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The Facebook Façade

Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire. You and I are not. If we wanted to have some fun, we could list the reasons why this situation exists. Being charitable to him, we could say Zuckerberg is a tenacious visionary who was willing to challenge the status quo and harnessed the Internet to create a product that billions of people use every day. Being charitable to you and me, we could say we’re not a trope of an evil Bond movie villain, willing to eviscerate the greater good for personal enrichment, and that’s why we’re not multi-billionaires. But if we want to really zero in and laser focus on the most important distinction between the fact that he has enough cash to fill his pool with money and literally swim in it, and you and I have…less – here’s what I come up with.

Please Be More Selfish

Go back with me, if you will, to a moment in your life when you were luxuriating in the beauty, virtue, and sheer joy of being selfish... Unfortunately, if you’re like most people, the mere thought of doing something for pleasurable for yourself leaves you racked with guilt, questioning your ego, and scrutinizing your self-esteem.

Stop Providing Weapons to Your Enemy

We’ve talked a lot about the tug-of-war between your conscious mind versus your subconscious programming, for outcomes you want to do, have, and become. Unfortunately, you can sometimes unknowingly give the negative programming in your subconscious mind an extra advantage. One it certainly doesn’t need.

Making Mistakes

The person who doesn’t make mistakes doesn’t make anything. When you allow mistakes to happen, you learn and grow. The person waiting to do anything until they can do it perfectly, ends up living a life of mediocrity.

Beware of the Soul Crushers

One of my dear friends called me for advice on how to handle her mother who was dying of cancer. My advice was simple: Let her die.

Building a New You…

In the last post, I told you that the when you reach the level of self-awareness to become the thinker of the thought – that’s the day you’re actually born. What we’re talking about is using your mind instead of being used by your mind. You have to be able to step back, rise above your thoughts, and be conscious of them. When you become the thinker of the thought, you become the architect of your life. You stop believing in fate, luck and happenstance, and start realizing that you’re a co-creator of your life.

What Kind of Vision Do You Possess?

Last post I told you that there are some beliefs, habits, and even people, that no longer belong in your life. Once you realize and recognize that, you can finally give yourself permission to move toward self-mastery, recreating yourself, and living a prosperous life.

Hope, Dope, and a Dead Pope

It was spring, 2005 and I was sitting in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam toking up some sinsemilla, while the TV on the wall played images of people mourning the death of Pope John Paul II. Maybe it was the dope, but I was profoundly melancholy, thinking that like so many before him, the Pope was a very spiritual, caring and well-meaning human being – who would leave a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair for his followers.

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