you most proud of? What makes you happy?

Without dwelling on failures, mistakes or past ill feelings, quickly list your life’s important accomplishments. Think about the places you’ve been, the relationships you’ve had, the education you’ve received. Consider your achievements related to work.

How well-educated are you in the things you would like to know? How much effort do you put into each aspect of your life?

What are your best and worst points? How do you choose your friends, your home, your job and your hobbies? How do you treat your friends, family and strangers? How deep is your personal spirituality? You have hundreds and hundreds of special traits, but how well-developed is each of them? Which of your traits are the worst? What have you accomplished over the past 20 years? How about the past 10, or 5, or 2 years? What have you accomplished in even the past 12 months? In the past month? The past week? Today? Who have you hurt? Who deserves better than you’ve given them? And, most important, how close are you now to where you hoped you’d be when you looked ahead a year ago, 5 years ago, or even as a child?

A serious self-evaluation may take weeks to complete. And you should be prepared to cry a little as you make this assessment of your life. You’re human, and humans are far from perfect. Sometimes you don’t even achieve the minor goals you set for yourself, and it can hurt to see exactly where you are now. So dig down for every bit of serenity you have when making this evaluation, and always keep in mind that you are on a fact-finding – not a fault-finding – mission. Whether your strengths balance your weaknesses is not important. What you want is a written record of who and what you are in as much detail as possible – a blueprint of your inner house that you can use as a basis for improvement.

You should review your analysis periodically to chart your progress. And the time and emotion you spend preparing it will be nothing compared to the value you will receive from it.

As I entered the taxicab, I noted the sunny disposition of my cab driver, the clean seats and the stack of magazines arranged neatly on one side. According to my cab driver, he keeps the stack available for his customers to keep them busy during rush hour. The rush hour traffic allowed us the chance to talk.

Talk is what we did! With my prodding, he talked about himself, his dreams and goals. He intends to own five taxicabs in eight years and he has specific plans and timelines on how to achieve this.

At that moment, I felt I am in the presence of a unique individual whose passion I share. I regard him as a superhero in his own right. Both of us have set our sights to achieve abundance beyond our wildest dreams! This is our passion.

The term “abundance” continues to spark the interest of a lot of people. How do I know? Just type the word “abundance” in your favorite search engine and you’ll see the millions of sites developed specifically for just this word. The last time I checked there are 29,700,000 sites with the word abundance.

Many people aspire and wish for abundance. A number of books have been written on how to attract abundance. In feng shui, lucky charms are placed in strategic places to entice prosperity in people’s lives. This obsession with abundance created a whole new industry.

However, wishing alone will not lead you to prosperity. Read it again. WISHING ALONE WILL NOT LEAD YOU TO PROSPERITY. If you keep on wishing, see you in a hundred years! A lot of people keep on dreaming and wishing and then just stop. Many are taking this route simply because it is easy and requires minimal use of brain cells.

So what do we need to do to increase and triple our chance to attract abundance and prosperity in our lives?

Now comes the fun part of the lesson I learned from the taxi cab driver. In fact, he introduced me to his system to boost my chance of attracting abundance three times! Allow me to share with you his system.

The taxi cab driver’s method is anchored on the Trio of Abundance. He states that wishing and dreaming must be followed by the TRIO OF ABUNDANCE: Think Positively, Act Positively and Speak Positively.

The cab driver shared some of his tips on how to make this trio of abundance a part of your life. Contrary to some marketing hocus-pocus, his system will not cost you a single cent. It is just plain human goodness and common sense.

Thinking positively means adopting the following mindsets:

I am an optimist
I keep an open-mind
I am grateful
I believe it can be done if I set my heart into it
I view adversities as opportunities for improvement

Speak positively means doing these things:

I always say “Thank you”
I praise someone within 24 hours
I share comforting words with friends in trouble
I acknowledge a good behavior whenever I see one

Act positively requires these actions to be undertaken:

I always smile at the people I meet
I always hug the people I love
I address people by their names
I make people laugh

There you have it: The no-cost and complete system for increasing your chance to attract abundance three folds.

Why is it some people who seem to be less deserving than you, have it all? Abundance, friends, and relationships keep coming their way while you keep struggling to make ends meet. You know you deserve their abundance, but it seems unattainable. You’re smart, educated, deserving, and you work hard-what is it they know that you do not?

As simple and unrealistic as it may seem-the one and only reason they have it is because they know they can. And they know they can have more anytime they wish. It is this thought separating them from you.

Whether they were born into it, or worked for it-they all have the same knowingness-they can have it and more. This knowingness is why only five percent of the population controls 95% of the world’s riches. Although the only difference in having and not having is within the knowledge you can have it-there are ten good reasons you will be able to come up with that will support your belief “you can not have it.”

1. Don’t know what you really want.
2. Too difficult to focus on your desire
3. Easily distracted by others things.
4. Want to control the process.
5. You believe you do not have the power to change your circumstances.
6. You do not deserve.
7. It is not God’s will.
8. It’s too simple.
9. It is selfish.
10. You just cannot have anything you want.

From the time you were old enough to understand what your parents and others were telling you, you were taught these ten destructive beliefs. It is within the reality of these beliefs that you are guided in what you create and the circumstances of your life-I can prove it right now!

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine you have the perfect lover or companion sitting beside you holding out five one-million dollar bills to you. Now open your eyes and discover there is no one there and no money-why not? Listen to yourself coming up with all the reasons it doesn’t work that way, and you will quickly discover why it is you did not get what you imagined.

Now this may sound simple and childish, but it is your perceptions, your convictions, and knowing which make these things impossible for you. The truth is, you do manifest or create all the circumstances of your life just by imagining it. For most all of us it is done on a subconscious level so we take no responsibility for it.

That knowingness can be raised to a conscious level with a little practice and willingness. The first step to making it happen is in accepting you can do it-and it’s all you really have to do. Nothing else matters-nothing else converts energy or thought to matter.

In all you can imagine or dream of, simply know you already have it, even if you have to lie to yourself for a period of time. Picture it, focus on what it is you wish to experience and you will bring it into your experience-you will have it as your own.

You will always get what it is you truly desire-desire is the key word. You can never have what you want, but you always get what you desire. Be careful as your thoughts will most often fool you. Most people for instance will desire something (a thing) because it is their belief it will bring them happiness. If happiness is what you truly desire then you do no need to focus on a thing-focus on the happiness and it will be yours and it will be expressed in a happy way.

If it is your desire to experience having or doing a thing-that desire will also be made manifest, but you may not experience the happiness you said you desired. Your thoughts will most often betray you and it is your words which command the spirit to create what you desire. Be ever so careful in your choice of words.