I went on a great, long bicycle ride the other day. I rode along the Coquitlam river, through lush forest, along a dyke through a marsh, and around Lafarge Lake. Beautiful. I’m quite fit now, the bike goes great, and I saw a coyote, a number squirrels, and a magnificent blue heron. No problem, except on the way home, when I got a stabbing pain in my right big toe every time I depressed the pedal.

Are You Battling Intrusive Pain?

All the way home, I battled with this intrusive pain. It spoiled the ride home considerably.

I took my shoe off, examined my toe, nothing to see. Mystery. Frustration. All my attention started focusing on my sore toe in the midst of all the natural beauty surrounding me.

Strong Light Reveals the Source of Pain

I got home, took a good look in the strong bathroom light, and found a minute splinter that must have got into my shoe (I wasn’t wearing socks) and stuck in under my toe. I managed to remove the tiny thing with a tweezers. Such a small splinter certainly had a dramatic effect on my journey.

What is Your Splinter?

On your journey through life, what is your splinter? More specifically, WHO is your splinter?

• What e-mails / phone calls / contacts / meetings do you dread?
• Who spoils your day?

Usually someone whom we think we need or someone who has leverage on us, often a family member.

• Who is it that, once removed from your life, would allow the sun would come out from behind the clouds?
• Who is the spoiler, the “stone in your shoe” as the Mafia say, the one who pours cold water on your hopes and dreams and stinks up your life?
• Who is stealing your rainbow?

Removing Splinters

Since most people don’t change, and freedom is my highest value, I have learned to pay the price to remove splinter people from my life, no matter who they are.

1. Generally, they’re negative parasites who don’t care about you (read “Atlas Shrugged” for a great example of this type of family member) or your welfare.
2. Often they’re jealous, resentful, bitter losers who blame you for their bad choices.
3. Many times, they’re passive aggressive.
4. In all cases, you’re better off without them.

You are Entitled to Joy

Ayn Rand said,

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”

Stop compromising, and stop sacrificing your own happiness; start living!  It’s your life, and you are entitled to joy, fulfillment and the fruit of your labor, in spite of what the mystics and socialists tell you.

Life is short, and you deserve the consequences of your choices. You are not obliged to pay for the bad choices that other people make. You’re not a slave to anyone, and people who care about you don’t hurt you. It has to work both ways – give and take; leeches, guilt-mongers, and passengers have to pay their way or get off the bus.

Sacrifice and Serving

When you summon the strength and resolve to kick the losers out of your life / remove the splinters, you will be amazed at how fast you can soar to unprecedented heights of success and peace of mind. Ayn Rand said,

“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

I encourage you to take your life back, and to break free from mental and emotional slavery. Ayn Rand again:

“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”

The best way to predict the future is to create it, so remove the splinters from your toes and your heart, get on your bike, and enjoy your journey through life. It’s not too late, and there’s a wonderful world out there, waiting for free people to enjoy it!

• Do you find that although you’re honest, loyal, hard-working, committed, and conscientious, yet you’re not making money?
• You attend the seminars, read the books, and apply the principles, but nothing seems to work?

Don’t worry; there is a rational reason.

Your Values Determine Your Value

I just noticed that a fellow with a massive database is following me on Twitter. He knows who I am. I could show him a simple, proven, safe, no-cost, risk-free system that he could introduce easily to his database. Conservatively, it would earn him $5,000 per month in passive income within three months. (No, it’s not Network Marketing.) Yet I can virtually guarantee that he won’t even consider it. Why? His giant ego. Seminar leaders, “gurus” and “trainers”, much like many of the owners of small and medium-sized business, allow their egos to steal massive potential profits from right under their noses.

We’re not in business to feel important or to impress people

We’re in business to make the most possible after-tax profit, with the least cost, time, risk, and effort. The fact is that most “gurus” and “entrepreneurs” are not really entrepreneurs – they’re really just slick salesmen and pitchmen. (Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, the well-known “Pitchman”, says, “Life’s a pitch, and then you die.”)  Smart entrepreneurs understand that Joint Ventures and strategic alliances are the most sophisticated tools in business – they’re strategic, they employ leverage, and they are scalable. And they’re not based on ego, but rather on profit.

When we get our egos under control, we suddenly see new options opening up.

Look at the people who make the really big money, and you’ll find that they seldom sell their time, they actually prefer not to be on a stage unless they have no other option, and they evaluate business opportunities objectively and rationally. When we get our egos under control, we suddenly see new options opening up. But for that, we need to understand the back-end, leverage, and positioning.

Calvin Coolidge said, “Civilization and profit go hand in hand.” Most wanna-be business owners are simply broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople, whose arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance, yet these are the very people who allow their egos to dictate their business choices.  A big fish is a small, rancid pond is only impressive those to even more pathetic and needy than he is.

“Robin, It’s about the Bottom Line”

The most successful businessman with whom I was ever privileged to work, partnered with me in my business and taught me a very important lesson. He said, “Robin, it’s all about the bottom line. If you maintain your integrity and sublimate your personal feelings and pride, your profits will soar.  There is always going to be someone richer and smarter than you are – don’t try to be a legend in your own lunchtime, don’t believe your own PR and BS, and focus on the bottom line.” He was a very wealthy man, one of the most humble, soft-spoken people around, and very strong and disciplined.

If you want to feel important, act in a pantomime, join a service or fraternal club and rise in the ranks to get a title, or teach kids. If you want to get rich, focus on the bottom line.

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

The Second-most Influential Book

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

Objectivist Philosophy

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

Open Your Mind

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

Winston Churchill said:

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

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

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

Winners…

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

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

Winners make the world go round.

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

Losers…

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

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

The Prodders versus the ProdDEAD

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

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

Produce  Results  Or  Die

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

Be the Prod

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

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

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

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

We have to ask ourselves just:

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

Beware: We’re Programmed to Not Question

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nonsense.

Question everything.

Krishnamurti said:

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

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

Question everything.

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

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

The Path to Freedom

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

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

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

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

I grew up poor – by the age of seventeen I had lived in eighteen different places, and was drafted into the army. I thought I had a great life, and I did. When I was fourteen, my family lived in two rooms in a residential hotel or boarding house. I had lots of friends and we had great fun. We were poor, but we didn’t really notice it.

Across the road from the “hotel” was a broken down, empty old house, with a circular dam with five foot high, concrete walls, in ramshackle, deserted grounds. The good news was that the water supply had never been turned off!

Turning Poverty into Paradise

I got all my friends together and we decided that we would have a swimming pool. We cleaned and scrubbed that slimy, green dam for five days, drained it, and filled it with sparkling, cool water. It was a dream come true that hot summer. We were so excited, we could hardly contain ourselves.

We cleaned up the “garden” surrounding it, and everyone showed up with swimwear, towels, and suntan lotion.  It was a wonderful summer.

We swam and played and enjoyed ourselves. We could have whined that the rich kids had sparkling, blue, real pools, with pool boys and gazebos, but I think we had more fun.

And we really appreciated what we had, because we had created it ourselves.

You’ll Appreciate What You Earn

Statistically, people who win money or inherit it usually lose it (and many sink into deep depression.) Easy come, easy go. We don’t appreciate what we don’t create and earn.

Instead of whining about what we don’t have, we can turn life’s lemons into lemonade, and create the lives we want.

I know rich kids whose parents worked hard to buy big houses with huge pools, and the kids complained and hardly used the pools.

We’re surrounded by unlimited opportunities, and as far as business goes, the fastest and easiest way to take full advantage of the wonderful gifts lying all around us is through the use of Joint Ventures.

A study by Selling Power Magazine states that:

• 1% of all cold calls turn into sales
• 15% of all leads turn into sales
• 55% of all referrals turn into sales
• 80% of all introductions turn into sales

Successful Joint Venture Brokers can earn an unlimited amount of money internationally without barriers, since we do business with no cost or risk and very little time, leveraging existing resources.

It is said that:

“Poor people work for their money, rich people make their money work for them, but Joint Venture Brokers make other peoples’ money and resources work for them!”

There are no broke JV Brokers. Brokers don’t sell- we SOLVE.

4 Things You Need to Be Successful

Successful Joint Venture Brokers need four things to be successful:

1. Ongoing Business Training and Development
2. The right tools to do the job
3. Support and Guidance
4. Access to and regular exposure to a growing group of the right people (who also understand Joint Ventures)

Giving You the Support You Need

The DollarMakers JV Broker Club (and the DollarMakers Women’s Club) provides all of the above and much more, plus a strict adherence to our Business Code of Ethics is enforced amongst our Members, and Members get fired, applications for Membership get refused, and Membership Renewal applications are rejected when we’re uncomfortable with the ethics or professionalism of Members or applicants.

More Opportunities for You

As DollarMakers continues to grow and educate people around the world, and especially since the introduction of our DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor Training program, we attract top quality people for our Members to work with to accomplish mutual goals.

Our DollarMakers Cancun Members Convention and the opening of DollarMakers UK and DollarMakers South Africa are examples of our aggressive growth and the innovative opportunities offered to our valued Members.

It’s about Making Money… Ethically

DollarMakers is not a networking club or a social club – we’re businesspeople who understand that good business is built on the three legs of:

• solid, reciprocal relationships,
• ongoing education and support,
• and ethical professionalism.

Our mission is to educate millions around the world how to achieve financial independence by working together to create real value.

Your netWORK determines your net WORTH, and together, we do amazing things.