Amanda Devine

Recently, three of my clients came to me and told me that they have a waiting list of clients. Someone would say, “In this economy?” Yes, in this economy. It sounds like a miracle, but it is not.

What is the difference between successful people and others? It is their mind set. Albert Einstein said:  ”There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” That is the kind of mind set I am talking about. But what does that really mean?

Let’s look at that brilliant statement. Imagine there is a person who lives his/her life viewing things as hard, complaining about the economy, the jobless market, their children or their spouse. Seeing the proverbial glass half empty throughout their lives. They are the ones that when things go wrong for them they complain even more. They might even say that, “If it wasn’t for the bad luck, I would not have any luck at all”. It seems like this person’s destiny is to be in a deep financial, relationship, or health hole. I was in a deep health hole myself. That person feels that life is not fair, and everyone is trying to take advantage of them, making the situation even more miserable.

 One day, the person feels like, he/she hit rock bottom and finds himself/herself frustrated with the situation as I was. The feeling of failure and hopelessness is overpowering. Frustration changes into despair. The person looks around for help and somehow cannot find it. It feels like nothing can be done. Then, in that overwhelming feeling of frustration, by pure accident the person finds a story about another person who was in the same situation and they found a way out. Now, our person feels a ray of hope coming through the gloom and doom of their life. He/she starts to investigate what was that the person from the story did to change their lives. He/she throws themselves into the research to discover the incredible and yet so obvious truth