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20
Dec

What You Have to Notice about Self Esteem ?

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

Self esteem, a simple word with various definitions. But actually, there is a single idea that concludes the definitions. The ideais about how an individual sees himself. Someone’s self esteem is powerlessness in his/her life. It is as well as the regard that one has for himself depending on those success and powerlessness. The regard for someone’s self (or we called it self regard) can be decided by belief and emotions. Later on, it can influence someone’s action

There are two different types of needs with regard to self esteem. Those needs require respect. The first is respect from other people, while the second is respect for himself (or we called it self respect). Those respects are said to motivate one’s esteem and influence the way of an individual sees himself.

Definition Number 1

People considered self esteem as a state of an individual’s behavior based on his successes and powerlessnesss. But, this definition is no longer relevant, because it implies that self esteem is temporary and fully depended on the recent state of a person. In detail, someone has self worth when he is successful. But that self worth will be gone by the time he fails.

Definition Number 2

The next definition of self esteem is self worth which is stable and built through the years. It implies that someone’s self esteem is based on their competency to face any challenges and difficulties in life. It indicates that self esteem is inherent in one person and cannot be taken away easily by mere incapabilities. The person views himself as someone with worth because of his accumulated success and even by his incapabilities.

Measuring Self Esteem

To find out someone’s degree or level of self esteem, we have definitive procedures. Lately, there are two tests used for determining a person’s self worth and self regard. The tests are in the written form, namely Rosenberg and Coopersmith Self Esteem Tests. Someone’s self worth will be analyzed through the questions in both tests. The numbers of questions in both tests are different. There are around ten questions in Rosenberg test and above fifty questions in Coopersmith test.

For some people, self esteem tests will make them suffering, particularly people with high and low self esteem. Low self esteem in someone can direct him to the low confidence and insecurity. In the other hand, high self esteem can lead people to the state of having too much self confidence. To change the state of their self esteem is not an easy job, particularly if someone is used to it. It is completely different from the common belief in society. They are sure that the state of self esteem can be easily changed.

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22
Nov

Get Engravable Cufflinks And Flasks And Rake On!

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

Do you let your girlfriend pick up the tab each time you go out? Are you one who is vain about dressing? Does going out with only one woman at a time strike you as a sad waste of your talents and charms? Do you mooch off girlfriends, friends, co-workers, and strangers alike? If so, you fit everyone’s definition of a scum. Change this impression by reinventing yourself from despised lowlife to dashing freeloader. Remember, one man’s garbage is another’s treasure. If this century, they call men like you white trash, six centuries ago they gave you a glossier name - rake.

Rake was derived from the old English term ‘rakehell’ and was coined because of the belief that one could only find such a horrible person after combing through hell with a rake. In time, however, a rake came to be known as a noble sophisticate who drinks lavishly. Gentlemen wanted to become known as rakes because it gives them a slightly dangerous air, a bit of a reputation that makes all the ladies curious and even sends some swooning.

The typical English rake, however, has many advantages that you lack. He has a noble title, you don’t. He has an Oxford education, you never went to college. He has a small fortune, you used to live with your mom; now you live with your girlfriend. Clearly, you do not have the privileges the regular English rake is born with. What’s a rogue like you to do? If you don’t have it, fake it. Fake a look that says you are to the manor born and bred. Rakes are dandy dressers. What better way to look like the stylish gentleman than to sport engravable cufflinks? A cigarette case engraved with initials and a monogrammed lighter are good accessories, too. They will mark you as a man who can afford to have his things personalized according to his liking. Finish this stylish ensemble with engravable flasks - just be sure to choose the most expensive-looking hip flask from all those engravable flasks you got as personalized groomsmen gifts.

Now that you look the part, are you good to go? Not just yet. There is one other thing you need to do - develop an accent. If you can’t pull off an English accent, then settle for one that sounds exotic. This will up your presumed IQ a bit because everyone will assume you are born elsewhere, are well-traveled, and speak English because it’s one of the six other languages your aristocratic father insisted you learn. Now you are ready. Go, leave your poor girlfriend’s paycheck alone, and leech off the rich instead. Yes, you are a rotter. Yes, you are a scumbag. Go and rake on!

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2
Nov

How To Be An Achiever

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

What does it take to become an expert? What is it that separates top achievers and the rest of the world? Is there a chancethat some people are just born with a silver spoon in the mouth and some are genetically predisposed to being average?

Of course, there are many things which can influence what we become in life, but one of the most important key factors is ‘hot desire’ to obtain whatever we have set our sights on. The resolute commitment will then drive us to take action. It will push us to lands unexplored , it will push us to uncover answers and keep perservering. And as we continue to try, one thing is certain; we will get there. For as long as we stay on course, improved results are guaranteed.

Consuming desire is the driving force of any goal. It transcends obstacles and sees way beyond problems. It is desire that inspires our actions and is the source of our faith. Abraham desired to be a father, that desire was so strong and gave him the strength to believe in what the Lord had promised. Abraham was not willing to give up his desire, he held on to it despite his age.

Whatever it is you want to bring into our reality, know that it is the power of your resolve that will bring your dreams to life. Regardless of how dark the prospects may be, if we stay and hold on tenaciously to our vision with unwavering faith, what we desire can be actualised. Success can be a reality in our lives.

Discover how to become prosperous by waking up to the power of commitment. You can be an expert, you can see your dream come to life, you can succeed, you can, you can, you can! Your resoluteness can mean the difference between being an expert or being unsuccessful. You can be be an achiever!

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28
Oct

A Self Improvement Lesson: Why Average People Remain Average

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

If you do what you’re expected to do, don’t expect an outstanding result.

Study successful people and you’ll sure to discover one thing that many of them would have in common- they live by that words of “always do more than what is expected of you.”

It could be sleeping an hour less everyday to have more time to build your wealth or whatsoever.

Whether you are mowing people’s lawn or someone is mowing your lawn, when you are teaching a seminar or being a participant, when sharing your knowledge or giving advice to others, always do or give more than what people expect. Then they will flock around you, lining up to meet you and support you in whatever thing that you want to do next.

If you’re training to be a champion, don’t just train like an average player. Train more than you’re expected to train.

If you’re building a multi-level marketing business, increase the numbers of prospects you would like to meet everyday. If it used to be 10, now you would have at least 12. By just increasing your effort 20%, you’ll now get 60 new prospects a month. Now, that’s what I called exponential growth.

Trying to court a girl? I’m not surprise that you could be “competing” with five other guys for the same girl. And you can only win if you’re giving more than all of them (if everyone’s equal). I’m not saying giving more money or buying stuff- give love, time or whatever that she appreciates.

Whenever you are interacting with people or in a relationship, treat extremely well.

Whatever is expected of you in that relationship, be it with your girlfriend, wife/husband, business partner or client or your friend, always do or give more than what is expected of you in that relationship because that is the secret of making it a success.

Don’t be mistaken that it you need to give a whole lot more; you have to do just a little bit more than the rest. That’s it.

To do this, it’s not difficult. But most people are just too lazy to put in the effort. I’m one of them but I’ll always keep reminding myself this- winner takes all. There is no second place, my friend. I would rather strive with the extra effort to get #1 because the pay off is many times greater than #2.

Do you remember who the second best basketball player is? Nope. You can remember Michael Jordan because he’s #1. In fact, as far as I know, there’s no such place as the ‘the second best basketball player’.

Who’s the second fastest runner in the world? Who knows. I just know the #1.

Others have called this ‘more than expected attitude’ as ‘going for the extra mile’. Notice that they don’t say the extra 10 miles.

How come?

Because the average persons doesn’t bother to do more than what is expected of them and that’s the awful truth.

To most people, “always do more than what is expected of you” are mere words and they don’t put substance to it.

And guess what… successful people are never your average people.

To be generous and to treat others extremely well, you must come from the perspective of abundance thinking. Then only “always doing more than what is expected of you” will come easy and naturally.

So the next time you are with somebody, in a business negotiation, or just interacting with another person, ask how can I help you… without even expecting any return.

As the other saying goes, commonly heard in personal improvement — you have to give, in order to get. In fact, if you want to gather riches you have to be as generous as you can. Touch people’s lives profoundly in ways that they would never forget. Give it forward- help another and that person will help another. Always do more than what is expected of you. Do this and the reward will come in 10 folds or 100 folds when you are least expecting it.

Do you think you can do more than what you’re doing right now? Of course you can. The question is… DO YOU WANT OR NOT? You’ll have to decide for your own future on that.

Note: This article is written by Patric Chan who shares his experience about achieving success and wealth at his self improvement blog. You can also join his self improvement forum for free and meet like-minded positive people.

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3
Oct

Your Chance to Find Out Useful Info About Procrastination

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

Contrary to popular belief, procrastination does serve a purpose in your life. And that is why this is a lesson in procrastination which you will not want to miss. You may have been fighting procrastination for as long as you can remember. However instead of offering you a miraculous cure for procrastination, let’s take a step back from your present to better understand the presence of procrastination in your life.

Like most people, you are often overstretched in areas of your life. Currently you are playing several different roles at any one time, e.g. roles of a productive employee, a filial child, an understanding partner, a caring parent, a helpful friend and many other more which you seek to do well and excel in. However, there are just too many roles for you to fit into at any one time.

And in addition to that, you are obliged to adhering to the duties of every roles, their respective “shoulds” and “musts”. The truth is regardless how well you plan your time, you only have a limited time and energy every day. There is only this much of things you can seek to accomplish daily. However, most “procrastinators” fail to realize that.

Instead, day after day, they try to accomplish all their tasks in one day. And when they fail, they beat themselves up and feel that they procrastinate in completing them.

Any time management experts will tell you that attempting to do everything within a short period of time is suicidal. Eventually, you will run of gas and burn out.

Unknown to many, we are all procrastinators in this modern world. Everything you do carry with it an opportunity cost. When you decide to invest your time and energy in playing a particular role well, you will be neglecting your other important life roles at the same time. And when you fail to meet those “shoulds” and “musts” which come along with those roles, you feel that you have not done enough.

Thus, rather than constantly beating up yourself for not doing enough and hoping for a heaven-sent cure for procrastination, why not look into yourself and determine what you truly value in your life.

By determining the priorities of the different roles in your life, you will better understand what you truly treasure. And it does make sense to allocate more time and energy in fulfilling those more important roles to your very best while giving less attention to other less crucial roles, isn’t it?

That will eliminate the need for you to want to do everything within a short period of time and along with it the misconception of procrastination.

This is a lesson in procrastination which took many people a long time to understand. By learning this it well, you will gradually learn not to get too overly troubled about the presence of procrastination in your life.

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1
Oct

Your Chance to Find Out How to Use the Giving Back to Others

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

CAN YOUR LIFE MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY GIVING BACK TO OTHERS

When you get to be my age - you will find yourself beginning to ask, did my life make a difference?

That?s the day of personal reckoning. And I think the only way to face it is to consider, every day of your life: How can I do something for somebody else? How can I give back to others? It may be teaching, it may be becoming a doctor, you may be successful in business - no matter what your career path, there will always be the opportunity to give back. The chance will present itself to be giving of your time, giving of your money, but mostly, to be giving of yourselves, of your own heart and soul.

Cosmic Ordering is not all about taking, but about giving. This is not tithing whereby you set a certain percentage of your earnings to one side and to be given away. You cannot just buy this ?giving back to others?.

My hope today, as you commence to new beginnings, is you will always keep your eyes open for those opportunities to give and embrace them as your best sure way of doing well.

THE MOST VALUABLE GIFT IN THE WORLD IS PRICELESS AND YET ALSO SO INEXPENSIVE

You know, while everyone is chasing a bigger pay rise, more returns on their investments and fatter cheques (checks) from TV show royalties, there is something we can overlook in life as being worth far more, yet so inexpensive for us to attain. Here is a story to show what I mean.

Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what the considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. The following received the most votes:

1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.”

The girl hesitated, then read, ?I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:

1. to touch…
2. to taste…
3. to see…
4. to hear… (She hesitated a little, and then added…)
5. to feel…
6. to laugh…
7. and to love.?

The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.

May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful - and we don’t have to travel anywhere special to experience them.

Enjoy your gifts! They are priceless!!

Copyright Stephen Richards

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29
Sep

Get Now the Free Guidebook to Giving Yourself to Others

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

STEPHEN RICHARDS SAYS GIVING YOURSELF TO OTHERS CAN BE PRICELESS

You cannot buy forgiveness with money, you cannot put right what you have done to yourself by throwing cash at it. This is so within Cosmic Ordering. Anyone can throw money about and look good, but when you are an unsung hero and give your time, then this is a priceless gift. By giving yourself to others and helping them it makes a difference, try it and see how rewarded you feel and see how much better you are within, and then try placing your Cosmic Order.

There is a man who I’d like to tell you about. His name is Sandy Greenberg. In his youth, Sandy was a very good student, but he came from a poor family. And so he went to Columbia University on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial aid.

Now while he was a sophomore at Columbia University, Sandy contracted an eye disease that eventually proved to be glaucoma. But the trouble was, it wasn’t detected early enough, and as a result he became legally blind. I ask you all to imagine for a moment having been sighted all your life, and then all of a sudden being faced, in a very competitive school, with losing so much sight you could no longer read. This is what happened to Sandy Greenberg.

But something else happened to Sandy that may surprise you. Sandy said that when he lost his sight, his roommate would read his textbooks to him, every night.

If your roommate had a serious disability, would you take the time to read textbooks to him every night, knowing the more you spend time reading textbooks to your roommate, perhaps the less well you might do with your other activities? That’s not as easy a question as it first appears.

But luckily for Sandy, his roommate did help him. And as a result, Sandy went on to graduate with honours. He got a Fulbright Scholarship, and he went off to study at Oxford. He was still quite poor, but he said he had managed to save about five hundred dollars as he went along.

His roommate, meanwhile, also went on to graduate school. One day, Sandy got a call from him at Oxford. And his former roommate said, “Sandy I’m really unhappy. I really don’t like being in graduate school, and I don’t want to do this.”

So Sandy asked, “Well what do you want to do?”

And his roommate told him, “Sandy, I really love to sing. I have a high school friend who plays the guitar. And we would really like to try our hand in the music business. But we need to make a promo record, and in order to do that I need $500.”

So Sandy Greenberg told me he took all his life savings and sent it to his roommate. He told me, “You know, what else could I do? He made my life; I needed to help make his life.”

Each of you, in your own lives, will be faced with challenges, with roadblocks, with problems that you didn’t anticipate or expect. How you are able to deal with adversity will be influenced, to no small extent, by how you deal with others along the way. What you get will depend a lot on what you give.

You probably want to know who Sandy?s roommate was. I think you’ve heard of him. Sandy’s roommate was a fellow by the name of Art Garfunkel, and he teamed up with another musician by the name of Paul Simon. That $500 helped them cut a record that eventually became ?The Sounds of Silence.?

Copyright Stephen Richards

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18
Sep

Learn More Free Guidelines to Clean Language

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

It was only two generations ago that TV, billboard, racing circuits, snooker sponsorship and cinema commercials advertised that cigarette smoking was good for you, that it made you sophisticated, successful, popular. Now that belief has changed. We are left with a nation of nicotine addicts wanting to kick the habit. They want to do that more than land a parcel of cash?and that is something Cosmic Ordering can help with.

At the same time, consuming alcohol in large quantities was considered a challenge of the macho brigade, a way of life for the winners, the upwardly mobile, and the successful. Many have asked about how to obtain Cosmic help in kicking the alcohol habit.

Personal habits such as smoking and drinking can be curbed significantly, all with the correct ?clean? language used in your Order. Those other things that disturb us so much can also be changed too.

For those with children, it is about what they want for their futures: better health, education, careers and home lives and being taught to cope with its ups and downs.

Meanwhile, we also want to make improvements that will begin to take effect within our lifetimes.

You don?t have to be a university scholar or a politician to say what you mean, what you stand for, what you believe is good and right. You will likely find your situation in here. You will see how much we all have in common. Most of us have serious concerns about the world we live in. In some cases, fear and worry play a significant role in our lives. Conditions in our communities seem so much beyond our understanding that they seem to be out of control. Changes could make the quality of our lives better. We want change, but feel helpless to control it.

Helplessness is a perception, a widespread belief. But it is not reality. We look for short-term solutions rather than long-term cures. Something can be done.

This book will illuminate the path that can be followed. We will consider what can be done, the objectives, goals and steps in the process toward improvement.

Most of us know at least one person whose life has been profoundly affected by something violent, something invasive, something that changed that person?s life forever. Personal violence is a problem that upsets many of us deeply. Lately, even invasion of privacy by computer hackers has risen as a form of personal psychological violence.

Cosmic Ordering can be used to abate your fears; once you have made your connection, then you can run your Order through your mind, by naturalistic means. Hear yourself say the words, as per the Order that applies to your situation.

I am not saying that you should tailor any particular Order just for the sake of it: if you do not find what you are looking for, find an Order that is as close to your situation as you can, then start using the positives from it and apply them to your own Order.

Clean language is the key to making it work for you. For instance, don?t fall into the trap of saying, ?My life is rubbish, I can?t make things happen. Nothing good happens to me, always the bad things of life come my way. I want to change all of that, please help me make those things happen.?

Look at the negative words (highlighted) used in that Order:

Rubbish
Can?t
Nothing
Bad

Rephrased, replacing negative words with positive words, as follows: ?My life is becoming better. I can have good things happen. The good things of life come my way. I want to allow that to continue to happen, as appropriate. Please make those things happen from now onwards.?

Some of the neutral words I have listed below, so use as appropriate to your situation:

Make
Happen
Please

Let me rephrase the following with some neutrals removed or made more positive: ?My life is rubbish, I can?t make things happen. Nothing good happens to me, always the bad things of life come my way. I want to change all of that, please help me make those things happen.?

Revised Order using positive words, as follows: ?Day by day, my life is improving. Good things happen. Good things come my way. Allow that to continue, as appropriate. I can continue making those things happen.?

Note the phrase: continue making those things happen. See how it actually gives an Order within the Order. You will find plenty of that in the 101 Orders within this book. Look out for them and incorporate such phraseology into your own Order(s).

I am sure you get the idea, and I am sure you could improve the way you phrase your Order(s) by use of clean language.

If you do not use clean language in the Order, the negative words can be literally taken as part of the Order, and then you wonder why your Order has gone adrift.

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17
Sep

Self Improvement Course : You Likely Already Know How To Be Wealthy

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

Have you heard someone saying this…

“If it’s so darn easy like what the personal self improvement books and seminars taught, how come I’m not a millionaire?”

I don’t have the answer.

But I do know how I became wealthy.

I was struggling at first until I realized the potential of what I’m about to share with you…

Belief in yourself.

Believe it or not, the limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.

Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.

In fact, I dare to bet that there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four minute mile, but were held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so simply because no one have done yet.

Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed. And thus, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds.

All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).

The same is true if you want to be a millionaire today, my friend.

Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars for a start?

Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars then?

Do you believe you can make six figures?

How about seven figures?

Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind– an amount that you believe you can make.

I know because I always have.

We can be motivated thinkers but the problem is, we’re somehow programmed not to think big in our society of living.

But you don’t have to bow down to your mind’s limits. Instead, be open and be free. Choose to make more. Believe that you can. Make it so. All you need to do is free your mind.

I mean, who’s going to sue you if you think big? No one.

So it’s to your own advantage to think big than small, isn’t it? You have nothing to lose.

A few years ago I experienced first-hand the limitations I allowed my mind to put on my activities. Let me explain…

Previously, I organized and marketed personal self improvement workshops as a business.

The crowd was never more than 30 people per intake.

I don’t know why but I could not figure out why I can’t get 100 in my room.

Then one day, I realized what was going on.

I was ‘blocking’ myself to the possibility of having more participants because I’ve been programmed that if I can get 50 for such type of workshop, I’m already doing a great job.

So my brain wasn’t trained to get more.

But one day, the speaker told me that I could get more. That’s all it takes. One voice changed my view and thinking pattern. The rest is history now.

It’s very interesting how our brain is receptive towards advice from an authority figure.

This leads me to another lesson learned from my life’s experience–

If you want to soar with the eagles, don’t hang around with ducks or chickens.

Let’s suppose you are making $100 a month from a business of yours, but you want to get to the $10,000 a month level.

The truth is if you can make $100, then you can make $10,000… after all, it’s just a matter of replicating what works, leveraging your previous success to snowball it into more success, and so on.

But of course many people don’t shoot from $100 to $10,000 overnight. Their mind needs to adjust to the idea. If they could free their mind, they could meet their income goals– quicker.

Hence the big question: how can you ever get to a higher level if your mind isn’t ready?

The answer is to start taking smaller steps.

You see, many people do it the other way. When they decide they want something, they take big steps to get what they want. For example, if they want to make $10,000 a month, they roll out big plans for big businesses.

But if their mind isn’t ready for this type of success, they won’t get there. Maybe they’ll sabotage themselves by doing something like choosing bad business partners or making other poor decisions.

Forget about those big steps. If your mind isn’t ready, it won’t work.

Instead, take small steps to begin building bridges between what you know you can do and what you want to do.

In a nutshell, you likely already know HOW to be wealthy. Now you just need to free your mind to believe that you can do it. Once you truly and fully accept that you can do it, you WILL do it.

Successful people know that training their mind to accept success is a very important task. Actually, it’s probably more important than knowing everything else in the world about becoming wealthy but doesn’t believe in himself.

Patric Chan

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16
Sep

Place to Learn the Insightful Facts About Clean Language

Posted By Tim in The Mind Set

I make no apologies for helping you gain what you want out of life. My own life was a living hell, I have been there myself. I remember waiting for my state handouts to be delivered through my letterbox by the postman, only to find the postman/woman walking on by without stopping to put my welfare cheque (in the UK we call it Jobseekers Allowance) through the door.

The worse thing was, it was a Saturday morning, there would be no more mail until the following Monday! How my stomach would growl over that weekend! By the time Monday arrived I was a wreck.

No-one can tell you that you do not deserve some extras in your life, and why shouldn’?t you have a better car, house, career, relationship, bank balance, holiday, health, education and the likes? This is what Cosmic Ordering is all about, and then thereafter you can go for the spiritual stages. You have to experience what it is like to have material pleasures to be able to see what lies beyond them. Without this experience you may always long for those material things you never had, but always coveted.

Get me, I sound like a right spiritual guru! I am not advocating anything spiritual or that you follow some spiritual path. Far from it. I want you to experience the pleasures of a materialistic world, I want you to have this in abundance, as only then can you know what I am talking about now.

You have to believe to receive. Problems are a learning experience. Unless a problem occurs, you will not learn why something happens the way it does.

Problems can cause you to become active in helping others. This is how many self-help organisations first started out. A new organisation is born. People will pay a lot of money for help with problem-solving. Any company that introduces a new product will hire people to report the problems they find, and then the company refines the product until it?s right.

One important point for you to digest, is never try to cover up a problem. Admit you have problems! What’?s the point of putting on a false smile and trying to make people think you are problem-free?

When you solve a problem that most people try to avoid or can?t solve, you get recognition and their admiration. You may become a hero or heroine.

They (problems) also give you the chance to invent new ways of doing something, new ways that will save you time and make you happier with your life.

You can have the admiration of all those people who encountered the same problems but didn?’t do anything to solve them.

You also will find that when you look at problems with a POSITIVE mind, you will accomplish more, relieve stress and succeed.

Just think of some of the everyday issues that you have tried to make better via an Order: violence, drugs, suicide, gangs, teen subcultures, home invasions, dishonesty, lawlessness, fear. All these things that you are uncomfortable about can be worth far more than money if they can be rectified.

Sometimes it is the negative characteristics of your community that you want to change. Such social problems worry almost every one of us but, until now, no one knew what to do about them. Only a minority of the population participates in such things. Yet that small minority upsets almost everyone to some degree.

Social problems will not decrease by themselves. Think about how much simpler and safer your life seemed to be 10 years ago, or 20 years ago. I know from the many communiqués I get from my Friends that they have lost faith in what they once depended on: police, courts, tribunals, politicians and disciplinarians in the education system to act against anti-social behaviour. Education was once a free right of everyone in the UK, yet look at the debts our students carry with them through their lives, all as a direct consequence of going to university. The problems get worse. So there are far more pressing cases than just asking the Cosmos for a cash windfall. We used to trust people in our communities. Now we don?t know if we can trust our neighbours.

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