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Set aside an hour every Monday and every Thursday or perhaps one morning every two weeks.
You should be doing nothing else at the same time.
You should alternate between keeping your mind quite clear and focusing your thoughts on the specific agenda you
had earlier prepared. This will help prevent undisciplined mental meandering.
Relax and try to put yourself into a receptive mode.
Feel the sun warming your arms; perhaps you hear the buzzing of a nearby bee or the rustling of some leaves in the tree overhead.
Don’t think; just look, smell, see, and feel. Then jerk yourself into thought mode and reflect on the fact or figures that you suspe...
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One more caution is in order. This may be hard to swallow, but I recommend that for a period of at least 24 hours, and preferably double that, before you embark on your regular “absorb the sounds of the future” sessions, you abstain from entertainment in the form of either movies or television programs.
But watching television tends to make one lethargic, noncommunicative, inactive, and sleepy. And the effects of almost any activity linger.
The constantly recurring Biblical injunction to “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.
Most people will never fear what they cannot see.
Whether you are contemplating an investment or planning on opening a new business, faith is paramount.
Your chances of success are vastly enhanced if you spend a few moments first actively visualizing the conversation with your prospect culminating triumphantly.
Here is why I am asking you to expend the energy necessary to force your brain to think positive thoughts.
First take some quiet private time just prior to the event during which you clearly visualize a triumphant presentation.
Remember my motorcycle instructor’s warning that one tends to go where one is looking.
Seeing the desirable outcome is one of the most useful aspects of developing an a...
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As you read the newspaper or watch the news, always ask yourself, “What is the underlying principle?”
Knowing exactly what money is,
how it comes into being, and how it vanishes grants one a wisdom that can easily be confused with prophecy.
Before looking forward, look backward.
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.” Finally, alternate between keeping your mind quite clear and focusing your thoughts on the specific agenda you had earlier prepared.
Visualize your future.
Your chances of success are vastly enhanced if you spend a few moments first actively visualizing the conversation with your prospect as culminating triumphantly.
Your money is a quantifiable analog for your life force—the aggregate of your time, skills, experience, persistence, and relationships.
In other words, if I was serious about catching salmon, I needed to know all there was to know about them.
To convince a particular woman to marry you, I explained to men, it is not enough merely to desire her. You must also understand her.
Trying to really understand the woman is the only way to win her.
It would also be fun to learn about the founder of the Neiman Marcus stores, Stanley Marcus, who learned from his father that when you sell, you are not really selling soap, fur coats, or perfume, you are selling satisfaction.
Jacob was on his way to a reconciliation with his estranged brother, Esau, when he inexplicably returned across a river. It was there that he battled a formidable foe until the dawn, incurring a permanent injury. Jacob risked the encounter, says the Talmud,3 because he wished to recover some assets he had left behind. The rule is, ancient sages say, that a wise person values his money more than his body.
Money is the most effective way ever invented for men and women to quantify their creative energy—a most convenient measure of our time, dignity, skills, health, experience, and persistence.
The Talmud means to say that human beings at work are more than just bodies.
There is more to me than my money, but there is nothing more to my money than my entire Self.
Money is a metaphor for the strength of your human relationships.
Money is a combination of a claim and a promise. Money is intangible. It is only as good as the invisible network of trust that links vast numbers of humans into a loose kind of unity.
This scenario of one person saving a company happens often enough to demonstrate the spiritual roots of wealth.
How Hebrew Defines Value
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“Value is not an attribute or physical property possessed by things themselves, irrespective of their relations to men, but solely an aspect of these relations that enables men to take account, in their decisions about the use of such things, of the better opportunities others might have for their use.”
value is a judgment made by men;
they would possess the ability to create things,
Each human would be as unique
“if you see someone donating to charity, be assured that his wealth is increasing.”
“He who donates much to charity becomes richer because of it inasmuch as he opens up a channel for God’s blessing to reach him.”
Rationality is an excellent instrument for solving puzzles and paradoxes, but it is rather less effective when used to explain human behavior.
Finally, there is the example in which the Bible prohibits cursing a deaf man. Although the disabled victim does not hear the invective being hurled in his direction, it is still forbidden behavior because cursing anyone does more harm to the curser than to the recipient.
Jews give money away regardless of how much the government is doing to solve a problem.
It is far more likely that the United States evolved into history’s greatest wealth creating machine because of its deeply ingrained cultural habit of giving. This is true not only on a national scale but also on a personal level.
One of the most important habits that anyone interested in increasing wealth should acquire is giving away money.
