The Law of promotion is this and it applies to anyone who wishes to get better and become more: Learn how to prosper with what you’ve got and you will become ruler of much more.

The examples and real life testimony is endless. I’m going to keep this focused to keep it simple so as long as you conceptually pick this up you can apply it to your life no matter what your scenario is.  You can never be the exception to the law of promotion it just is not possible!

I will start at Rock Bottom.

Let’s say you’re broke and you no longer want to be broke.  I know this isn’t a “what if” scenario a lot of you reading this are totally broke.  So soften the soil of your mind and allow me to plant some new seeds of wealth with the law of promotion.  Hard mind means no seed can be planted and the broke stay broke.  Prepare yourself to criticize and replace beliefs that perhaps you’ve fought to protect tooth and nail to protect all the while those same beliefs you fought for were causing you so much needless pain and suffering.

Buy a business and become an investor into yourself and into your business.  But you’re starting with nothing how can you buy a business?? You have to RAISE money to fund that initial investment into yourself of buying a business.  Just because you’re broke it doesn’t mean you do nothing.  That’s how they who are broke stay broke.  If you have money to invest right away that just means you have a different starting point.  No matter where you’ve been planted, grow!

For example.. I’ve seen some people sell personal belongings on Ebay until they can make that initial investment. Most don’t think that could ever be enough to make a difference because it’s such a teeny tiny start.  I know someone who started out doing exactly that because she was flat broke and five years later she has earned One Million dollars. She’s not broke anymore.

When I started I found some people willing to pay me $10 an hour to do yard work.  One lady paid me $300 to paint three rooms of her house. I also started teaching guitar lessons for money. Before the lessons and the yard work I had ZERO income.  I had no job, no unemployment, no nothing!  That was my starting point! I also cut every bit of “fat” from my expenses that I could. All my spending was purely on necessities and lots of people have a very skewed perception of necessity vs. luxury.  I invested everything I could have from the money I had raised into myself and two and half years later I declared financial freedom and independence.

I know another person who was not physically able to do physical labor but she had a talent for making inexpensive jewelry so she did that to raise money for her initial investment.

Raising money, growing, and compounding an income that you own is only about half of the equation.  The other half is is trimming the “fat” off your monthly expenses.  Trimming the fat and growing an income go hand in hand.  Trimming the fat and coming out of DEBT, which is really just another word for bondage, will feed into growing an incoming and prospering from where you’ve been planted.  You must do both raising money and trimming fat.

One area that would be more than enough for most people to prosper from where they’ve been planted would be to sell their TV, turn off the cable, and invest all that money and time they would have spent on the TV into themselves instead.

There are lots of people who have gone on to to grow their lives and the lives of their family enormously just by swapping out that one incredibly well oiled poverty making machine known as the T.V. for something else that would no longer suffer their priorities but grow the realization of their dreams.

The average cost for TV subscriptions per person in the United States, cable satellite or otherwise, is well over $100 per month.  There are businesses you can start for HALF THAT amount that you could go on to make millions of dollars with.  If you stopped watching TV for a year you could afford to get your TV back in every room of your house in the most expensive make and model being made and you’d still be making really nice money with your business.  Whatever you decide to spend your money on it is wise to re invest at least one third of that money back into yourself and into your business so you can make even more money the following year.  But if you’re only goal is to make money then your vision isn’t big enough and you will quit so you better be in this for something greater than just to make money.

Will most TV viewers and cable subscribers whose priorities are suffering sell their T.V. so they can make their priorities right?  Most of them won’t.  And 98% of the population ends up either dead or dead broke by the age of 65 depending on friends family and government as the main source of their income.  Be the 2% and sell that stinkin T.V. if your priorities are suffering.

Next, get out your high lighter and check book registry, bank statement, or whatever you have that tracks all your expenses.  I want you to highlight every purchase spent on food. You will likely blow your mind at how much money you spend on food every month and it’s probably food that’s making you sick rather than healthy.  I’ve had people do this who figure out they’re spending about $400 – $500 more a month on food than they need to between going out to eat, the $5 here and there spent at the convenience stores on small junk food items, all the little indiscriminate spending that added up, the fast food “value” meals that’s made the whole family sick which resulted in even more wasted money on hospital co pays, on and on and on.  What do you see in your food purchases that’s being wasted?   Your kids college tuition is at the fast food places and little convenient marts.  All those things you said wanted to do but can’t afford it, those places you wasted your money on has all your cash.   Going through your food expenses and making some changes their can certainly help you to prosper from where you’ve been planted.

Next, go through your closets, storage spaces, basements, shelving systems and wherever else…  Sell all the stuff you never use anymore.  Most of you have got a full wardrobe of perfectly good clothing that you never wear and never will wear again.  That’s worth money!  If you’re starting from broke and you don’t have $40 to buy a business that you can use to make millions with then its time to raise the money you need to be able to buy the $40 business.

Let’s say you’ve got some capitol set aside and you just don’t know what to do with it but you know you want to grow from where you’re at right now.  The law of promotion is still the same.  Learn to prosper with what you have and you will become ruler of much more.  You’re starting point is to begin investing as soon as you know what to invest in.  Seek until you find there are opportunities everywhere for you and so much information is available for free. You can still cut spending and grow an income simultaneously none of that changes just because you have money to invest with right away.

Let’s say you’re doing well, you’ve got millions in the bank, you’ve reached a plateau you’re stuck, and you want to keep growing yourself.  The law of promotion is the same for you as it is the person who is broke and everyone in between.  Learn to prosper with what you have and you will become ruler of much more.  No matter how much money you have you can still cut expenses, ramp up investment, give more to the starving, and keep growing your money.  Poverty are those who spend and show all that they make and there are both poor and rich people who are poverty.

He who spends to show all that he makes is stupid but he who invests and helps the starving is wise.

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– Tom

P.S. The strategies communicated above have been used by people who have literally gone from homeless to financially free and independent.  But those strategies are just the tip of the iceberg, if that!   

Change this ONE THING and you can have more to give and be generous by in Multiplication tables ~ http://youtu.be/Vuj_07zwMBM

If you enjoyed my blog you might LOVE my YouTube video about changing one thing, the direction of your cash-flow, to change Everything:

 

Ive heard some “experts” say you have to be a people person and love people in order to succeed in business.  In my personal experience that isn’t true.

I’m not a people person and I have an abundantly wonderfully successful business.

Historically and presently people have treated each other with scorn, judgement, persecution, and violence.  We are the only species on the planet who acts as a cancer on the planet. What is their to like about that?

“If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” – Jonas Salk

“We have polluted our environment in the name of progress to such an extent that we are now reaping what we have sewn. We poisoned the environment with all our modern day activities and it is now returning in the form of fish and other flesh born animals to poison us back.” – Rachel Carson

“Humans are capable of the most amazing things no matter what” – Jim Rohn

Here is some beautiful truth as I’ve experienced it in building an abundantly wonderful successful business as a NON people person.  Ive never been motivated by being liked which sets me free to speak truth to people even if it means they may not like me for it.  I’m next to impossible to manipulate because I’m not motivated by impressing others and I’m not motivated by recognition except from people I have affection for.

I spent lots of time and money learning people skills so that I can expand my positive influence over people because even though I am not a people person I believe in the goodness of people but wise enough to know most people feed the bad in themselves and neglect the good in themselves.  Friends rest assured that when I express a liking or interest in you its genuine.  The fact I am not a people person heightens my affection for people who feed the good in themselves and neglects the bad.

– Tom

“The Human Condition is defined by the following three paradoxes:

1. Human imagination can take them anywhere, dragging their physical bodies along.
2. Humans are capable of the kindest, most noble things, but are also capable of the most horrible and terrifying things.
3. Humans hope for everlasting life, but are always inventing new ways to destroy each other.”

— Jefferey Brodd by way of wikipedia.

Notes I took from a Hans Johnson Lecture at a Dani Johnson Seminar.  You’ll love this it’s incredibly fascinating!

1. The process starts with politicians promising change.

2. What they are actually doing is asking the question, “Who wants some money?” To which the public answers enthusiastically, “I do!  I do!”

3. Everyone who isn’t offered money becomes unhappy and promises to vote for someone else, come the next election… and there is always another election coming.

4. So they get promised some money too.

5. Now it’s up to the Fed and the Treasury to pony up the money… even though most of it is just debt masquerading as money.

6. Then the pandering politicians bundle the money in pretty little packages with clever little names like Cash for Clunkers and deliver them to the voting public.

7. But our story doesn’t end there, because the politicians on the “other side of the aisle” want to run the show, and so they make angry speeches about the ruling party ruining the country with their wanton spending.

8. But come the next election, and theres always another election coming, the candidates from both parties dust off their time and poll tested scripts… promising change.

9. Which is actually just another way of asking, “Who wants some money?”

10. And the cycle repeats…… at least until the corruption within the system reaches the tipping point. Ultimately, the government can only pile up debt so high before the pile begins to topple.  At point the economy is!

 

The Life Cycle of a Demoncracy

The average age of the worlds great civilizations has been 200 years – Alexander Frazer Tayler

These nations have progressed through this sequence:

• From bondage to spiritual faith
• From spiritual faith to great courage
• From courage to liberty
• From liberty to abundance
• From abundance to selfishness
• From selfishness to complacency
• From complacency to apathy
• From apathy to dependency
• From dependency back to bondage

We are currently in Dependency.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves something for nothing from the public treasury.

From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship.

The Party is Over!

Delusions and Wishful Thinking – people look at the world the way they want to see it or how they’ve been told to view it, instead of as it really is. And that is self delusion, and a fraud. “Everything will change now that we have a new president. ”  “It was that last guys fault!”  “If we can just get “X” out of office…”

Go in the opposite direction of the masses throughout history, the majority has always been wrong.

Humans are influenced by social conditioning, conformity, followers always looking for a “perceived” leader or someone strong to follow.

Most people have to be told what to do or think by this perceived system of authority.

Very few people are truly independent thinkers, able to discern truth and make their own decisions.

The poor buy things they call stuff, never save or invest.

The middle class spends their money on things they think are assets but are really liabilities.

The rich roll income into assets that spin off more income and cash flow to compound their wealth.

Entrepreneurship is a vehicle to create cash flow and peel cash off the top and roll into other active and passive investments (replanting the seed).

Buying liabilities has no leverage, only buying (investing in) assets does!

– Tom

Some Interesting Quotes…

Thomas Jefferson Wrote: “The privately owned Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our constitution… if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Patriotism or Propaganda?

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.  And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.  Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.  How do I know?  For this is what I have done.  And I am Caesar.” – Julius Caesar

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.  The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie.  It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.” – Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers Propaganda Minister

“Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government?  When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory.  The federal government is our servant, not our master!” – Thomas Jefferson

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

“When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty” – John Adams

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home” – James Madison

“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government” – Thomas Paine

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt” – Thomas Jefferson

“Whenever people are well informed they can be trusted with their own Government” – Thomas Jefferson

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of a fighting a foreign enemy” – James Madison