How to Add Value to Your Life By Saying Yes

How often do you say yes?

No really, think about that.  If a friend calls you to hang out, do you usually oblige or make an excuse for why the couch and a Dominos pizza sounds better?  If a Twitter follower of yours who you’ve never heard of wants to have a Skype conversation or go for a beer, do you go for it?
Every once in awhile I find myself falling into the no zone.  The no zone is when you think you’re too busy, lazy or a combination of both to open yourself up to the opportunities that present themselves to you in life.
The no zone sucks.  Its a terrible place to be, and if you’re there for very long, you’re going to be missing out on a lot more than just the occasional night on the town.
Last Thursday I got a phone call from Markus of Living on Impulse. Markus is a guy who I deeply respect and have been wanting to meet up with in person all year.  He very simply said he was getting a bunch of the best thinkers he knew and having them come out to his beach house in Florida for the weekend.  Sounds awesome right?  It meant canceling all my plans for the weekend, and hopping on a plane in less than 24 hours.
Part of me kept wanting to say no.  It would mean bailing on plans with friends, rushing to get some work done, and generally adapting to an offer quicker than most people like to do.

On the beach in Siesta Key, Florida

But luckily I said yes and was treated to one of the best weekends in recent memory.  Not only is he awesome, but the group of people he brought out were some of the most successful and interesting I’ve met in awhile.  I left with a totally new outlook on my life and business.

That’s a pretty powerful result for merely saying “yes”.

Over the weekend a question was posed, and I find myself still reflecting upon it. The question was:
“If you could do any one thing, anywhere in the world, right now – what would it be?”
Think about that yourself, and come up with an answer.
Now, if someone called you up and offered you that very thing for free, but you had to leave in 20 minutes, would be able to say yes?  Would you be able to drop everything in your life to do something great? For some reason, I fell like most people out there would say no.
Work obligations, laziness, fear, whatever it is, I think most people would turn down the offer.  Would you?
If my theory is true, then I can only imagine the opportunities people are passing up on a daily basis.  Sure, many of those may not seem quite so awesome on the surface, but you never know where “yes” will lead you.
So now that you’re consciously thinking about your propensity to answer yes, how do you actually start using the word more?

Easy.

Next time someone asks you to do something for them, just say yes.  Regardless whether or not you think it will benefit you, just say yes.
If you’re debating between doing something or not, just do it.  Over the long term, the benefits of a life of yes will far outweigh any negatives that might be associated with any one given decision.
I suppose all of that said, I should add a disclaimer.  If you’re considering going on a murderous rampage, jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, or committing any kind of financial fraud – then you may be better off saying no. But everything else, go for it! Ok almost…
I attribute any success I’ve had in my life over the past year to saying yes.  Should I move to Thailand and go to work for a complete stranger? Yes.  Fly to places like the Philippines or Florida on a whim? Yes. Buy an expensive(ish) camera when my finances were a bit up in the air? Yes.
I’m not enouraging you to do anything irresponsible, but I think you get where I’m going with this.
What have you said yes to lately that has changed your life?  Or perhaps more importantly, what have you missed out on because you were in the no zone?

7 Main Differences Between Rich And Poor People

Rich or poor, which category do you fit in?
Most people want to be rich, but most of them are poor, why?
There must be some differences between rich people and poor people. If you study carefully, you will find out why rich and successful people are able to produce amazing results in their life, and why some people are living in poverty.
To be rich and successful, you don’t need to be lucky, extremely hard working or you need to have a college diploma or a university degree.
What you need, is the right mindset and the right mindset will form the right habit. As a result, the right habit will lead you toward the financial abundance kind of lifestyle that you always desire.
So here are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people…
1. Rich people believe that they create their lives while poor people believe that life happens to them. Can you see why rich and successful people are able to create amazing results in their life right now?
It is simply because they are in control of their lives. They believe that they are the ones who is responsible for their lives, they are the ones who is creating their future, not the economy or the knowledge or luck.
On the other hand, poor people will always give excuses and blame on the circumstances. When they failed in their business, they will blame the economy, their boss, their family or anything that did not go according to their plan.
Whenever you believe that life happens to you, you will lose the power to change and the power to control your future. You must believe that you’re the one who is creating your future, not other people or events.
2. Rich people play the money game to win but poor people play the money game just not to lose money. This is a big mindset difference.
Have you ever seen people invest in the stock market? Some people are so afraid that they will lose their money and they form a mindset that blocks their creativity. They formed the mindset of ‘investing not to lose the money’.
However, rich and successful people know exactly how they need to think in order to win the game of money. They will think and act from the view of playing the game to win. Unlike poor people, they will never invest just not to lose the money.
3. Rich people think and focus on opportunities while poor people focus on obstacles. When you face with problems, what are you focus on?
Are you focus on the problems, thinking how bad the situation is going to be? Or are you focusing on the solution and thinking about how you can solve or even turn the situation into opportunity?
Think about this carefully. No matter who you are, you will definitely face with all kinds of choices in your life. And when you need to decide to move on, try to notice on you thinking, what do you focus on, the solution, or the problem?
4. Rich people dare to dream big, poor people think small. When I tell my parents that I want to make a million dollar, they will tell me, “Why do you need so much money? You can live a very good lifestyle if you got a job that has a good pay. You don’t need to be a millionaire.”
I don’t know about you, but this statement happens to me all the time. And I definitely believe that poor people will tend to think small while rich people always think big.
To poor people, they will think that rich people are greedy because they always think big. Is it true that you are being greedy if you think big? I don’t know if I buy this, but to me, I’ll think of it as a waste if you’re not using the resources available (your thinking) to you at full.
Don’t you owe it to everyone around you to create a better life for them? Don’t you want your family to live good? So think big and create the abundance lifestyle for these people right now.
5. Rich people are committed to their dreams, poor people are just dreaming about their dreams. Yes, this is an obvious one.
If you’re not committed to be rich, you can never be rich. How many times have you heard people say that they want to be rich, but they never do anything about it?
This is the mentality of poor people. They will just think about how good it is going to be if they are rich, but they will never do anything about their dreams. They know that they cannot afford a luxury car if they have a low pay job. The thing is, they never do anything to change it.
On the contrary, rich and successful people are committed toward their dreams. They will do whatever it takes, in the boundary or moral and ethics of course, to achieve their dreams.
6. Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people. Do you have any rich friends? Or all of your friends are poor?
I’m not suggesting that you need to stop making friends with poor people, what I’m suggesting it, try to get to know more about rich people. The more you mix with them, the more you will think like them. And if you think like them, you will start to create amazing results just like them.
If most of your friends are poor and their working salary all are below, $2,000, you will be having the same range of salary most of the time. However, if you associate with rich people who are making $2,000 in just a day, you will start to see the possibility of what you can accomplish in your life.
And this will change your thinking of what you can achieve in your life. $2,000 will become a small amount for you once you changed your mindset about money.
7. Rich people good learners while poor people think that they have learned everything in the world. One of the fastest ways to be financially abundance is to learn directly from people who have already achieved this status.
And if you’re not willing to learn, you will never be able to be successful. If you want to get the best pay, you must be the best. And the only way you can be the best is to learn from the best and learn to be the best.
You now know what are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people. Do what rich people do and try to avoid the adopting the mindset and habits of the poor.
This will guarantee you a financial abundance lifestyle.

How to Really Begin Adding Value

How to Really Begin Adding Value

Many of us have been brought up to think that there is only so much to go around and we must grab what we can before other people get our share. But there is another paradigm which insists on the importance of community, emphasizing our interconnectedness and interdependence. In this view, helping others, giving something of ourselves and reaching out are the keys to success and happiness.

Einstein wrote, ‘Only a life lived for others is worth living.’ This idea can sometimes be called adding value. Why is this way of looking at things so valuable?

1. When you add value, the whole that you produce is greater than the sum of the parts which produced it. Unlike the ‘not enough pie to go round’ paradigm, the adding-value paradigm insists that when you enrich the life of someone else, the pie gets bigger and there is more for us all.


2. It makes the world a better place for all of us. When you help someone, you add value to their life and you make the world a better place. Whether you’re a teacher who helps a student to pass an exam or encourages him to apply for university, or an author who writes a book that helps thousands of people, you make the world better for all of us, including yourself.


3. You’re going to get a whole lot in return. This is not the reason for doing it, of course, but it’s a fact – when you give you receive. Maybe not in the way you think, but when you really try to add value with no expectation of reward, the rewards start rolling in. Life is strange like that!


4. It makes you feel good. Steven Covey, in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, speaks about an inner darkness which is created when you live a life without integrity. Living a life of integrity and value is the only way to truly feel good about yourself.


5. It brings opportunity. If you become known as someone who always helps, always tries to find a solution, you’ll win friends and influence people. There are two kinds of person, my friend (can you guess the movie?), problem people and solution people. Which are you seen as? You future success could depend on being in the right category.

So how do we add value? What can we do to experience this rich and rewarding way of living? Here are some examples of how to make sure you are adding value in every situation as much as you can.

1. Make sure you know what you can do. What are your skills? What are you good at? These are the tools which will allow you to add value.


2. Do what you love. When you do the things you love, adding value comes naturally. Look at Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Madonna, or any number of rich and successful people: what do they have in common? They do what they love! And they are successful because they add value naturally.


3. If you’re not adding value, get out! If you’re in a job where you don’t feel you’re systematically adding something, either you need to change the way you’re doing things, or it’s time to quit. You can do better.


4. Adding value will guide you to the right job or enterprise. If you have a choice of two or more paths, be they career paths or anything else, always choose the one that allows you to add the most value. This will keep you in alignment with your true purpose in life and will, ultimately, bring you greater happiness and greater reward.


5. Keep on learning new things and expanding your comfort zone. This is how you learn more skills which will enable you to add more value. Go on a course, do a part time degree, put together a website, write a novel – but do something new.


6. Don’t be scared to fail. When you do something new, you’ll do it badly and you might even be afraid to do it at all. If and when you do fail, you might not want to go through the experience again. But if you push through that initial failure, pick yourself up and keep going, you’ll start to improve and eventually you’ll be good at what you’re doing.


7. Encourage other people. Try to get the best out of people – encourage them to be the best they can be. This will inspire them to take their own risks and add their own value to the world.

19 Things Your Suburban Millionaire Neighbor Won’t Tell You

By Len Penzo

That’s right.  Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.
In fact, Reuters reports that in 2009 there were 7.8 million millionaires in the United States.
That’s a lot of people, people.  And the odds are one or two of them are living near you.
Heck, one of them might even be your neighbor.  In fact, the odds are very good that it is your neighbor.
But, Len, you don’t know my neighbor.  That guy doesn’t look anything like a millionaire.
Well, guess what?  Your suburban millionaire neighbor called (oh yeah, we go way back) and the two of us had a nice little chat.
Here’s a few things he shared with me – but apparently doesn’t want to tell you.  (No offense, I’m sure.)
1. He always spends less than he earns.  In fact his mantra is, over the long run, you’re better off if you strive to be anonymously rich rather than deceptively poor.
2. He knows that patience is a virtue. The odds are you won’t become a millionaire overnight.  If you’re like him, your wealth will be accumulated gradually by diligently saving your money over multiple decades.
3.  When you go to his modest three-bed two-bath house, you’re going to be drinking Folgers instead of Starbucks.  And if you need a lift, well, you’re going to get a ride in his ten-year-old economy sedan.  And if you think that makes him cheap, ask him if he cares.  (He doesn’t.)
4. He pays off his credit cards in full every month.  He’s smart enough to understand that if he can’t afford to pay cash for something, then he can’t afford it.
5. He realized early on that money does not buy happiness.  If you’re looking for nirvana, you need to focus on attaining financial freedom.
6. He never forgets that financial freedom is a state of mind that comes from being debt free.  Best of all, it can be attained regardless of your income level.
7. He knows that getting a second job not only increases the size of your bank account quicker but it also keeps you busy – and being busy makes it difficult to spend what you already have.
8. He understands that money is like a toddler; it is incapable of managing itself.  After all, you can’t expect your money to grow and mature as it should without some form of credible money management.
9. He’s a big believer in paying yourself first. Paying yourself first is an essential tenet of personal finance and a great way to build your savings and instill financial discipline.
10. Although it’s possible to get rich if you spend your life making a living doing something you don’t enjoy, he wonders why you do.  Life is too short.
11.  He knows that failing to plan is the same as planning to fail.  He also knows that the few millionaires that reached that milestone without a plan got there only because of dumb luck.   It’s not enough to simply declare that you want to be financially free.
12. When it came time to set his savings goals, he wasn’t afraid to think big.  Financial success demands that you have a vision that is significantly larger than you can currently deliver upon.
13. Over time, he found out that hard work can often help make up for a lot of financial mistakes – and you will make financial mistakes.
14. He realizes that stuff happens, that’s why you’re a fool if you don’t insure yourself against risk. Remember that the potential for bankruptcy is always just around the corner and can be triggered from multiple sources: the death of the family’s key bread winner, divorce, or disability that leads to a loss of work.
15. He understands that time is an ally of the young.  He was fortunate enough to begin saving in his twenties so he could take maximum advantage of the power of compounding interest on his nest egg.
16. He knows that you can’t spend what you don’t see.  You should use automatic paycheck deductions to build up your retirement and other savings accounts.  As your salary increases you can painlessly increase the size of those deductions.
17. Even though he has a job that he loves, he doesn’t have to work anymore because everything he owns is paid for – and has been for years.
18. He’s not impressed that you drive an over-priced luxury car and live in a McMansion that’s two sizes too big for your family of four.
19. After six months of asking, he finally quit waiting for you to return his pruning shears.  He broke down and bought himself a new pair last month.  There’s no hard feelings though; he can afford it.
So that’s it.  Now you know what your millionaire neighbor won’t tell you.
Oh, and, um, would you be so kind to keep this just between you and me?  I’d hate to ruffle anyone’s feathers or cause of any kind of neighborly spat.
Please?
Thanks.  You’re a peach.

20 Things The Millionaire Next Door Does NOT Do

20 Things The Millionaire Next Door Does NOT Do

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The millionaire next door does a lot to get ahead, but you can be pretty sure the list excludes the following 20 points.
The millionaire next door does NOT:

1. Pay for Lawn Service – You could save $150 a month, get some healthy exercise and maybe even a bit of a tan just by mowing your own yard.
2. Go to a Hair Stylist – Even the cheapest barber shops charge men $15 - $20 for a haircut these days. If you’re a woman, it may cost well over $50 a visit. Dying your hair? You’re broke!
3. Use Time as a Measurement for Success – The millionaire next door measures success based on output quality, the results. The amount of time spent on something means nothing if the results do not meet the expectations.
4. Buy Brand New Cars – Why would anyone pay the full retail price worth half a year’s salary for the fastest depreciating assent on Earth? We are brainwashed!
5. Carry a Monthly Credit Card Balance – Carrying a monthly credit card balance only makes sense if you enjoy poverty. Monthly interest payments can add up to hundreds of dollars over the course of a year. Do not buy “stuff” right now that you cannot afford to pay for in cash right now!
6. Eat Out on a Regular Basis – With the recent price increases in corn, wheat and dairy products, preparing your own food is already expensive enough. If you eat out you will pay triple the price. If done on a regular basis you will waste a few thousand dollars a year.
7. Think He Knows It All – People who think they know it all stop learning and thus become unaware of new opportunities. Once you lose awareness, you lose.
8. Socialize with People Who Waste Money – The people you socialize with influence your habits. It is impossible to save money if you constantly hang around people who blow it all.
9. Desire Instant Gratification – You have to think long-term to attain long-term success. The millionaire next door desires long-term deferred compensation over instant gratification.
10. Pay Retail for Name Brand Clothing – You can easily save hundreds of dollars a year on clothing purchases by waiting for sales or shopping at discount retailers like Marshalls. Better yet, avoid name brand clothing all together.
11. Keep His Money in a Checking Account – If you want to increase your wealth you have to set your money up to make more money. Most checking accounts yield little to nothing in interest. Think long-term (5 years +). Invest in quality stocks, bonds and mutual funds, especially those with high yield dividends and interest. Or buy some land in an area with growth potential.
12. Replace What is Not Broken – The millionaire next door fixes things. Fixing something is usually significantly cheaper than buying a brand new replacement, especially if you fix it yourself.
13. Visit the Tanning Bed – $25 a month for skin cancer? Where do I sign up? If you want a tan, move to Florida. For those that live in Florida and still go to the tanning bed… WOW!
14. Impulse Buy – Impulse buying wastes money and leads to a cluttered house full of “stuff” you don’t need or use. If you see something you like at the mall, walk away. Think on it for a day or two. If it still holds value in your mind, maybe it’s worth buying. Never buy something the first time you see it.
15. Waste Time on Senseless Activities – They say time is money. In actuality, time is far more important than money. Time is your life. If you waste it, you will fail.
16. Focus His Attention on Negative Obstacles – If you focus all your attention on negative obstacles, you will lose sight of the finish line. You can’t get there if you can’t see it.
17. Bet The Farm – The millionaire next door takes evenly weighted, calculated risks on long term investments. If you go “all in”, you’re gambling, not investing.
18. Fly First-class – Would you pay $400 to sit in a leather chair for a couple of hours? That’s exactly what you do when you fly first class. Huge waste of money!
19. Rent – The millionaire next door has a long-term mindset. In the long-term, owning something is always more cost effective than renting it. The key is to purchase quality products for long-standing use.
20. Earn Every Dollar He Makes at His Day Job – Two words: Passive Income. You can be sure the millionaire next door invests his money wisely. These investments create a solid passive income stream that grows over time. If your money isn’t making you more money, you’ll never be wealthy.

How to Know Your Life Purpose plus How You Can Make a BIG Difference

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How to Know Your Life Purpose plus How You Can Make a BIG Difference (From the works of Buckminster Fuller & Dr W. Edwards Deming. The pictures of flipcharts are from a seminar I did called "Money & You". See www.excellerated.com.). Have you ever set a goal and achieved it? And then felt flat afterwards? This has happened to most of us. If we feel flat after achieving a goal, then maybe the goal isn't what's important. So if it's not important, why do we set goals? I'll get to that. We all know of the many problems facing the earth and its people. And I believe that most people would like to do something about it, but they don't do much about it because they believe that what they do will not make any difference. That was how I used to feel. Then one day I did a seminar where I learned about the teachings of American Buckminster Fuller. I learned about my life purpose, and how I can make a big difference. Buckminster Fuller is one of the greatest inventors and thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a story that his life was once like most people's, full of going to parties, football etc. He was a bit of a ``wild lad" in the early days.  Then something happened which changed his life forever.  His daughter Alexandra who was only around 6 years old was very sick at that time. He left the house one day, promising to be back soon. Before he left, he promised Alexandra he would bring her back one of the small flags that they have at the football, as it was her birthday. Buckminster Fuller didn't return home after the football. He didn't return home for three days. Presumably he was partying. When he finally arrived home, his wife told him to not waste time apologising to her, but to go upstairs and see his daughter immediately. Alexandra had taken a turn for the worse. When Fuller picked up his daughter up in his arms, he said hello to her. Then she asked him if he had it. This disappointment was enough to end her slender hold on life. She died in his arms. After that Fuller felt so bad he went for a walk, and decided to end his life. But , the story goes that he heard a voice saying something along the lines - ``You do not have the right to end your life. It is not yours to end. Your life has a purpose. You have not yet done what you came here to do." After that he began to search for the purpose of life, God and the universe. He sought to discover what, if anything, could be done by a penniless, unknown man working on behalf of all humanity. First of all, he stopped talking for two years!  He realised that words had tremendous power. Words had often got him into trouble. He vowed to not speak until he was sure exactly what was the effect and meaning of any word. He believed that there was a force (call it evolution, great spirit, God) which is intent upon making people so successful that they can all live at a standard of living much higher than that achieved by ANYONE else before. He wanted to know what rules God used in setting up this universe. He went onto to discover what he called "Generalised Principles" of the universe. These are principles that are true in all cases. Most of these principles are in the form of advanced mathematics which I have not gone into. If you are interested, read his books "Synergetics". I will be explaining some of the Generalised Principles that you can apply to your life. Using these principles will help you to: Make a big positive difference in the world. Increase the amount of happiness and blessings in your life. Fulfill your life's purpose. PRECESSION The first Generalised Principle we will look at is called:

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Precession is not PROcession, which means movement in a line. Precession is:

I will give you a few examples to explain this. What happens when you drop a stone into some water?

Ripples go out. That is, there is a side effect to the main effect. And the side effect can be very large. Here is another example. It is possible, just possible, that the honey bee has a life purpose. What would that life purpose be? To pollinate plants, to keep life on earth going. We wouldn't exist if it wasn't for honey bees. But do you think the honey bee gets up each morning and says to herself that she has to cross pollinate plants? No. She just has - what goal? To collect nectar to make honey.

Precession happens at right angles to the direction of motion. It's a side effect. In the case of the honey bee, the side effect is what? The pollination of plants, and the maintenance of life on earth.

So, it's just possible that pollinating plants is the bee's TRUE PURPOSE.

Now, if the honey bee has a true purpose, who else do you think may have a true purpose in life? Us of course.

So here's the cosmic joke. If the goal was your life purpose, and you achieved it, what would happen? You'd stop. But once you stop, there is no precession, no side-effects - and it's the side -effect, not the goal, that is your life purpose. Humans are MEANT to be IN MOTION. Fuller looked at the fact that NO ANIMAL HAD TO EARN A LIVING. They are just doing what they are supposed to do. If they do that, then nature & God looks after them. So he hypothesized that perhaps that is the way that it is meant to run for us. Maybe we don't have to go after money. Maybe for each one of us, there is something that we are supposed to be doing. And if we do that, then God and the universe will look after us. The real fruit of what we would be doing would not be obvious to us, because it would be at right angles to the goal we set. It would happen as a side effect. The trick is to set the right goals. How do we know if the goal we set is creating the right side effects? He said that we are not meant to go after money. He suggested that instead we set a goal that 'adds value'. That is, that improves the quality of people's lives or of the earth. Maybe that's why people like to help each other. Subconsciously they know that through doing that they are achieving their life purpose. Listen to the 'Taps on the Shoulder' One way of knowing whether or not we have set the right goals is by listening to the 'taps on the shoulder'. These can be positive taps (blessings) or negative taps. If something bad happens to us, we could take this as a 'learning experience'. We can also consider that it may be a negative tap on the shoulder. Perhaps there is something that we are doing (or not doing) that is different from what we are supposed to be doing. The trouble with most people, and a reason why their lives may be in a mess, is that they don't listen to the taps on the shoulder.  They think that they are just `bad luck' - and don't stop to consider whether or not the fact that they themselves have anything to do with this `bad luck'.

For ten years I have run my life on this information. Bit by bit, more and more blessings came into my life. I kept meeting people who would help me, or give me information or material support that I would normally never have got hold of. Eventually even my cashflow improved. Certainly my health and happiness and the love in my life improved. And perhaps best of all was a sense of knowing that there really IS a purpose to my life. Life gained a meaning and a quiet excitement that it didn't have before. Our purpose is to ADD VALUE to the lives of others, and to the earth - to improve QUALITY OF LIFE. Our purpose is not to make money. Precession is a Generalised Principle that can make good come out of bad. For example, in the early days the king asked the men to make metal swords. What was the precession, the side-effect, from this? The metal plough, which meant that more people could be fed with less work. What was a side effect of the space program that put man on the moon? The transistor radio. Get into MOTION! With other people who are IN MOTION!  And improve the QUALITY of life! What is the most important word in the definition of precession? In MOTION. So do you think that there's much precession while your sitting watching TV? Nope. Get into action. Do SOMETHING. Preferably do something that ADDS VALUE. Then start to watch for the positive taps on the shoulder. Also note that part of the definition of precession is "the effect of bodies in motion on OTHER BODIES IN MOTION ". Don't waste time talking to people who don't want to hear what you have to say. Or who are watching TV. Interact with others who are in motion. What is the life expectancy of most people after they retire? ONLY THREE YEARS!  Once they are not in motion, they are no longer achieving their life purpose - and so there is no more point in them being alive. But people don't need to stop being in motion just because they don't have a job.   On the contrary, once they retire there are plenty of things to do. Here are just a few ideas of how you can cause precession and make a positive difference to your life and the people of earth, no matter what your current situation: Volunteer to help WaterAid.org. One Billion people do not have any access to clean water. The average woman has to walk 6 miles a day to collect filthy, muddy, manure-filled water. Just $25 gives clean water to one person for life. This gets these people out of extreme poverty because they no loner waste money on medicine and the children have enough health and time to go to school. Run for office. We need honest people who are cannot be bought by anyone. Plant trees & bushes (birds need bushes, not just trees). Learn about natural health. Start by learning kinesiology. Do educational travel with a purpose. Teach children the things that are REALLY important. Teach adults the things that are really important. Learn a new language & translate useful information for a website for those people Learn a new skill. Lean about investments. Donate and get involved with helping WaterAid.org Homeschool your children. Find ways to solve the world's problems and start to implement them. Be of service to homeless people. Learn to build a concrete house properly (that is safe from hurricanes). Learn to build an underground house (that is safe from tornadoes). Attend conferences and seminars. Research a favorite topic. Pray for improvements in our world. Protect the environment. Teach people in foreign countries. Write a magazine or website article that makes a difference. I heard that the American revolution was not won by the people. It was won by about 10% of the people. Presumably the people who were IN MOTION. There's a lot to this. I will try to cover as much of the important things as I can. Don't Give up your Job (yet) When I first learned about Precession I got excited. I thought my job was to save the world. That sounded a lot more fun than my 9-5 job, so I quit my job. Guess what? That wasn't it, at that time in my life. It was hard to be in motion when I didn't have enough money to pay the rent. One should not become a rescuer. In some way, my job was adding value. One secret of happiness is not doing what you love, but loving what you do. Instead, for now, start to see how you can add value FROM your job. You are there for a reason. And while you're doing that, you may want to start thinking of a new type of job or career, one that adds more value than your present one does. Buckminster Fuller's theory that your job was not to make money. It was to add value to others. He believed that 70% of the jobs on earth were not directly contributing to the life-support of the people. Many are making money from money. Or moving paper from one desk to another. The key is balance. It is unbalanced to work only for money, and only for yourself and your family. It is also unbalanced to NOT work for yourself and your family, to work only for others. While you are in your present job, work out how you can add value in your spare time. You are there for a reason. I started doing things in the evenings and on the weekend. Eventually enough positive taps came into my life where I got a much better and higher paying job. And year's later was able to work full time at what I loved to do. Find a Goal that Adds Value to others or to the earth, that you can commit to for at least 20 years Have you ever known (or been) someone who just couldn't stick to one line of work for long? Precession explains why this happens. What happens when we get in motion? The waves go out. Suddenly, off to the left and right new opportunities appear.

So what do some people do? They get bored with what they're doing, and go after the new things that they see. Trouble is, once they do that, the waves then go out again, to either side of their line of motion.

Again, they see new opportunities arise off to the side. Again they change direction.

This goes on forever.

Which is not to say that it is bad. It is good to experience many different things. But these people end up going around in circles. They never stick with any one thing long enough to become a MASTER at it. They don't build up a network of contacts and a store of knowledge, expertise, wealth etc. to make as big a difference as they would have if they had stayed in roughly one direction for a longer period of time. The answer? Find a goal that ADDS VALUE and that you REALLY LOVE. That you REALLY CARE about. And CLEARLY CHOOSE to commit to stick with that for a long period of time, say at least 20 years. You may find that changes occur along the way. You may end up achieving your goal in a way that you would never have thought possible. For example, if your goal is to improve health, you may end up not being a doctor. You may work in health food stores, write books and work with natural health instead. If your goal is to improve education, you may end up running for office rather than becoming a teacher. Work out what you want to ACHIEVE. Work out what the final end result will look like. Don't work out how you are going to do it, or what your are going to be to do it. For example, make a goal "To have cancer no more on the face of the earth" rather than to "Be a doctor".   For more information on this, see ``How to have what you want". As well as work which provides money for you, you may do things that earn you no monetary reward directly. The blessings (positive taps) will flow to you in other ways (and sometimes in the form of money as well). If other goals occur to you along your journey, you may want to do them as well. Just so long as your main eye is still on your main goal which adds value. The other goals will probably end up helping your main goal. Knowing Your True Life Purpose So the joke is - you will probably never fully know your true life purpose. But know that if you are in motion and adding value (improving the quality of life), you are achieving it. Especially if you are getting positive taps on the shoulder. Some people sit around meditating to "find out what their life purpose is". Guess what, this is not how to do it. Meditation is good if that helps people to work out what goals to set. And to be more effective and aware. But if there's no motion, there's no precession. People don't start achieving their purpose until they get into motion. Imagine if the honey bees decided to start meditating and stopped collecting nectar! What goal should you set? It is suggested that if you know of something which needs doing, and nobody's doing it, THEN THAT'S YOUR JOB. PRECESSION BY ARTEFACT An artefact is "an object produced or shaped by human workmanship". It could be a book, song, invention, webpage, movie, building or magazine article that adds value. Once it is made, and 'out there', it will be producing it's own precession. This is a very powerful way to make a difference. If you want to learn more about Precession, read ``Critical Path" by Buckminster Fuller.  Details of this book are given at the end of this article. MAKE MISTAKES AND LEARN FROM THEM It is possible that a major reason why more people don't get into motion is the fear of making mistakes. This is unfortunate because one of the MAIN ways we learn is by making mistakes. When a baby makes its first efforts to walk - what happens? He stands up - then falls down. Does the baby then think - "I'm so embarrassed. I'll never do that again". No. He stands up - falls down - stands up - falls down - and keeps on going until he makes it. We can all walk, so we have probably all been through this. But somewhere along the line the ego and fear of other's opinions seems to get in the way. People start wanting to never make mistakes. The only way to do that is to do nothing. So they do nothing. But once we do nothing, there is no precession. The magic dies. Our purpose in life is no longer being fulfilled. We are MEANT to make mistakes! The only thing wrong with making mistakes is when we don't admit them, or don't' learn from them. Luckily we can speed up this process by learning from the mistakes of others. Who invented the lightbulb? Thomas Eddison. How many mistakes did he make before he it worked? I have heard 10,000. I have heard a story that someone said to him – "How do you feel making 10,000 mistakes?". He replied "I didn't make any mistakes. I found out 10,000 ways that it wouldn't work". Colonel Sanders (founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken), when he was 65 years old, was broke and living in his car. The only thing he had of any value was a recipe. He had to knock on 1,009 doors before someone agreed to his deal - to give him a royalty from every piece of chicken cooked with his recipe. His wife kept the statistics. Another story: About Tom Watson (Not the golfer, the founder of IBM). A worker lost his division $10M. in 3 months. The worker got a memo from Tom Watson – "Please see me Monday at 3pm." That weekend was the worst weekend of the worker's life. He told his wife he was going to be fired. At the meeting on Monday he walked into Tom's office. Tom was at the board saying, "I want you to run this new division." The worker couldn't work out what was going on. He said "Aren't you going to fire me?" Tom replied "Fire you! Fire you! Why would I fire you when I just spent $10M. educating you!" Tom understood the value of making mistakes and learning from them. If you make too many mistakes in school, what do they call you? A …

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I suggest that life is a game. And in this game -

In this life we don't have winners and losers.  We have winners and learners!

What is the difference between a professional and an amateur? A professional knows more what? Distinctions. What are distinctions? LITTLE differences that make ALL the difference.

How many words do eskimos have for snow? 30 - 300 words! How many words to Hawaiians have for snow? One word! Hawaiians have less distinctions around snow, because it's not important to them. What the difference between a racing car driver and the best racing car driver in the world? Not much - just a few distinctions. Professionals get paid to practise.  That is, professionals get paid to make mistakes! We have only one word for love. But the ancient greeks had a dozen or so words for love. They made a distinction, for example, between the love for children, the love for parents and the love for a spouse.   Maybe that's why some people have a problem saying ``I love you". By the way, once you decide to take action, remember -

And whenever you make a mistake, there are two ways that I know of to help you to not beat yourself up. Think of all the great movie stars there were in the past. Think about how we remember hardly any of them today Realise that before long, no one will remember your mistake either!!!! Most people are too busy worrying what everyone else thinks about them to spend any energy thinking about your mistake. 2.      Remember when we first went to the moon. And what a great achievement that was.

When the rocket went to the moon, how often was it on course? ONLY 2.5 % of the time!!! What was it doing the rest of the time? Correcting!

So, as long as you correct after each mistake, and keep in motion, you will achieve what you set out to achieve. And even if you don't, as long as you are aiming to add value, you will still be achieving your purpose in life - and blessings will be coming to you from all kinds of directions. LEVERAGE If you want to make a BIG difference or if you want to be rich (in money terms), then you need to understand and use leverage. What is leverage? Doing more with less.

What were the first computers like? Big, expensive, difficult to run and they didn't hold much information. What are computers like today? Small, cheap, easy to run, with lots of information. Computers do more with less. The Japanese did as well as they did (before the current economic collapse) because they focused on adding value, by doing more with less. Prices are meant to go down, not up. Just like with computers. (It is likely that the main reason why some prices go up is because of the game that some bankers are playing. This is explained in "I want the Earth plus 5%"). Don't focus on working for money. Instead, focus on adding value. Leverage is one of the Generalised Principles of the Universe. It has helped us get to where we are today. Here's leverage: The Lord's Prayer contains 56 words, the Gettysburg address 266, the Ten Commandments 297, the Declaration of Independence 300. Here's negative leverage: a U.S. government order setting the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words!!! At the state level, over 250,000 bills are introduced each year. 25,000 are passed, to disappear into the mazes of the law (Reference: "Positioning" by Ries and Trout). Some more examples of leverage: International communications used to be done by 175,000 tons of transatlantic copper cable. Now a 1/4 ton satellite transmits more and clearer messages. Automobile engines are 15% efficient. Whereas turbines (30% efficient) and jet engines (60% efficient) do more with less. In World War I the practical limit of electrical power delivery was 350 miles. In 1960 it was 1500 miles. Garth Brooks - He makes ONE CD and sells it to millions. Manhattan was bought for how much from the American Indians? $24! BUT if the Indians had invested that $24 at 8%, do you know how much that would be worth today? 24 Trillion Dollars!!! That is definitely doing more with less. Electrical lighting Tidying up your house and office so that you can find things! A website that provides valuable information. Write one book - and make it available to thousands to read. Hiring a plumber to fix your leaking pipes. Reading. Read the biography of people who have done what you want to do. Then you can profit from their experience. Write one seminar or lesson. Then teach it to many people. Praying to God. One of the highest forms of leverage is EDUCATION. I am not talking here about the kind of things that are taught in school or university. Schools are at least 70 years out of date. And many universities teach only the one-sided views of the peers running the university. Educate yourself. For example, read the books recommended by this website. Read about new ways of alternative, natural health care, energy production (books on Nikola Tesla and Viktor Schauberger) and farming ("Secrets of the Soil" by Peter Tomkins). Learn about Accelerated Learning. Learn about the powers of the mind (Read "The Holographic Universe"). These things are not taught in universities - possibly because it is not profitable to the multinationals that directly or indirectly influence what is taught in universities. Leverage is the MOST IMPORTANT thing to know if you want to get wealthy. Unconsciously, or consciously, all wealthy people know this. By the way, borrowing money may not be the best type of leverage to use. Because while it can go up, but it can also go down. Use leverage that can only benefit you in a positive way. Live on 80%-50% your income and don't pay interest. Start thinking about how you can do more with less - in your own life and in your goal to add value. The more you focus on doing more with less, the bigger difference you will make. SYSTEMS:  Dr W. Edwards Deming This next part will be especially interesting for anyone who is interested in business. Most of this information comes from the work of Dr W. Edwards Deming. What were Japanese products known for before WW2? Being shoddy, cheap and copy cats. What are Japanese products known for today? Being good quality, still cheap and innovators. What changed Japan? A man called Dr W. Edwards Deming. After the Second World War, what was the demand for cars like? Great. Do you think the USA was interested in hearing about quality and adding value? No. So American Dr W. Edwards Deming went to Japan. The Japanese had just been beaten in the war. They listened. Deming taught a number of things, which are very different to standard American management principles. Normal management blames the worker for lack of quality. Instead Deming taught that in most business situations -

Deming said "Don't blame the people. Change the SYSTEM." Buckminster Fuller said much the same thing. He said to change the environment. Leave the people alone. You CAN'T change people! You CAN change the environment. You CAN change systems! This is a good rule to apply in your personal life as well. Don't blame yourself or your partner or children if things go wrong. Change the system that caused the problem.  For example, if you get upset because you lose your keys, don't blame yourself. Change the system. Hide a spare key in your wallet, in the garden etc. If you have a health problem, don't blame it on bad luck.  Find out what is in your health `systems'.  Find out what you are doing that is causing the health problem.  For example, if you ingest any coffee, tea or chocolate, read ``Caffeine Blues".  If you take aspartame, learn what it does to your body. The two best books that I have found which explain this much better than I can are given at the end of this article. SYNERGY What is Synergy? Synergy is when the sum of two or more things together is greater than the sum of the things when considered individually. In other words,

I'll give you an example. This comes from "Critical Path" by Fuller. Take some tin, which is a soft metal. Mix it with copper, which is also a soft metal. What do they produce? Bronze, which is a hard metal. When there is synergy, an extra 'magic' appears from the mixing of two or more things. Another example of synergy is when the Australian sailing team won the America's Cup - the first time that it had been won outside of America for 100 years. It was said that the America's team was a "team of champions" but the Australian team was a "champion team". Because of synergy, a chain is NOT as weak as its weakest link. And a team is not as good as its best player. If you work to get synergy, you can create extra magic which helps you make a big difference. Synergy does not just happen between people. There are certain things that they need to do which help it to manifest. Some keys to achieving synergy are

1.   "LISTEN ACTIVELY". If anyone in your group (or your relationship) is an 'expert' then you are unlikely to achieve synergy. If you want to achieve synergy, then the ego has to be put to one side. The 'expert' is the kiss of death to synergy. 2.   "TRUST YOUR INTUITION - SPEAK UP". The second kiss of death for synergy is not as obvious as the expert. This is the person who knows the answers but KEEPS IT TO THEMSELVES. These people need to speak up and be heard. 3. "AGREE TO AGREE". The third key to synergy is to "agree to agree". This means to agree to reach a resolution. Compromise is not an option. What does compromise mean? A settlement of a disagreement where each side makes concessions. The end result is usually unsatisfactory to both. What does Resolution mean? Both sides are happy. In order for this to happen, what do you usually need? A third option. If you are going to achieve synergy, you are going to start being creative thinking up 'third options'. 4. 'BE FLEXIBLE. The fourth key to achieving synergy is to "Be flexible". The first solution proposed is not necessarily the best one. Groups that fail to acknowledge and consider multiple courses of action run the risk of accepting a suboptimal solution. 5. "BE COMPASSIONATE". The fifth key to achieving synergy is to be compassionate. We tend to put other people's ideas down. When we do this, we stop people from thinking and contributing. Thinking is the hardest work there is, so we need to encourage people to do it. To get synergy we need to support others efforts to do well. When we differ from others we need to do it in a manner which is constructive rather than defensive. For example, state differences as being your own concern, without implying that the person with whom you are differing is wrong. That is, use the word "I". Don't use the word "you" CHANGE FROM SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE Scarcity is an outdated theory, which is still taught in Harvard university. A theory is a good idea - it is not a fact. Thanks to technology, leverage and synergy, since the industrial revolution we now have abundance on the planet. For example, there is enough food to feed everyone at least twice over. It's only problems with distribution that have people lacking in food. The main reason why we don't see abundance is partly because we still believe in scarcity, and because of problems in distribution - which arise because of the belief in scarcity. It is also because of people in power who like to maintain scarcity because they can more easily control us and they love to do that. See "I want the earth plus 5%". Also search on "Nikola Tesla" who was a genius who invented AC electrical systems and also knew how we could have free, unlimited, clean energy way back in the early 1900s. These facts are not taught in schools. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY Sometimes the trouble with making a difference is that a person's old behavior can pop up. When things don't go the way we want, what do we sometimes do? We -

Have you ever been blamed for others' mistakes? Have you ever blamed others for your own mistakes? Or blamed yourself? Sometimes we don't lay blame on others or on ourselves. Instead we do something else. What do we do?  We-

We justify why things are the way they are. This means that we come up with reasons to explain why things are the way they are.  Some examples of justifying are "There's a recession", "There are no good men or women available",  ``I'm too old / too young",  ``That's the way it is". But will anything improve if all we do is justify or lay blame? No way. Whether or not it's your fault -

This is not saying that you ARE responsible. For example, some people have problems because of things their parents did. But their parents were like that because of what THEIR parents did. But does knowing that really change anything? No. The buck stops here. The ONLY way that things will change is when we take the position that we are responsible for any changes we want.  Change the system.  And change yourself.  Don't blame the people to justify why things have to be the way they are. PRAY TO GOD. The best way to work out what you should be doing is to pray to God CONTINUALLY for guidance. Listen to your heart and your intuition. God will speak to you through them. To Conclude: Precession is "the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion". When you get into motion, with others who are in motion, focus on adding value, doing more with less, changing systems and achieving synergy. Then watch the blessings come in! I will leave you with the following words from W.N. Murray, from the Scottish Himalayan Expedition in 1951. COMMITMENT "Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can … begin it Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."