DO LIKE BRIT: BE A PROSPERING WOMAN!

BRIT: A PROSPERING WOMAN

So there is this girl who was born in the middle of a tiny regular town and grew up in a tight situation fighting for her dreams n making them come true, who by age 21 is on top of her business, is adored by millions, has a bank account that goes over the 100 million dollars, n is in control of her life. No need to say she has accomplished in a few years more than many in a lifetime. So what’s the key Brit?! What’s special about this lil girl? That she dared to think big n found her dreams, n then she was strong enough to make those dreams come true. For Brit everything starts with dreams n the answer in her own words is “My advice to you is never to loose your passion to dream”. Dreaming is like hope to her, the last thing we loose, what’s always there. It grows inside of us n we just have to trust it. “If you have a dream, I say go for it. Just believe and work hard”.

History agrees with Brit: everything ever created by humans was first an imaginative idea in someone’s mind. N so does Ph. D. Ruth Ross, author of the best seller “Prospering Woman”. For Ross, Brit would be a perfect example of a prospering woman. Ross defines prosperity in a much widther way than the common 'acquiring as much wealth and power as possible'. True prosperity is the sence of peace and contentment with oneself; an inner knowingness that we have a place in the world and somehow we know we are in the right place at the right time. Beyond that, living prosperously involves having the power to create a life of your choice, to get what you really want n not just what you're handed. Prosperity is a result of opening our minds to our creative imagination and being willing to act on our ideas for the good of all concerned. Britney is just that. She's living the life she wants, but nobody handed it to her, she fought for it. She got there believing in her dreams and has grown to be strong and face it all, n to top it she's got a golden heart n does want everybody to be as happy as her. A couple years ago in an interview, she was asked what would be a perfect world for her and she said, “My idea is for everyone to be happy and happy with themselves and truly know who they are“.

There you already have four or the nine laws of prosperity of Ross’ book. On her wish we find the Law of Self-awareness, that says we can only have what we want when we know who we are and what we want. And the Law of Loving whatever goodness we want for ourselves we must also desire for others. This one is also in her advice. Plus in the dreaming part we find the Law of Visualization: we became what we imagine, positive or negative. N in finding your passion we find the Law of Wanting experiencing choice means knowing what we want and why we want it; only then do we have the excitement and energy to go after our desires. Getting these laws inside of you, along with the five others and the eight prosperity keys, is the way to prosperity but it is not a one-day process. It wasn’t easy for Brit either, but she went on learning while making her way to the top. We fans know that her success wasn’t an overnight thing, despite what the media said back in 1999, n even now she keeps growing. This is just a quick review over the eight keys n the nine laws that review Brit’s way to prosperity, so that you can do like Brit!


Prosperity Key No 1: We reap what we sow

The attitudes you hold about yourself and others make up the most fundamental obstacle keeping you from your prosperity. You deserve and can have what you desire in life, but just dabbling in occasional positive thinking won’t do it. Our most powerful conceptual prospering patterns are operating at the unconscious level. We will accomplish only that which we believe deep down is possible, according to our internal picture of ourselves. So all-behavioral and mental change, to be long lasting and effective, must have the force of the imaginative mind behind it.

“Prosperity, then, is an inside job - it is a matter of transforming your consciousness. You must find ways to let go of your old negative concepts of yourself as being inadequate, unsure, victimized, unworthy - whatever stands in the way of seeing yourself as a creator of plenty.”

You can see how Brit keeps growing on this on how she acts upon rumors n whatever is said about her. It all used to victimize her n made her feel inadequate and unsure. When she first started out the biggest rumor was her breast implants issue. N she has revealed how she would start crying backstage asking why were them all so mean. N back on 1999 n 2000 she would keep saying how “it hurts me so much when people hate me”. But then she changed perspectives; she made a consciousness transformation. Now she says they can say whatever they want and that she “laughs at it”. You can even see how in press conferences she changed attitudes n now doesn’t bother to give explanations of her personal life anymore or get into how x rumor isn’t true. A much healthier n happy way to see the same thing, she grew form crying to laughing!

Our lives manifest our dominant thoughts. Just as whatever we plant grows, that which we focus our attention on multiples. Whatever we put into our minds comes out in our lives. By deciding to focus on, and move toward, what you want you are able to raise your self-image. Each time you dwell on inadequacies, you decrease your self-assurance. When you plant the idea in our mind that there is not enough in life, we reap scarcity. When our focus in on loss, past pain and fear, we get more loss, pain and suffering in return. So just don’t dwell on pain n revolve in the good stuff you have and you will have!


Prosperity Key No 2: Proving ourselves right has its consequences

We all have the need to be right. We want to prove that whatever we believe is in fact true. That’s the nature of consciousness. If we have an unconscious low self-esteem, we will need to prove ourselves right and produce a life that supports that internal image. It is uncanny how we mastermind a life plot that ‘proves’ we are ‘no good’. Depending on what the script calls for, we can: get caught, hurt ourselves, get pregnant, get fired, loose something important, overspend, get drunk, abuse those we love - whatever is appropriate to prove we’re no good. When we’ve really proved it, we’ve created a win! A negative win, but a win. We’ve shown the world we were right all along.

We select circumstances that occur in our lives by choosing how and where we focus our attention. For example, when we concentrate on reasons life doesn’t work and why we can’t have what we want, we remain oblivious to opportunities to change our circumstances, and so perpetuate our negative ‘wins’. In other words, our negative self-esteem and need to be right becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But think about this. The law of causation is the same for both positive and negative wins. They are both produced by thought: only the emphasis is different. A positive win is created when we realize that with every problem lies a solution. It is our choice how we interpret every event. There is no one way to look at a set of circumstances.

If we assume that all in life is growth-oriented, we would have to agree that we are always moving toward the expansive, the positive. The basic underlying the reason for every good act then is good - only the means create negative results. The more conscious we become about who we are in relation to all life, the more directly we can get what we want in a positive manner.

We repeat our negative wins until we’re clear about what we want, or at least what we don’t want. Then we’re ready - with energy built from expirience - to go our next step. We change internally so we can tolerate a different life externally. This is also what Brit did with the rumors issue. The idea is that in every negative situation you find yourself in, you are winning - somehow - even it if is difficult to see how. Do no blame yourself. Ask yourself “How is this a win for me? What am I getting out of this that I couldn’t get faster any other way?” As soon as you give yourself permission to prosper, step through your fears of failure and success, see that you deserve all that you desire, and move toward what you want, rather than what you don’t want, you are deciding to win successfully!


Prosperity Key No 3: To receive more, we must be willing to give more

To receive is to open oneself to one’s vulnerability - to let go of control. The message is that the world is full of givers; what we need is to learn to receive - to open ourselves to our vulnerability -. When it comes to money, society gives us a consciousness of poverty making is sound like no good and therefore something we don’t want. We see it in phrases like: money is the root of all evil; money won’t buy you happiness; easy come, easy go; I may be poor but I’m happy. Yet, there are prosperous attitudes in what is a base of our society, in biblical passages: ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened unto you.

Goethe said, “Nobody should be rich but those who understand it”. His point is that many can become rich quickly but if they haven’t developed awareness, scruples, or concern for others they can loose their money just as quickly, or in some way pay dearly for it. First, one has to develop a prosperity consciousness. If we are going to ask for power in great amounts, we had better be prepared to handle it. You will either control or be controlled by money. Awareness of the power of money and of how to handle it makes the difference. It is the conscious choice to use money benevolently that puts you in control. The money is the means, it gives us choice and choice also brings responsibility. The responsibility of money is knowing where you want to go with it.

Money doesn’t grow being hoarded. Hoarding is for beggars. It doesn’t benefit anyone to grab as much as possible and keep it stashed away in vaults or coffee cans. Trying to prosper by bottling up money through accumulation will result in the opposite negative effect. In all of life, receiving depends upon giving. There are no separate rules for money. All spending is part of the circulating flow of giving - when done in right spirit. Try it out. Next time you spend, see yourself as giving to benefit others as well as yourself. Spending with love can be a new expirience. Just as work can be love in action so, too, money can be love expressed. When we give in this spirit, our return is multiplied many times.

Spending is no problem for some people. It can be too easy, in fact. After a few experiences of succumbing to the temptation of unlimited credit, leading to eventually unlimited debt, they quickly discover the pain of overspending. Part of the responsibility that goes along with the power of money is knowing how to save and invest for a purpose. Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, saw money as a “stewardship”, or challenge. To him, each person with money has a mandate to use that money to “carve out” work for others.

How do you use money? What plans or direction do you see for your money? What seeds are being planted with your money? If the farmer has no plan and throws her seeds hither and yon, she not only wastes her resources; she has only a small crop in return. And she cannot tend her crop if it is scattered. So start planning for your future now by investing in yourself. Spend some time today thinking about how you feel about money. Ask yourself:

Are you willing to create the money your life dream would cost?
What does “being poor” mean to you? How does that feel?
How do you feel about wealthy people?
How do you feel about earning “a lot” of money?
How do you want to receive your money?
How do you want to help others with your money?
How are you uncomfortable around money?
What do you want to have achieved with your money when you die?

Far too many people never sit down and think concretely about these kinds of questions; yet, for prosperity it is vital to know your feelings about money. Listen to yourself next time you spend money. Our attitudes toward money are often indicative of our attitudes toward life itself.

In order to achieve prosperity on a continuos basis, we must develop balance. Momentary desires will have to be balanced with long-term goals; saving, spending and investing plans will have to be devised. Prosperity requires planning, clear intent and commitment. Becoming friends with money and recognizing what it can and what it cannot do for us is an important preliminary step. Money in itself cannot make us happy, but with intention it can provide the means of unlimited good for ourselves and others.

That’s right! An other law Britney is following by intuition! She is constantly joining campaigns to help children in need, last year she raised $1 million for the children who suffered losts on the 9-11. And to top it she opened her own foundation for children who can’t afford performing arts education to access it from the very best teachers who also work with her. Plus you see she keeps giving, she just opened an auction of 170 personal items to raise founds for her foundation. It is a law that to receive we gotta have space for what we want. For instance if we want new clothes but we never get rid of those we know we’re never gonna use, we are cheating on ourselves. We are telling ourselves we don’t really need the new stuff cos we do have other stuff - although it’s not really what we need -, so we’ll end up keeping the old stuff, not using it, n not getting what we do want n need. Plus what we don’t want can be awesome for somebody else; maybe your younger sister wants it, n for sure it’ll be very appreciate it if you give it to charity. Some other times we gotta let go of bigger stuff. In this case, Brit admitted it was a bit hard to let go. “I’m kind of sad of some of the pieces that are going, but I know the money we’ll raise will have a huge payback”.


Prosperity Key No 4: Our personal power formula is: E = MC2 (Energy comes from seeing my contribution is every situation)

Brit knows how to handle power. She says that to her “you are more powerful when you don’t realize how powerful you are”. What does she mean with this? That it’s gotta be a natural thing, the way you handle it has to be you. How do we get our personal power? By having integrity, intention and by taking responsibility. Personal power is dependent upon having a strong sense of integrity. Brit has this inside naturally, that’s why she sees this quality as such a natural thing of power. N other rule is to be honest about intentions with yourself and others. You devaluate yourself inside when you don’t keep your word, and your sense of integrity drops. We gotta be clear with our intentions and only say yes to those agreements we intend to keep. Taking responsibility is a third way to increase personal power.

When you take responsibility for the circumstances of your life, you are acknowledging that you created those circumstances. The more responsibility you accept for the consequences of your actions, the more power you are assuming. You did it, so if you don’t like the results, you can redo it. The more power you accept over all circumstances of your life - as consequences of your actions - the more prosperous situations you can choose to create.

Responsibility is a position - an attitude toward events. You either take it, or you feel victimized by the world. Your choice of weather to play the victim or to take the responsibility, that is, acknowledge your contribution or part in any given situation, will determine whose power then to do something about what’s happening - to choose your next step. You learn quickly what you don’t want to do next time, and you benefit from experience.

Have you noticed how producers are always talking wonders of how responsible Britney is? People may say she is where she is for her body and blah, blah... But those who work with her always mention how she works hard n is very focus. She says, “This isn’t all fun and play. I’m someone who is really focus”. N no doubt she’s powerful, she was declared the #1 most powerful person in show business last year by Forbes Magazine.


Prosperity Key No 5: We are all we need because we are what we desire

What we are all looking for, of course, is that elusive unconditional, uncritical and nonjudgmental love. What we all need to understand is simple: it starts within. When you let go of the judge and jury within, you will find a perennial garden of love.

You are already it. You are love; that is your true nature. Letting go of the great search for the perfect love, and looking within instead for your own reservoir of love can free up tremendous amounts of energy, which are then available for redirection. As we begin to see the truth in this key, we also see that the female’s compulsive desire for a providing; protective “love” is a deterrent to prosperity consciousness. Until we woman come to understand to what extent we have been programmed to feel like woman only when we are taken care of - when someone other than ourselves loves and accepts us - we will not even be free to desire true prosperity. That very concept will instead be threatening to our basic life structure built around the idea that woman are first and foremost to be in the serving, giving role.

Britney doesn’t seem to have much of a problem with this either, and each day we see her as a much more secure woman. N even back on 1999 she wisely said, “You have to be happy with who you are. I wasn’t always popular in school or with boys, but I always liked who I was”.


Prosperity Key No 6: Love yourself first

We have been taught from early childhood to “Love the neighbor as thyself”, and we have been given some idea of what “love thy neighbor” entails. But somehow the “love thyself” part has been sadly neglected - or worse, it has been given negative, narcissistic connotations. The beautiful lesson to learn about love is that loving yourself does not take away from loving others. It is a prerequisite before genuine love can happen. Love only multiples. You can only give that which you have. Unless you create love within, you have little to share with others.


Prosperity Key No 7: Quieting the mind promotes directed action

The incessant repetitive thoughts that obsess our minds are a drain on our creative energy. Are you aware of constantly talking to yourself? Take the next two minuets and write down all the thoughts that are going through your head. Note how unimportant most of them are, and how you repeat yourself. You prolly won’t be able to write fast enough. Next, sit in front of a clock and try no to think for sixty seconds. Don’t be discouraged by the results; you would have the powers of a very sophisticated yogi if you could stop your mind for just three minutes. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a yogi to reap the benefits of quieting your mind.

A simple and effective way to stop the chatter in your head is to say “Stop!” to yourself when you hear your “reverberating circuits” going around endlessly. An even more effective longer-lasting technique is to meditate. If you are a beginner, take 15 minutes each morning, close your eyes, breathe deeply, relax your body and when thoughts come, just announce to yourself, lovingly, “Peace. Be still”. Meditation is a form of acknowledging your connection with the spirit of universal love, and it allows for a sense of peace and love to flood your being. The tranquillity that follows stays with you, reducing stress and promoting a state of creative awareness throughout the day. Britney loves it and recently she apparently couldn’t wait to get home to read her Zen Meditation book and started it in the streets!


Prosperity Key No 8: Forgive all who have offended you - not for them, but for yourself

We do not need to wait until others deserve our forgiveness, because we’re not doing it for them. By holding resentments against others, we hurt ourselves more than anyone else. Clinging to our resentments is like taking poison every day. Why do we continue it? Here’s a little secret that may help you to give up resentments. Think about this: If a tiger were chasing you across the field, hell-bent on eating you, would you be focusing on how much you were resenting having to run to safety? Probably not! Yet you would have every reason to. You are not at fault; something out there is doing it to you; you feel helpless; you have no choice. Why don’t you resent it?

We only resent situations in which we know, deep down; we could have reacted differently. We could have done something other than what we did. In other words, it is really ourselves and our actions (or lack of actions) that we resent. We don’t resent the tiger, because tigers will be tigers. We are doing all we can do, which is to get out of the tiger’s path.

To forgive and let go of resentments, therefore, we need to ask ourselves what our input into any given situation was - what could we have done differently than what we did do? Realizing that we do have input in almost every situation puts us back into our sense of personal power - and releases that terrible feeling of being victimized.

We can also learn to bless others - even our “enemies”. Coming from the attitude that there is a lesson in every problem, we can see that our opponent has just helped us to learn faster. It is therefore to our advantage to forgive and even thank this person for this opportunity. After all, we’re not victimized saints - we’re always doing the best for No 1 (according to our insight at the time) every step of the way - and so is the other person.

The more we can forgive and bless with goodwill, the faster we are opening the channels to our prosperity. But it can’t be phony. You have to really forgive - to recognize that the essence of the other person is the same as yours. Forgiving ourselves and others is our single biggest step toward prosperity consciousness, exceeded only by the need to let go of negative thought.



Prosperity Law No. 1: The Law Of Self-awareness
“We can only have what we want when we know who we are and what we want.”

Finding the answers to Who am I? And What do I want? is the hardest part in life. Getting what we want is a cinch after that - it’s all downhill. One theory of personality indicates that we are not one “I”, but rather a complex group of “I”s - a collection of subpersonalities. What does this mean? That we develop different sides of us, “I”, as a result of interacting with different groups. As our roles, interests and mood change, the way we respond to the environment changes. The way we dress, act and think change quiet dramatically depending on the people we’re with and the situations we’re in. With Brit you see - just like on the MTV Britney Live show - Britney the performer, Britney the actress, Britney the daughter, Britney the sister, Britney the friend, Britney the idol, Britney the girlfriend, Britney the superstar, Britney the goober, etc, etc, etc. On MTV they went on to describe each side of Brit and what position toward the world each role took. You gotta ask yourself what are your different sides, how do you act form each side and then ask yourself what makes you happy from each role. We all have a dozen or more subpersonality and are operating two or three at any given time.

There are some subpersonalities that develop around dominant attitudes, moods and feelings. For example, the “happy Helper” is continuously there to please, and will bend over backward to help anybody, anywhere, anytime. This is Brit’s case. Last September, on People magazine she confessed “I’m a people pleaser”. But there are uncountable others like the “Pessimist”, the “Judge”, etc. Subpersonalities are complex ways in which we interact with others, but they often pass for being the real “I”.

This are the steps Ross’ book “Prospering Woman” suggests:

1. Ask yourself the question Who Am I? Twenty or thirty times. Write down your answers. Many of the attitudes, feelings, interests, and ideas about yourself will emerge.

2. Categorize your answers by themes. In what way do your answers seem to be connected with each other? For example, some of the answers will have to do with your concern for family, profession, health, love, security, fun and strong feeling states.

3. Give your subpersonalities a name, and picture them in your mind.

4. List what each subpersonality wants in life. Do any of these wants conflict? When our subpersonalities have opposing wants, we feel as if there is a war going on inside of us. We often end up in confusion over our goals because of this disparity.

To get what you want in life with the minimum amount of opposition, make sure your major wants are satisfying the majority of your subpersonality needs. We develop each subpersonality as a way of expressing our selves in the world. They reflect the mental needs, which are always changing. Another part of our “I-ness” is unrelated to changing circumstances. This is our central “I” or “inner self” behind our subpersonalities. This “I” is quiet always centered. It’s the “knowing” strength that speaks when you’re ready to listen. An other way of looking at it would be as expressing your essence. When we are in touch with our essence we do not have to prove anything to anyone, nor get permission or approval from anyone in order to be ourselves. Remember to give yourself plenty of time aloe with nothing to do in order to get in touch with your essence. By acknowledging essence we know as long as our desires are life affirming, and for the good of all, we deserve what we desire. With this prosperity consciousness we can go after what we want with a lighter heart, unattached of results. We need to want with a strong desire and at the same time let go of attachment to a particular outcome. We gotta learn how to see the good in every situation n as a situation that will lead us to our actual goal, n finding our essence we learn it. When do we find our essence? When we transcend our ego, which is constantly comparing us to others n is exhausting to satisfy. To feel fully satisfied by our efforts, our wants must be based on an awareness of who that “I” is that we’re trying to satisfy. Then we can best utilize our time and energy to get the most out of life. Finding out who we are, is an exciting ongoing process, affirms Ross. N Britney agrees, "I still have a lot to learn -- about the business, about music, and about myself. It's exciting."


Prosperity Law No. 2: The Law Of Wanting
“Experiencing choice means knowing what we want and why we want it. Only then do we have the excitement and energy to go after our desires.”

Prosperity is a result of deliberate wanting and planning. Our ability to want is a magical gift. When we are excited and motivated to want, we are experiencing a sense of aliveness, and an inner awareness of unlimited opportunities about us. Planning puts a structure around that excitement to take us where we want to go. First we must give ourselves permission to desire what we want. As Brit says “dream big”! We are created to want; it’s natural. Wanting is how we grow. We are not selfish, bad or greedy when we want - we are stretching to realize more of our potential. N that is what Brit does, while she wants more n gets to it she realizes she can do even more, you just gotta check how she has grown up since she first came out. To start off she’s now writing her songs n she’s an actress!

The key is on being specific. Wants are thoughts, and though - as mind energy - is creative power. When we become specific about what we want, we are focusing the power of thought on our desires. Studies have shown, however, that most of us have not formulated precisely what we want. Less than three percent of us have written our goals. Our wants appear nebulous and difficult to put a finger on. It seems easier to live with the vague sense that something is missing, and to make do, rather than define what that something is. Late American psychologist Leon Festinger, who is best known for this cognitive dissonance research, has shown that when we get what we don’t want, we soon start perceiving it as what we do want so we are not miserable! There is no way to know our real wants when we pretend we’ve got what we want.

Why don’t we specifically say what we want? The root seems to be fear of failure. If we state what we want, then we are admitting that we don’t have it - and that feels like failing before we start. Others go like ‘If I say what I want, and I don’t get it, others will know it and I’ll be embarrassed...’ or “what’s the use in deciding? I won’t get it anyway’; or “If I go for what I want and I get it, if I don’t like it, I’m stuck with it’. We can only release the negative thoughts of failure once we understand the beneficial role of failing. Failure is part of the package of learning. When a baby is learning to walk, she falls; but we wouldn’t think of condemning her for falling. So, too, when we are learning to want, and to establish goals based on those wants, we need to keep on focus on success. Our goals are not set in concrete - they can always change. Successful people know the importance of remaining flexible and keeping their goals reflective of their feelings. They never lose sight of what they want, but when their plans fall through, they haven’t failed. There is always more then one way to do anything we want to do. There’s no such thing as failure anyway - there is only result. When we try a different approach, we get a different result. When ‘Britney’ didn’t sale as much as her other 2 albums Britney simply said “I’m proud of ‘Britney’, not every album sales 10 million, but I’m happy about it anyway.”

An other reason we have difficulty knowing what we want in life is that we have diluted our wants with shoulds. We’ve been told what’s good for us and therefore what to desire. The entire commercial advertising and merchandising system feeds on developing and directing our wants. Under these pressures, we forgot how to think though wants for ourselves. For Brit the hard thing was something between these two reasons, she said to MTV back on 2000, "It's funny how being successful is as hard as failure. When you're successful they expect so much out of you. The expectation are so high." But she learnt that the only expectations she had to full-fill were her own ones. “You can’t please everyone at the same time”, she replies to harsh statements now. What Brit does worry about are her wants, goals, and her values being compatible, it’s then when we are more powerful, for then we are not in conflict with ourselves. The idea is that we must stay open to our original idea or something better. N that knowing what you want in life is a reward itself.


Prosperity Key No. 3: The Law Of Planning
“Without planning there is no consistent prosperity.”

The three most important secrets of success are planning, planning, and planning! By planning you are giving detailed attention to your intention. Start by writing one goal that you want to achieve in five years for each major are of your life. This helps looking at the whole picture and see how separate goals fit together. The object is to maintain balance in your life, and not get lopsided or carried away in any one interest to the exclusion of the rest.

One major area women are awakening to, is the need to plan for financial independence. You will first need to understand your financial situation today and determine how much money you will need to fulfill your goals. Less than 5% of the U.S. citizens sixty-five year of age are financially independent; 75% are dependant upon others; and the rest still need to work. The National Council on Aging estimates that the total liquid assets per capita of all people sixty-five years of age (mostly women) are approximately $3,500. A woman earning $15,000 a year for thirty years earns a total of almost half a million dollars. Unless she manages it well, however, she will end up with about as much as she started. We need to learn to live on 90% of whatever we bring home. Most of us do the opposite. As out income increases, so do our expenditures - or worse we become heavily in debt for items of immediate consumption. Financial advisors tell us that the only good reason for borrowing money is to make money. If we borrow for consumer items the debt lasts much longer than the items - often they’ve broken down, worn out, or we’ve gotten rid of them long before they’re paid off. Being in debt for items we have already consumed can be debilitating psychologically, and we can end up feeling trapped financially. Becoming prosperous is first of all being truthful to ourselves. It means taking responsibility for our financial state. You need to plan what you will have as an income n what’s your outcome gonna be, and also establish a payment plan on your debts that assures you a good credit rating. It might temporarily lower your standard of living, and not buying those jeans you so much want right now, but very quickly a peace of mind and excitement about future potential develops. N this feeling cannot be bought.

What do we do with the 10%? That’s the second golden rule of money: pay yourself first. Skim 10% right off the top of your income to pay yourself. You deserve it. That is yours to keep. You will want to invest it safely and to continue to reinvest the interest is earns. Never plan on spending your original investment money. It is only to accumulate interest and help build your financial independence. We all know we need to earn money; we now need to learn what we do with it after we’ve earned it. Professional help is important, but all final decisions must be yours, for you are the responsible for them. This is just the same concept of what Britney said to People on what she learnt on the past five years, "You get advice everyday from everyone - but you have to be your own guide." Just remember becoming money conscious is time consuming, but so is work. Also what Brit says on dreams “Just work hard and remember it takes time”. It doesn’t matter how big your steps are, what matters is that you take them.


Prosperity Law No. 4: The Law Of Releasing
“We must get rid of what we don’t want to make room for what we do.”

For sure you have noticed how Britney is always changing, and how she admires this the most in her biggest idol Madonna. This concept fits in this law that is as simple as being aware that the worn out, used up, bypassed, outlasted must be discarded. It’s like Catherine Ponder said, “If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it!” You gotta make space for what you want.

The first area to release is with yourself, your body, your mind and your sprit. You release your body giving it what it needs, eating well, exercising and relaxing and loving your body as it is while you work on making it what you want. You always gotta remember to give yourself permission to relax. Relaxing is not a sign of laziness, it is a sign of intelligence. When it comes to mind cleansing to release the most important is letting go of negative thoughts. Britney recently said on sales expectations, “I try not to think negatively”. Yes, we gotta remind ourselves of it but it becomes more of a natural process every time. We are only stack with negative thoughts when we feed them by giving them our attention. How do we “let go” of negative attitudes (thoughts) when we don’t feel positive? It helps to remember that thoughts come before feelings. If you can stay aware enough, you can catch the through that leads to the feeling low. Becoming aware of, and dwelling upon, negative thoughts are two different things. The spirit cleansing is to give time to yourself. You can start each morning by giving yourself a gift of ten to fifteen minutes to be by yourself. The busier you are, the more important it is that you take this time. Give thanks for your oneness with all there is. This process opens you to your prosperity consciousness, where you recognize that what you want wants you. Once you start you fill find it fun and east cos it is a circular action. The more we expirience peace and order within, the more we demand it in our environment. As we start today working toward having life more centered, focused, and peaceful, we will want to clean up the house, our car, our clothes, the office. We’ll want to clear out what’s not longer useful, including old clothes, dishes, furniture, everything! We’ll finish the incomplete things in our lives. Unfinished cycles prevent us form experiencing peace, order and harmony in our physical and mental world. You develop on the sense that you do what you want by choice - for that is that the truth. For instance, “I don’t have to exercise, I choose to feel fit.” Worn out worries and doubt go, too. They only serve to hold you back and get rancid when they’ve been around too long. Put all the old problems that wouldn’t be solved into that same garbage can - and release them, with love, letting go without further judgment or attachment. Britney proudly said that, "I've always been able to work through my fears and doubts, the way I see it, you can let them hold you back, or you can tell them to back off. It's all up to you." N like it goes on the Key No 8, you gotta release of resentment and forgive all who have offended you, not for them but for yourself.

Another phase of the cleansing process is learning to give generously of your resources. We must always give before we receive. This is an old adage every successful businessperson knows and puts into action. Never pass up a chance to give. In Brit case, just like for every artist, this is a number one strategy we all can see. Especially when a new album is out, or a new video, or a new movie, Britney appears in every show she can! For the release of ‘Britney’, for example, she was on MTV, the Today Show, the Late Show, SNL n way doing tons of interviews for channels of all around the world! N it paid off! Maybe ‘Britney’ wasn’t as lucky on sales as Baby or Oops, for which she did the same if not more, but it did sale over 4 million only in the States, n to top it on 2002 alone she made over 40 million dollars according to Rolling Stones magazine. Being generous is even a characteristic of a hero according to Sheler. It may seem impossible to give when our entire attention is on the need to receive, but it is expressly at those times when we feel needy that we will benefit the most form giving. Feeling scarcity can be very depressing, and when our energy begins to spiral down into depression our prosperity prospects spiral downward also. Our first task is to increase that energy level. One way to do this is to give; it lifts our spirits to give. Giving is simpler than we think. We all have a variety of skills and talents that can contribute others’ well being. Even a smile is worth a million to the right person at the right moment. Be kind, helpful and considerate toward others. As you see they’re all characteristics of Brit.

The outside world is only reflection of our inside world. The only one we’re ever dealing with is ourselves. Giving convinces our subconscious that we already have more than we need. We are prosperous, and expect to continue to be so. When we give, we benefit. That’s also why when you spend money you have to do it with the consciousness of giving with love. Prosperity Law No. 5: The Law Of Compensation
“There is a price for everything and we always pay.”

We pay for everything we receive in life, and that includes prosperity. The gift and the price are more often called the law of cause and affect, out of which probably came the sage remark, “Be careful of what you want, you might get it.” The reason for this concern is legitimate. Whatever we receive has a multitude of effects and it is good to think through what those effects might be, and ask if the price is too high on money, effort, time and peace of mind. We appreciate most what we have to pay for; and therefore the law of compensatory action really works to our advantage. When we realize the cost of our choices, we come alive for the moment to see what we have purchased. Identifying the price we will have to pay for each of our desires can actually help us promote our state of conscious alertness. As we gradually accept that we do pay, we tent to choose our wants more wisely.

Britney had to pay the cost too. From taking a bodyguard everywhere she goes, to not having privacy when shopping or over issues like her virginity; to what she says is one of the toughest, “One of the hardest things of this business is being away form my family so much."

Sometimes it is hard to believe the law applies for everyone when we see so many who go unpunished for all their mean acts. Yet, what we’re not seeing is the cancerous effect on the insides of those individuals who gain at the high cost to others. We never “get away with” anything, because we cannot leave ourselves. We may try, with alcohol, drugs, overeating, and other escapist activities, but we must always return to ourselves. We are our own persecutors. Because of the rectification of "wrong action" is not always immediately obvious, many people have been sold on the idea that the “bad” are successful and the “good” are miserable, but justice will be served in the hereafter. According to Emerson on his essay “Contemplation” he says “...In labor as in life there can be no cheating. The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself.” In pursuit of our own prosperity, then, we need to constantly stay aware of our intentions toward others. If our intentions are not good for all concerned, all parties feel the negative effects. We are creatures of integrity and we are always watching ourselves. Fortunately, right action works on this same principle of cause and effect. The price of extending love, knowledge, beauty and wisdom to others is that we receive more of the same for ourselves. If we continue to think about what is possible, look for our lessons in both our positive and negative experiences, combine love with wisdom in our actions towards others, and intend good for all concerned, we can count on experiencing the best that life has to offer.

Prosperity Law No. 6: The Law Of Attraction
“We attract what we are. Be the qualities that you want in your life and you’ll attract more of the same to you.”

We don’t need a crystal ball to know our future, we are attracting our future through our consciousness now. We are consciousness, and the quality of though we hold in our minds right now is attracting the quality of life we are heading toward. The law of attraction and the law of compensation are sister laws. The quality of our energy attracts more of the same to us. In order to be prosperous then, we must first feel prosperous. N to increase our prosperity we must start with what we’ve got; n we have plenty. You do not have to be wealthy to feel prosperous, the feeling is beyond dollars n cents. It comes form an inner glow, a sense that all is well in the universe, that everything is just the way it should be. When we feel prosperous, we know we can handle any turn of events that might take place. We’ve got what it takes to live freely without worry or fear. Brit’s certainly got that, n it’s why Cosmo gave her the award Of Fun Fearless Woman of the Year on 2002. The idea is that we do not have to wait until we have enough of anything in order to be happy. This has to do with what Brit says on being happy with who you are "You have to be happy with who you are. I wasn't always popular in school or with boys, but I always liked who I was anyway." Be happy with all you have now.

1. Think through, clearly, what your concept is of a truly prosperous woman. What qualities would she have?
2. List the characteristics you have now that you like in yourself, and want to expand upon.
3. List the kind of people and situations that you wish to attract to yourself as a prospering woman. What qualities would you have in those around you?
4. Close your eyes and imagine yourself being that prospering woman as you have defined her. Feel yourself having the qualities you believe she would have.

Begin to sense what being prosperous is like for you. How would you act? What would you do? How would you handle problems? What would you have? How would others act toward you? Open your eyes and list those things you can do today to express a feeling of prosperity.

At first, when we choose to radiate the qualities that we desire to bring into our lives, we feel like we’re pretending. In truth, we only feel like actresses cos we hadn’t allowed those qualities to emerge before. Remember that at the core of our being, we are already perfect. We are only moving closer to our true nature. Keep in mind that feeling prosperous is enjoying fully what you already have. Right now all of us have resources we are not using, resources that can be appreciated now, rather than gathering dust waiting for that rainy day, or when company comes. It’s time to treat ourselves like company. Give yourself the option of wearing your best - every day if you feel like it. Look like a million dollars on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon. Use your best dishes for breakfast, put candles and flowers on the table with the toasted cheese sandwiches. Dress in a manner that makes you feel not only “appropriate”, but super. Fashion ads tell us to buy their products for others’ approval, well, our approval worth a million times more! By coming from enthusiasm and a bright outlook, we attract success - whether it’s in making a sale or meeting a new friend. We tend to see more of the opportunities around us, and by being “up” we attract positive people like us. The secret to experiencing joy in life is loving what you have while you’re working toward what you want.

Prosperity Law No. 7: The Law Of Visualization
“We became what we imagine, positive or negative.”

Real wealth has always been made by acting upon creative ideas. Millions of thoughts are born every minute, only a few take a root and grow. How fully develop the idea becomes is dependent upon the imaginative energy spent on that seed idea. The first nurturing action in our creative process then, has to be on our own mental work. Creative visualization - mentally picturing with emotion - is another important tool we have for mind action. By combining words with feelings and images, we can be more effectively in programming the subconscious to manifest conditions that we desire.

Many people feel have little ability to imagine, or cannot visualize. This is not Britney’s problem, n actually, it is not a problem at all. Visualizing is a natural but often unconscious process of the mind. We could not execute a normal day’s activities without our ability to create mental images. Every plan we make, weather it is to reorganize a business or make a shopping list, requires some sort of visualizing - perceiving in the eye of the mind that which is not yet visible to the physical eye.

Visualizing is also the natural process by which the mind communicates deeply buried feelings and beliefs. The importance of making this process is that, without awareness, we usually choose to act according to the way we envision reality around us, not necessarily the way it actually is. Much of the unconscious visualization come in the form of fear images. What we expect, believe and picture, we usually get. The next step of concentrated mind action is choosing to do this very thing: to use this natural process of visualizing in a deliberate creative way to direct energy toward specific, positive purposes. What follows are Ross’ Visualizing Techniques.

To prove to yourself that you can image at will, start with easy stuff first. Relax a moment and close your eyes. Take a deep breath, see your favorite room at home. Walk all around it, touching objects, looking at the various colors in the room. Move a piece of furniture. Feel it under your hands. What does the room smell like? Image yourself sitting in the room - how do you feel there? Try to get as total a picture as possible. Next, let that scene go and imagine that you are holding a lemon in your right hand - a bright yellow, shiny lemon, about the size of your fist. Feel the rough texture of its skin. Observe how it is shaped, with one end smaller than the other. Now image cutting it in half. See a drop of juice pour out as you cut. Smell the pungent odor of the lemon. Take a bite our of one piece. Feel your mouth pucker. Spit the seeds out, and let yourself really taste the sour juice sliding down your throat. Now let that image go. Some people visualize better with their eyes opened, it’s different for everyone. The important thing is just having the intention and putting your attention on visualizing a scene is enough to focus the power of the mind. Britney said that when she was little and played to sing in her room, she could “see” all the people watched it and clapped. Ross would say “picture”, it’s the same thing, n it sure worked for her cos now she doesn’t have to picture it, she can truly see it!

Ross says that discipline is required to train our imaginations to focus on details of our desires until they are clearly visible to the mind’s eye. It is as important as developing the discipline we needed to observe the mind for negative thoughts (and letting them go). This discipline is easy, rewarding and fun. You gotta allow change with your imaginative mind action, but not attempt to force change. Visual images caused by doubt, frustration, anger, worry - all negative emotions - hold back our good fortune and promote circumstances causing more frustration, anger and worry. Diet by denial does not usually work on a long-term basis. What we resist persists. Our only choice then is constant, careful, loving vigilance over the kind of program we set up in the subconscious with our current thoughts and mental images. By focusing on our desires, and on the pleasure our new patterns of life bring us, we are not fighting ourselves with our negatives. Our whole body is freed to move naturally in the direction we desire, attracting similar positive energy as we go along. Positive: a number one characteristic of Britney!

Prosperity Key No 8 is the Law of Affirmation: we became what we want to be by affirming and acting on our belief that we already are there; and the Key No 9 is the Law of Loving: whatever goodness we want for ourselves we must also desire for others! This are basic keys so you'll prolly want to read it from Prospering Woman book itself to do like Brit! Have fun!



For the rest of the keys and indeepth info on how to be a prospering woman like Britney make sure you read Prospering Woman!



HAS BRIT INSPIRED YOU TO BE A PROSPERING WOMAN?
- Yes, she's such an inspiration!
- Whatever! I don't need that s***
- No, I need more..

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