So much of marketing is aimed at yanking or jimmying open the gateway to the mind.
Words – hypnotic ones – can make dead souls rise and fight for the glory of the fatherland or for the honor of the father. They can also make us purchase products, services, or propaganda wholesale without a care.
Yet the combination of words, phrases and visions artfully implanted can also lead to uncompromisable creativity, blissful peace and endless tolerance.
Ah, if only most language was only used to such positive effect, then the need to warn others to watch carefully over the gateway to the mind would diminish immensely. We could live with child-like curiosity and experience the newness of each day without ever needing to utter, “What’s the catch?” or “What’s in it for me?”
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
Don't Let Anger Possess You!
Feeling traumatize by a parent in childhood can leave a lingering, festering wound that never heals.
We are defenseless against a verbal or physical brute when small, but eventually we reach an age when we challenge the oppressor to a fight or at least a reason for their aggression. The parent either relents or ignores you from that point onward.
I often heard people say, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Not so. Being ignoredd by a parent or parents is more painful than a daily belt lashing.
The judge finds the defendant guilty as charged. For the sake of inner peace of the victim, the judge rules clemency. Parents do the best they can which isn’t always much.
“Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in, and lend a hand.”
~Edward Everett Horton~
There are thousands of gurus and wannabes telling you to get focused. Then – in the same breath – they tell you to write down a gazillion goals for seven or eight categories, then narrow them down to a half-dozen or so and focus on them.
So now you have, let’s say, 40 goals that you are supposed to focus on. The only trouble is that the 39 sitting on your hard drive are screaming for your attention. When a stumbling block arrives – as it always does – you jump to another and then another, and then it’s lunchtime, then it’s siesta time, then it’s dinner time, and finally it’s Miller time.
If you snooze, you lose in this high-pace world we live in. But the whole tamale does not consist of 40 appetizers to choose from, rather from one entree to nibble at until it is consumed.
“To err is human, to forgive is divine”.
~Alexander Pope~
Your Number One Hero Is You!
Who are the heroes in your life? Maybe that question gives you pause in this age of put-downs and cynicism.
In the modern world, we love to idolize people and then cut them down to size. To watch others pain and comeuppance gives us a false reassurance that we are lucky to be less.
Ultimately, our heroes must teach us lessons of how to act and and how not to act. We must not hero worship at the expense of striving to be a person of excellence ourselves.
The judge brings this court to session (and turn down the volume a tad):
One of the major tragedies of life is to not learn from mistakes. I’ve learned from some, but continue to this same day many others.
That is why it is so important to review your life on a daily basis using a journal. By doing so, you can remember how you managed and mismanaged life. The next time around, the same mistake – if not learned – could cost you a job, a marriage or even your life.
There may not be anyone able or willing to save you from a mistake in judgment down the pike. Parents do the best they can to forewarn us that we can’t have a baby’s reliance once we leave the crib.
“I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees.” ~Emilano Zapata~
Amen. If you have been living your life as a sacrificial lamb and a victim, it is never too late to take the reigns of your life back from those who could never have your best – notice I said best – interest in mind.
You were meant to be you, not someone’s caricature of you. Draw your line in the sand once and for all. Become the divine creation you were always meant to be.
Whether you live under a bridge off an interstate highway or in a 20-room estate overlooking the French Riviera, your life is still a work in progress.
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or misfortune which lay before you could yet turn the pauper into king and the king into a stink-pot prisoner on death row. Only time will tell.
One definition of wealth is “a great amount.” We all have a great amount of life – a wealth of it – by the time we reach our 60th. It is our duty to bring – to at least a precious few – our wealth experience and subsequent wealth philosophy. They in turn can pass forward our weighty thoughts about how to approach life successfully or how not to approach it.
Listen to the Judge as he chimes in on this touchy subject:
I understand the rage and impotence that rules the world. We are often raised by caring people who haven’t a clue how to parent their precious charge.
You must be gifted in creating ways to solve challenges with your children and only use tools of the last resort when absolutely required or necessary. John Kennedy’s father, Joe, said this to John…and it will serve so many ways.
Here’s what old Joe Kennedy said: “If it is not necessary to change, it’s necessary not to change.” If it’s not necessary to scold, then it’s necessary not to scold. If it’s not necessary to use sarcasm, then it is necessary in the rest of your speech to use sarcasm.
Controlling that temper is the first step toward reigning in the wild horses that move your life. The judge weighs in…
The audio above was created in response to an observation that a person mustn’t fake it till you make it.
My observations – in relation to my site, SuccessInJapan.com – are important for the billions of people across the planet who worship others and put themselves down. They are the silent majority and they need not live in the shadows.
It was written to the Life Without Limits site whose webmasters, Heather Vale and Barry Goss and their staff, have written disempowering commentary to me about my notion that the “not walking the talk” crowd deserve air time and slack.
After all, if only the enlightened and the affluent have something worthy to say, I’d like to hear about their journeys to the other side or their fireside chats with God Almighty about righteousness.
The word adore comes from the French aourer meaning “to adore, worship” and from the Latin adorare meaning “speak to formally, beseech, ask in prayer.”
In our modern world of relativism, it becomes increasingly difficult to adore anyone or anything very much or for very long. Most images implanted in our minds are fueled by Hollywood fantasy or meant by advertising executives to sell us things we don’t need in the name of unbridled capitalism and consumerism.
Where have all our heroes gone? A good question to put to the adoring Judge…
A man complains because he has no shoes until he meets a man with no feet. I have that sentiment in motivational chatter again and again, but whatever your tear-jerking rap about “Poor me!” may be, there is always a path to the finish line.
It is believed by politicians and do-gooders that legislation can change minds and root out meanness, bias and blatant bigotry. It can’t. We mock and deride what we don’t understand or haven’t experienced…and that’s an awful lot.
I came across Nick Vujicic about a year ago. He was in a video featuring his God-inspired vibrancy and determination to do much more than just survive. He lives to inspire and wipe out all excuses for accepting failure with grace.
Many people are petrified of their intuition and hunches. They instead follow the stars and the latest trendsetters to decide their destiny. When they arrive where they think there going, all they see is a heartbreaking ghost town with tumbleweeds blowing hither and thither.
Is your heart broken because you feel trapped in other people’s dreams and expectations? Then I propose you take your life back before you are a tombstone.
You gotta have heart and grit to live a life of your own design. The message which follows may give you some perspective.
Please! For you – please focus for a moment on what you are doing. My wife changes channels faster than the speed of light. People surf the net for opportunity after opportunity, sometimes having ten browsers open simultaneously looking for the Holy Grail of marketing riches and getting poorer by the minute. Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.) is no longer a disease; it’s the norm!
Is it any wonder that 95 percent of the wealth in the world is controlled by less than ten percent of the population?
So take a deep breath, close all browsers other than this one, listen to the audio, and then get serious about laser-focused success on your own terms.
Remember: Don’t have other browsers going. Turn off the info-overload button and get truly serious about your present and future.
When finished listening, go to the PerfectBizFinder and start to live your life on purpose – your purpose – from this day forward.
What happens to a person when they travel through life with no self-confidence? Well, pretty much everything of perceived importance seems to pass you by. You often hear that ringing in your ear: “Poor me! Why me? There’s no God and not even the Second Coming can save me from my wretchedness. My birth was a mistake and my death can’t come too soon.”
Feeling in that stream? Then climb on this audio steamer, and let’s move one ocean away from despair…
The bare minimums. That’s always a great place to begin. If you know next to nothing about Internet Marketing but want to bungy jump in on all pistons, I pray for you. But if you want more than a prayer while you’re dropping thousands of dollars down the proverbial drain, then I’m a prayer for you.
A superb entrepreneur and masterful speaker, Jim Rohn once said: “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.“
If we are not successful in any meaningful way to ourselves, then frankly speaking we are not yet of a millionaire caliber. To get there we must make great effort to learn from our mistakes and become people of value. And once we are people of value, we mustn’t rest on our laurels. What we do today is the determinant of what we will become down the road. Everything and everyone counts!
Throwing money at an internal conflict – the belief in your unworthiness – will change virtually nothing in your favor. The best marketing program in the world won’t transform you into a man or a woman of high character and integrity. And without those abstractions working in your favor, money will continue to drain you to your gnawed bones.
My goal in these blogs is to share with you my passion for the power of the Internet and to generously offer tips and programs which can save you money and shorten the learning curve to online marketing success.
I will cover the rhymes and reasons of cyber millionaires of all stripes, and the programs and software marketed by these so-called gurus.It is my firm belief that we all need mentors to lead us to the Promised Land. The programs, systems, seminars and software applications to be reviewed here will be chosen according to their ease of application and degree of necessity.
The quickest way to get turned off to the boundless marketing opportunities online is to be presented with systems, software and theories that are far beyond the grasp of most of us comparatively-speaking beginners. I have spent seven years online peeling away the layers of onionskin separating me from the success lane. My lessons learned and the information I have gleaned are gifts to you, everytime you visit this blog or my website.
It is easy to quickly dismiss online millionaire marketers as scammers and schemers, but I intend to reveal to you that there is a science to marketing that is both accessible and do-able to us all. And there are teachers and professionals who offer quality training and software to make our online experience a profitable one relatively quickly.
Some of this training offered is free through teleseminars, streamed seminars, and video- and audio-on-demand programs.Additionally, there are what is called eBooks and eZines, ranging from free to very pricey and from illuminating to rather dull and uninformative.
I will introduce you to the jargon, the programs that you need, the programs that may be helpful to you, and the people you would benefit by knowing.
Cheers to your newfound wings. Let me be your guide through the Internet swamp so that you can have a chance to become an entrepreneurial success and an independently wealthy man or woman of high integrity and admirable character for as long as you live.
