Some people expend enormous amounts of energy trying to become financially successful. They seem to do almost everything right--set goals, read books, go to seminars. They go through all the right motions. Still, success seems to somehow elude them. Yet others appear to go through the same motions and are literally awash in abundance. What is the difference? To manifest abundance, you need to achieve congruence--the condition where all parts of you are in alignment. Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen, authors of The One Minute Millionaire

The Law of Clarity of Purpose requires that we look deep inside, separating our true values from our beliefs and then bringing those values into every decision we make and every action we take. Begin by making a list of your values...what is it you stand for, what lives in your heart? These are not necessarily the values held by your parents or siblings. Each one of us has to take a personal look in order to see who we really are as opposed to what others expect us to be.

It is our core 4 or 5 values that, when allowd to flourish in our lives, bring us the most joy and permit us to share our talent or gift with the world through not just our businesses but with our presence in all things.

We have two purposes:

• Our True Life Purpose
• Our Inherited or Historical Purpose

1. True Life Purpose
   
   Clarify and define your true life purpose and have it permeate all elements of your existence.
   
   Think of a glass as your true life purpose. When you pour liquid into the glass, the glass gives shape and form to it. So, it is the liquid that represents your life.
   
   The key ingredient of the true, divinely inspired life purpose is Love. This then begins to shape you and all of your life. If you're not living in Love as your shaping force, you are living in fear, scarcity thinking and struggle.
   
   Why do we fall into this fear trap? Because we carry with us something called the Inherited or Historical Purpose.
   
    
2. Inherited/Historical Purpose
   
   The best way for me to describe this to you is with a personal story. I have always feared bankruptcy. And I feared scarcity, I was work addicted, I was a perfectionist and had an inability to live in the moment. This all became my way of life and eventually it drove me to self-medicate because living in this place is totally intolerable. One day I asked my mother “Why do you suppose that, even in the best of times, I fear bankruptcy? What do you suppose is at play here?” She thought a minute and said “Well it could be that your father, every Monday morning, said ‘This is the day we go bankrupt’. It was like a bolt of lightening. I understood at that moment, this is not my life purpose. This belonged to my father. So I was able to move forward and define more clearly what my true life purpose was.
   
   So, your true life purpose and your inherited purpose differ in that they shape your life differently. The inherited purpose is very powerful as it plays in the background obscuring your true life purpose and clouding your vision.
   
   "I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me." Lyda Maria Child
   
   So find that light. The absolute heart of your marketing plan exists in your clarity about your essential nature - principles, values, vision and ultimately your mission. Most people believe that their mission should simply reflect what their vision is for their business. Not so. The strength of a successful business lies in the strength of its foundation. And the foundation is the mission – the combined personal and business missions of the individual. No marketing plan will succeed until you have a strong and immovable foundation.
   
   Congruence, as Allan and Hanson in The One Minute Millionaire say, and specificity along with determination and actions taken, place you in the flow of all life and give the Universe the tools to support you in your journey. It then can create the magic we see and experience when we are in the flow.
   
   Remember your business and its offering is nothing more or less than the tool for fulfilling your purpose. This is the reason it’s so key to work in harmony with the Law of Clarity of Purpose and what you stand for, in other words, your core values. Then and only then is it possible to be clear about who your perfect client is and how you will attract them to you.
   
   When you work with the Law of Attraction you are partnering with the Universe to create your perfect life, perfect client and your perfect business.
    

   Deep inside of us is a little hidden place, a place of purity that we still have not shared with the outside world. It is filled with untouched light, wisdom, pure grace and innocence. It is where we hide the teacher, the healer, and even the master. We have been safeguarding this light for so long, protecting it from contamination, saving it for some special time. Many times, if we are aware of this special place, we choose not to acknowledge it, as it is painful to realize the distance between how we are living and who we truly are. So we block it from our minds, busying ourselves with related pursuits and peripheral distractions. The biggest reason we hide this special place is because we will be naked and vulnerable to the world, and this scares us to our very core. Aluna Joy Yaxk’in taken from an Attracting Perfect Customers E-zine.

   
   I urge you to break free of your attachment to fear and release your gifts to the world – your special light, wisdom and love – and the Universe will surround you with all that you need to feel safe.

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