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The Climb

A string of multiple failures can dampen one’s resolve and weaken the will to fight.


At some point, motivational speeches might start to irritate you and that’s understandable.


You don’t need motivation.


What you need is a better blueprint for navigating life.


And this is one factor that separates the successful from those who toil endlessly - the respective blueprints they’re working with.


How do you navigate money?


Like a POOR PERSON would?


Well, how SHOULD you navigate money?


Do you have the right programs hard coded into your brain that will lead you into making fortuitous money choices?


And what about RELATIONSHIPS?


How do you navigate them?


How SHOULD you navigate them?


What about your spiritual ecology? What programs are running there?


Do you see tipping or philanthropy as something only rich people ought to do?


Do you see giving as a religious money doubling operation like the poor are tricked into believing?


These things are all connected.


How you react to them will tell you whether your blueprint for navigating life will lead tend towards poverty or towards wealth.


I’m not here to motivate you.


I’m here to get you to THINK.


There is no miracle coming, other than that which was freely given to all - to be able, at any moment, to reimagine a new chapter and chart a different course.


Think long and hard… and you will see the ties that bind.


Acknowledge the pattern.


What was the program running in your mind that made that Ponzi scheme attractive to you?


What was the program running in your mind when you bet compulsively until all was lost?


What program was running when you sabotaged destiny-critical relationships?


Again I say…


There is no miracle coming, other than that which was freely given to all - to be able, at any moment, to reimagine a new chapter and chart a different course.


Disavow the school of the poor and all it stands for - their ‘wise’ sayings and popular slogans.


Change your vocabulary, your library and your company.


Change your habits, your timetable and maybe your clothes.


Change your friends, taste in love and role models.


Keep changing things around until you’re the sort of person who is deserving of what you want.


You’ll realize one day that you’re making less errors and winning more.


And this is how beggars become kings.


It starts with one right decision, and then some more.


Others in worse situations have pulled this off.


You can do it too.


But will you?


Will you take this ladder?


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