Alternate Routes

If viewing this blog for the first time, it's best to start with the "Set Yourself Free"
So very glad you stopped by!

Do you love music as much as I do.  Just like reading a good book, a great song can take you places you've never even been.  The other day I was painting my office and the song "Already Gone" by the Eagles came on.  I've heard that song hundreds of times but this time I REALLY heard this song.  The last verse of that song was an Ah Ha moment. It goes like this...

Well I know it wasn't you who held me down,
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free,
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains,
And we never even know WE have the key.

Do you get that?  If you don't have everything you want in this life and you need someone to blame, you better go get a mirror.
Sure we have been hard-wired in our beliefs about so many different things. A few examples are: I have to have a college education to really make money.  Wrong!  I know just as many people who are successful without college as those who went.  Rich people are snobs.  Wrong, wrong, wrong!  The people I know that have money are very giving and blow me away with their generosity.  I'll have to work until I am at least 65 before I can retire.  Well, if that's what you want to do.  It's pretty much a crap shoot to believe that and find out later you can't.   Did you know the average person only has about $2500 available cash at the age of 65.  I happen to know if you educate yourself, it is possible to take $500, reinvest it over and over again and be at a state of retirement in less that 24 months.  Kids need to be 16 before they can get a real job. Wrong!  There are great entrepreneurs out there who are children. Let's all stop thinking that way. Be willing to be re-wired.
Having trouble with your list?  I have some suggetions.  Share your journey with a friend or lots of friends.  Get them to start doing their list.  Have a get together at your house playing games, eating, watch a movie and have the conversations focus on adding things to your list.  Take you notepad and go out shopping with your list building buddy...at the boat and RV show, at the travel agency, at the electronics store, the mall or wherever.  Don't buy anything just get your list moving.  Volunteer at the local dog pound or food bank and pay attention to the need around you.  Look for things that could be improved if the funds were available.  Imagine yourself as the source of the funds and put those improvements on your list.  Listen when others are talking to you about anything.  That triggers tons of ideas in my head for business ideas and things I could change for the better if I can just find the right sources.  Sure I am asking you to put a lot of focus on yourself right now but in the long run it will take you so many more places.
Most people have a low point.  My was when I was almost 200 pounds overweight and so depressed that the doctors told me my only hope was anti-depressants.  I heard Dr. Phil say once, " If you really love your kids, you'll take care of their mother."  That was some really great advice.  Once I started loving myself, the world started changing for the better.  Go ahead, give yourself a break.