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Are Things Happening For You or Against You?

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.” ~Buddha

Your life is much like a radio.

If you’re in control of it, then you can actually tune in and make sense. Then you can set your dial on the talk-back radio show, listen to that, and learn some things, or you can set your dial onto music and have an enjoyable time.

If you feel that you are not in control, or you do not realize that you are in control, then you may just hear a lot of static and annoying sounds that might even drive you crazy.

The process of “Flick your Rich Switch Transformation” (FYRST) is about taking control of your life, taking control of all of the things that you merely think you are not actually in control of (but you are, or you can be).

Some people don’t think that they control their mood, their lives, their blood flow, their breathing, their heart rate, their body language—and that’s why they often get some outcomes that they’re not happy about.

Someone else can control all of those things by telling you some bad news or some exciting news; for example, “The winning lottery numbers are 4, 23, 16, 19 & 30.”

It is the subconscious process occurring in your own head that will make your blood flow to your face or to your feet; it is your own thought process that will make your heart pump slower or faster; your own thoughts that will make your body stand straighter with excitement or slump lower with dread.

Yes, dread. For some people, winning millions may represent an increase in responsibility, stress, and anxiety.

Fears can occur, such as “What if I blow it?” “What if someone steals from me?” “What if someone kidnaps my kids and holds them for ransom?”

Statistically, ninety-five percent of people who win the lottery will end up broke within two years. Much of that is due to poor mindset, not poor skills.

If you do not realize that you are in control of your own bodily functions, such as breath, blood flow, posture, muscular tension, and so on, you might be listening to the static on the radio, or maybe you are just receiving nothing.

You may not realize that you need to turn the volume up a little bit and you need to tune in a little bit more, because the radio waves are all around you. They’re always there.

Making sense of it all is just a question of whether you’re perceptive—whether you’re tuned in, whether you’re checking it out, whether you’re in control of it.

Reception & Perception

Your perception or your reception is what makes the difference. There are some people who just seem to go from strength to strength. Wonderful things continue to happen to them, and you think, “Oh wow, those people are so lucky.”

Those “lucky” people are not really more fortunate than you; they are simply in control of their lives, in control of their switches and dials. They are consciously tuning themselves into the frequency of life, because the frequency is always there.

Whether you’re on the AM dial or the FM dial—that is under your control as well, because those radio waves are always there. You cannot change the radio waves nor can you control all of the events of your life.

You just have to change yourself to adjust to them.

The AM and the FM are always there, and everything in life is binary, or yin and yang, black and white, male and female. Life is either AM or it is FM.

There are things that happen that you can say are Against Me, and there are things that happen that you can say are For Me. Whether you choose to tune in to the AM or the FM really controls how you react to those things.

If I perceive that it’s an AM, if I perceive that it’s happening Against Me, then I might choose to whine. I might choose to get bitter.  I might choose to get angry.

Life may sometimes seem that it is always “Against” and not “For.” But what if there was a third choice: simply “flicking the switch”?

Some years ago, I experienced a “series of unfortunate events.”

I had a heart attack at age 32. My life partner and my business partner betrayed me. I divorced and lost six figures, lost a child, and then became homeless.

This happened within a few months and I was shell-shocked. The doctor diagnosed clinical depression and gave me anti-depressants. I was placed on “suicide watch” over Christmas, as clinical depression appeared to turn terminal.

The drugs carried nasty side effects, so I stopped the course and went up alone against the spectral black dog of depression.

Stepping back from my own tragic story, I learned to detach and see how much of these events happened due to my own mismanagement or lack of keeping my “eye on the ball.”

The empowering truth was that I, like the droopy-shouldered lottery winners, had had depressive, negative or pessimistic thoughts long before the depressive events occurred.

I literally had manifested my own fearful thoughts into negative reality. If this was true, then it followed that I could transform my worldly situation by first transforming my thoughts

I switched off the AM dial and learned to tune into the FM frequency. I started to say and see that this thing has happened For Me, and whatever I’ve lost—whatever tragedy I’ve had—it can be an opportunity.

I told myself, “I’m going to use that. I’m going to use that and become stronger.”

Aside from my own, there are many stories of people who have overcome hardship in their lives and gone onto bigger and better things.

There are also millions of stories of people who have not overcome hardship in their lives, and they’ve sat there, whined, complained, stayed miserable, and assumed they were powerless to change or achieve.

Whether you want to become a victor, or you want to become a victim—whether you want to see things as happening Against Me or whether you want to see things happening that are For Me—it’s entirely up to your perception, and it is in your control.

You can flick your rich switch. You can decide what your outcomes are going to be.

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About Jeremy Britton

Jeremy Britton is an independent wealth coach and business coach who teaches technical investment strategy and holistic wealth mindset. For a balanced approach to wealth creation, visit www.24hourwealthcoach.com or www.FlickYourRichSwitch.com

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  • http://www.facebook.com/24hourwealthcoach Jeremy Britton

    Love it!

  • Addy

    Aer you now comparing yourself to the Dalai Lama???  I certainly haven’t noticed him trademarking his philosophy and marketing it online…
    I have been blessed in life, and I thank whatever powers might be every day for that fact. I am neither broke nor unhappy. And I do know that the two are not mutually exclusive. I have re-read your article and still come away feeling that it’s main focus is on money, generating money and equating wealth with happiness (why is it a “rich” switch, why not happiness, joy or enlightenment?). I know too many unhappy but wealthy, and joyous but not wealthy people to ever believe that the road to hapinness is wealth. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/24hourwealthcoach Jeremy Britton

    Hey Addy. We seem to be getting closer to agreement. And yes, I would compare myself to the Dalai Lama (or Buddha or Jesus), if *IF* it helped to give me a reference point to aim towards (I may be 3% of the way along and I look at others who are ahead of me and I emulate them or seek advice). 
    Many people in our western world chase material riches as they think it will bring them happiness. It took me a long time (and a lot of heartache and loss) to realise that money alone does NOT bring happiness. (However, happiness can bring you money!)Money in the right hands and in the right spirit can do many good things for your own life and for others. For example, for every “LIKE” on this article, I gift clean drinking water to a child in Africa. Mother Teresa needed money to fund her mission, as do many good people.  Bill Gates and Warren Buffett each gave $38 Billion to charitable causes (not 38 prayers or 38 hugs but 38 Billion dollars). Prayers or enlightenment alone may be enough to enact spiritual change; we also need physical cash to change the physical world. To answer your question, why did I call it flick your RICH switch technology: 1) because it makes a nice acronym (FYRST). You gotta keep FYRST things first, and when I put money first I almost died and lost my family. 2) because riches can mean many things, as can the word ‘wealth’. Wealth and riches is NOT just finances or money; you can have a rich experience or a rich relationship, a wealth of knowledge, prosper spiritually or have abundant joy. Let’s not quibble on semantics, Addy. Please look up “wealth” in the dictionary and see that the road to happiness is not cash or money but yes, you can have a wealth of happiness, and you can have a rich life of joy, health and inner peace. 
    PS all this great advice right here,. like the article that 500+ people liked, comes to you for free. It’s my gift to you. If you don’t accept joy, cash, love or enlightenment, please pay it forward to another person who will value it, instead of arguing backward and forward with me. Have a rich life: in all areas. 

  • http://www.zencaffeine.com/ Kaylee

    Man, this is just what I needed to read. I’m struggling right now with circumstances beyond my control. But as you’ve reminded me, the circumstances may be beyond my control, but how I respond to them isn’t. Within the chaos of my life right now, I can choose to create peace. I’ve been playing the victim quite a bit lately, but I think it’s time to tune into FM. How can I make this seemingly blah situation work for me? Thanks for the timely, helpful post. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/24hourwealthcoach Jeremy Britton

    Practice more meditation and acceptance, less kicking & screaming? Just a thought :)