Creating Success Part 3 - Applying Knowledge

Knowledge must be attained before attempting to create techniques to apply them. This is an internal process and development.

This is not the most common way of going about it. Usually people jump into trying techniques with the belief that by using them they will become successful. The outcome is only partially successful at best and temporary. If it does produce positive results, it still lacks any feeling of success. This is the reason that so many people that have made a lot of money lead depressed lives.

When we create knowledge first, we change the dynamics totally. We become successful internally, which then magnetically draws us to the best techniques and solutions. We are attracted to and attract what we are supposed to be doing. We are passionate and attract those things that sustain and enhance our passion. Our lives become totally transformed because we attract what we are. Then the results of our efforts make us successful people and not just people who can do a few things well.

When we apply knowledge we engage the external. This creates an active connection between our inner and outer realities. We have developed a constant contact with knowledge and extend it to the world around us. We use the absolutely essential skill of concentration to maintain this awareness.

Success is a biological imperative dictated by the spiritual element deep inside each of us. Without realizing the process, we are compelled to search for our true nature, which is perfection. The exact meaning varies from person to person, but the goal is the same. We intuitively know that there is something more, something great inside of us. By using concentration, we can penetrate to our true nature and make it a part of our awareness. You can call it spirit, life force, chi, motivation or any other term you are comfortable with, but it is the same energy that sustains all life and gives momentum to our search for success, happiness and love.

Knowledge

This is what you get when you attract all possible information about the subject or task at hand and understand its meaning. The meaning part is something the universe presents to us as a gift when we learn to concentrate the mind. We see all the parts and the meaning “dawns” on us.

Focused concentration activates inspiration! A direct link with the universe opens up and universal intelligence flow in.

The 3 critical skills of Creating Knowledge are:

Concentration + Passion + Sustained Effort

1. Concentration

It enables us to look with great clarity at the task at hand without being distracted. We can examine something from every aspect and look at every detail. When we learn concentration we have the ability to focus on our own thoughts, desires and reactions. We can then be selective in the way we think and act. In this way we begin to have control and decide what we want and don’t want.

2. Passion

Passion is the energy we need to stay focused. It’s a total body sensation. We feel excited, we’re energized. It is much easier to stay focused if we are passionate about what we are doing.

3. Sustained Effort

Sustained effort is what makes us great at concentrating. It’s a skill that gets better with use. The longer we can sustain it, the more focused we become.

Applying Knowledge

We take knowledge and direct it.

The ability to apply knowledge depends on our level of concentration. Any amount of concentration will enable us to do things. Training ourselves will enable us to do things well and prevent us from making mistakes. Our personal relationships will benefit from the ability to be more aware of the wants and needs of those around us.

When we have knowledge, we connect to the most efficient techniques and methods. We determine what we want to accomplish, study it, learn what we don’t know and then put it to use. We are in control. We are not just responding to what life puts in our path. We know what we need and find out what it will take to achieve it. Then we do it until it is achieved.

Once we have reached this stage, we have or can easily get the information we need to solve problems. Concentration enables us to be very selective and discriminating in the information we use. The result is always good. We feel good about ourselves and this encourages us to try new things and energizes us more and more each time we do.

Our intuition at this stage has been activated and we get hunches. They turn out to be true and we’re elated. We trust it more and more and we’re energized even further. Once this process gains traction, it is unstoppable. We know what we know and people can’t talk us out of it. We have proof. Our energy level has increased because we are paying more attention to things that turn us on. We’re having a great day!

The most successful people are the ones who can focus completely on what they love. They have total absorption with white-hot concentration combined with the next critical element of applying knowledge and creating success; love.

When we have the feeling of passion, connection, of doing the right thing, it really is the beginning stage of love. If we do it long enough, we discover it is very much like being in a personal love affair. It has all of the sensations and emotions of being in love with a person. We feel all the care and tenderness that we might share with that person and want only the best for them. We want to care for them and be with them always. This is exactly what it feels like to love what we do with that white-hot passion. We don’t care about the outcome; we just want to do what we love. And you know that what we do will be successful.

We started out thinking that we were just doing something pleasing. We discover that it was the beginning of a love affair as deep as any personal relationship. We have opened our hearts.

Our hearts are the door to the Universe. On a personal and cosmic level this is how we connect. This is the sense organ that enables us to feel other people and the world around us. It is also the gateway for people and the universe to connect with us.

All of our feeling, all good comes through the heart. All the things that enrich, sustain and uplift come through the heart. Everything that makes us feel good and alive comes through the heart. The language of the Universe is Love.

When we use our concentration skills with love, we have unlimited energy and divine wisdom at our disposal. This is because what we create through the heart returns to us magnified. By opening our heart we allow wisdom to enter along with all the energy we need. We will never get tired of doing what we love.

Sustaining this in all our activities will produce personal wisdom. When we align ourselves with cosmic intention, we have all the power, energy and resources to Create Success.

CREATING SUCCESS

Creating success starts with having and using the best information to create knowledge. Once we develop the skill of using concentration, we begin to do successful things. Once we learn how to use white-hot concentration with things we love, we begin to be successful. Our connection to the universe through our hearts gives us energy, intuition, inspiration and wisdom.

We are doing what we are supposed to be doing and truly love. We are inspired and have unlimited energy to sustain it. Our understanding and choices are good and produce good results. We live at peace and harmony. All our needs are taken care of, we can have whatever we want.

We are now living success. We are success.

Ron Pettell 2011-2018

Creating Success Part 1 - Information

In this first part of the Creating Success Trilogy, I develop the ground floor of success. The basis of Success is Information.

If you think about it, information is what enables us to function in the everyday world, no matter where, or when. From birth we are handed huge volumes of information to consume and integrate into our thought patterns. The human child goes through 15 to 20 years of absorbing information to be able to function as adults in our complex society. 

Our access to information determines what kind of life we have and how much wealth we accumulate. Kids in rich families don’t get the same information as kids in poor families. They’re taught different things and to think in different ways than poor kids. The information we have access to determines our expectations and affects our choices. The information we are exposed to even affects what questions we ask and predetermines the answers.

The reason that there are so many unhappy people in the world is because they know that something is wrong but they don’t know what it is. They can’t define the problem or the solution. The quality of information available to the average (non-affluent) person is limited, narrow, obsolete, opinionated hearsay. 

The daily conversation of the working class is filled with one-liners from the most popular sitcoms. Social standing is dependent on the advanced art of the best comeback to witty statements. In this environment nothing is accurate or original. You don’t get points for originality. This is where the problem starts. 

Everybody is in the same boat, and it’s leaking. The average person can’t step out of their world temporarily and look at it objectively. They keep getting the same information presented in the same way which gives the same answers. I believe it’s called a treadmill.

It’s quite amazing to me that there is so much information available to anyone with a computer and a connection to the internet. Before the internet era, getting information meant having access to libraries. The elite university libraries were where the really neat books were. Of course access was limited to upper class kids. The rest didn’t even know those books existed.

Now, we have a vastly different problem. There is so much information available that we’re totally overwhelmed. “There just isn’t enough time, and I have people I need to text.” “So, how do I know what’s important anyway”? “Is it going to make me popular”? “Will it help me get the right job”? 

People have been trained to accept information “bursts”. They don’t seek information, they’re hit with it, sometimes with consent and sometimes not.

So, the real value of information is not comprehended. The simple truth is that Information tells us about the nature of anything we care to look at. What it looks like, how it functions, what qualities it possesses, how it fits in with everything else, what it affects and how it is effected. It also enables us to look at the very abstract idea of meaning. 

What does what I am looking at “mean”. Meaning is the hidden gem in information. Meaning is what elevates and transforms information into knowledge.

The more competent the source of the information, the more we can trust the picture the information is revealing to us. Accurate information in problem solving produces positive results. Failure to use accurate information usually brings negative or disastrous results. And here is the point of separation between the upbringing of rich and poor kids. 

The information shared in daily contact between rich parents and their kids is filled with information about being successful. How you talk, what you wear, what you do, how you recognize business opportunities, how you make money, how you use it, how you relate to those you hire. Years of exposure to this eventually build a world view ideally suited to being successful and wealthy. The total information/belief system is complete.

Contrast this with the upbringing of the poor (economically challenged). Visualize the dinner table (or couch) of a poor family. The information shared is about not being able to pay which bill this week, intermingled with comments about something stupid on the TV. “And you had better graduate so you can get a good job”. They’re not easy to find these days”.” Look what they’ve done to this country”. “All my buddies say we’re in for bad times, I don’t know what we’re going to do”! ”I’m just too old”.

The information available to these two groups couldn’t be farther apart. The rich group can’t imagine what the problem is? “If they’re poor, it’s their own fault”. The poor group can’t imagine why the rich treat them so badly. “Can’t they see what we’re going through? They're making life hard for us!”

What separates the rich from the poor is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful. Accurate, complete, relevant, timely, meaningful Information. No matter what you are trying to do, then you owe it to yourself to use good information. 

Start with a conscious effort to see how good the information is you normally rely on. Develop the habit of accepting only the best information upon which to base your views and decisions. Don’t be influenced to accept inferior information by those around you. This step is the critical one. If you aren’t already doing this, then begin now.

When you are trying to solve a problem, define what you are looking for to the best of your ability. Then find the sources that contain the appropriate kind of information. Sources tend to specialize. Develop a method for analyzing the quality of information. 

One simple method involves posing the same question to multiple similar locations. Then compare the answers to get a sense of the quality. Pick the best one and use it. Academic sources can be useful for certain kinds of information because they tend to be more accurate and rigorous in their citations. They also have access to the latest research. Their information is shared more readily than with proprietary private research.

The information that you use determines your world view, which determines the options you have in life. If you are unsatisfied with your life, look at your bottom line to find the source of the problem and the solution.

The second part of the Creating Success Trilogy will explore Knowledge.

Ron Pettell 2011-2018

Passion Is The Key To Happiness and Financial Success

Circumstances Are Usually In Control Of Our Lives

It took me many years to fully understand these words.

We get caught up in circumstances that seem to be out-of-our-hands and struggle to keep our noses above water as we swim toward anything that resembles a piece of stable, dry land.

Most people, most of the time, set a course but have no wind in their sail, gas in their tank and frequently not even a rudder. They are dam sincere about wanting change, but  have absolutely no hope of getting there. On top of that, after spinning their wheels enough times, they get discouraged, old or both. The opportunities are gone along with their vitality and motivation.

Our Occupations Trap Us

A huge part of the problem has to do with the occupation we initially choose without full comprehension. Our attitude in the beginning is that it's not important what we do; we can change later....no big deal. Besides we have to have money and it's being offered right now. I'd better take it. 

We get into this line of work and time goes by, and by. Pretty soon we're locked in. We're more experienced, making more money and starting over with something else is getting harder. This process goes on until finally we can't leave. 

This is long after we realize that we really resent our work. It takes all weekend to recover from it and return the next week. We are now trapped because like most people, we bought liabilities like cars, phones, TVs, sound systems, lawn mowers and all the other things that we thought would make working ok. 

In the end  they guarantee that resentment will turn to hatred because of  the hidden cost of losing the very thing that makes life worthwhile; happiness and passion for living.

This scenario gets played out millions of times daily throughout the world. Without realizing what happened, life has passed by.

We Have A Choice

It doesn't have to be that way. No matter where you are in life, you can gain control of your life if you truly want to. First the determination comes, then the learning, then the applying. It's simple, but needs sustained effort to accomplish.

That's what this blog is about. I want to help you unravel the true from the untrue. I would like to offer what I know to help you realize that happiness isn't just another word. It's a reality that is the birthright of every person on this planet.

Everyone Is Unique

One system doesn't fit all. Nor is there one method that everyone should use. Everyone is unique so each solution is unique. The only thing that is the same are the principles that let each person find their own happiness and success. There are really only a few principles but they are profound and life changing, seriously life changing.

You Must Be Prepared To Change

And that is the prerequisite for happiness; you must be prepared to have your life changed. There is nothing that you can buy or acquire that will change your life. You can't  preserve your present life in the way that it now exists. 

All the components that add up to unhappiness will prevent happiness. You have to be willing to give up the unhappiness. 

Humans cling to their unhappiness for a semblance of comfort. You have to let it go. I mean it; you will struggle but happiness must win. Once you do this, you are ready to begin.

Passion Is The Key To Happiness, Fulfillment and Financial Success

Passion is the natural state of humans. To experience and receive enjoyment from being alive is the way we come into this world and are taught to quickly lose. 

We must remember. We must reconnect to our memories and make them ever-present. Passion is our connection to life and to others. It's the feeling of newness and excitement that made us run and jump and laugh as kids. It's a feeling. It's a feeling. It's a feeling...Remember?

Passion As A Tool

When you have embraced passion in your life and experience it daily, you are ready to use it to create a better life for you and your family. And, hopefully, a better world.

Passion, Energy, Life is the fundamental for creativity and success. The more you have of it, the greater your success. Period.

Passion gives you energy, enhances your concentration, motivates you to sustained effort, inspires you with new creativity, helps you to plan and organize, directs your learning process, prevents a lot of wasted effort and mistakes, eliminates laziness and procrastination and teaches you how to hustle. There's probably something I've left out here.

An Inspired Life Is a Passionate Life

When you are passionate, you are creative, you don't get tired or bored. You don't notice the time go by. You are happy when you work, sorry when you have to stop and eager to get started again the next day. The work is enjoyable and the result is usually excellent.

Passionate work is inspired work. The work that was inspired in the past is the only work that has endured and been passed down to us through history. This is the stuff we pay money to look at in the museums and bother to put in our history books for our children to admire.

Money Is The Result of a Passionate  Life

When we focus on happiness we are focusing on a force of nature. Happiness causes the effects of wealth in all its forms. It's a cause.

When we are passionate, happy and competent in the work we do, we will be financially successful. Our work brings happiness to others and we receive happiness from them.

The energy of passion is outgoing, giving and loving. This opens the door for the universe to fill us back up with a constant stream of inspired, dynamic, passionate energy. 

The more we do it the more we get. I don't believe there is a limit to how passionate and inspired we can feel.

This is the simple  basis for a Happy, Fulfilling and Financially Successful Life for you and your family.

To Your Success

Ron Pettell