“You Must Climb Without The Rope”
Here’s an interesting story from Dan Kennedy that parallels the journey you must take if you want to follow The Ten Steps To Wealth. I’ll let Dan tell you his story in his own words.
However, before I hand over to Dan… I just want to reinforce the importance of believing in yourself enough to go after the freedom that is rightfully yours.
The only reason you wouldn’t is because you either don’t believe in change or you believe that you can accomplish your dreams and goals while continuing to experience the problems and challenges you face.
Either way, unless you change these beliefs, in my experience over the last 20 years of helping people achieve the financial freedom they seek, you’ll remain incarcerated to financial and time servitude.
Now it’s over to Dan…
“I finally got ‘round to watching The Dark Knight Rises, the 3rd and final and only disappointing film in the trilogy produced by Christopher Nolan.
“In it, there is a hellhole of a prison, deep beneath earth’s surface, featuring the ultimate cruelty: impossible hope. There is a tall tower carved out of the rock, rising several stories to the surface, blue sky visible when standing at its bottom looking straight up.
“Prisoners are free to attempt climbing up and out, and do from time to time, with a rope tied around their waist to catch them bungee-style before they fall to their death.
“There is a legend known to all the suffering prisoners, passed from one generation to the next, about the only person ever to succeed at this escape – a child. It is in this subterranean hell that a crippled Batman, (Bruce Wayne) has been left to die.
“After a brutally difficult, primitively managed rehab, he attempts and fails at this escape not once, but twice. At point of surrender, an aged prisoner who has befriended him tells him the secret of the child who did successfully clamber up the entire tower and escape: the child climbed without the rope.
“The weight of the rope, or the imbedded thought created by wearing the rope that one is going to fall, is just enough burden to insure failure. The old man says that to have a chance “you must climb without the rope.”
“This is a remarkable success parable buried in this film that few will notice.
“Most people try to achieve various lofty ambitions – perhaps the greatest of which is freedom and autonomy – while still dragging contrary convention, industry norms, counterproductive beliefs, slothful behaviour, etc. tied to them by heavy rope.
“The higher they try to climb, the heavier the burden of the rope.
“I first taught this in the early 1980’s as a simplified Psycho-Cybernetics concept, in terms of the importance to a bountiful garden of pulling weeds, not just planting flowers. I’m often asked that to be super successful must I lose my friends?
“If your friends are un-ambitious or delusional or toxic, yes, they must be left behind. You must sever your ties to ALL the ordinary ideas and behaviours and business practices of the masses, of the majorities. You must climb without the rope.
“The Batman himself is a parable. He is unlike most other costumed super-heroes, as I’ve pointed out before. Superman is an alien from outer space and that is the source of his super-human powers. Spiderman was bitten by a radioactive spider.
“Most super-heroes come from distant planets, are gifted powers by unworldly beings (The Green Lantern), are science experiments gone wrong or accidents like Spiderman.
“Few have no super-powers at all, but simply decide to make themselves into a super-hero. The Batman is a creature entirely of Bruce Wayne’s decision. If the genealogy of such things interests you, the closest predecessor is The Shadow.
“Further, The Batman made himself into a master detective AND an extraordinary athlete, martial artist and fighter AND an intimidating personality.
“Anyway, there’s probably a rope tied around your waist.
“Perhaps thinned by you, skinny as twine, perhaps thicker and heavier than the huge ropes tied to steamships’ anchors. You might want to pull on it and examine all that is tied to its other end. Shedding dead weight eases and speeds the journey.
“Oh, and the heaviest dead weights are never things or people; they are thoughts and beliefs.
Your greatest gift is your ability to learn and to do that learning fast.
Give yourself the ‘gift of financial freedom’. The Ten Steps To Wealth
Paul Counsel
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