{"id":848,"date":"2013-06-03T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T06:40:33","slug":"what-success-is-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/what-success-is-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What Success Is All About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, only 2 % of the population of this country will become personally and economically successful and financially independent by their 65th birthday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, 98% of the working class, after 40 to 45 years of working hard and expending back-breaking effort for another man or corporation, you, the employee, will not get to where it is that you want to go.\u00a0 You will come to the end of your productive working life and be flat broke.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is that what you want to have happen?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now let us focus our total attention on those precious 2% of our nation\u2019s population who do achieve success.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I will define success for purposes of this article as one who earns through his own productive means total and complete Financial Independence (He does not worry about money as he has all he needs or would ever want.\u00a0 He makes his decisions without considering how much things cost.) <\/i>and he has achieved his Personal Freedom (Money will buy time and he lives without the constraints of having to be under the control of another man or another man\u2019s schedule.\u00a0 How long things take to be enjoyed or completed does not impact his lifestyle).\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Now think about that for just a moment.\u00a0 He goes wherever he chooses, stays as long as he wants to stay, he does whatever he chooses to do, and does not have to concern himself over the price of living this way.\u00a0 Such a lifestyle sounds really great doesn\u2019t it?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, let us get really bare-faced honest one with another.\u00a0 If you go all the way to the top in what it is that you are doing to produce income in your life right now,….what are the real chances of you being able to live that way I just defined?\u00a0 Slim?…None?…Will never happen…ever?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You see friend, that is exactly why there are so many people today who are so frustrated and unhappy…..They know deep down in their heart of hearts that even if they do make it all the way to the top, they will still never be able to live the way they really want to live.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t waste your valuable life living like that.\u00a0 Make the appropriate changes right now, right from where you are, right with what you have.\u00a0 Begin to make appropriate changes to rearrange your life onto the positive 2% side of life, the successful side of life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You as a human being will only go in life where your mental energies are focused.\u00a0 If you spend your life worrying about money, how little you have of it, the cost of things, etc. then that is all,… that you are going to get from life…a little bit,… scarcity,….not much.\u00a0 God emphatically tells us in His Word that you will in fact reap only that which you sow.\u00a0 (See Gal. 6 : 7)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts are indeed things and they are very powerful things at that, particularly when they are mixed with (1) a definiteness of purpose for your own life, (2) persistence of applied effort, and (3) accompanied by a burning desire for their translation into created wealth or other material objects.\u00a0 Every action you take, every decision you make, basically everything you actually do is always preceded by a thought!<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You must think and act positively if you desire to have positive surroundings and events occur in your life.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you keep your mind on pennies, you will never earn the dollars.\u00a0 I urge you to live your life out of a mental state of abundance.\u00a0 Keep your mind and mental energies focused on what you want,…not on that which you presently have.\u00a0 Never focus your attentions on anything that is unlawful or illegal or harmful to other people.\u00a0 Certainly you should not ever focus you thoughts on anything that you do not desire or would bring harm in any form against you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember, it takes no more effort or energy on your part to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, to seek lofty and great blessings and rewards, than it takes to accept misery and poverty.\u00a0 This fact was once stated by the poet, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, through these life changing lines:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI bargained with life for a penny,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 And life would pay no more,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

However I begged at evening<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 When I counted my scanty store.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor Life is a just employer,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 He gives you what you ask,\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

But once you have set the wages,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Why, you must bear the task.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI worked for a menial\u2019s hire,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Only to learn, dismayed,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

That any wage I had asked of Life,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Life would have willingly paid.\u201d<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to be successful you must use your time and resources to do and accomplish those things that those successful people before you did with their time and resources.\u00a0 To Succeed, do what successful people do.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Social Security Administration, the truly successful people within the United States of America, who actually achieve Financial Independence and Personal Freedom have two things in common:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 They work smart<\/i> instead of just hard and (2) They participate<\/i> in the Free Enterprise System of our economy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0 There is only one way that I know of as to how you can work smart.\u00a0 That is simply that you learn, understand and then apply in your life and activities….God\u2019s Laws of Success.\u00a0 These Laws will work exactly the same for you as they have for all the successful people in history who have gone before you.\u00a0 \u00a0 You see, God is no respecter of persons.<\/i>\u00a0 Consequently what works for one, works for all.\u00a0 A good example of one of God\u2019s Laws is the force of Gravity.\u00a0 It is equally applicable to any and all objects on the earth at the same rate.\u00a0 It works for you the very same way that it works for me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a significant point to remember…Out of ignorance,<\/i> (if you know nothing about them), God\u2019s Laws will always work against you.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

You see, the truth is that you never violate God\u2019s Laws,…you only confirm them. \u00a0 An example would be that you are totally ignorant of the Law of Gravity.\u00a0 Out of your ignorance, you step off the roof of a very tall building….Would you violate or would you confirm God\u2019s Law of gravity?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How much can you learn about God and His Laws in the public school systems in our country today?\u00a0 What does the average high school or college graduate grow up to be totally ignorant of today?….Is it any wonder why our method of teaching today in America has such dismal results?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0 The only way I know of as to how you can participate in the American Free Enterprise System is for you to own and operate your own \u201cfor-profit\u201d business.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the game of achieving success you are either going to be a spectator <\/i>or a participant.<\/i>\u00a0 You cannot be both.\u00a0 Success is not a spectator sport.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it a crying shame that you cannot learn either of these two prerequisite things…conditions….through our public school systems of America.\u00a0 Is it any wonder at all as to why 98% of our working population is dead or broke or both by the youthful age of 65?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our system, owned and run by the government, teaches our youth to do the very things that failures do.\u00a0 No wonder 98% of the working population winds up exactly where they never wanted to be at age 65.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not let this situation happen to you!\u00a0 Act! Do something about finding a solution to your dilemma.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please remember,…no matter what your age,… it is always too soon to quit and it is never too late <\/i>to start over.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Get around people who know more than you know, who do what it takes to become successful and who are willing to teach you how to do what they have done.\u00a0 They are called mentors.\u00a0 Follow their guidance without argument.\u00a0 Doing so will change the entire course of your life!<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and Love to all of You…………………Poppa Bear<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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