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Meet Beckie Dragon, Mindset Mastery Honors Graduate! Beckie is a lot of fun. She is an active matriarch of a large family which includes 15 grandchildren. I could tell from the start that her goals would center on accomplishing things that strengthen the family unit. But no matter what kind o...

Steve Dragon has a compelling story of how he moved his feet when a genius idea came to him. He worked hard and put forth consistent effort. But his idea never fully materialized. Discouraged, he let it go. But wait…that’s not the end of the story. Once Steve learned and started applying the p...

By Beckie Dragon “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” – James Allen That quote really makes me stop and reflect. When I think about who I was—not just what I wanted—I see now that I was someone with a poor self-image. I didn’t believe I was capable. Other peo...

By Beckie Dragon There was a time in my life when I was a new mother juggling four stepchildren on a regular basis. Then, my husband and I began growing our own family—eventually adding four more children. It was a very busy, very full season. I remember sitting in meetings of a women’s organiza...

By Beckie Dragon My husband and I had struggled financially for many years. At the time, we were living in a small apartment and barely keeping up with all of life’s demands. Then came a turning point: my brothers and sisters decided it was time to move Mom into an assisted living center, which...

By Beckie Dragon I worked at the LDS Church Office Building doing family Indexing. Typing the information in front of me was mostly mindless work, but over the course of two weeks, I kept hearing a persistent voice in my mind saying, “Go talk to your bishop.” I didn’t know why, so I kept brushin...

By Beckie Dragon The Law of Perpetual Transmutation was completely foreign to me. I never set goals. I never dreamed. Deep down, I believed that other people could do this or that… be this or that… but not me. If I wanted something growing up, I had to convince my parents that it mattered enough...

By Beckie Dragon I’ve never really trusted God’s timing. Somewhere deep down, I believed that if I just begged hard enough, long enough, He’d eventually see things my way. I know that sounds terrible—but it wasn’t a conscious belief. It was just how I lived. All I ever really wanted was to get...

By Beckie Dragon When I think of cause and effect, the first thing that comes to mind is the idea that what you put out will come back to you. It reminds me of a boomerang. When you throw it out, it returns from the opposite direction and the same distance. The scriptures express it this way: Th...

By Beckie Dragon Dear Reader, I want to help you overcome the challenge of negative thinking and the belief that nothing good can come into your life. I know how hard it is to dream when you’re afraid, because I’ve been there, too. When I first heard about dreaming, visualizing, and setting go...

By Beckie Dragon I started doing the assignments for Facilitator Training back in May 2020. I got one article written but then felt like I couldn’t really write about the other laws without experiencing them while manifesting my goals. I tried to focus on setting goals and worked to achieve them...

By Steve Dragon Just before our youngest son was born in the summer of 1994, we felt inspired to move into Beckie’s childhood home in Farmington, Utah—the very one she had lived in her entire life. It was a small house that had started as a simple structure in the 1930s, built in phases over for...

By Steve Dragon Rarely does a week go by when I don’t find myself invoking the Law of Relativity. You’ll often hear me say, “Well, THAT could have been a lot worse!” Beckie, my wife, has heard it so many times she’s occasionally grown irritated when I’ve reminded her, “We have to look at the ete...

By Steve Dragon For most of my working life, I lived “hand-to-mouth.” If I had money in my hand, I spent it—usually as quickly as possible—on whatever felt good or fun in the moment: food, hobbies, travel, cars… you name it. I didn’t budget. I didn’t save. I didn’t plan. It was a cycle of work, ...

By Steve Dragon In the New Testament, in Mark chapter 4, the Savior shares the Parable of the Sower. He describes seeds falling in different types of soil—some on stony ground, some among thorns, and some in good ground—and how those seeds responded based on the environment they were placed in. ...

By Steve Dragon Over the year and a half leading up to October 2019, our financial situation kept getting worse. In my judgment, we hadn’t done enough to improve things on the income side, and instead had kept up our lifestyle using three credit cards and a home equity loan. By January 2019, we ...