"Create Your Life" by Brad Jensen

Create Your Life
by Brad Jensen


How to put 'It Works' to work for YOU!

The powerful idea presented so simply and well in
'It Works' will change your life. I know this
because it has changed mine. The fantastic results
that I have created using this idea have motivated
me to investigate these principles for 25 years.
I want you to be rich with things that make you
happy. I'm going to give you ideas and images you
can use to help you be more successful with the list
technique presented in 'It Works'.

What I have Done With 'It Works'

My annual income is now 35 times greater than it
was the day I first read this little book. I have
gained houses, cars, boats, businesses, friends, a
family, and numerous creative and prospering
ideas using the principles set forth in this book.
In the last 25 years I have spent thousands of hours
teaching these ideas to other people. I've seen
many people use the ideas in this book to create
something new in their life, and I have seen others
who are not so successful with it. I want you to be
one of the successful ones.


How to Succeed with your List

First, let's take a little test. Take a sheet of paper
(or your word processor) and without looking at
the book write down the 'Three Positive Rules of
Accomplishment' that are the key to this technique.
Then go back and compare them to the text. How
did you do?

Did you miss a few? I did when I first tried this
test myself.

If you read this book and it never goes farther than
words and ideas in your mind, then you have lost
the advantage of it.

The key to success with this method it to DO IT,
not just think about it. Don–t think that by
reading it, even many times, that you will know it.
That would be like thinking that you know how to
ride a bicycle just by reading about it. In order to
master the bicycle, you have to get on it and ride,
learning to keep your balance as you move
forward. That is exactly the way you learn the
principles of conscious creation taught by "It
Works."

When I first started using the technique in this
book, I wrote my first list, and started getting
great results. Then after a month or so, I stopped
writing and reviewing the list, and tried to 'do it in
my head'. I didn't get the same results.

I went back to using the list, and the great results
started happening again. Then I got what I wanted
and let things slide, and the cycle repeated.
Meanwhile I started studying the ideas and
teaching them to others. In the process I learned
some interesting things I am sharing with you.
What I learned is that each of us has a spark
from the Creator which is our own personal
creator, like a genie from a magic lamp. The
problem with this genie is that he responds to
every thought in my mind as if it were a command.
If I think of something with desire, he starts
creating that for me. If I start to worry or fear, he
starts to erase that creation.

Wherever I put my attention, the genie starts
multiplying that attention into a real experience in
my life. All of this creation takes place in a part of
my mind called the subconscious mind. The
subconscious mind is the part of my mind that
holds the tremendous creative power that I can
learn to tap into and use. Whoever it has a special
way of working that I must understand if I want to
use my subconscious mind power effectively.
If my attention wanders all over the place, my
subconscious becomes full of half-created
thought-forms and my life is chaotic or boring.
That–s because the genie is busy trying to do a
million different things at once, many of which
contradict each other. His efforts always follow in
the track of my attention, and until I get my
attention going in a constant direction, I don–t get
the results I would like.

The plan given in 'It Works' helps me to control
my attention, and put that genie to work with
enough time and focus to produce real and
complete results. It will work the same way for
you.

My conscious mind sets the agenda, but I often
get distracted by the half-formed and
malformed effects of previous wishes and
desires. Many of those desires are unconscious,
created with incomplete understanding or fear or
worry. The genie does what I tell him, but he
listens to my daydreams and worries and treats
them as commands.

This creative power responds to what I believe.
I have come to realize that what I believe is not
necessarily the same as what I think. It's easy to
know what I believe - it is what I act on. It is
what I do. Even while I am unable to admit to
myself what I really believe, my subconscious
mind is working to make circumstances,
opportunities, and events in my life to experience
those beliefs.

How do I change what I believe, so that I can
get what I want? There is a simple way to do this.
It has been discovered and rediscovered by
teachers and writers throughout the ages.

Here it is:

I can imagine what I want, I can pretend that it
is so, and I can repeat this over and over.
The creative genie of my subconscious mind
responds to imagination, focused attention, and
repetition. That's what the book 'It Works' is all
about.


How to Get Faster and Better Results

Here are things that will help you create more
successfully when you use the technique presented
in 'It Works–. These are things that I have
discovered in the last 25 years of using 'It Works.'
Each of these is a suggestion based on actual
experiences with using the list. Use the ideas that
sound good to you.

The most important thing is to do exactly what
it says. Follow the plan exactly: Create a list,
include what you really desire in order of its
importance to you, read the list three times a day,
think of the items on the list as often as you can,
and don't tell anyone what you are doing.
For faster demonstration of results, you can
rewrite the list each day, even if it hasn't
changed. Reorder the items on the list according to
their importance to you. Doing this makes the
ideas new again, and will lead to more rapid
success. It–s also important to do something
physical with your ideas, as soon as possible.
Writing them out is a way to give them entry into
the outer world of manifestation. It creates a
toehold for their growth into physical reality.

If you have a tape recorder, you can read the
list out loud in a firm voice and tape it. Then
play the tape over and over again (perhaps in your
car as you commute to and from work). This needs
to be done and played in private. That's easy
nowadays since you can get an inexpensive tape
player with headphones.

I found a little digital recorder that records into
it's own computer memory, and then plays it back
over and over again through headphones. You can
also do this with the 'Sound Recorder' program that
is built into most personal computers.

Put real amounts, specific items, and specific
dates in your list. Some people worry that this is
'outlining' and delays manifestation. But what good
is it to get Coke when you want Pepsi, or Pepsi
when you want Coke? You don–t plant
strawberries and expect to harvest watermelons.
The most important thing is not a particular item
on your list, but developing your power of
conscious creation.

Do you have trouble remembering the items on
your list? If so, it may be that they are not really
that important to you. Try memorizing the items
on your list.

Are you having trouble finding ten things to put on
your list? Are you unsure which things should
really be on the list? Here"s an easy way to build
your list: ask yourself- 'What do I think about all
day?– That is what should be on your list. You may
have to start by listing your worries, and then turn
each of them into a positive desire. For example,
what do I worry about? What would need to
happen for me to not worry about this any more?
If you have trouble finding things that you want,
try thinking of it in another way. What would you
like to see happen?


How will you know it is working?

When you receive an idea about something that
is on your list, act on it in a positive way.
Sometimes the thing you want requires a few
intermediate steps. Be ready to go through several
doorways as they open before you, to reach your
goal. If you want a car, perhaps you will find
yourself creating a new set of tires first, or a
garage to keep the car in.

Realize that many of the things you want will
find you. You will be tempted to say, 'but I didn't
do anything, it just happened.' Your inner mind
genie will use the simplest and most efficient way
to create the results you imagine. It doesn't care
who gets the credit. After a while you won't either!
Remember that your genie is working nonstop,
according to the program that you set for him. If
you say, 'this can"t be working", he will do his
best to make that seem true é even while he
continues his nonstop creation of the other things
you ask for.

How will you know it is working? For most
people it is not one thing, or two things, but the
fact that one thing after another manifests in their
lives. The first thing you get from your list seems
to be a coincidence, the second is luck, the third is
serendipity, and the forth is a miracle. Finally after
many creations, when your friends start wondering
what the heck is going on, you will realize that
there is a simple and rational law in operation,
and that you know how to use it.

Get excited and enthusiastic about the good
things coming into your life. If this doesn't seem
natural to you, go ahead and use your 'power of
pretend' to fake it until you make it. Appreciation
is the oil of the engine of creation. Enthusiasm
and excitement are manifestations of your
appreciation, and confirmation of your positive
expectation.

The attitudes that will delay your success or
confuse your creation are jealousy, envy,
resentment, reservations, uncertainty, and
indecisiveness. Put all of those to the side. The
more you recognize your own creative ability, the
less you will care about those things that these
attitudes have been attached to. You just won–t
have time for those ways of thinking any more.
There is no such thing as a negative thought -
every thought has a positive result in
reproducing itself. Every thing you think about
grows in your mind and becomes part of your
physical life. That–s why it is so important to
control what you are thinking. The key to
controlling your mind is replacing the thoughts
that create what you don't want, with the thoughts
that create what you do want. You do not resist the
old thoughts, you replace them by putting your
attention somewhere else. Using your list is your
key to accomplishing this. Use this physical tool to
reinforce the thoughts that you want.

Think of your subconscious mind as being like a
sailboat in the middle of the ocean. The sailboat is
blown everywhere, back and forth, by the wind,
which is the power of thought. It needs a keel and
a rudder to be able to set a course and make way to
a certain destination. Your list is the keel and the
rudder of your subconscious sailboat.

Thought follows a certain structure in your mind.
The idea comes first, then the belief, then the
attitude, and then the behavior. Your strongest
foundation, the anchor of your thinking, begins
with your behavior. Change your behavior, then
change the attitude that changing the behavior
reveals, then change the belief that inspires the
attitude. Grab hold of an idea that is bigger and
more inclusive than the small ideas that have kept
you poor and unhappy.

When you are tempted to tell everyone what
you are doing to make the changes in your life,
send them a copy of this book instead. After you
have received 40 things you have asked for, you
can start talking about the process you are using.
Keep a list of everything you get until you receive
40 things you have asked for.

Many people find this book, and use it to get one
How did this book come into your life? Your genie
brought it to you, or brought you to it, in
response to your conscious or unconscious desire
to create a specific experience, or to understand
creation itself. Take advantage of this experience,
and make this intelligent, conscious creation a
way of life, not a one-time experience.

Trying to control other people and make
decisions for them is a misuse of them, and of
your own creative power. The most important
thing you can make is a decision. Trying to take
that opportunity for creation away from others is
based on fear, not love. Fear in your mind will
generally create things you do not want.

I learned something wonderful long ago, that will
give you freedom. I can"t prove anything to you
about anything important or meaningful.
However, I can tell you how you can experiment
and prove these things to yourself. If I walked on
water, you would be looking for the rocks. If you
walk on water, you will know that there are no
rocks. Using this list will show you how to walk
on the water of your life. You will have to learn to
politely ignore your friends as they yell: "Hey, get
back in the boat!"


The Toyota Principle

The subconscious mind creation process goes on
all the time. You don't have to be good to make
it work. You don't have to chant, exercise, or
repeat magic words. You are rich now with the
results of what you have been thinking about. Your
life is always full of something. If you want to be
rich with something else, change what you are
thinking about.

As you develop your ability to consciously direct
your creation process, as you build your
confidence and increase your will power, your
results will come more quickly and be more
satisfying. Don't delay this process by calling the
results coincidence. Wait until you have received
at least 40 items on your list (by receiving
something and replacing the list item with a new
item) before you judge the results as coincidence
or creation.

You are already a success at creating what you
are thinking about - everyone is. The biggest
enemy of conscious control is self-importance -
which may manifest in disguise as self-deprecation,
worry about what others think of you,
or the desire to have others approve of you. Don't
let your ego distract your from taking control of
your mind and your life.

Everything in your life is there because you have
asked for it through either desire or fear. Nothing
comes to you by itself. I call this the "Toyota
Principle" because there used to be a commercial
advertisement on television for a certain car
company with the catchphrase "You asked for it -
you got it - Toyota!' When you have used your
list for a while, you will begin to see this is true,
and then vast realms of possibility will open in
your life

It's a friendly universe.

I am firmly convinced that learning how my
mind works, and how to use it more effectively
to help myself and others, is what my Self wants
me to do. How about you?

You don't have to believe in God to use the list.
However, don't be surprised if using the list shows
you that there is order and structure to the
universe, including your mind as a part of that
universe. Your world is a lot closer to you and
more responsive to you, than you may have
considered it to be. It's a friendly universe.
Be careful about including other people on your
list. If you want joy and happiness with Jane or
Bill, is the joy and happiness more important, or
the relationship with Jane or Bill? Maybe the best
way to be happy with Jane is let her go find Bill,
and let Suzy come find you. As long as you are
focused on what someone can give to you, you
aren't yet completely experiencing love.
It may be tempting to think your success is
dependent on the channel it happens to come
through - your job, your family, a particular
relationship or thing you possess. Time and
experience will show you that this is not so.
In the meantime, place your sense of appreciation
and thankfulness on the Creator within you, who has
made you in his image as a creator. When the
river of your life changes its channel, you had
better be ready to go with the flow.

How fast will it work? Faster than you will
expect. I put the number one item on my list last
week and it manifested in two days and I thought
it would be six months or maybe never.

Fortunately, while writing and then rereading that
list item, I suspended my disbelief. Even before
your pen finishes the sentence, the act of creation
has begun. Of course there is no magic in the pen
or paper é the magic is in making the decision a
physical thing instead of just a mental idea. No
matter how long you use this method, there will be
times when you are just utterly amazed at what
'happens– to you. (It isn't happening, you are
creating it.) How fast can it happen? Don't blink
twice - you'll miss it.

Everything you think will try to prove itself
including your skepticism. If you are afraid of
what others will think of you, or of what you will
think of yourself, then you may be fooling yourself
while thinking you are being completely rational.
The world is plastic to the molding power of
your thoughts even while you think this is
untrue, or don't have a thought about it at all.
Everything lives and moves and has its being in a
sea of self-modifying thought. You can prove this
to yourself, and put it to effective use, with the
simple experiment of work with the list for a few
weeks or months.

It doesn't take much time or effort. You have
nothing to lose. No one will even know you are
doing it. They will just think that you have
suddenly become incredibly lucky, intelligent,
charming, and good looking. It helps to smile a
lot.

Creating complete mind pictures is very
helpful. That is another book in itself. Feeling joy
and enthusiasm about your mental creation is very
helpful. It will start to happen naturally as you use
this process over and over, because -
It Works!