What causes prosperity?
Some people ask "What causes poverty?" That's the wrong question. Poverty is the natural state of man. "What causes prosperity?" is the better question. The answers are known. In the United States and Canada, the only question is, are you willing to participate?
Decisions have power
You will not make a decsion unless you believe it is possible, and you desire it. When you make a firm decision about what you're going to be, do or have, you step into a river of energy that is going in the direction you want to go. People and…
Who do you want to be?
When we talk about goals, which we certainly should have, we often talk about what we want to have. Sometimes we talk about what we want to do. But let's go one more step upstream and ask - "Who do I want to BE?" If we can get clear about…
Sunk cost bias
We have a lot of stuff we don't need. We tend to value things we already own more highly because we have already spent the money on them. We keep this stuff because we don't want to "lose". But ask, "If I did not already own this, would I buy…
To get better is to change
Change is the movement from where you are to where you are not. Without change, you are hopelessly stuck where you are. Either you are ok with where you are and what you've got, or you are ok with change. Which is it?
Be Courageous
Courage is being scared and doing it anyway. Change is scary, because we'd rather stick with the same crappy situation because at least our situation is familiar, and we fear it could be worse. But if we don't do what we are a little or a lot afraid of, we…
Leave the nest
When we get away to another part of the country or world, where people think and live differently than we do, we gain insight and expand our thinking. Traveling makes the world look new.
Be nice
How do we deal with our enemies in the physical world or online? Ignore them. How do we make friends? Say nice things about them. What do you do?
Follow people who are smarter than you.
The people we hang around have a huge impact on us. Who are you following/getting with/reading that is doing what you want to do?
Keep a gratitude file
When you get an email, note or card from someone who is thankful for what you have done for them, three-hole punch it and put it in a binder. Writer Austin Kleon calls it a "Praise File". I call it my "Gratitude Book". Not only does it make you…
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Prosperity isn’t compulsory…but neither is survival!
From Robert Heinlein on the same subject:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded–here and there, now and then–are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”