GOD doesn’t want you to be rich
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Chpt. 2: Introduction to Wealth
Chpt. 3: Your Plan for Success
Chpt. 5: You've Got to Be Free
Chpt. 6: Other Important Attributes
Chpt. 7: Rich People Vs. Poor People
Chpt. 8: The 9 Greatest Strategies
Chpt. 9: Implement the Strategies
Chpt. 11 Start Your Family Business
Chpt. 12 Keep it in the Family
GOD wants you to be poor and stupid. Or atleast the people who want you to believe in gods want you to be. It’s the best way to keep people under control and it’s the best way for them to physically and mentally enslave you and make a fortune off of you. Rational people think for themselves and question the validity of improvable “truths.” If you don’t believe what I say it’s only because you’ve been indoctrinated since birth to accept a life philosophy of a domineering Creator who demands obedience by threats of punishment and eternal damnation.
But don’t fret; it’s not too late for you to save yourself. It’s what Jesus would do if he had been a real person and not just a mythical half-god idol like the demi-god Hercules of Greek mythology who was the son of the supreme god Zeus and his human concubine Alcmene. Another example of a demi-god savior is the Hindu god Rama, an incarnation [avatar] of Vishnu, one of the Godhead trinity of Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. Vishnu incarnated as a perfect man to stop [kill] an evil ruler and save mankind. His true identity is only known to the sages and only revealed to everyone after his mission is complete.
No doubt that these stories were the basis for the biblical story of Mary-Jesus-Jehovah-Joseph. Savior god-man idols always have an usual birth [virgin birth by a deity {and his human father had children with Mary after then} - in the case of Jesus; heteropaternal superfecundation, which is when a woman carries twins sired by different fathers – in the case of Hercules {and his fraternal twin brother’s father was the husband of their mother who had sex with Zeus and then him on the same day}] and some sort of superpowers [immense strength - for Hercules; healing, walking on water – for Jesus].
Truth is oftentimes stranger than fiction [fairytales, myths, and fables]. Are you really interested in the truth? Can you handle the truth? The truth is that no one has ever been able to prove the existence of gods. Human beings are the smartest creatures on earth totally capable of perfecting or corrupting their own lives. It is also true that the smartest, most devious people have used this to extract undue riches and power by teaching people to defeat and beat themselves into selfless, self-sacrificing altruism and then voluntarily give up all their power & wealth because “GOD doesn’t want you to be rich.”
Another truth that is suspiciously unreported is the fact that there has NEVER BEEN a religious/mythology book in the history of the world that was written about a deity named GOD. There are books written about Yahweh, Jehovah, Jesus, Satan, Allah, Hubal, Allat, Al-Uzza, Shiva, Rama, Vishnu, Brahma, Zeus, Apollo, Jupiter, Hades, Gaea, Aphrodite, Marduk, Anu, Enlil, Ishtar, Sin, Odin, Thor, Loki, Olorun, Ahura Mazda, Amon-Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and thousands more.
The most common type of deity of course is the male father-sky god who creates the world, is usually invisible, and lives in the sky [or a mountain in the sky like the Olympians, Mount Sinai for Jehovah, etc.]. His counterpart is the female mother-earth goddess who personifies the earth and nature. Originally all “faiths” included many different gods [polytheism] who had special powers over certain forces of nature [the bible admits this fact when its top god says: “have no other gods before me”]. They had sex like humans, could procreate with humans and their offspring usually took over the same role that was held by their parents and then the parent becomes a counselor.
Examples of this would be: Amon-Ra, the creator god of the ancient Egyptians, being supplanted by his son Osiris and then Osiris being supplanted by his son Horus. Another example is Yahweh/Jehovah, the creator god of the ancient Hebrews, being supplanted by his son Jesus/Yeshua in the Christian faith. It is a very common story used by many authors or compilers of so-called “truths.” Dido, Venus, Poseidon, and Nike; winged Greek goddess of victory used as a sportswear brand, were just as true to people of the ancient world as the current crop of gods are to the people of today.
They are all just as improvable of existence as you probably think your god is provable of existence; even though the “one true god” has hundreds of names and contradicting creation stories. But how can that be? If you dismiss the gods of ancient people as myth then why do you accept the ones of modern people as truth? Are you bias against religious books written thousands of years ago? The short answer would be NO. Most of the knowledge that you derive about your particular idea of a personal deity can be traced back to a book of atleast a thousand years for all the major religions of today.
So why in the world is the world the way that it is today? Why is it that in a highly religious world where 95% of the population believes in deities or spirits, 95% of the world is still poor? Could it be that most people are missing something? Could it be that we as a species are wrong about our interpretation of the world we live in? Or is this situation that we find ourselves in really just the “will” of our all-powerful, all-knowing, all-controlling god of creation, destruction and predestination that created everyone and everything because of the simple fact that: “God doesn’t want you to be rich.”
I hope to answer this riddle for you, because I do want you to be rich; mentally and financially. So if you can open your mind for a little bit and suspend your belief in non-reality then I will bring you back to the reality of your infancy before you learned anything about gods. I will take you back to a time when you were innocent with all the potential in the world. You loved life with all your heart. You smiled at everyone and laughed so easily. You were so pure in your acknowledgement of what you saw that you wouldn’t hesitate to ask, “Why is that lady so fat Mommy?”
Before your religious indoctrination, you could plan to be anything that you wanted to be when you grew-up without thinking “If you want to make God laugh, make a plan”, If you love money, you will go to hell or any of the other countless ifs meant to suppress your nature. Before your mind was warped to a supernatural worldview, you were only able to acknowledge the natural world around you which is the naturalistic worldview held by most of the world’s scientists.
You were born innocent without the slightest bit of knowledge of a so-called “original sin” that meant you were cursed to die a mortal death and that all good, unbaptized babies that die go to hell. You were born an atheist and then you were reborn into a theist. You didn’t have a choice as to what you wanted to see after then, because your eyes had become trained to see something that isn’t there and you have probably never explored the reasons why you think that it is there.
This book will prove to you that gods and spirits were created by human beings to explain things that could not be understood in the ancient times, but more modern people decided to use them to take advantage of weak and wanting people who are seeking an answer to life’s perplexing mysteries. It aims to show you the reasons why the religious leaders never want you to use contraception or to think for yourself and: “free your mind”, as the hippies used to say, because just like the Good [to keep you under control] Book says: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
This book will give you back that ability to see the true nature of the world in which we live. It will help you to break free from the god delusion. It will help you to kill the god virus coursing through your veins and arteries. It will give you the strength to write a letter of resignation to a Christian [or Muslim or Jewish or Hindu or Sikh, etc.] nation. It will give you the ability to say, “I am good without gods.” It will give you the information needed to live a rich and successful life. It will help you to take the god-coloured glasses away from your eyes, and then finally be truly able to see “The Truth.”
Chapter 2: Introduction to Wealth
Many people are interested in the secret to wealth and riches. The phrase:”the secret” is used to sell millions of books with various methods described that are supposed to give you an instant windfall. This book is not like those books for one simple reason: it contains the specific strategies used by the rich to build wealth. Just like everyone is different from every other person on earth in at least one unique way, there is no one way to obtain wealth that is right for every person to follow. There is a secret to wealth building however, but not just one method. Read on to discover what I mean.
When you look out upon nature with all its beauty and wonder, one thing most people don't see is the viciousness of the survival cycle. Nice cuddly sweet animals are eaten by ferocious deadly ones. It is the way of the natural world. Natural selection chooses the most dominant individuals to survive and prosper and the others die off. There is no equality or fairness in nature. Human beings are not completely ruled by this anymore, but this natural world is still exerting an influence upon us.
Nature teaches us that the desire to survive is the strongest in the world. No creature on the earth wants to die. Every living thing is striving to have its own space in the world and fighting to stay alive at the face of danger and uncertainty. No one is promised a next meal or shelter without hard work to obtain these things.
You must always remember that the nature of life is survival and to stay alive you must always keep the desire to survive. It is the same as your desire to succeed. But success in life is a relative thing. Some people feel they are successful when they became a major league baseball player after many years spent in the minor leagues. Some people are successful when they get married to that special person who makes their heart swell with love and pride.
You may feel that you want to possess hundreds of millions of dollars before you tell anyone that you have succeeded. The way you define success is really up to you. When you have it, it will make you happy inside in a way that nothing else will. But how do you become successful?
Can you get what you want in life or is it out of your control? How you answer that question will have a lot to do with whether you can or not. The great automobile manufacturer, assembly line innovator and one-time richest man in the world, Henry Ford once said: “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't. You're always right.” Believing in your own ability to accomplish great things is the number one trait of successful people. Believing in a predetermined destiny that has been set-up for you to stumble through life in darkness is not one.
Just think, if you miss out on your one and only chance to do something great then what will you do with the rest of your life? Sit around wallowing in your own misery? Blame that time that thing didn't work out for you? The choice is yours to make your own destiny, if you'd only believe it.
The main thing you need to remember is this: life is what you make it. You can not control every single thing that happens to you just by thinking about it, but you can control how you react to what happens. If you hold a positive outlook, then the problem is a chance to prove how smart you are at solving problems. If you hold a negative outlook, then the problem that shows up on your doorstep is a very bad house guest that ruins your day, night and weekend. You can't get any sleep, it won't leave and you can't get rid of it. Do you see the difference? Positive / Negative. Which one do you think you'll need to succeed? Which one is the greatest stumbling block?
Yes, many books have been written on the subject of money and wealth. This book hopes to be your road map to success by giving you not only the inspiration to achieve your dreams, but also the strategies to get you there. It’s like the saying goes: “If you don't have a plan, then you plan to fail.” I'd also like to add: If you don't know the road you need to take, then how will you get to your destination? Driving yourself through the perilous maze of right turns and lefts turns, u-turns and dead ends; you had better know the best road to take to avoid the potholes and gridlock along the way.
Most writers of this subject tell you the stories of great men and women who achieved great riches. They tell you what they did in particular to get those riches. This book will not tell you what to do in particular because I do not know what is going to work for you. What you need to learn is that rich people use certain strategies that middle class and poor people do not. That is the real secret to wealthy and luxurious living. Plus, you need to have your own ideas and your own visions.
Authors such as Robert Kiyosaki, who penned Rich Dad Poor Dad says that: the lack of financial literacy is the reason that his well-educated “Poor Dad” was penniless after years of dedicated hard work so you can not become wealthy unless you quit your job and work for yourself. I disagree with this totalist attitude. You can make it any way you want to. You can work for a company, work for yourself or be a full-time investor. Any of these paths can lead to great wealth and self-sufficiency.
Do not let anyone tell you that you must follow their way or it won't happen for you. This author believes that anyone who uses the right techniques can accomplish great things regardless of the life story they have to tell. Reading this book will not require you to become a follower of me either. I will show you how to choose your own incredible yet true story of wealth accomplishment. If you want to follow a traditional course of working for a reputable co. because of the security and benefits then do so, just add the right strategy to increase your net worth. You can be a professor who gets rich or an entrepreneur who becomes wealthy, it's all up to you. There is no one path to success.
If you are looking for an idol philosophy to follow, you will be disappointed by this book. If you're looking to find your own way, then you will find it. You will need to know the best strategies of the super rich to get you there and that is exactly what this book will teach you. Do what someone else did if it suits you, but simply idolizing and copying someone great will not get you what they have.
Just Say No to Robert Kiyosaki's advice; his book should not be used to inspire the kids or teach them financial information. There are at least 9 powerful ways to become a more financially stable person that should be taught to every 16 year old before they leave high school. The problems of overspending and credit card debt getting out of control are a serious problem in our society today. If kids had this information they would be infinitely more equipped to deal with the world that is about to become very real to them. A story about a Rich Guy who dropped out of school at 13 is definitely not the kind of motivation that our kids need. At age 13, is there anything you can sell besides drugs?
I would like to reiterate that there is no one way to obtain wealth. If you want to be a more intelligent person then you use your natural abilities to learn. You put those abilities together with the best study techniques and you get smarter and smarter. The same goes for physical ability, the same goes for wealth.
You could get rich quick or it could take you half your life. You could marry a rich person or receive a huge inheritance from a distant relative you never knew. You could invent something that changes the world and you become an overnight success. There is no one way to achieve success just like there is no one way to define it. Everyone's life is as varied as the millions and millions of living things on this earth.
You know that deep down in your heart that anyone who tries to promise you or give you a guarantee that they can show you the foolproof way to get rich quick is full of crap. You know it, and I know it even though sometimes we fall for the scam because it's easy. But you also know that life is not always easy. Often times it's very hard, but no matter what it throws at you and no matter how hard it may seem to be at times; you control your outlook.
When you conclude reading this book you should have a new perspective on how to accomplish your goals, a strategic plan for doing it and a new understanding of the best ways to accomplish them. You will know how to think for yourself and make your own choices. This book will help you to make those decisions and you will become a more enlightened person on the subject of wealth building and financial planning.
You can have all the abundance of the universe poured down upon you like summer rain. With the right plan for success, the right life philosophy, and the right strategies of the super rich; you are on your way. You may have to readjust your plans a little bit. You may need to scrap them altogether and go with the most profitable move over the dreams that could only take you but so far. It may be a struggle to see yourself in a positive light because you've never had it shown on you before. All these things may be on your plate, but with the right wealth building strategies and perseverance you will become a rich and successful person.
Chapter 3: Your Plan for Success
The most important thing to do in starting a business up is writing a business plan. You almost can't get going without one. First you draft your mission statement. Then you write your strategic statement and finally you need the execution of the strategy statement. This is the same type of formula that you can use to make your “business plan” for your life. Or you could call it your plan for success. (SEE Appendix A: Jobs & Income Survey and Appendix B: Super Rich People)
What do you want to accomplish? That is your mission statement. You could say something like: I want to be rich, but that will not work for a good plan because it is too vague. All of the exact details must be included. A better mission statement would be: I want to possess 1 million dollars in 5 years. This statement is specific, but you could make it even better by saying: I want to possess assets worth 750 thousand dollars and 250 thousand dollars in cash money in 5 years. This statement is the most detailed and the most likely to work.
Next you need to write your strategic statement. This is the general explanation of what you need to do to accomplish your mission. You will need to research the tasks required to get the job done in the allotted time period. This is what businesses do to keep people motivated to reach their quarterly projections. You could say something like: I will get a job doing _______ making a $_______ a year salary and I will invest _______ dollars every year and make _______ dollars in interest or dividends from that investment.
Final Step: First I will apply for a position at ___________ making $_______ dollars a year salary. I will contact _______ to set-up an investment account. I will order a financial research newsletter from _______. I will invest $_______ dollars every year into a _______ account. I will spend $_______ dollars every year on my household expenses and personal needs. I will put $_______ dollars in a savings account every year and in __ years I will have _________.
My Plan for Success / August 4th, 2009
My Mission Statement:
My Strategic Statement:
Execution of the Strategy:
Following a set list of tasks to achieve your ultimate goal is the best way to reach your dreams. Envisioning yourself having what it is that you want will help as well. Some people believe that if you paste pictures of the things you want on a poster board and hang it on your bedroom wall it will help you to obtain them. You look at the wish board everyday to keep your conscious and super-conscious mind working towards getting those things depicted from the images. Whether you choose to add this to your success plan or not is up to you, but it has been effective for some.
After you have your plan all done, make sure to date it so that you can keep track of how long you have to accomplish the goal. Put it in a safe place and then pull it out at least once a week to read it and mark off your progress. Or if you like you can post it where you can see it. I suggest you put a copy on your bedroom mirror if you have one or on the wall at eye level.
I like to put copies of my plans on all the four walls in my bedroom so I can always see it no matter what direction I'm looking. You should read it when you awaken and before you go to bed to fill your super-conscience (less positively referred to as sub-conscience) mind with the task at hand. But do not be fooled into thinking that all you have to do is think about it and it will all happen without your effort. That is a fantasy. You absolutely have to put forth a consorted effort with perseverance and fortitude.
Sometimes you won't accomplish your goal at first, but you will get closer and closer to it at every try. If you don't concentrate on it hard enough you may have to modify your plan and start over again. The idea is not to give up. Perseverance and fortitude is the key to success in any endeavor.
The more you think about something that you desire in life and put forth the necessary effort to obtain it, the greater the mental energy you direct towards its materialization.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing
clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing
on them several times a day with words, pictures and
emotions as if we've already achieved them.
--- Denis Waitley
This is the basic idea behind what is sold to people as The Law of Attraction. The concentration of mental energy focused on a specific thing or goal brings forth that thing or goal. But of course you need to do all the things that I have detailed in this publication to actually understand how the Law of Attraction really works. Follow the system laid out for you in this book and you will have anything you want in life, but you must remember that everyone's life and situation is different. You may take longer to grasp the concept then someone else and someone else may have been born on the top of the hillside with silver spoons.
You must remember always that there is no equality in nature. Some people will always have more than you and some will always be poorer than you as well. That is the Law of Polarity that states that there is no hot without cold, no up without down and no rich without poor. Cute animals get killed and eaten by vicious ones which maintains the balance of the habitat. And even though the smaller animals know that they are the hunted, they still strive to stay alive. No animal commits suicide in the wild, they push forward even in the face of extreme danger.
There is NO self-sacrifice for the King of the jungle and there can be NO self-sacrifice for you if you want to be the King or Queen of all your dreams. You must fight like the hunted and stand strong like the mighty lion. You can't give-up on life or your goals. Follow your plan for success.
Chapter 4: Your Life Philosophy
The ancient Egyptians believed that if you toiled your whole life away in poverty, giving away any extra money you came by and suffered, you would be rewarded with a workless existence where everything is handed to you on a silver platter in the after your life “other world.” In other words you don't get the reward until after death. So they built huge shrines to house their dead pharaohs and the pharaohs ordered their servants to be killed and entombed with them after their death so that they would have their service in the after their life as well.
They also did not leave inheritances because all their stuff needed to be buried with them to be able to have it in their after their life. Thus the next generation always had it just as tough as the preceding one. The trinity of Father (Osiris), Son (Horus) and Holy Mother (Isis) held the fate of all mankind in their hands.
If you were a good person, when you died your heart was placed on one side of a scale against a feather on the other side and it was measured as being lighter than the feather because of good deeds. Then you were granted new life in the other world forever. If you were a bad person in life, then your heart would be measured as heavier than a feather and then you were punished by having a jackal eat your heart and your mummy which resulted in you remaining dead forever.
This belief served the pharaohs well since it kept the populace docile and obedient. They slaved away building temples and pyramids to fulfill the outsized egos of their kings and never strove for wealth. If the serfs ever protested because of the great toil and poverty that they had to endure then they were reminded of the future rewards after death. It was their life philosophy of a workless other world that made suffering acceptable to the peasants and slaves. The priests of this faith made a comfortable living off of preaching it to the masses while producing no evidence of its validity. Nice scam, right?
Another Utopian dream that has been sold to people is that if you give up the right to ownership of your house, land and property and let the government own all the most important businesses then everyone will be equal. Everyone will get the same treatment and poverty will disappear forever. The thing about this scam is that when you eliminate the motivation of self-interest; people become slugs.
The government employees don't get a pay check based on the equality creed, they are the new masters because now they control the majority of people in the country who can not choose any other way to get their basic needs. They have no choice but to accept what is offered. Whom do they complain to? The government? The government controls the life and death needs of every person in the land and all the resources. Even better scam, right?
Equality of position for all people in society is a common theme of many communist doctrines, but it is all complete nonsense. You can not guarantee the desire of one man/woman will be equal to the desire of another. If I want it more than you, then I will most likely get it before you. The only way all the people will have the same things is to force the superior persons to downgrade to the mid-level or poor person. That is not a fair system because it destroys the human spirit and it is a definite violation of the basic individual human rights to be free.
Many millions of people were killed and robbed during Bolshevik revolutions just because they were perceived as being rich or upper middleclass. It is a sickness of the mind to think that you are helping society by forcing everyone to become equal by firing squad and piracy. If you want to be lazy and another person wants to work diligently then that is each person's basic human right.
There is no way to completely eliminate the differences in status, even when you have a whole new societal system; but you can choose to be better. Only the right strategies can make your life the way you want it to be. A theocratic monarchy or a dictatorship is a hard society to advance in, but in a free society; you can have it in life. The one and only life you're ever going to get. Don't get fooled again! Follow what “they” do and you'll stay on the bottom, but follow what the rich do and you'll come out closer to the top.
As a result of your efforts; you reap what you sow just as a cherry tree produces cherries and a grapevine produces grapes. A good farmer harvests what he/she has planted in an earlier season in a later season. A well-informed person makes decisions that are statistically superior to the uninformed person's decisions. There is an old saying that goes: It's not what you know, it's who you know. But in most cases, that is not correct. Who you know can help you, but what you know or what you think you know is definitely the bigger factor.
And your life philosophy is the most important factor of all. It is how you see the world and yourself inside it. If you believe that you were created to serve a purpose that you can never really know then you harm yourself at every turn. If you believe that you are the master of your own destiny then you keep your options open and stay free to pursue whatever it is that you may be able to do to give yourself enjoyment and accomplishment. Whatever you want in life should be yours as long as it does not harm or infringe upon the rights to freedom of someone else. You are not born evil or fallen from grace. You are born free and you are born impressionable.
That is why if you were told that you were inter urinas et faeces nasimur - born between urine and feces or born between piss and sh*t (between the urethra and the anus is the vagina which leads to the birth canal) then you would probably have a very negative outlook on life. Even though there is nothing negative about natural birth, the way you say it makes all the difference. If you were told that a wife is a man's property, must be obedient to him and never deny him sex, cooking & cleaning and silence; then you will probably not believe that you have the right to have the same respect as men.
Women are just as capable as men in many capacities. Of course there are certain things such as physical tasks where the majority of women are not as proficient as the average man, but that is not unnatural. Even in the inequality between men and women there is equality in mental ability, so women should not think that they are the inferior sex. But if you are indoctrinated from birth to believe that you are a subordinate or a servant then how can you see the truth of self-prophecy?
Differences of gender are natural, child birth through the birth canal is natural; but flawed dogma can crush a flower before it even has a chance to grow tall. Plants need good soil, water and sunlight to grow. The chlorophyll that makes them green also makes their food from the sunlight, the minerals in the soil and the water. It all adds up to just the right combination. Delete part of the equation or add some foul ingredient in and it dies.
That is why your life philosophy is so very important to your ability to have success. If you can't see it coming true then you are holding yourself back. Don't blame your parents for your failures either. They may have caused you to believe a stupid thing when you were little, but now that you're an adult it's totally up to you. What you think about yourself is what you let yourself become. You're a work in progress; no person is cast in stone at birth. Your mold is being shaped at every turn. You've got to be sculptor of your own manifest destiny and the architect of your own edifice of life.
Do you have a say in what happens to you or is it controlled by something? Are you the victim of fate or do you make your own way in life? Answer these questions the right way and it could equal a life of greatness. But answer them the wrong way and you will wallow in the mire. Mud and dirt will be your reward for a job well done of telling yourself that you can't instead of telling yourself that you can. The number one person that you will hear saying things to you, is you. So tell yourself that you have the strength to keep going. Tell yourself that it is not going to stop you. Tell yourself that everything is going to turn out right. You will get everything your heart desires.
It may sound funny, but some people have been trained to accept negativity in so much of their communication that it feels more natural than positive. Have you ever heard someone say any of the following: I'm no good at _______. I'll never get _______. I'm too _______ to be accepted. I'm too busy to _______. I'm too scared to _______. I can't _______. I'm not smart enough to _______. I can't afford _______. I'm too young to _______. I'm too old to _______. I don't have any help to _______. I will have too much family drama if I try to _______. I always fail at _______. How can this person ever overcome if they won't have faith in their self? No one else will believe in you if you can't believe in you either. To Be or not to Be, that may have been the question in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, but to be great or to be average is a question of life philosophy.
If you were scarred as a child and now you can't get the thought that you are stupid or sinful or too short or too poor or too plain or too ethnic out of your mind, please seek therapy if you need it. It can be a very tough thing to get over early childhood programming. Remember that many young children are taught to believe in a jolly old saint who brings presents to small children 6 days before the end of the year for being good and brings a lump of coal to them for being bad. This story is based on a real person, Saint Nickolas of Myra who was legendary in Europe that did give to the needy in his area; but he wasn't able to fly a sleigh all over the world led by a reindeer with a bioluminescent red nose.
Kids are told this lie, but they believe it because they don't know any better. Little children are put in a rather weird predicament by being born innocent. They can't decipher between a crazy fairytale and a scientifically proven fact, because they are naturally prone to trust their parents as authority figures. Almost anything will be believed by a child when it comes from parents, grandparents or teachers at a very early stage of their development. So you have to kill the demons inside with the grown-up of your inner child. Don't let the fairytales of yourself dictate who you get to be. It may sound like the truth, but if it has not gone through the scientific method of proof then leave it alone.
Your story won't be final until its final; or as it is colloquially stated: It's not over 'til the fat lady sings. Rewrite your script if it won't allow you to become a better person then some one else thought you'd be. Give your life expectancy a revision of vision if it needs a new plot twist to make the hero get the girl/guy and run the villain out of town. The good guy always wins in the movies and you can win too. But not if you can't see it through, and not if someone else's negative story of you is still playing in your head. Or if your own self-limiting feature presentation is stopping your progress.
It has been said many times before, and will probably be said after now many more times. William Shakespeare's other well-known quote from Hamlet states:
This above all: to thine own self be true
Be true to your own greatness. Have faith in the unseen things that you will accomplish in the future. Plan your future and you will predict it better than any tarot card reader or i-ching practitioner. My life philosophy states that: I can accomplish anything that I really set my mind to and work diligently to achieve. You need a really great life philosophy too. Take the time to formulate one.
It will take you to the outer regions of the universe that formed so many billions of years ago and back. You will see the most minute of particles that were never seen with the naked eye and thought to be evil spirits causing disease for millions of years before humanity evolved and discovered the real hidden mystery of microbes; and even more.
A new world order is always coming on. A whole new world is happening right before your eyes every second of every day. Life is still happening as long as you're alive, so live it to the fullest while there is life to be lived. Your philosophy of life is the most important factor of all to achieving your success. So make sure you follow a brave creed that will give you all the inspiration you need to be all that you can be and more.
Chapter 5: You've Got to Be Free
This book is about making money and building wealth and I'm pretty sure you are expecting to be told a series of things that you can do to get rich and build wealth. That is ultimately the purpose of this publication, but first we have to make sure you are ready to put these strategies into practice. You've got to be free. The Beatles said that in Come Together. But what do I mean? You've got to be free. Well, you've got to be free to try different ways and means. You've got to be free to accept different theories that might not be the commonly accepted approach. You've got to be free to follow your own path.
Freedom is a word commonly used by people who are not free. They want to be free from oppression. They are oppressed because they can't vote, they can't love who they want, they can't believe the way they want, they can't divorce a spousal abuser without being shunned and some of the times they can't do anything they want because someone else owns them like a beast of burden.
If you do have freedom then you are not bound to someone's service, you can believe what you want, you can love whom you want and you can vote for what you want. That is what every oppressed person wants. Your belief system is just like this analogy. You are either oppressed by it or you are free because of it. If you are free then you make your own luck, no need to believe in lucky numbers, socks, or days. No need to be oppressed by lucky streaks and losing streaks that are beyond your control. You are not oppressed by elusive four-leaf clovers that grant good tidings and withhold them at their own discernment.
Life is exactly the way you think that it can be. If your parents were very poor and they told you that you'd be poor your whole life then you probably think that you'll be poor your whole life. It's not really the way it has to be, but it's your early programming. If you got good grades, had lots of friends, never got in trouble and got accepted into college with no need to pay your own way, then you'd have a pretty good outlook on your future. It's not a guarantee, but it's a product of your early programming.
Everybody got some sort of programming as a child. It could be helping you right now or hurting you. Sometimes people in our lives did damage to us unintentionally because that is the way they were taught as a child too. It is your job to determine whether your early programming is predominately positive or predominately negative. If it is encouraging or discouraging? Is it elitist or defeatist? You may think that is a strange question because elitist is usually looked at as negative, but that is because you were taught that forced equality is a good thing. But you don't need to do anything to keep people lesser or greater than you.
Remember the Law of Polarity? If there is hot, there must be cold, if there is light, there is also dark and if there is rich then there must be poor. And I know you're saying to yourself: “What about middle class? Your theory is wrong.” Well, actually the law does provide for the middle ground as well. Yes, protons, neutrons and electrons have to exist, but you know that the middle class are just as susceptible to instant poverty as the poor. One bad thing like a job loss or a serious medical condition can change day into night. It's going to continue to happen whether you like it or not. There is nothing you can do about it but try to stay on the right side of the spectrum.
That is why I say that being elitist is not a bad thing. If you understand just how hard it is to pull yourself up out of the gutter, then you would not want your kids to get pulled back down into it. You would never want your children to have a harder life than you did. If you see this from the other side where the grass is greener, then you'd probably see it as just a protection mechanism. So therefore elitism should be defined as: The desire to associate with highly rated people and that which is superior. It does not mean that you employ actions to keep certain people down.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
--- Booker T. Washington
Remember, you don't control what other people's desires are. Your inaction or action can not make everyone rich or poor. But if you do try to keep other people down, then you should become aware of the Law of Karma - what you do unto others will be done unto you. You will be repaid for your actions with an equal and swift reaction. What comes around goes around.
Most rich people know what it takes to stay rich and one of those things is to not make the same choices as non-rich people. Your hard and smart work will be rewarded if you follow the right strategies. Rich people follow certain strategies and middle class people follow certain strategies and of course poor people usually follow certain ways too.
It is your challenge to figure out what the best ways are and how to implement them into your life. You want to be on the right side of the spectrum or you wouldn't be reading this book. You might not want to accept what is said here about the other side of the spectrum, but I know you don't want to test it out personally. No sane person wants to be poor. Have you ever thought about that? Only kooks want to be penniless and have to beg for their meals and receive give aways for their wardrobe.
No one but a fool wants to be a poor person. Being poor means you don't always have enough to eat. Sometimes it means you don't have a place to call your home. It could mean that your clothing is worn-out or very cheap and tacky. You are sometimes looked at as unintelligent just because your pockets are empty. Many poor people do not have access to good medical care and their health suffers because of it. It is not unheard of for poor people to die from common diseases that most people would receive treatment for and survive. Such is the life of many poorer people. You don't want this life.
You don't want the middle class life of living pay check to pay check either. A 30 year mortgage that can not be missed 3 times in a row without it going into default and then you loose everything you have put into it. You no longer have a home or technically you no longer have a house to call your own, even though it was never yours to begin with. The company that owns it is letting you pay them for it over a long time period, but it's not like buying something from a store. When you pay for it, it's yours; you own the deed to it instantly. Not so with a mortgage.
Middle class should be a place you visit on your way to a city called Wealthy. If you are like most people, you want a decent income and a decent place to live. You want yourself and your children to receive good health care and to dress in clothing that is decent as well. You may not have it all, but you do have something. That is not a bad life, but there is much more if you ask for it. Just like the poem entitled My Wage by Jesse Rittenhouse that goes:
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
So is the message getting through to you now? Your life is what you make of it. Make it all that you want it to be or it will be whatever randomly happens to you. Don't ask life for the best and you will probably not receive it. So when I say: You've got to be free. Understand it like a cactus understands that it must keep the water that it absorbs during a rare rainfall for a non rainy day. Understand it like a worker bee understands that to protect the hive it must sting anything that disturbs it and afterwards it will surely die.
Understand that freedom of mind is the opposite of the catholic church's oppression of the Renaissance's great astrologer Copernicus. He theorized that the earth was not the center of the solar system, but was in fact just a satellite of the all-mighty SUN. Nonsense the Vatican said. “The mind of a man can not know things that have not been explained thousands of years ago in stories compiled by celibate eunuchs hundreds of years after they were first written.”
And of course the free person's mind was superior to the staid, dogmatic person's illogical mind. Freedom, I can't speak on it enough. I can't say enough about the power of free thought and exploration into the most magnificent under discovered region on earth: The Human Mind. Don't let your mind become trapped in a cell of old outdated traditions and rituals. Don't let it be taken over by hardline unbendable thought pirates. The booty is too valuable to lose, the loot is too illustrious to dispossess.
You've got to be free to become wealthy. Wealth is what people steal for, wealth is what people rob for and wealth is what people kill for, but you don't have to do anything evil to obtain it. Regardless of what you've heard, the love of money is not the root of all evil. The love of evil is the root of ALL evil. Don't believe it? Ask a serial killer if he was seeking a large pay day when he brutally murdered 13 people with a serrated knife. I'm sure you know he didn't do it because he loved money. Child rape is a moneyless evil as well. So get over the programming. It's not helping your situation.
Money is a conduit between you and what you desire to possess. You want it, she wants it, and he wants it too. Once you have it, you want to keep it. Once you get it, you better protect it. Knowledge of right-minded thoughts is the power of the mind fully realized. The freedom to challenge conventional wisdom is the power to make your own energy. The light bulb above your head is gleaming and beaming a thousand points of candlelight power.
Do you need more inspiration? These words of wisdom are from great minds that have known the true meaning of you've got to be free. Read what some others have had to say about this subject.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-- Viktor Frankl
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of
men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like
a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
--- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one
who thinks differently.
--- Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one
pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose
between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance
to formulate the available choices, to argue over them --
and then, the opportunity to choose.
--- C. Wright Mills
Chapter 6: Other Important Attributes
You have learned that it requires many attributes to reach success. You have to formulate a clearly detailed plan, you need to have a positive life philosophy, and you've got to be free to think about different ways that may be unconventional to achieve your dreams. You also need to have perseverance to see the mission through to the end and you need the power to overcome adversity. All the knowledge in the world is of no use if your will is not strong and you can not keep the faith in yourself to vanquish the fire-breathing dragons that will try to block your path to success.
You will have to kill many demons along the way and you mustn't be too scared to scale the mountains that will try to hinder you on your journey to the other side where the streets are paved in gold and every garment is made of fine linen. To live the life is what you desire and it takes fire and determination. You can not be deterred by your own shortcomings, you must push on.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try
again in a different way.
--- Dale Carnegie
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up.
--- Thomas Edison
Every challenge is an opportunity to prove to the world that you are an Alpha Male or Female. You are the epitome of the great warrior of the past transformed into the high net worth hero of today. If things get hard, you get harder. You let the heat forge your core into a new alloy much stronger than nature ever intended. You stand defiant against the whirlwinds and all the storms that will try to blow you off course. The real secret to success is to never give up and never let anything or anyone outside of yourself stop you from reaching your dreams.
Microsoft Corporation was started on the 15th of September 1975 by Bill Gates, current richest person in the world 2009 and Paul Allen when they created the first version of MICROSOFT BASIC software for the MITS Altair; the first personal computer. In this same year, New York City ran into budget shortfalls and became severely over-extended. Their financial crisis got so bad that President Ford had to sign the NYC Seasonal Financing Act, which released $2.3 billion in loans to the city. The government continued to issue loan guarantees and direct loans to support the fiscally-troubled city until 1986.
All the loans, and fees have been repaid since that time and of course New York City has been fine since then. Microsoft's Windows operating system has allowed it to become one of the most successful companies in history despite being started the same year as a huge financial crisis.
The Allstate Corporation was started in April 1931 by insurance broker Carl L. Odell. He proposed the idea to Sears, Roebuck and Co. president and CEO Robert E. Wood. The idea for the company was to sell auto insurance by direct mail through the Sears catalog. Odell suggested that selling insurance by mail order could greatly reduce the costs by eliminating commissions paid to salesmen. The idea appealed to Mr. Wood, and he passed the proposal on to the Sears board of directors, whose members were also intrigued by the concept and the Allstate company was born.
You are probably very aware of what happened in 1929; the Stock Market crashed and then during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 US banks failed (All in all, 9,000 banks failed during the 1930s) and it set off the Great Depression that lasted until 1940 when the US entered WWII. Allstate went on to become the 2nd largest insurance co. in the U.S., despite being started during the Great Depression.
The great industrialist, and quite possibly the richest person who ever lived, John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil said shortly after the crash of 1929 that:
These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93
years of my life, depressions have come and gone.
Prosperity has always returned and will again.
--- John D. Rockefeller
That's the attitude of a winner, even when the whole world is saying: “Woe is me, the sky is falling.” You have to be able to see the cloud with the silver lining hiding behind the dark storm clouds looking ominously right before your eyes. The ability to stand strong in the face of adversity is by far one of the most valuable traits necessary to find your golden goose that keeps laying golden nuggets of wealth.
Diamond, emerald and ruby showers will pour down upon the person with the iron will to follow his/her plan for success to fruition.
Plant the seeds in good soil, water them daily, make sure they get the proper sunlight and watch them grow. When the time is right, they will feed you well. Repeat the process and they will feed you for a lifetime. The rains won't always fall when you want them to and the bugs will try to eat your crops as well, but if you keep the resolve even when everyone else is saying that all is lost; you will reap the greatest harvest.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--- Winston Churchill
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries
with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.