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		<title>The REAL Reason for Being Politically Correct</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked a group of life insurance salespeople whom I was training on behalf of a well-known bank if they could possibly double their sales within the next three months.
Naturally, they all replied that it would be impossible. Then I asked them,

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I asked a group of life insurance salespeople whom I was training on behalf of a well-known bank if they could possibly double their sales within the next three months.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Naturally, they all replied that it would be impossible. Then I asked them,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“If your family was held captive and (I named a celebrity with a reputation for violence) was to show up with a shotgun and tell you he would kill your entire family if you didn’t double your sales in three months, could you do it now?”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">First, they sheepishly (I feel that adverb is most apt) admitted that, given that level of urgency and motivation, they could definitely double their sales, then they reported me to their bosses for being politically incorrect and “upsetting them”.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I fired the bank as a client – I don’t do business with clients who prefer low productivity to honesty.</p>
<h2>Being Exposed and Challenged</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why did they immediately attack me?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why release their pent up, festering, passive aggression?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why not be grateful to realize that they could, indeed, double their sales? A producer would certainly not have responded in this manner. Here’s why:</p>
<ol>
<li> The slothful sluggards had to immediately divert attention from the fact that their ineptitude and low productivity had been revealed, and that they would now be responsible, having admitted the possibility, for doubling their sales. That new level of production would mean they would have to confront issues in their lives, forego their weak excuses, change their behavior, and do uncomfortable things in order to get better results. And they wanted to avoid that at all costs. Tall trees catch the wind, and when a loser doesn’t like what he sees in the mirror, he smashes the mirror.</li>
<li> Anyone exposing a parasite for what he is becomes the enemy of the parasite. In spite of the fact that I was just doing my job, which was getting more production out of these so-called sales professionals, and that I was indeed helping them shift their paradigm in order for them to earn higher commissions, they chose to attack me. I was doing my job too well! They wanted to be motivated and congratulated, not exposed and challenged. I was putting the status quo in jeopardy.</li>
<li> Misdirection is used by magicians and politicians alike. Political correctness is the poisoned tip of the spears of socialism, statism, and collectivism. It is the tool of the mystics and the politicians.</li>
</ol>
<h2>The Same Amount of Work Could Be Done With Half the Employees</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Years ago, I was a Work Study Officer in a government department, a job I grabbed to put some money in the bank after a nasty divorce.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I was ordered to conduct an organization and methods examination of a large typing pool, and the result of my work was my suggestion that half the bureaucrat typists be summarily fired, and that the same amount of work could be done with half the employees.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I was called into my boss’s office and told to withdraw my report immediately. After all, these people had families to feed – they were the friends and family of many of the people in the Work Study department, and they needed those jobs!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Three months later, I resigned, started my own business and never worked for a boss again. That was nearly twenty-three years ago.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Political correctness is what Ayn Rand refers to as “Collectivized Ethics” in her book, “The Virtue of Selfishness”, written in 1967, and more relevant today than ever before:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Hence the appalling recklessness with which men propose, discuss and accept ‘humanitarian’ projects. ‘Medicare’ is an example of such a project. ‘Isn’t it desirable that the aged should have medical care in times of illness?’ Considered out of context, the answer would be: yes, it is desirable. And it is at this point that the mental processes of a collectivized brain are cut off; the rest is fog. The fog hides such facts as the enslavement and, therefore, the destruction of medical science, the regimentation and disintegration of all medical practice, and the sacrifice of the professional integrity, the freedom, the careers, the ambitions, the achievements, the happiness, the lives of the very men who are to provide that ‘desirable’ goal – the doctors.”</p>
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<h2>The 2012 Misdirection</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Right now, many people are becoming enthralled with the new movie, “2012 – An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world”.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The 2012 doomsday belief suggests that the Mayans foretold the end of the world at this time and, since the world is ending, there is no need to continue counting days or making calendars past that point.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Think about it – isn’t it a lot easier to discuss the end of the world than taking responsibility for your daily life? Wouldn’t moochers and looters prefer to focus on something vague in the future, rather than admitting that they are failing miserably in the present? Misdirection.</p>
<h2>The Ugly Truth For &#8220;Politically Correct&#8221;</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The most dangerous people are the politically correct. They are the snakes and the back-biters, and they represent the majority of people today. They squirm in their seats when I mention the word, “loser”, because they know they’re losers. They bristle when I state the fact that we’re fat, not because we’re retaining water, not because of hormones or our metabolism, but because we won’t put the fork down.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The smokers seethe when I tell them they stink. And when I say that Obama is a socialist, they tremble with fear and indignation. I tell it like it is, and I don’t give a damn what anyone says or thinks. If they won’t rock the boat, I certainly will. Turkeys pretending to be eagles are no threat to real eagles.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The reason for being “politically correct” is to redistribute wealth from the producers and creators to the parasites and the lazy. It is to deflect responsibility and hide reality, and to allow the looters to steal with impunity. Be aware &#8211; Atlas will shrug, and is already doing so.</p>
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		<title>Do You Need More Time? Here’s How</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, Let’s Agree That Money Can Buy Time. 

If you can afford to fly instead of drive, you save time.
If you can afford the money to delegate and subcontract, you can save time.
If you can hire experts, you can save time. You can pay others to do stuff for you. That saves time.

 
Money also buys [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong>First, Let’s Agree That Money Can Buy Time. </strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>If you can afford to fly instead of drive, you save time.</li>
<li>If you can afford the money to delegate and subcontract, you can save time.</li>
<li>If you can <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.happyshutterbug.com/" target="_blank">hire experts</a>, you can save time. You can pay others to do stuff for you. That saves time.</li>
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<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Money also buys health – the best medical care, diets, exercise, avoidance of financial stress, security, enough rest, peace of mind, holidays, leisure, and so on.</p>
<h2>Working Hard to Save Time = Neglecting Your Family &amp; You</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">So it’s chicken and egg to most people who don’t understand how to create real wealth – they say,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“If I work very hard, lick my boss’s boots, neglect my family, and sell my soul, I’ll have enough money to buy time.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not true, as you will find. You’ll lose your health, family, and half your life by the time you learn that the system most people rely on doesn’t work.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>I have a far better solution for you.</strong></p>
<h2>Free Up Time To Make Money</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now that we agree that money can buy time, in order to make the money, we need to free up some time so that we can put in some very strategic work for about six months to a year, at which time we will be free.</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">And this isn’t some MLM scam. It took Patrick Giesbrecht 7 months and it took Dick Low five months.</p>
<h2><strong>Here’s How You Can Start Saving Time FAST:</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Analyze</strong> your present time expenditure. Write down what you’re doing every fifteen minutes for one week. You will be SHOCKED, I guarantee you. Time is our most valuable, irreplaceable resource, yet we waste it like drunken sailors.</li>
<li><strong>Remove </strong>unproductive activities from your life. Look at each expenditure, or “Time Investment”, and ask yourself:<br />
- “Is this activity taking me towards my goal of financial freedom, or not? Is it necessary?&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;Is it urgent or important?&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;Why am I doing this?”<br />
If it’s not essential, scrap it right away.</p>
<p>The parasites and resentful relatives will hate you for it, but you don’t need them. Remove excessive TV, attending events with losers, telephone chats that have no purpose, surfing the Net with no goal, movies, watching sport, and anything else that doesn’t create real results.</li>
<li><strong>Discipline </strong>yourself – cut the time you allocate to other tasks – wake up earlier, take shorter baths and showers, give yourself less time for normal activities – the activity always stretches to fill the time allocated. Ten minutes here, five minutes there, all adds up fast.</li>
<li><strong>Close</strong> your Facebook account. Get out of those online Chatrooms and stop e-mailing and texting stupid jokes to friends – NOW.</li>
<li><strong>Resign</strong> from organizations, clubs, and groups that are filled with wanna-be’s and losers. If there is no measurable return on investment, resign immediately. When you have time and money, you can rejoin if you really want to. You probably won’t – by that time, you will realize what losers those people are.</li>
<li><a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.serenitynowcanada.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Delegate, subcontract</strong></a><strong>, and go without when you can</strong>. Focus on creating time that you can allocate to the creation of Financial Freedom.</li>
<li><strong>Stop carrying</strong> other people or doing things because you feel sorry for people or obliged. Read this book:<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth--406-FAQ_Virtue_Selfishness.aspx" target="_blank"> “The Virtue of Selfishness”</a> by Ayn Rand. Stop volunteering immediately. You can do that when you have time and money.</li>
<li>Unless you’re making serious money from it, or it takes very little time, <strong>break your ties</strong> with Network Marketing. It will eat your time and money like a hungry cannibal.</li>
<li><strong>Stop reading newspapers</strong> – if the news is important, you will hear about it. Use <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.twitter.com/thedollarmaker" target="_blank">Twitter</a> instead, and don’t follow more than 30 people at any given time.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t attend any face-to face meeting unless you absolutely have to</strong>. And systematically remove all the losers and posers from your life. They are a waste of your time. Only associate with successful winners.</li>
</ol>
<h2>You Can Retire in Less Than a Year</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you do all of the above, you will find you have a lot more time available in which to create more monthly, residual / passive income than you need to live on, if you follow my money-making, <a href="http://www.jvwisdom.com" target="_blank">Joint Venture instructions</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will be able to retire in less than a year with all the time and money you want.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<h2>The Next Step is to Start Creating Wealth</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anyone can do this, regardless of your age, background, education, or circumstances.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">You can do all the following simultaneously, and you can start part-time. While you’re following these steps, read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.</p>
<h2><strong>NOTE: Before You Start</strong></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Set your specific your goals that are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Measurable</li>
<li>Personal</li>
<li>Exciting</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Exactly how much do you need per month in residual income before tax in order to pay your bills and live a comfortable life?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">By what date, exactly, have you decided to reach this goal? Commit to this goal. Whatever it takes. No turning back.</p>
<h2><strong>Here We Go</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Step 1:<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Take <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://jvwisdom.com/jv/get-started-with-joint-ventures.html" target="_blank">this complimentary online analysis and coaching session</a>.</span></strong></li>
<li><strong>Step 2:<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Join <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://jvwisdom.com/jv/testimonials.html" target="_blank">DollarMakers</a> or the <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://jvwisdom.com/jv/testimonials.html" target="_blank">DollarMakers Women’s Club</a>, or, if you’re a woman, consider joining both. This way, you’re getting involved with the right people and learning to think straight.</span></strong></li>
<li><strong>Step 3:<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Take this <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.DollarMakers.com/online" target="_blank">Online Bootcamp</a>. Apply what you learn, especially the system to earn 1% per month on your bank’s money.</span></strong></li>
<li><strong>Step 4:<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Register and start using <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.jvwisdom.com" target="_blank">this powerful, proven system</a>.</span></strong></li>
<li><strong>Step 5:<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Attend as many DollarMakers events in person as you can.</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Freedom is Worth The Price</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Once you have more residual income than you need, you can continue to work just an hour or two a day to make more money and increase your quality of life.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">But now you will be living on your own terms, doing what you want, when you want. Freedom is worth the price. The sun, sand, snow, and fun is waiting for you! I’ve done it – join me.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re scalping hockey tickets, selling pot, whining about high taxes, or mumbling absentmindedly about the weather and the price of eggs, you probably encounter very little resistance or intransigence.
However, when you offer an alternative to the popular status quo, suggest a substitute to mind-numbing mysticism, or present a different perspective, essentially questioning strongly held [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’re scalping hockey tickets, selling pot, whining about high taxes, or mumbling absentmindedly about the weather and the price of eggs, you probably encounter very little resistance or intransigence.</p>
<p>However, when you offer an alternative to the popular status quo, suggest a substitute to mind-numbing mysticism, or present a different perspective, essentially questioning strongly held beliefs and established conditioning, you suddenly find yourself facing blank stares, passive aggression, or outright conflict.</p>
<p>Controversial, politically incorrect information is not usually well received. This, in spite of the fact that your information can potentially dramatically improve the quality of life of your reluctant target. There’s a reason for this, and it’s not your fault.</p>
<p>We all tend to seek out and select information to support our dominant beliefs and avoid pain. I thought three concepts would help illuminate what we’re up against when we follow that road less traveled and wish to share real treasure with the mediocre masses.</p>
<h2>First, Cognitive Dissonance:</h2>
<blockquote><p>“Cognitive Dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognitions. This happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. For example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. Noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states.” – Wikipedia</p></blockquote>
<p>Imagine the fellow who strongly believes, as he was taught, that he should always “Turn the other cheek”, and so he does, and as a result of his passivity, he finds himself continually bullied, so he feels anger at the obvious injustice.</p>
<p>Now he feels guilty because he’s angry. A double bind has resulted from his sacrificial conditioning; he’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.</p>
<p>Or he works hard, makes money, and then feels obliged, because of his conditioning, to submit to the extortion of his loafing relatives. Naturally, he resents this, so he feels guilty…</p>
<p>Final example: He believes money to be the root of all evil, so when he earns it, he feels guilty and self-sabotages to punish himself.</p>
<h2>Second, Cognitive Distortion:</h2>
<p>From Wikipedia:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts identified in cognitive therapy and its variants, which supposedly perpetuate certain psychological disorders. Eliminating these distortions and negative thought is said to improve mood and discourage maladies such as depression and chronic anxiety. The process of learning to refute these distortions is called “cognitive restructuring”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many cognitive distortions are also logical fallacies.</p>
<ol>
<li>All-or-nothing thinking – Thinking of things in absolute terms, like “always”, “every”, “never”, and “there is no alternative”. Few aspects of human behavior are so absolute. All-or-nothing-thinking can contribute to depression.</li>
<li>Overgeneralization – Taking isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations.</li>
<li>Mental filter – Focusing almost exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting, aspects of an event while ignoring other positive aspects. For example, focusing on a tiny imperfection in a piece of otherwise useful clothing.</li>
<li>Disqualifying the positive – Continually reemphasizing or “shooting down” positive experiences for arbitrary, ad hoc reasons.</li>
<li>Jumping to conclusions – Drawing conclusions (usually negative) from little (if any) evidence. Two specific subtypes are also identified:</li>
<li>* Mind reading – Assuming special knowledge of the intentions or thoughts of others.<br />
* Fortune telling – Exaggerating how things will turn out before they happen.</li>
<li>Magnification and minimization – Distorting aspects of a memory or situation through magnifying or minimizing them such that they no longer correspond to objective reality. In depressed clients, often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characteristics are understated. There is one subtype of magnification:<br />
* Catastrophizing – Focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.</li>
<li>Emotional reasoning – Making decisions and arguments based on intuitions or personal feeling rather than an objective rationale and evidence.</li>
<li>Should statements – Patterns of thought which imply the way things “should” or “ought to be” rather than the actual situation the patient is faced with, or having rigid rules which the patient believes will “always apply” no matter what the circumstances are. Albert Ellis termed this “Musturbation”.</li>
<li>Labeling and mislabeling – Explaining behaviors or events, merely by naming them; related to overgeneralization. Rather than describing the specific behavior, a patient assigns a label to someone or themselves that implies absolute and unalterable terms. Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.</li>
<li>Personalization – Attribution of personal responsibility (or causal role) for events over which the patient has no control. This pattern is also applied to other in the attribution of blame.”</li>
</ol>
<h2>Where People Are Really Coming From</h2>
<p>When you read the above, it makes it easier to see where people are really coming from, instead of taking their “rejection” personally. It explains why otherwise intelligent people join cults, vote for narcissistic socialists while claiming to be capitalists, and invest their money in ridiculous scams.</p>
<p>It reveals why most people prefer to be told what to do and what to think by those who do not have their best interests at heart, and why rational, <a href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/" target="_blank">proven solutions</a> are rejected outright as “to good to be true”, “from the devil”, or “dishonest” – why someone would prefer to lose money in mutual funds and ripoffs instead of getting 12% per year, or buy silly franchises and lose a small fortune when they could make a lot more money with no cost or risk at all.</p>
<h2>Cognitive Therapy</h2>
<p>Cognitive therapy seeks to help the client overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses. Depending on your situation and circumstances, unless you’re a psychologist or psychiatrist, you’re not going to make a huge change in the way the majority of people think. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, simply because most people seldom choose to change.</p>
<p>But there is a way to influence and help more people positively in their own best interests: education. Not the junk spewed out by teachers, preachers, politicians, many “financial planners”, banks, and “gurus”, but real, worthwhile education.</p>
<h2>The Creation of Wealth</h2>
<p>DollarMakers is based on the idea that</p>
<blockquote><p>“You can get anything you want out of life, if you help enough other people to get what they want.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The information / education we create and disseminate is particularly focused on the creation of wealth, and underpinned by a philosophy of Capitalism, realism, <a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/" target="_blank">Objectivism</a>, and rationalism.</p>
<p><strong>We believe that continuous exposure to truth, objective thought, personal responsibility, and practical, proven systems eventually gets through to a few people, and that assists us in achieving our goals.</strong></p>
<p>I recommend everyone read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, and I use my talks, training, seminars, <a href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/" target="_blank">websites</a>, Twitter, blog, podcasts, <a href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/coupon/" target="_blank">videos</a>, conference calls, webinars, and other communication channels to share reality and dispel the myths and lies that keep people chained and in bondage.</p>
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		<title>The Awakening of the Alternative Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently tweeted this: “As recession shrinks the official economy, the informal one is growing. http://bit.ly/55zJrt “- a very interesting article, and easily understood by many immigrants, but not by the average local.
I lived in Africa for 45 years – I understand the underground economy – the “black market” – the alternative, informal economy. Ask yourself why [...]<p></p>
<p><a href="http://jvblogger.com/the-awakening-of-the-alternative-economy/">The Awakening of the Alternative Economy</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I recently tweeted this: “As recession shrinks the official economy, the informal one is growing. <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://bit.ly/55zJrt" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/55zJrt</a> “- a very interesting article, and easily understood by many immigrants, but not by the average local.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I lived in Africa for 45 years – I understand the underground economy – the “black market” – the alternative, informal economy. Ask yourself why so many Chinese stores accept “Cash Only” or why so many people run their businesses only within their own ethnic community. Do you think people who run flea market booths all pay taxes?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">In a world where socialism is growing by leaps and bounds, headed up by Comrade Obama and his gang, and the government resembles the Mafia more and more, it’s no big surprise to me that people are waking up. The banks are simply a giant, legal Ponzi Scheme. (Read Kiyosaki’s Conspiracy of the Rich.)</p>
<h2>Trading and Bartering</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I lived and worked in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) during the war there for the year of 1979 on a contract as a manager for Holiday Inns.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Serious sanctions imposed by South Africa and England were crippling the economy by design. (South Africa reaped what it sowed in due time, and England is in a worse state than the US – the chickens have come home to roost.)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We traded everything from foreign exchange to</p>
<ul>
<li>gold,</li>
<li>diamonds,</li>
<li>antiques,</li>
<li>gasoline coupons,</li>
<li>foreign exchange,</li>
<li>whiskey,</li>
<li>shellfish,</li>
<li>cutlery,</li>
<li>and cooking oil,</li>
<li>knitting machines</li>
<li>and hotel rooms.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I traded my house for a Ford Escort when I left. When I meet some of the “Trade and Barter Experts” here, I just chuckle quietly to myself – they have no idea how far this can, and does go.</p>
<h2>An Attack on Capitalism</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">In an increasingly Collectivist, Statist society, in which real, law-abiding producers are drained to feed the sick, lame and lazy, their hard-earned taxes stolen to set up needle centers for drug addicts, parks for walking dogs, housing for those who have decided to “work the system” and illegal immigrants who claim “sanctuary”, and to feed those who choose not to work, business owners start to consider their alternatives.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anyone who has read “Atlas Shrugged” knows the route we’re going. And they know the system is designed to empower the criminals and the collective, while undermining the creators, the thinkers, and the innovators.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The bigger the loser, the more the churches and government will do for him. It’s an attack on capitalism.</p>
<h2>The Benefits to Being A Joint Venture Broker</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">That’s why I tell people to consider creating their own Joint Venture Broker business. Run your business with</p>
<ul>
<li>no cost,</li>
<li>no risk,</li>
<li>no selling,</li>
<li>no inventory,</li>
<li>no employees,</li>
<li>no licenses, fees or royalties,</li>
<li>no limits,</li>
<li>and no overhead or premises.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’m not suggesting we don’t pay our taxes or that we do anything illegal – I would never suggest that – but I am suggesting that you wake up and smell the burning Constitution.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Smart squirrels <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/coupon/" target="_blank">plan for the winter</a>, and hyperinflation, massive taxation, restrictions on medical care, free speech, and the Internet, and a police state suddenly doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory anymore.</p>
<h2>It&#8217;s Time to Get Picky</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, more than ever, real relationships and confidentiality is crucial to business success.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savvy entrepreneurs are planning ahead. We’re finding out who our friends and enemies are, and we’re cutting costs and risks.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Start getting lean and mean, and consider learning to understand alternative compensation and reciprocation – you’ll be glad you did.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where will you be when Atlas shrugs?</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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“The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”

– Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, talking about a comment by a PETA representative.
There are many organizations and groups who have a vested interest [...]<p></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">– Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, talking about <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://bit.ly/alAl8" target="_blank">a comment by a PETA representative</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are many organizations and groups who have a vested interest in keeping the unwashed masses dumb, hungry, short of money, unhealthy, desperate, tired, and uninformed.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Academic and financial institutions, drug companies, the media, politicians, teachers and preachers in many forms, and your own boss (if you’re unfortunate enough to have one) provide information that is carefully designed to deceive, undermine, and manipulate people in order to achieve specific goals.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anyone who watches CNN or attends meetings by “gurus” knows this.</p>
<h2>Education Disinformation</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">If I took the advice of my:</p>
<ul>
<li>Accountant,</li>
<li>Bank,</li>
<li>Local politician,</li>
<li>Neighborhood preacher,</li>
<li>“Financial planners,”</li>
<li>“Business coaches,”</li>
<li>And itinerant seminar leaders,</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I would be an uninformed, poor, guilt-ridden, hopeless, desperate smoker, and probably even a follower of Obama.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Just like most other people. I would be:</p>
<ul>
<li>In debt,</li>
<li>Confused,</li>
<li>Worried,</li>
<li>Politically correct,</li>
<li>Passive aggressive,</li>
<li>And concerned about saving whales.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">But I’m not, because my education is not disinformation.</p>
<h2>Education That Sets One Free</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Penn and Teller, Fox News, and the writings of the likes of Ayn Rand, John Stossel, and Robert Kiyosaki all provide education that sets one free mentally and financially.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong> As adults, we are free to question whether or not we are being hoodwinked by the cults we were pushed into by well-meaning but deluded parents and friends, whether the myths we accept as true are, in fact, true, and whether the information by which our choices are made is helping us or hurting us.</strong></p>
<h2>Are You Blissfully Unaware?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but dispelling myths about the creation of wealth is my life work, and when money is involved, one faces the strongest efforts by the powers that be regarding conditioning and coercion.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The mystics of mind and muscle put a lot of effort into blindfolding the average man so that their extortion goes unnoticed and is even welcomed, so a lot of the “education” we buy into is carefully designed to control and enslave.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The naïve, the stupid, the vulnerable and the slothful are blissfully unaware of what’s going on, and most of them can’t be saved, however those who have a decent IQ and the nerve and motivation to question and work are people whom we can help.</p>
<h2>Get Perspective of How Things Really Work</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The task is great, and the greatest tool I have found in my life to help people who are about to go over the waterfall into the bleak, churning waters of debt, despondency, and delusion is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece, “Atlas Shrugged” and we provide our own <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/" target="_blank">training</a>,<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/" target="_blank"> information</a>, and<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.twitter.com/thedollarmaker" target="_blank"> support</a> through our little business, DollarMakers.</p>
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		<title>My New Word: “Gimmetude”, and the Year of the Producers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We see how “Dhimmitude” is destroying Western civilization. William A. Jacobson speaks eloquently about his word, “Ghimmitude.”
Well, I am creating a new word: “Gimmetude”. This is an attitude of “Gimme (give to me) everything I want – I have an attitude of entitlement, I don’t want to work, I’m a lazy parasite, and I deserve [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We see how “<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmitude" target="_blank">Dhimmitude</a>” is destroying Western civilization. William A. Jacobson speaks eloquently about his word, “<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-care-ghimmitude.html" target="_blank">Ghimmitude</a>.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Well, I am creating a new word: “<strong>Gimmetude</strong>”. This is an attitude of “Gimme (give to me) everything I want – I have an attitude of entitlement, I don’t want to work, I’m a lazy parasite, and I deserve what you work for.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sieg Heil Obama.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">”This pervasive attitude of entitlement comes as a severe a culture shock to anyone with a responsible work ethic, but we get used to seeing it, and we realize that it is good news for the producers and creators among us.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I have a relative who always whines about how much money her bosses and the owners of the business she works for are making, compared with her income as an employee. I respond, “Did you apply for that job and gratefully accept the salary they offered you, or were you forced to work for them? Is there anything to prevent you from starting your own business like they did? Can you quit and go get a better job? Without them, you wouldn’t have an income. They created the business, and they are entitled to any money they make – it‘s called Capitalism.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">But she doesn’t get it; she has a Gimmetude.</p>
<h2>Winners Never Quit</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We recently received an e-mail from a loser who had committed himself to achieving financial freedom in six months, using our JVWebPartners system. He didn’t manage six months, though – he quit, according to him, after a mere <em>twelve hours</em> of work. At the end of twelve hours, he didn’t ask for help, correction, or direction – he simply quit outright. TWELVE HOURS!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I couldn’t believe it, but those were his own words. If you look at his life, you will find he has always been a quitter, and that he always blames his tools, other people, the weather, the economy, or the mirror that shows him how pathetic he is. He has a Gimmetude.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">His “commitment” and his honor and self-respect are worth nothing. Winners <strong>never </strong>quit.</p>
<h2>Moving on to Newer And Better Things</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">People with a Gimmetude want everything for nothing, and they think they will prosper off the backs of the producers, but of course they don’t. Atlas always ends up shrugging them off, and they always end up blaming Atlas, who has moved on to new and better things.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We can either get upset at these slovenly slaves of state succor, socialism, and instant gratification, or we can celebrate the fact that they are here to make us rich. They want to work for minimum wage, so let them work for us.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those with a commitment to success and production, the three percent of people, have less competition than ever before. That’s good news!</p>
<h2>2010 is The Year of the Producers</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will be the year when people will get dramatically richer or poorer, FAST, and most people will get poorer.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those with a Gimmetude will find themselves in deep trouble. We get paid for what we produce, not for attending seminars, playing the Cash Flow Game, or running our mouths.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The posers and parasites are going to get a serious wake-up call in 2010, while those of us who are prepared to work and commit will succeed beyond our wildest dreams.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Atlas Shrugged is happening right now in our lives. If you haven’t yet read this book, read it now, and if you have read it, read it again – it’s 100% better the second time around. Read it so that you can be prepared. Make <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/" target="_blank">DollarMakers</a> your Galt’s Gulch.</p>
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		<title>“A Check-up From the Neck Up.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s smart to take a few minutes to give yourself a status check.
Get into a quiet place and ask yourself some serious questions.  Here are fifty questions that will make you think.

What does your life look like, right now?
What will it look like in five year’s time?
How happy are you?
What is stopping you from being happy?
Why [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s smart to take a few minutes to give yourself a status check.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get into a quiet place and ask yourself some serious questions.  <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://ow.ly/sCjm" target="_blank">Here are fifty questions that will make you think</a>.</p>
<ol>
<li>What does your life look like, right now?</li>
<li>What will it look like in five year’s time?</li>
<li>How happy are you?</li>
<li>What is stopping you from being happy?</li>
<li>Why not get happy sooner?</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you read Kiyosaki’s “Conspiracy of the Rich” and realize that the world has changed dramatically, now is a very good time to take stock of your life.</p>
<h2>It&#8217;s Time To Get Rich and Have Fun</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those who stumble along blindly from paycheck to paycheck, sinking deeper into debt, numbing their senses with tobacco and booze, living vicariously through sports teams, avoiding reality, and channeling their passive aggression into liberal politics, are in for a sudden and rude awakening.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong> You don’t have to join them in squalor and servitude. It’s time to get rich and have fun.</strong></p>
<h2>It&#8217;s Not To Late</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most people only make changes in their lives when they exceed their pain threshold – the pain of remaining where they are is exceeded by the pain of change – or when forced to do so by external circumstances.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">But the frog in boiling water never looks at the temperature as it rises, and he cooks before he can escape.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">He misses the train to success. You don’t have to miss the train. It’s not too late.</p>
<h2>When Is It Too Late?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It takes guts to leave the ruts, to walk away from the comfortable, the familiar, the “safe”. It’s easier to stay aboard the Titanic than to leap into a bobbing lifeboat in freezing seas. Easier to deny reality and “hope for the best”. Problem is, when it’s too late, it’s simply too late.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">25% of the white population has left South Africa since 1995. When we left, friends said,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We’ll see how it goes – we’ll wait a bit – we’re comfortable.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now it’s too late for them – they’re too old, their world is crumbling around them, and they’re stuck on the sinking ship.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Others viciously attacked us for leaving; they accused us of taking “the Chicken Run”, and stopped talking to us when they heard we were immigrating (this only happens in South Africa – not in other countries).</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now they’re living in one of the most dangerous third world countries and regretting their choices.</p>
<h2><strong><br />
You Need Four Things to Change Your Life:</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li>You need to objectively and rationally evaluate your options and circumstances. Get advice from people who have already created what you want, not those more screwed up than you are. Fat fish in small, stagnant ponds can’t tell you what it’s like to fly freely in the mountain air – in fact, they think it’s impossible. So talk to eagles. Life is short – you deserve the best.</li>
<li>You need to do due diligence before making changes. Take time to do this, but don’t wait until it’s too late!</li>
<li>You need mentoring, guidance, support, and a clear action plan. My support system was Rika, and hers was me. YOU are your best, ultimate support system, but the more successful people you have helping you, the better. Learn from their mistakes. Find people who are richer, smarter, and more motivated than you are.</li>
<li>You need serious motivation, which means you burn your bridges, close the back door, and commit unconditionally. Create a <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://jvwisdom.com/bulletproof/" target="_blank">bulletproof mindset</a>. The only South Africans who return to South Africa after immigrating are those who couldn’t make it in their new homes, and most of the time they kept property or money in South Africa – they “kept their options open” – they never really committed. Small wonder they failed.</li>
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<h2>Your Best Option is to Use Joint Ventures</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ninety-seven percent of our problems, pain, and restrictions can be solved with money.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">When we realize how much we can achieve with money, and take into account the way the world is changing, the best option is to use Joint Ventures to acquire financial freedom.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]<p></p>
<p><a href="http://jvblogger.com/understand-creeping-socialism/">Understand Creeping Socialism</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” ~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931</p>
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		<title>How People Use Mysticism to Conceal Their Bad Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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“But, Robin, please! What does this have to do with Joint Ventures and business? Enough of the philosophy, already!”

As long as we’re dealing with people and money, philosophy is the basis on which we have to base our assumptions, predictions, choices, and evaluations.
This article may go a little way to illustrating my point.
What is Mysticism?
Ayn [...]<p></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“But, Robin, please! What does this have to do with Joint Ventures and business? Enough of the philosophy, already!”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">As long as we’re dealing with people and money, philosophy is the basis on which we have to base our assumptions, predictions, choices, and evaluations.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">This article may go a little way to illustrating my point.</p>
<h2>What is Mysticism?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ayn Rand writes,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html" target="_blank">What is mysticism</a>?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mysticism is the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one’s senses and one’s reason. Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as ‘instinct,’ ‘intuition,’ ‘revelation,’ or any form of ‘just knowing.’ Reason is the perception of reality, and rests on a single axiom: the Law of Identity. Mysticism is the claim to the perception of some other reality—other than the one in which we live—whose definition is only that it is not natural, it is supernatural, and is to be perceived by some form of unnatural or supernatural means.”</p>
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<h2>Mysticism to Conceal Real Motives</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I was recently copied on an e-mail from a woman who intended to join the DollarMakers Club, but had problems understanding how to use PayPal. When it was resolved, she jumped to the confusion that Outlook Express had somehow caused an issue with her credit card not working, and this was her response:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I am taking the mishap <strong><em>as a signal</em></strong> that perhaps my application to Dollarmakers was <em><strong>not meant to be</strong></em> at this time.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">When we use our ineptitude and normal daily frustrations to justify a change in mind, we’re using mysticism to conceal our real motives.</p>
<h2>Red Flags</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We all seek evidence to support our dominant beliefs – that’s quite normal. Many people use their children and families as excuses to disguise their real values and motives, but that’s usually easy to determine. When it comes to mysticism, however, a huge red flag goes up. But wait! Perhaps <strong><em><a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.sobrietystones.com/resources/Colors/meaning_color_red_1.htm" target="_blank">this</a></em></strong> is what the color red might really signify!  See what I mean? Ridiculous.</p>
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<h2>Easier to Choose Blame Then Taking Responsibility</h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The universe is trying to tell me something” – amazing.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Visit your local Theosophical Society or Science of Mind meeting, and see how many successful business owners you find there, (apart from the ones running the meeting – they have a special agenda.)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s easier to blame your Spirit Guide, karma, numerology, or astronomy than to take responsibility for your own bad choices, laziness, or lack of commitment. I know – I have been involved in and studied many kinds of mystical organizations, and philosophies – they’re all basically the same.</p>
<h2><strong> Here’s The Bottom Line</strong></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong> </strong> If you want to do business with someone, you need to establish that you’re working with an adult who is</p>
<ul>
<li>sane,</li>
<li>responsible,</li>
<li>rational,</li>
<li>objective,</li>
<li>and mature.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Or be prepared to have them disguising their dishonesty and slothfulness with voodoo nonsense and justifications.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Cloaking one’s real agenda is mysticism and only works for those who share the illusions and delusions.</strong></p>
<h2>Get Real</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Instead of talking chakras and essential oils, let’s talk numbers, ratios, and profit. Let’s stop fooling ourselves and get real. Evaluate your future business associates carefully, and avoid the mystics at all costs.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The:</p>
<ol>
<li>psychics and swamis,</li>
<li>fakirs and fakers,</li>
<li>gurus and grifters,</li>
<li>posers and prophets</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">will simply waste your time and steal your peace of mind.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finally, many years ago, I attended a wonderful business seminar with a friend of mine. The seminar leader was a brilliant entrepreneur who has made a fortune for himself and others. He was talking about one’s context, cognizance, and perceptions in business, and my friend was angry that</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“this arrogant man spends his time philosophizing.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Well, your philosophy will ultimately determine where you end up in life, and it is the basis of all your choices and the results you create. Many years, my friend’s philosophy has brought him to where he is, and mine has brought me to where I am – a world apart.</p>
<h2>Work With Like-Minded People</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">For me, <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.Capitalism.org/" target="_blank">Capitalism</a> and <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/objectivism.html" target="_blank">Objectivism</a> work well. I suggest all business owners read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand – it’s the best book I ever read. I am responsible for the circumstances I create and for my reaction to those circumstances. I don’t make excuses, mooch off others, or blame ethereal causes or other people for my choices. And I work with like-minded people.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Carefully evaluate the people with whom you propose to do business: what do they read and believe? Alternatively, leave it to your Spirit Guide to do the work for you, while you zone out with incense and nonsense. It’s easier, until you find yourself living under a bridge with other evolved beings.</p>
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<p><a href="http://jvblogger.com/how-people-use-mysticism-to-conceal-their-bad-choices/">How People Use Mysticism to Conceal Their Bad Choices</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often shocked when people smirk and hiss at the length of the speech by John Galt in “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, but then I realize that those who hate that speech have realized that it is, in fact, the very essence of a philosophy that exposes their own impotence and thievery.
Parasites don’t like [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am often shocked when people smirk and hiss at the length of <a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.ledeagenda.com/this-is-john-galt-speaking/" target="_blank">the speech by John Galt</a> in “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, but then I realize that those who hate that speech have realized that it is, in fact, the very essence of a philosophy that exposes their own impotence and thievery.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Parasites don’t like to be called parasites, any more than losers like to admit that they are incompetent and impotent mediocrities.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">When a looter looks in a mirror and sees himself for what he really is, he breaks the mirror.</p>
<h2>A Speech For Winners and Producers</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Winners and producers, on the other hand, love the speech, “This is John Galt Speaking”, and wish it were longer.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>It:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>feeds us,</li>
<li>sustains us,</li>
<li>encourages,</li>
<li>empowers,</li>
<li>motivates us,</li>
<li>is our bible,</li>
<li>is our motto,</li>
<li>is a reminder that we are on track to greatness.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">We listen to that speech on CD’s and read it when we wonder if we’re the only people who see what is happening in a world that is falling fast into a deep fissure of socialism, mysticism, collectivism, and government control.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is no public ownership of the mind. That is all we have, and it is all we need.</p>
<h2>A Tool for Knowledge</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>If you want to know who people really are and what their philosophy is, get them to read this book, and </strong><a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.ledeagenda.com/this-is-john-galt-speaking/" target="_blank"><strong>this speech in particular</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Better to read the entire book, since it sets the correct context for the speech. Losers don’t even read, and if they do, they read junk, so they’re excused right at the outset.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Then, simply watch the reaction of the readers.The champions will love this book, re-read it, and embrace and promote the philosophy and Galt’s speech.</p>
<h2>Are You A Winner?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here’s a sample, to illustrate my point – watch your own reaction, and perhaps you will make a discovery of your own philosophy:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The parasites who asserted that my brain and my life were their property…<br />
The professor who, unable to think, takes pleasure in crippling the minds of his students…<br />
The businessman who, to protect his stagnation, takes pleasure in chaining the ability of competitors…<br />
The incompetent who takes pleasure in defeating achievement…<br />
The mediocrity who takes pleasure in demolishing greatness…<br />
The extortion of loafing relatives…”</p></blockquote>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Your philosophy will determine what you love and achieve in life. Be sure to choose a good one.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have read Ayn Rand’s prophetic “Atlas Shrugged”, you will know that we are living in turbulent times, and that this book is the capitalist’s guidebook and map, our survival tool.
It puts things into perspective, and helps the reader to see through the illusions, deceptions, and lies fed to us by the collectivist powers [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you have read Ayn Rand’s prophetic “Atlas Shrugged”, you will know that we are living in turbulent times, and that this book is the capitalist’s guidebook and map, our survival tool.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It puts things into perspective, and helps the reader to see through the illusions, deceptions, and lies fed to us by the collectivist powers that be.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">As a capitalist, a producer, and a creator, there is no way one can find common ground with collectivists and mystics – that compromise will kill you as sure as trying to make friends with a rattlesnake will.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The alternative is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" target="_blank">Galt’s Gulch</a>.</p>
<h2>A Speculative Form of Galt&#8217;s Gulch</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">While I don’t recommend a literal Galt’s Gulch, in which the producers in society physically leave the wretched world of parasites and looters that has been subjugated and enslaved by the<a style="color: #ff7800; text-decoration: none;" href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/statism.html" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/statism.html" target="_blank">statist</a> government behind, and form their own</p>
<ul>
<li>lifestyle,</li>
<li>governance,</li>
<li>and territory,</li>
</ul>
<p>a figurative, allegorical or speculative form of Galt’s Gulch is, in my opinion, the only way to prosper in a socialist/communist environment.</p>
<h2>A Grand Solution</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Understanding the dynamics, requirements, benefits, and parameters of Galt’s Gulch as presented by Ms. Rand allows one to formulate the mindset and philosophy that is necessary to emulate such a grand solution metaphorically.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">By realizing the implications and consequences of socialist world government, one can avoid the looting of the slackers, the incompetent, and the moochers, financial rape by government and the mystics, and, ultimately, the complete loss of personal freedom.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Creating a personalized, representative Galt’s Gulch means carefully selecting and teaming up with like-minded producers who share one’s:</p>
<ul>
<li>philosophy,</li>
<li><a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ideology.html" target="_blank">ideology</a>,</li>
<li>motives,</li>
<li>and beliefs,</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">and operate with the integrity and congruency to be found among some intelligent, rational capitalists.</p>
<h2>A Formula for Success</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the understanding gleaned from Ayn Rand’s work and my experience of life and business, along with a realization of the way the world is moving, I started DollarMakers as a type of “filter” to find people who fit the <a href="http://www.ledeagenda.com/this-is-john-galt-speaking/" target="_blank">Galt’s Gulch model</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Far from being a conspiracy theorist or alarmist, I am a realist and an Objectivist, and practical common-sense that is free from the mind-numbing poison of collectivism and mysticism dictates that I create a Galt’s Gulch, <strong>since success occurs when preparation meets opportunity, and forewarned is forearmed. </strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Having seen what has happened in Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, and now America, the proverbial writing is one the wall.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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Fake Leads
•   A long time ago, I attended a business networking meeting where only one person from every industry is allowed, (big red flag) and everyone is under pressure to give our leads / referrals every week. They actually COUNT the leads, and nobody gets a commission! Anyway, [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some real life illustrations for you:</p>
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<h2>Fake Leads</h2>
<p>•   A long time ago, I attended a business networking meeting where only one person from every industry is allowed, (big red flag) and everyone is under pressure to give our leads / referrals every week. They actually COUNT the leads, and nobody gets a commission! Anyway, I received a LOT of fake leads, because people were too gutless to admit they didn’t have any leads to give out, and they feared losing their place in this group of broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople.</p>
<h2>No Intention of Ever Co-operating</h2>
<p>•   I asked someone to send out an e-mail to their database to promote one of my events a few years back. I “salted” their database (entered it anonymously, using a fake name and e-mail address) and the e-mails were never sent out. They didn‘t want to tell me that they never intended sending it out.</p>
<h2>People Who Can&#8217;t Say &#8220;No&#8221;</h2>
<p>•   People promise to show up at places, do things, make calls, promote stuff, attend meetings – and they never do – they offer weak, transparent excuses, because they can’t say “No”.</p>
<p>Sounds familiar, does it?</p>
<p>In our gutless, politically correct world of passive aggressive, anal-retentive, wanna-be entrepreneurs, it’s hard to find people who don’t fear “rejection” by simply saying, “NO.”</p>
<p>(It’s even harder to find people who actually do what they say before their laziness and stupidity overcomes them, but I digress).</p>
<h2>So What&#8217;s the One Fear?</h2>
<p>The one fear that will sabotage your business life more than most others is the fear of saying, “NO.”</p>
<p>You don’t have to explain and say, “NO – I don’t want to deal with you. BECAUSE</p>
<ul>
<li>I don’t like you&#8221;</li>
<li>I don’t trust you&#8221;</li>
<li>Your offer is ludicrous and one-sided&#8221;</li>
<li>You’re an idiot&#8221;</li>
<li>You’re cheap&#8221;</li>
<li>You dress like a second-hand car salesman cum trailer park manager&#8221;</li>
<li>You stink of tobacco…”</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Just say, “No, thanks, this is not for me – I don’t see a fit.” </strong></p>
<p>Instead of wasting your time trying to make losers happy and justifying things, instead of trying to be popular with wankers.</p>
<p><strong>Just, say, “NO.” You don’t have to explain.</strong></p>
<h2>The Frog Prince Analogy</h2>
<p><strong> You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. You can’t marry every frog because you’re afraid of “rejection”.</strong></p>
<p>The more selective you are, the more distinct your criteria for accepting business offers is, the more sophisticated your approach, and the more successful you are, and the better known you are, the more offers you will have to reject, so get used to it.</p>
<p>So far, we have rejected 24 applications to our $20,000 DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor Training program, which meant we turned down and rejected $480,000 in sales. We are very proud of that. Few people would do that. But we see the big picture.</p>
<p><strong>If the fit isn’t right, we say, “NO.” And everybody wins, because we’re honest.</strong></p>
<h2>Tell the Truth</h2>
<p>Think of it this way:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am not in business to make other people happy, to build their egos, to be accepted and feel important, or to become popular. I am not here to please other people. I am in business to make the maximum amount of net profit with the least cost, risk, time, and effort, and I only work with people whom I like, trust, and respect. I don’t have to do anything, and I will tell the truth.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fearlessly, audaciously, courageously, tell the truth.</p>
<p>Your self-respect will increase as you discipline yourself to be honest, and, as a result, you will make more money, because we earn money in direct proportion to our self-esteem.</p>
<p>How can you even look at yourself in the mirror when you’re controlled by the whims and opinions of others, keeping up with the Joneses, and trying to impress losers?</p>
<p><strong>Realize this: NOBODY CARES. Get real and get honest; say “NO.”</strong></p>
<h2>Consider What is Important</h2>
<p>Here’s the good news:<br />
<em><strong>It’s more important to be respected than to be liked.</strong></em></p>
<p>People know that I don’t give a damn whether they like me or not, and I refuse to conform to this climate of slimy, politically correct, dishonest, back-stabbing hypocrisy.</p>
<p>I don’t care if the truth offends people or if they’re uncomfortable. And people know that they can trust me because of my approach.</p>
<p><strong>The more selective and direct I become, the more money I make. It works. Try it. Thicken your skin. </strong></p>
<p>Instead of “Got Milk?” how about, “Got GUTS?”</p></div>
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		<title>Are We Genetically Prone to “Thinking Small”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it “Nature or Nurture”? Michael Shermer, talking about his excellent book, “The Mind of the Market”, said,
“Since I was a teenager, I’ve been a libertarian. I noticed that there are not so many of us and that most people find us a bit strange. Most people have a hard time with the idea of [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it “Nature or Nurture”? Michael Shermer, talking about his excellent book, “The Mind of the Market”, said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Since I was a teenager, I’ve been a libertarian. I noticed that there are not so many of us and that most people find us a bit strange. Most people have a hard time with the idea of so much freedom in the market place. Now, why is that? When I started applying evolutionary thinking to the process, thinking about folk intuitive notions of things and why people get so many areas of science wrong intuitively, it began to make sense to me. With folk astronomy we have an intuitive notion that the world is flat, celestial bodies revolve around the earth. That’s the way it feels. The planets are wondering gods that determine our future.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<div class="entrybody">
<blockquote><p>“In folk economics, we have an intuitive notion that excessive wealth is wrong. Economic systems must be designed from the top down. We misunderstand and mistrust ‘the invisible hand” of the market place (note: Charles Darwin also read the work of Adam Smith). The reason why folk science so often gets it wrong is that we evolved in an environment radically different from the one in which we live. We still have a sweet tooth and biological inclination to eat fat, because food was always scarce. That’s why we have an obesity epidemic right now. Our senses are geared for perceiving objects of middling size, between say ants and mountains.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“Not bacteria, molecules and atoms on one side of the scale and stars and galaxies on the other end. We live to short to witness evolution, continental drift or long-term environmental changes. That’s why we still have an inclination to want products now, versus products later at a considerable discount. It is human nature.”</p></blockquote>
<h2>Working On Our Perceptions, Beliefs, and Limitations</h2>
<p>Whether the cause of our small, limited, scarcity, fear-based thinking is the result of our socialization, education, and the people we mix with, or indeed, as Mr. Shermer suggests, far deeper, those who wish to make it big in the world of business need to work on our perceptions, beliefs, and expectations.</p>
<p>The good news is that we can change and break free of our limited thinking, and that very few people will take the time to analyze and acknowledge their limitations, let alone take steps to correct them.</p>
<p><strong>That means that we have very little competition, and that the world is, indeed, our oyster. </strong></p>
<p>Add a working knowledge of <a href="http://jvwisdom.com/coupon/" target="_blank">Joint Ventures</a>, and you’re ready for great accomplishments!</div>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shane was a clever business strategist and Joint Venture Broker from whom I was privileged to learn a very important lesson. I’ll tell you the story, and you can draw your own conclusions.

Strategizing the Target
Shane heard about an entrepreneur who could help him move a large amount of products. This entrepreneur (I’ll call him Dennis) [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shane was a clever business strategist and Joint Venture Broker from whom I was privileged to learn a very important lesson. I’ll tell you the story, and you can draw your own conclusions.</p>
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<h2>Strategizing the Target</h2>
<p>Shane heard about an entrepreneur who could help him move a large amount of products. This entrepreneur (I’ll call him Dennis) was busy, successful, in demand, and very selective. Many people continually vied for Dennis’s attention, and salespeople spent a lot of time trying to sell him stuff. Shane took a month to do some serious due diligence and information gathering on Dennis –</p>
<ul>
<li>his family,</li>
<li>business,</li>
<li>employees,</li>
<li>goals,</li>
<li>background,</li>
<li>philosophy,</li>
<li>hobbies,</li>
<li>you name it.</li>
</ul>
<p>Then he paid a detective to gather even more information. When he was properly prepared, he spent a thousand dollars buying and using Dennis’s products and services.</p>
<p>Now Dennis knew who Shane was – a respectful client.</p>
<h2>Setting the Bait</h2>
<p>Shane knew that Dennis’s family was very important to him, so he paid a photographer to do a professional photo shoot of Dennis’s family. Then he invited Dennis to go deep sea fishing with him and a few carefully chosen friends.</p>
<p>He spent another month working on his relationship with Dennis until Dennis regarded Shane as a friend. This included buying Dennis a new guitar. Up to this point, Shane didn’t try to sell Dennis anything.</p>
<h2>Catching the Fish</h2>
<p>Three months to the day after Shane targeted Dennis, he closed the deal. Shane’s total investment, he told me, was five thousand dollars, which was tax-deductible. The deal made him forty-thousand dollars NET profit after deducting the five thousand. And Dennis made twenty thousand.</p>
<p><strong> What Shane did was to strategically get the maximum amount of credibility and leverage before introducing his deal.</strong></p>
<p>He told me that, at any time during this three-month process, if he felt the deal wasn’t going to work, he would have cut bait and walked away.</p>
<h2>A General, Not a Soldier</h2>
<p>That was ten years ago, and Shane and Dennis are still doing business. (I called Shane to make sure.) How different from the desperate posers who push their scruffy little business cards at you without even knowing you. Shane makes a lot of money, because he is a general, not a soldier. He is:</p>
<ul>
<li>rational,</li>
<li>professional,</li>
<li>unattached,</li>
<li>reliable,</li>
<li>respectful,</li>
<li>and skillful.</li>
</ul>
<p>He values relationships, and he takes nothing for granted. You would never see him in a “Business Networking Group” or a Chamber of Commerce meeting.</p>
<h2>Many Ways to Achieve the Same Results</h2>
<p>Of course, it doesn’t always take five thousand dollars to position yourself for a successful deal / Joint Venture. There are many ways to accomplish the same results for pennies on the dollar, and even for nothing but time and effort, but I like this illustration. As Ayn Rand said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The emphasis is on THINK – something most so-called entrepreneurs avoid in favor of desperate sales pitches and their blind fumbling for a quick buck.</p>
<h2>Which do YOU want to be?</h2>
<p>Soldiers will grab a gun and rush out shooting. Generals plan before executing. They use:</p>
<ul>
<li>military intelligence,</li>
<li>spies,</li>
<li>reconnaissance,</li>
<li>and input from other people.</li>
</ul>
<p>They coordinate the activities of others.</p>
<p><strong>Which do YOU want to be? Soldier or general?</strong></p>
<p>To learn more about the Joint Venture Broker approach to wealth, which Shane understood so well, visit <a href="http://www.jvwisdom.com/coupon">www.jvwisdom.com</a>.</div>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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Do things often, inexplicably, fail for you, while working for other people?
Do you feel that you&#8217;re climbing an impossible, icy mountain, while others seem to skip effortlessly to the top?
Does everything you touch turn to grime or to gold?

Does Guilt Have It&#8217;s Hooks In You?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<ul>
<li>Do things often, inexplicably, fail for you, while working for other people?</li>
<li>Do you feel that you&#8217;re climbing an impossible, icy mountain, while others seem to skip effortlessly to the top?</li>
<li>Does everything you touch turn to grime or to gold?</li>
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<h2>Does Guilt Have It&#8217;s Hooks In You?</h2>
<p>Do you have relatives that put a &#8220;guilt trip&#8221; on you when you succeed? &#8220;How dare you sail the Caribbean while your family needs money?&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you feel guilty when you do well, while others are suffering?</p>
<p><strong>Do you self sabotage to prevent that feeling?</strong> &#8220;How can you drive that smart car while your brother doesn&#8217;t even have a car?&#8221; Does this sound familiar? &#8220;How can you live in that nice house when millions are homeless?&#8221;</p>
<h2>Is Wrong Philosophy Robbing You?</h2>
<p><strong>We earn money and succeed in life in direct proportion to our self-worth, or self-esteem.</strong></p>
<p>When your philosophy tells you:</p>
<ul>
<li> that you are worthless, bad, undeserving, and greedy because you like to enjoy the money you earned,</li>
<li>or that money is bad, and that you should, in fact, sell what you have and lower your standard of living so that you can give your money to others,</li>
</ul>
<p>you have a rotten philosophy.</p>
<p>Guilt and the wrong philosophy rob millions of people of success, wealth, and happiness.</p>
<h2>It&#8217;s ALL How You Look at It</h2>
<p>The way you INTERPRET your life, circumstances and opportunities, is what will determine your success or failure in life, and your philosophy or world view is that filter by which you interpret your life.</p>
<p>You have built the life you have brick by brick, whether it is a good or a bad life, by the choices you have made. The same applies to others.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Robin Hood&#8221; philosophy of robbing the rich to give their hard-earned money to the &#8220;poor&#8221; parasites out there who made bad choices, is the seed of <strong>socialism. Tax the rich to pay for the sloth of the poor.</strong></p>
<h2>Are You Letting the Past Undermine the Future?</h2>
<p>The bad choices you made in the past don&#8217;t have to continually undermine your future. Guilt is a rope that wears thin.</p>
<p><strong>You can Break Free from guilt, self-sabotage, and disappointment by changing your philosophy.</strong> When you change your philosophy to one that empowers, one that is based on personal responsibility and objective reality, you will find your life changing dramatically for the better. The anchor of guilt is cut away, and you can soar to unprecedented heights.</p>
<h2>What Works Best for Me</h2>
<p>Of all the philosophies and options out there, the one that has worked best for me is that of <strong>Objectivism</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li>It provides me with the tools for freedom, success, happiness, and self-fulfillment.</li>
<li>It sets me free from false guilt and the attacks of the looters, moochers, and parasites.</li>
</ul>
<p>Self-discipline and the right philosophy improve your self esteem, you feel you deserve the best and you realize you are entitled to the life that you create. Altruism, collectivism, and mysticism will rip your happiness from your hands, steal your joy, and rob you blind. In fact, those philosophies are designed to blind you to the potential you have for love, success, wealth, and creativity.</p>
<h2>Build the Life You Want</h2>
<ul>
<li>You can build the life you want and be free of guilt and condemnation.</li>
<li>You can be free and happy, and when your philosophy changes, you will find things falling in to place &#8211; fast.</li>
<li>You can live with virtue and integrity, and make all your dreams come true.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s not too late to break free.</p>
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