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It's been a long slow summer for many of us, and with the holiday 
season fast approaching it might not be looking much better. With
that wonderful fact out of the way, it's probably time for you to 
refine your business and focus on a few solid opportunities. One 
major reason that so many of us are having a hard time is because
we're promoting the wrong products. Rather than finding the solid
opportunity out there, refining a marketing plan, and building a 
business around it, a lot of people are going to a quick score. I
can't fault some people for jumping at a quick score, but if you 
are really looking to make a living working online then you are 
going to have to avoid that common mistake. One person I know of 
has been hard at work building a six-figure income around a group
of three affiliate programs that are years old. I'm sure some of 
you don't think this is possible, but it definitely is! You'll be
able to generate the same kind of success, with programs that are
just as well established ( see, I didn't say old ), if you really
buckle down and focus. Think back 6 months and tell me if you can
find a single opportunity that is paying you more than they were 
way back then. If you can't think of one that is, or even worse,
can't think of an opportunity you were a part of six months ago,
then it's no surprise that you had a hard summer. The era of new
opportunities generating long-term, quick cash is gone. The real 
way to make money online is to find a few solid affiliate plans,
take your time generating a strategy, and then executing the plan
over a period of at least a few months. What makes a good program
to promote? It's simple, think of what you've used for a year or
more on a monthly basis, and go with that. If you've been willing
to pay for something, every month, for a year, don't you think 
you would be able to find others willing to do the same?


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When Is It Time Not To Plan?

Many of us have all heard the age-old saying that failing to
plan is planning to fail. And many of us know the value and
power that is found in setting goals, especially written
ones. Every business guru, diet guru, sports guru... any
guru... take your pick from the plenty there are... all of
them stress one thing: have goals, will succeed. So we know
this works. At the same time, we all hear of the importance
and immense power of letting go, detachment. So we also know
that this works. But it all sounds contradictory at first,
doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t. The question then is, when is it
time to plan, and when is it time to let go (not plan)? Put
in another way, when does planning help you, and when does
it harm you? When do things "go bad" not in spite of your
plans, but because of them? That is the question, the answer
to which will allow you to drop off the stress and worry
baggage, stop unwittingly messing yourself up with plans
made at the wrong place and time, and generally empower and
free you a great deal.

Well, to begin with, it is a good time to define a plan so
that we know what we are talking about. A plan is a vision;
a template which when followed guarantees a certain outcome.
It is a collection of cause-and-effect clusters that all
work together to produce one final desired outcome. The
essence inspires a vision that defines the becoming of a
form, through process, that will hold the expression and
experience of the essence that inspired it. That is a plan.
Obviously, a plan with missing or incorrect inputs will not
lead to the correct outcome, because it is not based on
truth, on the Universe as it were, on the Laws It Works By.
So you can imagine that an incomplete plan will work, but it
won’t - it can only hope to approximate. Incomplete plans don’t
work fully, no matter how one deludes themselves prior to
the frustration of seeing the plan dashed against the rocks.
Moving on, a plan made at the level of your ego is a
personal plan. You make it because you have certain hopes
and fears and you wish to avoid what you fear and make what
you hope for happen. Without fear, you would rarely plan
personally. Most plans are defensive; defensive against some
imagined attack. A feature of a personal plan is that they
have a future imagined "good end" to aim for and a "bad end"
to avoid. Therefore, a personal plan is based on judgment
(against yourself and others) and abstract assumed scenarios
as part of its inputs. Its driving force is partially based
on fear, as all things from the ego level are.

Here is a key point: personal plans are made from a vantage
point that has no vision of all factors involved in all
dimensions of space and time, and that is why the ego
assumes things in an attempt to fill in the places it has no
idea about. At this level of consciousness, you can only see
what is right Here Now, and for most humans that is a tiny
slice of eternity. Of all the millions of cause-and-effect
components required to cooperate all across the universe for
your desire to be fulfilled, your egoic self is only aware
of a tiny percentage of them. That is why its plans are
never complete. But then there is a part of You that is
nonphysical and aware of all, all, the components and how
they would exactly fit into the space-time continuum to
guarantee that your desire is fulfilled. That part of You is
Everywhere, that is why It Knows.

Now, I would like you to stop for a moment and remember the
last time you had a flash of insight, an ah-ha that made you
smile with delight at how smart you are. We have all had
those moments where, literally out of the blue, we get it!
You could be taking a piss while daydreaming about the
ocean, when this brilliant solution for your business
appears in a flash in your mind, and you get so excited!
It’s a funny thing how they happen. Have you ever wondered
why they come to you as finished plans? Seriously, remember
the last time you had one. You did not construct it, put it
together, or formulate it. You know, you did not put it
together, block by block, until it became the genius idea
that it was. You just found it all done for you, there,
flashing in your mind. And you ran out and told your friends
what you just thought of, never once stopping to consider
just how you thought of it. Really, who put it together?
Think about that. You found it complete, perfect for your
needs. Who put it together with such wakeful intelligence
that is aware of all that is involved so much so as to
produce such a suitable idea? What about musicians? Many
chart-topping artists report that they simply find the music
in them; they hear it then write it. They don’t put it
together; they more like report it. The same goes for many
inventors, many artists, and so on.

By the time you get one of those flashes of insights, by the
time it enters your mind, it is already a copy. The original
is out there somewhere, where it was put together by One who
has full vision and was capable of bringing to you what you
had not managed to package together yourself. But remember,
there is only One Mind, separation is a mental illusion,
just like time is a mental illusion (time is thought
"stretched" out into "space" to demonstrate and experience
it; you recognize sections of eternity "at a time" to
experience process, space demonstrated). You "heard" the
thought, the inspiration, because you were listening, at
that point empty in relation to the matter. If you remain
empty, you could continue, day by day, to listen to the rest
of the plan, which includes how to execute the vision, what
inputs to use, when to make what move, and so on. The place
where the original plan came from is your own Higher Mind,
that part of your individuation that is still in perfect
recognition of its unity with All That Is, the part of you
that sees all and knows all, the part of you that is not in
the experience called human, the divine essence. Now here is
the greatest news: no divine plans are incomplete. None! So
none can possibly fail when executed as planned. The Planner
Sees All, Directs All. The only thing that can interfere
(which means it introduces inefficiency to your personal
experience) with a divine plan is a personal plan. This is
not because a personal plan is more powerful; it is because
the right to free will is upheld with the highest respect.
You have heard many times that you have many aspects of you,
some of which you are conscious of and others of which you
are not. When they are not aligned, you experience conflict
and confusion. So now we know the difference between a
personal and a divine plan. A divine plan is not some plan
made by some foreign god to impose on you; it is Your Own
answer to your questions, from a level that sees all
(Spirit) to one whose experience is one slice of the whole
at a time (human). But it is all you. That is why those
flashes of genius that you get are so complete, yet they are
specific to the very problem or desire you had.

Now let us go back to this goal-making business. Personal
plans have a function, but only when used to free the
individual. It is the only time they can help you. And this
is why. Imagine a person who feels like a victim (in
anything, any area of life). They have given up hope. They
feel powerless, incapable of making anything happen. Now, if
something happens that triggers their courage or anger
enough to make them decide to do what it takes to make
things work for them, they begin to become self-reliant.
They drop the victim mentality. They make a plan; a way in
which they feel will get them out of their desperation. Now,
every time a human has a desire, the non-physical part of
that human starts inspiring this human with ideas from a
divine plan, ideas which are guaranteed to work. However, if
you have so much personal thoughts and emotions distracting
you, you cannot hear these inspirations. You must still
yourself. Like a calm pond, one which will instantly be
aware of any rock thrown in. If you are like the Niagara
Falls inside, you will not notice the rocks being thrown in.

Anyway, back to our example. This person, far from calm,
will only hear parts of the plan being given them. They
will, out of fear and a belief that they can fail, that
there is some danger somewhere, they make a personal plan.
They use inputs from inspiration, whatever they can hear and
are not afraid to follow, and they also make up scenarios,
imaginings based on their fears, and use these in the
planning process. At the end of it all, what they invariably
find is that the plan works in certain portions. They are
elated! Even if not everything worked as planned, at least
something worked! And this way, they rise out of desperation
and can now start to direct their life. The point here is
that from the place they were, the helplessness they
believed to be in, any plan was a good thing. Any plan! And
goals are great, because they give a point of reference,
something to aim for. As you can see, even the worst
personal plan, one with 10% success, is still a great thing
for one who though they had zero power. It is something to
celebrate and honor.

But then there comes a point where self-confidence and self-
reliance is believed in enough to no longer be doubted. At
this point, making personal plans becomes a great hindrance.
Once you have proof that your life can be deliberately lived
instead of under the idea that you are a victim of forces
beyond your control, it is time to start using complete
plans. That means that the ego’s personal plans are no
longer useful. They were a crutch to remind you how to walk,
with their goals and all, but now that you can walk on your
own, you need a new tool to show you how to run and fly.
That is a complete plan, a divine plan made by the higher
aspect of Who You Are. You are much larger than you imagine
yourself to be. Let us examine how this works.

Under the rule of personal plans, a person would ‘hear’ the
insight, the flash of genius, stop everything they are
doing, and excitedly run to the office to start planning how
to make this plan work! They assume it is ‘my idea’ and ‘I
must make it work against threat of failure’. They make
plans which rely largely on assumptions (an assumption is
anything that is not What Is) because they cannot see the
Whole Picture. So by mere fact, their personal plans will
have elements in them that interfere with the smooth
progress of the original insight, the divine plan. This is
where you start to fail because of your plans, not in spite
of them. To begin with, you do not know what the vision you
saw in your mind is for, its complete use to the entire
universe. The universe is not personal; it works as a Whole.
But the Original Source of the idea does. You also do not
know what the millions of cause-and-event components
required are; you can only guess a few of them. And you do
not know at what points in the space-time continuum they
require to be inserted for everything to work perfectly; but
the Maker of the Original Plan does. Now watch how a
personal plan messes you up at this stage. Your plan is
based on dates and deadlines that you pull out of the blue.
It is full of standards that you have determined indicate
whether you have succeeded or failed. Let us say you miss a
deadline, and something happens that is opposite of what you
had hoped and expected. What happens to your ego then? Does
it not rush to judgment, calling you a failure, asserting
the belief that things can go wrong and that you need even
more control, and increasing the level of fear and anxiety?
So next time when faced with a similar situation, you put
even more focus on what you fear and then it happens again!
Simply because you focused on it and thus created it. It
becomes a viscous cycle. And you keep reaching for more
control. And you experience more stress instead of less. And
fear increases. You never once to consider that there is
nothing wrong with you or the universe, nothing unsafe. You
never stop to consider that it is your personal plan that
was grossly mistaken due to relying on a fear-created ego.
Now let us see why the most successful people all preach the
power of letting go. Let us look at how one would proceed in
the above example, but by listening.

A person would hear the insight, and automatically know or
remind himself or herself that all divine plans are
complete, all the way to the end. They know that the vision
is complete in the Mind of the One, and it cannot ever fail.
So it is simple. In the same way, they listened to and heard
the great idea that made them all excited, they would
remember that their copy is just a copy. The original is
still out there, along with everything needed to make it
manifest. So they would listen and wait. They would know
that at the right time and place, they would receive the
next piece of the puzzle. They would rest, not stressing
about making plans to ‘make sure’ it happens. And it makes
sense. If they did not compose the first idea, why can't
they trust that Whatever composed it will also give forth,
at the right time, everything else needed to make it work?

Imagine the universe is a big circle and you are a little
circle within that big circle. Now a personal planner
assumes that the big circle is at war with him or her, the
little circle. In their fear over this imagined state of
things, they make up a phantom world in their mind, with
assumptions about the future and how the rest of the
universe will act and react, and they plan against this. It
is so draining. One who does not make personal plans but
listens to their higher aspect, on the other hand, sees the
big circle as part of them, part of the whole, with only an
intention to love them and make sure all is OK, because all
is One. They have chosen to believe in peace and love rather
than separation and scarcity. This is a choice, and it is
the choice that allows them to let go. They realize that
they are best served focusing on the little circle, their
Here Now, which is what they have full knowing of. And they
awaken within that circle that is them, here, now. They
chose to put all their attention here, now, and because they
do this, they are aware of their emotions and thoughts.
Presence gives them the ability to control their here, now.
So they choose, here now, always, to make their here now
happy and well. Here, Now, they follow whatever cues come
up, always deliberately choosing their thoughts and
emotions, here now, and not throwing their mind into some
imagined past or future. In other words, they make every
here now moment golden, and because all life is a successive
moments of infinite Here Now, their lives automatically work
perfectly! You have seen them or heard of them. That is how
they do it. Clarity, simplicity, power, peace, calm... all
rewards of being present and following complete plans,
letting go of personal plans once you recognize that their
use as a crutch is complete. They become purely efficient,
effortless.

Such people walk this earth without the baggage of plans and
worries, and things work better for them! They recognize
that the universe is not personal, yet it is only, only,
loving and all else is our self-created illusions. Just
because we do not understand something does not make that
thing wrong. There are more things relating to your life
than you are consciously aware of at this level of your
existence. Remember that your life always creates the next
moment of your experience out of your intentions. Whatever
you give attention to grows. You are therefore held hostage
by your own personal plans. So what is the point of your
mind at this level, in relation to planning? Well, it is to
execute that plans it receives, knowing with certainty that
they cannot fail. It is to fashion all of your existence
here into an appropriate vessel to execute these plans. The
plans are already perfect. All they need is a suitable
vessel to manifest through. You have to become a certain
person for certain things to flow through you. It is this
that you can use your lower mind for, by following cues from
the higher mind. The attainment of success is not something
that one comes by through chasing after success - it is
something one attracts by the person they become. You form a
vibration match with what you desire. It is an inner journey
of transformation. You can call it education, training,
skills, self-help, discipline... it is all an inner
transformational journey resulting in a frequency match. It
is guaranteed. That is all you have to do. The rest is done
for you (admit it; you don’t know how it is done, how all
those things are coordinated universally to make this
amazing miracle called life work with predictability!)



You now have a progression of the use of various types of
plans. In the beginning, personal plans can be used to
establish self-reliance in a being that has lost hope.
However, there comes a time when that crutch, the personal
plan, because the very problem itself, the cause of failure
instead of being the cause of success. That’s when its time
to let go of the crutch. It is time to dare give trust a
chance, to dare believe that the universe is loving (not
dangerous, as you have been indoctrinated to assume) and see
what happens! Give it a go! Find out for yourself. Let go,
truly, a few times and listen to the plans as they come and
see what happens! Gather your own evidence instead of
holding on to personal plans because you are afraid
something could "go wrong". You don’t have to carry that
huge unnecessary load. Drop it. It is very liberating! Try
it a few times and see how you like it.

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Article written by David Cameron, CEO ImagesOfOne.com,
author of A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Diet Liberation, and
other books, and developer of the Prova LifeGoals Effortless
Achiever+, LifeDiet Liberator and LifeMap Numerology
software packages. These and titles such as Think and Grow
Rich, As A Man Thinketh, and more are available for download
and free trial at http://www.ImagesOfOne.com.


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