Hello Friend,
Allow me to introduce myself to you.
I’m Claudia.
Pleased to meet you.
And you?
Are you where you want to be right now?
Are you doing what you want to do ?
Do you feel alive?
Hey, you know I used to live the 9 to 5 blues every day.
And then I lived them some more after 5.
I kept dreaming about freedom with no idea of how to get there.
All I knew was I wasn’t cut out to be part of the machine.
Perhaps you can relate to what I’m talking about.
Have you ever felt like you just knew there was more out there?
Do you know what I mean?
Have you ever tried to relate that feeling of “wanting more” to your friends or relatives?
Your associates acknowledge that feeling but have resigned them selves to so called reality and can’t understand why you insist on getting out of the rut?
Look, it could very well be that you’re not in a rut. That’s great. I’ve just begun climbing out.
And heck, climbing is not the easiest thing in the world.
Making toast is easier.
Doing nothing is easiest.
But we all know that if you don’t do anything then nothing will happen.
The first thing you can do is change thinking.
What? I hear you say.
Change Thinking?
How the hell is changing thinking going to help?
I know it seems crazy to insist that it begins with thinking.
Listen I’m not here to lay any manifesting “The Secret” hype on you. (Although if you do want my opinion I know that there is truth in that movie) But it’ll be so hard to accept that kind of thinking as being the truth when you know it to be some thing else.
Just to get my point across, I’ll reveal to you that I used to find the bumper sticker that said, “Life’s a bitch and then you die” appropiate. I thought it was humourous and true. In fact all I was doing was reaffirming my blues to myself. Are you getting the picture yet of how we create our reality?
We are all products of our essential thoughts.
Obviously we’re also products of our upbringing and our beliefs.
Have you ever asked your self why you believe some thing to be the way it is?
Let me tell you something: I used to work in a call center - Actually I did it on more than one occasion because I just had no other idea how to get some money. It was the most boring and stressful job I have ever done for the lowest reward.
What I’m expressing to you here is that in the call center one of the assignments I had to complete was a political survey. I had to ask the recipients that wouldn’t slam the phone down about policitians popularity. This was so that the agencies could figure out what politicians needed more public exposure and in what light. I also had to ask what party they had voted in the last election and if an election was coming up this week who would they most likely vote.
What shocked me in the survey was that most people revealed that they usually voted the same party and most of them voted what their pareants had voted and that they never questioned this practice. Scary.
Most people felt that politicians were all corrupt and earning way too much money and they should do more for the people. What I also found to be very interesting that most people found that foreign people should not be helped because there isn’t enough for every one and the policitians should rather give money to their own people! Now I want to tell you I live in a country that is considered to be rich, namely Austria. You know the same place where Arnold Schwarzenegger is from.
I’m ashamed to say that I used to think like that too!
Now I know with out a doubt that kind of thinking gets you no where.
Infact now when I think about it, I think politicians have a huge responsibility and deserve to be paid a lot and seriously I know people in the private sector that earn a lot more. The only difference is in those days I didn’t know any rich people.
And you know the funny thing is that the rich people I’m meeting are wonderful people. They’re warm and generous. In fact we often have a good laugh together just because they take life so easily, they don’t struggle and bitch or whine.
Uooh oouh don’t go thinking, sure they don’t struggle because they are rich.
Rich doesn’t mean having piles of dollars under your pillow, although being financially secure is part of it.
Rich is a feeling just like sadness or happiness. It’s an emotion. And you can learn it. Like I did.
Take the first steps like I did.
Baby steps.
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