Developing the Mental Competitive Edge to have success in what can be a highly aggressive world it is essential that you have something that makes you stand out, something that gives you a competitive edge.

The question is; how do you get that edge?
Success in the form of wealth mastery and for that matter any form of life mastery come as a result of discovering your resources.
Therefore to get that competitive edge, you must first look at what are the resources that are available to you.

There are the obvious resources like; money, time and people. However there are the less obvious ones, and if you are not tapping into them you can pretty much kiss your dreams good bye.

In order to discover these most important resources it is imperative that you develop yourself beyond what you have believed you were capable of. The bottom line is this: the level of development you have so far, has got you to where you are today.

“Growth by its very nature demands that we extend beyond where we are, or what we know.” ~ Dõv Baron

To go beyond where you are presently, you will have to become more than you have been. Becoming affluent, (meaning to be in the flow) is a result of getting out of your own way. For many people this seems like a quantum leap in consciousness. However, you can be certain that the transformation of yourself will result in the transformation of every other area of your life including your finances.

Obviously there is a plethora of personal development programs out there that you could sign up for and sink your money into. I suggest that you start at the level of self awareness. Simply by developing the awareness of paying attention to the thoughts that most commonly float around in your mind you will begin to develop a level of mind power previously unknown to you.

By observing the repetitive thoughts something miraculous happens, instead of all the old internal messages going through your mental system uninterrupted, you get the opportunity to interrupt and ultimately derail thoughts and beliefs that have been a hidden process of self sabotage.

Research shows that we think approximately sixty five thousand thoughts a day. More than eighty percent of those thoughts are negative and recycled, (the same stuff you been thinking about for years and years). Realize this; wherever you have gotten to in your life, you have been able to get there even with all that crazy making, self sabotaging thought processes have been in the way.

Now, just for a moment, let yourself imagine how much of a competitive edge you would have over all the others who never even knew they could examine their recycled thoughts?

Your greatest resource comes from managing your mind to create a level of Quantum Mind Mastery. Because; the level of your success will never exceed the level of your development.

I look forward to your feedback

With gratitude,

P.S. Have you heard “The Accidental Guru” Radio Show yet? I’m your host every Friday Morning from 11AM-12 noon (PST) Details are at: http://radiodov.com

Is that really true, or do they actually get exactly what they asked for and they can’t even see it?

Manifestation is not some magical process where the universe reads your mind and knows ‘what you really mean by that.”

Listen, you, me, no one, can manifest specifics with a general request.

Stay with me here because I really want you to have what it takes for you to have what you want to want you. Like I just said; no one, can manifest specifics with a general request, so you need to specifically know what it is that you want in every detail.

Once you have specifically outlined what it is that you want, then you can begin designing a plan to achieve it. In the words on one of my songs from the album “Resonantions” (available on iTunes) “Get Clear.”  Please pay attention here because I have a warning for you.  The ego-mind may have some challenges with your actually achieving that outcome and it may try to sabotage you by whispering stuff in your ear that will take you off target. So to make sure you stay on target I implore you to keep a success journal, ( like the one that comes with EFM Audio Tech) and monitor your progress.

DO NOT change what it is you are going for until you achieve it. That way you can acknowledge your success. I can’t over stress the importance of this. If you keep changing your desired outcome, how will you ever know when you achieve it? Make sense?

To achieve truly living in and from a place of abundance, what you desire cannot remain something you’d merely like….

How many times have you heard people watch someone do something say, “I’d really like to do that.” Then that same person walks away and you know as well as I do that they will never do anything about they say they’d “like to do.”

To bring whatever it is that you want into your life, you must develop an insatiable hunger for it.

That means, for a while, it’s all that matters. You vigilantly watch the ego-mind; you refuse to be taken off track. You know your direction and you will allow nothing to move you from it.  At that point, all obstacles are viewed as challenges to be overcome, with each one giving you a renewed sense of focus. You meet difficulties with the mindset that there’s always a way to overcome them, and moreover, you are committed to finding it. You approach, go through and attend to your outcome without the option of griping or complaining. You keep moving forward, you make it a “must” and as a result it will happen. Guaranteed!

That being said, the obvious question is “What do you want?”

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I look forward to meeting you in person during 2010.

With Gratitude,

President Obama, had a “friendly/thoughtful” conversation over beer at the White House with prominent Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, who is black, and police Sergeant James Crowley, who is white. Crowley had arrested Gates in his own home for disorderly conduct. President Obama inflamed the situation by saying he thought police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates.  Obama’s approval rating is said to have fallen from 61 percent in mid-June to 54 percent now, in part due to his handling of the Gates-Crowley situation.

Paula Abdul dropped her online bombshell on Tuesday evening, August 4, 2009, right before season-nine auditions began in Denver. After seven years as a judge, Abdul announced that she’s quitting “American Idol”…And she did it over ‘Twitter.’

Now you may be asking: What do these things have in common and why should you even give a flying pizza slice anyway? While the first two issues involve political world leaders and the third a singing competition judge, you might be surprised to discover not only what they have in common but how these stories relate to you. So, come to the edge of your seat and put on your thinking cap.

Bill Clinton’s involvement in the release of those journalists to some may have seemed like political pandering to an out of control dictator. The Gates-Crowley-Obama situation may have seemed, (if you were just going by the photos) like three mates, who were somewhat over-dressed getting together for a pint of the cold stuff on a hot day.  And Paula Abdul leaving American Idol could easily seem like more of that flaky tinsel town drama.  Even so, let’s take a little deeper look…
Once again, let me be absolutely clear; I do not personally know any of these people and anything I say is completely judgmental, and I am doing nothing more than sharing a psychological/mind mastery perspective.

Let’s start with “Kim”: When you take the time to watch this man, to observe the footage that is available, what I think you will see is simply a child, an emotionally wounded boy screaming for attention.  He has become the bully in order to not get bullied. And to be honest, as off kilter as I think this guy might be, I like that he doesn’t give in to the big boys. He’s not the first to stand up to the big boys and say’ ‘back off, get your own sandwich.’ Sadly, Kim’s methodology is less than Gandhiesk.

So why send in Bill? Anyone who has ever seen the Clintonator in action has seen a man who commands the environment, Bill Clinton has a presence! As a somewhat side-bar: Have you ever seen that show ‘Super Nanny’? It’s one of those reality shows where they bring in an English nanny, Jo Frost, to handle out of control toddlers. Well, my guess is that they sent in Bill to be ‘super nanny.’

Now let’s go back to the ‘beer summit’ for a moment. Why would the Pres be hanging out in the White House garden having beers with a cop, a Prof and his VP, Joe Biden?  I don’t think any of us, even for a moment, believes that this was a beers and Bulls chat.  Obama could have called another press conference or called in a bunch of spin doctors that could pull a David Copperfield and make it all disappear.

Why did Paula announce she was quitting via some 140 character social media outlet? Wasn’t that rather rude? Well, when I tell you what these things have in common it will all make sense.

Each one of these seemingly unrelated announcements/events is connected through specific common bonds. Let me ask you: What do you have in common with everyone on the planet besides the obvious like; ‘we’re all humans?’ The answer is the same as to what bonded the three stories above…

Relationships!  Human beings are relational by nature.

In fact, when someone behaves in a way that seems ‘anti social’ we become concerned about them.

Relationships and how we do them, are in many ways the foundation on which we build every aspect of our lives.

When President Clinton went to speak with Kim Jong-il, it was because of the potential for something to change in the relationship between the US and North Korea. Yes, the journalists were freed, but the bottom line is that happened because of the level of communication skills produced by Clinton. It doesn’t matter whether we are Bill Clinton fans or not; the guy has a set of skills for delivering a message. Think about it, and this is not an anti Bush statement, just a note on communication and relationship building skills, can you imagine sending George into that situation? Well, you can fill in your own gaps on that.

The ‘beer summit’ was not about the relationship between Gates and Crowley or even Obama and Gates. No, this communication was about a relationship that is its romantic phase, the one between Obama and the American people. As with all romantic relationships, even as idealized as they appear, they are still tenuous…at any moment one of the lovers can be dropped like a hot potato. Obama is, I believe, smart enough to know that…

if you push an issue under the rug eventually the rug will fill the entire room with what’s not being dealt with.

His open communication style has to be seen to be consistent whether it’s between himself and the congress, he, Gates, and Crowley, or more importantly, between Obama and the American people.

Meanwhile, Paula Abdul has been the American Idol judge that many people love and probably just as many love to hate. Paula has always seemed to have an equally love-hate relationship with fellow judge Simon Cowell. Cowell’s style of communication is direct, confrontive, and often cutting.   Abdul’s is indirect, somewhat sugar coated, and she appears to dread conflict like the plague. How wonderfully non confrontational it must have been for Paula to be able to bow out of her position in 140 characters.

What all this comes down to is this; whether your name is Obama, Clinton, or Abdul: 

Your life is run by how well you run your relationships and your relationships will only run as well as your skills are at communicating. In order to have great communication skills you have got to know with absolute certainty what you are looking for in any given relationship.

I believe Obama knew exactly what he wanted as a consequence of the beer summit communication.  Clinton, and my guess Jong-il, would have known exactly what they wanted from their communication.   And although what Paula may have wanted was likely different than what the Presidents wanted, at some level she will have gotten what she needed.

What we all need to consider is that our lives are run by our relationships and the communication skills we use inside those relationships. If you don’t consciously choose what you want from any given interaction, it can and often will give you a result you may have preferred not to have gotten.

If you want to understand more of how the ego-mind is filtering and possibly limiting your communication skills, you can get a hold of my new book: “Don’t Read This…Your Ego Won’t Like It” at http://www.dovbaron.com/product.  However, if it’s relationship that you really want to understand take a look at QuantumSoulMates.com

I look forward to your comments and feedback.

Until next time, live with courage, Dov…

Imagine for a moment that you grew up in some village that is cut off from almost everyone outside the village and in your village everyone tells you and everyone else in the village that 4+4 = 7 .

Somewhere inside you there is a deep knowing that this is incorrect. However, everyone who surrounds you tells you 4+4=7. The village newspaper says 4+4=7; the village radio station says 4+4=7, your mother, father, sister, brother and everyone you know all agree 4+4=7.  The truth is that everyone in the village is going to be willing to fight to hold onto their collective reality and…

it will take courage to stand up and say “no” and do what is right for you, your heart and soul.

Do you now begin to understand how hard it can be to stand in your truth when you are confronted with this ‘truth’ at every turn? Do you see how easy it would be to just go along with what they are saying? In fact you may even begin to think you are a little crazy for thinking differently than they do. That 4+4=7 could be about money, however it could just as easily be a message about health, finding an excellent life partner or anything else you desire.

Here’s the news: You don’t have to fight to achieve abundance ; the ‘Truth’ is that it naturally flows to you and all of us . What you must be willing to fight against is the limited, restrictive mindset that bombards you. Because if you cannot fight beyond the conditioning your ego-mind will never see beyond your own conditioning and the messages you are being fed every single day.

We’ve talked about how important it is to understand that money, wealth and abundance doesn’t have to be hard to achieve, even in an economic downturn. However, as I’ve said many times that doesn’t mean you get to sit around nurturing some false idea of entitlement, some false concept that the world owes you something.

Yes you are unique in your expression in the world, but unique doesn’t make you ‘special’ or ‘better than’, that’s just ego shit.

To achieve the kind of abundance you may dream of, you must express your unique value in the world, and that my friends will take effort. In simple terms you will have to get off your bum, go out into the world, face the possible rejection and peddle your wares.

Now even though you don’t actually have to fight to get abundance and all you have to do is let it in , that is, much easier said than done. Here’s why: You don’t need to fight for the wealth but the irony is that you very well may need to fight to break out of the personal and collective conditioning that says you do and the ego-mind says is true.

It’s an interesting irony isn’t it?  Just think about it for a moment or two . You live, (as do we all) inside a system that tells you at every turn that money, wealth and real abundance is hard to come by , and even though you may know at some deeper level, that’s just not true , you (we) are bombarded with information that says it is true.  We are conditioned to want more, more, more, but what do we really need? What is it that’s really important to us? And what if it’s free?

Once again I remind you this is the time to turn fear into power! To stand up and follow your heart, to grab a hold of the opportunities that are knocking at your door.

Our modes of thinking and the way we have operated in the world are coming to a close; we must embrace change and opportunity at every turn.

Those who choose to quickly embrace change will flourish.

Again: It is time to invest in you! What does that mean? Invest emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and despite the economic scare tactics, FINANCIALLY too.

Invest in your most valuable asset, your development . It’s time to invest in your hopes, your dreams, your heart and your soul. Invest in what takes you out of the limited mindset . Remember that fear is perpetrated to keep us ignorant and only those who are willing to know shall be truly free.

Personally I’d rather play with the ego instead of fighting it. I did that recently:  Click here to see a great, (and FUN) video for you that show what the ego wants verses want is at the center for the Self.

Feel free to comment on the video here and on youtube.

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As always, I look forward to your feedback.

Until next time, live with courage, Dov…

The ego-mind is looking for reasons to not take in anything that challenges what ‘it’ has held as ‘true’ (note small ‘t’).

One of the ways it does this is by distracting and confusing you, pulling you off into some kind of mind wondering. Sometimes that means focusing on ‘stuff’ rather than taking in what’s right in front of you.

If at any time you find yourself becoming spontaneously confused, tired or thinking about ‘stuff’ that just doesn’t matter, be warned; that’s your ego-mind trying to pull you away from a part of the material that could have profound meaning for you.

Another tactic the ego-mind loves doing is perfectionism for the purpose of delaying or just avoiding. When you are uptight and freaked-out about getting ‘it’ absolutely perfect, that’s your ego-mind fully in its glory. Your job is to notice that your ego-mind is noticing these things and then quickly move on.

I look forward to your feedback and comments.

Until next time; live with courage, Dov…

Here’s a strange thought: Where is the recession? Is it out there in the economy or do we make it real within our own consciousness?

Even if there is a recession out there, that’s still no reason you can’t make more next year than ever before.

Why do I say that?

Because what happens in “The Economy” isn’t nearly as important as what happens in “Your Economy.” If you move your wealth consciousness into lack you will be absolutely right…there will be a recession. However, that’s not how it has to be, here something you’ll find fascinating…

   Statistically there are more millionaires made during a recession than in a boom?

If you’re like most of my students, you’re barely scratching the surface of your financial potential, you have within you brilliance you haven’t even touched and buying into the fear and lack the media are throwing at us will only restrict your true capabilities.  

In fact, there are probably several easy ways to dramatically increase your income and help a lot more people in the process.

Want to discover how you can make more in 2009 than ever before?

Give to yourself!

I know it sounds crazy, but unless you make an Investment in the Economy of Your Consciousness you cannot help everyone else you want to help. 

If you don’t put fuel in your own tank, you can’t help anyone else get to their destination either.

I’m going to take a guess; as someone reading this blog you are likely to be the kind of person who genuinely cares about the world you live in and the people in it. Right?  

The fact is; most people are going to get washed away in fear and lack and when it comes to day-to-day living and as a result, most people will start thinking about #1, (but not in the way we are talking about). It’s not because they are horrible people, it’s because they are, plain and simple; scared.

Think about it, it’s what makes sense: If you care for others you must take care of yourself first.  If you’ve ever flown on a plane you have heard the announcement that says:

In the event of an emergency put ‘your own’ oxygen mask on first, (even before your children).

It’s your ability to receive, not just from other’s but more importantly from yourself that fills you with everything you will ever need in order to give.  Here something even more amazing: When you give from a place of fullness there is no lack and your consciousness allows even more in. You now know, you must take action, seize the moment and recognize when something this powerful presents itself.

The only investment you make that no one can ever take from you is the investment you make in your own growth. You must invest in yourself and your future, which is how, moving forward you permanently change your life and the lives of those you care about for the better.

There’s absolutely nothing more powerful than tapping into and feeding powerful feelings into your Attracting Force to do it!

Now more than ever, this is the most important step you could possibly take.

Create your life the way you want it make the investment that counts: Invest in the economy of your consciousness. Stay connected and stay clear of fear!

I put it to you that it’s all about leader-ship

Picture a sailboat out on the water sailing from L.A. to Hawaii. The Captain knows where she is going and even why she is going there. She sets sail on a beautiful sunny afternoon, there’s a warm breeze in her sails and the magnificent pacific is open and deeply inviting as the deep blue of the water reflects the clear blue of the sky above.

Suddenly, the wind picks up and with it the ocean’s waves begin to swell, clouds come rolling in turning a clear blue sky ominously grey. The sail begin to flap harshly against the ever building storm. The Captain remains cool, clear and proactive.  She knows where she’s going and realizes that she must change course a little in order to stay afloat, she tacks to the starboard aiming the boats nose more towards the wind. She does this not to far, but just enough, because she knows she must use this wind as the fuel to push her through and over the swell.

Our captain knows that in order to get to where she wants to go it is better to use what is coming at her to move her forward, even if it appears to be slightly off course. She knows that to become ridged and inflexible will not only not get her to her destination it may sink her, her ship and the dreams she caries with her.

You my friend are the captain of your own ship sailing towards a destiny, but what destiny is it?

The question is will you get wrecked on the economic rocks as the winds of change pick up and blow against you or will you adjust and use the change to push you even faster towards your destination? You can complain about the economic situation or you can use it. Find out how it might be really good for you. I know it can seem crazy, but even this simple shift can change what you begin attracting into your life. If you decide it’s all crap then you wouldn’t know opportunity if it came up and gave you a big wet kiss.

When it comes to being successful, those who not only survive the winds of change but embrace them are the ones who will appear ‘lucky’ while in fact they where the ones most willing to change and morph with whatever comes up.

I just spent a week in New York City, it’s a place I love. I was there with around 100 other people who are all committed to making a difference in this world and what I can tell you for sure is they like me are all willing to shift and change with whatever is coming at them. I challenge you to do the same…

We all agreed: this is not the time to pull back, but rather now is the time to invest more in yourself and your dream.

Stay focused in knowing where you’re going and at the same time flexible enough to do whatever needs to be done to get there.

Leave your comments below and in the next post I’ll talk about why you might want to let go of what you think is true.

Be well, Dov…

Master the Attracting Force at www.AttractingForce.com

Today I’m excited as I’m getting ready… “Deep” starts tomorrow morning and I know with all certainty that I have no way of knowing who these people will discover they are underneath the mask of their conditioning.  What I do know is I’m excited to stay on purpose and let it all unfold.

Just imagine waking up on some beautiful morning in the very near future…

You awaken excited and energized to meet the day. You stay lying down so that you can just soak in the deep gratitude of being able to do what you do on a daily basis.

As the gratitude wells up in your chest a long slow tear leaks out of your closed right eye. There is no sadness; this is a tear of pure gratitude. Your life is so different because you finally did it, you finally said “yes” to your commitment of not only facing your fear but also to continue to face it as it comes up.

You see over the years you got smart enough to realize that even after you commit to something the fear doesn’t go away. In fact there are times when it intensifies. You think about your first steps into it, and how absolutely terrified you were. Thank goodness there was at least one person you could trust to kick your ass if you wavered, one person who believed in you and what you could do despite what was apparently lacking.

           As you lay there awash in that gratitude you think about how long you waited and immediately there is a part of you that wants to give you a hard time for waiting. Quickly you feel that gratitude and self criticism are mutually exclusive and immediately you reel in your mind, going right back the feeling of gratitude. You begin to think about all the lives you have touched both directly and indirectly, since you got clear about making the decision.

It’s easy to think of all the people you know who never make that decision. Why, you ask. Why, don’t they just get up and do it? You know why: Fear. Fear is the dream killer, and fear wears many masks and one of them is “I will do it once I’m certain what it is that I must do.

But you’ve gotten smarter than that, you know that that’s not how it works. From somewhere deep within you remember the story of the master takes the apprentice to the edge of the cliff and tells the apprentice to jump. The apprentice with terror running through every vain says “No I’ll fall and die”. The master simply replies: “What if you fly”? And gives the student a little push.

Looking for your life’s purpose can be a great way to stay busy enough to never fulfill it!

Sometimes you’ve just got to be willing to go in the direction of. There is any number of ways of finding your purpose, doing what you came here to do etc. It’s important to stay open to the clues, listen to your intuition etcetera. However, a major factor of discovering your purpose is this; be open to everything and attached to nothing.

Many of the most successful and happy people I know are in their 50′s and 60′s and they still don’t know what they want to do when they grow up. This however does not stop them living something that maybe even more important than living your life’s purpose: Living a purposeful life!

In order to be living a purposeful life:

 Start each day knowing that there will be fear and say ‘so what’, there will also be love. Each day could contain tears, ‘so what’, that same day can also contain laughter, so choose to live a life of purpose.

The fact is that living your life on purpose means you wake up each morning with a commitment to feel grateful that you are doing just that; living your life on purpose. We can move forward with clear focus toward what we want to achieve and that could be money, possessions or status, but always remember what you, we all of us are actually want is a “feeling” and you can start by deciding what feeling you want to start each day with and then deciding to create it. Take a deep breath and as you breath out step off the cliff and you’ll discover you can fly. Be willing to be surprised at how often something wonderful and wondrous shows up…

Leave me your comments and feedback about finding your life’s purpose and living purposfully below, I look forward to hearing from you.

With deep gratitude and sincere purpose,

Dov…

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There was breakdowns, breakthroughs, dancing, singing, deeply profound moments, tears and some real belly laughs.

It’s fascinating to see people come in from around the world with the (ego) mind set that they have done all kinds of personal growth and personal development programs and they will probably already know most of what we cover at Quantum Mind Mastery™... Boy were they blown away.

You know it took me almost 20 years to fully develop the knowledge, wisdom and skills of this program and every time I teach it even I’m blown away. I’m not saying that to blow my own horn, I just wanted to say it was truly an honour to watch each of you own your power and truly begin directing not only the direction of your life but also the power to attract and manifest exactly what you want. What was very cool was that some participants were able to manifest what they wanted within 24 hours of learning the techniques…very cool!

When I get to see people like those who attended really and truly start to remove the crappy beliefs that have held them hostage for so long it is truly inspiring to me and so I want to say here and now:

Thank you for being one of the amazing people who is truly making a difference. Thank you for touching my life.

With gratitude, Dov… 

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