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business, the same applies to attracting clients. No one will want
to do business with you if you are stressed-out and exhausted.
This doesn’t mean you should be racking up credit card debt
and living irresponsibly or dangerously, but it does mean that to
find the ideal work or business, it is important to be regularly
engaged in an activity that lights you up, makes you feel alive and
wonderful, and energizes you. If you aren’t already having some
fun, now is definitely the time!

Programming Your Brain for Success

Scientists say we are using only a small percentage of our brains—as
little as 10 percent. I firmly advocate using tools to tap into the
other 90 percent. And why not leverage the subconscious power
of the brain as long as you know those tools are safe? No purple
Kool-Aid brainwashing, thank you very much! In addition to using
creative visualization and writing down, “I am . . .” fifteen times a
day (both are ways to consciously program your brain to focus on
your goals), try using both paraliminal and subliminal audio pro-
grams for extra support.
Paraliminal programs feature positive suggestions or state-
ments that you listen to while in a relaxed or semihypnotic state.
You can hear every word that is spoken and should not be doing
other tasks or activities during the ses-
sion. These programs offer an easy
way to meditate if you have difficulty Success is simply a
meditating on your own or find your matter of luck. Ask
mind wanders. They are, in effect, any failure.
guided meditations. Subliminal audio
programs have hidden messages or —EARL WILSON
statements that you can’t hear at a con-
scious level. The message is usually
buried under the pleasant and relaxing sounds of waves crash-
ing on a beach or a babbling stream. A chief benefit of subliminal