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much energy or creativity or inspiration or guidance or help from this kind of greaterenergy or power, whatever you want to call it. Its not gonna happen. You have tochange your beliefs first.You know there’s this very common cliché, it’s a common phrase, God helps those whohelp themselves. It’s kind of that idea. If you don’t start helping yourself first, if you don’tstart doing what you need to do, what you know is right, if you don’t change your beliefsand the way you think and your level of consciousness then there’s no way that you canget any kind of inspiration from something greater.It doesn’t have to be a religious idea, there’s plenty of inspiration. If you read enoughabout cutting edge physics, for example, you’ll find all the inspiration you need in termsof everything being connected and there being these kind of universal sources ofenergy. So it doesn’t matter if you think of it as God or Buddha or Tao or the Universe orthe life force, whatever, it doesn’t matter, you choose, but it’s an important idea and it’s apowerful idea and a powerful way of thinking; a powerful perspective, a powerful corebelief.So how would this work? Well, you know you kind of train yourself to do this and to thinkin this way and here’s what you do. Anytime you have something difficult or painful, achallenge that happens in your life -- and we always do -- you have a choice of whichlevel of consciousness you’re going to focus on or use in this situation. So let’s saysomething bad happens. You lose your job. Now, you can choose ‘to you’consciousness, which means you’d say oh, I’m a victim. Oh, I was a good employeeand look what they did to me.You can be complaining, complaining about your boss and the company and then youcould start just feeling depressed, every day getting depressed or you could focus onyourself and maybe all the bad things you did or your own failure and oh, I didn’t dowhat I should have done. Oh, I’m not good and oh, my God, this is terrible. I have suchbad luck. That’s ‘to you’ consciousness and, of course, you’re just going to feel weakerand weaker. It’s not going to help you.Now, the next level of consciousness you could focus on, which is preferable, better,more empowering to you, would be ‘by you’. You could say okay, this happened. It wasbad. I didn’t want it to happen, but I create my future. I create my life. It’s being createdby me. So you could make a list of goals about how you’re going to get your next job orstart your own company or whatever it is you want and then you could determineexactly how you’re gonna do that and you could get yourself very motivated. You couldwake up every day and focus on that goal with a lot of intensity and emotion and takeactions and go out and get another job. That’s a good thing to do.www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com