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Catagory:Reading
Author:Napoleon Hill(Think and Grow Rich)
Posted Date:05/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

AUTO-SUGGESTION is a term which applies to all suggestions and all self- administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses. Stated in another way, auto-suggestion is self-suggestion. It is the agency of communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought takes place, and that which serves as the seat of action for the subconscious mind.Through the dominating thoughts which one permits to remain in the conscious mind, (whether these thoughts be negative or positive, is immaterial), the principle of auto-suggestion voluntarily reaches the subconscious mind and influences it with these thoughts.NO THOUGHT, whether it be negative or positive, CAN ENTER THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WITHOUT THE AID OF THE PRINCIPLE OF. AUTO-SUGGESTION, with the exception of thoughts picked up from the ether. Stated differently, all sense impressions which are perceived through the five senses, are stopped by the CONSCIOUS thinking mind, and may be either passed on to the subconscious mind, or rejected, at will. The conscious faculty serves, therefore, as an outer-guard to the approach of the subconscious.Nature has so built man that he has ABSOLUTE CONTROL over the material which reaches his subconscious mind, through his five senses, although this is not meant to be construed as a statement that man always EXERCISES this control. In the great majority of instances, he does NOT exercise it, which explains why so many people go through life in poverty Recall what has been said about the subconscious mind resembling a fertile garden spot, in which weeds will grow in abundance, if the seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind You were instructed, in the last of the six steps described in the chapter on Desire, to read ALOUD twice daily the WRITTEN statement of your DESIRE FOR MONEY, and to SEE AND FEEL yourself ALREADY in possession of the money! By following these instructions, you communicate the object of your DESIRE directly to your SUBCONSCIOUS mind in a spirit of absolute FAITH. Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent. Go back to these six steps described in chapter two, and read them again, very carefully, before you proceed further. Then (when you come to it), read very carefully the four instructions for the organization of your "Master Mind" group, described in the chapter on Organized Planning. By comparing these two sets of instructions with that which has been stated on auto- suggestion, you, of course, will see that the instructions involve the application of the principle of auto-suggestion. Remember, therefore, when reading aloud the statement of your desire (through which you are endeavoring to develop a "money consciousness"), that the mere reading of the words is of NO CONSEQUENCE- UNLESS you mix emotion, or feeling with your words. If you repeat a million times the famous Emil Coue formula, "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better," without mixing emotion and FAITH with your words, you will experience no desirable results. Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.This is a fact of such importance as to warrant repetition in practically every chapter, because the lack of understanding of this is the main reason the majority of people who try to apply the principle of autosuggestion get no desirable results. Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF. Do not become discouraged, if you cannot control and direct your emotions the first time you try to do so. Remember, there is no such possibility as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Ability to reach, and influence your subconscious mind has its price, and you MUST PAY THAT PRICE. You cannot cheat, even if you desire to do so. The price of ability to influence your subconscious mind is everlasting PERSISTENCE in applying the principles described here. You cannot develop the desired ability for a lower price. You, and YOU ALONE, must decide whether or not the reward for which you are striving (the "money consciousness"), is worth the price you must pay for it in effort. Wisdom and "cleverness" alone, will not attract and retain money except in a few very rare instances, where the law of averages favors the attraction of money through these sources. The method of attracting money described here, does not depend upon the law of averages. Moreover, the method plays no favorites. It will work for one person as effectively as it will for another. Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to CONCENTRATE upon a given DESIRE until that desire becomes a BURNING OBSESSION.When you begin to carry out the instructions in connection with the six steps described in the second chapter, it will be necessary for you to make use of the principle of CONCENTRATION.Let us here offer suggestions for the effective use of concentration. When you begin to carry out the first of the six steps, which instructs you to "fix in your own mind the EXACT amount of money you desire," hold your thoughts on that amount of money by CONCENTRATION, or fixation of attention, withyour eyes closed, until you can ACTUALLY SEE the physical appearance of the money. Do this at least once each day. As you go through these exercises, follow the instructions given in the chapter on FAITH, and see yourself actually IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY! Here is a most significant fact—the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind. Following the preceding statement, consider the possibility of playing a perfectly legitimate "trick" on your subconscious mind, by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that the subconscious mind MUST hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the money which is yours. Hand over the thought suggested in the preceding paragraph to your IMAGINATION, and see what your imagination can, or will do, to create practical plans for the accumulation of money through transmutation of your desire.DO NOT WAIT for a definite plan, through which you intend to exchange services or merchandise in return for the money you are visualizing, but begin at once to see yourself in possession of the money, DEMANDING and EXPECTING meanwhile, that your subconscious mind will hand over the plan, or plans you need. Be on the alert for these plans, and when they appear, put them into ACTION IMMEDIATELY. When the plans appear, they will probably "flash" into your mind through the sixth sense, in the form of an "inspiration." This inspiration may be considered a direct "telegram," or message from Infinite Intelligence. Treat it with respect, and act upon it as soon as you receive it. Failure to do this will be FATAL to your SUCCESS. In the fourth of the six steps, you were instructed to "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once to put this plan into action." You should follow this instruction in the manner described in the preceding paragraph. Do not trust to your "reason" when creating your plan for accumulating money through the transmutation of desire.


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What are the Chances?
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL (The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia 2)
Posted Date:05/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Something such as playing the lottery is clearly a game of chance. You select your numbers and then wait to see if you are lucky enough for them to be selected. Most people are even aware that the chances of them winning are stacked against them, but it can be useful to put it into some kind of perspective. For example, do you know that there is a greater chance of you actually being killed on your way to pay for your lottery entry than the chances of you winning the jackpot? To be honest, you are also more likely to die from being left-handed and using a right-handed item incorrectly than winning the lottery. The list goes on and on when compared to some lotteries where the chances of winning are in the region of 1 to 170 million. You are even more likely to win an Academy Award than the lottery, and yet we still try our best even though we have very little chances of being successful. So, maybe think about the chances before you go and spend all of that cash. Bonus  There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.  The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.  You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.  Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!  Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!


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The Lost, City of Helike
Catagory: History
Author:Brian HaughLon((LOST CIVILILATTONS)
Posted Date:05/10/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The ancient city of Helike, situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth, roughly 93 miles west of Athens, was originally founded in the Early Bronze Age (2600-2300 B.c.). The first prehistoric settlement was submerged beneath the waves about 2,000 years before the city was destroyed. In the eighth century B.C. Homer wrote of Helike sending ships to the Trojan War under the command of Agamemnon. By the time of its destruction in the fourth century B.C., Helike had become a wealthy and successful metropolis, the leader of the 12 cities of the first Achaean league (aunion of local city states), and founder of colonies abroad such as Priene, on the coast of Asia Minor, and Sybaris in Southern Italy. Helike's temple and sanctuary of Helikonian Poseidon was famous throughout Classical Greece, and was rivaled only by the Oracle at Delphi, across the Gulf of Corinth. But all this was to change one terrible night in the winter of 373 B.C. For a period of five days, citizens of the city gazed in bewilderment as snakes, mice, martens, and other creatures fled from the coast and made for higher ground. Then, on the fifth night, "immense columns of flame" (now known as earthquake lights) were witnessed in the sky, followed by a massive earthquake, and a towering 32 foot high tsunami wave. The coastal plain was submerged, and as Helike collapsed, the tsunami rushed in and dragged its buildings and its inhabitants out with the retreating waters. The city and its surroundings disappeared beneath the sea, along with 10 Spartan ships that had been ancored in the harbor. The neighboring city of Boura, and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, were also destroyed. When a rescue party arrived the next morning, nothing remained of the once great city but the tops of the trees in Poseidon's sacred grove, peeping above the waves. Perhaps because Helike had been a revered center for worship of Poseidon (the god of earthquakes and the sea), a tradition originated among its jealous neighbors that the city's destruction was punishment sent by the angry god for desecrating his sanctuary. Following the disaster, the former territory of Helike was doled out between its neighbors, with the city of Aegio taking over leadership of the Achaean League. Hundreds of years later a Roman city was built on the site, which also appears to have been partly destroyed by an earthquake in the fifth century A.D. For centuries after the disaster ancient writers such as Pliny, Ovid, and Pausanias reported that the submerged ruins of Helike could be glimpsed on the sea floor. The Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.) visited the site and recorded reports by local ferrymen of an upright bronze statue of Poseidon submerged in an inland lagoon, where it often trapped the nets of fishermen. But soon afterwards the area silted over and the location became lost. In 1861, German archaeologists visiting the region obtained a bronze coin of Helike featuring a splendid head of Poseidon, but nothing else surfaced from the ancient site. Ancient writers had all stated that the remains of the city lay submerged beneath the Corinthian Gulf, but for decades numerous expeditions searched for it without success. In 1988 the Helike Project was formed to locate the lost city, but a 1988 sonar survey under their auspices revealed no trace beneath the sea. Consequently, director of the Helike Project, archaeologist DoraKatsonopoulou, and Dr. Steven Soter, of the American Museum of Natural History, decided to investigate the coastal plain. In 2001, a few feet beneath the mud and gravel, the team discovered ruins of Classical buildings, which turned out to be the remains of the city of Helike destroyed by the earthquake of 373 B.C. The location of the ruins lay almost half a mile inland, which explains why no one had found them beneath the sea. Analyses of the microscopic organisms preserved in the layer of fine dark clay covering the buildings revealed that the site had been drowned by a shallow inland lagoon, which had subsequently silted up. The discovery of sea shells and the possible remains of seaweed on the site are evidence that Helike's ruins were probably at one time beneath the sea.


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THE POWER OF INITIATIVE
Catagory:Reading
Author:NAPOLEON HILL(LAW OF SUCCESS)
Posted Date:05/10/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The reason why Initiative and Leadership are associated terms in this lesson is that Leadership is essential for the attainment of success, and Initiative is the very foundation upon which this necessary quality of Leadership is built. Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wheel. Initiative is that exceedingly rare quality which impels a person to do what ought to be done without being told to do it. Elbert Hubbard expressed himself on the subject of Initiative in these words: The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for one thing, and that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.But next to doing the right thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is to say, "Carry the message to Garcia." Those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of the time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story. Then, still lower down in the scale than this, we have the person who will not do the right thing even when someone goes along to demonstrate and stays to see that the work is done right. This person is always out of a job, and receives deserved contempt, unless there is a rich relative in the background, in which case destiny patiently waits around the corner with a club.To which class do you belong? Inasmuch as you will be expected to take inventory of yourself and determine which of the factors of this course you need most, after you have completed the last lesson, it may be well if you begin to get ready for this analysis by answering the question that Elbert Hubbard has asked: To which class do you belong? One of the peculiarities of Leadership is the fact that it is never found in those who have not acquired the habit of taking the Initiative. Leadership is something that you must invite yourself into; it will never thrust itself upon you. If you will carefully analyze all leaders whom you know, you will see that they not only exercised Initiative but they also went about their work with a difinite purpose in mind. You will also see that they possessed the quality described in the third lesson of this course: Self-Confidence.These facts are mentioned in this lesson because it will profit you to observe that successful people make use of all the factors covered by the seventeen lessons of the course. They are also mentioned for the more important reason that it will profit you to understand thoroughly the principle of organized ifJort, which this course is intended to establish in your mind.This seems an appropriate place to point out that this course is not intended as a shortcut to success, nor is it intended as a mechanical formula that you may use in noteworthy achievement without effort on your part. The real value of the course lies in the use that you will make of it, and not in the course itself Its chief purpose is to help you develop in yourself the qualities covered by the seventeen lessons, and one of the most important of these qualities is Initiative, the subject of this lesson.We will now proceed to apply the principle on which this lesson is founded by describing, in detail, just how it served successfully to complete a business transaction that most people would call difficult. In 19 I 6 I needed $25,000 with which to create an educational institution, but I had neither the money nor sufficient collateral with which to borrow it through the usual banking sources. Did I bemoan my fate or think of what I might accomplish if some rich relative or Good Samaritan would come to my rescue by loaning me the necessary capital? I did nothing of the sort! I did just what you will be advised, throughout this course, to do. First of all, I made the securing of this capital my Definite Chief Aim. Second, I laid out a complete plan through which to transform this aim into reality. Backed by sufficient Self-Confidence and spurred on by Initiative, I proceeded to put my plan into action. But before the "action" stage of the plan had been reached, more than six weeks of constant, persistent study and effort and thought were put into it. If a plan is to be sound it must be built of carefully chosen material. You will next observe the application of the principle of organized effort} through which it is possible for one to ally or associate several interests in such a way that each oj these interests is greatly strengthened and each supports all the others, just as one link in a chain supports all the other links.I wanted this $25,000 in capital for the purpose of creating a school of advertising and salesmanship. Two things were necessary for the organization of such a school. One was the $25,000, which I did not have, and the other was the proper course of instruction, which I did have. My problem was to ally myselfwith some group who needed what I had, and who would supply the $25,000. This alliance had to be made through a plan that would benefit all concerned.After my plan had been completed, and I was satisfied that it was equitable and sound, I presented it to the owner of a well-known and reputable business college which just then was finding competition quite keen and was badly in need of a plan for meeting this competition. My plan was presented in about these words: Whereas, you have one of the most reputable business colleges in the city; and, Whereas, you need some plan with which to meet the stiff competition in your field; and,Whereas, your good reputation has provided you with all the credit you need; and, Whereas, I have the plan that will help you meet this competition successfully, be it resolved that we ally ourselves through a plan that will give you what you need and at the same time supply me with something that I need. Then I proceeded to unfold my plan further, in these words:I have written a very practical course on advertising and salesmanship. Having built this course out of my actual experience in training and directing salesmen, and my experience in planning and directing many successful advertising campaigns, I have behind it plenty of evidence of its soundness. If you will use your credit in helping market this course, I will place it in your business college as one of the regular departments of your curriculum and take entire charge of this newly created department. No other business college in the city will be able to meet your competition, because no other college has a course such as this. The advertising that you do in marketing this course will also serve to create the demand for your regular business course. You may charge to my department the entire amount that you spend for this advertising, and the advertising bill will be paid out of that department, leaving for you the accumulative advantage that will accrue to your other departments without cost to you. Now, I suppose you will want to know where I will profit by this transaction, and I will tell you. I want you to enter into a contract with me in which it will be agreed that when the cash receipts from my department equal the amount you have paid out or contracted to pay.


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The Story of Aladdin, or The Magic Lamp Part 2
Catagory:Fiction
Author:Translated BY MALCOLM C. LYONS( THE ARABIAN NIGHTS TALES OF 1001 NIGHTS)
Posted Date:05/07/2025
Posted By:utopia online

‘Ah, my son,’ exclaimed the magician, ‘how could I stop myself? I am your uncle and your father was my dear brother. I have been travelling for several years and now, just when I arrive here in the hope of seeing him again and having him rejoice at my return, you say that he is dead! I tell you it’s very painful for me to find I am not going to receive the comfort and consolation I was expecting. But what consoles me a little in my grief is that, as far as I can remember them, I can recognize his features in your face, and that I was not wrong in speaking to you.’ Putting his hand on his purse, he asked Aladdin where his mother lived. Aladdin answered him straight away, at which the magician gave him a handful of small change, saying: ‘My son, go and find your mother, give her my greetings and tell her that, if I have time, I will go and see her tomorrow, so that I may have the consolation of seeing where my brother lived and where he ended his days.’As soon as the magician had left, his newly invented nephew, delighted with the money his uncle had just given him, ran to his mother. ‘Mother,’ he said to her, ‘tell me, please, have I got an uncle?’ ‘No, my son,’ she replied, ‘you have no uncle, neither on your late father’s side nor on mine.’ ‘But I have just seen a man who says he is my uncle on my father’s side,’ insisted Aladdin. ‘He was his brother, he assured me. He even began to weep and embrace me when I told him my father was dead. And to prove I am telling the truth,’ he added, showing her the money he had been given, ‘here is what he gave me. He also charged me to give you his greetings and to tell you that tomorrow, if he has the time, he will come and greet you himself and at the same time see the house where my father lived and where he died.’ ‘My son,’ said his mother, ‘it’s true your father once had a brother, but he’s been dead a long time and I never heard him say he had another brother.’ They spoke no more about the African magician. The next day, the magician approached Aladdin a second time as he was playing with some other children in another part of the city, embraced him as he had done on the previous day and, placing two gold coins in his hand, said to him: ‘My son, take this to your mother; tell her coins in his hand, said to him: ‘My son, take this to your mother; tell her I am coming to see her this evening and say she should buy some food so we can dine together. But first, tell me where I can find your house.’ Aladdin told him where it was and the magician then let him go. Aladdin took the two gold coins to his mother who, as soon as she heard of his uncle’s plans, went out to put the money to use, returning with abundant provisions; but, finding herself with not enough dishes, she went to borrow some from her neighbours. She spent all day preparing the meal, and towards evening, when everything was ready, she said to Aladdin: ‘My son, perhaps your uncle doesn’t know where our house is. Go and find him and, when you see him, bring him here.’ Although Aladdin had told the magician where to find the house, he was nonetheless prepared to go out to meet him, when there was a knock on the door. Opening it, Aladdin discovered the magician, who entered, laden with bottles of wine and all kinds of fruit which he had brought for supper and which he handed over to Aladdin. He then greeted his mother and asked her to show him the place on the sofa where his brother used to sit. She showed him and immediately he bent down and kissed the spot several times, exclaiming with tears in his eyes: ‘My poor brother! How sad I am not to have arrived in time to embrace you once more before your death!’ And although Aladdin’s mother begged him to sit in the same place, he firmly refused. ‘Never will I sit there,’ he said, ‘but allow me to sit facing it, so that though I may be deprived of the satisfaction of seeing him there in person as the head of a family which is so dear to me, I can at least look at where he sat as though he were present.’ Aladdin’s mother pressed him no further, leaving him to sit where he pleased. Once the magician had sat down in the place he had chosen, he began to talk to Aladdin’s mother. ‘My dear sister,’ he began, ‘don’t be surprised that you never saw me all the time you were married to my brother Mustafa, of happy memory; forty years ago I left this country, which is mine as well as that of my late brother. Since then, I have travelled in India, Arabia, Persia, Syria and Egypt, and have stayed in the finest cities, and then I went to Africa, where I stayed much longer. Eventually, as is natural – for a man, however far he is from the place of his birth, never forgets it any more than he forgets his parents and those with whom he was brought up I was overcome by a strong desire to see my own family again and to come and embrace my brother. I felt I still had enough strength and courage to undertake such a long journey and so I delayed no longer and made my preparations to set out. I won’t tell you how long it has taken me, nor how many obstacles I have met with and the discomfort I suffered to get here. I will only tell you that in all my travels nothing has caused me more sorrow and suffering than hearing of the death of one whom I have always loved with a true brotherly love. I observed some of his features in the face of my nephew, your son, which is what made me single him out from among all the children with whom he was playing. He will have told you how I received the sad news that my brother was no longer alive; but one must praise God for all things and I find comfort in seeing him again in a son who retains his most distinctive features.’ When he saw how the memory of her husband affected Aladdin’s mother, bringing tears to her eyes, the magician changed the subject and, turning to Aladdin, asked him his name. ‘I am called Aladdin,’ he replied. ‘Well, then, Aladdin,’ the magician continued, ‘what do you do? Do you have a trade?’ …cont


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Do You Want to Breathe in the Subway?
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL(The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia2)
Posted Date:05/06/2025
Posted By:utopia online

So, you know that the subway is going to be a breeding ground for various bacteria and viruses. If you travel on there on a regular basis, then there is every possibility that you will pick up all kinds of illnesses, and it is often due to the air that you are breathing in. However, even though we do seem to kind of accept that this is the case, it seems that a rather surprising percentage of the air is made up of something that you are probably going to feel a bit sick about when you think of it entering your body. You see, it is believed that in a typical subway station that approximately 15% of the air content actually consists of particles of human skin. Now, just stop for a moment and imagine all of that coming into your mouth and then your lungs. Does that not make you want to stop what you are doing and reconsider how you are going to be breathing when you next venture into the subway? Perhaps the Japanese had the correct idea when it came to wearing those masks. Bonus  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.  People say, “Bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.  In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.  Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.  Humans use 72 different muscles in speech.


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GETTING STARTED
Catagory:Reading
Author:Robert T. Kiyosaki(RICH DAD POOR DAD)
Posted Date:05/06/2025
Posted By:utopia online

I wish I could say acquiring wealth was easy for me, but it wasn’t. So in response to the question “How do I start?” I offer the thought process I go through on a day-to-day basis. It really is easy to find great deals. I promise you that. It’s just like riding a bike. After a little wobbling, it’s a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it takes determination to get through the wobbling. That’s a personal thing. To find million-dollar “deals of a lifetime” requires us to call on our financial genius. I believe that each of us has a financial genius within us. The problem is that our financial genius lies asleep, waiting to be called upon. It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that the love of money is the root of all evil. It has encouraged us to learn a profession so we can work for money, but failed to teach us how to have money work for us. It taught us not to worry about our financial future because our company or the government would take care of us when our working days are over. However, it is our children, educated in the same school system, who will end up paying for this absence of financial education. The message is still to work hard, earn money, and spend it,and when we run short, we can always borrow more. Unfortunately, 90 percent of the Western world subscribes to the above dogma, simply because it’s easier to find a job and work for money. If you are not one of the masses, I offer you the following 10 steps to awaken your financial genius. I simply offer you the stepsI have personally followed. If you want to follow some of them, great.If you don’t, make up your own. Your financial genius is smart enough to develop its own list.While in Peru, I asked a gold miner of 45 years how he was so confident about finding a gold mine. He replied, “There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.” And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and in a day come up with four or five great potential deals, while the average person will go out and find nothing, even looking in the same neighborhood. The reason is that they have not taken the time to develop their financial genius. I offer you the following 10 steps as a process to develop your God-given powers, powers over which only you have control. 1. Find a reason greater than reality: the power of spirit If you ask most people if they would like to be rich or financially free, they would say yes. But then reality sets in. The road seems too long with too many hills to climb. It’s easier to just work for money and hand the excess over to your broker.I once met a young woman who had dreams of swimming for the U.S. Olympic team. The reality was that she had to get up every morning at four o’clock to swim for three hours before going to school. She did not party with her friends on Saturday night. She had to study and keep her grades up, just like everyone else.When I asked her what fueled her super-human ambition and sacrifice, she simply said, “I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.” A reason or a purpose is a combination of “wants” and “don’t wants. ” When people ask me what my reason for wanting to be rich is, I tell them that it is a combination of deep emotional “wants” and “don’t wants.” I will list a few: first, the “don’t wants,” for they create the “wants.” I don’t want to work all my life. I don’t want what my parents aspired for, which was job security and a house in the suburbs. I don’t like being an employee. I hated that my dad always missed my football games becausehe was so busy working on his career. I hated it when my dad worked hard all his life and the government took most of what he worked for at his death. He could not even pass on what he worked so hard for when he died. The rich don’t do that. They work hard and pass it on to their children.Now the “wants.” I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me.Those are my deep-seated emotional reasons. What are yours? If they are not strong enough, then the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasons. I have lost money and been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and going forward. I wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 47, with many learning experiences along the way. As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t. But it wasn’t that hard either. I’ve learned that, without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.


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Enigmatic People
Catagory: History
Author:Brian HaughLon((LOST CIVILILATTONS)
Posted Date:05/02/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Who Murdered Hypatia?-Fe-male philosopher, mathematician, and teacher who lived in the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria, and was brutally murdered by a mob in the early fifth century A.D.Merlin the Magician-The origins of this powerful wizard and prophet of Arthurian legends go back to Celtic myth-and perhaps even further to a magical ancestral figure in prehistoric times-who allegedly erected the megalithic monument of Stonehenge. The Phoenicians-An ancient seafaring and trading culture active over a wide area of the ancient world. They are known to have inhabited the coastal plains of what are now Lebanon and Syria, the origins of this extraordinary maritime culture are shrouded in mystery to this day. Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaA massively influential German magician and occult writer, astrologer, and alchemist of the 15th and 16th centuries. The Rosicrucians-A legendary secretive Order dating from the 15th or 17th century, but with supposed origins much earlier, whose esoteric rites were based on a mixture of early Christianity and Egyptian mysteries. Branches of the Rosicrucian Order still exist today, but what are their real origins, and how have they influenced modern Freemasonry? The Neanderthals-The Neanderthal was a species of the homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, before they apparently disappeared with the arrival of modern humans. What happened to the Neanderthals? Why did they die out? Queen Boudicca-Queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe of eastern Britain, who led a devastating revolt against the Roman invaders in A.D. 61. Boudicca and her 250,000 British burned the newly built London to the ground before being finally defeated in battle at a location which has never been discovered. Where was this battle, and what happened to Boudicca afterwards? The Dorians-Supposedly an ancient Greek tribe who either invaded or migrated southwards into southern Greece with the collapse of the Late Bronze Age palace civilizations, centered on fortified citadels such as Mycenae. Are the Dorians just a myth, or is there evidence for the existence of these enigmatic people? The Boxgrove People-Around 500,000 years ago a group of Homo heidelbergensis (an extinct species of the genus homo) inhabited an area near the modern village of Boxgrove in Sussex, England. What was life like for these remote ancestors of modern humans and what happened to them? The Fairy Folk of Britain and Ireland-Although fairies in the form of spirits or supernatural beings are found in the legends, folklore, and mythology of many different cultures, they are especially prevalent in Britain and Ireland. What lies behind the myths and tales of these legendary beings?


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