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In these final three lessons, we are going to be discussing that vital
subject of money.
How to get it, and perhaps more importantly, how to keep it once you've
got it.
At this stage of your initiation, you should be starting to become
enlightened. Your knowledge of how the world works, and what forces are arrayed
against you, should be steadily increasing. And remember, it is
knowledge which brings you power. Knowledge
is power - never forget that.
As a simple example, if I told you that BT shares were definitely going
to triple in value over the next three
months (I'm not saying they are, of course!), then this single,
simple, one-line bit of knowledge would make you rich in just three months.
How?
Well of course you would sell everything you had, including your house,
your car and the shirt off your back. You'd then beg, borrow and steal every
penny you could possibly lay your hands on. You'd take loans at exorbitant rates
of interest, you'd borrow from every single family member, and then put the
whole lot into BT shares - and make an
absolute killing.
Just knowing a few little facts
which other people don't know, can give you quite extraordinary powers; it can
certainly make you rich and free, of that there is no doubt.
But, you know, although we'd all like to be given a red-hot racing or
stock market tip, there are many other pieces of knowledge, not quite so
exciting, which nevertheless confer great power.
I'm talking about the sort of knowledge I have given you in these Inner
Circle releases. Of course you knew a lot of this stuff already, didn't you?
Yes, but there is a difference between knowing
something on an intellectual 'dry' level, and using
true knowledge for your own ends - to bring you wealth power and happiness.
You could know about that great stock market tip, and think "Hmm,
very interesting, I think I'll file that away in my brain along with my
extraordinary knowledge of the length of various rivers and the heights of
mountains". Obviously this would then become a totally useless
piece of knowledge, and you would not become rich by doing this.
You have to recognise the
potential of knowledge and then use the knowledge to bring about great
benefits in your own life.
I want to tell you a little (completely true) story.
About fifteen years ago, a class of Harvard Business School students who
had just graduated, were interviewed. They were asked many questions using a
multiple-choice type of questionnaire. Their exam results were also logged (who
got 'A's, who got 'B's, etc.).
In a moment, I'll tell you the significant question which was asked, but
for the moment I want to tell you the results of the experiment.
Nothing whatsoever was done on this experiment for
ten years, because the purpose of the experiment was to see if it was
possible to determine what factors in a
student were important in determining
how successful that student became over the next ten years. The experiment
was concerned with 'financial' success only. Obviously you could define success
in different ways if you so desired ('poor but happy' etc.). Anyway, ten years
later, they checked up on the hundred or so students, to see how many of them
had 'made it'. The result was that three percent of the students were worth,
financially, more than the other
ninety-seven students put together. Hmm..
Interesting. Tell me more...
"Ah," you might say,
"but if you took any group of one hundred people, you might expect
three of them to do very well."
Well spotted! This is true, but the startling thing was this: Only these three students had answered 'Yes' to a
particular question on that form ten years ago. All of the others - all
ninety-seven - had answered 'No'.
Coincidence?
Extremely unlikely. Before you read on, I bet you can't guess what that
question was all about! Have a think before reading the answer...
Were the winning students the ones with the highest grades? No. They had average or even below average grades.
Were the winning students from good backgrounds? No. They
had average or even below average grades.
Were the winning students from good backgrounds? No. This appeared not to
be a factor.
Let me tell you what that question asked. It said:
Do you know where you are going in life? Do you regularly set goals and
write these goals down? Do you know where you want to be in
ten years, and twenty years from now?
That was the question which was asked!
Isn't that amazing? And this is a true
survey, one of many such experiments which have been done to confirm the fact
that if you know where you are going in life, then you are much more likely to
get there than if you just 'drift' through your short time on this planet.
It's true, isn't it? Most people just drift along from day to day, week
to week, year to year, without having the slightest idea of what they want out
of life. And of course, it is no surprise that they
don't get it. This is why most people die poor (often flat-broke),
miserable, bitter and unfulfilled. Isn't it extraordinary that most people work
for forty or fifty years for someone
else, and when they die they have
nothing - not a penny? Sometimes they don't even have enough for a decent
funeral!
Did they spend it all on high living whilst they were alive? What do you think!?
The point of this story is that knowledge
(in this case, the knowledge of where you are going in life) brings power. Only people who know where they are going and have a firm
hand on the tiller will make it. These
are the rich people, these are the successful people, these are the powerful
people.
Think about flying an aeroplane. There you are, flying straight and level
in a clear blue sky. You trim the plane carefully, you set the throttle just
right, and then....you take your hands off the column. Amazing! The plane flies
along quite happily by itself - straight and level (it does, by the way). But of
course, how long would it be before that plane crashed into the ground and
killed you?
Answer, about ten minutes - tops! Very slowly, almost imperceptibly, one
wing would start to drop, then the nose would drop, then the plane would ease
into a leisurely spiral dive ending with a large dent in the ground...
Moral: You can't take your hand off the wheel for more than a few
minutes, otherwise you'll spin out of control.
It's the same with life. Initiates keep
their eyes on the ball - all the time. You can't afford to relax your vigil,
otherwise you'll start to spin out of control. Slowly and lazily at first, but
then into a tighter and tighter spin from which you might not be able to recover
in time before you smash into the ground.
I don't want to hammer the analogy, but I want you to understand this:-
'spinning out of control' is the natural state of affairs. Flying isn't natural. The plane really
wants to crash into the ground, and given half a chance it will! It's only your
constant hand at the controls, your will,
which prevents it from achieving its desire!
Cars don't want to drive in
perfect straight lines. Try taking your hands off the wheel when you're doing
eighty down the fast lane of a straight motorway if you want a graphic
demonstration of this phenomenon! (Only joking folks, please remember to keep
your hands on the wheel at all times. Speed kills. Oh, and have a nice day). No,
the car wants to smash into the central barrier, killing you and your
passengers. It loves doing this - I mean, being a Volvo all day is pretty
boring.
Only your steady hand on the wheel - continually correcting, continually
adjusting - keeps the car on its chosen
course. The course you have selected.
The direction you
want to go.
Comprendez?
Why, why, why then, do people think that they can take their hands off
the 'wheel of life'?
Why do they think that they can drift along for weeks, months or even
years without making the tiniest correction, without pointing themselves in any
particular direction, without even knowing which direction might be best?
Put like that, it's rather amazing isn't it? Particularly if you remember
that spinning out of control is the natural and normal state of affairs, whilst
'straight and level' requires constant feedback and input from the pilot or
driver.
So people's lives spin out of control. Sometimes dramatically (ending in
suicide, depression or serious illness), and sometimes just a boring, lazy, slow
spin towards old age and death (ending in bitterness, disappointment and a sense
of anger at a wasted life).
I will be talking much, much more about this in later releases, but
here's an example of a one-line piece of knowledge which could dramatically
increase your wealth, power and happiness. It is this: Set
regular goals, write them down, know where you want to be, aim yourself constantly
in that direction, and you will achieve those goals.
There it is, two dozen words. If I said these words to most people, they
would simply think: "Hmm, very
interesting, I'll file that away. Now then, what's for tea?"
This would be a complete waste of time. They might as well not have
bothered to read the sentence above. But you are a member of Inner
Circle. Shortly, you will be an Initiate. You do not need to ask me what I
expect of you. I expect you to read the above sentence, believe it, and then start
putting it into action immediately, starting now, today.
There are many things which I would love to be able to transmit directly
from my brain to yours, but if I could choose just one thing, it would be my
knowledge that the above statement is completely true. But all I can do is to
ask you to at least give yourself the
chance to find out how true it is.
Now on to the main subject of this lesson, which is Money, subtitle
Bosses, subtitle "Why you should work for yourself".
Here's another one-line piece of knowledge. You probably 'know' it
already, but not in the Inner Circle
sense: It is completely and utterly impossible to get rich
by working for someone else.
You knew that? Good. What's that? You're still working for someone else
though.....!
As I have said many times, there are only three ways of getting rich. Only three, remember. This should focus your mind greatly. Here
they are, once again: 1. Steal it (rob banks, 'do over' building societies,
commit fraud, etc. etc.) 2. Get lucky. Win it, be given it, inherit it, find it
in a bag at the bottom of your garden, back a lucky winning share, horse or
roulette number. 3. Work for yourself.
Now out of these three, number one is far too risky. I've seen the inside
of a jail (for purely professional reasons, of course!) and I have no desire to
spend five minutes there, let alone ten years!
Number two is pure fantasy. No Inner Circle
member would lower themselves to play games of chance (like bingo, football
pools, lotteries, etc.). Why? Because these silly and pathetic games are for
no-hopers, that's why! I can't think of anything more sad than doing the
pools. It's as though you were placing all of your hopes and desires on a spin
of the wheel, a ten million to one gamble. Truly pathetic. It's no good saying
that you only do these things for a 'bit of fun'. Wrong! They defocus your mind
from setting and achieving real goals (as opposed to fantasy' goals' on a score
draw card!).
A neat little analogy, I thought - oh well.....
You see, the one characteristic which makes Initiates shine out from the
crowd is that they take full and complete
responsibility for their own lives. Whenever you play a long-shot game of
chance, you are making a strong statement that you have no control, that your only hope (or one of your main hopes) is to win some game of chance
at staggeringly unlikely odds of millions to one.
Which only leaves number three. Working
for yourself.
Actually, this is quite a stunning revelation when you see it written
down. I'm saying that the only way for
you to get rich is to work for yourself. I honestly can't think of another
way, and I'd be amazed if you could.
And yet people continue to work, all of their lives,
in order to make other people rich. They pour their life-energies into this
task, with enthusiasm and zeal. It never ceases to amaze me.
Why do they do this?
There are several reasons: 1. They are conned into believing in the illusion of
Bosses. We will be discussing this shortly. 2. They haven't the faintest idea of what they want to
do with their lives or where they are going. They are like rudderless ships just
drifting along with the current. They do this all of
their lives until they die. 3. They believe that they lack the knowledge, skill,
class, determination, or any one of a hundred other qualities, to become a
business person. They don't believe that they deserve
to be rich. They think that this is for other people, not them. This is,
of course, just part of the wider con-trick. Illusion/Con-trick # 5:- Bosses
The operators of the Boss scam
are attempting to pull the following trick on you:
Bosses want to increase the volume of life's pleasures which come their
way (money, power, time etc.) by getting as many slaves
as possible (people like you) to sacrifice
their life's pleasures for the absolute rock-bottom minimum reward. This is
the scam they operate.
Simple, isn't it?
People fall for this scam daily, in their tens of millions. They rarely
question the state of affairs which leads them to
sacrifice their lives so that
others may grow rich, successful and powerful.
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