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Let’s face it. Most of us have had a tough couple of years. Newscasters, politicians, and pretty much everyone in the country have been talking about the economic recession we’ve experienced.

“This is the worst recession since The Great Depression.”
“Unemployment figures are going through the roof!”
“Well, in THIS ECONOMY, what do you expect?”

But I have a secret that I’m going to share with you. This secret is the key to both being happy during ANY economic condition and to attracting abundance no matter what is going on. Are you ready?

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The crowd is roaring. The noise from the clapping and stomping is deafening. “De-fense.” De-fense.” The basketball player raises his arms to shoot. The clock is ticking down—five, four, three… The crowd gets even louder. “De-fense. De-fense.” The player shoots the ball. As it soars through the air, the clock runs out. “Beeeeeeeep.” If the ball goes in the basket, his team wins the championship. If it misses, they lose.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing comes down to a millisecond--or a point, a stroke, a nose, or a dime. As any amateur or professional athlete knows, there is often a thin razor’s edge between victory and defeat.

It’s not only in sports. Surely you’ve caught yourself wondering, as you drive through an affluent neighborhood while admiring the homes, “What do they have that I don’t? How did they get all this? Are these people better than me? Are they more worthy?” The answer is, “No.” Everything they have achieved, you can too.

Bob Proctor writes in You Were Born Rich, “You are every bit as good, or as powerful, as anyone you see, know, or even hear about. Remember, since the difference between them and you is only in the area of accomplishments, and since there is something you can do that will vastly improve the results you are achieving presently, you have the potential to become even more successful than they are.”

What’s the difference, then, between those people who are wildly successful, and those who simply get by? How can you get to the other side of that razor’s edge?

There is an easy five-step plan that, if you follow it, will help you get to the other side. The steps of the plan follow the acronym SHAVE. They are:

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Did you make a “resolution” to lose weight in 2012? If so, I bet you think I’m going to tell you that New Year’s resolutions don’t work and that you should focus on setting goals or make a “lifestyle change” or something like that instead. If you think that’s what this newsletter is going to say, you’re about to be surprised.

New Year’s resolutions DO work—even weight loss ones. You may have set the same New Year’s resolution every year since 1979, but that doesn’t mean that this won’t be the year that it happens. How do I know this? Because after 15 years of setting the same resolution to lose 40 pounds, 2011 was the year that I finally did it.

What made the difference this year? Was it some new diet I discovered or a pill I took? No. I’ve been on every diet known to mankind—some more than once. I’ve never taken shots or diet pills, but I know people who have and some have lost weight and some haven’t.

In fact, that is the case with EVERY diet. Some people lose weight and some people don’t. If the diet is the same for everyone, then the variable must be the people who go ON the diet. But many of us have had the experience of a diet “working” for us, and then the next time we try it, it doesn’t work. So, if it’s not the diet, and it’s not the person on the diet, what is it? What makes the difference between a successful weight loss effort and one that is doomed?
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