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Date: May 23, 2001
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'If success could be boiled down to one
word...it
would be CONTINUANCE...that is what all successful
people have in common...and unsuccessful don't...'
Doug Firebaugh
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By Gregory Locke
Throughout Jesus 3 year
ministry, a main focus was the teaching that people severely
limited their outcomes, simply because they were too cynical to believe better. They
believed in the cruelty of God, but
not His mercifulness, nor in His
willingness to grant pleasant and abundant outcomes.
The teaching of faith was so vital that, whenever belief in action were discovered
operating in anyone, it was
announced and celebrated. To
people, however, and even unto
today, the power of believing, the power of faith to influence positive
outcomes, seems to most among the
magical, mystical, and
doubtful. Such an irony, indeed,
that the power of faith should be held in doubt!
The main teaching on faith was divided into several categories. The most obvious
one was: "Believe in God."
That was, of course, to be
expected. But, it is the other teachings on faith and believing that hold
the shocking and big surprises.
Of these other "power-by-believing" teachings, we find: "As YOU believe, so it shall
be done unto you." And,
a kind of farming or gardening faith, where you always plant your faith,
as though it is a seed.
"If you have faith as a mustard
seed (that you plant and nourish and permit to grow), then you shall say to
that mountain, be plucked up
and cast into the sea and it
will (eventually) obey you."
We see faith as something that begins within a person as a determination, then finds
expression through what is
said and acting like it. "If you have faith and do not doubt, you shall
have what you say."
My recent experiences in dealing with the masses have troubled me anew. After 2,000 years
of the wonderful words of
belief, abundance, and bounty, so many people are still without the
ability to function in them.
So many people choose doubt, instead
of faith, choose to believe in bad outcomes, rather than stand firm for
positive outcomes, believe
strongly in personal defeat, but have little faith for personal victory.
Consequently, less than 5% of
the earth's population controls over 95% of all the world's wealth.
It is not that the devil is so strong, but rather that people are so weak. They are hyper-sensitive
to negative suggestion, but
mentally numb to encouragement. There is so much hidden fear, anxiety,
turmoil, grief, and
unresolved pain within the human, that the human falls forward with great resentment,
cynicism, doubt, sarcasm, and
touchy anger, ready to flare at a moment's notice. While negative emotions, such as
fear, jealousy, envy, hatred,
anger, all are too readily available, the positive emotions of love, joy, peace of
mind, confidence, courage,
and faith are in too scarce a supply.
One of the most negative things that people do is to look behind them at previously failed
circumstances and then project
that into their future, assuming past failures are the guides to future success. Yes, they
can be, but not like that.
Often, in terms of business success, it's merely a matter of better risk management. Study
after study after study has
shown that most people fail in business, simply because they've given up too soon. These
results have been being
published for decades now, but who's listening? Does anyone believe anything they're being
told, anymore? Losses are to
be expected along the road to riches, because that's the nature of risk. Business can only be
approached with risk capital,
even if it's the smallest or even if it's the largest amount. Unfortunately, some people
are so averse to risk, they
just can't seem to cut their losses and get on with life and the business of making a
success out of themselves.
How about the person, for example, who assumes they cannot
sponsor anyone into an mlm company.
Here is where doubt goes really
weird. There are several billion people on our planet. Are we expected to believe that, out of
several billion people,
Average Joe and Jane can't sponsor ten? Preposterous! The ludicrousness of such thinking is
beyond bizarre! Just on sheer
probability numbers alone, the person has to succeed, if only by accident, just as long as they
keep sticking their opportunity
out there and keep following up with the people they get interested, saying, "Everything
is good. I'm still here."
Really, isn't that what it's all about?
Wealth has been so elusive for so many for so long, people
assume there must be some really
complex things to learn, all of which will never really be understood, and
all of which will take a
very, very long time to implement. However, this is simply not true. The simplicity of wealth
is what keeps people from
having it! As long as average Joe and Jane continue to steep in doubting expectationism, continue
to view the process of
gathering wealth as a deep and incomprehensible process, they
will then continue to act with the
same mannerisms that repel the
wealth away from them.
I've often called on members to straighten out their confidence,
get it working effectively, charge
it up, get enthusiasm going behind
it, and really sink their teeth into life, bowling people over with the confidence that others like
to follow. Invariably, I will
get several angry letters, dripping with the worst doubting you
can imagine, and bubbling over the sides with every excuse in the world why it just can't be
that way for them! Is that
following instructions? Am I making helpful suggestions? Ever notice Jesus clearly identified His
instructions as "Commands" and not helpful suggestions? Should I say,
"Gee, Jesus, those are really
helpful suggestions, but I doubt I can do any of those?"
Believing is not just for believing in God, but it is for
believing in positive
outcomes, just as importantly. Believing is a process of inner mental determination, then
expressed through speech and action.
It is then maintained, during all the process of things popping up trying to make you quit. It's
not a question of whether these
"testers" of your faith will pop up, it is a sure bet
they will. They are to be
expected. They are part of the process of bringing the positive outcome forward. You
face the resistance, you don't
flee from it at the first sign of it, nor halfway through,
nor at any point. Defeat is not true
failure, until somebody quits. If they think about it, they will see
that, yes, they COULD HAVE gone
on, they DID have more strength to continue. The real losses
occur when people choose not to pay
the price.
Ad copy is always misleading, no matter how hard you try to make
it as truthful as possible,
and if you've got an internet full of people, not even trying to make it real
truthful, you're going to be
left with the impression that there's some way to gain wealth,
without paying any price at all.
That's just total hogwash and so greatly betrays the truth, I just despair
of how to underscore the point
enough. One can attempt to reduce the price of success, but
there will always be a price.
Recently, I asked people, if they did nothing else, could they at
least hold down their iNetStar positions for at least 8 months,
while we grew to 10,000 members and proved the superiority of our payment
plans. Well, many wrote in
like spoiled children demanding candy, saying, after only a
couple of months, "Where's my
money?" What? What on earth should that mean, from people who have done zero
sponsoring for themselves and
have paid no price, produced no growth for themselves, provided
no leadership, nor encouragement for
others?
Selling itself is held up too mystifyingly by the people, when it
has never amounted to any more than
"monkey see-monkey do." I can copy almost anything I see, can't you? It
took me all of about a week
to fully recognize what an ezine is all about. The fact that
people advertise in them, clearly
demonstrates their sales effectiveness
as a marketing tool. I'm one to believe if a thing isn't broken, you don't need to fix it. I
don't believe in running calculus
programs and algorithms against problems which require one
to only put two and two together!
The most difficult thing I seem to be facing is the most
difficult problem of all, and
always has been: How do I get people to effect change within themselves? Banging my head
against a brick wall leaps to
mind, and also that horse that won't drink idea, but why won't a person take responsibility to
believe deliberately for positive
outcomes? This is why I say that people hurt themselves, and often appear to be acting stupidly.
Everyone knows or could easily
realize that the more people who join a given program, the
more cash flows will be made
available to pay more and more people. But, try to get people together on this!
Call for unity and duck! People
are not real good at acting prosperously for themselves, which is why less than 5% of the earth's
population controls over 95%
of the earth's wealth.
Tell some people "As you believe, so shall it be done unto
you," and they're
terrified by this! Why, you wonder? Because they assume that means all the super-negative
things they truly believe are
then set in the stone of their fears! They totally miss the
lesson! They do not hear "So
adjust your believing for positive outcomes." Do you?
Gregory Locke
CEO iNetStar Inc
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