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March 26 - March 30, 2019
“fear the Lord your God” is a reminder of how important it is to be able to “see” the invisible, because the Hebrew verb used for the phrase “fear the Lord” is actually the Hebrew word for “seeing.” In other words, the Bible is informing its devotees that if you can bring yourself to actually “see” God, then you will automatically come also to “fear” him.
By spending a little preparation time actively anticipating a successful outcome to your efforts, by dwelling on that outcome, and by savoring the success with a smile on your face, you will actually be impacting your body and mind. You will be preparing yourself to bring about the success you crave.
First take some quiet private time just prior to the event during which you clearly visualize a triumphant presentation. Include the smallest details; imagine the audience applauding.
Seeing the desirable outcome is one of the most useful aspects of developing an ability to see the future.
Accustom yourself to analyzing today’s events in the light of yesterday’s history for the purpose of making necessary changes for tomorrow.
YOUR PATH TO PROSPERITY
Recognize which external events will affect your business or your life and which will have no effect at all.
Interpret events without emotion.
Before looking forward, look backward.
Watch for patterns.
Be open to the possibility of cycles and trends, but never allow yourself to become blinded by them.
To hear the soft footsteps of approaching trends, block out all the external “noise.”
Make sure you set aside a regular time, even if it is only a short amount of time. Do nothing else at the same time. In this way, you place yourself in what I call “receive mode.”
Visualize your future.
faith is paramount.
Your chances of success are vastly enhanced if you spend a few moments first actively visualizing
Practice memorizing.
Select reading material that will help you recognize trends.
Their lessons are interesting and instructive, but we will do better by understanding the fundamentals from first principles that will allow us to develop our own unique abilities to attract money.
what lies at the root of wealth—spiritual energy, a term that sounds wispy and weak but at the same time hints at power and potency.
without some sort of invisible network of trust throughout the communal system, there can be no money. The trust system has to precede the money.
it is not enough to merely know things; you are going to need to absorb them into your being.
You only know the value of that thing you own after finding out what other people would give you in exchange for it.
value is a judgment made by men;
What does “in His image” mean? Talk about unattainable goals! To Jewish scholarship, this meant that humans would resemble God in two important ways: (1) Alone among the creatures of the world, they would possess the ability to create things, just like the Deity Himself did. (2) Each human would be as unique as God is.
Don’t look only at balance sheets, which note a company’s assets and liabilities. You should also study all other parts of a financial report, like the cash flow statement, which can alert the knowledgeable observer to dangerous conditions such as inventories rising faster than sales.
the manner of calculating your wealth is to ask yourself how much you would accept in return for parting with your new car.
“A person should always keep his money in three parts; one third in real estate, one-third in merchandise, and one-third in readily available cash.”
One of the terms used for money in Hebrew is zuz, which actually means “to move.” Money must be kept moving.
Money can deepen these differences when it is used to hoard wealth, reward privilege, and exploit the needy. But money is far more suited to unite and equalize. It is the ultimate abstractor—converting goods, talent, and toil into a commodity that can easily be traded and shared.
money is best won by renouncing a need to totally possess. The more fixated people are upon both money and love, the more trouble they seem to have finding them.
Regardless of your past performance in this area, turn over a new leaf and start developing your trustworthiness.
always do more for other people than they expect.
Learn a specific and very valuable new skill: namely, how to read financial statements.
John Tracy’s How to Read a Financial Report.
Prepare and maintain your own personal financial statements.
Search for your own “tropical island” on which to successfully market your goods and services.
Giving away money is one of the most powerful of all actions that defeats this dangerous tendency. It makes other people want to interact with you.
give money away because it is one of the most powerful and effective ways of increasing your own income.
the first consequence of giving some of your money away—doing so makes you feel a better person, which makes you come across as a better person.
The Jewish legal codifier Moses Maimonides ranks various acts of charitable giving. The highest rank is putting the recipient in business for himself, thus making him independent of charity. The next highest rank is giving money to someone who needs it in such a way that neither the donor nor the recipient is aware of one another’s identities. This maintains total dignity.
Pick one organization with which to associate significantly. By “significantly,” I mean that you will invest both time and money.
Whether engaged in investing, building your own business, or any other facet of real life, you have to play each hand as if you do not really need to win but are sure you will win anyway. Then you have to be ready to pick yourself up from any failures and play the hand all over again.
If you have the generosity of spirit to give money away, you also have the courage to seek profit by placing your money at risk.
In the case of charity, I take this money, give it away, and say to myself, “This may one day come back to me in plentiful returns, but it perhaps may not. There are no guarantees, but that is also alright.”
In the case of investing money in my own efforts, I also say to myself, “This may one day come back to me. It may even produce far greater returns. However, it is just possible that nothing will come of it. Still, I do it.”
There is a sad sense in which each person lives a lonely, isolated existence. You enter the world alone and you depart it alone; but along the way everything of value flows from how effectively you battle that loneliness and how effectively you bond with others.
Part of the very mandate of life granted you by God is the obligation to end your lonely condition and build links to others.
Make money flow, and you will inevitably be creating bonds. With bonds in place, more money flows.
Like anything else that flows, money requires pipelines. This means that your task is to excavate pipelines that can carry money toward you. How do you go about excavating money pipelines? The only way to construct these channels is by pumping money outward from you to the world out there.