SUCCESS: Is More Better?
If More Were Better, Every Time You Got More You Would Be Satisfied.
Well, are You?
Success is one of those words and ideas that is hard to define generally since it holds such a personal dimension.
The best one I’ve encountered defines Success as living life the way you most deeply desire to do so. So for many it may have nothing or little to do with how much money or how many possessions one has.
What do You think?
Spirit and Money: money = energy money and energy the nature of money
by Tony Lauria
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Be in order to Have = BeHave
We all know the problems people have with money - Not enough or too much can get us in trouble.
And how much of our human weaknesses are blamed on money: Divorce - Criminal activity - Acts of Self-destruction – as well as misplaced faith in its ability to save us. For too many Rich is a Religion.
Look closer though. The problem is never the money itself. The problem is what human beings DO to make or get the money – or believe it can DO for them.
The “problem” is human behavior. I’ll take a liberty with our language and say that the trouble is how we sometimes believe we must ‘Be’ in order to ‘Have’ the money we need.
In other words, the problem is how we BeHave, if you’ll pardon the liberty.
What It Takes To Win: creating your life on purpose intention mindset of success relationship building
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Freeing Yourself From Upsets
I have been quoting from the excellent book What You Think is What You Get by George Lavenia. The following has helped me immeasurably when talking with prospects for my business.
We spend most of our lives trying to control. manipulate, change, or totally avoid what arises in life. We feel as though life is something we have to contend with on a daily basis. This struggle is like being on a roller coaster with endless ups and downs. However, life itself is constant change. If you forget that, you will suffer over the very changes themselves. By holding onto your idea of how things should be, you become the cause of your own suffering. All that is required to free yourself from life’s upsets is to stop judging the experiences that come up for you.
What It Takes To Win: creating a life of joy creating happiness creating your life on purpose
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There Is NO Time But NOW
As some may know I moved back to my “old neighborhood” three years ago. When my mother’s health was fading I decided to move back and bought the 4-family in which I grew up.
Now when I walk the streets I see a pastry shop with two sets of eyes and ears – a young boy’s and a grown man’s. It is vitally important to me to balance the boy’s memory with what is there before me NOW.
Why you may ask? Why not be nostalgic?
Because memory can be a very limiting factor. Instead of being a help, memory can enslave you.
I heard it again this afternoon, passing one of the pastry shops. Three men in their early to mid-sixties were sitting enjoying coffee. And the memories were rolling on.
“I remember we used to take the #26 bus down to West Farms. They used to have some great bands at those dance halls. And the girls! We used to dress up . . . ”
So far so good. Then . . .
“Not today. They don’t do this any more. Today they’re like blah blah blah. . .”
Memory has obliterated Now.
When you experience something, details are recorded in your memory and from that you draw conclusions and you’re convinced you know something or what it’s like. As a result you believe your experience is the gospel truth and consequently your experience never changes.
You live that over and over again thus remaining at the mercy of your beliefs, especially the belief that there is no way out – or back. You have never been able to realize that your thoughts gave birth to the experiences that enslave you.
Stated more eloquently by George Lavenia, “Your experiences in life are a reflection of your ideas and your beliefs.”
There is nothing but NOW and it is a gift which is why it is called the Present.
Why not choose to create a reality that works, rather than one that doesn’t?
Spirit and Money: financial interdependence money = energy money and energy the nature of money
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The Nature of Money on Independence Day
On the Better Networker site I received an email from a woman who has recently become interested in money and the Federal Reserve System.
Here is part of my reply to her:
I have been fascinated with just exactly ‘what money is’ for over twenty years. There is a very ‘real’ spiritual side to it and I don’t mean religious. I mean there is a spiritual animation behind it, both good and evil, which is to be expected since money is a creation of human beings and we carry the potential for both in each of us.
The Fed system confirms this, if not consciously and purposefully then accidentally. A system that controls money controls the people who create the money – and I don’t mean PRINT the money, I mean CREATE the money.
The only honest way to CREATE money is to expend ENERGY, that is, to WORK. So a system that controls money is controlling human work, human energy or human lives. Isn’t it?
Happy Independence Day!
