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Important moments can come from the harmonious and unexpected alignment of the right speaker, the right book, and the right idea meeting at the very moment that you are in the right frame of mind to hear it. The bottom line is that you will never know when that moment will arrive and change your life in the process. Viewed from another perspective, the knowledge and inspiration you need to transform your life may not come all at once, but instead in pieces as part of a process. I learned a two-part, life changing fact. Number one, you will be paid for what you bring to the marketplace, and number two you get paid for what you become In a similar fashion, you need to remember that you are your own product. Realizing this fact and embracing it is the essence of personal development His advice was to list out all of my excuses and then rip that list to shreds. Then get a new piece of paper and put one word on it - me. The answer to my problem was to deal with what was within me. He explained to me that the answer to solving my problems wasnt to be found by listing out the obstacles both real and perceived in the outside world, but instead by noticing the obstacles in my own thinking and approach. But how can you go from making a few thousand dollars a year to making a few million. That is, well, the Million Dollar Question isnt it? The answer, once again is philosophy. What does work then? What works is the fourth philosophy, which I like to call the philosophy of performance and productivity. With this philosophy, you do what is necessary to improve yourself and your capabilities. You learn to do more and be more. It all boils down to this: if you work hard on your job, you make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune. What is the reason for this truth? Success is not something you pursue. Success is something that you attract by becoming an attractive person. The way that you become rich is not by wishing your life were easier, but instead by focusing on making yourself better. Here is what I like to call the Wealth Philosophy and it is as follows: be so busy giving others recognition, that you dont really need it for yourself. Taking the time to sit down and write out your goals for the present, the near future and the more remote future is a necessary part of transforming your life. My mentor showed me the value of taking these steps and, in fact, I would even go so far as to state that this is one of the single greatest gifts that you can give another person. Teaching others the value of establishing their goals and moving towards them is priceless. Consider for a moment that a bad person can make great decisions, and a wonderful person can make poor decisions. Your character and moral compass does not necessarily mean that you will make excellent decisions or horrible decisions. God says, If you plant the seed, I will make the tree. What an amazing arrangement. God doesnt expect you to make a tree, he just expects you to plant the seed. This is exactly how the process of personal development and self-education works. If you plant the seed, God will do the rest. There is a whole world out there, thanks to God, to help you along. However, we do have to participate in order to see miracles occur in our own lives.