Self help
How to create change in your life
a step by step approach
Throughout the course of this book we are going to cover many things from
figuring out exactly what it is that you want out of life and I will give you
ideas on such things as how to make money for almost everything you do to
finding the right woman if you don't already have one. Of course if you
already have one you are probably already halfway on the way to personal
success and just need some fresh ideas. However if this is not the case it
doesn't even matter if you feel like all women are evil and don't want one
right now either. Hopefully this book will take you from what ever state of
mind you are now in to a fuller and richer life. It is up to you to decide
what that richer life is going to be and we can begin right now to figure out
exactly what it is that you want and then work out specific plans to achieve
that end.
For right now I am going to concentrate on two things and they are self
esteem and self image then goal setting and finally on how to achieve those
goals and become a fully functional contributing member of society and to
leave a legacy for your children and grand children. Now if this sounds like
what you would like to be then you are on your way. If this sounds impossible
well keep reading because you will find out that it is possible with probably
less effort than you may have expected. But don't kid yourself it will take
some work and as you probably have figured out by now nothing is free. Even
if you go to a soup kitchen the soup is free but you are treated less than
human so there is always a price for even the so called free stuff. Whether
it be physical as in labor or whether it be a blow to your dignity or
whatever everything you get out of life has a price attached to it.
Now that we have established that you have to trade something to get
something we have a starting ground. Now don't get me wrong if you have been
beaten down so far that you are homeless and eating in a soup kitchen this
doesn't mean you have to stay there and we can even use that to your
advantage in the course of this book if that is your current situation. We
will use all available resources at your disposal to make you successful.
That is the purpose of this book: to make everything you do benefit either
you or your children or both.
So lets get started. The first thing we need to look at is
not really so much who you are now but who you are willing to become. Now if
you are poor there is a reason for that. It is because you believe that you
deserve to be poor. You say ummm sorry Lonnie I think you have the wrong
person here because I never once thought that I deserved to be poor so you
must be mistaken. No I am not. Don't throw the book away now this is just
starting to get good and if you bear with me you will eventually see that not
only is this true but that you can and will change it. Why do I say that?
Because if you didn't believe that you deserved to be poor you would not have
let it happen to you. You would not have allowed the boss to overlook you for
the promotion and if they did you would have applied elsewhere for that
higher position. Or better yet you would have started your own company or
created a position for yourself.
The first thing we may have to work on here is improving your self image.
That is we have to figure out what you think of you and then figure out how
to change that. For example a publisher once put an ad in the news paper
offering a job that paid $50,000 a year no experience necessary and full
training provided. Well the first week he got about 3 phone calls for this
position and was amazed that noone wanted to make $50,000 a year for this
relatively easy job that he was offering. So a few weeks later he ran an ad
offering about $15,000 a year for the same job no experience necessary and
full training and his phone was ringing off the hook. The same job with the
same potential wages and same training program. So what was the difference?
There wasn't one but the people reading the first ad didn't believe they
could make that much money because they didn't believe that they deserved to
make that much money. Well perhaps they were right. Maybe they didn't deserve
to make that much money. Maybe you don't either right now. But even if you
don't you can learn.
to be continued