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Career

So many
circumstances...
Are you waiting?

Don’t wait for tomorrow:

BE, DO, HAVE NOW!
What is a Be-Do-Have mindset?

to get married and then be happy? Are you waiting
for the children to finish school and leave home so
you can be happy? Are you waiting to get a pay
raise? Or, waiting to start a business?

In life, many people are waiting for their circumstances to change to make them happy.
Waiting to finish university and then get a job.
Or, waiting to finish university and then focus on
Waiting is a state of the mind!
creating something.
You probably have heard of Zora Bell’s story: In
If you are waiting for circumstances to change to
2012, when Zora was still in primary school, she
be happy, then I can tell you with 100% certainty
became the youngest person ever to develop a
that you will be waiting for a very long time. This
mobile game app.
kind of mindset operates from the premise that:
OK, you are probably thinking: “Big deal! Who
“Unless I HAVE this external circumstance first then
cares?”
I will not be happy.”
But hold on for a second, Zora was only 7 years
Depending on an external circumstance to
old! In December 2012 it became official that
change to make you happy is a sure recipe for
someone who hadn’t yet reached high school age
stress and unhappiness. This premise reflects a cerby Davies Chibale
had already made a greater contribution to the
tain disposition in your subconscious mind. It reDirector, Engineered For
world than most adults do. The mobile game app
flects that your belief is to have something, then do
Success HR Pty Ltd
that Zora did all the programming for using the
something, then be, which in short, is: have-do-be
Bootstrap language was unveiled at the University
mindset.
of Pennsylvania Bootstrap Expo.
Have a car first, then celebrate, then be happy.
At the age of 14 in 2004, Ashley Qualls created an online business
Have a job first, then celebrate and be happy. Have a wife first, then be
Whatever Life as a hobby. In 2012 she had an estimated net worth of
happy and so on and so on. The have-do-be mentality does not breed
US$8 million with her site ranking 349 out of 20 million web pages
lasting happiness or love, joy, peace.
(ahead of Oprah, American Idol and CBS websites).
Most people are conditioned, or programmed by their upbringing to
Zora and Ashley did not wait until they were adults to realise their
think this way and it doesn’t work! There is a better way: the be-do-have
dreams. Neither did they wait to finish university, get a job and then live
mindset. To have something materialise in your life or to attract sometheir dreams. Nor did they wait to finish university and then focus on
thing in your life, we must work with the natural laws of nature to align
creating something.
ourselves to flow with the universal laws. We need to shift our minds
Are you waiting to find a Mr or Miss Right who will make you happy?
from the state of wanting, the have-do-be state, to the state of having,
Are you waiting to go on a holiday and then be happy? Are you waiting
which is be-do-have state of the mind at subconscious level.

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