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Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not most if not all self improvement philosophies can be found in the one book that has existed for thousands of years.

Though many self improvement guru's claim that these ideas in personal development are not there own, you can find all of it in the bible.

For many years I have not revisited the word of God. Do I believe that the bible is the word of God? Of course I believe it. What others have done is deny where the true source of self improvement comes from.

All we do is emphasize certain portions of the teachings of the Old Testament and New Testament. A lot of people would say that I am being preachy. That is furthest from the truth. It is a testimonial that what has been going around can be found in our oldest and most reliable source for living ever printed.

In Genesis we read the story of the creation of the Universe. If you analyze it not only is it a testimony of how God created the Universe, but it outlines how we should proceed in our thinking. It proceeds in a particular order doesn't it?

Let us focus on the act of creation, first there is thought, and then there is manifest of what is thought. The thought comes first, then the spoken word, then the thing spoken about. Does this sound familiar?

In the secret it talks about visualizing, affirming with words and then get on with the work and in time it manifests. In time one has to hold true to the belief that what was visualized and spoken will show up in their lives.

If you take a further look you find that not all was created in a day. There was a breakdown of steps in a particular order and with gratitude of the day's work. Sounds to me like a priority system in a particular order of importance. The gratitude shows one reverence in the work.

On the second day God saw his work and it was good. Now think about this. Did he start to stress out because he wasn't completed? Did he start to think ahead and get anxious about the other things that were not yet created? Of course not, it seems he handled one thing after the other and allowed pause in between.

I wonder why he allowed a pause in between. Hmm maybe time to think rest and reflect of what he has done that day? We do not manifest that quickly. Remember that God has his own time clock and we have another.

Let us take a look at the Ten Commandments, let us look at "thou shall not kill" and "thou shall not steal". What is this all about? Doing right thing, yes but most important of all, it is about our behavior.

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