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That May be an Important Question to Ask Yourself.
By Paul Mara
What does "rich" mean to you? Have you ever been asked that question?
I was!
When? Back in 1979, while doing a "pressure cooker" course on selling with an insurance company.
I wondered how relevant that question was, considering my personal and financial situation at the time.
No wife.
No job.
I was a solo dad with three children, one of them a baby less than a year old.
"You must be kidding," I thought to myself at the time. What relevance could that have to me learning to sell insurance policies?
How naive I was!
The course that followed had an unbelievably positive and life-changing effect on me, although it only blossomed several years later. But the seed had been sown.
You're probably saying to yourself, "How can a course on selling life insurance have that much effect on anyone?"
Well, that insurance company was the one created by W. Clement Stone.
I found the course to be very challenging, because in New Zealand at that time, we weren't really aware of the "hype" that Americans used to motivate their workers to perform at their optimum. It pleases me each time I think about it now, to know that I passed, top of the class and received a book as a reward. This book was already a best seller, but I'd never heard of it.
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, of which W. Clement Stone was co-author with Napoleon Hill. They shared their secrets on becoming wealthy and having a healthy, productive lifestyle, utilizing the power of a "positive mental attitude." Sadly my motivation and my persistence waned and I stopped selling insurance.
I kept all the information, studies and the book I had won.
The book, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, which I never opened or read for probably three years.
However, I did continue two very positive things. I continued to read on a daily basis some of his quotes and I even put them on the wall. My two favorites were:
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying" and "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
The second thing and the one which I believed the most important was "Goal Setting." I enjoyed the challenge and had learned enough during the course to realize its long-term value. Life began to take several steps in the right direction--not major ones, but definitely positive ones.
Several important thing happened in my life over the next 12 years. Around 1982, I began read, Through a Positive Mental Attitude. I applied so many of the ideas and formulae, and by 1992 my life had completely turned around. This included a wonderful wife and two more children, and a list of goals I had made in 1986 (after my father passed away) became a reality.
I had arrived finally, or so I thought, and was ready to respond to the question that still continued to bother me after all those years.
What does RICH mean to you?
I had some answers! That's what I believed, anyway.
1. A consistent income created from hard work.2. A healthy family.
3. A loving wife and loving children.
4. A nice car.
5. Great holidays.
There were other things, either directly or indirectly related to the above list.
Even now when I look at that list, it seems to have "hit the nail on the head." Then within three years, it all slowly began to fall apart, business wise, thankfully not family wise. Our Polynesian Inheritance is so strong, family always comes first.
Where was I going wrong?
What was I doing wrong?
Whose fault was it?
Why now when we seemed so successful?
A myriad of questions passed through my mind. I began to blame myself. I was making wrong decisions.
I had begun a downward slide that took away my mental fortitude, my belief, my self-confidence. I lost motivation. The thing that really hurts me when I think back is that "I didn't really care anymore." I began to think that the world owed me. I was a good person, so for that I should have been rewarded. What a "Pity party," is all I can say now.
After all these years, I'm finally getting back on track. I realize that age and the new generation means I can never be what I was back then. That's the past and I now live for today, not tomorrow. I have found a "Certain Way" that has been available to each and every one of us for more than ninety years.
Probably in what W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (and thousands of others) used to become rich, they left out some information. They forgot to tell us some very vital points. Whether they did it consciously or just took for granted that we would figure it out, I'm really not sure.
Want to find out, as I have?
For the real meaning of "RICH," go to my website right now and find out how you can have a "RICH," balanced and fulfilled life with "Prosperous Equilibrium." Get a FREE copy of this "Certain Way" with THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH. Visit:
http://www.prosperous-equilibrium.com
Paul Mara has been involved in several businesses over the last 38 years. He began as a motor mechanic with several car repair businesses in New Zealand and Tahiti. Fluent in three languages, he has also worked as a Medical Interpreter and Guide in New Zealand. He now lives in Australia and is involved with Internet Marketing. Visit this "very happy Baby Boomer" at: http://www.prosperous-equilibrium.com
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