“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
— Marian Wright Edelman

When I attended a seminar a couple of years ago (Millionaire Mind Intensive), I learned a very valuable lesson that I didn’t even realize I needed to learn. It was about staying in the game. Not taking myself out before I even gave something a go (thanks to that little voice in my head coming up with all the reasons I shouldn’t do something). Before that moment, I didn’t know that I did this. I had to admit though, once the concept was presented to me, that I did indeed, at times, take myself out of the game before I even started playing.

For example, have you ever really wanted to do something you had never tried before, but chickened out even before giving it a real effort? Perhaps a dream job that you don’t apply for because “they wouldn’t hire you anyway” (your ego calling out to keep you safe). Or that solo in the church choir they are auditioning for — “they always use the same person for the solos so why bother”. Perhaps they always use the same person because no one else bothers to even show up to audition?!

Stay in the game. Maybe you won’t win all the time. But that’s OK. Just don’t take yourself out before “the tribe has spoken” (for all you Survivor fans). As the cliché goes, “You can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket.”

“Life experiences are the continuum in this seamless matrix of nothingness, in this continuum of both body and environment. They are our experiences of joy and sorrow, of success and failure, of wealth and poverty. All these events seemingly happen to us, but at very primordial levels we are making them happen.”
— Deepak Chopra, Creating Affluence, The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life

The problem with worrying about money is that it never pays a bill. And what is worse, worrying about money actually pushes prosperity away instead of attracting it — which just makes our situation all the more difficult to bear. Sarah Ban Breathnach reminds us in Simple Abundance, that when your subconscious mind continually receives a message, positive or negative, it will eventually manifest that message.

Thankfully, every thought one has does not instantly materialize. The results of our thoughts can take weeks, months, or even years to come about. But negative thoughts about money on a constant basis signals fear, lack, and deprivation — which will lead to fear, lack, and deprivation.

A more practical approach to dealing with money issues, according to Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer in Creating Money: Keys to Abundance, is to consider what actions you could take to CREATE money. There is a big difference in the energy behind CREATING compared to NEEDING.

Remember to keep your life simple in terms of money. Worry only blocks your creativity and thinking in order to keep creating an abundant flow of money.

Darcelle Runciman, is our guest today and is a real estate investment coach. Darcelle has 9 years experience in the financial and real estate industries running her own businesses. She has started companies from the ground up, and managed people and the companies along the way. Her passion is for real estate investing and coaching others in business in order to bring more success to their lives.

Listen in to learn the basics of real estate investing in Canada, some of the key terms to understand such as leveraging, and how you can increase your wealth through investment property with little money down. Think the U.S. sub-prime market will affect your decision making here in Canada? See what Darcelle has researched with our strong Ontario and Alberta markets.

Darcelle is currently President of Hemlock Investments, and Co-Founder and Operating Director of Canadian Prosperity which are both real estate investment companies, and also has Total Property Management which operates in the Belleville and Quinte areas.

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For more information on Darcelle’s services please visit her web sites or call 613-921-2535 or 1-866-430-5397.

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What’s holding you back from achieving your dreams?

Why do some people find it easy to get ahead while others might be struggling just to get by, be comfortable or reach the next level? The answer lies in your “Money Blueprint” – your hardwired programming around money that is unconsciously causing your financial results.

If you want more out of life…more wealth, more happiness, more fun…the answer is simple; you NEED to change your Money Blueprint, and change it quick!

Otherwise there’s a good chance you’re destined to be disappointed with your financial results for the rest of your life!

Some of you already heard, that I am a fan of The Millionaire Mind Book and The Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar. For me and for all those who attended (and stayed through the whole experience), we learned that our money issues are not the only thing that we work through during that weekend. It covers so much more and goes so much deeper. I would be truly surprised hearing that someone who fully participated during the event did not come out changed in one way or another.

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