John A. Frederick’s new book, “Prosperity Now! A 12-Week Journey to the Life of Your Dreams,” is a tour-de-force of practical, spiritual, and financial advice on how to achieve the life you’ve always wanted. . Based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Frederick guides readers through a twelve-week course that teaches them not only how to find prosperity, but also how to eliminate all the things that prevent them from achieving it.
At the beginning of the book, Frederick makes it clear that true prosperity involves more than just money. Focusing solely on finances is fooling yourself with all the good that the Universe has in store for you and that you deserve.
To begin the journey to prosperity, Frederick asks readers to make a contract with themselves and with God to follow in the footsteps of this book Prosperity Now! ride. He then defines true prosperity and asks the reader to be willing to surrender to the good that awaits him. AA Step One is here modified as: “We admitted that we were powerless over our old awareness of lack and limitation and that our lives had become unmanageable.” In other words, too often we have failed to be prosperous because we have not believed it possible; we have been too caught up in focusing on scarcity and believing that our resources are limited. Instead, we must surrender. Many people don’t give up until a big change or crisis occurs in their lives, forcing them to stop trying to control everything around them and commit to making radical changes and embracing new ideas. But once that surrender occurs, they pave the way for positive change to occur.
A limitation that many of us have that Frederick points out is: “Thinking that our boss, our partner, our parents or our job is the source of our income is a mistake, a dependency that sooner or later can and probably will let us down. All these channels are avenues for our good, but they are only channels to the One Source, the infinitely abundant Universe.”
To remove negativity about our prosperity and build trust in the Universe, Frederick advocates using powerful affirmations and also committing to tithe to show our trust that the Universe will provide. One of my favorite parts of the book is Frederick’s discussion of how we should go from being paranoid (constantly expecting evil and believing that people or forces are conspiring against us) to being pronoid, believing that the Universe is conspiring to achieve our greatest. good. This process is not easy, but Frederick builds on the pronoic idea throughout the course so that gradually this new mindset begins to operate in us.
Once we give up, we stop worrying, and that includes letting go of the “how.” As Frederick says, “How something will happen is none of your business.” Instead, we simply have to tell the Universe what we want, believe we will get it, and get out of our own way without worrying about “how.”
Frederick frequently quotes from the Tao Te Ching. A significant passage that he shares is: “True freedom is the freedom of your own ideas.” To achieve that freedom, Frederick tells us to question everything we think, asking ourselves, “Is it true?” We need to learn to question our thoughts so we can move away from negativity and toward possibility.
Another aspect of Prosperity Now! Of course what I like the most is the focus on imagination. Frederick is clear that we are not here to invent fantasies and just wait for prosperity to fall on our slip. Instead, “The correct use of imagination is consciously and purposefully aware that higher forces are at work in your life, always for your highest good. It also means doing the footwork, doing the following right things to put wings on your feet.” your dreams”. Once you start taking action, all kinds of help and resources will appear to help you.
There’s so much more to Prosperity Now! as Frederick walks us through the other weeks of the course and the Twelve Steps, from cleaning up his mess to forgiving yourself and others to learning about the power of gratitude.
Best of all, John Frederick shares personal stories throughout the book to demonstrate how these principles have worked in his own life. This is a man who has been through divorce, drug addiction, homelessness and HIV and yet has come out as a successful person leading a happy life, including manifesting an apartment in Paris , France. Many people would have given up or even died because of the situations he has been through. How has he managed? This is just an example. When he found out that he had HIV and had to take pills, he decided to develop an attitude of gratitude:
“Shortly after, I started that regimen and used gratitude to bless the pills. I said, ‘Thank you, God. I can afford these drugs. I claim they will work 1,000 times better than normal and without any side effects. And so it does, and so! must be!'”
Gratitude obviously worked for Frederick because now, decades after his diagnosis, he is here to share with us his incredible story and the powerful truths about prosperity thinking that he has learned and made a daily part of his life.
I hope you read Prosperity Now! so you too can find yourself thinking in new, surprising, life-affirming and life-changing ways. You have nothing to lose except the possibility of more and more good things coming your way.
