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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Desert Blue Sky

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!”

I grow Healthy Rich People.  That’s pretty awesome!  But it’s the poor and the humble that I really enjoy helping the most.  They are more hungry for change and growth than the comfortable. And it’s really warming and inspiring to watch someone grow their self confidence with one action at a time and over all success in their lives from very challenging scenarios. The poor and humble will express more gratitude than the comfortable and when they change, grow, live, they will give back more than the comfortable because to be totally comfortable is to also be selfish. In a world where over a billion people are starving to death there is no worthy scenario to cease changing and growing.  The poor and the humble is where it’s at!

The poor and humble are more likely to give back more as they create wealth for themselves.  They remember where they came from so they have a tendency to pay their success forward as they achieve their own success.  Remembering where they came from fills them with more gratitude than the comfortable.  There is not much else that turns me off more than a person with good fortune who has no gratitude.  A person who has triumphed over intense challenges is more likely to be extremely grateful.  I actually take at least a minute of time out every day to consciously be grateful for my good fortune.   It’s really important to me to do that.

Triumph over struggles is inspiring!  The bigger the struggle the bigger the triumph the bigger the inspiration for people who need that hope while they go through their own struggles!  The comfortable are too busy being lulled into a state of complacency, perhaps from their job because it’s a paycheck, that they are not doing anything to inspire anybody.

I’m not saying the comfortable are bad people.  They are just in waiting, consciously or more likely sub consciously, for an experience that turns everything on for them.  We all have a trigger that turns on desire.  It just takes the right experience to trigger that desire that turns everything on.  That experience is different for everyone so who knows what that experience will be from person to person!  Welcome ALL experiences including the bad ones because you never know which experiences is going to be the one that turns everything on!   Call it a life changing day because you took down the walls that keeps out both happiness and sadness.

For me one of those experiences was in April of 2006 when my job was off shored to India at no fault of my own.  Up til that point I was lulled into total complacency along with most others who lose their hunger because they have a job that pays the bills.  I wasn’t doing anything to grow to the “next level”.  My entire income was that one income that I didn’t even own so when that one income I had that I didn’t even own was taken away from me along with all my health insurance I had nothing.  It created a very negative devastating emotion that lead to a very POWERFUL positive outcome.  I became the poor, the humble, and the uncomfortable. My comfort was taken away from me!   THANK GOD FOR THAT!  That lead to my FINALLY owning my own life, my income, my destiny, creating wealth for myself, health, GRATITUDE, and everything else that makes me who I am today.  And tomorrow I will keep growing because I know first hand the folly of getting too comfortable.  There is always another level to grow to and we must always keep going.  Live full and die empty right?  YES!

Here is something that the poor and humble are not!   The poor and humble are not certain members of our society who take free money from the government with no ambition to ever become independent of help from the government.  The person who does that is the poor and the entitlement driven stealing from the rest of us.  We are not paying our public school teachers decent wages.  Sometimes our soldiers fighting for us over seas die because we cannot afford to give them the proper body armor.  Some of our kids have died from preventable illnesses because we could not get them the health insurance they needed.  Over 80% of our total population, including our kids for the first time in our history, are dying from obesity and life style choice related problems.  All of this is going on while we have a number of both poor and rich people taking from everyone else with no ambition to become independent of government help.  Some people actually boast about how they “play the system”.    Those are the cowards taking money from the dying child because we cannot afford that child health insurance and the dead soldier who should have lived if only he had the proper body armor which we could not afford for him.

The poor and humble accepts the government help but they feel very uncomfortable to do so.  They let the government help buy them more time while they work hard to become independent from government help.  Some of the poor and humble who go on to create lots of wealth for themselves will write a check to the IRS for every dollar they received from the government while they struggled financially.  They pay the government back!!  That is inspiring!!!!  Who does that?!?!   The MOST HUMBLE people do that.

-Tom

“Don’t miss the chance to grow and resolve to pay that price until you learn.. change.. grow.. become.. Then you’ll discover some of lifes best treasures when you Pay That Price!”

Jim Rohn is right! I’v been doing this a few years I see that validated on both sides of the fence every day over tons of people from all walks of life. Those willing to dream dreams and ready to pay the price to make those dreams come true go on to live happier healthy more fulfilling lives those not willing to resolve to pay that price don’t go on to live happier healthy more fulfilling lives. It actually gets worse for they who are not ready to resolve to pay that price.  They who wait til after they are successful to begin doing the deed to become successful are stuck in an endless wait of analytical paralysis backed only by the thief in their mind after their promises.

As far as I’m concerned this Team Beachbody opportunity is the best vehicle in the world to help us live a more healthy and fulfilling life. It took me just 90 days to totally transform my health and 2 1/2 years to transform my financial health forever. Just 90 days to set myself up for life long generational health absent of common relapse and 2 1/2 years to declare myself financially independent and never have to worry about money again, for life. Which, by the way, taking care of my health helped to give me the energy, the breath, and the vitality to go after my dreams!!

As for my personal belief this Team Beachbody opportunity is your golden ticket opportunity to being able to work hard and resolve to pay that price until all of your goals, dreams, and promises come true. You have the information now so it’s your responsibility what you do with it. No one here is going to ask you to sign up for this in this blog post. Because what I’ve found in my years of experience is that the BEST people to work with are those who actually take initiative because they understand the consequences of inaction. The worst partners to work with are those who need outside motivation every step of the way because they don’t understand the consequences of inaction.

If you want to truly become my partner to work with in both Personal Health and Personal Wealth then YOU be the one to Take Action without procrastination (The cornerstone of all poverty is procrastination) and reach out to me.  Or if you need more information to make a decision ask me some questions so I can get the information you need.

-Tom

Whoever will have nothing to do with thorns, can never gather roses. – A Friend Named Adversity

The brook that flows over stones makes the sweetest music. – A Friend Named Adversity

If you remove the rocks, the brook will lose its song. – A Friend Named Adversity

Blessings thrive in afflictions’ soil. – A Friend Named Adversity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – A Friend Named Adversity

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – A Friend Named Adversity

It isn’t the load that weights you down, it’s the way you carry it. – A Friend Named Adversity

The darkest clouds often bring the heaviest showers of blessing. – A Friend Named Adversity

Jesus is no security against life’s storms, but he is perfect security in them. – A Friend Named Adversity

Troubles are not sent to bother us but to better us. – A Friend Named Adversity

If we had no trials, there would be no triumphs. – A Friend Named Adversity

To get out of difficulty, we must go through it. – A Friend Named Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. – A Friend Named Adversity

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. – A Friend Named Adversity

Trouble is to the triumphant spirit what turbulent water is to a sturdy boat. – A Friend Named Adversity

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – A Friend Named Adversity

Adversity is the way the great surgeon gives us a face-lift. – A Friend Named Adversity

God often digs wells of joy with the spade of sorrow and adversity. – A Friend Named Adversity

Tears are often the means by which we see God’s rainbow of promises. – A Friend Named Adversity

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. – A Friend Named Adversity

You will never be the person God wants you to be, if afflictions, trials, and disciplines are taken out of your life. – A Friend Named Adversity

Afflictions are but the shadow of God’s wings. – A Friend Named Adversity

No trouble can come so near that God is not nearer. – A Friend Named Adversity

Only God can change sunsets into sunrises. – A Friend Named Adversity

Adversity may sometimes get a Christian down, but only on his knees. – A Friend Named Adversity

Jesus spoke of Christianity as a banquet, but never as a picnic. – A Friend Named Adversity

God’s grace enables us to ‘face the music’ even when we don’t like the tune. – A Friend Named Adversity

One reason that the school of Christ is so tough is that you get the test first and the lesson later. – A Friend Named Adversity

Sufferings are to spiritual maturity as the chisel is to sculpture. – A Friend Named Adversity

True achievers have made adversity their friend. – A Friend Named Adversity

The very same adversity can make one bitter and another better. A thoughtful and prayerful study on how to face adversity can change one’s world. – A Friend Named Adversity

– Tom

Desert Sage

In august of 2007 I was broke, jobless, income-less, scared to death of ending up homeless, bad physical health etc..  In august of 2007 I signed up for the Team Beachbody Coach opportunity. Almost all of my friends who have signed up with me waited 2 or 3 years to sign up with me in my Team Beachbody Business. Some of them will sign up 4 years later, 5, and so on… None of them signed up with me my first 8 or 9 months of business. Most coaches will quit before they give this a chance to work. Not me. The majority will and the majority are broke and out of shape year after year because they are not in it to win it.

My friends who sign up with me see me achieve so much just based on what I’ve shared in facebook the past couple years. Sometimes a friend will call me up just to ask me if I’m still doing that Beachbody “thing” and how it’s going for me. Once I tell them I’m still in it YEARS later and business is booming in the year of the official recession my income increased over 700% despite the economy some of them sign up. There are other variables involved differing from person to person but largely they were waiting to see if I was in it to win it or not! Can you imagine if I told them I quit? I would STINK to high heaven and every ex coach who has a dream experiences it.

Big moral here..

Coaches who get in for a lil while to “try it out” and then quit if they don’t experience enough success quickly enough literally rob themselves of the respect of their friends and miss BIG opportunity to build a big business as time rolls on. Quitting stinks I’m glad I didn’t quit my first couple years when I was virtually a failure or I would have missed my freedom. I will never have to worry about money, the economy, time, and all those problems everyone else experiences stemming from time, money, and personal freedom constraints.  I lifted myself out of poverty and achieved this.  There was no special deal.  I paid the price for a couple years.  Those couple years were going to pass by anyway so was it worth it?  YES!!!!!!  Most people do not think so and that’s why most people are broke, out of shape, and falling short of the promises they made to themselves and to their families.

Most people in my shoes would have quit the first two months let alone the first two years of little to nothing to show for. I honestly and humbly have to pat myself on the back here. I hope all of you take a moment to pat yourselves on the back to when life rewards you for doing something most people will not do 🙂 And then share it with us and the rest of your support team who nurtures you to grow so we can pat you on the back to!  If you don’t have friends who nurture you to grow then you definitely need new friends Immediately!

If you’re actively building a dream remember the moral of this story especially if you haven’t made your way over the initial business “hump” yet….. Your friends, family, new friends you make along the way, all who do not make the commitment to come with you yet are just testing you…. Waiting to see if you’re in it to win it or not. No one wants to follow a loser so stay in it to win it! Do NOT put yourself in a position to where they are ready but you’ve already quit. I’ve been told horror stories of ex Team Beachbody coaches who literally threw up once they realized what they threw away by quitting.

Does being significant in other peoples lives turn you on?  Does finding success by being significant fuel your passions?? In my Team Beachbody Business it is not possible to be successful unless you have significance in other peoples lives.  If that speaks to your heart write / call me I want you in my business.  Take pride in the fact that you find success in this business by becoming significant in other peoples lives. It’s a wonderful concept get involved in this business, embrace it, and share it with everyone 🙂

Enroll for a coach account: http://beachbodycoach.com/metalpalace and call me: 262 344 1733

Tom
Independent Beachbody Star Diamond Leader

Desert High Stretch

This is why I read and I tell everyone they should to! This is why I’m relentless in my own pursuit of enlightenment, knowledge, and being of service to others. This is why I tell EVERYONE they should be relentless in these things to! We’d all be MUCH happier, healthier, more fulfilled human beings.

My relentless search for enlightenment through reading lead me to this gem by Lindsay Matway. Lindsay has a story of BIG triumphs over ENORMOUS challenges and set backs in her life. Naturally when I learned of her story I wanted to find out what the heck she is doing to achieve so much starting at a place so challenging and scary! This is a woman who was $400,000 in debt and climbing still, her new baby was born pre mature with no health insurance, she owned a house that had depreciated by $100,000 since the time she purchased and was starting to fall apart, faced with bankruptcy proceedings, not happy with her physical shape, struggling intensely in every way possible etc… She’s turned all that around, shes THRIVING, and shes still setting bigger goals and achieving them!! She’s a true inspiration to give people permission to let their own lights shine no matter how tough things are.

A short but SWEET read by Lindsay Matway now that I’ve edified the heck out of her enjoy:

“The pursuit of HAPPINESS is ALWAYS linked to being of SERVICE to others! Ask yourself, “How can I be of service?” instead of “How can I find happiness” and I promise you happiness with FIND YOU! Spend your life experiencing the beauty of GIVING BACK and your cup will ALWAYS runneth over! Give yourself the gift of GREAT HEALTH with the added bonus of a BOMBSHELL BODY! We know not what we are capable of until we PUSH past our comfort zones and force down the mental blocks that hold so many of us back in life! We are ALL capable of losing weight and being physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL! It is my hope that through sharing my own journey, I might somehow be able to assist you in breaking down that first imaginary wall that is holding you back at this moment in your life! Live inspired and you will give others permission to let their light shine too!” – Lindsay Matway

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life…He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win, Grandfather?” The Elder simply replied, “The one you feed.”

There are countless real life parallels you can draw from this story.  What a wise story!!  Everyone should know this story and think about it.  Let it stimulate the mind and then let it fuel some daily action for you to take more control over your own life!

The parallel that I thought of right away is the battle of sickness vs health going on in our bodies.  This battle is on going 24/7 and will never stop until life stops. Our body innately wants us to be healthy in this push shove war fare. We sabotage our own self interest every time we eat badly. The body asks for a banana and we send it a coca cola or a fast food “value” meal or both!  When you do that you are feeding the “evil wolf” and that evil wolf WILL get stronger and stronger until it gets YOU!  Sickness and disease in our bodies sits there, contained, quietly waiting for health to get weak.  As soon as sickness and disease sees a vulnerability in health because of how poorly we feed our bodies then sickness and disease moves in and starts to gain power in our bodies!  Case in point: we eat more poorly than ever before in our history and we are more disease riddled than ever before in our history.  The only way to win this struggle is to get involved, cooperate with the positive things going on inside our bodies and see if we can’t help out in this push shove match.  This battle has been going on in our bodies since we were created and it’s going to continue!  We’ve got to fight this battle our entire life which is exactly why if your not doing something you can sustain for the rest of your then it doesn’t matter how you’re helping your own self interest.  You can’t just sit on the sidelines, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.  That’s a terrible philosophy to have!  You’ve gotta get off the sidelines and in the game!  See where you can cooperate with the positive and see if you can’t help out in this struggle.  There is no other way!  If someone tries to tell you there is another way just take this magic pill and you’ll be fine then you’ve gotta have some backbone and say no!  You’re wrong!  This is fundamental stuff and fundamentals are old!  It’s existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist so long as there is life on earth.  Magic pills don’t exist you’ve gotta reject that whole idea and not be suckered into it!

Eat good, drink your Shakeology, stimulate your mind and body, do these things every day and you can keep sickness and disease controlled and contained into a very small corner.  It’s either cooperate with the positive things going on in your body or live your life in anguish.  There is no other way!

Tom

Beautiful Mountainous Desert outside of Las Vegas, NV

There are individuals in my Team Passion as well as myself who are having enormous success in designing the life of our dreams through our individual Team Beachbody Businesses.

Those of us building a business, making money, helping people get healthy, are completing assignments consistently and paying a price of RESOLVE UNTIL becoming successful. Most people with the stated goal of building a business to meet a need in their lives are not building a business instead they’re disappearing, not completing assignments, lacking consistency, lacking RESOLVE, they’re not communicating regularly with their support, they’re not making any money, and not helping anyone change their lives including their own.

This does not mean they’re bad people or unlikeable in any way. I happen to like most people very much. It just means that they don’t understand how lucrative they are yet. If they really knew how lucrative they are in ANY economy I know they’d consistently commit themselves to fail over and over again UNTIL they are successful. To “fall off” even if it’s just temporary to me means they have No Clue what they’re robbing themselves of, yet.

If you personally fall into that LARGER category of business owners (or non business owners) not building a business then get in direct touch with your support IMMEDIATELY and ask for some assignments. Then be consistent. RESOLVE you will do it until you are successful without falling off the wagon and taking breaks etc…  Falling short of that you most certainly will not build a business that will set you free to design the life of your dreams.

Growth is reserved for those who have a basic comprehension of opportunity to get EVERYTHING you’ve ever wanted and then a commitment to RESOLVE to pay the price of Change until you are Successful. Everyone else gets a dead business or dreams that die with you that ONLY YOU can give Life to. Both sides of that fence are being demonstrated and VALIDATED in our own team passion group that I founded and in life in general in and outside of a business.

I hope this turns on a light bulb for you in your mind so that everything can change beginning with a change in your mind.

Let’s ALL GROW TOGETHER INSTEAD OF JUST SOME OF US! Join the individuals who are already building BIG businesses 🙂

If you’d like some information about My Team Passion to see if it would be a good fit for you in meeting a need that you have please get in touch with me as soon as possible.

-Tom

Desert Sage

Who said you need money to make money??  This is the ultimate myth buster if you’re completely broke prepare to be liberated to make a fortune.  If you have a heart beat and some conscious thought then you have enough resources to make money.  If you’re reading this then you have a big ole surplus of resources you need to make money.  It does not matter if you have not a single dollar to your name with zero income the fact you’re reading this is proof positive that you have much more than just a heart beat and some conscious thought.  What more do you need to start developing yourself from where you’re honestly at to start making money??

If you’re going to start a legal business the old adage is probably true no matter what you need money to make money.  But who says you have to start with a business to make money?  Think outside the box!  Begin to take massive different action to developing yourself Immediately!  You’re broke you should not be putting this off another single day!  Procrastination is the cornerstone of ALL poverty! Your life depends on YOU doing something Different that’s more in line with the things that YOU want so stop killing yourself and take massive immediate action today!

If you have not a dollar to your name then let something else be a stepping stone to getting the money you need to make a financial investment or to start your own business.  And starting your own business that earns you a passive income that grows and grows over time is THEE single most smartest thing you can do even if you can’t do it YET have your eye on that ball.

MAKE MONEY WITHOUT MONEY HERE IT IS…

Gotta bike?  Rent it out!  Do you have a talent or a skill people would pay money for?  Go to any big city in America and you will see street performers of many kinds from musicians to card tricks to puppet shows!  Can you perform manual labor?  Offer to do housework for money!  These are just a few ways to make money without having any money.

When I was broke I put myself out there to do any kind of yard work or house work for only $10 an hour.  I also have a talent I developed for playing guitar so I tought guitar lessons for $35 per hour sessions. Between those two things I made enough to scrape by and buy my own business which later earned me a big ole fortune.   My financial starting point was $zero.  I didn’t respond to my $zero income by giving up while citing the old adage of needing money to make money.  My starting point was my starting point, I respected it, and I actually got started then followed through with it.  It doesn’t matter where you’re starting point is.  It might influence HOW or WHERE you get started but in terms of getting started it doesn’t matter if you’re starting point is $million, $100, $1, or $zero where you end up is not determined by where you start.  Where you end up is determined by if you actually get started or not and then if you see it through or not, period!

Don’t have a dollar, a skill, a service or a product that anyone would spend money on?  Then your starting point is personal development.  EVERYONE no matter how great they are should always engage in daily personal growth and development until the heart stops beating and body turns cold.  But if you have not a single thing to offer that anyone would pay money for then your only starting point is personal growth and development.  You must simply become more valuable to the marketplace  via personal growth and development. How do you make more money or ANY money in the market place?  You become more valuble to the market place!  The more valuable you become to the market place the more money you make!

What’s the difference between someone who makes $5 an hour and $500 an hour? One is a lot more valuable than the other to the market place. So the key is to learn how to work harder on yourself than you do on your job because that’s how you become more valuable. The late great Jim Rohn taught me that in an audio CD.  I use Jim Rohns material more than anyone else to become more valuable as I work harder on myself than I do my job. And I’m living proof positive right here validating it’s the honest to god truth. And anyone can do it the information is free to build your value in the market place so you can make more money.  Not all of the information is free.  If you have not a dollar to your name can you get a library card at your local library?  YES!!!  How much is a library card at your local library??  It’s FREE!  How EASY is FREE?  It’s EASY!

“It Doesn’t get Any Easier than Free!!” – Jim Rohn

The wealth of the world is at your local library.  You can learn how to change anything you want without spending a dollar to get that information all you have to do is go get it.  But 97% of the population can’t be bothered with it.  They find it easier to complain about their job, the economy, politics, and whatever else is going on in their lives that they are not very happy with.  It’s the 3% who’ve walked away from the 97% and lead drastically different life styles.  Both patterns of human behavior VERY starkly validating each respective life style.  Jim Rohn gave me very good advice when he said to walk away from the 97%.  I amended that to RUN AS FAST AS I CAN Away from the 97%.  I didn’t want to be like them philosophically.  Many of them are very nice likable people but in terms of the marketplace they are not very valuable and I don’t want to be broke or be complacent with “just getting by”.    I’m not down with that so I RAN AS FAST AS I COULD Away from the 97% philosophically.  Since then I’ve upgraded and am buying books to discover even more of lifes treasures.  But remember this friends it all started at my respective starting place which for me happened to be $zero.

All of us are born with massive potential in our abilities and our talents.  With a big enough dream that out weighs our biggest fears we can do whatever it takes to develop our abilities and our talents to move closer toward our massive potential and get everything we’ve ever wanted.

Let me give you an example of the kind of people I find inspiring.

I witness lots of people hit HARD by the economy just as all of you witness I’m sure.  The particular lady I witnessed in this example I’ve seen before in a few others but it’s very rare and I’m so inspired by them there are no words.  She said it’s not the fault of the economy that her income shrunk. She blames herself for not owning her income. She decided to OWN IT finally.  I believe her success in owning her own income and her own life has just been assured. Time just has to roll out the deal and then she WILL declare financial independence! What a breath of fresh air!! She walked away from most people blaming the economy for their hardships.  Shes on the path to setting herself FREE.  The belief of “it’s the economy” is 100% self inflicted popular head trash.  If you don’t want to be like them you must walk, or in my case, RUN away as FAST as you can!

Most people disagree and find it easier to give away there power to whatever it is they are blaming for there life not turning out the way they wanted it to.  I’ve found the ones fighting against ownership over their own income, their own destiny, and their own life lead a drastically different, broke, lifestyle. No judgement here just a stark observation.

Now I know what some of you are thinking… “oh Tom I’m just too old to start building my own value, I’m not old enough, I don’t have the motivation, it’s not what my parents taught me, I have a boil on my butt etc..”   At least you and I can finally agree your problem is not the economy but an inside job in your own mind.  But guess what?  The solution is also an inside job in your own mind 😉  Never forget that.

My aim with this is to turn on light bulbs and inspire people to feel empowered and to ultimately take Massive Different ACTION Immediately.  I’m hoping you’ve had enough validation by now that procrastination is the cornerstone of all poverty including your own poverty.  Waiting to act til you have more money, more time, more this or that is the formula for a dead life til the day you join the physically dead.  I hope you decide it’s easier to climb than it is to regret not climbing.  I hope you make a decision in your own favor and then I hope you RESOLVE to commit to fail over and over again until you are successful.

Begin designing the life of your dreams and begin TODAY even if your starting point financially is $zero income like mine was.  I promise you you’ll never take the second step closer toward your own dreams if you don’t take the first step.

– Tom

Desert Sage

Common distracting thought: “It’s not my fault my life didn’t go the way I wanted”

I have news for you; it is your fault. This doesn’t make you bad and it doesn’t mean you are a failure. You have control over your thoughts and therefore your actions. Your thoughts and actions will determine your life. If you constantly blame others for the way your life has turned out you have given all your power away to other people.  And I’ve got news for you; they don’t have much planned for you. Take the control back and take responsibility for your thoughts and actions.  That’s how you design the life of your dreams.  And if you help enough people get what they want you can have EVERYTHING that you want.

Leveling with you with love,

– Tom

Desert Sage

Remember kids credit cards are just pieces of plastic with power that we give them from our thinking. Like anything else they are a tool! But this particular tool is a financial tool that can help or hurt your wealth depending on how you think.

Person (A) uses the credit card with awareness, understanding, and accountability. Person (B) uses the credit card lacking awareness, understanding, and accountability. Person (A) has a more favorable outcome than person (B). The credit card is the same for both person (A) and (B). The only difference is in their thinking which lead to different actions which lead to different outcomes.

If you use a credit card I recommend being like person (A) and not like person (B)!

If you fully realize and understand you are incurring real debt then the credit card is an enormously helpful piece of plastic that can benefit you hugely 🙂 Most credit card issuers will actually pay you to use their credit card.  You’ve just got to pay them off every month on time. They are basically paying YOU interest instead of you paying them interest to use their available credit!! And you are rewarded with their money simply by your awareness, understanding, and accountability. It’s a no brainer in my opinion. Do what you should be doing anyway and you are rewarded with more wealth.

If you need to work on yourself first then it’s probably best not to use credit cards because you will ultimately spend money to spend money and that to me does not make any sense. But once you have the discipline, the awareness, the accountability, and the understanding then I’m a very strong advocate of using credit cards they are AWESOME.

– Tom

Say this outloud every morning and experience how you begin to feel and the bold new actions you begin to create to shape your beautiful life.

I commit to myself and to putting myself FIRST

I commit to myself first because I’m worth it

I commit to myself first because I’m more valuble to other people when I’m at my absolute best to be able to help out

I commit to never stop growing because I’ve staked my human existance on my stated purpose

I commit to show the strength of the commitments I have made through the strength of my daily actions because I know that action is the only creative process that has the power to shape my life and help the people around me at the same time.

I commit to take care of myself every day because I’m worth it, my family is worth having me at my best, and the peoples lives I have the power to touch are worth it.

I commit and my daily actions will show the strength of my commitment.

– Tom

Desert High Stretch

The activity YOU do toward reaching YOUR GOALS creates the kind of excitement you need to accomplish your goals. Having goals can chase the blues away because accomplishment breeds happiness. I know a lot of people who try to use logic to feel better and it doesn’t work. Can you think of people who you know who do that? I’m sure you can think of dozens we all know many people who do that. Once and a while I’m guilty of that myself it’s just something that needs more attention and self intervention. Logic does not change emotion. ACTION changes emotion and goals create action.

Approximately 95% of all people die without living what they believe to be a successful life. This statistic is in unison with the failure rate at which people set life changing goals and neglect to cultivate those goals into success. This 95% figure isn’t a law. No one is bound to a statistic like this. What this statistic does is reflect a sad truth that only 5% of all people are willing to do the things necessary to cultivate their dreams and life changing goals into success.

Get out a pencil (not a pen) and a sheet of paper. I’m going to teach you an exercise for setting and achieving goals that I learned from a VERY successful entrepreneur; Jeff Olson. Don’t feel constricted by this exercise you can always modify, add to it and make changes later so use a pencil.

This exercise is going to help you envision your success. Envisioning involves doing everything you can to make it real even before it becomes real. You do that by making it physical and involving your senses. When you write it down and make picture boards it becomes tangible. If you say it out loud it becomes more powerful in your mind. The moment you do something beyond the confines of your skull it starts to become real. If you can’t envision life changing success you won’t achieve it. It’s the 95% of all people who are fooled by thinking, “My goals are in my head that’s good enough”. Keeping a goal or a dream only in your mind by definition is wishful thinking, not envisioning. Wishful thinking is like saying, “I’ll give it a try”. Giving something a try just doesn’t cut it. As Jedi Master Yoda Said, “Do, or do not. There is no try”.

There are four parts to this exercise. Write the following down and make sure to leave space between each section…

1.) My Dreams for my Health:

2.) Price to pay:

3.) Plan to start:

4.) One simple daily discipline:

My Dreams for my Health: Be specific, aim high but make them attainable. Be vivid and with a timeline. Without deadlines you leave everything open ended and diminish your chances of reaching your goals. Remember, the longer you wait the more of life you run out of.

Price to Pay: With every dream lived or life changing goal accomplished there is a price to pay, period. Most people aren’t willing to pay the price of their dreams and goals (Approx. 95%) and instead live quiet lives of despair; regret. The price to pay to live your dreams and accomplish your important goals is worth it. It generally includes teeny tiny small sacrifices. On the other hand; the price to pay for regret is far greater than the price to pay for the daily discipline required to reach your big objectives. Disciplines weigh ounces and regrets weigh tons. I.e. A price to pay for a dream of great health could be giving up junk food, postponing purchases, practicing some delayed gratification, initial discomfiture in exercise etc.

Plan to start: The important point is to start. Remember that no matter what has gone on before, no matter how far down the curve of failure you’ve slid, no matter what’s in your past you can begin fresh and new any time you choose. The past can’t be changed but the future can be. Your future will always be determined by what you do right NOW. There is no tomorrow; tomorrow will always be a day away. Your life exists right now and right now determines success or failure in the future. It’s never too late to start. It’s always too late to wait. Very simple philosophies no need to make any of this complicated 🙂 Notice I said plan to START and not plan to get you to the finish line. Initially you need a plan to get out of the starting gate. Your plan will change as you monitor what’s going on and make corrections that keep you on the path toward success.

One Simple daily discipline: It really doesn’t take much but if you do it every day with the compounding affect over time it makes all the difference. The one simple daily discipline could be to workout every day. If your nutrition is bad make a second daily discipline of cleaning up your diet. If you need more daily disciplines add them but be honest with yourself and write them down. The most drastic life changing differences are often the result of the littlest of things compounded daily over time. You don’t need to be a super human here. Anybody can do these things.

Once you have all of that in place create a daily to do list of just a few simple things and check them off every single day. At the top of my daily to do list is “Work out”. Any task that you give yourself, if compounded over time, will make a drastic difference over time ESPECIALLY the seemingly insignificant mundane daily things so make them all work for you. Otherwise they will work against you because there is no middle road. Time will expose you or promote you.

Last but not least keep this sheet of paper out in the open where you will see it several times every day (i.e. computer desk, fridge etc).

If you follow this easy system PLEASE write me and let me know how it has worked out for you. I would absolutely love to hear about your successes 🙂

– Tom

Desert Sage

Do you have friends who call you out when you don’t follow through with something you said you were going to do?

Two kinds of friends.

The first kind usually mean well and care about you but will only tell you what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear. They are likely to support anything you do and be all lovey dovey like when you don’t follow through on something you said you were going to do.

The second kind of a friend, like most of the first kind of friends, will care about you but unlike the first kind they will also nurture you by telling you what you need to hear. If you quit on a promise that you made to yourself or anyone else they will call you out on it and try to move you to follow through on what you said you were going to do.

Sometimes we need the second kind of friend. Sometimes YOU need the second kind of friend just to challenge you with the truth about your excuses. The first kind of friendship is more like a poison really and it’s one of the most common poisons in our culture and it’s not just between friends but between spouses and family as well. The intention is good because they probably care about you. But you know what they say about intentions and the road to hell right?

Take on the challenge of surrounding yourself more with nurturing people and watch how your life turns out. A nurturing person will never support anything and everything you do. When you mess up they will let you know constructively and push you to do what you said you were going to do. They will probably push you to shoot even higher because they see value in you before you see it in yourself.

And you should pay that kind of foresight forward! When you see a friend with so much value in them that they do not yet see in themselves you should absolutely communicate that with them and challenge them to tap their potential. You never know whos life you might touch just by believing in them before they believe in themselves and then effectively communicating it with them. That, my friends, is a selfless act that should be practiced more in our culture.

– Tom

Desert Sage

Is what you’re doing right now lined up with your priorities or someone elses? Are you building your own dreams or someone elses dreams who doesn’t have much planned for you in return?

Are your daily rituals supportive or unsupportive of the promises you made to yourself and to your family?

What are some of your daily rituals you could swap out that aren’t advancing your life for some daily rituals that will advance your life and inevitably crystallize your dreams and the promises you made to yourself and your family into reality?

Those are the questions that YOU should be asking yourself every day. I do and I’m living my dreams. Otherwise the things you said you’d like to achieve is really just a joke of wishful thinking not to be taken seriously by anyone including the entire universe and it’s powers. When you include others in on your dream, tell them about it, and then don’t follow through then it turns into more of a selfish inaction that can potentially devastate others who might be counting on you to follow through with a promise that YOU made to them.  This seems to devastate children more than adults.  Don’t break a promise to a child or anyone for that matter including promises you make to yourself.

No matter how small or big your life is, no matter what you’ve achieved or have not achieved, no matter how rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, spiritually awake or sleeping, no matter how badly you’ve messed up in your past, you’re either growing or rotting by the daily actions you take brought on by whatever it is you believe in.

Are your daily actions positioning time to be on your side to promote you or are your daily actions positioning time to be against you to expose you? Time is non prejudice it doesn’t have a bias which means if you’re not advancing it’s because of YOU.

The passing of time is your most valuable asset because without time there is no way to get the feedback you need to know if you’re daily actions are working. Whatever you’re DOING the passing of time will take care of the rest.

That feedback that can ONLY be found in the passing of time contains all the information you need to validate if what you’re spending your time DOING is conducive to your dreams, your priorities, and your promises or not. Start paying attention to the feedback of time. It’s telling you if what you’re doing is working or not!

FOR EXAMPLE… If you’ve been working X number of years and you’re still broke then time has validated for you that you’re daily actions are not working. It’s also validating that if you keep doing what you’ve always been doing you’ll always have no more than what you’ve already got. What’s that mean if you want something different than what you’ve already got? It means CHANGE COURSE! And ONLY then time will give you new feedback validating your different daily actions one way or the other so that you may make further refinements, which produces new feedback to meet with new refinements, each time moving closer and closer to your dreams and promises. The key to putting time on your side to promote you is to keep going back and forth between learning and doing in what’s known as the  rhythm of learning, one advancing the other between learning and doing, til you are on a path that brings your dreams and promises closer to you.

Keep making refinements with your eye on the ball and it’s inevitable every time WITHOUT EXCEPTION you will get where you want to be. It’s a natural law of the earth it’s always been and always will be that way. Don’t change and nothing changes. Change and something changes. Pay attention to the feedback through the passing of time to know if it was a positive or negative change then re set your aim and fire again for new feedback. Real simple first grade stuff.

-Tom