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Living a Meaningful Life
© 2003 Stuart Goldsmith
Stuart Goldsmith, respected best-selling author of books like The Midas Method, Privacy (How to Live a Private Life Free From Big Brother Interference), and Seven Secrets of the Millionaires, is a self-made multi-millionaire. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in many countries worldwide. Perhaps you have read his books or seen him interviewed on television. You can apply to join Goldsmith’s elite and select little group, a group which he calls the Inner Circle. You might not be right for this group. Find out by reading more about the Inner Circle - and how it has created amazing changes in people’s lives. The number of places is strictly limited so act now, today. The following article is an example of Stuart’s writings.
I believe that each person is a very special, unique individual.
I also believe that everyone has a passion - if only they could discover it.
And let me state one final belief: I believe that if you will only follow your passion - your dream - then everything will be all right. It will work out.
You’ll make enough money to live on, perhaps even get rich, but more importantly you’ll have a joy-filled and truly meaningful life.
The alternative is to live a life like our primitive ancestors - grueling, desperate, toil-filled days devoid of meaning other than brute survival.
The difference is that they had no choice. You do.
Now I want to say a word about ‘meaningful.’
Do you, like me, equate the words ‘meaningful’ and ‘dream’ with something hugely important; of tremendous significance to mankind?
For example, do you think that a dream in order to be meaningful has to be something like this?:
* Invent anti gravity.
* Invent faster than light travel.
* Write a book which will profoundly change the lives of all six billion people on the planet.
* Create a world-changing philosophy.
* Eradicate poverty, disease and hunger from the world.
* Overthrow the government, and start an entirely new political system invented by you.
* Write a series of symphonies which make Mahler and Mozart look like amateurs.
* Climb every mountain; ford every stream; follow every rainbow.
In other words, are you trapped, like I was, by the belief that your ‘meaningful dreams’ have to be grandiose, or they are not worth pursuing? Do you believe that small dreams are for small people and that only giant dreams are worth having?
If so, what on earth are we to make of dreams like this?
“I was a cost control accountant for IBM. One day I was driving through the countryside on my way to a sales meeting. Suddenly, about half a mile away, I saw a broken down windmill.
To this day, I don’t know what happened, but something about that windmill called to me. As though guided by a will other than my own, I turned off the road and drove down the bumpy track leading to the mill.
It was completely deserted, and dilapidated. Using my mobile telephone, I cancelled my meeting. I don’t know what possessed me. I had never cancelled a meeting before except for serious reasons such as ill health. Little was I to know that this was the most important cancellation of them all. At that moment I knew I wanted to own that mill and restore it to full working order.
Of course, it was crazy. I had a responsible job, paying a good salary. I knew nothing about windmills. Literally nothing. Correction: I knew that they went round and round, and somehow ground corn into flour. But at that moment I found my passion in life. To cut a long and difficult story short (for I will not pretend it was easy), I located the owner of the mill and purchased it from him. I gave up my job and career and moved with my family into a house near the mill. We spent two years restoring it, and now run it as a working windmill and museum.
I’ll never get rich running the mill, but we make enough to make ends meet. The important thing is that the last two years have been the happiest of my life.
Perhaps I won’t always own the mill. It’s possible I might get tired of it one day. But that doesn’t matter. By then I’ll have another dream and I will know that it is possible to follow your dreams and to succeed. From where I am sitting, I cannot even begin to understand how I spent so many years as an accountant. It seems utterly fantastic to me now.”
This man is not going to save the world, cure all known diseases, or eradicate poverty. He found a dream which was his unique destiny or vision, and had the guts to follow it. His dream was entirely insignificant on a global, or even local scale. He did not change anybody’s life apart from his own.
What were the needs which this dream fulfilled?
I can only guess. Perhaps he needed to create something with his bare hands. Perhaps he needed to control something in its entirety - be responsible for all of the cogs, rather than just be a cog himself. Perhaps he wanted to earn his living in an honest way, and saw accountancy as basically a dishonest profession. Only he could tell you.are lost if you do not believe that having money is a good thing.
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Believe That You Deserve To Be Wealthy
© 2003 Stuart Goldsmith
Stuart Goldsmith, respected best-selling author of books like The Midas Method, Privacy (How to Live a Private Life Free From Big Brother Interference), and Seven Secrets of the Millionaires, is a self-made multi-millionaire. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in many countries worldwide. Perhaps you have read his books or seen him interviewed on television. You can apply to join Goldsmith’s elite and select little group, a group which he calls the Inner Circle. You might not be right for this group. Find out by reading more about the Inner Circle - and how it has created amazing changes in people’s lives. The number of places is strictly limited so act now, today. The following article is an example of Stuart’s writings.
You are lost if you do not believe that having money is a good thing.
You need the self-confidence and focus to follow your dream and this will be fatally undercut if you have the wrong philosophy of life and money. No amount of effort on your part will overcome a faulty philosophy. If, deep down, you believe that wealth is a sin or that money is dirty, or wicked then the first step is for you to correct this error or give up all hopes of wealth for you and your family. What is a ‘wrong’ philosophy with regard to making money?
Anything which could be described as altruistic, socialist, collectivist, communist or any one of its thousand manifestations no matter what the label, no matter what the disguise, no matter what the smoke screen.
Without exception, every self-made millionaire I have met was a rugged individualist. Most of them despised government, although many were clever enough not to say so in public. And believe me, there were approximately zero socialists amongst them.
A socialist, whatever he calls himself, is someone who believes that brute force should be used to loot from the productive, in order to provide handouts for the unproductive. No matter how you disguise it, or make it look fancy, that’s the plain truth of the socialist doctrine.
I believe that it is impossible for you to attempt to get rich if you have some nagging doubt that money is the root of all evil, that Capitalism is bad or that wealth should be divided up amongst the needy. You have surrendered the philosophical high ground if you sign up for any of these positions.
Let me apologize in advance if you find this a little heavy. It is my sincere wish that you read this article and stay with me. Later articles are far easier. The teachings I produce in order to help people have a better life aren’t merely plucked from the air, randomly. My views are based on a solid, ‘from the ground up’ philosophy of life - a thing which few people have in our compromise age of mixed economies.
It is a powerful thing to have a coherent philosophy of life. Without this, you react to life’s events with a series of random, mood of the moment responses which are often contradictory and self-defeating. You pick emotions and opinions from an array of ill-considered viewpoints and hand-me-down beliefs. In contrast, a coherent philosophy empowers you. The correct thing to do in all situations becomes obvious - it is merely a question of being strong enough to do it, which is not always so easy!
No thief, no con-man, no criminal will ever come close to stealing the amount of wealth taken from you by force due to bad philosophy. I am, of course, talking about state theft of your life efforts. If you do not believe such theft is wrong, your wealth-generating efforts are doomed.
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Aspiring Millionaires Believe in Property Rights
© 2003 Stuart Goldsmith
Stuart Goldsmith, respected best-selling author of books like The Midas Method, Privacy (How to Live a Private Life Free From Big Brother Interference), and Seven Secrets of the Millionaires, is a self-made multi-millionaire. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in many countries worldwide. Perhaps you have read his books or seen him interviewed on television. You can apply to join Goldsmith’s elite and select little group, a group which he calls the Inner Circle. You might not be right for this group. Find out by reading more about the Inner Circle - and how it has created amazing changes in people’s lives. The number of places is strictly limited so act now, today. The following article is an example of Stuart’s writings.
What about your property rights? If you aspire to millionaire status, this means that you are attempting to accumulate property and expect to retain it. What does our society have to say about your rights in this matter?
The state holds that you do not have the right to the fruits of your own labor. They have first claim on that; you get what’s left. So what property rights can you have, in the face of such blatant enslavement? Why, none, of course! The state can walk right in and confiscate anything and everything you own. There are dozens of different laws allowing them to do this.
There can be no individual rights without property rights.
Next, we live in a democracy. Furthermore, this is a political system existing within a mixed economy, that is, communism in partnership with capitalism - a ludicrous and impossible contradiction.
There are no guiding principles in modern politics. There is no particular direction we are heading as a country - we’re just meandering around aimlessly, drifting with the tide of populist opinion. We have no goals, targets, principles, ethics or direction.
So what are politicians? Simply power-brokers. Backed by force, they extract life-values from the citizens, and then negotiate with the long queue of lobbyists who are desperate for free money. The politicians swap this free money for political power. That sums-up the current political process in our democracy.
A democracy without enshrined individual rights, is merely gang warfare - which gang, with the loudest demands can force their ideas upon the rest of us. Remember, a democracy allows 51% of the people to vote to send the other 49% to the gas chambers. Extreme, but it underlines the essential error of believing wholeheartedly in democracy as the perfect system. More realistically, democracy allows one gang to force the rest of the population to slave for them.
The statists and altruists seek absolute control of your life. The message is simple, “You are a tool of the state. We demand that you sacrifice yourself for the good of others. Your ambition, your talents your energy, they count for nothing. We will confiscate all of these and give them away so that we might retain power. Rejoice in your sacrifice.”
Finally comes the exaltation, “With rights come responsibilities.” Be very alert if you ever hear this.
Responsibilities to whom? Society? But since society is a collection of individuals, this becomes responsibilities to other, unknown and unspecified individuals.
What responsibilities? To feed them? To house them and clothe their children? To provide them with jobs, cars, telephones and holidays through the sweat of your brow?
You have no such responsibility and I proclaim it here and now.
If I ever do such a thing, it will be as a limited charitable gift made by me, directly to the person concerned.
“With rights come responsibilities.”
What ‘rights’ does the statist mean? You should already have the three inalienable rights previously mentioned - the right to life, liberty and property, the latter being the right to retain the fruits of your labor. You don’t need the state’s permission for these rights. They are not a ‘gift’ of the state. They are yours with or without the existence of a state, let alone their permission.
So what ‘rights’ do the altruists mean? The ‘right’ to join the others at the trough? The ‘right’ for your share of the free money? The ‘right’ to be looked after, coddled and protected by a nanny state? The ‘right’ to have the consequences of your errors mitigated at the expense of other citizens? The ‘right’ to have ineptitude, idleness and lack of forethought compensated for by staking a claim in the energy and talents of others? The ‘right’ to waive responsibility for your own self-imposed ill-health and have others pick up the tab?
I have and desire no such rights and I proclaim it here and now.
Now I sincerely hope I did not bore you with these thoughts. The statements you have just read lie at the very core of my belief structure and are, I believe, essential if you want to make and keep great wealth.
In order to think and act like a millionaire you must have a warrior’s code. A ‘code of ethics’ if you like, although I hesitate to use the word because it has been stolen and distorted by the very people who are trying to grab your life values.
The code of ethics for a warrior is simply one of rational selfishness.
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Looking for Tunes?
If you have a specific song that you want for your mind movie but don’t have the CD, you can immediately (and legally) download the tune you want from reputable online vendors. Plus, the format is already available in MP3 so you can quickly and easily integrate the tune into your movie. Here are my top recommendations (links open in new windows):
MP3 Rocket may very well be the Internet’s download largest network that boasts an awesome collection of songs in the following genres:
* Pop
* Rock
* Hip-Hop
* R&B
* Classical
* Jazz
* Techno
* Blues
* Christian
* Country
* Heavy Metal
There’s an excellent search function that will help you quickly locate the song and/or artist you have in mind. This is a completely legal download service, t
hat offers more than music. You have unlimited downloads of software, TV shows, movies and more at MP3 Rocket. Having access to so much music will make your mind movie production so much easier … and if you want to make mind movies for friends, you’ll have a ton of resources on hand.
An alternate source for those who are fans of trance, techno and electronic music mixes is Digitally Imported internet radio’s download shop, which offers hundreds of MP3s for immediate download. You can preview the tunes online and download them for just a couple of bucks each for instantaneous use.
The Xvid Codex Download
When you’re ready to publish your Mind Movie into video format, a pop-up window might appear that advises you to download the Lame Codex and the Xvid Codex. As of 3/9/08, the link provided for the Xvid Codex was not correct.
Use this link (opens in a new window):
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html#downloads
You’ll see a green button that reads “Downloads.” Click that and then select the “XviD 1.1.3 Stable” button. You’ll get an executable file (.exe) that you simply click and install on your system. There’s no need to download the source code unless you’re a developer.
