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The Good You Seek Is Seeking You!

© Richard Kent Matthews

How To Pray Your Way To Health, Wealth, Prosperity, Abundance, Success, and Of Course, Humility! Part I

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Books, articles, the Internet, workshops, seminars, infomercials, churches, synagogues, even colleges and universities. What do they have in common these days, more than ever before?

They're full of information (and promises) on how to get everything you want in life, simply, easily, and in many cases, cheap, if not free. Is it really true? Is it even possible? Can you avoid all the hard work that's usually associated with success and the acquisition of material prosperity? Let's see...

I've read them all. Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Dennis Waitley, Maxwell Maltz, Napoleon Hill, Patricia Frick, Dottie Walters, Wayne Dyer, and a host of others. To a person, they seem to agree: work smarter, not harder. Then, a paragraph or two later, they say something like "Luck is where hard work meets opportunity." Well, which is it? One, or both, or neither? Don't misunderstand me; I have received much from these authors. And I have taken what I've learned from them and made it my own.

From this point on, everything you read will be about my personal experience. Even if you put all the information I will be sharing with you into practice, your experience will be different. That's the way it's supposed to be, right? It's good that it is. Your experiences are unique and add to the flavor of the world in unique ways. Just like snowflakes, no two human lives are experienced in quite the same manner.

So, here's my take on the "work smarter, not harder/hard work meets opportunity" conundrum. I believe that working smarter brings opportunity, that work only needs to be hard if I like hard work; otherwise, my smarts can carry me further than breaking my back ever will. I prefer working smarter. One of the ways to work smarter is to pray wiser. The majority of the great religions teach that by becoming intellectually and emotional attuned to the universal principles, we can direct our lives in ways not possible when we give ourselves over--consciously or unconsciously--to chance alone. Chance is important, it plays a part. But it doesn't have to be the final arbiter. And even when chance inserts itself into the mix, we can still come out smelling like the proverbial rose by simply remembering that outside circumstances do not have to control our inner responses. We can be successful even in our failures.

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