Promise & Price

For every promise, there is a price to pay.

Jim Rohn

Persistence Grows Out of Root System

"The person of good & lawful purpose cannot fail. It only needs that he daily renew the fire & energy of his fixed resolve, to consummate his object." - The Mastery of Destiny

It is the great equalizer for all of those reaching for success. It overcomes lack of education, money, talent, intelligence, looks & all other seeming advantages. President Calvin Coolidge said nothing could take its place: "Persistence & determination alone are omnipotent."

I cannot think of one victory I've ever had that I won without persistence. For a while I just thought that I had to work harder and longer than anyone else in order to achieve because nothing has ever come easy for me. Then I really looked around & noticed that everyone else was just like me. Every mentor I've ever had & every successful person I've ever known has their own story of how persistence was the key to their success.

Here's what Bob Proctor teaches on one of the Universal Laws called the Law of Gender: "this law decrees that all sees (ideas are spiritual seeds) have a gestation of incubation periods before they manifest. In other words, when you choose a goal or build the image in your mind, a definite period of time must elapse before that image manifests in physical results."

One of my most favorite inspirational examples about persistence is the story of an Asian bamboo species that even after five years of watering, weeding & fertilizing is barely visible. Then, in a span of about six weeks, it grows two & a half feet a day to 90 feet & higher. It grows so fast that you can literally "hear" it growing. The question to ask is did the bamboo grow 90 feet in six weeks or did it grow 90 feet in five years?

Obviously it grew 90 feet in five years, for all the time when growth wasn't visible it was developing a massive root system that would later support it magnificent growth.

Can you see where the current circumstance in you life are developing your massive root system? Can you see where you must continue to "fertilize" & "water" yourself even though maybe you can't see any visible changes today?

Napoleon Hill thought that persistence was such a key to success that he devoted an entire chapter to it in the classic Think and Grow Rich. He writes, "Persistence is a state of mind, therefore it can be cultivated….Before success comes in any person's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a person, the easiest & most logical thing to do is to 'Quit.' That is exactly what the majority of people do. More than five hundred of the most successful people this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

And that's worth thinking about.

Vic Johnson
(excerpted from Day by Day by James Allen)

Negative Energies

"Why was I not told,
that in my brain I hold,
in one tiny ivory cell,
both God's Heaven and God's Hell?'

-Oscar Wilde

'The cells in the various organs of our bodies will give up & die because they cannot stand the treatment they are often given by the imposition of limiting beliefs. Our cells were not intended to be bombarded with such negative energies as doubt, worry or fear. Whatever impairs these cells will also impair the digestive fluids &, as a result, the nutrition of the body is affected."

- Thomas Edison

My Instinctual Variant Test Results

It's interesting to know so many tests have been designed to try to understand so little of so complex a being as we humans. A friend of mine have been bothered by his "weirdness" lately & decided to seek out some answers from a battery of tests. Here's one he tried. The scores are mine, though.

Check it out here

The Instinctual Variant Theory holds that your instinctual drives can be divided into three forces (or clusters). The Sexual force drives you to seek closeness, like you would experience in a strong romantic relationship or a close friendship. The Social force drives you to consider the wider community, where you & others stand, what everyone thinks/feels/needs of you & what you think/feel/need of them. The Self Preservation force drives you to maintain individual concerns - security, health, comfort, etc.. Each person will have a different mix of these three variants. Your results suggest the following mix:

Sexual - 86%
Social - 62%
Self Preservation - 90%

Well, as expected, I scored low on Social & High on Sexual & Self Preservation. That would be me, for now. Or at least the one who designed this test thinks that would be me...for now.

10 Reasons Why a Vibrator is Better - R(A): 4/6

1. It has manners.
2. It is never insensitive or crude.
3. It doesn’t bring up all its other lovers.
4. It never tells me the same boring conquest story over & over.
5. It never watches sports on TV.
6. It never goes out & has revenge sex.
7. It has attachments that come in various sizes & colors to meet ALL my needs.
8. It is always there when I need it.
9. It likes ME best, not its car, team or mother.
10. Its better sex that any sex I ever had with a man & it never minds if I have a man join in on the fun.

Today's One-liner Humor

If a "fatal" error is made with the E-mail I sent, does that mean I killed somebody?

Ah Beng Spell-Checking

Q: After taking photocopies of documents, Ah Beng always compares it with the original. Why?

A: For spelling mistakes.