The following is information provided by a transcript as well as an audio performed by Earl Shoaff in New York City circa 1962. The message is timeless and the inspiration is genuine. For those that do not know…Mr. Shoaff mentored the late great Jim Rohn.

Mr. Shoaff spoke to a live audience about his life and how he was able to accomplish what he did in such a short life dying at age 49. He mentioned universal laws and how they benefit some and not others but they're available to all of us on this planet. We all wonder why certain things happen to us. We gather and reap at certain periods and then over a period of time it seems like we live in stagnation.

There are basic laws in this universe that we are governed by and will work for all if they are applied correctly. For example, the law of gravity which we are all familiar with on this planet. If you jump off a 100-story building you will fall and most likely die. It doesn't matter if you are a good person or a bad person…if you use the law of gravity incorrectly you will suffer.

The same applies with electricity. If you are a man or woman or even a child and you walk into a dark room and hit a switch the lights turn on. You don't need to know how they work but that they work. So, for any of these basic laws we just need to know that they work and not so much how they work. We can leave that up to the scientists and engineers.

In this world we have laws of success, poverty, prosperity, love, hate, peace and everything in between. These are all basic laws. If we use them correctly, wonderful things will happen to us. If we use them improperly, then we will get ourselves in trouble. When it comes to setting goals, we may have 10 goals but only attain 2 of them. We lose out on 8, so it doesn't work like the law of gravity for instance. The problem is we're not using the right law or method. We're only using part of the law which is providing a law of averages.

There are scientific things that work every time if you do it in a simple way. The first thing is we want to become like farmers. We are going to plant seeds that we will be reaping. If you plant tomato seeds you are not going to get cucumbers. The point is you get what you plant and you must plant it properly or there will be no harvest. The problem in society today is we have all the equipment and knowledge for harvesting but we do not understand the planting and cultivating.

Now the planting of seeds in the earth is the same process used in the mental world. We all are born with a conscious and a sub-conscious mind. We are the only animal in the kingdom to have both. Which means we can decide where to go, what to do, where to do it and for how long. Now, what are your goals? Are they written down and specifically described? Someone says they have a goal to make more money. Okay, they make $10 more a month. Are they satisfied? It is just like the farmer that wants apples. He scatters a bunch of apple seeds and green apples sprout up but he says I wanted red apples. We must be specific in our desires.

We must learn to visualize what we want out of life and it must be strong enough as well. We're always visualizing things in our life but the tendency tends to be negative. This is in part due to a negative slant we see the world in at times attributed to the media. We are not too descriptive when things are going well but if things are going poorly, we can describe it in detail. People seem to love negative things; they don't want negativity personally but they insist on talking about it.

We happen to be the creators of our thoughts, feelings and actions. Nothing comes to us; it all goes through us from us. Everything in this world that happens to us comes from within and not the outside. All of our wants and desires are ultimately decided by each one of us. From the clothing we wear, to the friends we have and even the politicians in office are a result of our mindset. Everything we attract is what we are and what I am speaks so loudly that I can't hear what you say.

You see, we must learn how to describe things. You can change your life that quick. You can have wonderful things and great things happening to you if you use the few basic little things. If you believe in the process, your income can be doubled, tripled and even 10 times more. When determining your goals, you must be explicit in what you want to accomplish. If you want a particular automobile, provide not only the make and model but the accessories and every gadget imaginable. This is called visualizing. This creates a positive attitude toward the things you want. Too many people stop their dreams because they think in the present and not in the future.

Most people are afraid to define what they want in life. They're afraid it's going to cost them something. Don't focus on your present income, concentrate on the principle right now. Most people have blurry goals…they're undefined. They walk through life with a would have, could have and should have mentality. Unfortunately, that mentality doesn't attract success.

The first thing you folks need to do is grab a piece of paper and start defining your goals and dreams. When you get through, the perfect visualization is created because you have described it. When you write it down, you begin to actually see what you wrote. The picture becomes clear in your mind from writing it down. This is how you define things that you want in the world. When you have the goal completely defined in your mind, you have the seed. It hasn't been planted yet but the seed has been picked out.

Now the important thing is that you must release the seed and plant it. The perfect thing to plant the seed is to take the paper with the goal, fold it and write the concept "thank you". That is the law of acceptance. You would be fascinated by how many people in this world can't accept their goods. "Thank you" means you have accepted it and "I know it's mine" and "I'm going to have it" is ingrained in your psyche.

Now you take the piece of folded paper and put it somewhere out of the way or in a drawer. Don't carry it around and don't take it out to look at anymore. When you do this, you are planting the seed in the sub-conscious mind. The reason for this is just like planting a seed in the earth. Nothing will happen if you keep digging it up to see if it has grown. You must have faith in the process.

As time moves along, that planted seed in your mind will have visions of your goal throughout the course of your day. This is the universal law speaking to you…there's no voice however, just visualization. When this visualization happens to you just say, "thank you" and know that the goal is on its way to you. The seed has been planted properly and is working its way toward you.

It is important to have more than one goal or seeds. Many seeds should be planted. They can be tangible like an automobile as well as intangible like having a better relationship with your spouse or children. You can have anything you want in this world by simply doing the process described above. Some of you may have done this process without fully knowing it. Now that you know the process you will be more successful at it.

How are we speaking to our children and what messages are we sending them? When your child says they are going to be rich and famous or a business mogul or even the President of The United States, how do you respond? Do you say that they'll never make it or achieve such caliber with their grades or behavior? What seeds are we planting in our children's subconscious mind? We need to plant seeds of encouragement and passion in our offspring's subconscious mind.

Society today is teaching too many children what to think instead of how to think. We as adults need to start deciding and pinpointing things that we want in this world. Would you like to have more love in your life? Well then, you must learn to give love. You'll never have anything without giving. If you have a lot of hate in your life, you're giving out a lot of hate.

If you don't want people to talk about you, then don't talk about other people. Everything that is sent out is returned with feeling. When you don't receive what you want, your seed was planted improperly and there was not true visualization. The average person really doesn't know what they want out of life.

Do you know what you want in life? What do you truly desire? What is something tangible that you want in this world? Something that you can feel and touch as well as smell. What are the things you want in life? There is less than 2% of people reading this that can describe exactly what they want and come right out and say it.

So, I ask you. What is success in your life? What is it that you want? Define it…now. Write it down. Pinpoint every drop of that dream that you have in your mind. Once you get it written down, write "thank you" on it and plant that seed and put it away. It will start to materialize and it will start coming into your life. Just remember you can't get something you can't imagine getting. Don't forget, this is something you have to accept…you're going to have it folks.

As you grow in prosperity you must also grow in your thinking. Many folks in the world watch and read the news. It really isn't a benefiting ordeal. Guess what you find in the news? All sorts of heinous crimes, death, destruction, murder, manipulation, deception and the list goes on and on. This information once consumed does not help to put us in a joyful and glorious mood. The funny thing is we wonder why success doesn't come to us in the manner we want it to. Our actions must mirror our thoughts.

Expect wonderful things. Be a creator of ideas. Let's not be moons, the reflector of ideas. Let's be suns, the creator of light. Let's be the creator of ideas. We must be the guardians of our minds and vigilant as to what we let in. We have the capacity to think of anything we want but we don't have the ability to think of nothing. Just try it for a minute? There are always a steady flow of thoughts flowing through our mind.

These thoughts flow in our mind and come to us in positive and negative forms. We tend to dismiss many positive thoughts and feel that those ideas couldn't happen to me so we throw them out. However, the same negative thoughts come flowing in and we hold on to them and embrace the fear of that happening to us and we don't let go of them. This is something we do all the time but we can stop it right now. We can replace bad thoughts with good ones any time we want.

If you don't want to think about oranges, change it to apples if you want. If you don't want to think about hate, think about love. Get all these seeds planted properly and have all these wonderful things happen. Start with planting 20 wonderful seeds properly. Get them written down. Define. Thank you. Plant them into the subconscious mind. Once it's planted don't analyze it just say "thank you" and go on. If you plant the seeds properly, you'll have miracles happening in your life. Don't be afraid to do this.

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