Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
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Personal Development for Smart People
participants from around the w o r l d . I charge nothing to access t h e m , even though it costs me time and m o n e y to maintain t h e m . From a purely financial standpoint, the forums are a flop; however, they provide a valuable public service, and participants often tell me h o w much the forums have helped t h e m . I'm happy to continue providing this service, and even though it isn't much of an income generator, I consider it a success because it contributes to the business purpose of helping people grow. If y o u give more value than y o u receive while ensuring y o u ' r e being treated fairly and not falling into a pattern of self-sacrifice, the excess value y o u provide will overflow into public goodwill. Superior service gets noticed because it's so rare. People will gladly r e c o m m e n d 195 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE y o u to their family, friends, and co-workers, thereby bringing y o u a steady stream of new opportunities. This is true whether y o u ' r e self- employed or y o u work for someone else. It's intelligent to give more than y o u receive, since this is precisely w h a t generates g r o w t h . This is h o w I built up my Website traffic from scratch. I produced and gave a w a y the equivalent of 20 books worth of original content without charging a dime for it. All of that value generated massive referrals. T h e content was certainly g o o d enough that I could have charged money for it, but I deliberately decided to overload the goodwill side in order to maximize the growth rate. There's no reason y o u can't use a similar strategy yourself. Push harder on the service side, and you'll soon find people lining up to pay y o u . • • If y o u w a n t to earn money without lowering your consciousness, y o u must align your income with truth, love, and power. If you're mak- ing a valuable social contribution, then by any reasonable standard of fairness, y o u should be paid for it. This w o n ' t happen automatically though. You must consciously cultivate such conditions while doing your best to follow the heart-centered path. I used to think I needed a certain a m o u n t of money to feel totally secure. But n o w I realize that no amount can provide security. We live in a world of rapid and accelerating c h a n g e . Even if y o u stockpile a huge amount of cash, y o u don't really know if it will be worth any- thing d o w n the road. It may be lost or stolen, or the currency itself could fail. The only true security is intelligence—our ever-increasing ability to stay aligned with truth, love, and power. This isn't merely an individual issue; it's a collective o n e . As human beings, our only real safety lies in our intelligence, but fortunately that's all we need. As strange as it may seem, I found that the easiest w a y for me to feel financially secure was to make peace with the possibility of e n d - ing up broke and penniless. Because the future contains so many un- known variables, I can't reliably predict w h e r e I'll end up. I don't even know h o w long I'll live. So I must accept that no matter w h a t I d o , the final outcome of my life remains uncertain. I w a s eventually able 196 Money to make peace with this by realizing that the best I can do is to make intelligent choices here and now, choices I believe are aligned with truth, love, and power. I can d e m a n d no more of myself than that. I never really expect to retire, since I'd rather die onstage, so to speak. But if I reach the point w h e r e I've used myself up, and I have no money left to take care of my basic needs, I w o u l d hope that some- o n e somewhere has received enough value from my work to help me through my final days. But even if that doesn't h a p p e n , I can still be at peace by knowing that I lived consciously. If for some reason my life ends in hardship, so be it. It will have been worth the price. Of course, the irony is that once I let go of my attachment to specific financial outcomes and realized I could accept the worst-case scenarios, all the energy that w a s preoccupied with fear, worry, and concern began flowing into my work, thereby enabling me to g e n - erate more income than I'd ever seen before. Perhaps the best path to wealth is to release your fear of being poor. Realize that life is still worth living, regardless of h o w much money y o u have. Do your best to create and share your value with others, and you'll help create a richer and more abundant world for all of us. A n d if y o u w a n t to enjoy the full richness of the human experience, be sure to take good care of y o u r . . . • • • • 197 |
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