A sparkling new week smiles at us, pregnant with exciting new opportunities, unlimited wealth, and wonderful experiences. The future beckons kindly with the offer of beautiful dreams, fun, and growth.

• Will you take up your sword, slay your dragons of fear, and boldly step up onto the stage of life? You can, you know.
• Or you can remain, as Roy Williams suggests, in the small pen of your choosing and compare yourself to littler men.

A New Perspective on “Failure”

Perhaps you fear “Failure”. In fact, you don’t fear failure per se – you fear the opinions of other people.

Tell me, if there were no other people in the world, would you still fear failure? How do you define failure, anyway? Here’s a good way:

“I only fail when I decide to quit, and if I decide to quit, I haven’t failed – I have simply got bored and chosen another goal.”

You can change your plans and your method of achieving your goals, it’s your life, and you can change your mind any time you like.

Getting Boxed In By Goal Setting

Too many people think goals are limited entities, such as “I want to lose twenty pounds.” While it’s important to have measurable, specific, time-sensitive goals, the REAL goal is to lose weight and feel healthier and more energetic, isn’t it?

Ultimately, your goal is freedom, happiness, integrity, health, good relationships, and congruency.

The world is flexible, changing, and dynamic. Don’t get hung up on the details. We have to adjust and ride the waves of life with our own values as our guiding light.

Being the best we can be, without compromising our values and guided by our philosophy, is what it is all about. Enjoy the ride of life. It’s short.

Start Living It Your Way

We create wealth to enjoy freedom, not to create wealth.

We create freedom so that we can live congruent lives.

Living according to our own values is what makes us happy – doing what is important to US, not some boss or witchdoctor or politician. It’s not about a hockey team or a disgruntled, resentful, jealous relative – it’s about YOU. It’s YOUR life, and you only have one, and it’s running out, and it’s time to start living it your way.

Moving Ahead Boldly

Exciting goals make exciting lives.

• Watch the movies, “Yes Man”, and “Patton”.
• Read the book, “The Fountainhead”.
• Face your fears, remove the victims, snakes, and parasites from your life, and move boldly ahead.

This is your time. You don’t have to explain, justify, or pacify anyone. Those who truly love you will support you and encourage you. They will want you to be happy, and we can only be truly happy when we are in charge of our own lives.

Happiness For Me…

Happiness for me is spending time with my loved ones, PG Tips tea with a ginger biscuit, skiing down a mountain, helping others to help themselves to make their dreams come true, and wondering in a forest.

I live according to my own philosophy, not someone else’s agenda.

I achieve my own goals if and when I want to, and I answer to nobody. I am a soldier, not a politically correct, passive aggressive sycophant. I freely, frequently, change my mind.

Freedom is Your Right and Privilege

Don’t deny yourself the joy of emotional and mental independence and freedom – it is your right and privilege.

Rise from the stupor of negative conditioning.

Break the cotton candy bonds of timidity and embarrassment.

Smash out of the fragile bubble of limited thinking and false guilt, take up your shiny sword of purpose, and skip feely down the winding daisy path of self-fulfillment.

You deserve it.

Joint ventures and Strategic Alliances are vastly different than traditional business. If you are approaching Joint Ventures with the same old habits and mindset, then you’re bound to fail. This streaming Video succinctly lays out the behaviors business people take for granted which may be holding them up in their Joint Venture Success.

This is a must watch for updating your business approach for the New Business Age, and truly changing your business outlook to that of a powerful Joint Venture Broker and Entrepreneur.

So, what is a Joint Venture?  Exactly?

That’s an understandable question to be asking.  A lot of people find this Blog for many different reasons, and most of them have nothing to do with the term ‘Joint Venture’.

So we decided to put together a little report that helped explain a Joint Venture in detail. I’m calling it the Advanced Definition of a Joint Venture. And if also comes with a Joint Venture Evaluation Form that you can use to evaluate your own JV’s to see if they are worth moving forward on for all parties involved.

Advanced Definition of a Joint Venture and JV Evaluation Form

So it’s 2 PDF’s and in total it’s only 5 Pages long. My team and I at JVWisdom.com attempted to really explain it in detail while still keeping it simple. It also makes sure to answer the most common questions we’ve been asked about Joint Ventures.

• Are we affected by the people with whom we associate?
• Do we learn and lose by “osmosis?”
• Can it be that we earn within 10% of the people we spend the most time with?
• Have you noticed that the level of success of a person determines the level of people they attract into their lives?
• Are we, in fact, mental magnets?
• Is it true that we are being contaminated by our surroundings, input, and associations anyway, whether we like it or not, and that we get to choose our contamination?

Of course it is true.

Like Attracts Like

Like attracts like. Opposites repel. We are rightly judged by the company we keep, because your friends tell me who you are.

When someone hosts a Bootcamp, the people in the Bootcamp are a reflection of the quality of the host. People recruit people like themselves – the automatic mirror effect.

The Dangers of Third Hand Smoke

My wife is allergic to nicotine. She sat in the front seat of a car being driven by a friend, and a smoker got onto the back seat, still stinking of smoke from her last fix. Rika’s eyes were red for two days. Even though the smoker wasn’t smoking in the car, it was enough to contaminate the other passengers.

See this article about the dangers of Third Hand Smoke, and ask yourself if you will allow your children into the home of a smoker. Probably not, if you love your kids.

Input Influences EVERYTHING

I am contaminated by the books I read, the movies I watch, the people I meet, and the communications I handle, whether or not I want to believe it to be so.

• Positive contamination propels me like rocket fuel towards my objectives.
• Negative contamination poisons the well, dilutes my efforts, sabotages my work, and drags me in the opposite direction.

When I spend time with winners, I leave feeling buoyed up, motivated, inspired, and enthusiastic. After spending time with losers, I feel like I need ten hot showers and a mouthwash. Purge your life of leeches.

Do These Two Things

Monitor your input / contamination for a week, then do two things: remove bad stuff and replace it with good stuff.

That simple. Not rocket science. Not hard to do.

• Resign, as I did, from organizations, clubs, and fraternities that don’t share your philosophy and aspirations.
• Break relationships off with losers, whiners, parasites, and victims.
• Seek out champions and producers, and build strong relationships with them.
• Read good books.

Before you know it, you will feel like a million bucks. You’ll have more energy, bigger goals, and less frustration. Atlas, don’t hesitate to shrug when it’s appropriate.

It is true that I tell everyone that attends any of my talks, seminars, or Bootcamps that they should read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.  I don’t get a commission on book sales, I assure you. But I benefit when people start thinking correctly – the world improves.

The Second-most Influential Book

In 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated “Atlas Shrugged” as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the bible. I have yet to meet anyone with a decent IQ who doesn’t tell me this book has changed their lives. This video will give you an insight into how vital it is to understand what is going on in the world right now, and how pertinent this amazing book is.

Objectivist Philosophy

DollarMakers is based on the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand and the emerging new world order that is following the recession, and we know how valuable it is for our students, friends, and Members to acquire this powerful understanding and insight. Watch these six, short, incredible, sequenced videos, and  you will stand amazed and immediately buy the book.

Open Your Mind

Responsible, ambitious adults need to understand what is going on in the world, and you won’t find that out by believing the lies and propaganda in the media, be it left or right. This book will open your mind reveal the raison d’etre of DollarMakers.

A few weeks back, I bought a wonderful, new bicycle. I love riding it along the river and around the lake, and I’m getting fit and losing weight.

I get excellent service from the store I bought the bike at. This store specializes in bikes and has a splendid reputation. I invested about $700 in the bike, and I will buy more stuff as time goes by.

Under Utilized Resources are Everywhere

I took it in yesterday for a complimentary service. While waiting, I chatted to the friendly owner of the store. I suggested that she must have a huge database of satisfied customers, and that she could seriously increase her sales by using a good referral system. I know she does no follow-up at all with her customers, and I wasn’t asking her for any money.

Small Business Arrogance

Her response reminded me why I started the DollarMakers Club. She immediately got a distant look in her eyes, and dismissed me with:

“My family has been running this business for seventy years.”

Her arrogance was typical of the ignorance of most small business owners – they really think they know everything there is to be known about their business.

Opportunity Abounds for the JV Broker

From my limited exposure to this bike store, I assure you that a DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor could easily double the profits in that business. To a Joint Venture expert, there are a number of glaringly obvious opportunities to dramatically ramp up this store’s profits, as well as sales.

Don’t Look Back on Those Who say “No.”

But a closed mind is a sad thing, and I smiled and thanked her for her service and pedaled off into the sunset. She will never know how much money she lost by succumbing to her conceit.

By looking beyond the doors of her store and her inflated ego, and considering the leverage and access she has available to her, she would have discovered a treasure trove of easily accessible profit at no cost or risk.

Taking Advantage of the Recession

The good news is that there are a number of business owners out there who realize that they have to adjust their sails in order to accommodate the new winds of business, and their precarious predicament makes them approachable for and amenable to win/win Joint Venture proposals.

Don’t deal with desperate or cash-strapped businesses, but rather with those who are doing well but have the intelligence to perceive the change in business and the need to consider alternatives to conventional and outmoded, risky, and costly sales and marketing approached that worked in the past (PR- Pre-Recession).

Where to Find Hundreds of Educated JV Partners

DollarMakers has hundreds of Members in nineteen countries, and we continue to grow.

Instead of trying to persuade the unaware, save time and money by working with those who understand the power of Joint Ventures by joining the DollarMakers JV Broker Club. (Or the DollarMakers Women’s Club.)

Winston Churchill said:

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

There are two kinds of people in the world – the prodders and the prodded.

• 1% are prodders – those who make it happen and sometimes feel like they are pulling a train when prodding others.
• The 99% are the employee type who are much like lazy donkeys – if they are not continually prodded, they stop dead and vegetate, wallowing in putrid justification.

Winners…

Winners take the initiative and strike out, whether followed or not.

• They don’t have to reminded, supported, woken up, encouraged, cajoled, tempted, threatened, bribed, begged, or motivated.
• They are internally motivated.
• They will succeed regardless of the circumstances they face.
• They don’t rely on other people.
• They don’t make excuses.
• They don’t need prodding.
• They like this quote: “For every person who doubts you and  tells you that you will fail, try twice as hard to prove them wrong.”
• They succeed in spite of the losers that let them down and attack them, and they never quit. They are like the little engine that could. They persist in the face of adversity.
• They are the optimists, the creators, the producers, the pioneers.
• They make things happen.
• They don’t wait for permission, support, or the best circumstances.

Winners make the world go round.

They hate prodding the prodded, but they understand it’s a necessity of life, like cleaning the oven.

Losers…

Losers constantly look for excuses to retreat, rest, and relax.

• They quickly run out of energy, ideas, resolve, and hope.
• They love quitting and then blaming other people, their circumstances, and the weather.
• They need prodding to breathe.
• They are the parasites, the leeches, the stone in your shoe.
• They are not in charge of their emotions or thoughts, tossed this way and that by the popular fads and fixes.
• They run with the herd, and are loyal only to comfort and instant gratification, much like animals.

The Prodders versus the ProdDEAD

Winners are loyal visionaries. They remember who helps them (and who hurts them.) They attract like-minded prodders into their lives. They tolerate the prodded only to the extent that they have to in order to accomplish their goals, but they have only disdain for those who choose to be victims instead of victors.

Winners are reliable and professional. They don’t compromise or sell out, and they create wealth, health, and happiness for the world. They are the prodders – the true champions – and they shrug off the vilification of the prodded who benefit from their creations yet attack them out of jealousy. They interpret PROD as:

Produce  Results  Or  Die

They are goal-oriented, creative, and self-motivated.

Be the Prod

If you are a prodder, you will relate to this short article. My purpose is to remind you that you are not alone, and that soon, Atlas will Shrug, and you should strongly align yourself with other prodders to be well positioned for that exciting time. Tolerate the prodded for now – they are necessary for the moment. Galt’s Gulch is waiting. Be the prod – the producer.

Start to question, “Are You Happy With Your Life?”

In order to achieve a new situation in life, we have to remember that a mind once stretched will never return to its original dimensions, and that all meaningful change starts with a question.

We have to ask ourselves if the status quo in our lives is what we truly want, and if our present philosophy and world view is going to get us to where we honestly and deeply want to be.

We have to ask ourselves just:

• how free we really are,
• how free we want to be,
• and how our perceptions and beliefs will have to change in order to facilitate the new journey we wish to take.

Beware: We’re Programmed to Not Question

Because the seething herd of humanity is programmed to viciously ostracize those who question the feasibility, indeed the sanity, of blind faith and conformity, we have to summon the courage to ask these questions.

Anything that threatens the current, outdated beliefs of true believers who doggedly hold on to medieval myths, legends, and superstitions is quickly suppressed. You should be aware of this.

The outright rejection of logic and rational, independent thought is the hallmark of the established system of paid slavery, the oppression of freedom, and mass mind control by the media and the mystics, which are owned by banks and managed by their puppet politicians.

Beware:  We’re Programmed to Believe What We’re Taught

We believe what we have been taught to believe, not what we personally, independently  deducted from the facts all around us. We have been told lies to keep us bound, blind, tired, in debt, and afraid:

• “You have to risk a lot to make a lot.”
• “Money doesn’t grow on trees.”
• “The root of all evil is money.”
• “You have to work hard for many years in order to be financially free.”
• “You don’t deserve to be rich.”
• “Keep up with the Jones.”
• “Serve your country.”
• “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
• “Self sacrifice is good. “
• “You need to be educated by the existing educational structure.”
• “Don’t question your leaders. We know what is best for you.”
• “Toe the line.”
• “The nail that stands up gets knocked down…”

Nonsense.

Question everything.

Krishnamurti said:

“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”

Dependency, exploitation, and attachment are forms of slavery. Only parasites, sluggards, and masochists revel in slavery.

Question everything.

Don’t wait until you’re too old, too scared, and too weak to change. Question now.

Anyone who says, “Mine not to reason why; mine but to do and die” is already dead. Blind faith is not laudable – it’s stupid.

The Path to Freedom

The path to real freedom is not to be found in a cult or a college. Krishnamurti said:

“Most of us begin with certainty and as we grow older the certainty changes to uncertainty and we die with uncertainty. But if one begins with uncertainty, doubting, questioning, asking, demanding, with real doubt about man’s behavior, about all the religious rituals and their images and their symbols, then out of that doubt comes the clarity of certainty.”

Perhaps it’s your time to question, to rethink, and to redirect your life’s path.

When it comes to money, DollarMakers is here to help you achieve freedom through the symbiotic, synergistic, rational, interdependent system of Joint Ventures.