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We all want to win. Some of us have a passion for winning. Winningdoes not have to mean competition. It can simply mean, we get whatwe want, and we know we will get what we want. We win our livesthe way we want them to be.

How do we win the big prizes? You know those prizes. The ones thatseem just out of our reach, but we think of them often. We want towin those prizes.

Here's how it works:

In high school, I was on the tennis team, and there was a tennis ladder.This ladder had all of us who were on the team placed on this ladder.Usually the coach puts you where he/she think you are skill wise. Ifyou want to move up that ladder, then you have to challenge theperson in the rung above you for their position. You have to beat themout of their place on the ladder. You have to win at being who youare.

Apparently my coach didn't think I was extremely skilled. I wasn't onthe bottom of the ladder thankfully; I was put in the position of #1Doubles Team at the beginning of the season. If I wanted to movefrom there, then I was the one that would have to do the moving.

That's not last, but it's not what I wanted, and I knew I was *better*than that. I wanted to be a *singles* player.

In order to do that I was going to have to challenge my best friend.Telling your best friend that you think you can beat her, and want tobeat her out of her place is actually harder than the skill needed to winthe tennis match. (Especially when you are in high school.) But Iknew I could beat her. And so I did. I won.

This moved me up to the next skill level. I was now 3rd singles. I feltlike I could beat the 2nd singles girl, but I was not so sure about thegirl in the #1 slot. Nope, she was very, very, skilled in the game oftennis. She was better than me, and I knew it. I wasn't at her skilllevel *yet*.

In order for us to win at manifesting, meaning we really get what wewant, because we used the skills to get us there faster and better, thenwe have to choose our goals/intentions to get us there.

In tennis, it's the next person above you on the ladder. In manifestingskillfully, it's the next level of understanding the mechanics of atomiclight energy and applying it to our lives.

Just as in tennis, we have to practice the skill in order to move up theladder. In manifesting successfully, it's the same thing. We have topractice the skills that bring us our stuff.

The real challenge has been, is that people have been naive inunderstanding how things work. And only those willing to accept thatthere is skill to this manifesting stuff, will they then begin to developthe skills and move up the manifesting ladder and be the star playerson the manifesting team.

Susan James (Copyright http://www.susanjames.org )Updated Courses/AUDIO http://susanjames.livejournal.com