Secret #9 of the ten principles of abundance is below.
As you probably know by now, I’m calling this series The Abundance Manifesto. This is to help pave the way for my new audio program, The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation (coming out November 9th).
These are my observations about how you can attract personal and planetary wealth. Wealth, of course, is more than money, so these ideas are more sweeping than you may at first realize.
Since I’m just sculpting these thoughts, please be forgiving in reviewing them. In fact, what I’d love is your opinion. Please comment on each to help me refine them all. The end result will be a useful set of insights for you, me, and everyone else.
Here’s secret nine:
Thou shalt see behind each challenge
Problems are opportunities in disguise. Undress them to see the solution. Inside every challenge is the resolution to that challenge. A scarcity mind sees the problem; the abundant mind sees the product, or service, or solution. You must relax the focus from fire alarm concern to trusting heart-felt expectation.
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Note: My new audio program is called The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation. Stay tuned for details.
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Thank you, Joe, for sharing this secret with everyone. I used it last Saturday during an 8-mile run that became a discombobulated 13-mile run. Looking behind the problem, I found gratitude for the good and what I had learned that could help others.
As you and others like to say, behind every problem is a product or service. Just remembering this can lead to an overflow of product and service ideas, any of which when manifested can serve others.
Health/Love/Happiness,
Kirk
thanks Joe
i agree most every cloud seems to have a silver lining – just got to pray for guidance to what it is sometimes.
Joe, I am learning this lesson myself, and in the midst of a foreclosure, keep seeing myself in sunny San Diego where I have longed to be for quite some time. I truly believe it is the manifestation of my dreams…and maybe a lesson that I still need to learn! I am strangely calm and know the universe will take care of me.
Only recently discovered your blog and so have yet to go through the earlier principles of The Abundance Manifesto.
‘Thou shalt see behind each challenge’
It is often difficult to see the benefit in what appears to be a disaster, but I agree that the only way is to look beyond what could overwhelm us. Dwelling upon how bad something appears doesn’t help in any way. Even if the only insight we get is that it really is a disaster 🙂 it could just be the tipping point we need to make real changes in our beliefs and avoid similar things happening again.
In ‘Think and Grow Rich’ Napoleon Hill says something along the lines of: Every Adversity Brings With It The Seed Of An Equivalent Or Greater Advantage.
It is just a case or realising this is so and allowing oneself to be open to it, rather than focussing upon the adversity.
Looking forward to reading the other principles.
Hi Joe,
I just love this latest secret. And I must admit that I am guilty of sometimes only seeing the “problem” and not the solution. How many times have I looked at a problem and thought it was too big to surmount instead of looking around/under/through it for the solution and possible opportunities! Well after reading this today I’ll be focusing on the opportunities from now on. I’ve even drawn myself a ‘cartoon motivator’ to remind my self everyday. You can see it at: http://www.motivationalcartoons.co.uk
(I wasn’t sure if there was a way of showing it your readers here!?)
Best wishes,
Richard
“Problems are opportunities in disguise”
Yes they are. Law of polarity! If there’s a negative, there MUST be a positive.
Joe, Thank you for sharing your secrets with everyone i’m currently goin through an unplanned seperation from my husband he should be home sometime in 2012 and i’ve been struggling by myself with my kids and all your advice has given me peace and even though everything that coul’d go wrong has gone wrong I know everything is going to be alright. I’m currently saving up to buy The Abundance Paradigm which comes out on my Birthday so its going to be my present to myself Thank you so much Joe.
I can’t wait until this is all compiled and we can refer to it often. I can already hear you reading it on Audible as a audio book. 🙂
Thanks Joe for allowing the Universe to work through you.
Dave
Good Afternoon Joe,
Excellent post!
Problems truly are opportunities in disguise, having been in a panic mode in my life in the past, I can truly relate to this .
Undressing the ego created problems can be challenging in order to see solutions. Inside these challenges, you do find limiting beliefs, that uncover the problems, once at the core of the problem, it in turn re-creates an opportunity to grow in a clear conscious thought process.
Removing the scarcity mindset and moving you into a mindset of abundance is truly a life changing experience that everyone should indeed have.
Peace to All
Thank You for inspiring thoughts and insights! I have read some of Your books and I have a question. I just can’t figure it out. If someone gets money and other good things by avoiding taxes, cheating others (including his/her family or customers) and dealing with criminal world – what are such people doing to the Universe and themselves? They get riches against the Law but will this hurt them in the future or in the now? I found such people not very much happy – not happy at all. But they still hurt others.
From Russia with Love! Thank You!
Hi Joe,
Shifting my perspective has helped me immeasurably in seeking opportunities instead of problems.
Sometimes we’re programmed to see problems. It’s up to us to move our attention to solution-based thinking.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ryan
I am learning lots about this in my own life. Every “problem” is really a gift in disguise and how we respond to that is what makes THE DIFFERENCE! I learned just how resiliant and tough I am by going through a “failed” open adoption. I have come to realize that “Pete” was never mine. My husband and I now have 2 gorgeous daughters that were meant to be mine. I also now have the ability to help others through that kind of loss because I’ve been there too. Sometimes what seems like a big tragedy is really an answer to prayer.