We are the average of five people we hang around with!

People in our life do influence us. They programme us so much that they determine who we will become, what we will get, who we will marry, who will be our friends and what will be our life-style or standard of living. Jim Rohn often used to say that 'our income will be the average of the five closest people we spend our most time with'. This statement makes so much sense that there is no room for any doubt.

Prior to undertaking personal development, I used to have victim friends but now those victim friends are no longer in touch with me. I used to think they forgot me but later I understood that I had moved forward, I had grown up and made a substantial progress in gaining consciousness as a result my old friends remained where they used to be. Old friends do fade away as we gain greater consciousness. The spiritual laws of prosperity do work and I am glad I came to know Randy Gage who had posted his videos about prosperity on You Tube.

We are indeed the average of the five people we spend our most time with and as we hang around, they in turn influence our thinking, attitudes, behaviours, life-style, education and books we will read. It takes tons of education to unravel the old programs because it is not easy to unscramble the acquired habits. So be careful who you associate with and what they do for you in terms of attaining your goals, dreams and financial abundance.

If you want to become successful and rich, hang around with such people. If you don't have any personal chance to meet them physically, see them on the internet, download their photos, articles and think about them and take them as your mentors or coaches and you will be glad one day that you did this exercise. Similarly, you don't have to associate physically with successful and rich people, you just need to read their biographies over the internet and if you get an opportunity to buy books written by them you can read them and follow their insights and experiences to change your course of life.

Remember you can become millionaires and billionaires if you associate with such people though not physically but mentally reading and learning about them on the internet or books. Once you have gained enough consciousness or have become a kind of person that requires one to meet such people, you will have many opportunities to meet them during your life time. You will have friends from higher spectrum of society.

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?" Jim Rohn

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Know Thyself!

We usually ask around kids when they are in schools or colleges, what do you want to be when you grow up? What we generally mean here is what profession do you want to engage in to make a living and the reply we probably get is same the old cliché. Some kids say they want to be doctors, engineers, architects, athletes, executives and others say soldiers, teachers, government employees and still others don't clearly say what they want and very few rare kids say they want to be business owners.

The schools and colleges exclusively impart academic and professional education whereby they teach about being doctors, engineers, lawyers, architects etc and they don't educate about the inner cast of characters. The schools and colleges are designed to keep students ignorant about themselves because the school curriculum keeps them busy and tight that they hardly get time to explore their inner potentials and know their characters.

Robert Kiyosaki, in his book, "Rich Dad's Prophecy," mentions about different cast of characters. Inside each person there are a set of personalities or characters which determine the rest of our future life. The knowledge of inner characters that we display on a daily basis dictate who we will turn out to be in our profession. Therefore it is very important to figure out and know our real characters that operate with in order to conduct our routine businesses of life.

Inside each us, there is a kind of person such as a mean person, a greedy person, a rich person, a poor person, a coward, a crook, a hero, a liar, a lover, a loser, a winner, a victim, a victor, an offender, a leader, a follower, a servant, a master and many more personalities and characters which we act upon daily in a given situation.

It is very important to know these inner parts of you before you take up any profession in life. "A person's choice of character is far more important than a person's choice of profession." Robert Kiyosaki. The coward, greedy, rich or poor, hero or victor, victim or loser etc. will show up in the course of any profession. There are ample real examples of coward, greedy, rich, poor, victor, victim in the world. You can see the world of financial frauds, bribes, corruption, stealing etc. by very well dressed top executives to well established institutes everywhere displaying their cast of characters.

Lesson in characters that we play in our profession is very important and it is needed to keep our future generation a truthful and honest civilization. That is why 'know thyself' applies today to all of us look for job or employments. Whatever we are inside good or bad that we will reflect on the outside at our workplace or in our home. The characters we take upon to conduct the daily business do have some positive or negative impact on the society at large.

Know thyself is indeed required of us to be conscious of who really we are. It is important to be truthful and honest in our everyday transactions because when we tell the truth, truth really sets us free and gives harmony, happiness and a reason to live another day.

Teach the young children the cast of different characters so that they should never be misled in the event of emergency. Don't be surprised when the TV channels flash the breaking news of fraud or corruption by important leaders of the world. It is true that so many people were not conscious about their inner characters that they were hiding in them. Time and time again, those characters do overpower us and make us commit the bad or good whichever gets more focus or passion from our end. Therefore, know yourself enough and be true and honest with integrity.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Smile Big, Really A Big Smile:)

Most of us have heard at one time or another that a smile gives us a real boost. And we are told that smile is an excellent medicine for confidence deficiency. Smile really improves our confidence level and personal charm. There is a great positive reward in smiling and there are negative rewards in not smiling too. We can make a choose either to smile a little or smile big so that our real self can be seen.

We don't get anything by not smiling big, rather we get something be smiling big. You must observe people who have a big smile on their face and how they look appealing, confident, cheerful and honest. Remember you must give an honest smile not a fake one. Other people will easily know whether your smile is fake or real.

Smile should be natural and it should be practised at all times no matter what conditions or circumstances we find ourselves in at the time. Many of us have learned to earn our living, we have learned to raise our kids, we have learned to go shopping, go on vacation and even we have learned to do the balance sheet but we have never learned to smile big always.

When we don't smile we feel defeated, dejected or sad or unappreciated. But a big smile beats all fears, defeat, sadness and the negative thoughts. Real smile takes away our fears, doubts and generates new hopes and confidence. Therefore smile big and you will have a great happy day every time.

I really appreciate and I am proud of those people who possess wonderful smile on their face. I think I feel jealous of their broad smile. Never become self-conscious and even you have uneven set of teeth, never bother about that because that is the least you can imagine others will notice about you. Any big smile cuts through the barriers of personal deformity, smile is not deformed it is perfect and powerful. So bring out your big and true smile because you have a unique smile and that is very special.

I am not an expert in smile. But from my observation, I have learned that it is better to smile big because it creates some kind of magic and harmony among the surrounding. There is a neighbour near my home, that family hardly smile, they look serious and unwelcoming always. So when we don't smile, it doesn't attract goodness, kindness and friendship. It doesn't cost anything to smile, however it requires your efforts from your side. Smile can be learned through practice and if you do on a regular basis, you will one day appreciate the magic power of smile.

If you smile, your chances of success in life increases and guarantees whatever you desire to have in life. So make a commitment today to smile big. Smile until your teeth show. Let your even or uneven teeth show up to the world by smiling big. Smile makes everything look beautiful and nice. Your confidence will grow and you will be happy that you learned to smile big. Show that large-size smile and you will be on your way to flying high in spirit, zeal and achievement.

Say to yourself even when you are angry or don't feel like smiling,"I am going to smile big because I know the magic power of it." Smile Big :)

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Have many big aspirations!

"There is no shame in having fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it." Samuel Amalu

The world's fourth richest man, Laxmi Mittal, was born in a poor family. Twenty family members shared rooms, sleeping on rope beds and cooking on a brick oven in the backyard. The home town Sadulpur in Rajasthan, India was a very poor, very hard place to work and there was no electricity or piped water.

He was not ashamed of being born in a poor family. There was no shame at all because he had many big aspirations, big dreams and goals. He dreamed of better life and better things in life. Being born in a lowly estate didn't deter him from rising up and becoming the fourth richest man in the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, native of Austria made himself a body building champion, then a Hollywood star and now the Governor of California. What a journey in life he has taken. He attracted successes to himself by becoming the person that takes to be successful and enjoy good things of life.

The most successful people were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
They were not lucky or won lottery prize. They made to the top because they had many big aspirations, dreams and goals. They had definite purpose and that spurred them to achieve big results.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Get rid of your Doubts and Fears!

Doubts and fears will always cripple you if you don't get rid of them. You need to live through your Inner Spirit and not through your Flesh. If you pay attention to the spiritual power within you, then there is no fear or doubts coming to attack you. You can be certain that you won't doubt your abilities and you won't fear the unknown dreams.

H. Emilie Cady has rightly said, "each one of us has two regions of being--one the fleshly, mortal part, which is always feeling its weakness and insufficiency in all things, always saying, "I can't." Then at the very center of our being there is a something that, in our highest moments, knows itself more than conqueror over all things; it always says, "I can, and I will."

I worked as an employee for nearly four years and in the meanwhile I started my part-time business because I wanted to be an entrepreneur. While I was working full time in my job and part time in my fortune, I had a great level of confidence because everything was going well as planned. I said more often, "I can and I will." But when I decided to go full time in my business, suddenly I was overwhelmed with fears and doubts. My fleshy self i.e. my outer self felt incompetent and weak. I felt like going back to the safe job. The idea of safe and secure job came to my mind uncountable times.

When we operate from our mortal part, we can't really accomplish our goals. Therefore it is imperative that we should operate from the spirit which is the source of good things. We must achieve things in spirit first and then make it a reality. Though this seems hard and unreal, but it is really very encouraging to follow this law.

Doubts and fears have killed many talented men and women and they will kill many more dreams of people who operate through mortal being rather than spiritual realm. We need to be strongly grounded in the spirit and recognize the power of God which comes to us through the unseen means of spiritual vehicles.

You can overcome any fears and doubts when you are relying upon the spirit to perform the task for you. You have your own guiding principles and you must pay attention to it. Spirit gives life and power to pursue your dreams. Believe in the spirit and lead your life in spiritual planes.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

God/Infinite Power is the Source of Our Supply!

You may not be as prosperous as you wish to be, though you put in a lot of hard work in order to accomplish your goals. Why do you think, you don't enjoy all those good things of life that comes with success and accomplishment? Hard working alone is not the defining factor of achieving your goals, it is only one side of the game. You can never work on your own power and talents. You need the mixed ingredients of God's power.

A doctor once said: "I never really prospered, though I worked hard trying, until I learned that prosperity has a spiritual basis. After I began to affirm daily that God was the Source of my supply—that I did not have to depend upon my patients or upon other people or upon economic conditions for my prosperity—I was able to build a new clinic for my patients within eight months."

We can't achieve much without the consciousness of higher power that enables us to accomplish all that we desire. We must not forget the providence of God or Infinite Power which is the main source of all that requires to achieve our dreams. I used to think that my talents or skills alone can give me success that I was looking for. But it didn't happen that way. I used to get frustrated when I depended largely on people or condition or environment to do favours for me. I expected things to happen my way but things didn't work out as I wished.

I had forgotten the truth that God/Infinite Power is the main source of all wealth, money, success, health, ideas and happiness. Once I came to the consciousness of Higher Power I began to rely on that power and to my surprise things began to work in my favour. I let the things, situation, people and environment go and I allowed the Higher Power to do its part and things really improved for me. New opportunities and ideas began to show up without much efforts.

I believe that you should understand the Infinite Power, which is colourless, formless, tasteless and invisible to the physical eyes but its presence pervades the whole universe and exists among us all the time, space and life. It is present all 24 hours and 365 days. It can be likened to the air which we breathe in and out but this Power is more than our breath.

You got to apply this in your own life and examine for yourself whether it stands true or not. You may not believe my telling, so it is better you check this out and know for sure. If you get convinced you follow and benefit the outcomes that you long to have in your life time.

The religion is an invention and as Karl Marx rightly said, "religion is like an opium for people." Religion distorts the concept of God or the Infinite Power. Religion limits God within the body of human being. Religion is just like a company which has its own policies, procedures in the form of dogmas and creeds.

I don't mean to say that you don't follow any religion. You are free to do so. It is your choice. But remember, GOD or Higher Power, can't be contained in the policies, dogmas or creeds. You got to graduate from the lower level to higher level of consciousness. So believe in God that really provides you all that you want.

God is the source of all our supplies.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Pursue Your Dreams!

As children, we had many dreams and we thought that they were possible to reach. When adults asked us what we wanted to become or achieve, without any hesitation we would tell them our list of dreams and goals. The adults too were happy to know our aspiration and wishes. They never discouraged us when we were in our early childhood. And it made us believe that really we could reach even to the moon.

But as we grew older and began to feel shy or uneasy about many aspects of life, our dreams and goals seemed to be impossible ones. We began to think that our childhood dreams were merely fantasies and so would never come true. So without any further thinking or research, we gave up our childhood aspirations and began to form new desires and ambition of teenagers.

The early part of our childhood dreams soon faded away and were hard to revive them. Even if we tried to think of them, we lost interest and desire to pursue. Even if we wanted to pursue them, our elders then discouraged us from pursuing them. The adults gave their opinions and we got carried away by their advice. And thus our dreams died in our childhood.

Even when we reached teenage, we formed new dreams and goals but those teenage dreams too were washed away when our peers or elders didn't approve and didn't encourage us. So we began to fit into some peer group that means we began to conform to the opinions of the majority. We wanted to be like what everyone was doing and behaving. If our peers were into smoking, drinking or drugs, we, without much thinking joined the crowd and as we were busy wasting our precious time with friends, we lost the sight of our dreams.

Then comes the time to get married and we have children. Our concern now shifts to take care of the new family. By this time, at last we realize our errors and mistakes and feel guilty and sad for not pursuing our childhood or teenage dreams. We start to think that we would have really accomplished our dreams, had we not lost our focus or interest. It seems now very late to start all over again because we are now in our early thirties or late thirties and in our early forties or late forties. The childhood dreams still look bleak and unachievable.

But what if I say here that early childhood dreams or goals are really achievable and possible. It is never too late to pursue, rather it is the right time to pursue and become successful. We must never give up our original goals, which we dreamt in our childhood or when we were teenagers. Dreams and goals are programs that get imprinted in our unconscious part of the mind and they are available whenever we want to realize them.

I would reiterate here by urging, never ever give up your dreams, rather pursue them till the finish line. Remember always Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, when you think that your dreams are not achievable. You may have a large number of professions before becoming a big success and that is not a distraction but rather it a process of construction. And know well that anything that is imprinted in the unconscious part of mind and pursued with great zeal, nothing is impossible.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor