Studies
have shown that winning the Lottery is bad for both your health and wealth...
In
fact the more money you win, the more likely you are to commit suicide or end
up bankrupt – or maybe both. Think about that when you buy your next ticket –
there should be a health warning on the back...
Why is
this…?
Money
and success doesn’t change a person it simply Amplifies who they already are.
As Abraham
Lincoln famously said “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man’s character give him power…”
We
have been educated in an Industrial Age economy; have been taught to work 2000
hours a year broken down into convenient chunks of 40 hours a week with two coffee
breaks and a lunch break thrown in.
A Mortgage
– which literally means “contract until death” – has been sold as a good idea;
it becomes a shackle that ensures continued compliance with the Industrial mentality.
We are encouraged to take out credit for cars, TV’s and life’s apparent essentials
using cash that never existed in the first place, to pay for goods that bind us
to the very system that “success” would enable us to escape from.
At the
same time we are sold the dream of the perfect body, the Bugatti Veyron, the Chanel
Bag and the ideal life partner with whom we will have 2.4 perfect children.
It is
a double whammy; on the one hand we are conditioned to work in an Industrial
Age, wage dependent economy, and on the other we are tempted by government organised
lottery schemes, success marketing and motivational gurus towards a Utopian life
of freedom, independence and abundance...
That which we are dependent upon controls us...
Because people are
dependent on wages to pay the mortgage, they stay put and are good worker bees,
allowing them to be controlled and manipulated by employers, advertisers and the
people they associate with. They become dependent on patterns of behaviour that validate everything they have been taught...
Of course they don’t say they are being manipulated
– they just behave in a way that is consistent with how they would if they were…
Injecting
freedom, independence and huge amounts of cash to someone who has been
indoctrinated into this ideology, is a recipe for disaster – simply put, they
cannot cope with it, they are not ready for this level of success, and they crash
and burn.
It is the subconscious mind putting them back to their programmed comfort zone, getting rid of the “toxic” situation they have found themselves in - it's as if they are hitting the "system restore" button - they are simply reverting to the manufacturers original settings...
It is the subconscious mind putting them back to their programmed comfort zone, getting rid of the “toxic” situation they have found themselves in - it's as if they are hitting the "system restore" button - they are simply reverting to the manufacturers original settings...
As in the Matrix, everyone wants to take the Red Pill and escape to the “real world”, it is the subconscious,
and its effect on behaviour, attitude and beliefs that eventually ensures they
get plugged back into the Industrial Age matrix from which they came, safe
under the canopy of Blue Pill acquiescence.
This self-sabotage is happening all around us...
The
same happens in business, I see people with amazing skills, passion and purpose
who cleverly avoid the potential for success by self-sabotaging themselves and
those around them such that success is never really an option – they can stay
warm and safe inside their comfort blanket of mediocrity, safe in the knowledge
that the adversity which they have been conditioned for will continue.
They
are still able to glimpse at the parallel universe of wealth and riches
through the purchase of a Lottery Ticket, or the business idea that was never
carried through, or the book they bought and never read.
So how
can we fix this..?
Get
yourself “Red Pill” ready…
Get
prepared for success, become the person who is able to cope with the freedom
and independence that success brings – make it your comfort zone and the
industrial age mind set your discomfort zone...
Here's what worked for us...
Clear the debts - reduce the dependency…
Choose a “purpose” – be clear why you are going to do what you do…
Lose your friends – or at least the ones that hold you back…
Learn – new skills and mind-set…
Stop watching TV – that is simply a Blue Pill in disguise…
Take Action – stop procrastinating and get on with it…
Hang Around – with like-minded people only…
Stop It – with the self-help books and motivational quotes...
Start It – by planning and making the change to become success ready…
Reduce your dependency on Industrial Age artefacts, let go of that which controls you and take action to become “Red Pill” ready, then you can stop playing the Lottery and get on with your amazing life..
Check out more information about Results Rules OK - www.resultsrulesok.com
Wow, your hardest hitting blog post and opinion! Almost sound like a High D!
ReplyDeleteThanks John - I can sound like Heidi sometimes.. :-)
DeleteWell written.
ReplyDeleteReally useful.
Job well done mate !!
Chris
Good blog Dave. Simple action plan too. I'll do a check against each of those things. Remember to ask me next time we speak.
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