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Pay Dirt: 7 Important Concepts To Understand About Money

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money sm Pay Dirt: 7 Important Concepts To Understand About MoneyIn my lower-middle-class youth, I was raised to discuss money almost never; money was mostly to be associated with all the evils of the world. As a result of my childhood, I came to hold internal conflicting messages about having money, which made it tough to go out into the world and build abundance.

As I reach the age of fifty, my money intelligence has evolved, of course. I no longer regard money as evil. Just as a gun becomes evil in the wrong hands, so it is with money. How we go about earning it, keeping it, and using it is what truly counts in the end run. Now that may sound elementary, but the implications are many.  Read more... (939 words, 5 images, estimated 3:45 mins reading time)

Success and Assertiveness / Aggression

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Some twenty years ago I received a poignant letter from my father that described his “mid-life crisis” and his final acceptance of his lot in life. The content of the letter did not surprise me, but did confirm ponderings I had considered many times. I’ll come back to this letter later.

My father is by no means an aggressive or assertive person; humility, selflessness, and altruistic diligence seem to be his mantra. I have the deepest respect for his talent, his principles, and his integrity. First and foremost, he is an abstract acrylic artist, professionally practicing his craft at least 50 years (to view his work click here). Aside from that, his distinguished career has been teaching Fine Art on the college level since before I was born (I think his first teaching position was officially in 1960 or 61). I can absolutely attest with confidence that anyone who knows my father would agree that he is not an aggressive and assertive individual.  Read more... (576 words, 5 images, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Is “Failure” Useful?

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Clearly there are many more ways to fail than there are ways to succeed! Failure is easy, whereas success takes work. The “easy way out” invariably leads to failure. Sometimes the most creative people are steeped in failure; they find ever more creative ways – elaborate ways – to fail. Failure often begets more failure, and the vicious cycle self-perpetuates.

Many of the most successful people were at the absolute bottom of the failure funnel before turning their life around. I was one of those creative people who seemed to invent new twists to the art of non-success. I hit bottom, then I hit another even lower bottom, and finally an abysmal bottom…dark, bleak, empty nothingness. Of course there are hundreds of thousands – if not millions – just like me: for some unknown reason they simply must explore the bottom of life. But some will never reach despondence and utter despair. As long as you cling to an inner self-worth, an inner light or pride, you can exceed all expectations for success!  Read more... (414 words, 5 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)