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View from down here
Money is not a representation of a person’s status, character or moral value. People judge millionaires, billionaires for not sharing their wealth as if somehow enlightenment, awareness and revelation fall upon them when they hit millionaire status. They are just people, no different morally than everyday, non-billionaire people. Maybe they understood how money works a little better, had a talent, knowledge or system they could leverage, or knew better what buttons to push and levers to pull to get to the “top”.
But why would “we” expect them to all of a sudden change their mindset about money, when they got to where they were trying to acquire and accumulate it. As if having so much money and sharing it is a moral obligation or maybe they should feel so guilty about having so much money they should feel compelled to “help” the less fortunate.
Money is the ambition and the reward. That is the habit/mindset loop that got them to where they are. But another driving factor is seeing their money work efficiently and returning on itself. It takes a different person to be able to reinvent themselves once they get to the “top”.
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Repeat these steps
Do what makes you happy.
Let it be an energy that reenergizes you.
Be passionate about what you do.
Decide what you’re doing will be a betterment to you and others.
Have conviction in how you do it.
Be intentional in everything.
Be ambitious about mastering your craft.
Develop your skills and talents.
Learn, grow and be patient.
Keep going even when it seems impossible.When you feel like you’ve reached the limit and there’s no more to learn or do, humble yourself and start over.
When you’ve done this a couple times, people will come to you wanting to learn. Then become a teacher and repeat these steps again.
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Do you?
Think positively of other people
Verbalize encouraging words to the people around you
Can be yourself in any group and/or by yourself
Bring your authentic, unique energy to a group
Move, think and speak with purpose and intention
Able to move a group with organic direction and energy
Connect with people individually and personally
Feel like your joy, patience and grace is unlimited and limitless
Give of yourself, who you are, what you’ve learned and know
Communicate with ease, one on one and to a group
Listen first, to try and understand, to find empathy within yourself
Speak last, to hear what others are saying
Be in the moment, authentic, organic, connected and personalPlease keep doing what you’re doing,
we need more of that.
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Do you have a tendency to
Talk bad about other people
Criticize, complain without offering any solutions
See many things if not everything in a negative light
Easily become defensive
Have every excuse for why you can’t or won’t
Are really good at saying why something will fail or not work
Not try anything new, you’re not good at or know will be difficult
Assume people think the worst of you
Perceive people as attacking you or are against you
Dismiss people as not understanding or “get” you
Only surround yourself with people that agree and are like-minded
Can’t see yourself being friends with different thinking people
Either not want to be alone or not want to be around other people.
On a hairline trigger of getting angry, upset or lashing out at someoneThese thought patterns usually need a detox.
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What are you afraid of?
Why don’t you want to…
Apply to that school
Go for a new job
Say “hi” and introduce yourself to that person
Put yourself out there, be yourself in a group
Do something new
Tell that person how you really feel
Express your authenticity
Give your thoughts and ideas
Do what you’ve always wanted to do
Break free from everything holding you back
Forgive that person that hurt you
Let go of the things that you know are bringing you down
Go out on a limb, be an independent thinker
Embrace who you were meant to becomeWhat are you afraid of?
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Run
To run toward your dreams, means running through your fears.
Run away from your fears, run away from your dreams.
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It matters
Don’t be disheartened. Don’t be discouraged. Know that if you do what’s good, do what’s right, seen or unseen. It matters. It counts. You’re putting it into the world for it to exist and ripple through space and time, for a good that was nothing, maybe just a thought to now be real and factual. To have reverberations through people, society, humanity, children, for something bigger than yourself, something eternal.