Throughout our lives we hear and blindly believe many non sequiturs.  These nonsensical emphasizers’ of speech can actually be destructive to our psyche at times, and often move us from a panic to a shipwrecked state in a flash.

One such phrase is “Go for broke,” and its kissing cousin, “There’s nothing to lose.”

Think about it this way.  I want you not to think about pink elephants wearing yellow brassieres.  Your mind can’t help but focus on what you are not supposed to think about: pink elephants with yellow brassieres.

In the same vein, when you say “Go for broke” or “There’s nothing to lose,” the dominant thought in your mind is “I’m broke” or “I’m losing or have lost.”

If you say, “I don’t want to be fat,” your mind chews on the idea that you are fat, fat, fat! which makes you charge to the refrigerator to console yourself with a triple-layered pastrami and six cheeses sandwich, a quarter-pound of German potato salad, and Diet Coke to slosh it all down before going beddy bye.

Do not allow bubblegum, nonsensical, negative thoughts to reach the gate to your mind unopposed.  Be careful everyday of who and what you listen to.  That news report that tells you many people are being laid off can undoubtedly plant the seed which will lead to your firing.

Be aware every waking hour, and focus on what you want rather than what you don’t want to come into your life.

In “The Power of Ambition” Jim Rohn will explain how to transform your inner drive into measurable results. Learn how to master the six principles of ambition, increase your salary…

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ~Tom Clancy~

While many who have allegedly “made it” will offer to train you, the best and most divine trainer is within your soul. The best and wisest teachers and coaches will never be unapproachable mass marketers living in gated communities.

Pain and challenge – maybe even despair or a suicide wish – are to be embraced as indications that you are touching your soul and arriving at a point where your life mission will unfold.

One hundred percent of the earth’s inhabitants were born to be free from their errant thoughts and awkward attempts at conformity. Judge Posner’s court is in session…

One never knows when the lesson shirked will come back to bite you on the ass.

Every life experience must be grabbed with passion.  Learn and earn, if possible, from everything put in your path.

This advice is not just a nice-sounding bit of advice based on theory, it is premised by a very traumatic event in my life some 32 years ago.  That event could have put me in a federal penitentiary for a very long time.

I once heard a story of a would-be flight navigator who cheated on a major part of his written  exam.  His deceit went unnoticed for many years until an in-flight emergency left him at the helm.  As he was descending, he couldn’t recall the total sequence.  In desperation, he radioed ground control and half in tears told them that he drew a blank on how to land.  The calm ground control staff walked him through it and, by shear luck, he landed without a glitch.  He was fired on the spot.

Likewise, I was encouraged by my college teachers to keep a  journal, and my freshman teacher encouraged me to write with passion.  That lesson made me fall in love with English and when, in 1978, I stood at my arraignment and read my recognizance speech to the judge, he quickly reduced my substantial $500,000 baqil to a mere $500.

Unlike the navigator who fudged his way through, I was prepared adequately for the trauma I faced in the courtroom.

Let the judge tell the full story:

“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.

The judge calls this court to session:

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.

The judge rules…

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…

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.