“A Seed Can Grow And Produce Abundance Or It Can Slowly Wither And Die. There are no alternatives.”
The Ten Steps To Wealth maintains that at some point throughout their lives most people express a desire to be wealthy and financially free. But, more often than not, it’s not really wealth they want so much as it’s the products of wealth.
In other words, they want the freedom of the lifestyle that independent wealth provides.
If you’re like most people, you’ll feel a desire to help those who are important to you, a desire to live a life of choice, a desire to feel secure, a desire to experience peace of mind, a desire to live according to your own sense of time, a desire to be free of the everyday constraints of jobs, a desire to feel a sense of achievement and a desire to experience real happiness.
While you might desire these things, chances are that you will not experience them to any degree because you’ll fail to undertake the necessary changes to make these experiences a reality for you. If you’re like most people, your programming and conditioning will continue to lead you in a different direction.
The mechanics of wealth are relatively simple, however becoming wealthy is a different matter. From a very early age, society teaches you to surrender your potential to a life of financial freedom so that you can successfully follow the “conditioned life” that society wants you to experience.
Perhaps you’re surviving more comfortably than others but have you really achieved the potential you were born with? Those who achieve their potential know and live the freedom of abundance. But those who don’t, constantly live with the stresses of not being able to get off the “work/stress, not enough time, not enough money treadmill”.
Patty Hansen tells the story of two seeds that lay side-by-side in the fertile, spring soil. The first seed said, “I want to grow! I want to send down my roots deep into the soil beneath me and thrust my sprouts through the earth’s crust before me… I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring… I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!” And so it grew.
The second seed said, “I’m afraid. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don’t know what I’ll encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts… What if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it’s much better for me to wait until it’s safe.” And so it waited.
“A chook came scratching around for food in the early spring ground. It found the waiting seed and promptly ate it. Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.”
If you are one of those people who always wanted to be wealthy but were a little afraid of doing something about it, then here is your chance to make a brand new start by enrolling in my complimentary The Ten Steps To Wealth eCourse!
It’s a New Year, a new decade, a new century. Make it a new beginning. Make a conscious decision to stop living beneath your true potential.
Make a conscious decision to stop surrendering yourself to conventional wisdom. Make a conscious decision to stop doing as you have always done. Make a conscious decision to start doing something about the experiences you want rather than just wishing for them.
Make a conscious decision to change your future and achieve a life of financial independence, security, freedom and choice! Make a conscious decision to plant yourself in a fertile environment of learning and mentoring so that you can reach up and grow.
Don’t wake up in ten years time and think of what might have been. You’re now at the beginning of an exciting journey towards reclaiming your lost potential.
So stand up and reclaim it… Reclaim your confidence, reclaim your present, reclaim the potential you were born with and reclaim your future.
Victor Frankl maintains that the greatest distinction between humans and animals is the freedom to choose. As humans, “We are totally responsible for our own lives. Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.”
That’s it really, wealth is about making things happen!
Enjoy your journey on The Ten Steps To Wealth and I’ll be there to support you all the way.
Paul Counsel