Saturday, September 22, 2007

Think, Do and Grow Rich

Ever since I was in college, i've enjoyed downloading and reading self-help ebooks in every related category, and for free. Digital versions of popular paper self-help books, such as "The Science of Getting Rich", "As A Man Thinketh", and "Think and Grow Rich" (these were the very first books i've downloaded) were bestsellers back in their day, as they are popular downloads even now. These ebooks, as well as other self-help ebooks i've downloaded later, had something in common: that you had to switch your mind from what they call a "poverty mentality" to a "wealth mentality". Their hearts are in the right place, and they mean what they say about having a mindset of abundance and wealth. But there is one ingredient that they've left out, and Napoleon Hill should've renamed the title of his bestseller book: you've got to "Think, Do, and Grow Rich".

Walking the walk an talking the talk are interconnected; they can't be separated. You got to talk the talk to explain the reason of what you do. You got to walk the walk to back your words up. Thinking, doing and growing rich is the same thing. Thinking and visualizing is good and all, but like a GPS map to give you driving directions, alone it's not enough. Doing and fulfilling can take you to new places, but like a vehicle with fuel, alone it's not enough. Combining the two gives you a clear path on your goals and dreams. A GPS device that gives you driving directions is useless without a vehicle to take you to your desired location, and the other way around. Would you slave away at a 9-to-5 job and earning a paycheck only to blow it on something that won't help you in the long run? Would you think and think and think until you had a serious headache only to lose valuable time not doing what should've done to get to the dreams you've desired? One can't exist without the other. You can work harder and harder and harder until you've put yourself in the hospital, but without a goal, a desire or a dream to back your work up, if you don't work smarter as well, all of what you've done would be for nothing. Likewise, you can daydream about that sleek Lambo (short for Lamborghini), being driven to new places in a long limousine, a 100-room mansion on a tropical paradise setting overlooking an ocean with a sunset sight, a $500,000-a-week income, and an unlimited bank account, but if you don't actually do something to get closer to those dreams of yours, you'd be splurging in another way, and unlike money, Father Time doesn't give refunds.

So if you want something very badly, if you have a dream that you like to fulfill, you must remember to think first, do second, and then grow rich. Think about what you want, do something about it, and THEN grow rich. Not the other way around. Don't take thinking and doing separately. That's the fastest way to failure. Combining thinking and doing is the fastest way to success, and the life of your dreams.

The Simple Equation to Happiness

There are a whole lot of self-help, motivational, inspirational and success books and ebooks that pertain to developing the "Mindset of a Millionaire". There are also books and ebooks on techniques and strategies that may or may not make you rich, such as investing in stocks, opening a franchise, internet marketing, search enging optimization, etc. However, these two worlds, inner wealth (mindset) and outer wealth (money), when separate, are the reason why people don't achieve the lifestyle and don't live the lives of their dreams. It's sad to see that people struggle in life trying to make money, lose weight, quitting smoking, stop drinking and driving, and all the other things that they use as a stopgap measure for their problems. No wonder they're living their lives in misery, in pain, dreading Monday mornings when they have to go back to the dreaded 9-to-5 job, making someone else richer.

Almost 95% or 97% of the people on this big, blue-and-green planet in which we call "Earth" are currently tearing up their bodies, if not minds, hearts, souls or anything that keeps them alive, just for a measly paycheck that not only barely pays the bills, but puts the bread on the table. And when I mean "bread", I mean McDonald's fast-food restaurant bread, meaning that people spend so much on groceries that they don't have enough to save up for other important things such as retirement, leisure, vacations, and the other perks and pleasures of life that come in any and all shapes, sizes and types. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, a brain surgeon, or even the brain of Albert Einstein to see the full equation, and you don't even need to take up advanced math classes like calculus and trigonometry to understand it:

9-to-5 Job
X (multiplied by)
Struggle and Strain 5 days a week
X
1 month
= (equals)
gross 2-figure or 3-figure paycheck
- (subtracted by)
taxes that goes to the government
=
net 2-figure or 3-figure paycheck
/ (divided by)
2 necessities
=
(paying the bills; electricity, water, mortgage, etc.)
+ (added by)
(Food; groceries, fast-food, water, drinks, etc.)
X
lifetime
=
month > cashflow

This equation calculates to a life of mediocrity for the masses who keep doing what they're doing. But, there's good news: there is another equation, and it's very simple and easy to follow. This is for anyone, even high school dropouts and college dropouts.

Mindset (beliefs and mentality)
+
Knowledge (books and ebooks)
+
Applied Action (working 10% hard and 90% smart)
=
Success

Success is an inside job, yet it also takes applied action of learning and mindset to achieve the lifestyle you dream of. Not the other way around. You need to change your method of thinking first, and that means unlearning the poverty mindset apparent in everyone, including religions that fool you into thinking that poverty is a virtue, being poor is godly, and that wealth is a grave sin that will automatically guarantee you an eternity in Hell. No, you must move to a wealth mentality, one of abundance. It's not a sin to have a lot of money. Money itself is not the root of all evil. As a matter of fact, there is more. The love of money may be one of the roots of evil, but the LACK of money is another. Next, if you can't afford books or ebooks, then the internet is abundant and saturated with free ebooks in any form and format on several topics on wealth-building, success, motivation, prosperity, financial freedom, and other categories in between and related. Read through them. Don't just skim through them. Take them to heart. But choose the ebooks that make you feel easy enough to read them. Finally, apply what you've learned. Remember the lessons you've read and studied in those books and put them to good use. In an analogy, it's no use reading a driver's manual over and over again until your eyes dry up if you don't put it to good use by sitting in the driver's seat, inserting and turning the ignition key, putting your hand on the steering wheel and actually driving your car on the road. So remember this equation to happiness:

Mindset (beliefs and mentality)
+
Knowledge (books and ebooks)
+
Applied Action (working 10% hard and 90% smart)
=
Success

This will turn your life around for the better.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Pay to get paid?! It should be the other way around!

Yesterday, on Sept. 11, 2007, I got a magazine of Home Business Connection, and it's a magazine that has some home-based opportunities to make money, although not to get rich quick overnight. I looked in the ads section and at midnight, I went to some of the websites that are charging a por man's arm and leg ($100 to $1000 dollars or more) just to get started with them! One of them, Roadmap to Riches (http://tistheamericandream.com/), well, i'll quote what the website's pre-order page says on http://www.roadmaptoriches.com/jochoa/join.html:

The $49.95 a month subscription covers your hosting fee for your Roadmap to Riches flash movie and automated marketing mini-site to promote R.M.T.R. This fee also covers your auto-responder service and pre-written email system.
You can also go with our one-time, Admin payment option of $350, which eliminates ALL monthly Admin fees and gives you UNLIMITED access.
This is what makes my blood and stomach boil to no end! I've been to other places that vary and differ in prices and what they're selling, but offers like these, from a one-time payments of...let's see...maybe $600 dollars to monthly debt-inducing, wallet-draining payments of $125 dollars a month. (this is just an example, mind you!)
I'm only writing on how I feel about this situation, so i'll edit it later.
Remember my older post of the "It takes money to make money" Paradox? So now, why in God's (or any other deity or higher entity you believe) name should we, the little poor commoners, have to pay a king's ransom that we don't already have, to make a king's ransom that we WANT to have? That doesn't make any sense to me, or any of us poor people at all! I don't believe in such nonsense! In fact, it should be the other way around!
To me, if it takes money to make money, then at least it should take my STARTING PROFITS to make money. In other words, just like Lisa Diane whom I listen to when I travel anywhere, I only make money when I get money flowing to me first. When I earn money, I use that money to upgrade to better positions, not the other way around. When i'm paid after I do my efforts, THEN I pay.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

The "It Takes Money to Make Money" Paradox

I'm not only unsure, but I also have doubts about the phrase, "it takes money to make money". I'm writing this post because of how I felt about this unneccessary statement, especially after doing multiple searches on search engines like Google.

I just have my doubts about it overall.

Perhaps this is one of the "dreamslayers" that keeps people from living the life of their dreams, and instead implants a form of poverty consciousness in the form of fear and greed.

I would LOVE to create the life of my own dreams, but then again, as the poor people see it, you need money in order to live the life of your dreams. Currently, i'm one of them.

People see the rich in a poor person's viewpoint, and immediately assume or believe by default that perhaps Microsoft founder Bill Gates, multi-billionaire Donald Trump, or even TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, automatically had a fortune in order to make a higher fortune. Perhaps this is what hold the poor back from a rich lifestyle like them and forces them to give up and settle for a mediocre lifestyle of suffering and pain, struggle and strain.

It's a sad thing that people see this as a programmed reality. Even sadder that people are living their lives in poverty, and die with many great regrets of not living happier lives that they could've had, "if I had enough money" or any "if only" regrets of similar nature in relation to this phrase.

If it takes money to make money, you'd have to go get a job, perhaps one that you might hate. In a job, you're not only trading your time for money, but you're also trading your health for money. No wonder people come home tired and slowly becoming burned out and disillusioned after a week of struggle and strain that's known as so-called "hard work". The truth is that wealth won't matter to you if you don't have good health to enjoy it.

It's not possible to enjoy your million dollars if you don't feel like a million dollars.

This truth is so simple, that it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a knowledge of Calculus or Euclidean advanced mathematics to understand that.

You'd also had to borrow money in order to make money in the form of loans and credit cards. After borrowing money from a money lender, you may have to put up collateral, or replacement as an option. If you use a credit card and max it out, you have to pay the full amount you spent at a future date. If you're unsuccessful in making money from loans or credit cards, two things can happen:

1. The money lender can keep your replacement as long as he wants until you make the borrowed money you wasted back to give back to the lender, or...

2. You'll start sinking and drowning in a sea of debt from your credit card "investments". A sea of collection notices, bills and/or invoices that you couldn't pay back causing your credit score to drop lower and lower to the negatives.

So if you want to make money and enjoy wealth, don't EVER borrow money from loans and credit cards unless it's a serious life-and-death emergency, AND as a last resort!

Don't EVER go into debt just because you want to make money and become wealthy. Debt and wealth are like gasoline and a lit-up match: they are dangerous to mix!

They say that it takes money to make money, but if that was the case, NOBODY, AND I MEAN NO ONE, not Bill Gates, not Warren Buffet, not Oprah Winfrey, not Donald Trump, not Mark Cuban, NO ONE would create the life that they dreamed of. In fact, if it did take money to make money, wealth would never exist in the first place.

Thanks to this "dreamslayer", we STILL live our lives shackled in the chains of poverty, or what I call, "financial slavery". Even worse than the pharaoh that made slaves out of Moses's people in biblical times, even worse than the enslaved African-Americans during the pre-Civil War times in the 1800s, and even worse than the Jews trapped at gunpoint and killed in concentrated camps like Auschwitz during the final times of World War II.

That's not only a sad phrase, but a sad belief given from one generation of people to another in their lives. It's like a vicious loop of domestic violence, and feeling helpless about it against superior people.

So isn't it about time to break out of that dangerous circle of belief, and start finding creative ways to invent money to live the life of your dreams, even with a thin wallet, an empty merchant account, or no money (not even a penny) in your own name?

Here's one solution that i've encountered, and this one's a surefire winner. You won't be able to get rich quick off of this site, but at least it's a worthy start:

Join Associated Content

Also, here's an interesting article that can help you find the solution to the problem:

http://www.gioinc.biz/articles/ItDoesntTakeMoneyToMakeMoney.html

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Lisa Diane and the Million Dollar Desire

To start things off, I love to listen to Lisa Diane, the owner of the 6M profit method, and voice of the "Million Dollar Desire". If you don't know anything about her, then let me tell you a little bit about her rags-to-riches story.

Back in the early 1990s, Lisa Diane owned a business along with her partner, and they were successful. They had nothing at first, but over time they had over 12 employees, and they had a very decent cashflow to keep them on their feet.

But overnight the industry changed, and unfortunately, for Lisa, for the worst.

She had a lot of debt up to her eyeballs, up to over $50,000 dollars, a negative balance in every last one of her three checking accounts, bill collectors became a plague to her as they called her at all hours of the day and night. Her health was falling apart due to the stress she was suffering. Her house was about to be foreclosed at any time, and yet, to make matters even worse, while she and her son went with her friends to a Little League game, her car, the only item that she had, was reposessed by the repo men. Snatched up while she wasn't looking, and snatched while she wasn't there at all.

As she went home, she freaked out at the sight of her car that was gone, and thought someone stole it. She was about to call the cops, but at that time, her neighbor came over. Lisa told the neighbor of her situation, and the neighbor said "it wasn't stolen. It was reposessed."

It felt like an atomic bomb to her, knowing she lost her car right at a VERY worse time. Right at the time that she had a mountain of debts, bills and collection notices.

But at the same time, she made a discovery that totally turned her life around in less than 6 months. She used it to start a small business with no skills, no training, no experience, and no cash at all. That same small business earned her $653,000 dollars in that length of time. The other half of the year, she made a full million.

Now she is doing more than just living the life of her dreams. She now owns a Burgundy Jaguar XJ6, living in a waterfront estate where the sunsets are gorgeous, having a $10,000 a week income, and having more than $25,000 in her bank account.

Do you want to know what turned her life around? It's the 5 Magic Words: "Your Thoughts Create Your Life".

Don't take my word for it. Take it from someone who's benn through it all. Take some time in your life to download the 30-minute MP3, "Million Dollar Desire", from her site below.

http://www.6mprofitmethod.com/freeaudio


Also, you can learn more about the 6M Profit Method on her 6M Blog. Last time I heard, that if you participate regularly at her blog, you get the "6M Profit Method" for free, and not pay the $997 dollars. No wonder the page with replies has 700 pages and up. This can all be found at:

http://www.6mblog.com/

Welcome to my new Sancuary!

Welcome to the Library of LXNdria's Dual Sanctuary of Success Blog, where you can download the tools and tomes for no cost, no sign-up forms, no complications of any kind. However, since success is an inside job, as stated by Lisa Diane, there will be two separate libraries in one.

From PDFs, to EXE files, to ZIP files containing such information, you'll find all of what you need to live your dreams. LXN stands for "the Library EXtensions Network", and this blog is divided into two different free library blogs: The Emerald Library for tools and utilities to help you succeed in life (outer wealth), and the Gold Library, filled with knowledge on all sorts of categories pertaining to wealth, prosperity, happiness, and other self-help books (inner wealth), all free of charge and with sometimes an instant download, and a link to another website that has the file.

This blog serves as the main center of the Dual Sanctuary, and it has descriptions and links to websites pertaining to living your dreams in the categories of:

-success
-wealth building and creation
-prosperity
-financial freedom
-motivation
-quantum physics (not math)
-and everything in between

I will update the blog as often as I can by uploading and posting the links to the programs and books you need to create multiple streams of income.

For the Emerald Library of the DSS: http://dss-el.blogspot.com/

For the Gold Library of the DSS: http://dss-gl.blogspot.com/

While you're here, come on in and make yourself at home.