Most people go through life as if they have an anchor around their necks, allowing everything they encounter and experience to pull them down. Instead, because we are magnificent, we should live life to the fullest and instead of an anchor around our necks, we should live as if we have a buoy lifting us higher and higher.
So, why is this? The answer is a simple one, but one that many people can not see.
We have allowed ourselves to accept mediocrity instead of choosing greatness. The world lives in a sea of resistance. This resistance is like an anchor, it holds us back from our true selves. This resistance has many faces, ranging from fear, procrastination, poverty consciousness, rejection, vulnerability, low self esteem and many more. In other words, we have internal language keeping us from living a magnificent life.
The things holding us back are the things we suppress inside. Sometimes this self language comes from things we learned as children, even though they were never intended to be carried into adulthood. Things such as fear often come from our parents and family. Our feelings and thoughts toward success and money, for example, are the exact things keeping us from having more money and more success.
Finding your own greatness is a journey. It requires searching deep inside of yourself and identifying your blocks. To do this, you must listen to and control your thoughts. What are you thinking? Are your thoughts in alignment with your goals? If you are looking to achieve a great goal, then you must identify the internal thoughts that are not congruent with the goal.
Look inside of yourself. Do you have a fear of disappointing someone, or possibly even yourself? It takes tremendous courage to take a look deep inside of ourselves. But here is the payoff...
Everyone has the ability to develop the Heart of Success. Sadly, only about 10% actually do. Change comes from people who have the courage to make the journey. It takes a great deal of courage to make this journey. But when the decision is made to do it, the journey is actually a very short one.
Determine today if your goals are important to you. If they are, then start today to have them. Look deep inside yourself and find what is holding you back. Now here is the best part.
Once you identify your blocks, those things holding you back, you DO NOT have to "fix" them, you only have to know what they are. Because once you know what your blocks are, you are aware and can overcome them.
Once you have done this, you will step up into your own greatness. You will become the person you truly are and live a life of success.
This is entirely in your control. It takes a decision and some action but it is not a difficult thing, after all, the greatness is already within you. You have to reach in and pull it out.
Our goal is to assist as many people as possible to achieve their deepest and heartfelt desires.
Life is amazing when you are living it on purpose and with the people you love the most. Entrepreneurs are a very special breed. They want to be home with their families, make a difference in the world and be an example to others of what life can really be like. They want to provide a level of hope to many who sometimes feel overwhelmed with the circumstances of life.
We are on a passionate mission to assist those all over the world with a true Entrepreneurial spirit, to learn how they can achieve their goals and live the life as it is intended to be. If you are one of the few who have this level of passion for your future and the future of your family, then we are here.
Our program is not right for everyone, but it is powerful and it works! It is only for those who are willing to make the commitment to themselves to live the dream!
Contact us today by visiting our website. http://www.highway2wealth.info
Life is truly what you are willing to make it!
ANAN & LINDA LASHIN
Monday, June 8, 2009
Trying to Make Money Will Never Make You Rich
If you have EVER said or thought any of these things, then Please Stay With Me, I want you to make more money. In fact, I want you to be VERY RICH! But, riches start with what you think and what you say and until you "Get This" you will never get the success you are looking for. All riches, all success, all great accomplishments start inside your head.
Now, I could quote the Bible and many other great writings but I want to talk to you from my heart and from my experience today. In fact, this is a hard lesson that I had to learn and even though I fought it for a long time, it was an easy thing to accomplish once I gave in to it.
If you have ever read or heard any work by successful entrepreneurs, you probably felt as though they "talk" differently than the masses of the world and possibly assumed this was due to their success. In fact, this concept is reversed. They accomplished great things because of their beliefs, the way they thought and the way they talked. There is a common thread behind the successes people experience and this common thread is "In The Mind".
You see, these people know something the masses do not know, or should I say, believe something the masses do not believe. They know that all successes, accomplishments, great works and great results begin in the mind long before they become a reality.
The masses of people have employee mentalities. This is a mentality that someone else is totally responsible for your success, the amount of income you generate and the results in your life. Great entrepreneurs know without any doubt or shadow of disbelief that you have absolute and total control to produce whatever you desire.
There is a huge difference in TRYING to make money and actually making it. This is exactly why so many, many people who finally find the success they are looking for, frequently say, once I figured it out "it was easy". It is because there is nothing to figure out, there is nothing to work hard at, there is nothing you have to master, except for who "You Are Being and the way you Think."
I TOTALLY BELIEVE THAT:
"95% of the work you have to do is working on YOU (your beliefs and your thinking). The other 5% is in your business. The work to generate the income is the easy part, but until you master your thinking you will never have the riches."
So start working on "you" today. Evaluate the words that are coming out of your mouth and the thoughts that are driving your actions. Determine what you are saying and thinking that is holding you back and limiting your success. Are you positioning yourself to receive success by the words you are speaking?
Become a student of self mastery. My goal here was to open your mind to other possibilities.
Linda & Anan Lashin are successful Home Based Business professionals . We have assisted people in achieving major financial goals and are passionate about showing people how to escape the rat race and lead powerful, self created lives through free enterprise.
Cheers, to your success!
http://www.highway2wealth.info
Now, I could quote the Bible and many other great writings but I want to talk to you from my heart and from my experience today. In fact, this is a hard lesson that I had to learn and even though I fought it for a long time, it was an easy thing to accomplish once I gave in to it.
If you have ever read or heard any work by successful entrepreneurs, you probably felt as though they "talk" differently than the masses of the world and possibly assumed this was due to their success. In fact, this concept is reversed. They accomplished great things because of their beliefs, the way they thought and the way they talked. There is a common thread behind the successes people experience and this common thread is "In The Mind".
You see, these people know something the masses do not know, or should I say, believe something the masses do not believe. They know that all successes, accomplishments, great works and great results begin in the mind long before they become a reality.
The masses of people have employee mentalities. This is a mentality that someone else is totally responsible for your success, the amount of income you generate and the results in your life. Great entrepreneurs know without any doubt or shadow of disbelief that you have absolute and total control to produce whatever you desire.
There is a huge difference in TRYING to make money and actually making it. This is exactly why so many, many people who finally find the success they are looking for, frequently say, once I figured it out "it was easy". It is because there is nothing to figure out, there is nothing to work hard at, there is nothing you have to master, except for who "You Are Being and the way you Think."
I TOTALLY BELIEVE THAT:
"95% of the work you have to do is working on YOU (your beliefs and your thinking). The other 5% is in your business. The work to generate the income is the easy part, but until you master your thinking you will never have the riches."
So start working on "you" today. Evaluate the words that are coming out of your mouth and the thoughts that are driving your actions. Determine what you are saying and thinking that is holding you back and limiting your success. Are you positioning yourself to receive success by the words you are speaking?
Become a student of self mastery. My goal here was to open your mind to other possibilities.
Linda & Anan Lashin are successful Home Based Business professionals . We have assisted people in achieving major financial goals and are passionate about showing people how to escape the rat race and lead powerful, self created lives through free enterprise.
Cheers, to your success!
http://www.highway2wealth.info
40 Natural Highs that WILL Make You Feel Good
I came across the list below in an email newsletter I receive. It's such a great list and can't help but bring smiles and positive thoughts, and we all know that a positive attitude and gratitude are key for creating success.
Please read through it, then post your comments. Which of these ideas resonated with you? What do you do to increase your feelings of good will, peace, happiness, positivity? Here is the list, reprinted from ANNA MORTEN Newsletter.
40 Natural Highs that WILL Make You Feel Good
(Think about them one at a time before going on to the next one)
1. Falling in love
2. Laughing so hard your face hurt
3. A hot shower
4. No lines at the supermarket
5. A special glance
6. Getting mail
7. Taking a drive on a pretty road
8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio
9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
11. Chocolate milkshake (vanilla or strawberry)
12. A bubble bath
13. Giggling
14. Finding a banknote in your jacket from last winter
15. Laughing at yourself
16. Looking into their eyes and knowing they love you
17. Midnight phone calls that last for hours
18. Running through sprinklers
19. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
20. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful/handsome/sexy
21. Laughing at an inside joke with FRIENDS
22. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you
23. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep
24. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner)
25. Making new friends or spending time with old ones
26. Playing with a new puppy
27. Having someone play with your hair
28. Sweet dreams
29. Road trips with friends
30. Swinging on swings
31. Having a friend send you homemade cookies
32. Holding hands with someone you care about
33. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things never change
34. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you
35. Watching the sunrise/sunset
36. Walking on the beach or in the snow
37. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day
38. Knowing that somebody misses you
39. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
40. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think
Now it's time to hear from you! What do you do to increase your happiness?
WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY HAPPY DAYZ
Please read through it, then post your comments. Which of these ideas resonated with you? What do you do to increase your feelings of good will, peace, happiness, positivity? Here is the list, reprinted from ANNA MORTEN Newsletter.
40 Natural Highs that WILL Make You Feel Good
(Think about them one at a time before going on to the next one)
1. Falling in love
2. Laughing so hard your face hurt
3. A hot shower
4. No lines at the supermarket
5. A special glance
6. Getting mail
7. Taking a drive on a pretty road
8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio
9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
11. Chocolate milkshake (vanilla or strawberry)
12. A bubble bath
13. Giggling
14. Finding a banknote in your jacket from last winter
15. Laughing at yourself
16. Looking into their eyes and knowing they love you
17. Midnight phone calls that last for hours
18. Running through sprinklers
19. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
20. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful/handsome/sexy
21. Laughing at an inside joke with FRIENDS
22. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you
23. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep
24. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner)
25. Making new friends or spending time with old ones
26. Playing with a new puppy
27. Having someone play with your hair
28. Sweet dreams
29. Road trips with friends
30. Swinging on swings
31. Having a friend send you homemade cookies
32. Holding hands with someone you care about
33. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things never change
34. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you
35. Watching the sunrise/sunset
36. Walking on the beach or in the snow
37. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day
38. Knowing that somebody misses you
39. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
40. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think
Now it's time to hear from you! What do you do to increase your happiness?
WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY HAPPY DAYZ
Self Employment - Are You a Match?
With the current trend of layoffs, paycuts, outsourcing, staff reductions and business closings plaguing the business world, more and more people are looking at the possibility of working for themselves. Self employment certainly has many advantages and there has actually NEVER been a better time than now (in the current economy) to start and succeed at business.
In a recent Gallup Poll, 57% of Americans polled indicated they would prefer to work for themselves. Long gone is the time you work till retirement and sit back on a nice pension. Since the level of security and stability has dropped so dramatically, self employment is becoming more of a reality for larger numbers of Americans than ever before in history.
Since May 2008, rmy husband & I have run a Home Based Business. I would like to address why you might want to consider starting a Home Based Business. I am a huge advocate of the Home Based Business over traditional brick and mortar businesses. Here is why:
• You determine your own hours (which can be very flexible)
• Working from home does not mean you have to be at home. You can work from virtually anywhere you choose
• There is a much greater potential for a substantial income
• Very low overhead
• No more office politics.
So, What are the disadvantages and what roadblocks might you face?
• No more regular paycheck. You may want to wait until your business replaces your income before you quit your job.
• You must learn to be creative and self resourceful
• You MUST be willing to take risks
This is where so many new entrepreneurs drop the ball. They want to be financially independent, they want to be home with their families, they want to travel, they want, they want they want... BUT, they are not willing to take any risks to have it. Just the fact that risks are NOT taken, greatly decrease the chances of having success. This is what you MUST ASK YOURSELF; "Is my dream, my goal, more important than anything else?" If you can honestly answer YES to that question, then your risks will pay off.
• Are you willing to be self disciplined?
I want you to understand a couple points here. First of all, two to four hours of disciplined focus can produce ten times more than 20 hours of scattered thinking and actions. Secondly, you must be willing to put in focused time. Time when you are working your business, according to a plan and time for income producing activities.
• Are you willing to be trained?
In most home based businesses, there are people to train you. Look to the people who are getting the results you want and do what they are doing. When I got started in my business, I wanted to generate $20,000 a month, very quickly. I sought out the people who were doing it already and did exactly as they were doing. Now my goal is 7 figures a year, and you better believe I am doing exactly as the other 7 figure income earners are doing. You must be willing to be trained.
I will gladly assist you in any way I can. Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss business models or if you have any specific questions.
To your unstoppable success...
Linda Lashin
Aus: (08) 9467-4076
US: (213) 985-2671
UK: (020) 8144-8446
http:??www.highway2wealth.info
In a recent Gallup Poll, 57% of Americans polled indicated they would prefer to work for themselves. Long gone is the time you work till retirement and sit back on a nice pension. Since the level of security and stability has dropped so dramatically, self employment is becoming more of a reality for larger numbers of Americans than ever before in history.
Since May 2008, rmy husband & I have run a Home Based Business. I would like to address why you might want to consider starting a Home Based Business. I am a huge advocate of the Home Based Business over traditional brick and mortar businesses. Here is why:
• You determine your own hours (which can be very flexible)
• Working from home does not mean you have to be at home. You can work from virtually anywhere you choose
• There is a much greater potential for a substantial income
• Very low overhead
• No more office politics.
So, What are the disadvantages and what roadblocks might you face?
• No more regular paycheck. You may want to wait until your business replaces your income before you quit your job.
• You must learn to be creative and self resourceful
• You MUST be willing to take risks
This is where so many new entrepreneurs drop the ball. They want to be financially independent, they want to be home with their families, they want to travel, they want, they want they want... BUT, they are not willing to take any risks to have it. Just the fact that risks are NOT taken, greatly decrease the chances of having success. This is what you MUST ASK YOURSELF; "Is my dream, my goal, more important than anything else?" If you can honestly answer YES to that question, then your risks will pay off.
• Are you willing to be self disciplined?
I want you to understand a couple points here. First of all, two to four hours of disciplined focus can produce ten times more than 20 hours of scattered thinking and actions. Secondly, you must be willing to put in focused time. Time when you are working your business, according to a plan and time for income producing activities.
• Are you willing to be trained?
In most home based businesses, there are people to train you. Look to the people who are getting the results you want and do what they are doing. When I got started in my business, I wanted to generate $20,000 a month, very quickly. I sought out the people who were doing it already and did exactly as they were doing. Now my goal is 7 figures a year, and you better believe I am doing exactly as the other 7 figure income earners are doing. You must be willing to be trained.
I will gladly assist you in any way I can. Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss business models or if you have any specific questions.
To your unstoppable success...
Linda Lashin
Aus: (08) 9467-4076
US: (213) 985-2671
UK: (020) 8144-8446
http:??www.highway2wealth.info
Work From Home Business: Why It's Never Been Easier to Succeed
Things like the tremendous tax advantages, amazing opportunities to leverage your time and money to their highest advantage, the fantastic personal development that occurs when owning a business, and many others.
In this particular article I want to discuss why it's never been easier to be a business owner and be successful at it. This is especially true for the people who decide that the network marketing business model is the best place for them to start.
This is because of a number of very powerful attributes. First of all, network marketing companies do not discriminate. This means it does not matter what age you are, your level of education, the color of your skin, or even your gender.
That one reason alone offers tremendous advantages over practically every company you could possibly work for.
Many network marketing business opportunities can be started for a very modest amount of money and far cheaper than starting a new business from scratch, and certainly cheaper than buying a franchise.
Many of these companies' offer new home based business owners' wonderful training to help their representatives to succeed. In addition; highly successful people are often readily available and willing to help those who are serious about succeeding with their business.
Imagine having a highly successful person available to communicate with every step of the way. This kind of mentoring and training often cannot be purchased without significant cost outside of the network marketing industry.
Having said that I am about to share what may be the absolute most important two attributes to acquire in order to ensure success in your work from home business.
These two attributes can be summed up in four words: Pigheaded discipline and determination.
The world is filled with people who have great ideas. The bookstores are filled with tremendous information on critical subjects such as; marketing, time management, personal development, building a network marketing business, etc., etc.
The problem with every single one of those resources is that without pigheaded discipline and determination, that wonderful information and ideas will never be implemented. On the other hand, by building your discipline and determination muscle you can implement that knowledge and achieve outstanding success.
Returning to the reasons why it is never been easier to succeed in a work from home business - especially a network marketing business - another advantage is that there is no experience required. Again, the training offered by these companies as well as the opportunity to be trained and mentored by successful people is readily available.
Another huge advantage is available today is the Internet. Having the Internet available for everything from inexpensive communication, training, as well as now having access to the global marketplace; now makes the opportunity to build a successful work from home business easier than ever.
By: John T. Kelley
My Comment:
1. Do you like what you just read?
2. Are you serious about starting your own home business?
3. Are you coachable & trainable?
4. Are you ready to change your current lifestyle?
5. Are you a positive, motivated individual with leadership qualities?
If you have answered YES to all 5 questions please go to my website.
http://www.highway2wealth.info
In this particular article I want to discuss why it's never been easier to be a business owner and be successful at it. This is especially true for the people who decide that the network marketing business model is the best place for them to start.
This is because of a number of very powerful attributes. First of all, network marketing companies do not discriminate. This means it does not matter what age you are, your level of education, the color of your skin, or even your gender.
That one reason alone offers tremendous advantages over practically every company you could possibly work for.
Many network marketing business opportunities can be started for a very modest amount of money and far cheaper than starting a new business from scratch, and certainly cheaper than buying a franchise.
Many of these companies' offer new home based business owners' wonderful training to help their representatives to succeed. In addition; highly successful people are often readily available and willing to help those who are serious about succeeding with their business.
Imagine having a highly successful person available to communicate with every step of the way. This kind of mentoring and training often cannot be purchased without significant cost outside of the network marketing industry.
Having said that I am about to share what may be the absolute most important two attributes to acquire in order to ensure success in your work from home business.
These two attributes can be summed up in four words: Pigheaded discipline and determination.
The world is filled with people who have great ideas. The bookstores are filled with tremendous information on critical subjects such as; marketing, time management, personal development, building a network marketing business, etc., etc.
The problem with every single one of those resources is that without pigheaded discipline and determination, that wonderful information and ideas will never be implemented. On the other hand, by building your discipline and determination muscle you can implement that knowledge and achieve outstanding success.
Returning to the reasons why it is never been easier to succeed in a work from home business - especially a network marketing business - another advantage is that there is no experience required. Again, the training offered by these companies as well as the opportunity to be trained and mentored by successful people is readily available.
Another huge advantage is available today is the Internet. Having the Internet available for everything from inexpensive communication, training, as well as now having access to the global marketplace; now makes the opportunity to build a successful work from home business easier than ever.
By: John T. Kelley
My Comment:
1. Do you like what you just read?
2. Are you serious about starting your own home business?
3. Are you coachable & trainable?
4. Are you ready to change your current lifestyle?
5. Are you a positive, motivated individual with leadership qualities?
If you have answered YES to all 5 questions please go to my website.
http://www.highway2wealth.info
The Essence of Yoga
The Essence of Yoga
"The essence of Yoga & Meditation is very simple; it is about your happiness. Yoga is not just physical fitness training. It is an authentic holistic tradition inclusive of contemplation & meditation. Its aim is for you to achieve your fullest potential in life, since you possess a storehouse of immense happiness within you! It's not essential to be young & supple to practice Yoga & Meditation...all that is needed, is a desire to be happy."
What is the Role of Meditation ?
Meditation is communication with thyself the answer to all conflicts and problems in the outer world. Meditation neutralises, like when the sun rises and the fog disappears. Everyday stress, problems, sorrows are neutralised and you find inner peace. We then have more space for memory, thoughts and work. When the SMS inbox of the consciousness is overfilled and can’t take more messages, meditation clears and makes space for growth.
In mediation we receive valuable advice from our inner self...
Meditation is a very important part of life. It is the way to calm the mind and emotions. Through meditation we come to know our self – it is the way to one’s self. In meditation we come to know our qualities and can purify them.
When we meditate, we feel like a child in our mother’s lap. Meditation is that which cradles our life as we move through the universe. Meditation leads us to God. Meditation helps us dissolve the boundaries between God and self. Meditation removes mountains of duality and ignorance and helps to overcome restlessness and sorrow.
Frequently in life we have questions arise about what we should, should not do. We seek answers from others hoping they will give us some direction but we can achieve the best answer ourselves through meditation. In mediation we receive valuable advice from our inner self. Meditation gives the correct inspiration and motivation to lead a healthy and long life. Meditation show us the way to love and the way to serve. All who meditate have a successful life. Each holy person and saint meditates.
However, meditation without a mantra is like a body without a soul. Therefore, use mantra during meditation but don’t repeat it too quickly. It is not important how many times one repeats the mantra, what is important is the consciousness with which it is practised and that you are aware of what the mantra means. The feeling of the mantra should awaken within you.
I start Yoga classes TODAY, I am so excited :)
"The essence of Yoga & Meditation is very simple; it is about your happiness. Yoga is not just physical fitness training. It is an authentic holistic tradition inclusive of contemplation & meditation. Its aim is for you to achieve your fullest potential in life, since you possess a storehouse of immense happiness within you! It's not essential to be young & supple to practice Yoga & Meditation...all that is needed, is a desire to be happy."
What is the Role of Meditation ?
Meditation is communication with thyself the answer to all conflicts and problems in the outer world. Meditation neutralises, like when the sun rises and the fog disappears. Everyday stress, problems, sorrows are neutralised and you find inner peace. We then have more space for memory, thoughts and work. When the SMS inbox of the consciousness is overfilled and can’t take more messages, meditation clears and makes space for growth.
In mediation we receive valuable advice from our inner self...
Meditation is a very important part of life. It is the way to calm the mind and emotions. Through meditation we come to know our self – it is the way to one’s self. In meditation we come to know our qualities and can purify them.
When we meditate, we feel like a child in our mother’s lap. Meditation is that which cradles our life as we move through the universe. Meditation leads us to God. Meditation helps us dissolve the boundaries between God and self. Meditation removes mountains of duality and ignorance and helps to overcome restlessness and sorrow.
Frequently in life we have questions arise about what we should, should not do. We seek answers from others hoping they will give us some direction but we can achieve the best answer ourselves through meditation. In mediation we receive valuable advice from our inner self. Meditation gives the correct inspiration and motivation to lead a healthy and long life. Meditation show us the way to love and the way to serve. All who meditate have a successful life. Each holy person and saint meditates.
However, meditation without a mantra is like a body without a soul. Therefore, use mantra during meditation but don’t repeat it too quickly. It is not important how many times one repeats the mantra, what is important is the consciousness with which it is practised and that you are aware of what the mantra means. The feeling of the mantra should awaken within you.
I start Yoga classes TODAY, I am so excited :)
Clear the Decks and Find Serenity Now!
Clear the Decks and Find Serenity Now!
I was at a shoot the other day and the joke was to avoid having a conversation in which the dreaded "E" (economy) word or "R" (recession) word was mentioned. There's no doubt that the effects of the E and the R are taking their toll on everyone in various ways.
So many of the things going on around us are in fact out of our control, and that's why it's imperative to figure out simple ways to minimize the feeling and impact of stress. In this day and age of 24-hour inundations (computer, phone, online, TV, Twitter) it's difficult to clear the decks and get our stress meters back down to a zero starting point.
Oftentimes, it feels like a compounding situation that makes your head so tight it just might explode. There is no cure all, but there certainly are tiny things you can do to lower your stress levels.
1. Just say no.
Just because there is an empty slot of time on your calendar does not mean you need to schedule something there. Open up your days when you can, and cut down all of the unnecessary activities.
2.Try to relax.
Notice the tension you're feeling when something stressful is happening and attempt to breathe deeply. Physical and emotional responses feed off of each other. So in an emotionally challenging situation, if you can stay more physically relaxed, you will notice that it's easier to remain calm.
3. Solve little problems.
Rather than getting lost under a pile of problems with no immediate resolutions, try to solve as many of the little issues as you can. You won't feel as overwhelmed by everything, and it creates an opportunity to cross things off of your list.
4. Be realistic.
Life is not perfect and neither are we humans. Why do we walk around trying to do everything perfectly? Set realistic goals and stop beating yourself up.
5. Work hard to keep an optimistic outlook.
It really is a discipline to decide how you are going to look at a situation. By staying optimistic you can minimize your stress level immensely. I find it gets easier and easier to be optimistic the more you practice having the right attitude.
6. Sleep.
Sleep deprivation can keep you from being able to react with a clear mind. Rest is key to staying positive and processing stressful situations better.
7. Attack things one at a time (when it's possible).
I realize in this day and age of multi-tasking that this can be hard. But in an attempt to not feel overwhelmed, try to do things one at a time. It can be confusing to have five things going on at once. So focus on beginning a thought or task and then taking it to completion.
8. Talk to someone.
If you are feeling really overloaded or depressed, go talk to a trained expert. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting an outside perspective or heading to a place where you know you can blow off some steam.
9. Avoid stressful situations.
If you don't like crowded places or competitive sports environments, then don't put yourself in that situation. Plan ahead to avoid getting trapped in situations that you know you dread and that cause you stress.
10. Get into nature.
Go outside and connect with nature or play with a pet. Doing activities in nature and with pets has a very grounding and de-stressing affect on us.
11. Be thankful.
It might sound cliche, but remembering to be thankful for everyday things and forgetting about what you don't have is a powerful neutralizer. As soon as you wake up, and throughout your day, make mental notes of all of the gifts in your life and the people you are grateful for.
12. Don't forget diet and exercise.
Eat healthy and move. These are two of my favorite ways to keep stress at bay.
13. Don't stress out about decreasing stress.
I love it when people are aggressively pursuing ways to decrease stress. Just think: Serenity now!
Womens Health
I was at a shoot the other day and the joke was to avoid having a conversation in which the dreaded "E" (economy) word or "R" (recession) word was mentioned. There's no doubt that the effects of the E and the R are taking their toll on everyone in various ways.
So many of the things going on around us are in fact out of our control, and that's why it's imperative to figure out simple ways to minimize the feeling and impact of stress. In this day and age of 24-hour inundations (computer, phone, online, TV, Twitter) it's difficult to clear the decks and get our stress meters back down to a zero starting point.
Oftentimes, it feels like a compounding situation that makes your head so tight it just might explode. There is no cure all, but there certainly are tiny things you can do to lower your stress levels.
1. Just say no.
Just because there is an empty slot of time on your calendar does not mean you need to schedule something there. Open up your days when you can, and cut down all of the unnecessary activities.
2.Try to relax.
Notice the tension you're feeling when something stressful is happening and attempt to breathe deeply. Physical and emotional responses feed off of each other. So in an emotionally challenging situation, if you can stay more physically relaxed, you will notice that it's easier to remain calm.
3. Solve little problems.
Rather than getting lost under a pile of problems with no immediate resolutions, try to solve as many of the little issues as you can. You won't feel as overwhelmed by everything, and it creates an opportunity to cross things off of your list.
4. Be realistic.
Life is not perfect and neither are we humans. Why do we walk around trying to do everything perfectly? Set realistic goals and stop beating yourself up.
5. Work hard to keep an optimistic outlook.
It really is a discipline to decide how you are going to look at a situation. By staying optimistic you can minimize your stress level immensely. I find it gets easier and easier to be optimistic the more you practice having the right attitude.
6. Sleep.
Sleep deprivation can keep you from being able to react with a clear mind. Rest is key to staying positive and processing stressful situations better.
7. Attack things one at a time (when it's possible).
I realize in this day and age of multi-tasking that this can be hard. But in an attempt to not feel overwhelmed, try to do things one at a time. It can be confusing to have five things going on at once. So focus on beginning a thought or task and then taking it to completion.
8. Talk to someone.
If you are feeling really overloaded or depressed, go talk to a trained expert. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting an outside perspective or heading to a place where you know you can blow off some steam.
9. Avoid stressful situations.
If you don't like crowded places or competitive sports environments, then don't put yourself in that situation. Plan ahead to avoid getting trapped in situations that you know you dread and that cause you stress.
10. Get into nature.
Go outside and connect with nature or play with a pet. Doing activities in nature and with pets has a very grounding and de-stressing affect on us.
11. Be thankful.
It might sound cliche, but remembering to be thankful for everyday things and forgetting about what you don't have is a powerful neutralizer. As soon as you wake up, and throughout your day, make mental notes of all of the gifts in your life and the people you are grateful for.
12. Don't forget diet and exercise.
Eat healthy and move. These are two of my favorite ways to keep stress at bay.
13. Don't stress out about decreasing stress.
I love it when people are aggressively pursuing ways to decrease stress. Just think: Serenity now!
Womens Health
10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Written By Steve Pavlina
Final thoughts
While I wouldn’t recommend starting on online business for everyone, for many people it’s one of the best ways to generate income without a job. It has certainly worked amazingly well for me. If you’re interested in learning more about this option, please check out http://www.highway2wealth.info
Make 2009 Your BEST Year Ever!
Linda Lashin
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Written By Steve Pavlina
Final thoughts
While I wouldn’t recommend starting on online business for everyone, for many people it’s one of the best ways to generate income without a job. It has certainly worked amazingly well for me. If you’re interested in learning more about this option, please check out http://www.highway2wealth.info
Make 2009 Your BEST Year Ever!
Linda Lashin
Network Marketing Tips & Techniques
1. Bring people joy. If you concentrate on doing this at least three times a day, your life won’t just BE swell; it will swell with happiness and purpose. And so will the lives of the people you touch. Try playing the “Let’s See How Many People I Can Make Smile Today” game. How many people did you look in the eye and say thank you to yesterday?
2. Acknowledge everybody. This one shouldn’t even be on my list. But, because not everybody practices this simple act of approachability, I’ve included it. So, slow down. Stay present. Hold your eye contact with everyone you encounter for one additional second. ONE second. That’s what Bill Clinton does. And see if you can acknowledge every single person you encounter for one day. It’s harder than you think. Then again, it all depends on what you see when you see people. How many coworkers did you go out of your way to avoid yesterday?
3. Remember people’s names. Here’s another one that shouldn’t (have) to be on this list, but alas. So, here’s the plan. First, stop telling yourself you suck at remembering names. Next, go buy Remember Every Name Every Time by Ben Levy. Next, start asking people to remind you when you forget their name, as opposed to insultingly saying, “Yeah, um, what your name again?”
"That’s what being an approachable leader is all about. Honoring and loving and acknowledging the essence of another person."
I encourage you to make someone feel essential today.
Make it a great day!
2. Acknowledge everybody. This one shouldn’t even be on my list. But, because not everybody practices this simple act of approachability, I’ve included it. So, slow down. Stay present. Hold your eye contact with everyone you encounter for one additional second. ONE second. That’s what Bill Clinton does. And see if you can acknowledge every single person you encounter for one day. It’s harder than you think. Then again, it all depends on what you see when you see people. How many coworkers did you go out of your way to avoid yesterday?
3. Remember people’s names. Here’s another one that shouldn’t (have) to be on this list, but alas. So, here’s the plan. First, stop telling yourself you suck at remembering names. Next, go buy Remember Every Name Every Time by Ben Levy. Next, start asking people to remind you when you forget their name, as opposed to insultingly saying, “Yeah, um, what your name again?”
"That’s what being an approachable leader is all about. Honoring and loving and acknowledging the essence of another person."
I encourage you to make someone feel essential today.
Make it a great day!
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