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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
--Angus Grossart
ARTICLE: "Proactive Patriotism - Ensuring Success and Abundance For All"
ARTICLE: THE INSANITY OF MONEY STRESS
Copyright 2001 by Randy Gilbert
Freedom loving people believe mankind has been created with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In this article you will learn how to become a proactive patriot so these rights ensure success and abundance for you and your
Country.
To be a patriot is to serve your country and support what it stands for. If you are not successfully experiencing life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness then you are not acting as a true patriot and you are cheating yourself out of good things.
You need to rid yourself of CHEATING YOURSELF-itis, because it leads to your unhappiness and failure and weakens your country.
Dr. Proactive, how do I rid myself of this malady?
It is wrong to think there is any good reason to withhold life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from yourself. They
are not resources that you use up, and you cannot save or store them for later use. They are like time, if you do not use them
wisely now, they disappear into eternity without giving benefit.
This prescription includes three critical strategies for you to follow that will correct your thinking and help you to become a
Proactive Patriot.
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Strategy 1. Set Goals That Bring You Abundant Life
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All living things were created with a built-in mechanism to achieve the goal "to live." For animals we call it an instinct
and it takes on the simple terms of satisfying physical survival needs for both the individual and the species.
For man, the goal "to live" has a more complex meaning because we have additional emotional and spiritual needs. Therefore, the
human built-in goal mechanism helps us to experience life emotionally and spiritually. It gives us the ability to answer
questions, solve problems, do well in business, write music and poetry, develop a better personality, and many other activities
that lead to a more fulfilling and a more "abundant" life.
Science has proven that the subconscious mind is the operating station of our goal achieving mechanism. It receives instructions
in the form of images from the conscious mind and then automatically creates the means for achieving the image.
If you don't direct your subconscious mind to achieve your happiness goals, then it may resort to unwanted desires, and
thereby become a failure mechanism. However, by purposefully giving your subconscious mind images that bring you emotional
and spiritual happiness, you will experience life in abundance.
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Strategy 2. Use Your Liberty To Be Free From Mediocrity
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Our forefathers fought to give us the liberty to choose how to think. However, if your thinking chains you to mediocre living
that causes poverty, then you are not living in true freedom.
No one should live in poverty. Anyone who thinks that they or anyone must succumb to poverty is dead wrong. That type of
limited thinking is what causes poverty, because it takes away your peace of mind and hope for a better future.
Your being successful does not take from others. Others do not need to be sad in order for you to be happy. Similarly, no one
else has more by you having less. In fact the opposite is true. When you withhold success from yourself, you may be keeping it
from others, because you cannot share what you do not have.
When you pursue success by loving and serving others, you are experiencing liberty in the best way. In fact, I believe that
if more people would free themselves of mediocrity, poverty could be eliminated from the entire world.
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Strategy 3. Pursue Happiness By Making Others Happy
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In his book "Psycho-Cybernetics", Dr. Maxwell Maltz said, "Man is by nature a goal-striving being. And because man is 'built
that way' he is not happy unless he is functioning as he was made to function - as a goal-striver. Thus true success and true
happiness not only go together, but each enhances the other."
Remember that success is not an end state, but a journey toward being "successful." Being successful is creatively striving
toward goals that bring satisfaction, fulfillment, and happiness. Such goals are born out of a deep-felt desire to use your God-given talents to serve and please others.
By actively pursuing goals that will bring you happiness by bringing others happiness, you are sure to be successful in
business. And we know from experience that successful businesses are the foundation of a successful country.
By following these strategies your subconscious mind will bring you an abundant life, you will be free from poverty, and your
pursuit of happiness will bring happiness to others. You will be a Proactive Patriot that loves and serves your
Country by ensuring success and abundance for all.
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About the Author - Randy Gilbert is the author of SUCCESS BOUND, from which portions of this article are extracted. Randy is highly regarded as an authority on Proactive Thinking, which is why he goes by the name "Dr. Proactive." You can contact him at
Randy@DrProactive.com. To read summaries of each chapter, see the reviews of other authors and leaders, or to buy his new book go to
http://snurl.com/rgilbert.
Copyright 2001 by Randy Gilbert. Permission is granted to copy, reprint, or host this article on a website, so long as the entire article is used and the author's name and contact information remain unchanged, and "Used by permission" is denoted.
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by Stephan Bourget
Such a strange thing to say, "The love of money is the root of all evil," when, in fact, we're thrust into a world where we can't live without money. What would be the other extreme, to love poverty? Looks like two extremes, where neither works.
Money worries stress people out in very harmful ways, causing bitter arguments, divorces, mental anguish, fear. It seems only logical people would conclude, "If I have
a lot of money, I won't have the torment of money worries."
Pearl Bailey is famous for saying, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better!" There's an element of truth to that. More money can be very beneficial. Buying the house you want, car you want to drive, kids through college, income you can retire on, money for a dream vacation, medical expenses, favorite charities, the sense of plenty and not lack.
The question is not whether you can have it, but the manner in which it will be acquired. There's the ill-gotten gain approach, where a person is willing to lie, cheat, and steal their way along. Or, the principled, or ethical approach, where the person is honest, fair, and earns it.
What if you could have wealth today, what would you do with it? Have you ever written down such a wish list? You take such a list and write "GOALS" at the top of it. Then go see those things. Add some substance to your desires. Visit the travel agency. Get some brochures. Sit in that car you want. Smell the leather and feel the steering wheel in your hand. Make it real to your imagination.
Only in network marketing can a lot of "little people" get together and make each other rich. The big confusion is in telling which way to turn. When hunting for acorns, squirrels will even gather marbles!
Do we love each other? I mean, as people, do we love each other? Do we sit behind our computers and forget the frailty of each other's humanity, or do we remember we all share like goals, experience like struggles with life, all have hopes and dreams and passions?
We want to live! Not just a little, we've already done that. We want to live large! We want to be able to say yes when our kids ask us for things. We want to be able to afford the things we desire. We want to be able to have more, so we can do more. We want life to be more than an endless succession of one stressful situation after another. We want to have our dreams fulfilled, and not be worn out by being denied their fulfillment.
No, the love of money is not the answer, but neither is suffering from lack. We want to express ourselves and in this world, the simple fact of the matter is, it takes money to do it. The vicious cycle must end somewhere. Stress over money hinders the confidence needed to earn more. But, you need to earn more, so you aren't so stressed! When will it end?
Maybe it can end here and now. Maybe the next time you're stressing out over money, you'll remember THE INSANITY OF MONEY STRESS. Maybe you'll remember it's not about whether you can have more money, but choosing the better way to acquire it. Maybe you'll remember that money is not allowed to run rough-shod over you, not allowed to flagrantly ransack your mental house of peace. Maybe you'll remember you are stronger and better than that.
Stephan Bourget is CEO of Bourget
Marketing International and editor of the IMReporter.
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