Live life in this moment
This is how I feel about life; that this is it. I don’t know if there is any other life after death; however I choose to believe there is, for my own sanity. Will it be the same as the physical life or require effort like the physical life? I don’t know, but the best way I choose to approach life is to live like this is it. Even if there is more after death, I don’t think it will be the same as the physical life and besides, I am alive and here now, so I focus on where I am. I live like this is it; it is real, it is life, and it is now or never.
This helps me win over my fears. I just don’t have room for fear. You live once on this earth. That is what I am sure of, so make it count. Make your mark. Let them know that you are here. You can’t spare life, it goes, whether you live it up or not, and there is no better way of living it up than living your dreams. Go for it, just do it.
Embrace life
Learn to embrace life. I’ve said before that you will feel down sometimes. It is normal. Keep going, knowing that inspiration will come back. You will feel good about yourself again. However, it gets tricky here. There are people who become negative and stay there, doing nothing to revive that inspiration. Some stay there because they fail to accept their life experience at that moment. What am I getting at here? To be able to move on in life, you must accept what it is; you must learn to embrace your life as it is right now.
Accept what it is. Don’t be in denial, as you won’t be able to change anything about your life. If you don’t accept it for what it is, and accept the fact that you don’t like your circumstances but they are there, then you are able to change your actions and feel inspired and good about yourself because you know you are changing your life for the better. You know that you will see better days and you feel happy and become more productive. This maximises your chances of success.
On the other hand, when you fail to accept your situation, you get stuck in fantasies. That’s the only way you feel alright. Every now and then, reality reminds you that things are not alright, and you become sadder because you know that you are not even doing anything about it. People smoke, drink, watch TV, and sleep around in an attempt to distract themselves from thinking about and facing reality and fulfilling their life, which is what the soul wants. Reality is real; you can’t run away from reality, so accept it. That’s how you can change it for the better.
Finish everything you start
This plays a big role when it comes to achieving your dreams. You have to make it a habit. It must be your rule; it must be what you live by. Many of us don’t actually fail at something; instead, we give up before we have a chance to succeed. We just think we won’t make it, and we change our minds too often without fulfilling our goals. This is one of the big causes of failure to achieve our dreams. We give up halfway and do another thing; we make these plans, change them and make other plans, then move on and on in circles without achieving anything tangible.
I have to confess here, that this was one of my habits. I naturally get bored quickly. One minute I might be enjoying something, then the next minute I won’t; I want to move on to something else. This is the trouble with commitment, and unfortunately it can apply to all parts of your life, even relationships. You will find yourself not having anything to point out as your achievement; as something you did. You will just have stories, like ‘I once started a business’. When asked where it is, you will say that you decided to do something else and closed it down. This will not get you anywhere. You must make sure that everything you start achieves its mandate, which is the dream you had when you started it.
At least make sure that the project you are working on fails. Then you didn’t fail; the project failed. This is the only time you can move on to another project, when you have created value and sold it in the marketplace, as then your decision to close down the project will be informed. You are also likely not to close your business down because you will learn from the marketplace and improve your product or service according to the market needs. This is what will set you apart from failures; this is what will make you successful in what you do, when you make sure that you finish everything you start.
It keeps you focused; you know that once you start something, you finish it. It gives you the best chance of finding success and fortune. When you always reach the last stage of creating wealth, which is selling your product or service, let the market be the judge. Let the product or service fail, not you. It is a great way to approach everything in your life, as this is how you find success. I use it. Apply it to your life and see what happens. Finish everything you start and make sure that whatever product or service you work on has its chance in the marketplace. You will never know what will happen. It might as well be your big break; it might as well be what you must have done ages ago. Now, go for it.
13.TAKING ACTION
There are consequences for what we do or don’t do
There are results for anything we do or do not do. You are better off acting than waiting for fate. You can start taking actions today about your future or do nothing. What we can guarantee is that certain circumstances will arise, and there will be results, whether you acted or not.
Through your actions, you ask for everything in your life
In life you get what you asked for. You ask through your choice of actions. How you choose your actions, and what you do, determines what you get out of life.
Act from love and never from fear
Love is very powerful; it drives you to success. Don’t wait to feel scared to start doing anything about your life. Act from love. Don’t work for survival, work for prosperity.
Take inspired actions
Don’t be driven by fear; don’t act because something bad will happen if you don’t. That’s too late to act; it is going to happen anyway. Act out of choice, not circumstances. That gives you a chance to make the most of your choices. You make good decisions when there is no pressure; you are free to be creative when there is no pressure or fear. While when there is fear, you can’t think straight. You just jump into actions. You don’t choose to, but you have to take actions.
In circumstances of fear, when you have to take actions, choice is not in your favour. Your choices become limited; you are pressured into decisions, and you mostly take wrong or defensive decisions. You are trying to stop the loss and protect your current life, but you are not adding anything to it, while when you act out of love, from choice, out of your free will, and when there is no pressure, you are open to a lot of options and decisions to take. You are taking actions; you are making a choice to add to what you already have, not to stop losing what you have. This is how you accumulate wealth, by adding to what you already have.
Never try to force things to happen because you are afraid of what will happen if you don’t take certain actions. Instead, choose ‘inspired action’ that moves you towards what you want, not away from what you don’t want.
Have a motive
Everything I do has to have purpose or meaning to me. I must have a good reason why am I doing what I am doing. This is something we take lightly when planning our actions. You must have a good reason why you have to take actions, and you must take time to think about your motive and write down your motive. There is often not one thing at stake, especially when you are talking about doing something for your dreams and future. When you are starting a new career which you believe will take you to your dream life and financial independence, there is a lot at stake. Write everything down; that is your motive. Read it when you are feeling lazy or uninspired, as this will keep you going.
On taking actions and winning over lazy habits
This is about market activity. Active people succeed and achieve things. You must participate in the market- place. You get nothing when you do nothing; this you must know and accept when you want to achieve anything in life. You must bring something to the market to get anything from it.
The universe rewards actions, not dreams or plans. You can plan al
l your life or dream all you want; nothing will happen until you start acting. Thoughts are valueless if not expressed; ideas are worthless when they are not used. You can be the best house planner, but if your talents are not put into action, if you don’t express you expertise and if you don’t share your talents with the world, they are worthless. You accomplish nothing if you don’t take action. You can have all the knowledge in the world, and all the degrees and qualifications you can think of, but they are useless if not put into practice.
Knowledge is only power when put into actions. Success is up for grabs for everyone prepared to seek knowledge, and take action. Money comes with the blue overalls, WORK. Laziness is one of the big players if not the most cause and reason why there is lack for most people. We are all lazy from time to time; the reward is what drives us but we need to want it badly enough to break away from our natural feeling of just lazing about.
Ask everyone where they wish to be at a particular moment. Most will say something like, ‘I wish I was at the beach just chilling’ or ‘at home with my family’, and so on. But if you do nothing you get nothing from the universe; it is a law of the universe. If the beach is where you want to be, find work at the beach. There is work you can do there. If home is where your heart is, work from home. There are a lot of very profitable home-based businesses
Your mind will give you all kinds of reasons why you must not work, or why you must not write a book. It will fail and come up with all kinds of reasons like, ‘who do you think you are’, ‘who cares what you have to say’, ‘you are too dumb to write a book’, ‘forget it’, ‘there’s too much competition’, or ‘there’s no money in writing’. Understand that your mind wants to chill. Your mind develops habits so that it can run on auto pilot, so that it doesn’t have to do that much work and stretching, but your soul wants to evolve and uses life experiences to evolve. Your soul wants to travel the world, create things, live in the big house, have more than enough, so you can be a blessing to everyone around you and give more love to the world.
Listen to your soul, not your mind. An example of why your mind is playing games on you is that it tells you to laze around. After a while it tells you that you need food, but where must food come from if you were lazing around the whole day? You must also not wait for situations to force you to act; you must make money when you are settled and you must create food when you are full because you know that you will get hungry and it will be harder to look for food when you are already hungry and weak. Many people wait for pain to act, but it is always better and easier to act when times are good. Don’t wait for hard times.
When you want to create your future and achieve financial success, you must make acting on your dreams a habit. Take actions, stop talking, stop thinking and make moves. Get out there and become SOMEBODY.
Being an active person
Just by being active you are able to create the life you desire. Creating wealth is about being an active human being and creating value for other people to use. You must play your part in the value chain; you must contribute to the wealth of the country to have your share of the pie. Wealth is the result of contribution. You can’t achieve wealth when you don’t contribute to the world. You must be active. It is the only way you will have a market share in the economy, when you become an active citizen and create value.
Do things you want to do, don’t force yourself into anything
We feel unfulfilled when we do things which are against our will or spirit. We are fulfilled when we do what is in agreement with ourselves, for it is our self approval we seek the most. If you feel unfulfilled, or unhappy, it is mostly because you are acting against your will, and your soul.
It doesn’t matter if you have the regular reasons like having to pay the bills, eat or pay the rent, as long as it doesn’t please the soul, especially when there is no growth, you will not be happy, and you will not be satisfied. It is important that you follow your soul, your life purpose; what you love. Act from that. That’s the only way you will find peace and happiness, by following your dreams about your life.
Your brain releases hormones that make you feel good. The same brain also releases hormones that result in stress and feeling bad. This is proof that you reward yourself for everything. You make yourself feel bad when you find yourself in undesirable situations and make yourself feel good when you find yourself in desirable situations through your brain. It is not a conscious decision; it is subconscious, which is why we can’t control it, but we reward ourselves and put ourselves through hell based on our actions.
When you do things against your will, your own body will punish you. You punish yourself for not following your heart, and for not following your dreams; this is why it is important that we don’t do things against our will. This is the cause of unhappiness and all the misery in people’s lives, when they go against their will.
Nothing will ever replace WORK when it comes to creating VALUE and WEALTH
You must make it a habit to work when you want to make an honest living. People who try to break this rule turn to depending on stealing from other people, and exploiting people to get ahead. Work is the only and better way of getting ahead. People who steal can’t enjoy the money freely and proudly, like you would when you’ve earned it. The level of appreciation and enjoyment of what they do with the money can’t match the feeling you get when you’ve worked for the money. The same money they stole will get them caught when they spend it.
Furthermore, exploiting other people causes poverty. The same people you exploit will be poor, and they might turn to crime, which will come back to haunt you. You will now have to put up with crime, which you yourself caused indirectly by stealing from people and exploiting people. Now your car might be stolen because there is inequality that is caused by your own conduct, by you, when you exploit people.
It is like an employer who pays his employees unfairly. They turn and steal from him. Worse than that, a government or company that steals from people by spending people’s money carelessly for the government, or a company that exploits people, will often result in people turning to crime. Now they have to pay security companies with the money they stole or gained through exploitation to protect themselves from the same people they exploited. Isn’t this plain stupidity?
See, we are all interconnected, poor or wealthy. What you do to the world, no matter how small, will always come back to you, to haunt you, if actions were wrong. I am not saying that every crime is committed because of poverty, and I am not even justifying crime. I am just showing you how no one wins from crime, because exploitation and stealing is also crime. I am just saying that poverty does affect crime levels, and exploitation and stealing causes lack. This affects both the wealthy and the poor, which makes it wise not to get involved in such activities, for everyone.
We must just work, be fair in our business and earn our income, not because of the position we hold, but because of the work we do. Working is important. Creating true value is vital for the wealth of the world; it makes the world wealthy when we all create value by making an honest living, which means, WORK for a better life.
Who or what commands your actions?
In this book we talk about leading yourself. You must know that you should lead from above. I am going to go a little deeper into your make-up as a human being and what controls most of your actions, because to have success in your life, you must take actions. A human being is body, mind and soul. These are the parts that co-exist as the whole you in this physical life and all three have the potential to influence your actions. You can act on your body’s commands, your mind’s commands or your soul’s commands.
You must lead from above and know what command you must listen to the most and take actions on. Your soul is the highest command of the three. Listen and take actions that come from your soul, from your heart, and make a choice by giving your soul/spirit full control over your mind’s and body’s actions. Your soul/spirit commands the body into action. This is what
will lead you to success because your soul cannot be tempted or influenced like the body or mind; it looks out for and is truly concerned for your wellbeing.
I just thought you should take that into consideration on your journey to success. It helps with being true to yourself, understanding yourself better, and mostly taking the right actions for your own destiny and future. If you are still confused about what your soul or spirit is, I am not going to explain them here, but to give you an idea, these are your soul’s concerns: it is what upholds your values and what kind of life you live; it wants you to be all you can be, for you to understand what life is, for you to understand or make peace with what you know about life or yourself, and for you to be at peace with what you are.
Your soul asks these questions: ‘Is there more to life than what I’ve experienced this far?’ ‘Am I able to experience more of what life has to offer?’ ‘What do I believe life is from my physical existence?’ Your soul seeks to express more love and to be a blessing to more people, to live and thrive, and reach the summit of what a human being is capable of achieving. These are the things your soul is concerned about, making you conscious of what life is. The only way you would understand the truth about life is by understanding yourself, and what you are. This is a process that your soul pushes you to achieve, and it defines the purpose of your life. It will take you your whole lifetime to achieve this, so as long you are still here, there will always be something you need to experience about yourself.
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