Changing your thinking takes awareness, because negativity is deeply ingrained. But it is possible to convert counterfeit currency into spiritual capital. Here’s how. Begin each day by resolving to be the advocate for your strengths and dreams. Do this conscientiously without allowing judgment from your Committee. At every opportunity when your subconscious wants to lapse into lack and limitation, write down what you have to be thankful about. In the beginning be conscious of doing this every hour, even if you are not actively thinking about your beliefs of lack or limitation. After a few days, what you notice will begin to change.

You will be noticeably happier and more peaceful because you are connected to your “greater self” that is not focused just on you but is inclusive of all of life. Your thoughts of gratitude will gradually shift to “being” rather than having. Your horizon will change from “the right in front of you” view to a broader connection with the creative flow of love in a distinctly non-material way. This is the expression of you as both the Creator and the participant.

Soon you will become aware any time you lapse back into a negative focus on limitation, judgment, and unworthiness. If you are fantasizing about a negative outcome, immediately stop and change the thought by giving it a positive outcome. If you are awaiting an important yes or no decision, focus on a “yes” outcome, rather than thinking of all the possible reasons why you could be turned down. If you look at something in a store window and your first reaction is, “I can’t afford this,” change the thought to, “I create the prosperity to buy this and more.”

 Perhaps you grew up believing in some form of the adage: “Hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes.” You now have the opportunity to transform this limiting belief and embrace a new, brighter guiding principle: “Envision love as an unstoppable force that creates great outcomes, be unattached to how your results look, and see only good.”

(Excerpted from Soul Currency.  © 2007 Ernest D. Chu. All Rights Reserved.)

Being conscious of the oneness of all things-and our own role as a member of the whole-enables us to strengthen our social networks while affirming our participation in the flow of love. Connection opens the heart to the “greater self.” It helps us transcend our self-cherishing consciousness and move in the direction of service to the greater good. When we perceive life as unity, life in turn supports us-and sometimes in the most unexpected ways.

The power of collective consciousness transcends corporate boundaries, and manmade obstacles. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, authors of Wikinomics, begin their book with a story of a publicly held Canadian gold mining company that was concerned that its gold reserves would be depleted. The company was faced with the expensive and uncertain proposition of investing large amounts into exploration. But the CEO was considering another way, offering a program of collaboration and tapping into the expertise and experience of others, including possible competitors. The only problem was that he would have to open up much of the data on all their properties, which every gold mining company guarded jealously.

The CEO did the unthinkable: He put all the data up on the Internet with an offer that if anyone came up forth with a well documented proposition of where to drill on their properties, the company would share the revenues if they were successful. Instead of getting a lot of crank propositions, nearly 80 percent of the many responses they received eventually led to commercial discoveries. The company, instead of having declining reserves, nearly tripled its reserves in a relatively short period at a fraction of what they would have spent for exploration.

By seeing the power of connecting and co-creating with stakeholders, the old paradigm of “win-lose” has given way to collaboration and cooperation in many industries. For example, the communications and computer industry has benefited from doing collaborative research to set industry protocols for data, voice, and video transmission. Chipmakers are collaborating on new technologies that use light as a connector to make chips smaller and faster. The television and display industry has been able to introduce vastly improved products at lower costs through collaboration. Doing the “unthinkable,” such as sharing development costs with traditional bitter industry rivals, has had the effect of expanding the market faster for everyone involved. 

(Excerpted from Soul Currency.  © 2007 Ernest D. Chu. All Rights Reserved.)

The field of intentionality is why goal setting processes work in life and in business, and why on a particular occasion you may recall asserting, “When I really make up my mind that I want something, I get it!” But even the greatest intentions go nowhere unless they are activated by focus, because the field is responsive. It requires clear instructions to take a particular form.

The energy of the universe is pure potential, except when there is a thought. Focusing on a thought starts a reorganizing process in the field of intentionality that we share in common. Most startling is that, despite the multiplicity of the trillions of thoughts of the billions of people on Earth, our focused thoughts create order out of the seeming chaos. How can the universe support everyone’s intentions at the same time? Because everyone and everything is part of a unified energy field, which is inter-dimensional, aware, and responsive to thought.

Focus is a spiritual asset. We often call it by other names: determination, attention, commitment, concentration, single-mindedness, and obsession are among them. These names speak to the degree of the focus that we are bringing to bear on the needs of the moment.

(Excerpted from Soul Currency.  © 2007 Ernest D. Chu. All Rights Reserved.)