LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

Joel it taking two more weeks off to get settled in his new role of director at the treatment center, so Uohna and Mark join Walt this week to do book reports. Under discussion: Awakened Imagination, by Neville Goddard and Before Happiness, by Shawn Achor.

The good news is that Joel is back! The bad news is that the reason he's been away for the past two weeks is because his mom died suddenly and unexpectedly. But Joel has also mastered the art of successfully dealing with grief, and he shares his secret method with us. You will be amazed at how positive he feels after such a negative event in his life!

With Joel on personal leave for a second week in a row, Uohna once again steps up to the mic. This week we talk about how we deal with down times when it's hard to get your mind back on a positive track. We're hoping that Joel will be back on the mic next week. When he's back, we will continue with our interrupted discussion of The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne.

Joel takes this week off for personal reasons, so Walt gets joined by some old friends here on LOA Today: his brother Mark and sister-in-law Uohna continue our discussion of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Joel will be back next week, when we will pick up where we left off.

Rhonda Byrne wrote The Secret and released the movie with the same name in November 2006. It quickly became a bestseller, introducing the world to an old concept with a new name: The Law of Attraction. Over the next few weeks, we plan to discuss this influential book on a chapter by chapter basis. This week, we introduce the basic concept of the Law of Attraction and talk about various ways we str...

This week we conclude our exploration of Think And Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. You don't have to buy into what Hill says in this chapter in order to put his principles into effect in your life. However, it does round things off to discover how he chose to use the power of what we later called the Law of Attraction to improve his own life. Hill daringly decided he could talk to dead people with na...

Some would say that this chapter of Napoleon Hill's classic book is the most "out there" chapter in the book. We say it's the most amazing chapter because it got so much right so far ahead of its time. Today, modern science continues to unintentionally confirm aspect after aspect of Hill's thesis, although modern scientists would mostly reject it. But the trend is unmistakable, and we be...

We couldn't finish this topic last week, so we decided to devote an entire second episode to it. After all, the subconscious mind plays an ENORMOUS role in our every day lives, even though most of us aren't even aware of it. Nevertheless, more and more people are becoming aware of it, including the fact that they can influence not only the subconscious mind but also our DNA itself! You don't want...

We have been working through Napoleon Hill's classic for more than three months now, and we've finally gotten to the chapter on the subconscious mind. Both of us agree that the subconscious mind is where all the "magic" happens that controls how we use the Law of Attraction. It's where we use the "vortex". It's where we incubate thoughts that become things. And it can be either...

A Master Mind is a group of people who come together for a common purpose. If that common purpose is you or your business idea, then you are the focus of the Master Mind. We discuss this key concept in Hill's book and note in particular all of the ways we already use it in our every day lives.

Walt begins the discussion this week by noticing that each chapter we cover in this series seems to touch directly on his own life as well. The trick with the later chapters in the book is that they seem to touch on the areas of resistance within each one of us. These areas of resistance are actually clues to where we need to work on ourselves the most. We are resistant to the resistance areas. So...

Subtitled The Mastery of Procrastination, this chapter in Hill's book touches on what Joel and Walt agree is the #1 reason why people fail to achieve their financial goals in life. Indecisiveness can occur for a number of reasons, including bending the opinions of others and feeling doubt or lack of confidence regarding one's own decisions. The only caveat for this chapter is that both of us quest...

Last episode we were only able to cover the first third of Chapter 7 on Organized Planning, so we continued the discussion this time on the rest of that same chapter. The concepts contained in this chapter are essential to anyone who wants to succeed, whether as an entrepreneur or as an employee. What really matters is what your attitude is as you approach the whole thing. Hill also spends conside...

The "Master Mind" is a key component of Napoleon Hill's classic model for acquiring wealth, Think And Grow Rich. We begin our exploration of Chapter 7, Organized Planning this week, and because it is such a long chapter densely packed with useful information, we will continue our discussion of it next week.

Probably the most child-like aspect of Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is his system's reliance on imagination. Imagination is really Law of Attraction 101. The three step LOA process: Ask, Believe, and Receive, starts with Ask, and that's where imagination really becomes paramount.

We continue our discussion of Napoleon Hill's classic self-help book, Think And Grow Rich. This week we discuss Chapter 5 in our 4th episode in the series, on the topic of Specialized Knowledge. This was one of the easiest topics we have discussed so far regarding the book, because specialized knowledge has played such a key role in the development of the modern 21st century era. So it's easy for...

We continue our discussion of Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill by focusing on Chapter 4 - Autosuggestion. This chapter is really the main key to the whole book. Autosuggestion is the process of deliberately putting positive messages into your subconscious mind. It's the most effective method we have for changing our focus, changing the things that happen in our lives, and changing what we attr...

The second and third chapters of the book are perhaps the most important, because according to Hill (and to most modern gurus), combining desire and faith is the foundational cornerstone for achieving personal success and wealth. Last week, we laid out the six steps to take to help you establish your burning desire to achieve what you want to achieve. This week's chapter lays out an additional six...

Napoleon Hill's classic book, Think And Grow Rich, will be the topic of the next few episodes. We start it with this week's show. The book is now in the public domain, so there are a number of places online you can get it for free, including at FreePDFs.org. So grab a copy and read the chapters with us as we discuss the book's highlights over the next few week.

The holidays are a time for bonding, among other things, and this week we focus on bonding and the role it plays in getting the Law of Attraction to work to our highest and greatest benefit in life. Plus it's a great opportunity for Joel to brag about his new foster son!

Happy Thanksgiving Day, everybody! You may be surprised to discover that this week we don't spend much time talking about gratitude on a day devoted to gratitude. Instead, we focus on resilience and persistence this week, because when we learn to be resilient and persistent in our pursuit of controlling our own focus in life, we produce better results in our lives.

If it were not for our personal resistance, all of our greatest dreams would come true, expand, grow, and create ever greater desires and dreams every day of our lives. What a world that would be! So why do we resist? And more importantly, how do we resist? Joel and Walt explore this question in some detail during today's show.

The overwhelming characteristic of this year's election cycle was that so many people focused on what they didn't want. That tendency generally produces the opposite of what people originally intend. The same thing is true in our personal, individual lives. Are you focusing on what you want or on the lack of what you want? And what do you think will be the result? This is a vital episode for anyon...

Walt and Joel spend this episode talking about the things the appreciate in their own lives, in the hope that our listeners will be inspired to engage in a similar, internal examination to be grateful for what's great about their own lives.

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