The seed is to plant one good habit a week for 56 years...guaranteed - fi you follow through - to increase your net worth by 56 times.
The lesson of the seed is “You reap your harvest after you
do the work.” You dig the soil and water the seed (effort),
wait a while (patience), and then you pick your beans.
Effort + Patience = Results.
This principle is often lost on people. They say: “If I
plant beans today, what will I get back tomorrow?” And the
answer is: “Wet bean seeds.”
The law of the seed says: “You plant today, and you
harvest LATER!” Plant beans now; pick beans in four months.
Back when everybody grew their own food, people probably
understood this concept better. But this is the age of
instant noodles.
Fred says: “If I had a decent job, then I would really work hard.
But all I do is wash dishes, so to heck with it.”
Wrong, Fred! If you become the best diswasher in town,
someone will notice you, someone will promote you, or
you’ll feel so good about yourself that one day you’ll go
and do something you really want to do.
~anon.~
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~Buddha~
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”
“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied.
“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.”
She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.”
And with a smile, she said, “Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.”
Never ever surrender your spirit to anyone or any ideal. They both will change and no longer fully serve you - and you will change and no longer serve them.
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~
I often have heard and have often said myself: “How lucky can you/I get?” These are the words of a person who believes that fortune is a happenstance event unrelated to our thoughts and actions.
Luck really turns on whether you are willing to fail often enough in order to carve out your success.
Buying an established franchise or marketing a product that is hot in the marketplace, for instance, does not insure your success.
Nor does thinking positive thoughts and having boatloads’ of capital to spend on a “Can’t miss!” business.
The real determinant is whether you are willing to fail most of the time in order to hit pay dirt.
A major league baseball player is unlikely to get a hit more than one out of three chances (and usually somewhat less), yet still makes a cool million dollars or more per season.
But they are swinging. They know the odds. They play the odds. And they get paid because they stay in the game even though they keep striking out until that magic moment when they get their inevitable one hit out of three or four at bats. In the game of life we must shoot and then aim. A famous Internet marketer, Mike Litman, says it eloquently:
“Don’t get it right, just get it going.”
The competitive world we live in requires us to keep plugging away while others wave a flag of surrender and encourage us to do likewise.
Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear the gentle grating of a bore worm. Just an insignificant worm, you say? What can that measly worm hope to do with that monster tree?
Grate, grate, grate! For years that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust lifts its towering branches in fancied security.
Finally, a storm comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but behold, its strength is undermined. Its vitals are eaten away, and it falls — victim to the tiny worm.
Thus is the spirit of a success warrior when he steps to the plate one more time to get his one out of three hits. His or her determination can and will steadily eat away the sturdiest and most formidable of locust trees standing between us and our dreams.
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?”
“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):
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:
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…
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.
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…
