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Positive Expectation.
Jim Rohn talked about it. Even Jesus Christ was mentioned as having some defined as "Positive Expectation." It's the belief that regardless of what appears around you PHYSICALLY, emotionally, psychologically, it will work out, so long as you work out, too.
We, as humans with uncontrollable emotions, get ahead of ourselves. We worry about the situations in which we may NEVER use certain skills/tactics taught on this site. That parking space is just ONE example of Positive Expectation. If you get a close parking space, PERFECT. A shorter walk. If you don't get a close parking space, then maybe the additional walk will benefit you, if only slightly. Or maybe you'll eye a fine babe. Or park your car far enough away some teenager won't whack the crap out of it.
I've always found, REGARDLESS of how I planned, things rarely go as planned, because in this universe of infinite moving parts, you can't control THOSE things. The only thing you control is your emotions, your perceptions of interactions with reality, and your decisions about reality. You can't control people, and even if someone acquiesces to your demands, it's not REALLY them responding, it's their fear about you, or their love for you; it's some MOTIVATING emotion or connection to you or about you that brings about their action, not their actual desire or willing consent. Ayn Rand explained as much (whether you buy her philosophy or not, the point is still made well and true).
The HOW'S of things coming about are meaningless. The only that matters is that we have desires or wishes or wants, and we make them come about.
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Wealth has ALOT of different definitions. I do know people who the mindset that WEALTH is ABUNDANT and comes in all forms and directions, and he keeps getting. From winning in poker tournaments, to winning at work with happy clients. His ability to give constantly has him getting more from people. Either he gives in time, in concentration, in professional assistance, sometimes money, or just his mind occasionally, he GIVES, willing to give with no conditions on his giving.
And yes wealth is a positive mindset, but there are negative ones, too, with people who think it is had by taking from people. It is not a zero sum game. In fact, the greatest wealth is unleashed whereby people provide a GREATER service to the person/public THAN the money you receive in return.
Consider how affordable the internet is, yet those moguls making a killing or doing it with people spending relatively little as a % of their total wealth or income. Gates, Jobs, Cuban, Dell; all provided more than what it cost the individual to enjoy the benefit.
I would consider the opposite when thinking of oil and/or gas. The only reasons we keep using such supplies is because there's nothing better, and as a fundamental component of our current economy and way of life the world around, it's perhaps only a few ranks behind air, water, and food with sustaining life as we know it. Without oil, products necessary to save lives wouldn't be had. Hospitals couldn't operate. Schools wouldn't be open in winter. Homes wouldn't be heated, or air conditioned, and many elderly would probably die in extreme climates. That REQUIREMENT for the way we live is quite a strangle hold, and extracts QUITE a bit of wealth from people, when it's a natural renewable energy sources created not from fossils or squished plants, but hydrocarbons pushed through the earth's surface. It's been confirmed the same components found on other planets have been found here, components that make up oil.
We could speak on economics, but this isn't about that. Rather, a person seeking to generate, create, and keep wealth can do so infinatum, SO LONG AS it's providing a service/product in greater value than the person creating it gets. At some point, the market might stop consuming what it is, because the cost has gotten greater than the benefit it yields, to which an entrepreneur MUST reinvent or die (in economic sense).
Wealth can ONLY be had through mutual benefit of interacting parties, because it's ENERGY. A great example of ENERGY in terms of MONEY is found with the book "Behold a PALE Horse" by William Cooper. Though he explains it from the vantage of CONSPIRACY THEORY, it still holds true all the same.
There's the 3 levels of energy, or resources.
1. Actual Capital (land, natural resources, the product)
2. The servers (managers, engineers, inventors)
3. The grunt/proletariat (those who turn the capital into a viable end product)
Obviously at each level your ENERGY or WEALTH differs. IF you can ascend to a different level then you can gain more wealth, OR if you can go directly to level I by finding/inventing something you can also claim right to wealth. It need not be of the kind of physical material; it might be intellectual, as all wealth begins.
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How you think/feel matters most and here's why. Let's say I get down on my life. That things are tense btw my girl and I. I'm bummed out that my friends aren't around. That I'm getting older, though I'm not old. Maybe I haven't the money in my account I want. Perhaps I don't have the vacation home I want yet. Etc. Etc. Etc. What do you think happens by an extension of that line of thinking, as it seems to dominate ALOT of people's thoughts today?
You don't really do anything, because you don't FEEL good about where you are. You're asking ALOT of how's. Why did I get here. What did I do. Etc. But it isn't helping. It's only imbedding things deeper.
Taking the opposite line of thinking. I should be grateful for the beauty of a woman I have. That I have a functional body I can use and am not confined to a wheel chair or any other disability. That I have plenty of money to do what I want NOW. That I am employed and young and have a head on my shoulders. That I can take charge of ALL my life now and CHOOSE what I want to do. The past is useless and regardless if only to learn LESSONS. A mistake is only a mistake if REPEATED twice. The first occurence is just an out come. And I am happy I have lots of friends with whom I can hang out with, even if our time is brief. They are loyal, trustworthy, well off, level headed, and happy. Being happy with WHERE you are, and a positive expectation of GREAT things to come, is WAY better, and is absolutely LOA in ACTION.
It's a matter of perspective or a paradigm shift of where you are. But far too many people ask "why me," as if this is their LOT or ROLE in life and they have no say. Quite the contrary, you might be PUT there to rise above your meager circumstances, making you ALL the better. Perhaps the GREATEST fear we have is precisely what we should GO for, since we will grow emotionally, psychologically and spiritually the MOST from that effort alone. Small steps work within the realm of the ego as it doesn't push to hard against the comfort zone. LARGE steps push the SPIRIT, the very soul of who we are.
I absolutely believe in the Law of Attraction. You need only look at people who the RIGHT attitude and continuously attract more of what they want and less of what they don't as clear evidence of that fact. That guys with the RIGHT way about them attract the RIGHT girl time and time again. And guys with the wrong way about them, don't.
A-Unit
