Prosperity, harmony, loving relationships, infinite joy and happiness all begin with thought. All of your thoughts, every single one, have an influence on what you are experiencing in life. Change your thoughts and you, literally, change your life. Can you figure out why the vast majority of individuals, groups and nations encounter the very same challenges and problems over and over again? Why do you think even people who have been travelling the self improvement path for many years still face the same toils and troubles they did when they first began their journey?

I believe it is because these people refuse to take 100% responsibility for their own lives. It is always easier to blame someone or something else for there woes. I also believe that these same people fail to understand what full responsibility means. Are you one of them? Of course taking full responsibility for everything that happens to you doesn't mean you intentionally created that car accident, or the illness or the relationship break-up. However, in your thinking you planted the seed for these things and allowed them to grow in your mind. If you analyse your previous thoughts and behaviour honestly you will find that your negative thinking around these issues was indeed very strong! If these thoughts become dominant and continually repeated over time they will form a predominant way of thinking - an automatic response to life. You then find yourself daydreaming about negative things, totally unaware that you are doing it most of the time and just how often you are doing it. If you become emotionally connected at the time of these daydreams or random thoughts you are drawing these things to you even faster!

When you are not consciously directing your thoughts and feelings you are actually creating by default! You are merely lacking in a full understanding of the great universal Law of Attraction. Every one of your thoughts is creative! Some thoughts get cancelled out, some take years to manifest and others get muddled up in indecision ? one minute you think "I want an extra $400 a week in income" then the next minute you think "But I could only ever expect $200" then again you think "Maybe I could push for $300". Continued thinking along these lines keeps you stuck. If you have a tendency to think negatively then you will find that the things in your life that you do not want to experience are the very things that you are drawing to you. Creating by default is only advisable if you "first seek the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added on to you", Matthew 6:33. If you are 100% positive in your feelings and thoughts then you can create by default but let's face it are you such a human being?

Once you understand the Law of Attraction and the power of all your thoughts you must begin to create what you want in your life in a conscious and deliberate way. Do you have a tendency to deny any responsibility for creating the things in your life that you do not like? Well until you understand your own power and accept responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and actions you cannot create deliberately. You must accept that the good, the bad and the ugly are all your creations and they are merely reflecting aspects of your own being (thoughts and feelings).

Another big hurdle to being a deliberate creator is trying to please others. Are you a hostage to the wants and expectations of other people? Well if you are you should know that there is no possible way to ever satisfy these wants or expectations because as you satisfy one another will appear. You cannot live your life for someone else. People who try to control others feel totally out of control in their own lives! They are never satisfied, so you trying to live your life to please them is a pointless quest!!

You must begin to focus on what you want not what others want for you! Basically, if you find that you are more focused on the things that you do not want then you will attract more of those things to you. However, if you begin to focus on those things that you do want you will find that you attract those things to you. It is for this very reason that most self improvement teachers tell you to practise an attitude of gratitude. By being grateful for the things you have in your life you draw more of those things to you and through the Law of Attraction you draw other things to be grateful for to you also. Every time you a thought or feeling you are creating. Anytime you place your attention or focus on something you are drawing more of that to you. This is a never ending process. However, your creations are mostly by default! Armed with this knowledge you now have access to the power that can create anything and everything you want. By training yourself to change your focus, from what you don't want and moving it in the direction of what you do want, you will change your life beyond recognition. Use your emotions as a guide to how you are thinking. If you feel good when you are thinking then do more of that. If you feel bad when you think about certain subjects stop yourself in your tracks and reverse your thoughts until you start to feel good. In this way you will condition yourself for success and join the ranks of the deliberate creators!