OPPORTUNITY MONOPOLIZED

                                              NO ONE KEPT POOR

              NO ONE KEPT POOR BECAUSE OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY OR BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE MONOPOLIZED THE WEALTH AND HAVE PUT A FENCE AROUND IT. YOU MAY BE SHUT OFF FROM ENGAGING IN BUSINESS IN CERTAIN LINES, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CHANNELS OPEN TO YOU.

              AT DIFFERENT PERIODS THE RIDE OF OPPORTUNITY SETS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE WHOLE, AND THE PARTICULAR STAGE OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN REACHED. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY - FIRST CENTURY IN AMERICA, MANUFACTURING AND RELATED INDUSTRIES ARE DECLINING. BUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPENING IN MANY AREAS SUCH AS HEALTH CARE, COMPUTERS AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES.

               IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN ASIA, AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA, TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPENING IN MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES. MANY MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES ARE OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION AND EVEN SERVICE ACTIVITIES TO ENTERPRISING ENTREPRENEURS IN THESE NATIONS, OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME RICH ARE GROWING RAPIDLY. THERE IS ABUNDANCE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PERSON WHO WILL GO WITH THE TIDE, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SWIM AGAINST IT.

               NOBODY IS DEPRIVED OF OPPORTUNITY. WORKERS ARE NOT BEING KEPT DOWN, BY THEIR MASTERS, THEY ARE NOT BEING GROUND BY CONGLOMERATES OR CARTELS. PEOPLE CAN MOVE UP FROM LOWER LEVEL JOBS OR POORLY PAID OCCUPATIONS WHEN THEY BEGIN TO DO THINGS IN A CERTAIN WAY. THE LAW OF WEALTH IS THE SAME FOR THEM AS IT IS FOR ALL OTHERS. THIS THEY MUST LEARN. AND THEY WILL REMAIN WHERE THEY ARE A LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO DO AS THEY DO. NO ONE IS KEPT IN POVERTY BY SHORTNESS IN THE SUPPLY OF RCHES, THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR ALL. A PALACE AS LARGE AS THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON MIGHT BE BUILD FOR EVERY FAMILY ON EARTH FROM THE BUILDING MATERIAL IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE. UNDER INTENSIVE CULTIVATION, THIS COUNTRY COULD PRODUCE WOOL, COTTON, LINEN, AND SILK ENOUGH TO CLOTH EACH PERSON INT HE WORLD FINER THAN SOLOMEN WAS ARRAYED IN ALL HIS GLORY, TOGETHER WITH FOOD ENOUGH TO FEED THEM ALL LUXURIOUSLY.

                       THE VISIBLE SUPPLY IS PRACTICALL INEXHAUSTIBLE, AND THE INVISIBLE SUPPLY REALLY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE.

                       EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON EARTH IS MADE FROM ONE DIVINE SUBSTANCE, OUT OF WHICH ALL THINGS PROCEED.

                      NEW FORMS ARE CONSTANTLY  BEING MADE, AND OLDER ONES ARE DISSOLVING, BUT ALL ARE SHAPES ASSUMED BY THE ETERNAL GOD.

                     THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE SUPPLY OF DIVINE STUFF, THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OUT OF IT, BUT IT WAS NOT ALL USED IN MAKING THE UNIVERSE. THE SPACES IN, THROUGH, AND BETWEEN THE FORMS OF THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE ARE PERMEATED AND FILLED WITH THE DIVINE STUFF, WITH THE RAW MATERIAL OF ALL THINGS, TEN THOUSAND TIMES AS MUCH AS HAS BEEN MIGHT STILL BE MADE, AND EVEN THEN WE SHOULD NOT HAVE EXHAUSED THE SUPPLY OF UNIVERSAL RAW MATERIAL.

                     NO PERSON, THEREFORE, IS POOR BECAUSE NATURE IS POOR, OR BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.

                     NATURE IS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE STOREHOUSE OF RICHES, THE SUPPLY WILL NEVER RUN SHORT. DIVINE SUBSTANCE IS ALIVE WITH CREATIVE ENERGY, AND IS CONSTANTLY PRODUCING MORE FORMS. WHEN THE SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIAL IS EXHAUSTED, NEW RESOURCES WILL BE DEVELOPED TO REPLACE THEM, WHEN THE SOIL IS EXHAUSED WILL BE DEVELOPED TO REPLACE THEM, WHEN THE SOIL IS EXHAUSEE SO THAT FOOD STUFFS AND MATERIALS FOR CLOTHING WILL NO LONGER GROW UPON IT, IT WILL BE RENEWED BY NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF SCIENCE.

                              THIS IS TRUE OF THE HUMAN RACE COLLECTIVELY, THE RACE AS A WHOLE IS ALWAYS ABUNDANTLY RICH, AND IF INDIVIDUALS ARE POOR, IT IS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FOLLOW THE CERTAIN WAY OF DOING THINGS THAT MAKES THE INDIVIDUALS RICH.

                 THE DIVINE STUFF IS INTELLIGENT, IT IS STUFF WHICH THINKS, IT IS ALIVE, AND IS ALWAYS IMPELLED TOWARD MORE LIFE.

                   IT IS THE NATURAL AND INHERENT IMPULSE OF LIFE TO SEEK TO LIVE MORE. IT IS THE NATURE AND INHERENT IMPULSE OF LIFE TO SEEK TO LIVE MORE. IT IS THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE TO ENLARGE ITSELF, AND OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO SEEK TO EXTEND ITS BOUNDARIES AND FIND  FULLER EXPRESSION. THE UNIVERSE OF FORMS HAS BEEN MADE BY DIVINE LIVING SUBSTANCES, THROWING ITSELF INTO FORM IN ORDER TO EXPRESS ITSELF MORE FULLY.

                THE UNIVERSE IS A GREAT LIVING PRESENCE, ALWAYS MOVING INHERENTLY TOWARD MORE LIFE AND FULLER FUNCTIONING.

               NATURE IS FORMED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIFE, ITS IMPELLING MOTIVE IS THE INCREASE OF LIFE. FOR THIS CAUSE, EVERYTHING THAT CAN POSSIBLY MINISTER TO LIFE IS BOUNTIFULLY PROVIDED, THERE CAN BE NO LUCK UNLESS GOD IS TO CONTRADICT HIMSELF AND NULLIFY HIS OWN WORKS. 

                YOU ARE NOT KEPT POOR BY LACK IN THE SUPPLY OF RICHES, IT IS A FACT THAT SHALL BE DEMONSTRATED A LITTLE FARTHER ON THAT EVEN THE RESOURCES OF THE DIVINE SUPPLY ARE AT THE COMMAND OF THE MAN OR WOMAN WILL ACT AND THINK IN A CERTAIN WAY.

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THE SPRING(HIMALAYA'S)

                                                           SPRING SEASON

              

              THE SNOW BEGAN MELTING FROM THE TOWERING MOUNTAIN SLOPES. WITH THE ADVENT OF SPRING, BIRDS ONCE AGAIN HOPPED THROUGH THE GREEN WOODS, SINGING THE GLORY OF THEIR CREATOR. PATCHES OF DRY GRASS GRADUALLY BEGAN TURNING GREEN WHILE THE MEADOWS PROVIDED A FESTIVE LOOK OF DANCING JOY AS TINY, EXQUITE FLOWERS SHOT FORTH EVERYWHERE. STREAMS ROARED DOWN ON THEIR GREAT MISSION TO SOOTHE THE BURNING THIRST OF THE MULTITUDE. GRAY SKY HAD TURNED TO CRYSTAL CLEAR BLUE. AND THE MORNING SUN, SHINING IN FULL GLORY, GLISTENED BRILLIANTLY THROUGH COUNTLESS DEW DROPS PERCHED UPON THE VERDANT GRASS.

                

                SATYAKAM WAS SILENCE INCARNATE. ONCE COULD CALL HIM A CONSCIOUS STONE OR SOLID SILENCE. HE SEEMED UNAWARE OF ANYTHING AROUND HIM, BUT WAS HE REALLY? NOW HE WAS ALL THE WHILE IN SILENT COMMUNICATION WITH HIS MASTER. NAY, AND HIS MASTER RESIDING IN HIM PERMANENTLY. HE AND HIS MASTER HAD BECOME ONE.

         

                   AFTER LEAVING HE CAVE. HE BEGAN CLIMBING HIMALAYA. IN THE PRIME OF SPRING, THE PLEASANT CLIMATE INVITED MORE VILLAGERS AND PASSERS-BY-TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN PATHS. OFTEN THEY GREETED SATYAKAM WITH AWE AND DEEP REVERENCE, BU SATYAKAM WAS SATYAKAM! HE LEFT THEM ALL BEHIND TO FINISH WHAT HE HAD BEGAN.

                    AFTER A DAY'S JOURNEY. HE REACHED A SPOT ABOUT TNE MILES FROM DARJEELING. THE PLACE WAS RUGGED AND UNINHABITED AND NO ONE EVER PASSED BY. FINDING A SMALL CAVE, HE SPREAD HIS BLANKET INSIDE AND CAME OUT.

                        

                    TO THE END STOOD MOUNT EVEREST AGAINST THE CLEAR BLUE SKY, MAJESTICALLY COVERED WITH PERENNIAL SNOW. ITS LOFTY HEAD PENETREATED THE HEAVENS, HALOED BY INEFFABLE PURITY AND GLORY. ITS CHALLENGING MESSAGE. COME YE WHO ARE HEAVY WITH BONDAGE AND FIND FREEDOM IN THE ABODE OF YOUR TRUE SELF, AND TO THIS, THE KANCHEJUNGA RANGES TO THE WEST PROVIDED SILENT AFFIRMATION AND INSPIRATION.

                    HERE, AMIDST ONE OF THE MOST RAPTUROUS LANDSCAPES OF MOTHER EARTH, SATYAKAM SETTLED FOR A FINAL ASSAULT.

                  

 

                  DAYS PASSED ON. HE NEVER LEFT HIS SEAT EVEN FOR A MOMENT. ONE RARE CLEAR NIGHT BROUGHT THE FULL MOON OUT, AS IF TO WITNESS AND UNSPEAKABLE SILENT GLORY. THE REST FO THE SKY WAS NOT BARREN. TWINKLING STARS DECORATED THE FIRMAMENT UP TO THE VISIBLE DEPTHS.

                  SATYAKAM SAT ON HIS SEAT LOOKING TOWARD SERENCE EVEREST. HIS EYES CLOSED. WAS HE MEDITIATING ? WAS HE ENTHRONED IN THE GREAT SILENCE? OR WAS HE WAITING? 

                     AS HE WAS SITTING WITH EYES CLOSED, A QUESTION, LIKE A BEAM OF LIGHT, PIERCED HIS SILENT SCREEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS, WHAT IS OBSTRUCTING ME STILL FROM FULL ENLIGHTENEMENT?

                       YOU, AROSE A SILENT ANSWER FROM WITHIN HIM.

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                 ENLIGHTENMENT IS ABSOLUTE AND NOT OBJECTIVE. EITHER EGO OR ENLIGHTENMENT.

   

                ANOTHER QUESTION FROM WITHOUT HIM FOLLOWED, I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN GOD'S EXISTENCE BUT HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM! DOES GOD EXIST?

 

               YES, AND WITH THAT, THERE APPEARED IN HIS CONSCIOUSNESS THE FULL VISION FO  RADIANT FORM - MORE RADIANT THAN THOUSANDS OF SUNS. HIS GOLDEN FACE, WITH A DIVINE SMILE HAVING NO OUTLINE, PERMEATED THE LIMITELESS SPACE, AND THE LIGHT GRAYISH BODY SPREAD OVER THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. SATYAKAM BEHELD, IN NAKED GLORY, GOD'S UNIVERSAL FORM.

                  THE LAST QUESTION AROSE IN HIM, WHAT IS YOUR NAME? NARAYAN BUT MANY ARED MY NAMES. I APPEAR IN THE FORM IN WHICH YOU WORSHIP ME.

                 THEN THE FORM DISSAPEARED , AND SO DISAPPEARED WHAT WAS HITHERTO SATYAKAM, LIKE THE NIGHT WHICH TERMINTATES WITH THE RISE OF THE SUN. THE SEVENTH CHAKRA BECAME LUMINOUS. SATYAKAM PLUNGED INTO SAMADHI.

                  THE EPIC JOURNEY HAD ENDED. SATYAKAM BECAME SATYANANDA. HE SAT THERE IMMERSED OF THE UNIVERSE IN LIGHT AND BLISS. THE MYSTERIES AND POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE WERE SPONTANEOUSLY REVEALED TO HIM ONE BY ONE. HE WAS NO LONGER HAVING KNOWLEDGE, WHICH DOES  CHANGE, BUT WAS NO LONGER HAVING KNOWLEDGE, WHICH DOES CHANGE, BUT WAS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH DOES CHANGE BUT WAS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH DOES NOT CHANGE. GOD, SATYANANDA AND THE VAST UNIVERSE HAD BECOME ONE, AND THUS HE REALIZED THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE LAW OF ONE. SATYANANDA WAS ENLIGHTENED. THE INVISIBLE ANGELS APPEATED, TO BEHOLD THE VALIANT FIGHTER OF THE GREATEST VICTORY- THE VICTORY IN WHICH NO ONE ELSE KNOWS DEFEAT. THE ANGELS SHOWERED ETHEREAL FLOWERS OVER THIS CHILD OF THE VIRGIN SPIRIT  OF HIMALAYA. HE BATHED IN TRANSFORMING ECTASY.

                           HE REMAINED THERE, LOST IN SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS, FOR WHO KNOWS HOW MANY DAYS. AND THEN ONE DAY HE AROSE AND LOOKED ABOUT. HIS EYES WERE SHINING WITH DIVINE LUSTER, THE SAME AS HE HAD BEHELD LONG AGO IN THE TWO SWANS ON THE LAKE. A HALO OF LIGHT SURROUNDED HIS HEAD. HE LOOKED MAJESTIC IN HIS LORD' GLORY.

                         HE GLANCED AT EVEREST, THE MOUNTAIN SEEMED HUMBLE. STEP BY STEP, AS A KING OF KINGS, HE DESCENDED THE SLOPES UNTIL HE REACHED A TRAIL. IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE HAD SEEN HUMAN FIGURES PASSING BY. NONE COULD RESIST THE PULL AND THEY SPONTANEOUSLY BOWED DOWN TO HIM. THEIR FACES ALSO SHONE FOR A WHILE AS THEY BEHELD SATYANANDA'S DIVINE GLOW. AWESTRUCK AND HUMBLED IN HIS PRESENCE, THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS NOR DID THEY DARE TO ASK.

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HUMANITY

                                                        PRACTICE HUMANITY

                  CONFIDENCE WITHOUT HUMILITY IS ARROGANCE. HUMANITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL VIRTUES. IT IS A SIGN OF GREATNESS. HUMANIT DOES NOT MEAN SELF-DEMEANING BEHAVIOR THAT WOULD AMOUNT TO BELITTLING ONESELF. BEHAVIOR THAT WOULD AMOUNT BUT FALSE HUMANITY DETRACTS.

                   MANY YEARS AGO, A RIDER CAME ACROSS SOME SOLDIERS WHO WERE TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY LOG WITHOUT SUCCESS. THE CORPORAL WAS STANDING BY AS THE MEN STRUGGLED. THE RIDER ASKED THE CORPORAL WHY HE WASN'T HELPING. THE CORPORAL REPLIED, I AM THE CORPORAL, I GIVE ORDERS. THE RIDER DISMOUNTED WENT UP TO THE SOLDIERS AND HELPED THEM LIFE THE LOG. WITH HIS HELP, THE LOG GOT MOVED. THE RIDER QUIETLY MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND WENT TO THE CORPORAL AND SAID, THE NEXT TIME YOUR MEN NEED HELP, SEND FOR THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, AFTER HE LEFT THE CORPORAL AND HIS MEN FOUND OUT THAT THE RIDER WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON.

                        THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR. SUCCESS AND HUMANITY GO HAND IN HAND. WHEN OTHERS BLOW YOUR HORN, THE SOUND GOES FURTHER. JUST THINK ABOUT IT? SIMPLICITY AND HUMANITY ARE TWO HALLMARKS OF GREATNESS.

                                                     BE UNDERSTANDING AND CARING 

                IN RELATIONSHIPS WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES AND SOMETIMES WE ARE INSENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE VERY CLOSE TO US. ALL THIS LEADS TO DISAPPOINTMENT AND RESENTMENT. THE ANSWER TO HANDLING DISAPPOINMENT IS UNDERSTANDING.

                RELATIONSHIPS DON'T COME ABOUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PERFECT. THEY COME ABOUT BECAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING.

                THERE IS MORE GRATIFICATION IS BEING A CARING PERSON THAN IN JUST BEING A NICE PERSON. A CARING ATTITUDE BUILDS GOODWILL, WHICH IS THE BEST KIND OF INSUREANCE THAT A PERSON CAN HAVE AND IT DOESN'T COST A THING.

             SOME PEOPLE SUBSTITUTE MONEY FOR CARING AND UINDERSTANDING. BEING UNDERSTANDING IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY AND THE BEST WAY TO BE UNDERSTOOD IS TO BE UNDERSTANDING. THE BASIS OF REAL COMMUNICATION IS TO UNDERSTAND.

                                                             PRACTICE GENEROSITY

                       GENEROSITY IS SIGN OF EMOTIONAL MATURITY.  BEING GENEROUS IS BEING THOUGHTFUL AND CONSIDERATE WITHOUT BEING ASKED. GENEROUS PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE RICHNESS OF LIFE THAT A SELFISH PERSON CANNOT EVEN DREAM OF .

                    BE CONSIDERATE, SELFISHNESS BRINGS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT. BE SENSITIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELINGS.

                                                                        BE TACTFUL

                         TACT IS VERY IMPORTANT ANY RELATIONSHIP. TACT IS THE ABILITY TO MAKE A POINT WITHOUT ALIENATING THE OTHER PERSON.

                                                                        KINDNESS

                               MONEY WILL BUY A GREAT DOG BUT ONLY KINDNESS WILL MAKE HIM WAG HIS TAIL. IT IS NEVER TOO SOON FOR KINDNESS BECAUSE WE DONT'T KNOW HOW SOON IS TOO LATE.

                             KINDNESS IS A LANGUAGE THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND THE BLIND CAN SEE. IT IS BETTER TO TREAT A FRIEND WITH KINDNESS WHILE HE IS LIVING THAN DISPLAY FLOWERS ON HIS GRAVE WHEN HE IS DEAD.

                            AN ACT OF KINDNESS MAKES A PERSON FEEL GOOD REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE IS DOING IT OR IT IS DONE TO HIM. KIND WORDS NEVER HURT THE TONGUE

                                             HOW DO WE JUDGE OUR VALUE SYSTEM

                    THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS ACCORDING TO MAHATMA GANDHI ARE:

                      ❤ WEALTH WITHOUT WORK

                      ❤ PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE

                      ❤ KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT CHARACTER

                      ❤ COMMERCE WITHOUT MORALITY

                      ❤ SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY

                      ❤ RELIGION WITHOUT SACRIFICE

                      ❤ POLITCS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE

                        EACH OF THESE PERVERSIONS REFLECTS TO LACK OF VALUES. HOW DO YOU PUT OUR VALUE SYSTEM TO THE TEST ? I BELIEVE THERE ARE ONLY TWO TESTS.

                     OF THESE THE ULTIMATE TEST IS THE MAMA TEST, WHATEVER. YOU ARE DOING, AT HOME OR AT WORK, ALONE OR WITH SOMEONE - IF VALUES ARE IN QUESTION - ASK YOURSELF,  IF MY MAMA WERE TO SEE ME DOING THIS, WOULD SHE BE PROUD OF ME AND SAY, ATTABOY, OR WOULD SHE HAND HER HEAD IN SHAME? YOUR VALUES WOULD THEN BE CLARIFIED RATHER QUICKLY. IF YOU PASSED THE MAMA TEST FAILED ALL OTHER TESTS, YOU HAVE PASSED. IF YOU FAILED THE MAMA TEST AND PASSED ALL OTHER TESTS, YOU HAVE FAILED.

                    IF THE MAMA TEST DOESN'T DO IT, I HAVE ANOTHER TEST CALLED THE BABA TEST. WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, AT HOME OR AT  WORK, ALONE OR WITH SOMEONE - IF VALUES ARE IN QUESTION - ASK YOURSELF, IF MY CHILDREN WERE TO SEE ME DOING WHAT I AM DOING, WOULD I WANT THEM TO SEE IT, OR WOULD I BE EMBARASSED ? AGAIN THE CLOUNDS WILL CLEAR RATHER QUICKLY AND YOU WILL GET YOUR ANSWERS.

                      IF THESE TWO TESTS DON'T CLARIFY PERSON'S VALUES - WHAT WOULD?

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ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER

                                             HIGH MORAL CHARACTER

              ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE OF GOOD QUALITY IF YOU ESTEEM YOUR REPUTATION, FOR IT IS BETTER TO BE ALONE THAN TO BE IN BAD COMPANY.

                                                      TEST OF FRIENDSHIP

                      NEGATIVE INFLUENCES COME IN THE FORM OF PEER PRESSURE. PEOPLE SAY, AREN'T YOU MY FRIEND? REMEMBER TRUE FRIENDS NEVER WANT TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS HURT.

                     IF I EVER SAW THAT A FRIEND HAD ONE DRINK TOO MANY, I WOULD PUT MY FOOT DOWN AND NOT LET HIM DRIVE. I WOULD RATHER LOSE THE FRIENDSHIP THAN LOSE A FRIEND.

                   IT IS COMMON TO SEE PEOPLE DOING WRONG THINGS TO GET ACCEPTED SAYING IT IS COOL, NOT REALIZING THEY WILL BE LEFT COLD.

                   WHAT STARTS AS PEER PRESSURE MAY BE IN REALITY A TEST OF FRIENDSHIP. WHERE WILL THEY BE WHEN YOU ARE IN TROUBLE? HOW FAR WILL THEY GO TO HELP YOU? AND THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS . IF THEY GO TO HELP YOU? AND THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS, IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE CHARACTER TODAY, HOW WILL THEY HAVE THE CHARACTER TOMORROW TO HELP YOU? ASSOCIATING WITH PEOPLE OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER HELPS BUILD SELF-ESTEEM.

                                                              PEER PRESSURE

                  WHEN THE DESIRE TO BELONG TO THE HERD BECOMES STRONGER THAN THE DESIRE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, IT IS EVIDENT THAT WHAT IS LACKING IS COURAGE AND CHARACTER. GOING ALONG TO GET ALONG IS A SAFER PATH, KEEPS ONE'S PEERS HAPPY, AND ONE DOES NOT RISK BEING LAUGHED AT. THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE WITH HIGH-ESTEEM DRAW THE LINE. THAT IS WHAT SEPARATES THE MEN FROM THE BOYS.

                                                                   EXAMPLE :

             ❤ SCHOOL KIDS CONFORM BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE LAUGHED AT.

              ❤ STUDENTS DON'T GIVE THE ANSWERS BECAUSE OTHERS WILL MAKE FUN OF THEM.

              ❤  FACTORY WORKERS KEEP PERFORMANCE LOW TO KEEP PEERS HAPPY.

                                                                MODERATION

                    MANY PEOPLE SAY, MODERATION IS OK. I TRY A LITTLE AND QUIT. THE QUESTION IS IN MODERATION IS IT REALLY OKAY? 

                    ❤  TO CHEAT?

                     ❤  TO LIE?

                     ❤  TO STEAL?

                     ❤  TO TAKE DRUGS?

                     ❤ TO HAVE ILLICIT AFFAIRS?

                SOME PEOPLE FREQUENTLY RATIONALIZE I CAN QUIT WHENVER I WANT, THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN WILL-POWER. 

 

                                                                       MOTIVATION

                   ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CAUSE MOTIVATION, YOU CAN MOTIVATE YOURSELF AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS - AND YOU CAN MOTIVATE OTHERS TOO.

                YOUR INTERNAL MOTIVATION IS YOUR DRIVE AND ATTITUDE. IT IS CONTAGIOUS. YOUR ATTITUDES ARE THE KEY TO GETTING THE RESPONSE YOU WANT FROM OTHERS.

               HOW DOES A PERSON STAY MOTIVATED AND FOCUSED? ONE IMPORTANT TOOL THAT HAS BEEN USED BY ATHELETES FOR A LONG TIME IS AUTO-SUGGESTION. AUTO-SUGGESTIONS ARE POSITIVE STATEMENTS MADE IN THE PRESENT TENSE AND REPEATED REGULARLY. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS POSITIVE SELF-TALK.M FOR EXAMPLE LET'S SAY YOU'RE JUST STARTING A NEW JOB.

              SEVERAL TIMES EACH DAY YOU MIGHT SAY TO YOURSELF, I FEEL MORE AND MORE CONFIDENT EVERY DAY. OR LET SAY YOUR TEENAGED SON IS GOING THROUGH A STAGE WHERE EVERYTHING HE SAYS SEEMS TO IRRITATE YOU. YOU MIGHT REPEAT TO YOURSELF, I WILL BE CALM AND PATIENT WHEN I TALK TO JOHN.

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DEFINE SUCCESS

                                             THE SUCCESSFUL PERSON

                  WHAT MAKES A PERSON SUCCESSFUL? HOW DO WE RECOGNIZE SUCCESS? TO SOME PEOPLE, SUCCESS MIGHT MEAN WEALTH. TO OTHERS, IT IS RECOGNITION, GOOD HEALTH, A GOOD FAMILY, HAPPINESS, SATISFACTION, AND PEACE OF MIND. WHAT THIS REALLY TELLS US IS THAT SUCCESS IS SUBJECTIVE. SUCCESS MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THE DEFINITION THAT I FEEL BEST SUMMARIZES SUCCESSS IS.

             SUCCESS IS THE PROGRESSIVE REALIZATION OF A WORTHY GOAL.

                              LET'S LOOK AT THESE DEFINITIONS CAREFULLY.

            PROGRESSIVE MEANS THAT SUCCESS IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION. WE NEVER ARRIVE. AFTER WE REACH ONE GOAL, WE GO ON TO THE NEXT AND THE NEXT AND SO ON.

             REALIZATION MEANS IT AN EXPERIENCE. OUTSIDE FORCES CANNOT MAKE ME FEEL SUCCESSFUL. I HAVE TO FEEL IT WITHIN MYSELF. IT IS INTERNAL NOT EXTERNAL. THAT IS WHY WHAT OFTEN APPEARS AS SUCCESS EXTERNALLY MAY BE TOTAL HOLLOWNESS WITHIN.

            WORTHLESSNESS REFERS TO OUR VALUE SYSTEM WITHOUT WHICH GOALS CAN BE UNWORTHY. WHICH WAY ARE WE HEADING ? TOWARDS POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE GOALS? WORTHINESS DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF THE JOURNEY. THAT IS WHAT GIVES MEANING AND FULFILLMENT. GOALS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY GIVE US A SENSE OF DIRECTION.

                                SUCCESS WITHOUT FULFILLMENT IS EMPTY.

            I DON'T KNOW THE KEY TO SUCCESS, BUT THE KEY TO FAILURE IS TRYING                   TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.

                                                                                                          ------BILL COSBY

                       SUCCESS DOES NOT MEAN BEING LIKED AND ACCEPTED BY EVERYONE. THERE ARE SOME GROUPS I WOULD NOT, OUT OF CHOICE, WANT TO BE ACCEPTED BY. I WOULD RATHER BE CRITICIZED BY FOOLS THAN APPRECIATED BY UNSAVORY CHARACTERS.

                     I SEE SUCCESS AS A MANIFESTATION OF GOOD LUCK THAT RESULTS FROM INSPIRATION, ASPIRATION, DESPERATION AND PERSPIRATION - GENERALLY IN THAT SEQUENCE.

                   SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS GO HAND IN HAND. SUCCESS IS GETTING WHAT YOU WANT AND HAPPINESS IS WANTING WHAT YOU GET.

                          EXISTENCE ALONE IS NOT SUCCESS! IT IS A LOT MORE!

          ❤   DO MORE THAN EXIST - LIVE.

          ❤  DO MORE THAN TOUCH - FEEL.

          ❤  DO MORE THAN LOOK - OBSERVE.

          ❤  DO MORE THAN HEAR - LISTEN.

          ❤  DO MORE THAN LISTEN - UNDERSTAND.

                                                                                     -- JOHN H. RHOADES

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                                                 SOME OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS

                    ❤ EGO

                    ❤ FEAR OF FAILURE/SUCCESS, LACK OF SELF-ESTEEM

                    ❤ NO PLAN

                    ❤ LACK OF FORMALIZED GOALS

                    ❤ LIFE CHANGES

                    ❤ PROCRASTINATION

                    ❤ FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES

                    ❤ FINANCIAL SECURITY ISSUES

                    ❤ LACK OF FOCUS, BEING MUDDLED

                    ❤ GIVING UP VISION FOR PROMISE OF MONEY

                    ❤ DOING TOO MUCH ALONE

                    ❤ OVERCOMMITMENT

                    ❤ LACK OF COMMITMENT

                    ❤ LACK OF TRAINING

                    ❤ LACK OF PERSISTENCE

                    ❤ LACK OF PRIORITIES     

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LIFE IS A BOOMERANG

                              👉    DOING GOOD AND RECEIVE GOOD   👈

                 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID, WHEN YOU ARE GOOD TO OTHERS, YOU ARE BEST TO YOURSELF.

             WHETHER IT IS YOUR THOUGHTS, ACTIONS OR BEHAVIOR, SOONER OR LATER THEY RETURN- AND WITH GREAT ACCURACY.

              TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT ON YOUR WAY UP BECAUSE YOU WILL BE MEETING THEM ON YOUR WAY DOWN.

              THE FOLLOWING STORY IS TAKEN FROM THE BEST OF... BITS & PIECES.

              MANY YEARS AGO TWO BOYS WERE WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH STANFORD UNIVERSITY. THEIR FUNDS GOT DESPERATELY LOW, AND THE IDEA CAME TO THEM TO ENGAGE IGNACY PADEREWSKI FOR A PIANO RECITAL. THEY WOULD USE THE FUNDS TO HELP PAY THEIR BOARD AND TUITION.

             THE GREAT PIANEST'S MANAGER ASKED FOR A GUARANTEE OF $2000. THE GUARANTEE WAS A LOT OF MONEY IN THOSE DAYS, BUT THE BOYS AGREED AND PROCEEDED TO PROMOTE THE CONCERT. THEY WORKED HARD, ONLY TO FIND THAT THEY HAD GROSSED ONLY $1600.

                    AFTER THE CONCERT THE TWO BOYS TOLD THE GREAT ARTIST THE BAD NEWS. THEY GAVE HIM THE ENTIRE $1600, ALONG WITH A PROMISSORY NOTE FOR $400, EXPLAINING THAT THEY WOULD EARN THE AMOUNT AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT AND SEND THE MONEY TO HIM. IT LOOKED LIKE THE END OF THEIR COLLEGE CAREERS. 

                 NO BOYS, REPLIED PADEREWSKI, THAT WON'T DO. THEN, TEARING THE NOTE IN TWO, HE RETURNED THE MONEY TO THEM AS WELL, NOW, HE TOLD THEM. TAKE OUT OF THIS $1600 ALL OF YOUR EXPENSES AND KEEP FOR EACH OF YOU 10 PERCENT OF THE BALANCE FOR YOUR WORK. LET ME HAVE THE REST.

                 THE YEARS ROLLED BY. WORLD WAR I CAME AND WENT. PADEREWSKI, NOW PREMIER OF POLAND, WAS STRIVING TO FEED THOUSANDS OF STARVING PEOPLE IN HIS NATIVE LAND. THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO COULD HELP HIM WAS HERBERT HOOVER, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE US FOOD AND RELIEF BUREAU. HOOVER RESPONDED AND SOON THOUSANDS OF TONS FOOD WERE SENT TO POLAND.

                  AFTER THE STARVING PEOPLE WERE FED, PADERESWSKI JOURNEYED TO PARIS TO THANK HOOVER FOR THE RELIEF SENT TO HIM.

                  THAT'S ALL RIGHT. MR.PEDEREWSKI, WAS HOOVER'S REPLY. BESIDES, YOU DON'T REMEMBER IT, BUT YOU HELPED ME ONCE WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT COLLEGE, AND I WAS IN TROUBLE.

                  IT IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COMPENSATIONS OF LIFE  THAT NO MAN CAN SINCERELY TRY TO HELP ANOTHER WITHOUT HELPING HIMSELF.

                  GOODNESS HAS A WAY OF COMING BACK, THAT IS TE NATURE OF THE BEAST. ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO GOOD WITH A DESIRE TO GET BACK. IT JUST HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY.

                   SOME FACTORS TO MAINTAINING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS:

 

                MOST OF THEM ARE SELF-EXPLANATORY OR ELABORATED ON LATER IN                         THIS CHAPTER:

            1. SELFISHNESS

            2. LACK OF COURTESY

            3. INCONSIDERATE BEHAVIOR

            4. NOT MEETING COMMITMENTS

            5. RUDE BEHAVIOR

            6. LACK OF INTEGRITY AND HONESTY

            7. SELF-CENTEREDNESS

               (A PERSON ALL WRAPPED UP IN HIMSELF MAKES A PRETTY SMALL PACKAGE)

            8. ARROGANCE 

                ( AN ARROGANT PERSON IS CONTENT WITH HIS OPINION AND KNOWLEDGE.                         THAT WILL GUARANTEE HIM PERPETUAL IGNORANCE)

           9. CONCEIT

              ( SINCE NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM, SHE FILLS EMPTY HEADS WITH CONCEIT)

      

               JOHN BRAGGED, MY SON GOT HIS INTELLIGENCE FROM ME, HIS WIFE REPLIED, I AM SURE HE DOES, BECAUSE I HAVE STILL GOT MINE.

          

               👀 NEGATIVE ATTITUDE

               👀 CLOSED MIND

               👀 LACK OF LISTENING

               👀 SUSPICIOUS NATURE

               👀 LACK OF RESPECT FOR VALUES (LOW MORALS)

               👀 LACK OF DISCIPLINE

               👀 LACK OF COMPASSION(CRUELTY IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS)

                👀 IMPATIENCE

                👀 ANGER (TEMPER GETS A PERSON IN TROUBLE AND EGO KEEPS HIM THERE)

                👀 MANIPULATING BEHAVIOR

                👀 ESCAPIST BEHAVIOR

                👀 TOUCHY NATURE

                👀 INCONSISTENCY

                👀 UNWILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH

                👀 PAST BAD EXPERIENCE

                👀 AN UNCARING ATTITUDE( BEING IGNORED IS NOT A GOOD FEELINGS, IT SHOWS A LACK OF CONCERN)

                👀 GREED - IS LIKE WATER, THE MORE YOU DRINK, THE THIRSTIER YOU GET.

               THIS PROBABLY IS NOT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LIST. MOST OF US MAY HAVE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS MENTIONED ABOVE. SOME MAY HAVE MORE OF ONE THAN THE OTHER. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO EVALUATE AND ADJUST COURSE IN THOSE AREAS.

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THE USES OF POSITIVE HABITS

                                               FORMING POSITIVE HABITS

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           IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE, REGARDLESS OF YOUR AGE AND HOW OLD THE HABIT IS. WE CAN CHANGE BY BEING AWARE OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED AND USING TECHNIQUES THAT MODIFY BEHAVIOR. THE OLD ADAGE THAT YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS IN WRONG. WE ARE  HUMAN BEINGS, NOT DOGS. NOR ARE WE PERFORMING TRICKS. WE CAN UNLERN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR AND LEARN POSITIVE BEHAVIOR.

             AS EARL NIGHTINGALE SAID, THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE IS THAT THEY FORM THE HABIT OF DOING THINGS THAT FAILURES  DON'T LIKE TO DO AND WON'T DO. JUST THINK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT FAILURES DON'T DO. THEY ARE THE SAME THINGS THAT SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO DO, BUT THEY DO THEM ANYWAY. FOR EXAMPLE, FAILURES DON'T LIKE DISCIPLINE, HARD WORK, OR KEEPING COMMITMENTS. SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ALSO DISLIKE DISCIPLINE, HARE WORK (AN ATHELETE DOESN'T LIKE AND WANT THE DISCIPLINE TO GET UP AND TRAIN EVERY DAY BUT HE DOES IT REGARDLESS), BUT THEY DO THESE THINGS ANYWAY BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORMED GOOD HABITS.

            IT IS EASIER TO PREVENT BAD BAHITS THAN TO  OVERCOME THEM. GOOD HABITS COME FROM OVERCOMING TEMPTATION. HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS ARE A HABIT. EXELLENCE IS THE RESULT OF REPEATED CONSCIOUS EFFORT UNTIL THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ATTITUDE BECOMES A HABIT.

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                                                    PREPARE THE SUBCONSCIOUS

                     AUTO-SUGGESTIONS CAN BE USED TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE HABITS AND DEVELOP POSITIVE ONES. WE HAVE ALL USED AUTO-SUGGESTIONS UNCONSCIOULY. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE HAVE TO CATCH AN EARLY MORNING FLIGHT, WHEN WE GET INTO BED WE TELL OURSELF THAT WE HAVE TO WAKE UP AT SIX. AND INVARIABLY, WE DO (OFTEN, EVEN WITHOUT AN ALARM CLOCK). A PREPARED SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WORKS FOR US.

                             A PREPARED SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WORKS FOR US.

               AUTO-SUGGESTION IS A WAY TO PROGRAM AND CONDITION OUR MIND TO MAKE A STATEMENT INTO A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY.

              AUTO-SUGGESTION IS AREPETITIVE PROCESS THROUGH WHICH WE FEED OUR SUBCONSCIOUS WITH POSITIVE STATEMENTS THAT TRANSLATES INTO REALITY. REPETITION ALONE  IS NOT ENOUGH, UNLESS IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS.

              AUTO-SUGGESTIONS WITHOUT VISUALIZATION WILL NOT PRODUCE RESULTS. THE FIRST TIME OUR MIND RECEIVES AN AUTO-SUGGESTION, IT REJECTS IT. WHY? IT IS AN ALIAN THOUGHT, CONTRARY TO OUR BELIEF SYSTEM. SUCCESS DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE AND REPEAT THE PROCESS.

                                                                 VISUALIZATION

                     VISUALIZATION IS THE PROCESS OF CREATING AND SEEING A MENTAL PICTURE OF WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE OR DO, OR THE KIND OF PERSON WE WANT TO BE. VISUALIZATION GOES HAND IN HAND WITH AUTO-SUGGESTION. AUTO-SUGGESTION WITHOUT VISUALIZATION IS MECHANICAL REPETITION AND WILL BE INEFFECTIVE. IN ORDER TO SEE RESULTS, FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS-VISUALIZATION MUST ACCOMPANY AUTO-SUGGESTIONS.

                        CAUTION! AUTO-SUGGESTION MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO OUR MIND THE FIRST TIME WE DO IT BECAUSE IT IS AN ALIEN BELIEVED THAT I HAVE A POOR MEMORY AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, I TELL MYSELF THAT I HAVE A GOOD MEMORY, MY MIND WILL REJECT IT, SAYING, YOU LIAR! YOU HAVE A BAD MEMORY!, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BELIEVED UP TO THIS POINT. BECAUSE IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF 21 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF CONSCIOUS, CONTINUOS PRACTICE TO MAKE OR BREAK A HABIT. IF YOU, LISTEN TO AN AUDIO TAPE IN TWENTY-ONE DAYS AND YOUR PLAYER BREAKS DOWN- GUESS WHAT TUNE YOU ARE HUMMING.

    

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                     THE BIG QUESTION IS : 21 DAYS OF CONSCIOUS EFFORT A HEAVY PRICE TO PAY TO CHANGE A LIFETIME FOR THE BETTER? NOT REALLY BUT ONLY THE COMMITTED DO IT. THE AUTO-SUGGESTION PROCESS SOUNDS SIMPLE, BUT IT IS NOT EASY. BUT YOU CAN DO IT. FOLLOW THE STEPS IN THE NEXT SECTION TO TURN YOUR AUTO-SUGGESTION INTO REALITY.

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