It is not my objective, in these pages, to merely inspire
and/or motivate you to create success and fulfillment. It
is, rather, my intention to supply you with the
methodology to actually create that success and find that
fulfillment. I think that the desire to have more success is
already latent in your heart and the ideal of greater
personal fulfillment lies quiescent in your mind.
I believe that it is an inherent and important aspect of
human nature to want to be, to do and to have more. It is
this intrinsic urge that has brought us from being simple
proto-humans searching for daily sustenance to
becoming advanced intellectual creatures who are
capable of building orbiting space stations, defining the
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human genetic code, creating previously unimagined
wealth and so much more.
This same urge that drove Alexander and Napoleon,
Michelangelo and Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Albert
Einstein, Andrew Carnegie and Richard Branson, Marco
Polo and Ferdinand Magellan, is as natural a part of your
personality as is the urge to procreate.
I also believe that, although we each innately desire to be,
to do and to have more, we are each, unfortunately,
largely constrained (limited) in our ability to achieve this
“more” by our existing paradigms.
A paradigm, as I use the term here, is a set of
experiences, beliefs, values and assumptions that affect
the way an individual perceives reality and responds to
that perception.
In other words, your assumed and unexamined personal
beliefs and individual predominant methods of
thinking may actually be holding you back from
fulfilling your potential to self-actualize and to create
massive personal success.
Since we are, each of us, limited by our assumed
paradigms; in order to reach these higher levels of
attainment,
achievement,
accomplishment
and
fulfillment that we desire, we need to decide to let go of
these limiting mindsets and somehow figure out how to
adopt more allowing and enabling belief systems.
Each person who desires to self-actualize needs to learn
and apply a new Prosperity Paradigm in order to be all
that he is capable of being, to do all that she is capable of
doing in order to have all that he desires to have in order
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to maximize her experience of, and enjoyment of, the
great gift of being alive on Planet Earth.
More importantly, each of us cannot fulfill our purpose
to be contributory to the future of our species unless we
maximize our individual capacity to be, to do and to
have more of what is available to us.
Since what is available to us is only limited by our own
imaginations, we each need to expand our ability to
imagine and to train ourselves to expect so much more.
Our ability to imagine is defined (limited) by our
paradigms. Want more? Change your paradigm!
This book was written to empower you to free yourself
from the mental and emotional limitations (that you may
not even be aware of having) that are holding you back
from being, doing and having all that you desire and
deserve to be, do and have. And, much more
importantly… to free yourself from the mental chains
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that may very well be preventing you from getting the
joy, personal fulfillment and empowerment from your
already existing, but under-appreciated, achievements.
I have a profound faith in the potential of the human
creature to not only evolve naturally over time, both as a
species and as individuals; but also to take intentional
control of our own personal evolution and self-
fulfillment in order to radically transform our lives in any
given moment.
At the very least, those of us who are fortunate enough to
have satisfied the first two levels of basic human needs as
identified by Abraham Maslow (see Appendix 1), are free, if we choose, to undertake the journey to conscious
self-actualization; and as such, are capable of creating
both a spectacular immediate success for ourselves and a
valuable lasting legacy for our fellows.
Of course, you can be willing to change, to transform
yourself, in order to have that more that you imagine is
possible; but you also need a bit more than just the
intense desire and the profound willingness. You also
need the system that will take you there. You need the
defined technology. You need the proven path to follow.
I am going to assume that, since you have read this far,
you have the willingness, the desire and, maybe even, the
commitment that is necessary to undertake this change in
paradigms from scarcity to abundance, from paucity to
prosperity. And that, perhaps the only thing you lack is
the proven methodology of personal transformation (or
technology of success) that will take you from where you
are to where you want to go.
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If so, please continue to read on; because in the pages
that follow is the time-tested, proven and very real
system that has produced enormous success for tens of
thousands of other people, who, just like you, decided to
take control of their own lives and of their own success
and happiness.
All that you need to do now in order to make it work for
you, as it has for so many people before you, is to
actually apply it to the way you live your life, day-by-day
and moment-by-moment.
There is an old saying that goes something like… “You
can feed a man for a day by giving him a fish; but you
can feed a man for a lifetime by teaching him how to
fish.” True enough, potentially, but the sad bigger truth
is that you can teach a man how to fish, but he will still
starve if he does not actually go fishing. The trained
fisherman who sits on the beach and stares at the sea will
still go hungry.
The knowledge that you need to create the success you
desire is here in these pages. However, the application of
this knowledge is entirely up to you. Only you can make
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it real. It is always up to you to launch the boat, put to
sea and drop your lines in the ocean of pure potential.
This knowledge of how to create success is not
theoretical. It has been proven over and over again by the
direct application of so many people. This is not a
hypothetical philosophy. This is not some empty
motivation. It is a very real and applicable technology. It
is up to you to put it to use to construct the life of your
dreams, like so many before you have already done. Will
you? Only you can make that choice.
No matter what we each do in life… homemaker,
business person, architect, engineer, painter, author…
our own life is our greatest work of art. We can, by the
choices we make, either create an original masterpiece or
an unremarkable paint-by-numbers piece.
Each of us has the potential to create a wondrous
masterpiece; yet so many people end up with the off-the-
shelf art, the velvet painting version of life, simply
because they don’t have the tools needed to create the
masterpiece. That is sad.
What is even sadder is when those
people who do have the necessary
tools do not use them, or use them
poorly.
A hammer and chisel are two
simple tools. Almost anyone can
use them to break apart a marble
floor. Michelangelo used these
same tools to create the glorious
Statue of David, the sublime Pieta
and many other great works of art.
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The tools and techniques that you need to create a
masterpiece of success for yourself are right here in this
book. I urge you to put them to use. They will produce
results. If your intention is clear, your resolve is firm,
your ideal is grand and your desire is strong enough, you
can use these tools to create that great work of art called a
happy, successful, fulfilling and contributory life.
It is possible that you may have previously read, heard or
come across some, or all, of the ideas, tools and
techniques you will find in these pages.
Almost everyone has the same tendency when they come
across some familiar information: they say to themselves,
“oh yeah, I already know that,” and they then stop
reading, stop listening, skip over or dismiss the idea.
So, yes, even though you may be familiar with some of
the ideas in this book, I urge you to read it slowly,
completely and carefully. Perhaps, even more than one
time. Familiarity with something does NOT denote
knowledge of something. You demonstrate your
knowledge by your application of it.
For example, you can read a recipe for lasagna in a cookbook; you can listen to your grandma tell you how
to make it; you can even tell when you are eating a good
lasagna or a mediocre one. But you will not know how to
cook a great lasagna until you get into the kitchen and
use the tools and apply the recipe. It is the application
that denotes true knowledge and understanding rather
than mere familiarity.
You may be familiar with the recipe for success, but unless you have already created all the success you
desire to have, you either have not applied the
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information to the way you live your life; or, you have
not practiced it enough to create that great lasagna
(success).
So, please read the formula/recipe again, even if you
think that you are familiar with it. You may have missed
some critical nuance (like that teaspoon of oregano) that
is a necessary component.
Enjoy your reading. May it taste better than the best
lasagna you’ve ever eaten. Once you’ve read this recipe,
get into the kitchen and start cooking up your very own
success story. Make the application; create your
masterpiece.
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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall
become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall
one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall
at last unveil.” ~ James Allen
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“Most people are not really free. They are confined by
the niche in the world that they carve out for
themselves. They limit themselves to fewer
possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
~ V.S. Naipaul
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