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Exclusive Interview with May McCarthy, Author of The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance

Stacey Chillemi: What inspired you to write your book?
 
May McCarthy: The book was inspired by dozens of students in my workshops who asked that a book be created.  They had used the Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance that I share in the workshops, and wanted to have the stories that I describe in the class in a written format. They also wanted to share the information with others who didn’t take the workshops.
 
Stacey Chillemi: Let us know a bit more about you. What makes you tick?
 
May McCarthy: I grew up as the last of ten children in Hawaii.  Developing sales and negotiating skills were a requirement to get noticed in a family our size. Although my father was a surgeon, he demonstrated a passion for entrepreneurship in the businesses that he started.  Eight of his ten children are entrepreneurs and I personally have been part of six start-up companies growing the largest to over $100 million in annual revenues.
 

The Golden Rule at the National Prayer Breakfast
 
I attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC this past week and the central theme was the Golden Rule.  The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event held on the first Thursday in February each year in Washington DC. The gathering includes a multiday series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners which includes invitees from almost 200 countries.  It is designed to be a forum for political, social, religious and business leaders to assemble to build relationships and has been attended by every President of the United States since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 

Your Thoughts Are Magnetic Our thoughts act as magnets and attract to us what we’re putting our attention on.  Our repeated thoughts are the fuel that creates our reality. Henry David Thoreau explained it this way: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” When you think a thought over and over, you’re creating a path for it to manifest in your life.  As I repeatedly thought of something I wanted, or something that I didn’t want, I received the subject of my thoughts. For example, I had a business with 250 employees when I was in college. 

I recently read a book by Whole Foods Founder and Co-CEO, John Mackey called “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” which he wrote with Raj Sisodia, marketing professor at Bentley University.  The authors explain that “Conscious capitalism is an evolving paradigm for business that simultaneously creates multiple kinds of value and well-being for all stakeholders: financial, intellectual, physical, ecological, social, cultural, emotional, ethical and even spiritual.

Fall is in the air and the days are starting to get shorter. Gone are those long days of summer.  What else is missing? The list that you made in January which included hope filled desires with solid financial, health, and relationship goals. Often, we make goals and resolutions in January and by the 4th quarter, we can’t remember the last time we saw our list. Somewhere between January and now, life just got in the way, a crisis occurred, work required more of you, and you never got back to focusing on your list of goals. That’s not uncommon.

Did you know that your words are more powerful that you might think?  Let’s do an experiment to see if this is true.  State out loud 3 times, “I don’t like arriving late for my appointments.”  Now, state out loud 3 times, “I’m delighted that I always arrive on time or early for my appointments.”  Even though the goal of each statement seems to be the same; to arrive on time for appointments, the first one will actually make you feel less energized and may actually make you late since that phrase, “arriving late for my appointments” is what your subconscious will hear and work to make true.
 

Ever ask yourself: “What would it take to be as successful as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Oprah Winfrey, or even Thomas Edison who created the light bulb?” Clearly, all of these people had passion about their fields of expertise, and that is important. But, they also relied on something that we all have – intuition.  The difference between them and many of us is the choice that they made to rely on their intuition and instinct, even when they didn’t have a clear understanding of the outcome.  You can do this too and experience greater levels of success, prosperity, and freedom!
 

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