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From the book Cautions and ComparisonsHow to Burn $1,000,000 a night These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever," when really the fever has us. --seneca (4 b.c.--a.d. 65) I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. --henry david thoreau (1817--1862) 1:00 a.m. cst, 30,000 feet over las vegas His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep. It was just the two of us now in first-class. He extended his hand to introduce himself, and an enormous--Looney Tunes enormous--diamond ring appeared from the ether as his fingers crossed under my reading light. Mark was a legitimate magnate. He had, at different times, run practically all the gas stations, convenience stores, and gambling in South Carolina. He confessed with a half smile that, in an average trip to Sin City, he and his fellow weekend warriors might lose an average of $500,000 to $1,000,000--each. Nice. He sat up in his seat as the conversation drifted to my travels, but I was more interested in his astounding record of printing money. "So, of all your businesses, which did you like the most?" The answer took less than a second of thought. "None of them." He explained that he had spent more than 30 years with people he didn't like to buy things he didn't need. Life had become a succession of trophy wives--he was on lucky number three--expensive cars, and other empty bragging rights. Mark was one of the living dead. This is exactly where we don't want to end up. Apples and Oranges: A Comparison So, what makes the difference? What separates the New Rich, characterized by options, from the Deferrers (D), those who save it all for the end only to find that life has passed them by? It begins at the beginning. The New Rich can be separated from the crowd based on their goals, which reflect very distinct priorities and life philosophies. Note how subtle differences in wording completely change the necessary actions for fulfilling what at a glance appear to be similar goals. These are not limited to business owners. Even the first, as I will show later, applies to employees. D:To work for yourself. NR:To have others work for you. D:To work when you want to. NR:To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load"). D:To retire early or young. NR:To distribute recovery periods and adventures (mini-retirements) throughout life on a regular basis and recognize that inactivity is not the goal. Doing that which excites you is. D:To buy all the things you want to have. NR:To do all the things you want to do, and be all the things you want to be. If this includes some tools and gadgets, so be it, but they are either means to an end or bonuses, not the focus. D:To be the boss instead of the employee; to be in charge. NR:To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time. D:To make a ton of money. NR:To make a ton of money with specific reasons and defined dreams to chase, timelines and steps included. What are you working for? D:To have more. NR:To have more quality and less clutter. To have huge financial reserves but recognize that most material wants are justifications for spending... ![]() $0.48 Rewards
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From the book This book is designed to help you find the good life. By that, I don't mean swimming pools, mansions, and private jets -- unless those are really your big passions. But if you picked up a book called I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, you're probably looking for a lot more than a swimming pool.You want a life you will love. ![]() $9.99
Adobe ePub [ 0.7 Mb ]Street Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 eReader [ 0.2 Mb ]Street Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 Prologue | YOU'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE Wisty IT'S OVERWHELMING. A city's worth of angry faces staring at me like I'm a wicked criminal—which, I promise you, I'm not. The stadium is filled to capacity—past capacity. People are standing in the aisles, the stairwells, on the concrete ramparts, and a few extra thousand are camped out on the playing field. There are no football teams here today. They wouldn't be able to get out of the locker-room tunnels if they tried. This total abomination is being broadcast on TV and the Internet too. All the useless magazines are here, and the useless newspapers. Yep, I see cameramen in elevated roosts at intervals around the stadium. There's even one of those remote-controlled cameras that runs around on wires above the field. There it is—hovering just in front of the stage, bobbing slightly in the breeze. So there are undoubtedly millions more eyes watching than I can see. But it's the ones here in the stadium that are breaking my heart. To be confronted with tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of curious, uncaring, or at least indifferent, faces...talk about frightening. And there are no moist eyes, never mind tears. No words of protest. No stomping feet. No fists raised in solidarity. No inkling that anybody's even thinking of surging forward, breaking through the security cordon, and carrying my family to safety. Clearly, this is not a good day for us Allgoods. In fact, as the countdown ticker flashes on the giant video screens at either end of the stadium, it's looking like this will be our last day. It's a point driven home by the very tall, bald man up in the tower they've erected midfield—he looks like a cross between a Supreme Court chief justice and Ming the Merciless. I know who he is. I've actually met him. He's The One Who Is The One. Directly behind his Oneness is a huge N.O. banner— THE NEW ORDER. And then the crowd begins to chant, almost sing, "The One Who Is The One! The One Who Is The One!" Imperiously, The One raises his hand, and his hooded lackeys on the stage push us forward, at least as far as the ropes around our necks will allow. I see my brother, Whit, handsome and brave, looking down at the platform mechanism. Calculating if there's any way to jam it, some means of keeping it from unlatching and dropping us to our neck-snapping deaths. Wondering if there's a last-minute way out of this. See my mother crying quietly. Not for herself, of course, but for Whit and me. I see my father, his tall frame stooped with resignation, smiling at me and my brother—trying to keep our spirits up, reminding us that there's no point in being miserable in our last moments on this planet. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm supposed to be providing an introduction here, not the details of our public execution. So let's go back a bit.... Part One | NO CRIME JUST PUNISHMENT Chapter 1 Whit SOMETIMES YOU WAKE UP and the world is just plain different. The noise of a circling helicopter is what made me open my eyes. A cold, blue-white light forced its way through the blinds and flooded the living room. Almost like it was day. But it wasn't. I peered at the clock on the DVD player through blurry eyes: 2:10 a.m. I became aware of a steady drub, drub, drub—like the sound of a heavy heartbeat. Throbbing. Pressing in. Getting closer. What's going on? I staggered to the window, forcing my body back to life after two hours of being passed out on the sofa, and peeked through the slats. And then I stepped back and rubbed my eyes. Hard. Because there's no way I had seen what I'd seen. And there was no way I had heard what I'd heard. Was it really the steady, relentless footfall of hundreds of soldiers? Marching on my street in perfect unison? The road wasn't close enough to the center of town to be on any holiday parade routes, much less to have armed men in combat fatigues coursing down it in the dead of night. I shook my head and bounced up and down a few times, kind of like I do in my warm-ups. Wake up, Whit. I slapped myself for good measure. And then I looked again. There they were. Soldiers marching down our street. Hundreds of them as clear as day, made visible by a half-dozen truck-mounted spotlights. Just one thought was running laps inside my head: This can't be happening. This can't be happening. This can't be happening. Then I remembered the elections, the new government, the ravings of my parents about the trouble the country was in, the special broadcasts on TV, the political petitions my classmates were circulating online, the heated debates between teachers at school. None of it meant anything to me until that second. And before I could piece it all together, the vanguard of the formation stopped in front of my house. Almost faster than I could comprehend, two armed squads detached themselves from the phalanx and sprinted across the lawn like commandos, one running around the back of the house, the other taking position in front. I jumped away from the window. I could tell they weren't here to protect me and my family. I had to warn Mom, Dad, Wisty— But just as I started to yell, the front door was knocked off its hinges. Part One | NO CRIME JUST PUNISHMENT Chapter 2 Wisty IT'S QUITE HIDEOUS to get kidnapped in the dead of night, right inside your own home. It went something like this. I woke to the chaotic crashing of overturning furniture, quickly followed by the sounds of shattering glass, possibly some of Mom's china. Oh God, Whit, I thought, shaking my head sleepily. My older brother had grown four inches and gained thirty pounds of muscle in the past year. Which made him the biggest and fastest quarterback around, and, I must say, the most intimidating player on our regional high school's undefeated football team. Off the playing field, though, Whit could be about as clumsy as your average bear—if your average bear were hopped-up on a case of Red Bull and full of himself because he could bench-press 275 and every girl in school thought he was the hunk of all hunks. I rolled over and pulled my pillow around my head. Even before the drinking started, Whit couldn't walk through our house without knocking something over. Total bull-in-a-china-shop syndrome. But that wasn't the real problem tonight, I knew. Because three months ago, his girlfriend, Celia, had literally vanished without a trace. And by now everyone was thinking she probably would never come back. Her parents were totally messed up about it, and so was Whit. To be honest, so was I. Celia was—is—very pretty, smart, not conceited at all. She's this totally cool girl, even though she has money. Celia's father owns the luxury-car dealership in town, and her mom is a former beauty queen. I couldn't believe something like that would happen to someone like Celia. I heard my parents' bedroom door open and snuggled back down into my cozy, flannel-sheeted bed. Next came Dad's booming voice, and he was as angry as I've ever heard him. "This can't be happening! You have no right to be here. Leave our house now!" I bolted upright, wide awake. Then came more crashing sounds, and I thought I heard someone moan in pain. Had Whit fallen and cracked his head? Had my dad been hurt? Jeez, Louise, I thought, scrambling out of bed. "I'm coming, Dad! Are you all right? Dad?" And then the nightmare to start a lifetime of nightmares truly began. I gasped as my bedroom door crashed open. Two hulking men in dark-gray uniforms burst into my room, glaring at me as if I were a fugitive terrorist-cell operative. "It's her! Wisteria Allgood!" one said, and a light bright enough to illuminate an airplane hangar obliterated the darkness. I tried to shield my eyes as my heart kicked into overdrive. "Who are you?!" I asked. "What are you doing in my freaking bedroom?" Part One | NO CRIME JUST PUNISHMENT Chapter 3 Wisty "BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL with her!" one of the humongous men cautioned. They looked like Special Forces operatives with giant white numbers on their uniforms. "You know she can—" The other nodded, glancing around my room nervously. "You!" he snapped harshly. "Come with us! We're from the New Order. Move one step out of line, and we will punish you severely!" I stared at him, my head spinning. The New Order? These weren't ordinary policemen or EMS personnel. "Um—I—I—," I stammered. "I need to put on some clothes. Can I...can I have a little privacy?" "Shut up!" the first commando guy barked. "Grab her! And protect yourself. She's dangerous—all of them are." "No! Stop! Don't you dare!" I screamed. "Dad! Mom! Whit!" Then it hit me like a runaway tractor trailer on ice. This was what had happened to Celia, wasn't it? Oh God! Cold sweat beaded on the back of my neck. I need to get out of here, I thought desperately. Somehow, some way. I need to disappear. Part One | NO CRIME JUST PUNISHMENT Chapter 4 Wisty THE SERIOUSLY MUSCLE-BOUND MEN in gray suddenly froze, their blocklike heads whipping back and forth like puppets on strings. "Where is she? She's gone! Vanished! Where'd she go?" one said, his voice hoarse and panicky. They shone flashlights around the room. One of them dropped to his knees and searched under my bed; the other rushed over to look in my closet. Where'd I go? Were these guys totally insane? I was right there. What was going on? Maybe they were trying to trick me into running for it so they had an excuse to use force. Or maybe they were escapees from an asylum who had come to get me the way they'd come to get poor Celia— "Wisty!" My mom's anxious shout from the hallway pierced the fog that had invaded my brain. "Run away, sweetheart!" "Mom!" I shrieked. The two guys blinked and stepped back in surprise. "There she is! Grab her! She's right there! quick, before she disappears again!" Big klutzy hands grabbed my arms and legs, then my head. "Let me go!" I screamed, kicking and struggling. "Let. Me. Go." But their grip was like steel as they dragged me down the hall to the family room and dumped me on the floor like a sack of trash. I quickly scrambled to my feet, more floodlights whiting out my vision. Then I heard Whit shouting as he was thrown onto the living room floor next to me. "Whit, what's going on? Who are these...monsters?" "Wisty!" he gasped, coherently enough. "You okay?" "No." I almost cried, but I couldn't, wouldn't, absolutely refused, to let them see me wuss out. Every awful true-crime movie I'd ever seen flashed through my head, and my stomach heaved. I nestled close to my brother, who took my hand in his and squeezed. Suddenly the floodlights turned off, leaving us blinking and shaking. "Mom?" Whit shouted. "Dad?" If my brother hadn't been stone-cold sober already, he sure was now. I gasped. My parents were standing there, still in their rumpled pajamas, but held from behind like they were dangerous criminals. Sure, we lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but no one in our family had ever been in trouble before. Part One | NO CRIME JUST PUNISHMENT Chapter 5 Wisty ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING THINGS in the world you can never hope to see is your parents, wide-eyed, helpless, and truly scared out of their wits. My parents. I thought they could protect us from anything. They were different from other parents...so smart, gentle, accepting, knowing...and I could tell at this moment that they knew something Whit and I didn't. They know what is going on. And they're terrified of it, whatever it is. "Mom...?" I asked, staring hard into her eyes, trying to get any message I could, any signal about what I should do now. As I looked at Mom, I had a flash, a collage of memories. She and Dad saying stuff like "You and Whit are special, honey. Really special. Sometimes people are afraid of those who are different. Being afraid makes them angry and unreasonable." But all parents thought their kids were special, right? "I mean, you're really special, Wisty," Mom had said once, taking my chin in her palm. "Pay attention, dear." Then three more figures stepped forward from the shadows. Two of them had guns on their belts. This was really getting out of hand. Guns? Soldiers? In our house? In a free country? In the middle of the night? A school night, even. "Wisteria Allgood?" As they moved into the light, I saw two men and... Byron Swain? Byron was a kid from my high school, a year older than I, a year younger than Whit. As far as I knew, we both hated his guts. Everyone did. 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From the book Chapter 1 DREAMS OF DESTINY "A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance." We all have dreams...We all want to believe deep down in our souls that we have a special gift, that we can make a difference, that we can touch others in a special way, and that we can make the world a better place. At one time in our lives, we all had a vision for the quality of life that we desire and deserve. Yet, for many of us, those dreams have become so shrouded in the frustrations and routines of daily life that we no longer even make an effort to accomplish them. For far too many, the dream has dissipated -- and with it, so has the will to shape our destinies. Many have lost that sense of certainty that creates the winner's edge. My life's quest has been to restore the dream and to make it real, to get each of us to remember and use the unlimited power that lies sleeping within us all. I'll never forget the day it really hit me that I was truly living my dream. I was flying my jet helicopter from a business meeting in Los Angeles, traveling to Orange County on the way to one of my seminars. As I flew over the city of Glendale, I suddenly recognized a large building, and I stopped the helicopter and hovered above it. As I looked down, I realized this was the building that I'd worked in as a janitor a mere twelve years ago! In those days, I had been concerned whether my 1960 Volkswagen would hang together for the 30-minute trip to work. My life had been focused on how I was going to survive; I had felt fearful and alone. But that day, as I hovered there in the sky, I thought, "What a difference a decade can make!" I did have dreams back then, but at the time, it seemed they'd never be realized. Today, though, I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. As I continued my flight south along the coastal route, I spotted dolphins playing with the surfers in the waves below. It's a sight that my wife, Becky, and I treasure as one of life's special gifts. Finally, I reached Irvine. Looking below, I was a little disturbed when I saw that the off ramp to my seminar was jammed with bumper-to-bumper traffic for more than a mile. I thought to myself, "Boy, I hope whatever else is going on tonight gets started soon so that the people coming to my seminar arrive on time." But as I descended to the helipad, I began to see a new picture: thousands of people being held back by security where I was just about to land. Suddenly I began to grasp the reality. The traffic jam had been caused by people going to my event! Although we had expected approximately 2,000 attendees, I was facing a crowd of 7,000 -- in an auditorium that would hold only 5,000! When I walked into the arena from the landing pad, I was surrounded by hundreds of people who wanted to give me a hug or tell me how my work had positively impacted their lives. The stories they shared with me were incredible. One mother introduced me to her son who had been labeled "hyperactive" and "learning disabled." Utilizing the principles of state management taught in this book, she was not only able to get him off the drug Ritalin, but they had also since been transferred to California where her son had been retested and evaluated at the level of genius! You should have seen his face as she shared with me his new label. A gentleman talked... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and OtherSimple, Brilliant Thingsby Neil Pasricha$10.99
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