What are you doing to develop yourself and what are you doing to develop other people?  These two questions and answers will determine your success in your personal and professional life.  I heard John C Maxwell say this at a Seminar I attended in Las Vegas.

I’ve also heard Dani Johnson dismiss “Self Help” as a selfish kind of development because the “Self” part of “Self Help” is Ego Centric.

They are both absolutely right.  I personally didn’t have all my money problems of having too little of it totally disappear til I helped enough other people solve money problems.  I didn’t boost my confidence til I began boosting other peoples confidence simply by being a genuine encourager, supporter, and complimenter whenever possible.  I didn’t start living on gratitude til I began giving gratitude to other people.

I witness the same in other people all the time.  I regularly see people on the other side of the fence making the mistake of, “How can I be happy?” and then never really finding happiness.  I regularly see people doing good by asking, “How can I be of service to others?” and then organically becoming Joyously Happy.

The great designer hard wired us this way to encourage us to work together and help each other out.  So learn to cooperate with the way we are wired as human beings. Sew good seed in other people every day.  Encourage, support, speak truth even if it hurts but with the aim of helping, be authentic, be loving, and be GENUINE when we do these things NOT patronizing or manipulating.  Every successful person knows the natural laws of sewing and reaping, and reaping and sewing. So be careful of what you sew you will reap a whirlwind of it.  No one gets more manipulated than the manipulator.  And no one gets help like the helper.

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– Tom

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

How does it feel to be consistent in your daily ritual only to consistently get little to no results, too?  “But Tom, I’ve just gotta stay consistent and it will eventually work!”.

I’m tellin ya, only being consistent is going to create lots of stress in a fruitless effort.  You can only take so much consistency with no results til you either make a major breakthrough, or, quit.

Consistency is enormously important but it’s only half right.  To say you only need to be consistent without addressing the other half that makes it all work is ridiculous because it’s a set up for stress without results.  The other half that makes being consistent work, and take all the stress away as your tree finally bears sweet fruit, is in my short video.  Check it out:

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– Tom

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

A fancy logo and graphically designed website by itself is not going to increase your influence or the effectiveness of your brand to mobilize anyone.

Branding is the position you are battling for in the mind of your visitors and others around you.  Are you battling for a favorable position in the wimpy persons mind, or are you battling for a favorable position in the STRONG persons mind?  How about for the person who is carrying on like a wimp but deep down there is a person of immense strength that they themselves aren’t even aware exists?  Are you batting for the wimpy or the STRONG in someone?  How you position yourself in the minds of others is what you will attract to you.  If you’re attracting wimps, ask yourself, “What am I doing to attract wimps?”

If you are trying to get something for nothing, you kind of ask for the problems you get. Ask to pay fair price for everything including developing yourself into a professional brand who is authentic and attracts who you desire to have more of in your life.

I would encourage you to get better instead of looking for an easier way.   When you let someone come into your life, or your deal, or whatever you’re doing, under false pretense of “easy, don’t have to challenge yourself or step out of your comfort zone etc”,  you are letting them set you up for someone to blame when it doesn’t work out for them.  Don’t buy someones “blame pill”.  Go through the worthwhile scenario of Branding the Authentic YOU and FEEL the stress in your life dramatically reduce as the peace  you FEEL goes up as you attract more of who and what you desire into your life.  Watch the videos below..

1st, Imagine this Scenario..

2nd, Branding Yourself and Attraction Marketing How To..

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– Tom

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

Do you struggle  with your blog?  Do you run out of attractive ideas to blog about?  Is your current level of influence and growth at a frustrating stand still?

Watch this short video for 3 blogging tips that will help you to EASILY generate more traffic and new business from your Blog.

Wisdom is the most powerful form of leverage in my personal opinion.  You can consistently create new content to blog about but if you never get any good at it you can consistently create zero results in your following and in your business. I invest in myself regularly to be able to leverage the wisdom of people smarter than me in order to reduce stress while I grow myself and gain new followers, new influence, and new business.

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– Tom

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

Let me explain.. I’ve been wrapping my mind around what has happened the past two weeks and still have more to go. It was MAGICAL thanks to the other people in my life I’ve chosen to surround myself with.

First, thank you to Sian Lindemann for step up and playing big instead of small. You started something that had an unbelievable chain reaction that will live forever. Can’t wait to do more this is just the beginning.

Andrea Noble you also played BIG instead of small. I merely mentioned “ok all our flights have been cancelled sooooooooo feel like driving to saint augusting FL from wisconsin, and through a blizzard that happens to be freaking out the state of georgia? You jumped up and said YES! This of course was right after you enrolled yourself into a home business that most people won’t do which lead to you retiring from your Job just a few months later. AMAZING. You are incredible to travel with. You’re an incredible friend, period. This isn’t just a business it’s so much MORe and so much BIGGER than a business or a single person. These connections we are making makes is richer than the ridiculous large sums of money is making is richer.

Denise Jolly, Ricky Fleischman, and puppies, thank you for spending so much time with us for a full week! You made us feel welcomed, cozy, and even emotional in a good way. The only thing more awesome than the location you live is YOU personally. Saint augustine FL is a beautiful tropical oasis, but, I can honestly say its you who brings me back there more than the climate and historic city. Love you both. Can’t wait to see you again!!!!

Melissa Starr and family.. You’ve always been one of my best friends. I have no doubt you’ll always be one of my best friends. New Orleans, biloxi, shaggys, Gulfport, the climate you live, all just icing on an already awesome cake that doesn’t even need any icing in the first place. Love you all. I’m so glad we’ve connected on this earth, however it happened, and have blossomed a beautiful meaningful friendship out of it.

This is a very public post and very much on purpose. Friends, there is no way I would have been able to turn, very last minute, what was originally going to be a three day trip into a magical two week trip with people that I love and care about in beautiful locations of the country during this time of year if I had a job building someone elses dream. People have many GREAT ideas and reasons for wanting to be self employed in a team that covers for one another. But, honestly, you still have No Clue whatsoever what it means to be self employed in a way that brings you FREEDOM until stuff like this (that you cannot predict) happens. I cannot imagine running this by a gatekeeper (an employer) to do this, and change things up and extend my trip as I have. There is no freedom (regardless if you love or hate your job) if you have no passive residual income from an asset that you own that covers all of your expenses. I’m feeling really emotional right now because of all the people I’m bringing with me, and coming to realize more and more with every adventure what this means to me and so many other people. Read this and let it inspire you friends. You were meant for more. Play bigger than you have up to this point. Draw a line in the sand and play big beginning today you’ve got a Dream to build, don’t you?

Draw a line in the sand..

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– Tom

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

I’ve found that the more time we keep trading for money (a JOB) the less we have and the further in debt we go along with the stress and other problems that stem from that logistical nightmare.

The problem with trading time for money is if you want to keep affording your cost of living you constantly have to keep giving up more and more time without any end, unless, you change your VALUES.  Then you come to a new BEAUTIFUL beginning called FREEDOM driven by a new set of VALUES.

Another problem with trading time for money is eventually you come to a point where you cannot handle anything else on your plate, relationships suffer, more stress, you lose sleep, health problems creep in, you lose more via taxation to the government, you can’t afford to be more generous as you could have been, and even as bad as that is you could lose it all at any time because you don’t own your job or have any control over the value of the asset. We are seeing that a LOT today with record high unemployment and insulting wages for jobs that use to pay well.

NO ONE has to live that way. If you’re already living it, you don’t have to keep living that way. It’s just a question of changing your values from the false sense of security at a job to FREEDOM which is REAL security. Freedom means you can afford your living and luxury expenses whether you work, or if you take a vacation, or if you do some other interesting projects that pay absolutely nothing but feed the starving or whatever cause that bleeds true to your heart.  Freedom is being able to afford to be more generous driven by pure HEART to do whatever it takes to become a FREE human being no longer trading time for money. Now you can spend your time on whatever you deem most important to you rather than at the demands of someone else who can take away your ability to afford your living expenses at any time and without any warning.

I take a lot of vacations these days and involve myself in projects that don’t pay anything, but, provide funds for charities to feed starving people. I can afford to be free, secure, and generous.  So can you if you change your values from the false sense of security of a job to FREEDOM.

HOME BUSINESS

People don’t join a home business because they are passionate about home business. Ancient wisdom says to find satisfaction in what you’re doing. People join a home business because they HATE the thought of not having their freedom more than they hate anything else. And then later they come to LOVE the home business industry because there is nothing else as efficient to gain personal freedom.

Change this ONE THING and you can change EVERYTHING:

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– Tom

Beautiful Natural Flower Arrangement in the Desert Outside of Las Vegas, NV

Do you feel you learn more about someone when you ask them questions for connecting with them or when you make statements about them?

Try this out..

Let this be a new seed you allow to be sewn into your brain to take strong root and grow.  If you’re humble you’ll find that you are commonly guilty of judging others, making statements about them based on what you see or hear, and because you’re now consciously aware you can catch yourself each time BEFORE you do it, make fewer statements, judge less, LOVE more, and go for understanding and empathy rather than statements and judgement.

The last thing the people you are judging needs is for someone else to judge them. The last thing YOU need is to be judged. Someone judged you and now you judge others, too. Someone has to break the cycle and begin a new cycle. Why not let it be you?  Ya know what?  As a human being you have this incredible gift of being able to consciously reject or accept each word people speak over you.  Words are seeds.  Each seed has potential to grow an entire Orchard.  Be Very Careful of each seed that you either accept or reject.  You know you have this gift of discernment.  Sometimes you just need to be reminded how to use your gifts again.

This blog entry I wrote I was inspired to write by someone who judged me for my desire to make lots and lots of money. It didn’t feel good to be judged. Instead of lashing back, which would have been the easy and lazy thing to do, I went for the understanding and connection; BREAKING the cycle of the person who was judged by someone else and now judging me for my desire to make lots and lots of money.

When someone is being lazy they make statements and judgements about my desire to make lots and lots of money.  When someone is not lazy, but truly interested in understanding, they can ask questions going for that understanding.   They can ask me, “Why?  What’s behind your desire to make lots and lots of money Tom?”  That wonderful non judgmental question gives me the PRIVILEGE to express myself to an open mind going for understanding.

If you’re mind is open allow me the privilege.. 

There are a Billion people in the world, mostly kids, starving to death.  There is enough food and resources in the world so that not another person needs to go without basic nourishment to support life.  It takes lots and lots of money to make the dream of ending global starvation a reality.  Behind that money is HEART.  Not enough people in the world care about this problem.  There is not enough collective hearts, so there is not enough money to make sure everyone has this basic necessity for life.

There exists natural cures for all cancers of all stages.  Most people are not even aware these natural cures exist and just continue to go to the medical community who seem to create more EXPENSIVE problems than they solve.  It takes lots of money to raise awareness against a big pharmaceutical industry that profits half a trillion dollars per year.  I believe if more people are aware of and believe in natural cures for cancer then no one else will suffer and die from cancer ever again.  Behind the money needed to make this beautiful dream a beautiful reality is lots of HEART.  Too many people, today, are apathetic.  But we are changing that one person at a time.  Places like Gerson exist who are actually curing people of all cancers, from all stages, and other chronic diseases, with 100% natural therapies and most people still have never heard of them.  That’s inexcusable.

There are tens of MILLIONS of families, in the United States alone, struggling to find Quality Clean Affordable housing to live and raise their children in.  This takes lots of money, specifically lots of compounding accumulative Passive Cash Flow, to solve this problem.

The list goes on of the enormous problems that exist that Heart and Money can solve, but, these are the main ones I chose to focus myself on.  The problem, in my personal opinion, is too many people living in democracies like the United States seem to be “content” making only enough money to take care of themselves while Billions of people in the world are either starving to death, homeless, have a preventable and reversible disease like cancer, or a combination of those things.  In my opinion, to only make enough for yourself while a billion people, mostly children, are starving to death is criminally insanely selfish.  I know your heart bleeds to do more.  It’s not that YOU personally are a criminally insanely selfish person.  Maybe you’ve just never looked at money like that before.  I don’t know what’s going on inside of your head.  I don’t know you so this is not at all to judge you or make statements about you.  I would like to share with you that if you live in a nation of opportunity, like the United States, you can make more than you need for yourself, take only what you need for yourself and the security of your family, and make million and billions more to attach yourself to a cause that bleeds true to your heart to start solving those enormous problems for countless other people.  Wouldn’t that be beyond Amazing?

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– Tom

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

You are behind the cash-flow that flows from your pockets to the lobbyists who pay for congress to write the laws in their favor and then congress blows YOUR MONEY on Golf lessons and HOOKERS or whatever is is they blow YOUR MONEY on.. *Laugh*

We literally exercise our power to change laws in OUR FAVOR when we flow our cash differently out of our pockets. Easy as that.

We can create a peaceful revolution when more people spend their time and their money differently. Big business and big government always follows the money.

Currently what we are telling big industry and big government through how we spend our time and money is we like being spied on, we like feeding our families GMO contaminated food, we like illegal search and seizure, we like crushing debt, WE LOVE POVERTY, we love greed and neediness, and more than anything we love losing our independence relying on government to take care of us.

Money speaks louder than what we talk about. Principals are far easier to fight for than to live up to.

What are you telling big Industry and government with how you spend your time and money? Is it in alignment with your mouth?

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– Tom

I have Two Fascinating Questions for you.  I don’t ask these two questions to insult anyones values.  I ask them to cause a shift in how you look at yourself and your place in the world of Relationships, Money, Health, Freedom, and to give you a sense of EMPOWERMENT if you wish to TRANSFORM yourself in ALL of these areas of Relationships, Money, Health, and Freedom.

1. Which do you want to TRANSFORM yourself into?

A.) Strong Body at the expense of your mind (Poor)

B.) Strong Mind at the expense of your body (Poor)

C.) Half and Half (average / middle / uninspiring / mediocre / works hard, never gets ahead, bad at solving problems and struggles with most things)

D.) Strong Mind and Strong Body (RICH / Inspiring / Generous / Excellent at solving problems)

2. Which do you want to TRANSFORM yourself into?

A.) Financial Freedom at the expense of your family and friends (Poor)

B.) Family and friends at the expense of your Financial Freedom (Poor)

C.) Half a$$ed everything (Middle Class / Average / Mediocre / Uninspiring / Works hard, struggles the most, pays the Bulk of the taxes because they provide no jobs, housing, energy, or commodities)

D.) Financial Freedom AND the Healthiest Relationships (Truly RICH / Generous / Inspiring / the BEST problem solvers / Works hard but not for money and pays the least in taxes because they provide jobs, housing, energy, and or commodities)

Good and Bad people exist in all poor middle and rich classes that’s not the point of this.

The poor are so poor all they have is money and no healthy relationships and others are so poor all the have are healthy relationships but no freedom.

The middle class believe they can have Freedom or healthy relationships but not both and that is their own belief system that keeps them fronting the brunt of a massive 18 trillion dollar debt burden while they work hard, lose the most, struggle with most things, and never get ahead.  Many of the middle class today are being squeezed out and joining the poor.   The squeeze stems from the beliefs they have that they cling to and fight hard to protect.  They are motivated by what they perceive as safety and security. The reality is the middle class are not grounded in reality and that is why they are the riskiest most unsecured segment of the population.

The Truly Rich believe they can have it all and do.  Money, Healthy relationships, time, their health, and their FREEDOM.  They are the most generous because they produce the affordable housing, jobs, energy, and commodities everyone uses to enhance their own lives.  Their biggest critics are the middle class who accuse the truly rich of being greedy.  This criticism comes from people who provide little to no housing, jobs, energy, food, or other commodities.  The truly Rich are motivated by Freedom not safety and security, which in reality, is the safest most secure place to be because the truly rich have control variables over both their cash flow and income that they pay themselves with.  The middle class have zero control variables over their income and little to no cash flow.  Their employer owns their income and their job.  There are no control variables in that and zero control is high risk.  The middle Class and Poor are enslaved to money, jobs, lenders, social programs, and taxes.  The Truly Rich are Free which means they can spend their time and focus on the most important things.

You live in a country where you can TRANSFORM yourself to transition to where ever you want to be and it Does Not Matter what your starting place is.  But this only works if this is your perception because your perception is your reality.  To TRANSFORM yourself you have to change your Reality from a small poor reality to an expanded rich reality, then the pathways open FOR you..

You can Build amazing relationships or you can destroy relationships.  You can build wealth or you can destroy wealth. You can be average or you can be Great.  You can develop yourself or you can tear down yourself.  Billions of people in the world would first have to over throw their government in a bloody war before they could have many of those options that we have.  We’ve inherited the fruits of our own revolutionary war to be free from a tyrant king July 4th 1776.  We are lucky to inherit our country.   Sadly many of us replaced the oppression of a tyrant king with the oppression of a tyrant mind set.

In capitalism you can turn ZERO dollars into a little bit of dollars and then you can turn a little bit of dollars into a lot of dollars and Billions of dollars if you’re faithful with it.  If you’re faithful with the gifts and talents you’ve been given you don’t need money to make money. Capitalism makes it possible for the homeless, the destitute, the high school drop outs, and anyone with a bad past to become Wealthier, Healthier, and Happier than those with the most impressive IVY League Education and Top 1% impressive resumes.   In fact, those Ivy League Academic Geniuses with an impressive background almost always end up working for C students and high school drop outs.

Want to TRANSFORM yourself so you can transition to where you really want to be?  Do you REALLY?    What are you doing to Develop yourself?  What are you doing to Develope yourself so you can Develop other people and be generous, too?  You can start today.  Not Tomorrow.  Tomorrow is for the poor and the middle class.  Today is Rich and it’s happening right now.  It’s a gift that’s why they call it, “the present”.  Procrastination is the cornerstone of ALL poverties.  Be Rich in TODAY.  Take a step no matter how small.  Getting started is Under rated.  Speed is Over rated.

My Next Thirty Days to Profit Group is beginning soon.  Privately contact with me if you would like to explore 30 Days to making a Profit as an option in getting started with your personal Transformation to make the transition of where you want to be.   I highly recommend transitioning to the truly rich who are Generous, works hard but not for money, who inspire, who are obsessed with personal growth and solving problems, who pay the least in taxes, who don’t sacrifice their personal life because having it all is what we are supposed to work toward and that is Rich.

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– Tom

Is the USA, like other countries around the world, moving closer to being bankrupt because 98% of the populations needs the government to take care of them medically and financially? What cultivated this kind of neediness and dependency in such a large lopsided segment of the population?

I can’t help but wonder if Money were taught in schools would poverty, and people starving to death, be problems all but wiped out?

I made a YouTube Video showing how changing just one thing can be enough to solve this huge problem: http://youtu.be/Vuj_07zwMBM

If money were being taught in our schools how would that help to solve some of our most crippling problems we have today?

One over simplified short answer could be because most people do not want to be poor. So if they taught money in schools they’d graduate with the skills needed to not be poor. And the ones motivated by giving would now know how to give the most.  Today most  kids attending our schools grow up to be poor and needy even if they straight A students.  Why are there more straight A students who are poor and needy after they graduate school than ever before in our history?  Getting As and Bs prepares students for the real world, right?  Maybe 30 plus years ago it did but not anymore.  Our schools have not kept current.  A student might learn a trade which might have paid great a long time ago, but, they are not learning about money which is more important than ever to learn if you want a to thrive in todays economy.  To not teach it, regardless of the major, is to not prepare for the real world of today, period.

Students graduate thinking getting a high paying job and building a big savings account is “money smart” all the while those things wipe them out from taxes and inflation.  Most people believe their house is an asset when it’s a liability, they believe mutual funds and IRA accounts have tax advantages when they suffer the absolute worst losses due to taxes etc…  Confusing liabilities for assets and not having a basic understanding of taxes is a recipe to be poor and that is what’s happening.  The only reason this happens, and that presidents can get away with the promises they make, is because they do not teach money in schools.

What does learning about money do for students who are born into a poor family?

Learning about money can teach someone not to be poor anymore if they don’t want to be poor anymore.  Hear me out.. Some people born into poor get out while others stay there.  That’s not to judge anyone there are very good people in all financial classes.  Where one starts does not have anything to do with where one ends.  Faithfulness in what you’ve already got has everything to do with where you end.  Rich people end poor just as poor people end rich.  Without being taught about money people who start rich often end poor and people who start poor stay poor.  Without being taught money people confuse liabilities for assets which wipes them out, they elect presidents who make promises they can’t possibly deliver on, their biggest expense will be taxes (particularly the middle class on taxes the poor don’t feel this nearly as much), and much of their choices will be oppressed and dictated by money.

That’s just the tip of the ice berg of the consequences of not knowing about money.  Not knowing about money hurts both you personally and our country as a whole because it runs on money, or more accurately, currency.

The fact that the of the evil known as poverty is out of control is one of the Big reasons why learning about money is so crucially important. When a poor person learns about money they will figure out how to cross over from poor to rich. To not teach poor people about money is cruel. I personally am living it. I didn’t know I could turn zero dollars into a little bit of money, and then turn a little bit of money into a lot of money until I Learned about money. We are taught the inexcusable lie, “You need money to make money”.  How is one supposed to know this is a LIE of one does not know about money?  Knowing money is crucial to your success it is not enough to be an expert at your trade without any knowledge of money and have a safe secure future.

I had no idea that I could actually use Taxes and Debt to get ahead. I always thought taxes and debt took money out of peoples pockets. For most people that is true but that is because they are not financially educated so they don’t know any better.   Without financial education we believe these things. When I learned about money I was no longer poor. Our schools should be teaching money.  It’s a shame they aren’t because it lead to our most crippling problems in our country and in most peoples lives.

It’s the love of money that is the root of all evil, not the money without the love of it.
I don’t study money, personally, because I love money. I study money because I love people and solving problems. Without knowing money, whether we like it or not, we can’t solve our most crippling problems both personally and globally.

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– Tom

What if you just don’t have the money to start funding your dreams? What if you’re flat broke and it just isn’t there?? What if you know people like this and you want to help them but you don’t know how and you’re sick of feeling helpless??? Here are just three of countless examples of overcoming this seemingly crippling scenario. See if this sparks some ideas for yourself or people you refer here:

1. Team Mate Lindsay Matway personally sold her clothes on eBay to be able to raise the money to invest into herself. She was half million dollars in debt when she did that. Three years later she has paid off ALL debt and averaging a new income of $22K per WEEK starting from NOTHING. She is also a mother and a wife. She was already a mother when she made this decision so that as a BIG reason WHY she did this.

2. Team Mate Scottie sold his XBOX and then used that money to buy and RESELL video game equipment on Craigslist to come up with his enrollment costs into our home based business. Today Scottie is financially free and independent. He is supporting his family on an income of his own personal resources from this business AND he gets to spend MORE TIME with his family which is the opposite of most business owners.

3. I personally was broke and almost homeless. I found people to pay me ten bucks an hour to do medial yard work and I gave guitar lessons privately out of my students houses for sums of money to cover my initial investment costs. I also cut out ALL luxury spending for the time being. A couple years after almost being homeless I bought a house in CASH, and a few months BEFORE that I declared my own financial freedom, independence, and SECURITY. I called off the depressing job search Forever.

You just DECIDE and then find/make a way where there is seemingly no way. Then you’ll do it. Then you can use my story as well as YOUR STORY to help people who are struggling to do better than Broke.

I have a few more ideas in a blog post I made a while back that may help you to flex more creative muscle in your scenario: https://tombirkenmeyer.com/personal-development/grow-from-where-youve-been-planted/

If you’d like to know what my Team Mates and I are doing here in our home businesses then connect with me on facebook. If I can help, I’ll help.

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– Tom

Most of the time we miss something hugely important.

You can put money into something that puts more money in your pocket and begins to solve that money problem. Otherwise money can make a slave out of an individual and being enslaved to money just leads to stress, LOTS of stress.

For example, I have people putting $129 monthly into a dense nutrition shake that is causing them to save upwards of a thousand dollars per month in groceries saved, other supplements saved, and health care related costs saved. They have hundreds of dollars more in their pockets per month and on top of that the health benefits of the investment they made into themselves.

Most people, faced with opportunity, don’t ask questions to make those discoveries. They live NEEDLESSLY under constant pressure and stress.

Ask yourself if you’re doing that?

When you find yourself doing that, stop for a moment, stop making statements, and ask some questions with an open mind and a mental intention on finding solutions. Otherwise solutions will be planted right in front of you and you will TOTALLY miss them.

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– Tom

But, that is a price many people are not willing to pay!

To be yourself is an incredibly lonely thing because you are the only one that there is. In order to find out who you are you will have to feel alone and do your own thing in isolation. The sadness of isolation is going to help you be who you are supposed to be. It’s just something you’ve got to go through to become your true authentic self.

You want to be cool bad ass future you; you have to go through the loneliness of isolation today.

As weird and awful as it may seem to be yourself some of the time, it will always reward you. You will know that the people who love you will love you for you and not for whom they think you are or who you’re pretending to be.

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– Tom

I forbade the words “I can’t afford it”. Instead I require from myself and others who want my time to ask, “How can I afford it?” – Tom Birkenmeyer

The words, “I can’t afford it,” shuts down your mind to possibilities—you don’t have to think. It is a poor and lazy mindset. The words, “How can I afford it,” open up your mind, forcing you to think and search for answers. It is a rich and creative mindset.

Most important, asking, “How can I afford it,” releases the potential of your human spirit to battle with the lazy mindset. Most people think using the words, “We can’t afford it,” teaches them to battle greed, but really it teaches kids to find excuses, which leads to laziness. – Robert Kiyosaki

Read “The Cure for Laziness” by Robert Kiyosaki

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– Tom

Desert Blue Sky

I don’t mean to put ANYONE down, but, another way of living which strengthens the human spirit is to Dream very BIG and figure out how to fund it so you’re being RESPONSIBLE about it.

MOST PEOPLE SHRINKS THEIR DREAMS TO BE JUST A LITTLE BIGGER THAN THEIR INCOME SO THEY DON’T DIE. Say What?!

Living below your means traps the human spirit at just below THE glass ceiling you’ve artificially placed over your means. Having the courage to Dream BIG DREAMS and then asking “how can I afford that” INSTEAD OF “I can’t afford that” gives LIFE to your human spirit so you can SHATTER that flippin glass ceiling you’ve artificially placed over your dreams.

Living above your means isn’t about living irresponsibly, its about responsibly figuring out how to fund it. It gives way to a creative RICH mind set that fights against a lazy mind set that settles and no longer searches for answers.

I made a graphical video to demonstrate one thing to change that can any dream you can dream no matter how large..

Have you enjoyed this? Was it helpful in breaking some circular thought patterns you might have been stuck in? Do you know anyone who could use this? Sharing is caring. Share with friends and family.

– Tom

I can tell you from my own experience I began saving lots of money on food, and getting better quality food so that I feel better day to day, when I began to buy mostly plant based whole foods and making my meals from scratch, and replacing at least one meal a day with Shakeology.  My monthly savings is easily between $$250 and $350 per month and I feel better because I’m eating better.  I grabbed the following from funny.gg.  This is very easy information to digest and implement in our daily lives.  Enjoy!!

5 Reasons Why We Do Not Eat Clean
1. Many of us believe that healthy foods cost more.
2. Cultural habit.
3. Fast Food restaurants are too convenient.
4. Our taste buds crave for junk food.
5. This country does not push us to create eat-clean recipes.

6 Ways to Eat Clean on a Tight Budget
1. Shop at your local farmers market. The key is to buy what’s in season (not what’s out of season).
a. Buy fresh fruits.b. Buy fresh produce.2. Shop in bulk. You pay more for the boxed products.
a. Beans.b. Barley.c. Millet.d. Grains.e. Flours.f. Rolled oats.3. Stop eating out! You save big bucks when you cook your own food.
4. Eat less meat. With meat prices on the rise, you can free up your budget for more fruit and veggies. Many beans offer great sources of protein.
5. Clip coupons. Cable television has a great show, which shows the tremendous benefits of coupons.
6. Replace one meal each day with a meal replacement like Shakeology. It is $4 per serving and beats any fast food meal deal. You get all the nutrients of a balanced meal.

It can help you:
a. lose weight.
b. feel great.
c. fight diseases.
d. reduce cravings.
e. and much more.

How Does It Benefit You to Eat Clean?
1. You have better weight management.
2. You sleep better.
3. Better mood.
4. Increase your energy.
5. You look and feel better.
6. You improve your digestion.
7. Better mental focus

Check out my Healthy Grocery List for more ideas of what to put into your shopping cart next time you’re at the grocery store.  This has helped a lot of people save money, eat better, and feel better already, maybe it can help you too. Click here for my Healthy Grocery List.

– Tom

– Tom

I’m going to say something that’s going to make some pretty upset, but, it needs to be said and this is my little corner of the web.

Welcome to a RECONNECTION to how the REAL WORLD really works which 98% of people are completely disconnected from =)

If you have to say “no” to something you want because you can’t afford it, you’re over 21, AND you live in America, you make yourself look like a fool. The civil rights movement took place over 40 years ago. There is no law stopping you from climbing this LADDER known as our economy. I spent the first 14 years of my adult working life a complete Fool because I routinely had to say no to what I could not afford.

You live in America or another capitalist based economy of a free democracy! There is something you want and you cannot afford it??

Most of our billionaires grew up in welfare families, have no higher education, and are far less talented than you are. They just took advantage of opportunity that YOU said no to because you were too “smart” for that and felt you knew how the real world worked. Change Today =) I’m saying this not because I believe you should have material things, but because you have dreams you cannot fund and I want you to start figuring out how to fund them instead of shrinking your dreams to live mediocre.

Maybe a DAILY Dose of Inspiration will make you remember where your balls, or your big brass ovaries, are. With love.. =) http://needtogetrich.com/your-daily-dose-of-inspiration/

– Tom

A democracy only exists 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 that public treasury. We see it in every election for president. The end result, there has literally never been a single exception in all world history, is that the democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship or totalitarian rule.

We are in a state of dependency right now. The majority depend on something for nothing from the public treasury in the form of subsidies of all kinds like welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security, retirement nest eggs etc.. One day the party will be over and all of these “paper money” programs will dry up, leaving you who are depending on government, without anything because you didn’t take personal responsibility for your own livelihood and retirement. Only 2% of the population is independent and can retire on an income of their own personal resources. 98% are dependent. Let’s swing the pendulum. If we don’t then eventually the economy, as well as your free hand outs, will topple and there will be nothing left for your kids or grand kids. Let’s SWING that pendulum. Vote for president, but do your part as well. Start doing the work today to become independent.

Voting is important, sure, but their is a wide spread delusion that things are going to be better depending on which side wins.

How do you spend your time and your money every day? How you live your own life has a far more dramatic affect on the health and wellness of our country than how you vote every four years. Politics and industries follow demand. They follow money. The economy is driven by people. When the economy sucks its because people suck with their money. It’s not the government. It’s us. You are part of us. I am part of us. Let’s change; then the economy changes =) Take your dependency out of government, out of your jobs pension or other retirement plan, and become independent. Clean up your own house, first, instead of worrying about others or the government. 98% of house holds in America are a complete mess. Let’s clean up our own houses and begin the work of becoming Independent.

-Tom

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Yes change is opportunity for growth and all that; you’ve heard it before.  If you’ve shrunk and become callous to truth does that change the truth?  Nope.  Change still equals opportunity for growth and growth equals life.  Excellent!  So bring on the change.

Sometimes change can kinda suck to.  When it sucks is that not part of the opportunity for growth?  I know I’m sounding all philosophical here but that’s because I am.

If something “bad” happens to you, or me, and there is nothing you can do about it then why focus on it?  If you shift your focus to what you do about what happens to you, you then have the way to live by design rather than by default.   Sometimes the stuff that happens to you is just so lousy but you still have absolutely no control over what happens to you.  If you keep your focus on what happens to you then you also feel completely helpless; because you are helpless with that kind of focus!

Switch out that focus for a new focus of what to do about what happened.  What are you going to do about stuff that happens to you that you have no control over?  How will you respond?  Are you going to keep your focus on what happened to you and remain your own prisoner or are you going to shift your focus on what to do about what happens to you and finally make some worthwhile breakthroughs in your life?

– Tom

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Learn to GROW from where ever it is that you’ve been planted:
https://tombirkenmeyer.com/personal-development/grow-from-where-youve-been-planted/

I’m interested in Massively Shrinking that 97% side and seeing a ridiculous number of people outrageously happier than they are now.  It’s going to take loads of self criticism along with self love rather than self scorn and judgement.  It’s going to take people being human with one another.  No talking down to or tearing down your fellow man or woman.  Be honest and transparent about your mistakes and hardships but with a positive aim not for emotional dumping.

It might be uncomfortable to be transparent about how you’ve messed up but that’s how you make the most powerful human connections and set a stage for lifting one another up.  You will have to totally kill your ego to be transparent like this but you will do so much to help people who will in turn help you.  That’s the synergy of lifting each other up.

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– Tom

Learn to GROW from where ever it is that you’ve been planted:
https://tombirkenmeyer.com/personal-development/grow-from-where-youve-been-planted/

The great illusion of going for easy is that it creates an easier life. Ive found that going for worthwhile creates an easier life than going for easy does.

Worthwhile is hidden by delayed gratification so right off the bat most people miss it and go for easy making their lives harder.

Instant gratification syndrome is one of the largest killers out there. The fast food restaurants know it you’re giving them billions of your families money in exchange for chronic diseases and massive financial debt that will take you down and out of your life because you thought it was easier to go for the convenience.

Don’t believe me? Follow the money trail of the bulk majority of fast food goers. They are in debt, their kids slander them at school, and they are chronically diseased. But some of them will change into healthy life style that brings them out of debt, out of disease ville, and into restored relationships with their families. Some will make this AWESOME change.

8 out of 10 wont’ and are dying chronically diseased and in massive debt.  More than anything the 8 out of 10 are missing peace in their lives because they subscribed to the illusion they were sold on going for easy. Don’t be the 8 out of 10. Dont be the 2 out of 10. Be the 1 out of 100 who changes and leads others into change.  And don’t you dare let the majority sell you on the great illusion of going for easy.

– Tom

But would you be more productive being self dependent to?

I let myself wake up whenever the heck I want to every morning because in February of 2010 I fired my alarm clock. Under my own direction I increased my income over 700% in 2010. I’ve helped a lot of people change their lives; making my life not only successful but VERY significant and relevant in the lives of others. I let myself choose who I want to work with and DONT want to work with.  I will never work with someone I don’t wanna work with ever again and no one will be able to discipline me for it like at a job and other dictatorships like that. And when I do something valuable I actually get paid for 100% of that value! I don’t pay income taxes anymore either and my dream trips are all bought and paid for. I became my own boss in August of 2007!

When I had a job years ago I was only paid about 1/3rd of the value I brought to the company.  I built someone elses dream who later said thank you by shipping my job off to India. I had to bite my tongue a lot I could not express my true-self without risking disciplinary measure or losing my job.  I was not allowed to choose who I wanted to work with. I had to wake up at the butt crack of Dawn every morning.  I was lucky if I saw a 2% annual pay raise.  A job is a real dictatorship program in my view.

Why do most of you submit yourselves to that?  If only having a job is for you that’s cool I’m happy for you I’m not trying to change you you’ll sell yourself on change if you want to change.  But as for me… Yuk!!!  If you want out of a go no where build someone elses dream get paid only a fraction of the value you bring to someone elses company then I’m calling on you to get started and get started asap in your own home based business in which you are your own boss.  It’s probably going to take a couple years minimum to get where you wanna be.  But that couple years is going to pass anyway JUST LIKE THAT LAST COUPLE YEARS DID THAT GOT YOU WHERE YOU ARE TODAY.  Change something I promise you will be somewhere different when the next two years pass by. Put that time on your side working for you instead of against https://tombirkenmeyer.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpyou.  Exercise your god given autonomy, change your philosophy that’s not served you the way you wanted it to, and CHANGE YOUR LIFE!  Get rid of the head trash of self doubt.  We’ve all been there especially me.  Guess what!  I was good enough and SO ARE YOU 🙂  If you believe you are good enough to design the masterpiece of your own life then it crystallizes into your new reality and life changes 🙂

Make sense?   It’s a natural law.  Change the input and you’ll get a different output.

So really what kind of boss would you be to yourself if you were your own boss?  What do you want?  Are you going to do what most people will not do and pay the price for what you want?

How can I help you? Connect with me.

Tom

Desert Sage

Team Passion is a collection of individual dreams, bucket lists, and dream boards and the daily consistent actions that achieves them! Ya gotta be authentic to be in Team Passion. Otherwise you’ll burn out and give up on your own dreams. There is no intense “fire in the belly ” kind of passion in shrinking a dream circle to match your current self. Team Passion is about growing yourself to fund your dream circle and doing it as your authentic self. And most of all Team Passion is the nurturing human connections that exists within it. Team Passion is an environment where people lift each other up. Restore rather than attack. Support rather than tear down. People helping people with “fire in the belly” to become our best selves possible because its worthwhile and not easy.

Would you like to be part of Team Passion?  Do you have goals of self improvement?  Do you have something you could add to or take away from the group?  Connect with me.  Let’s ask each other some questions.  http://fb.com/tbirkenmeyer

Tom

Beautiful Mountainous Desert outside of Las Vegas, NV

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.

Have you enjoyed this? Was it helpful in breaking some circular thought patterns you might have been stuck in? Do you know anyone who could use this? Sharing is caring. Share with friends and family. Share & Connect with me on Social Media, too.

– 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

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.

Desert Sage

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

Desert High Stretch

We live in a culture that has gotten comfortable with dysfunction.  We also live in a culture where the very powerful elites know how to enslave everyone else on complete stupidity.

14,000 hours of school you had from kindergarten to the 12^th grade.  Not a single class did you have teach you wise and foolish with money. Not a single class to prepare you for the financial world in which you live in. And then some of you spent even more money to go to college and still wasn’t taught a single thing about the financial world in which you live.

So how in the world are you suppose to pick this stuff up?  Where did you learn how to spend money?  From your parents!  How many of your parents were not in the 2 percent? History repeats itself again and again and again.    You spend the way your parents spend.

Most parents don’t set their kids down to teach them about money.  Most parents just tell you to get a job.  Then what do you do with what you make?  You spend it.  You were taught by society lead by a government that has enslaved its people in debt on purpose.  Why?  People who are in debt are fearful.  And fearful people are easy to control.

Independent thinkers?  Freedom?  That’s not what they want.  They want us to be in debt. They make LOTS of money selling debt.

Parents you’re teaching your kids how to spend money whether you know it or not.  They are watching how you spend it.  How many of you don’t want your kids to end up with the same financial struggles you have?

Money goes from dumb to smart.  Find out what 98 percent of the population is doing with their money and do the exact opposite.

Get to a Dani Johnson First Steps to Success Event.  In a THREE WEEK time window I saw people pay off significant amounts of debt, open new INVESTMENT and savings accounts, and restore relationships with their spouses, children, and friends simply because they went to a First Steps Event, followed directions, and learned how to shift from a 98 percenter to a two percenter.

– Tom
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If you are serious about Destroying Debt First you have to get rid of the rest of your ego because automatically you are going to want to defend your money, your financial habits, and you’re going to want to defend you’re debt.

You cannot do that and expect to no longer be in debt!  Kill your ego and that softens the soil for new seed to be planted in you for sweeter fruit tomorrow. Keep the soil hard with unteachability driven by an ego and new seed cannot be sown and you are screwed.

98 percent of the population uses money to spend it all and most of them have no idea where there money goes. If you are spending all you make now, then when you make more money you will continue to spend all your money and still be broke. The more you make the more you spend and the further in debt you go!

Want proof?  Easy!

Are you making more today then you did when you first got out of high school?  And are you less or further in debt than when you got out of high school?  98 percent of you the answer is yes and yes which proves you have a spending problem enslaving you with debt. Time to kill the ego, the mind set, and learn some new debt destroying skills so you can live FREE of debt bondage thats imprisoned some of you for most of your lives. Liberty and freedom is wonderful embrace the mindset and skill set that leads you to freedom and liberty!

When you first entered the work force you had no debt at all.  Odds are you’re making more money today then you did when you first started working but you’re further in debt! Somebody tantalized you with college loans, credit cards, and car loans. Guess who tantalized you with loans?  The 2 percent of the population did because they know that you want what you want and you want it now. The 2 percent knows you want instant gratification and you’re willing to pay more for it to get it now.

That’s 98 percent of the population and that is a poverty habit.  Poverty wants what they want, they are going to pay more on interest to be able to get it.  There is a difference between spending and investing. Poverty people live as they show all their stuff and spend all they make.  That’s the mind set of 98 percent of the population.  There are rich people who show off all their stuff and spend all they make and they are also of poverty. This proves that a financial class does not dictate poverty.  Poverty is a mind set followed by a habit of living as they show all their stuff and spending all they make and both rich and poor people have it.

– Dani Johnson Notes

– Tom
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Make a LOT of money and take a portion of it and really help the causes that really beat in your heart versus being taken advantage of financially again by the same people who keep borrowing money from you, keep getting things for free from you, never using what you’ve given them for free, and not valuing what you’ve given to them for free.

Its time to make a lot of profit and taking a portion of that profit to help the causes that really beat in your heart.  That’s being faithful with the money.  Whats not being faithful with the money is handling your desire to save the day and you give it to someone who asks for it again and again and again because it makes you feel good. There is nothing like helping those who cannot help themselves.

Stop Enabling people!

Stop getting in their way!

Let them deal with their own consequences!

They need to suffer their own consequences. If someone keeps coming to you for money its because they haven’t paid their own price for the mistakes they made financially. You’re paying the price.  You are not the savior.  Let them pay their own consequences so they can grow up and learn how to take care of themselves financially.

– An excerpt from Dani Johnson Notes

– Tom
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98% of the population excuses away all their vision, their dreams, their goals, and then the next step they do is they excuse away yours.  They tell you that you’re stupid if you go after your dreams in bad economic times like this.  They lost their dreams and now they are going to try and pollute yours.

2% will encourage you to be all that you desire to be and say nothing is impossible you work hard and go for it!  That’s what 2% knows that’s what they say and that’s how they live and they’ve got the results in their life that proves it.  They aint no talk and no action they’re talk with results!   But 98% of the population gave up their dreams and are going make sure they can pollute everyone else around them and make sure they give up their dreams to.  Why?  Because when you actually go after your dreams yourself it makes them feel a little uncomfortable.  Why?  Because they realize that something was possible.  Because they realize when they see you go after it it sheds some light on them… They wonder “if”.

98% of the population destroys their dreams and destroys others dreams and 2% of the population says WOW there is a lot I wanna do!  2% of the population is not limited by their bank account.  YOU are not limited by your bank account you’re limited by your brain and your lack of understanding that your dream somebody else is living it!  Someone else found a way to do it! How they did it is they grew their income circle to finance their dreams.  That’s the difference between 98% and 2%. 98% shrinks their dreams to be just a little bigger than their income so they don’t die.

A man without a Vision WILL Perish. What’s your vision?  Is your vision just big enough to pay off debt?  Is that all you wanna do is make ends meet??  If your vision isnt worthy of you getting out of bed every morning then your vision isn’t big enough.  If your vision isn’t big enough to get you over your biggest fears then your vision isn’t big enough.  If your vision isn’t big enough to cause other people to want to follow you with it then your vision isn’t big enough. If your vision is about You making Money then it isn’t big enough.  You better spend some time growing your vision. What is it?  Where you going?  If you don’t know where you’re going no one else can follow you.  They already know how to go no where!!!

Get to a Dani Johnson First Steps to Success Event.  In a THREE WEEK time window I saw people pay off significant amounts of debt, open new INVESTMENT and savings accounts, and restore relationships with their spouses, children, and friends simply because they went to a First Steps Event, followed directions, and learned how to shift from a 98 percenter to a two percenter.

– Tom

When you give your kids something excellent to aspire to by leading an excellent life by your own example they tend to want to be like mom and dad. When mom and dad settle for mediocrity or poverty the kids tend to want to be like mom and dad.  Then there is the truly lost parents who use their kids as a crutch for their own mediocrity and short comings and the kids tend to want to be like mom and dad.  I.e.”I don’t have time to take care of myself and take care of my dreams and promises I have to spend that time focusing on my kids etc”

I’m not a parent but I talk to them.  I talk to a LOT of people because I want to understand beyond the scope of ONLY the shoes I happen to fill.  My friend Lisa, who is a mom, is very wise.   I wanted to share a parents perspective in case you happen to be struggling with this in raising your own kids.  Just maybe this can help you and your family..

Asema Lisa – “I don’t have a 6 pack, although I would LOVE to. What I do have is a very unmotivated 15 year old. He drives me absolutely nuts because he seems to have no drive to do anything. As soon as something he wants turns into something he has to work for, he quits it. I’ve been racking my brain and have tried everything from rewards, to threats, to pleading for him to work for something. I mention all this because after training 3 days a week with my group and doing the Diva Dash this weekend, my son has taken an interest in something. He wants to do a 5k obstacle course with me, and he’s willing to WORK for it. I think the quality time issue here is null and void, because he is now asking to spend more quality time with me because he has seen my hard work and perseverance pay off. I have taught him more by taking care of myself than by focusing solely on him.”

A very big THANK YOU to Lisa for giving me permission to publish this Beautiful Valuable Wisdom in my Blog.  We hope it helps!

– Tom

This philosophy dramatically helped me  see my dreams come true.  See if it can help you to.

It’s not what happens to you that determines your destination its the set of your sail that determines your destination. Another way to put it is… It’s not what happens to you that determines the way your life turns out it’s how you respond to what happens to you that determines how your life turns out.

If you get burned by a false promise, a person, an entity, it will kill you or grow you depending on how you respond.

You’ve been burned before. We all have. Some of us die others grow beyond anything we could imagine.  Let all your experiences teach you.  The lessons found in our failures is so incredibly powerful if we take the lesson and apply what we learn.

Welcome all new experiences the good with the bad because the same walls that drive out sadness also drive out happiness. Not only that but they also drive out opportunity to make the discoveries you need to make to get everything you want. Walls are murder to your dreams and once that happens life is over.

When you make a mistake and totally mess something up, because it’s not if but when, let it teach you. EVERY event in response to an action validates if that was the right or the wrong action. The more mistakes you make the more you learn what not to do and the closer you come to FAILING YOUR WAY FORWARD TO THE TOP. That’s how I did it. You can do it to. I know you can. In fact I promise you that you can. The universe guarantees it!

-Tom

P.S. A Quote from Lindsay Matway, “You MUST come to terms with and create a space in your life to fail, but large enough to fail-forward, not fall complacent… Remember that even a championship thoroughbred must first be broken to arrive at its destiny. It’s in the journey to become what you think you want, that you actually become who you are destined to be!”