R.Y.T.H.M. discussion

Do you realize that you
are very likely sabotaging
your own achievements?
Doing things that derail your
business, keep you sick, unhappy,
unhealthy, or broke? (Or all of the
above.) You can think you want to be
successful, but actually be doing things
to stop it from happening to you.
All I know is that it took me losing
my business, selling the furniture,
sleeping on the floor, and eating
macaroni and cheese three times a day
for months to discover a very
fascinating thing . . .
What I discovered about success
and prosperity was that it had almost
nothing to do with opportunities,
chance, luck—or even training,
education, or skill. It had everything
to do with consciousness, beliefs, and
even subconscious programming that
you aren't aware of.
Last year I had a dialogue via e-mail
with my friend Stuart Goldsmith in
London. Stuart attended my Bermuda
Boot Camp and used to publish an
insightful newsletter in the U.K. on
success.
He wrote me about his desire to
create a work at home type of plan to
help people get off government
assistance and become independent.
(He thought perhaps an envelope
stuffing, assembly, or similar type of
plan might work. One done honestly,
not the many rip-off schemes that
currently prey on these people.)
I want to share some of what I
wrote him back on the subject of
prosperity consciousness—because I
think it's the most important element
in your success.
Some of what I write may strike
you as uncaring, jaded, cynical, or
heartless. In actuality, once you
understand the principles
involved, you'll understand that
my comments only come from
wanting the highest good for
others. And you may find them
very appropriate—and very
uncomfortable—for your own life.
Try as I might to embrace Stuart's
idea for a home work program for
welfare recipients, it still reeks to me as
rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Creating home work jobs for most of
these people is casting pearls before
swine or whatever appropriate cliché
you'd like to substitute. (See how
cynical and uncaring I sound already!)
I still believe that what I said is true
though, based on my own experience,
and that of the "circle of losers," I
associated with for the first 30 years of
my life. You could have given any of
us a home work program designed to
make us a millionaire and we would
have snatched defeat from the jaws of
victory.
Why?
Because we did not have the
consciousness to be wealthy—or
healthy—or happy. We were
professional "victims."
When I started a business, the
county started construction on the
highway, the next time I had a crooked
partner, and another time the economy
went bad. Finally the last time, the IRS
seized my restaurant for non-payment
of taxes, and auctioned it off on the
courthouse steps. Which left me with
no car, no house, no money, no job,
and $55,000 in debt . . .
Which ultimately was the best thing
that happened to me. By losing
everything, I finally stopped looking at
all the outside factors (crooked
partner, IRS, economy, etc.), and
started looking at the inside ones. Or
more specifically, ask the question,
"Was there ONE person who was
always at the scene of the crime?"
Of course I didn't like the answer I
came up with, but it was the true one.
All those outside factors were being
manifested by me because I:
• Had a subconscious fear of
success;
• Lacked Self-esteem; and,
• Didn't believe I was worthy of
success.
It's very easy to cry victim and get
your share of love, sympathy, etc. I
was certainly the poster boy. And of
course I surrounded myself with other
victim friends who would commiserate
with me. We would gather at every
opportunity and share our tragedies
with each other.
I would explain how those assholes at
the power company shut off my lights,
because I was one lousy day late; my
friend Mike would top that with how he
was getting evicted by his rich, heartless
landlord; I would come back with how
my license plate was impounded for
unpaid parking tickets, and the battle
would wage on.
And of course there is nothing worse
than when your friends have a worse
tragedy than you do! You have to
immediately manifest a tumor,
meteorite landing on your car, or some
other calamitous event to ensure that
you get your proper share of sympathy.
And before you disregard this as
mystical fluff, I am talking about
rational, scientific events here. Ex: you
are attracted to another dysfunctional
alcoholic spouse, choose another
dishonest partner, open a business
without doing the due diligence, spend
your money on cigarettes and beer, but
have none left to pay the rent, or a
million and one other possibilities.
Yes it's true other people aren't
getting thrown out on the street—but
that's because they pay their mortgage.
Yes it's true that other people don't
have their tire blow out on their way to
the interview for that good job—but
that's because they deferred getting
cable TV and bought new tires when
they needed them.
Poverty is not an absence of money
and things—it is a state of mind.
Prosperity is not an abundance of
money and things—it is also a state of
mind.
The state-run lottery here is the
perfect example. People with money
never buy tickets. They know it's
stupid, with odds of winning of one in
22 million. Or they buy one ticket a
week, as playful entertainment.
Who buys the vast majority of
lottery tickets? Very poor people.
Who gamble away the money they
need for good nutrition, work clothes,
bus fare to a job interview, etc., etc.—
because they "need" to win. And you
know that when they do win $20
million—it will destroy their life. And
they will be broke again in ten years.
Why?
Because they don't have prosperity
consciousness. They see themselves as
poor victims who "need" some of the
money, "luck" and "chances" that rich
people have. And just like if you give
them a lottery pay-off, the home work
opportunity will have the same result,
although less dramatic.
In their subconscious mind, they see
themselves as poor, so they always
manifest results that keep them poor.
Without even knowing it, they hate rich
people and resent what they have. So
when they start to get to a certain level
of success (as I did), a silent alarm goes
off in their subconscious mind that
says, "Hey you better be careful. If you
keep doing what you're doing, you're
going to end up like one of those evil,
mean and nasty rich people! You'll
change, and then your friends won't
like you anymore."
So they will find ways (like I did) to
sabotage their success. Which in the
work-at-home program would
manifest as theft, fraud, shoddy
standards (getting their 3 year old to do
it), begging for extra work, early
payment, more payment because they
"really need it," lots of problems
regarding missing work packets and
missing payments, and lots of work
never returned or heard from again.
How do we change this state of
affairs?
Well first we must acknowledge the
"data-sphere"—the Internet, TV,
telephone, magazines, radio, friends,
family, newspapers, e-mail,
governments, organized religion, and
other "agenda setters." And we must
recognize that this data-sphere is
continually programming people 24/7,
and that almost 95% of it is lack and
limitation programming.