Don't demand the world to present you more than it presents you

Along the way we grow up, we unconsciously set up many expectations, with those expectations we build our "selves". We tell ourselves that it will be terrible if those expectations are not met, since it is "terrible", we will feel upset when we anticipate that those expectations will not be met or those expectations are not being met. The most simply and effective way to cure this is to simply give up those expectations, because those expectations are subjectively fabricated and it doesn't fit the reality. Those expectations will be sometimes met and sometimes unmet in reality, and if we demand that those expectations needs to be constantly or always met, we will cause our mood swings, a lot of mood swings. So just give up any subjectively fabricated expectations, accept the world as it is. Don't require the world more than it presents you. 
Is it decadence? No.  The world can only present you what it presents and it can not present you more than what it presents you. It is ridiculous and childish that you demand the world to present you more than it presents you. The world is not your childhood parents. When you were a child, you could always use "demanding" to get what you wanted, because your parents often gave in to satisfy your wants, even your wants were unreasonable. But the world is not your childhood parents, you can not get what you want from it using "demanding". So it is ridiculous to want more from the world than it presents you. If you want more, you need to work your way up to get what you want, in this way, you are demanding the world to give you more, you are working with the world so you can get what you want, it's like that when you help yourself, the world will help you.  You need to know Tao, live with Tao, utilize Tao to realize your goals.

Clear implicit mental standards

We have our goals, and we want to realize our goals, but from the way along our lives, we’ve built up many implicit mental standards which ask us what we can do and what we can not do, mainly those mental standards are to maintain our conceptual self, or our social self. Those implicit mental standards in most cases act as chains and cuffs which greatly inhibit us from realizing our goals. To realize goals, we need to know Tao, but most of the time our attention is consciously or unconsciously invested in our selves, therefore we can not see Tao, because our attention is absorbed by focusing on our selves, on the other hand, we need to utilize Tao to realize our goals, but our mental standards often hinder us from utilizing Tao. So we need to clear the mental standards we’ve built up. We can use two weapons to clear the mental standards, one is “accept”, one is “give up”. We feel good by accepting certain things, and we feel good by giving up certain things, then we will know Tao and we will be able to utilize Tao, and consequently we will achieve our goals.

Inferior

When I was young, I felt deeply inferior, I studied very hard, because I wanted to show all people that I was more intelligent and more capable than  relevant people. This defect greatly harmed me and greatly harmed my life. I was not as intelligent and capable as I seemed to be, I just worked much harder than my peers.
I feared to admit that I felt inferior and I feared that my peers found me that I felt inferior. I thought that if I didn't seem to be more intelligent and capable than my peers, I would become nothing and no people would genuinely respect me, and I would have no meaning to live on this world, therefore I tried hard to seem to be intelligent and capable, and I failed it.

I feared that people looked down upon me, I feared that people thought I was incapable, I feared that people thought I was not intelligent, because I thought if people didn’t think I was intelligent or capable, they wouldn’t look up to me, if they didn’t look up to me, they would look down upon me, if they looked down upon me, I wouldn’t have dignity to live on this world, because I desperately wanted to live on this world and didn’t want to die, I desperately tried to make people think I was intelligent and capable so they wouldn’t look down upon me, so they would look up to me, so I could have “permit” to live on this world. It was like that people looked up to me was a permit for me to live in this world.

Forget self, accept everything, interact with Tao

You have to forget self to better serve self. You have to forget the existence of self to better serve self. You should not attach to self.  No attachment to self. You accept everything, you accept everything towards yourself, you accept everything in the world, you work with Tao, to achieve your goal. You accept that people despise you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people don't respect you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people reject you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people don't know that you have the deepest, grandest wisdom, because there is no "you".

You have to forget self to see the existence of Tao, to interact with Tao.
When you interact with the external world, you are interacting with Tao. When you forget to forget self when you are interacting with Tao. If you can not forget self, you can not interact with Tao, you are interacting with self.  You should not be attached to your feelings, your cognition, your values, your beliefs when you are interacting with the external world, when you are interacting with the external world, you should be attached to Tao. Tao is the principles and laws that the world operates on.

When you are communicating with the internal, you should forget self, you should accept everything. Accept that people despise you, accept that people don't respect you, accept that people think that they are nobler than you, accept that people think they have deeper wisdom than you, accept that people think they are correct while you're wrong,  accept that people want to display that they are correct and you are wrong, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they are correct while you're wrong, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they have deeper wisdom than you, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they are deep while you are shallow.

The ultimate wisdom is paradox.

You can succeed easily when you interact with Tao wholeheartedly.

Yin and Yang

Internal, inside: You should have no fear, not upset;
External, outside: It is Tao.
It is not that your mind that determines everything. It is that your mind and Tao jointly determine everything.
You need to utilize Tao to achieve your goal, but when your inside(your mind) is upset or has fear, you won't be able to realize Tao, you won't be able to utilize Tao.
Your inside(your mind) is Pin. The external Tao is Yang.  You need to have a good Yin to realize Tao, to utilize Yang, but ultimately it is Yang that helps you achieve your goal. You need to clear the hindrance(fears) on your inside so you can better see the outside, the Tao, then you can better utilize Tao to achieve your goal.

Tao

To achieve your goal is to utilize Tao. You utilize Tao to achieve success.
To utilize Tao, you need to know Tao.

Tao exists objectively and it always exists. It doesn't exist in books, it doesn't exist in articles, it doesn't exist in someone's mouth. It exists in this objective world. The world is a result of Tao and human activities, humans can choose what to do, but it is Tao which determines what humans achieve.

To know Tao, you need to observe Tao, see Tao with your heart. Your mind needs not to be disturbed by your emotions, because Tao is an objective existence, it doesn't care whether you feel upset or not, but when you feel upset, you lose your ability to see Tao.

 Accept everything. What upsets you, accept it. Accept what upsets you, so the thing that upsets you will lose its power(to upset you) after you accept it.

Think big, think long-term, think broadly, look at the big picture, trace to the root of the cause. Some are just symptoms, you need to trace to the root. Some are just derived from other things. You need to find the root which causes other things. Say, D is derived from C, C is caused by B, B is caused by A. You need to find A.

Leadership

Money is abundant. The core of society is to help each other and collaborate. Value exchange is a major form of helping each other. Money carries value, because you can buy value with money.
The money you can get comes from the value you create and deliver to people and this society. And there is no external limit on the value you can create and deliver to this society, people buy the value, therefore there is no external limit on the amount of money you can receive.

You need leverage to create much more value than you can create alone. You need to leverage resources to create much more value than you can create alone. All resources are ultimately possessed by people. So when it comes to leverage resources, you need to treat people fairly, you need to bring value to the people whom you leverage or whose resources you leverage.

You don't have to prove yourself to the world or to yourself. You don't need other people to respect you. You just need that you are respected by yourself, you don't need people to admire you, you just need to admire yourself, though you don't even have to admire yourself, you just need to love yourself.

You don't need other people's respect, approval, or admiration to make yourself happy. Happiness is just a result or state of your mind, it is determined by you, not by other people, it is determined by your brain, by your thinking, and your thinking is determined by you. So when you create value, you just want success.

When you don't have an ego, and you don't want to show how smart or capable you are, and you accept that people disrespect you or look down upon you, you will be able to be open-minded.

You are not smart, you just think big, you look at the big picture. You think big, you treat people fairly, because you know that money is abundant therefore you don't want to be petty, then people want to follow you, and naturally you become their leader.

The core of business is to create value and deliver value

The goal of a business is to create value and deliver the value to people(or companies, organizations) who need it.
As a business operator, he needs to focus on his goals, he needs to be open-minded, willing to learn, he needs to leverage all that can be leveraged, he needs to think big, he needs to be aware that the world is changing and he needs to be aware of the factors that make the changes happen. He needs to have good strategies. He needs to understand that expenses help you make more money. He needs to possess big picture thinking.

leverage

When you start a company, you are leveraging people to produce values for the society thus make money for you. When you start a company, you are leveraging a system to produce values for the society thus make money for you. You need to maximize the return on the time you invest.

Your thinking has a direction

Your thinking  has a direction. You consciously or unconsciously set the direction. For example, when you think that a business idea will work, you will find the reasons why it will work; when you think that a business idea will not work, you will find the reasons why it will not work. When you set a direction for your thinking, the reasons will also follow. The world will let you see what you want to see. So when you think that a business idea will not work, you will find the reasons why it will not work; when you think that a business idea will work, you will find that the reasons why it will work. The outcome of your thinking is simply determined by the direction you set for it. So whenever you think about something, please first set a direction for your thinking.

Middle-class entrepreneurs and World-class entrepreneurs

Jack Ma is at higher awareness than Robin Li. Jack Ma serves as the  Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group and deals with strategies while Robin Li is still the CEO of Baidu Inc. and manages Baidu.

Baidu still focuses on technology, while Jack Ma focuses on strategies and creating values for this world.  Baidu focuses on its technology, while Jack Ma focuses on his philosophies.

The organizational strategies of Alibaba is more sophisticated than Baidu.  Alibaba is a group which consists of many brands, each brand is a subsidiary corporation. Robin Li is created new products with so-called good technologies, while Jack Ma is creating brands with his strategies, philosophies, and higher awareness.
A brand is a psychological existence, it can't carry too many  products or concepts. This relates to psychological anchoring. For example, when we think about Google, we will think about search, search is psychologically anchored to the brand Google, while you want to attach another concept to the brand Google, it will dilute the original psychological anchoring Google-->Search. When you want to attach multiple concepts to a brand, you are fighting people's psychological nature. The correct way to do it is like Alibaba, creating another independent brand for another independent product, therefore Alipay is much more effective than "Alibaba Payment", Taobao is much more effective than "Alibaba shopping".
The core of doing business is to create a brand, it is not about creating a product. Robin Li focuses on technology because he comes from a strong technology background; Jack Ma focuses on strategies because he has a spiritual background. Robin Li performed well in academia and his early life was quite successful, this convinced him that technically performing well is the key to success thus let him live in the technical world; while Jack Ma didn't academically perform well, and this led him to search why he didn't academically perform well and this search led him to the spiritual world and let him realize how spirituality can influence a person's intelligence.

There are many entrepreneurs in the world consisting of middle-class entrepreneurs and world-class entrepreneurs.  Middle-class entrepreneurs have an ego and their main(maybe ulterior motive) goal is to prove to the world and themselves that they are excellent, that they are great, building a great company is just a vehicle to assure themselves that they are great, they focus on taking the credit, middle-class entrepreneurs can be successful, but their middle-class thinking will limit the scale of their success; while world-class entrepreneurs just want to achieve their goals and deliver values to the world, and in return they can get freedom and live a big life in return, they don't want to prove themselves and they don't have the need to prove themselves.

The nature of money-making

The nature of money-making is to  help each other.  Helping each other is a social phenomenon, a social tool. It is one of the pillars of a society, the other one is working together.  It is like that you help someone in the form of delivering value to him, he gives you money, and the money represents his helping you back, because you can do things or achieve certain goals with the money. When you invest, you also help people. Say, when you buy something, like a stock, fund, bond, apartment, you don't force the seller to sell it, the seller makes his own decision to sell it to you, he sells it to you because he wants to sell it to you, when you buy it, you realize his goal(selling it), you help him. So when you later sell it to a buyer, you don't force the buyer to buy it, he wants to buy it, he buys it because he wants to, when you sell the item to him, you help him, you help him buy the item, you realize his wish.

World class know that he can achieve his goals by letting people help him achieve his goals, and in order to let people help achieve his goals, he helps people first.

Making money, even making a lot of money is not rocket science, it is not difficult. It is difficult because people make it difficult, people, by social conditioning, have many bad emotions towards making money, and those bad emotions get in the way and make them feel that making money is difficult. World-class are not super intelligent people, they make a lot of money simply because they don't have bad emotions towards making money and they focus all their attention and effort on it. It's like a laser, when all light rays are focused on a point, it can be super powerful. That's all.

The world is always helping you

The world is always helping you. This is true.
The world is constantly helping you. But the help doesn't always take a form like giving you money, or explicitly telling you how to make money, it takes various forms, say, it may try to enlighten you with a real case, it may try to let you learn something, it may come to you to trigger something which will help you.
Simply put, the world is constantly taking various forms to help you. It is a fact.  You will progress quickly after you understand this.

All the incidents that have happened to you or are happening try to help you.

Tao

1. How do we relate to people? How do we treat people? What do we think of people? What we think of people influences what people think of us.
2. How do we relate to the world? How do we see this world? What do we think of this world? What we think of this world determines how we act, how we act determines what results will be created.
3. How do we relate to ourselves? How do we see ourselves? What we think of ourselves also determines how we act, how we act determines what results will be created.
4. How do we relate to phenomena and events? Our attitudes towards phenomena and events.

There is no truth, there are only facts and perceptions, there are only effectiveness, effectiveness is the measure of truth. There is only philosophies, there is only Tao. There is no correctness or wrongness, there is only effectiveness and ineffectiveness and how effective. There is no that we should possess certain attitudes, there is only that how it will affect us when we possess certain attitudes; there is no that we should think of the world in a certain way, there is only that how what we think of the world affects us, how much what we think of the world affects us. We know that there are chain reactions, we don't just consider the first tie effect, we also consider the second tie effect, and we also consider the third tie effect, and finally we consider the ultimate tie effect.

What do we think of ourselves,people, the world, phenomena and events determines our feelings, our feelings determine our behaviors and actions, our behaviors and actions determine external results.

You don't need independence

You don't need independence, you need people and money in the society to achieve your goals. People and money in the society are our tools in the society that we can use. Why don't you use tools when you can use them? Tools can make you do things more easily and accelerate your speed to make wealth.  You need management and leadership to leverage people, and you need the investing insights to leverage money. You need to develop and nurture your skills to leverage social resources. You depend on your ability to leverage social resources to achieve your goals. Your ability to leverage social resources is your biggest asset that can make you rich.

Accept that people question you

Amateurs are a heavy sufferer of many limiting beliefs which seriously limit their financial life.  When an amateur is presented with brand-new world class thinking, it is expected that this simply action will create cognitive dissonance in their mind and since cognitive dissonance is a highly undesirable state of mind, they will try to question you or knock you down in an effort to recover harmony on their mind. It is not that they hate you personally or they don't want you to achieve your goals, it is that the cognitive dissonance created on their mind drive them to do so, and they may not be even aware of it.

If you are a world class person, don't think that all other people are also world class and think like you. Instead, please realize that the majority of people are just amateurs and possess amateurs thinking and it is natural, normal and even expected that they will try to question you or knock you down once they are presented with world class thinking by you. Just accept this phenomenon and don't let it affect you.

Do you accept that people question you?

Yes.

Why?

Why not?

How will it influence you?

Since I accept that people question me, therefore when people question me, I won’t condemn myself, I won’t despise myself, I won’t criticize myself, I won’t feel that it is dreadful, I won’t think that it is terrible, since I don’t condemn myself, since I don’t despise myself, since I don’t criticize myself, since I don’t feel that it is terrible that people question me, I won’t feel upset when people question me. Since I don’t get upset when people question me, I won’t get defensive when people question me, since I don’t get defensive when people question me, I won’t be affected by that people question me.

Do you accept that people question your goals with their misleading thinking?

Yes.

Why?

Why not?

How will it influence you?

Since I accept that people question my goals with their misleading thinking, because I accept that people question my goals with their misleading thinking, when a person questions my goals with his misleading thinking, I won’t get angry, I won’t hate him, I won’t get upset, I won’t think that they can affect my awareness, on the contrary, I think that it is reasonable that they question my goals, because they suffer amateur thinking for a long time and my thinking creates cognitive dissonance in their thinking and they are trying to recover to a state of harmony in their cognition. It is just a natural psychological behavior, there is no point for me to treat their behaviors seriously, and I won’t be affected as long as I accept that people question my goals with their stupid thinking.

World class are goal achievers

You organize a team with a goal. Your goal summons people. As a owner or team leader, your work is to bring out the best in every team member, while a team member may seem smart than you, he is smart as an individual to express his intelligence or wisdom, while you are smart at achieving goals.You are a goal achiever while he is a wisdom possessor. While he wants his wisdom to be recognized, you want your goals to be achieved and you are wise enough to be willing to sacrifice displaying your individual wisdom for achieving your goals. While he is satisfying with himself for thinking up stratagems to achieve small internal goals, you are satisfying with yourself for leveraging resources to achieve a big overall goal. You lead them because you know why to do things, they are valuable to you because they know how to do things. Generals know how to fight a battle, but the emperor knows the significance of fighting a battle, the emperor knows why to fight a battle. The humankind  on the earth as societies evolve by helping each other and working together. Societies in this world progress by two ways, one is to help each other, another one is to work together. By harnessing the two ways, you can achieve more than you can achieve alone. They are tools. Human kind progress so fast  and differentiate them from other animal species in the world because humankind can use tools. Unless hammer,sickle, bow and arrow, helping each other and working together are invisible social tools. Humankind understand that they don't have to show the world their power by means of their talons and fangs like a tiger or lion, instead, they know that they can use external tools like machines, guns, rockets, vehicles to show how powerful they are.

Some independent people are actually social hermits.

While world class are working on living a big life and a wonderful life and enjoying big freedom, able people are working on letting the society recognize their excellence, able people, when they were young, were told, or subtly hinted or enlightened by their parents and their environment that they were not good enough the way they were unless they could be able to prove to people that they were excellent, this instillation was like digging a pit in their psychological body, once dug, their work after that was to try to be excellent and gain people's recognition by showing their excellence to repair the pit in their psychological body, their entire adult life is more likely a redemption for the psychological pit left on their mind at their early age. The world class don't have this psychological pit, all they do in their adult life is to try to achieve their goals and enjoy self-created freedom and live a big and wonderful life.

Don't try to compete

Money is not scarce, making money depends on how much value you can create, not on how many competitors you can beat, eliminate your competitive mindset, bring out your innovation mindset.
Don't try to compete, try to improve, try to innovate, try to create, try to differentiate.

Suppose that you compete, how will it affect you?

Suppose that I compete, since I compete, I will always try to beat my competitors, since I try to beat my competitors, I will try to lower my prices, since I lower my prices, my competitors will lower their prices, too, because of that, I will have to lower my prices again, then my competitors will lower his prices, too,

Suppose that you accept a person who does the same business as you, how will it influence you?

Since I accept a person even if he does the same business as me, I won’t hate him, I won’t dislike him, I will like him, since I like him, I will like to recognize him, I will like to help him, since I like to recognize him, since I like to help him, he will be touched by me, he will be moved by him, since he is touched by me, since he is moved by me, he is more willing to help me, since he is more willing to help me, it will ultimately benefit me, and of course it will benefit him as well.

How to invest in any business

To invest in any business, the primary factor is return on investment. Investing is not speculation, investing has some risks, but it is not risky.

Any investing project, whether it is a parking lot, or a house, it is just a vehicle which can potentially yield return on the money you put in, we need to take away its physical appearance and size its business nature.


To calculate return of investment,
1. First, you need to know how much money you are going to draw out from your pocket(price plus fees and taxes).
2. Calcuate the money you can put into your pocket when you sell it after a certain time(price less fees and taxes) and the annual income you can get from it
3. Second, to calculate the annual return on your investment

10 rules of making money

1. Money are in abundant supply. There is no limit on how much money a person can make, the only limit is his belief. You will not make more money than you believe.

2. Opportunities exist any time and anywhere. Opportunities existed yesterday, opportunities certainly exist today, and opportunities will surely turn up tomorrow.

3. Opportunities exist in every matter, if you have not found an opportunity from a matter, it is because that you have not yet found the right perspective to view the matter.

4. When it comes to making money, specific knowledge is way more useful than formal knowledge learned in school.

5. There are unlimited ways to make money. While one door to make money is closed to you, another door to make money will simultaneously be open to you.

6. If you haven't made a lot of money or feel difficult to make a lot of money, it is because there is something you haven't known.

7. There are always alternatives to do things, so be flexible, don't be rigid.

8. Everything is relative.

9. Money comes from helping people, money comes from helping the world.

10. Speculation is not investing, speculation is gambling.

Four social classes

1. Poor people

Living for survival, struggle with life, little money, no choices, no freedom, have a fragile ego, small thinking, operating under fear and scarcity awareness, think that he is a victim, think it is difficul to make money.

2. Middle class

Have a decent life, but no choices, no freedom, also operate under fear and scarcity awareness, have an ego

3. Upper class

have a decent life, have choices, have freedom, but not happy, not fulfilled, operating under fear and scarcity awareness, have a big ego, try to prove himself 

4. World class

Have a good life, have choices, have freedom, live happily, fulfilled, operating under love and abundance awareness, knowing that money is abundant, full of love towards the world, think big, no ego, what he does is for self-expression.

Success has more to do with who you are.

Success has more to do with who you are than what you do. So please don't be busy in doing, please spend some time improving who you are.

I succeed not because what I do, but because what a person I am, I am not endeavoring to do something, what I do is just an expression of what a person I am, what I do is just an expression of who I am. Self-expression is effortless, if you are trying to do something, it means that there is incongruence in you. As a person, you have certain features, all you do is an expression of your certain features, when you fail, it is not because that what you do is wrong, it is because your certain features are wrong. Success is a natural thing, if you are trying to achieve something, it means there is incongruity between what you do and what a person you are.

If you haven't  succeeded, it is because there is something you haven't known. When you are ready to be a student, the teacher will come. The difference between the rich and the poor is not the wealth they possess, as wealth is just an effect of your spirituality or mind, the difference between the rich and the poor is the spirituality difference.

The Truth Trap

One thing that mysteriously, powerfully, detrimentally traps people is the strong desire to seek truth. There is no truth, there are only facts and perceptions. We need to accept facts, science is fact, therefore we need to accept it. Facts are absolute while truth, since it is merely perception,  is an illusion. We don't need to spend a lot of time to think about if something is true, but we do need to think about if something is factual. While fact is an objective exist and is not attached to any person's perception, truth is arbitrary and is subject to one's belief. In other words, your belief makes an arbitrary perception truth. The meaning of a perception is its effectiveness. The world is what you think it is, effectiveness is the measure of truth. So before accepting a "truth", think about its effectiveness, think about whether it helps you or harms you, and how much does it help you, whether there is another "truth" which can help you more, and adopt the "truth" that helps you most.

Do you like to compare yourself with people in achievements

Since  different people came from a different background and had different experiences, or experienced similar experience at different ages, therefore we might achieve in different areas of life in different ages, since we couldn’t or didn’t know to influence ourselves until we were enlightened, before we were enlightened, we were passively influenced by our outer experience, although we can choose how we act after we are enlightened, we can’t choose when we will be enlightened, therefore we can’t choose when we will achieve something in life areas. Because of that, there is no meaning to compare us with people in achieving something at what age.

Enlighten yourself hard, you will get money

Many people think that it takes time to make money, therefore they are always spending their time to make money, they are working hard to make money. They are always "in action", however, they rarely stop for some time and think about how to make money, they rarely stop to learn how to make money, they think that thinking about how to make money or learning how to make money eats their time to make money and they think that they can't afford it. What they don't realize is that they are adopting linear thinking to make money, they think that the money you make is in proportion to how much you spend in making it, therefore the more time you spend in making money, the more money you will make, and money directly comes from the time you spend on it, this thought comes as innocent enough yet hugely wrong. Money doesn't come from time, money comes from ideas. The world doesn't care how much time you spend, the world cares how much value you create, how many services you have delivered, how many products you have created, all these come from ideas.

The general public see studying how to make money as "doing nothing", and thinking about how to make money as "doing nothing", and they value action, they always say that action is the factor that creates all. In deed, they are always "in action", and they know that as long as they act, they will get what they want, and if they haven't got what they want, they just think that it is because that they haven't acted enough. When they don't act, they just try to entertain themselves and "enjoy life".

What they don't know is that it is not act that brings you money, it is how you act,  and how you act is dictated by how you think, therefore it is how you think determines how much money you make. The general public ignorantly think that they know how to make money, therefore they don't want to know how to study making money, they just act. They value hard-working, they don't value smart-working, they don't value wise-working, they just want the money they will get by working hard, they don't value the spiritual growth along the way they make money, they just think that "Work hard, you will get money", they don't think that "Enlighten yourself hard, you will get money."

The world will not pay for your time, the world will only pay for your contribution to this world. You don't need to spend a lot of time to make money, think that you need to make a lot of contribution to make money.

Money-making revisited

In a free economy market, it is easy to make money. Many people don't make a lot of money, it is not because they don't want to make a lot of money, it is because that they don't believe that money can be easily made, and they also are brainwashed to think that they need to sacrifice many things to make money. People think that it is difficult to make money because they come from a scarcity mentality, and they still attach linear thinking to making money, but actually money is abundant, and you should engage in non-linear thinking to make money and you should learn to use leverage. There is no limit on how much money you can make. Money is just a meter which gauges the total sum of the products and services you produce for the society. In a free economy market, the more money you gain, the greater you make contribution to this society. Money flows to ideas, money flows to solutions.

I love this world, it is beautiful, it is perfect, it is fair, it is run by fair laws, how much you contribute to this world, how much reward you will gain, therefore to gain reward, you need to contribute, you need to contribute to this world to gain reward from this world. This world will reward any person who contributes to this world, the bigger contribution he makes, the greater he will be rewarded. It is so fair and perfect. The world is run by contribution and reward. The greater contribution you make to this world, the greater reward you will gain from this world.

It is so easy to make money, you just need to contribute to this world, you just need to help people. Money is just a measurement that gauges how much contribution you have made to this world, money is just a measurement that how many people you have helped, how great you have helped many people. It is so easy.

Making money is not as difficult as you might imagine

Making money and being rich should not be deified or considered very special from any other activities. It is just an ability or a skill which is not different from any other ability or skill in essence. You don't need to be a superman to be good at making money. Is making money very much different from writing a book, learning a foreign language, solving mathematical problems, or playing Ping-Pong in nature? Are you thinking being good at making money is a super ability while being good at playing Ping-Pong is just a mediocre ability? When it comes to learning a foreign language, solving mathematical problems, playing Ping-Pong, first, you need to like it, second, you need to do it, and during the doing process, you need to learn with your common senses.  It is the same with making money. Why do people subconsciously think that being good at making money outstands among all kinds of skills? It is because many people accumulate many bad emotions towards making money and these bad emotions increase the difficulties of making money. These bad emotions, like any other emotion, are created by bad beliefs about money and making money. Being good at making money, without the bad emotions attached to it,  is not necessarily harder than being good at solving mathematical problems, speaking a foreign language, or playing Ping-Pong. Being good at making money is not as difficult as you imagine, it is your bad emotions that are attached to making money make it difficult.

Money is abundant and can increase unlimitedly along with the increase of services and products

Money is abundant, how much value you create for the society in terms of services or/and products, how much you will get, since there is no limit on the amount of value you create for the society in terms of services or products, there is no limit on the amount of money you will gain. The total money represents the total sum of the wealth(services or products) the society has, and there is no limit on the total money of the society, as long as the total value of services or products increases, the money will increase, otherwise there will be deflation in which the purchasing power of money will increase.

The services or products you create come from your ideas, it is your idea that creates the services or products.

When you sell a product or service to a person, as long as the sale is not a forced sale or a deceived sale, you are not stealing money from him, it is a fair exchange, the person who gives you money to buy the product or service doesn't suffer any loss, quite on the contrary, he gains more, he gains more from the product or service you offer, otherwise he won't buy. When his money decreases, he needs to make money, but it is very much likely that your product or service can help him make more money, if he buys your product or services for just entertainment, you are the executor of the function that money can buy entertainment. So please bear in mind, every time you take some money from someone, you offer him equal or in most cases more value than the money you take from him, so you are not a thief. So the more money you make, the more help you do to this world.

See the world with your heart, not with your eyes

See the world with your heart or brain.

When you see the world with your eyes, you will only see tangible matters or things; when you see the world with your heart, you will be able to see intangible matters or things. Opportunities need to be seen with your heart, not your eyes. Your eyes may cheat you, but your heart(logic/reasoning) does not cheat you.

The things you see can be fabricated, the logic can't be fabricated. Your prudent logical reasoning is more reliable than your so-called sharp eyes. For example, when you are investigating a potential investing opportunity, it is more useful to use your heart than your eyes. If your brain is sharp, you won't be deceived. When you talk with a salesperson for the investing opportunity, what she(suppose it is a female) says may be untrue, she may intentionally or unintentionally do it. When she intentionally does it, it doesn't necessarily mean that she wants to deceive you, she may do it because:
1. She doesn't know the investing opportunity very well, she just pretends to know it, because she wants to appear professional or she fears to lose face or give her client a bad impression.
Or 2. She wants to deceive you.

When she unintentionally does it, what she says just reflect her thinking and her knowledge, her thinking is just wrong or she is misinformed, but of course she doesn't realize it, she thinks that she is telling you truth, for example, she may thinks there are some laws you can harness to win money, but actually those "laws" are just false laws and she doesn't realize it.

You can find these false knowledge/principles with your heart(prudent logical reasoning).

3 categories of influential thoughts

There are  3 categories of influential thoughts. They are:
1. Self-image: What do you think of yourself? For example, you think: 1. I'm attractive. 2. I'm desirable. 3. I'm smart. 4. I'm intelligent 5. I'm wise,...

2. When a certain external signal/event appears, you automatically think that it means that "I'm ...".
We need to automatically attach a meaning about ourselves to a thought people give to us to upset ourselves.

For example, when a girl doesn't accept us or she rejects us, we think that that means we are not good enough, since every time we think that we are not good enough when a girl doesn't accept us or rejects us, we feel crashed, we feel disheartened when a girl doesn't accept us or rejects us.

When people look down upon us, we think that means that we are bad, since we don't want to feel we are bad, we fear people look down upon us.
3. Your view of the world, how do you treat people, what's your attitude towards people, what do you think of the world. Say, do you love people? Do you love every person?

Financial freedom

To quickly reach financial freedom, you need to gain passive income stream, and the quickest way to build adequate passive income stream for your financial freedom is to create a business. You spend some years, usually 3 to 4 years, building a business, in the first year, you may not have income, in the second year, the business should generate income, and in the third year, the business will generate much more income than the 2^nd year, and after the 3^rd year or 4^th year, you can sell your business and then you will make a lot of money, and then you can invest this amount of money, usually you can get a 5% return, and that’s enough for you to live a life, and then you don’t need to work any more.

Emathy

Empathy is a great way to program your mind. Empathize with the future you, the you who have realized your goals, empathize how good the future you feels,how does the future you love this world and people and himself,  how grateful is the future you, empathize why you can achieve a certain goal, why you are good at something. Empathize with successful others who is good at doing what you want to be good at. Empathize with others who have achieved the goals you want to achieve. The more deeply you can empathize, the more profound your mind will be influenced.

Example 1:

To empathize with the future you who is very good at making money.

It is so good to be good at making money.

Why am I good at making money? Because I know that money is in abundance and is just a means of exchange, and money comes from ideas, and ideas come from solving problems, as long as I can find problems of this society, or problems of other people, and solve it, I can get money from it, it is so easy.

I’m so grateful that this world is full of money-making opportunities, therefore I can live a very good life.

Example 2:

To empathize with the future you who is 100% self-assured.

It is so good to be self-assured.

Why am I 100% self-assured? Because I know that I have profound knowledge and I know that how I should behave and I know how I should improve, most of the people I meet are amateurs therefore there is no need to care their opinions.

I’m so grateful to this world that gives me the knowledge and gives me the insights on how to improve myself. I love the world so much.

It is very reasonable that poor people are poor

For every person who is poor, it is not a coincidence that he is poor, if you talk to him for a long time, you will find that it totally makes sense that he is not rich, it is completely reasonable and logical that he is poor, because you will undoubtedly find that he has deep-rooted opinions/beliefs/view of the world that makes him poor. If he was rich(before he changed his opinions/beliefs/view of the world), the world would be in chaos. You see, the world is peacefully running around with its own principles/rules. One of the rules or principles is that your thoughts create your reality, your inner world creates your outer world. We all live in the same world? Why are some people super rich while some people are very poor? It's because they have different opinions/beliefs/worldviews. Rich people think making money is easy while poor people think making money is difficult, rich people like to talk about making money and various ways to make money while poor people are cynical about talking about various ways to make money. Poor people are generally pessimistic about the world while the rich people are optimistic about the world. Rich people see opportunities while poor people see difficulties. Poor people are pessimistic and cynical, and think that they have known everything while rich people are optimistic and positive, and know that there is still a lot to learn and are willing to learn it.

In the world, there are abundant money-making ways, but poor people are blind to them, they are unable to see them.

People's outer world(reality) is determined by their inner world(mind).  By knowing a person's outer world(reality), you can accurately infer to his inner world, the only exception is that if a person changes his inner world, it will take some time to manifest this change to his outer world.

In stock market, a lot of people make a lot of money while also a lot of people lose money; in real estate market, a lot of people make a lot of money, while also a lot of people lose money. Rich people see opportunities, poor people see risks.

Why do we excel at something

You will become very good at which you ever severely lacked.
You will become very good at which you burningly desire for.

Abundant channels to win money

There are probably over 1 billion ways to make money. Do you think that you know each of them?  Some of the ways of making money are arguably better than others. When you go out and see a skyscraper, probably at the time you see that skyscraper a guy in that building just makes 1 million dollars. Do you know which room, which suite, which floor, which unit he/she is, do you know what way he/she uses to make the 1 million dollars? We think that we know the reality, no, we don't know the reality, do you think that you know everything of the reality? Actually we just know a tiny part of the reality, do you think that you can judge what the reality is like based on the tiny part of the reality you know? We have a pair of open eyes, but we have a closed heart(or mind). How many ways of making money you know depends on how open your heart(or mind) is. The more open your heart is, the more ways of making money you will know.

You don't know reality, you just know a tiny part of reality.  You just know the interpreted-by-yourself reality, you just know the interacted-with-yourself reality. Your experiences don't reflect the reality, because you were a role in your experiences, your experiences were influenced by you, were distorted by you. Your experiences are like a movie, while you were the protagonist in the movie, the plot line was determined by how the protagonist behaved, acted, reacted in the movie. For experience, it is colored with your color, therefore every experience loses the fidelity to the objective reality, in other words, every experience is subjectivized by you.


We may just worry about we lose what we have, and don't worry about we lose what we can have.

Do you know how many channels/ways of making money that you have not yet discovered?

Think of abundance!
There are abundant ways and channels to make money.

The fastest guaranteed way to realize your goals---change your heart

Since your reality is determined by your heart, the fastest way for you to achieve your goals is to change your heart.  Don't worry, I am not saying that you change your soul, you are not changing yourself from a good person to a bad person, you are just changing yourself from an unsuccessful person to a successful person. Will you lose something along the change? Yes, you will lose something along the change. You will lose your self-doubt, you will lose your worries, you will lose your inferiority, you will lose your feeling that you don't deserve wealth or beautiful girls. What will you gain? You will gain confidence, you will gain self-assurance, you will gain attractiveness, you will gain assertiveness, you will gain desirability, you will gain charm, you will gain wealth, you will gain perfect health, you will gain perfect relationship, you will gain love for this world, you will gain love for your living.

Our heart is a programmed heart

It is your heart or mind that determines your wealth. Let me tell you my story.

I learned to think that I was a person who didn't make big amounts of money congenitally, I thought that I was just not in that circle. Therefore, I would never try to read books that talk about how to make big amounts of money. My mom, through her consistent words and behaviors, convinced me that my family were not that kind of people who make big amounts of money and I accepted her concept. When people were talking about matters of making big amounts of money, I would excuse myself away, why? Because the conversation just reminded me of that brutal "fact" that my family were not the type of people who make big amounts of money, it just reminded me of this inferiority, since I didn't want to feel this inferiority, I would avoid it, excuse myself away. I never really thought about making big amounts of money, I thought that it was just a dream, a daydream, a fantasy, it would come to my real life, it was just something that I could remotely want, but it couldn't really happen in my real life. So when I worked, every time when opportunities of making big amounts of money came up, I felt that it was unreal,  I felt that it was dreamlike, I couldn't believe it, although consciously(or rationally) I worked on those opportunities, my subconscious mind often secretly sabotaged me and prevented me from success, therefore I was unable to seize those opportunities and make big amounts of money from it. On my conscious level, I always tried to be rational; on my subconscious level, I just felt that good things were unreal and they couldn't happen, therefore I always tried to sabotage myself, I would secretly destroy the opportunities, undermine the opportunities. You can think that how strange it is. Yes, it is strange. This proves that how your past programming can deeply affect your present and future if you don't reprogram your past programs.

Our mind is a programmed mind, our heart is a programmed heart. Please don't believe your heart. Believe your conscious logic, believe your conscious reasoning that is able to judge what is good and what is bad. Think about it this way, when we look at another person, we always know what he should do to benefit him, we always know what he should do to let him realize his/her goals, but the person doesn't always do what he is supposed to do,  the person doesn't always act the way he is supposed to do, we often feel puzzled,  why doesn't he act the way that can most benefit him? Doesn't he care about his own interests? Doesn't he know how to act is the best for him? It is his feeling that affects his rationality, it is his subconscious mind that affects his logic, therefore he chooses to do what makes him feel good in the present, and not to do what will make him feel good in the future.

Think your way to success (3)

Every thought matters.  Your thoughts dictate your facial expressions, your thoughts dictate your behaviors, your thoughts lead to your decisions, your thoughts determine what you do, how you do it, your thoughts determine how you act, and how you react. Your thoughts can make you poor, your thoughts can make you rich, your thoughts can make you successful, your thoughts can make you unsuccessful. Every thought will influence you or affect you.  Thought is not cheap, it is valuable, since we create everything with our thoughts. Thoughts can move mountains, thoughts can make you die. Thoughts can bring you 10 million US dollars, thoughts can also make you lose dollars. Thoughts are the core of the universe. Thoughts create your health, happiness and success, thoughts can also deprive you of health, happiness or success. It is a double-edged sword. It can hurt you or harm you, every thought has its consequence, so you need to carefully choose your thought.

If you want to succeed, you have to rely on your thoughts to succeed. If you want to realize your goals, you have to rely on your thoughts to realize your goals.

I'm a little repetitive because I want you to not only consciously accept this concept, but also subconsciously accept this concept. It should become your # 1 philosophy.

Business ideas (1)

1.  Foreign currency trade.

I have a friend who traded Brazilian real with 52 million US dollars, he earned 3%, which is 154 US dollars. He predicted that 2014 FIFA World Cup would jack up Brazilian real.

Whenever there is a big event like FIFA,Olympic Games, world's fair which happens in a country, the currency in that country is likely to appreciate.

2. Commercial premise investment

The prices of commercial premise like shops can appreciate much faster than residential real estate most of the time. The price of a shop premise can go up from less than 0.3 million dollars to over 1 million dollars in 1 or 2 months. Two factors you need to consider: 1. If someone rents the commercial premise, how good will the business be?  2. How do other people think of the commercial premise? Prices are determined by demand and supply, therefore  you usually need to do the opposite of what the majority of the people do.

3. Bitcoin and Ripple
Bitcoin and Ripple are new currencies, they represent a new trend, opportunities are often in new things, you can win money from them. Since Ripple is newer than Bitcoin, chances are greater opportunities are with Ripple.

Think your way to success (2)

Thoughts are very important. You can say that thoughts are hugely important, because your whole life is attached to your thoughts.

Your decisions are determined by your thoughts, your behaviors are determined by your thoughts, your health is also determined by your thoughts, your experiences are determined by your thoughts.

What you say directly reflects what you think, so pay careful attention to what you say, because it reflects what you think.

No thought is free, it either supports you, or defeats you, or lets you live in mediocrity. Good or bad, every thought has its effect.

You think how you think reflects truth,  actually how you think only reflects how you think,  in other words, you think that your thoughts reflect the truth, but actually your thoughts only reflect how you think.

You think how we think is restricted by truth, but actually how you think is only restricted by you.

Your thoughts can be in various forms. Your thoughts can be excuses, ideas, beliefs, opinions, etc., even your knowledge can be considered as your thoughts.You use thoughts to make sense of the world, you use thoughts to explain everything.

What you think is true, your subconscious mind accepts it, so be careful with what you think is true.

You think your way to success, you think your way to failure, you think your way to mediocrity.

It's bad that we only care what we want to get, but we don't care how we think, it's our thoughts that determine what we will get.

Think your way to success (1)

Your thoughts create your reality. Your beliefs, your habits, your thinking patterns create your reality. Your thoughts are your only power. Choose how to think,  let your mind empower you to succeed, don't let your mind defeat you or hinder you from succeeding. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Your reality is created by your thoughts(including your beliefs, ideas, perceptions). Succeed by changing your thoughts.


You can change your thoughts for happiness, but you can also change your thoughts for success, you can also change your thoughts for realizing your goals, you can also change your thoughts to realize your goals.


How can you think to succeed? What should your thoughts be in order to succeed? What should your thoughts be in order to realize your goals?

There is no one that can control your thoughts but yourself. So think carefully, don't let yourself think to defeat you, let yourself think to realize your goals.

The only factor that may get in the way of our thoughts, that only factor that seems to be able to constrain us is truth, as if we think that if we don't conform to truth, we're deceiving ourselves. That's the only trap we may get ourselves in. We're enslaved by truth.

It's our thinking that helps us succeed, not our behaviors and actions. Behaviors and actions are like a vehicle, your thinking is like the steering wheel. Without the steering wheel, the vehicle will go nowhere, with the steering wheel, you can go where you want to go.

Belief

Your life isn't a result of what you want and desire, but what you believe. If you don't believe you will get what you want and desire, what you want and desire has no meaning. It's like that you have a business idea but you have no execution, every one can want or desire something, but not every one believes that they can get what they want or desire.  Your beliefs create your reality. Most of people think that it is their reality creates their beliefs, but if you are intelligent enough, you will realize that it is the other way around, it is that your beliefs create your reality. Your beliefs precede your reality, your beliefs determine what reality you will experience.

List the beliefs that govern your life and you and evaluate them

One method to help you succeed is to list the beliefs that govern your life and you, and evaluate whether they empower/support you or disempower or sabotage you.

Below are my beliefs:

1.       We need to obey the law.

2.       We need to be moral and have conscience.

3.       We need to be filial.

4.       We need to take responsibilities for our own life.

5.       Our reality is created by our thoughts, our reality is created by our beliefs, or our reality is ultimately created by our thoughts or beliefs.

6.       There are infinite possibilities, we just filter them because we just receive and accept what we believe. We only receive or accept what we believe is true. We need to think more wisely to let us connected with opportunities.

7.       We should not care our dignity, we should not care if people look down upon us or not. If we care it, we will pay a high price for it.

8.       We need to think wisely, we need to let our mind enable us to succeed. We need to tune our mind. We need to be different. We need to be more wise. We need to let our subconscious mind help us succeed.

9.       We need to believe that good things can happen, if we don’t believe it, we need to find a way to believe it. Good things won’t happen if we don’t believe it.

Failure

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results." - Tony Robbins

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."  - One of presuppositions of NLP.

One inevitably fails toward success. You must just fail forward fast. Those who fail do not fail enough. Therefore you need to fail fast, you need to fail quickly, when you fail quickly, you learn quickly, therefore your success will come to you quickly. Poor people are overprotected by themselves, they fear to fail, therefore they don't succeed. Unless you are extremely lucky, you have to fail before success. Google fails at many products, but Google often succeeds at many products, failed products are necessary for successful products. You can even say if there were no failed products, there would not be successful products. If you don't try, you will never fail, but you will never succeed, either. Unsuccessful people are not successful because they don't fail enough.

Why do we need to work on our subconscious mind

The reason that we work on our subconscious mind is that we have received many bad conditioning or conditioned reflexes in the past, and these conditioning or conditioned reflexes reside in our subconscious mind, they often sabotage us from realizing our goal, therefore we have to deal with it.

Our conscious mind can think logically and rationally. However, our subconscious mind is a reservoir of past conditioning(or conditioned reflexes). Our conscious mind may be in conflict with our subconscious mind, because our past conditioning(or conditioned reflexes) is not always rational. Whenever our conscious mind is in conflict with our subconscious mind, our subconscious mind acts as a stumbling block to us, therefore we need to clear the stumbling blocks(or bad past conditioning, bad conditioned reflexes) in our subconscious mind.

Also sometimes we need to calmly think or ponder how to realize a goal, if there are negative emotions generating from our subconscious mind, it will interfere in our thinking at our conscious level. Therefore we need to clear this conditioning or conditioned reflexes.


When we travel to the future and visualize we have already realized our goal and practice appreciation or gratitude, our subconscious mind accepts this "fact" and will not sabotage us when we're in  the process of realizing our goal. Moreover, it may keep eyes open for possibilities or opportunities that could help us realize our goal.

The power of your mind

1. Our brain(or mind) can store unlimited information, more than all of the computers in this world can store.

If you don't believe this, think about how many books you have read, how many pieces of news you have read, how many pictures have you seen, how many movies/videos you have seen, how many songs you have heard, how many skills you have learned, etc. As long as you are awake, your eyes, your ears, your nose are constantly receiving information. All the information is stored in your brain or mind. Sometimes you can't retrieve a certain piece of information in your brain, but it is still there, it is like that you write a piece of text in a document on your computer, but you have so many folders on your computer, and within each folders, there are so many files, it is difficult for you to find that piece of text. When we have a certain emotion/feeling, like fear, anxiety, this feelings will hinder us from retrieving certain information.

2. Your brain's creativity is unlimited. Think about how many ideas you have figured out by now, how many problems you  have solved with your mind, that's our mind's creativity's capacity. However, when you have mixed feelings or conflicting thoughts in your mind, that conflicting state severely blocks your mind's creativity power. Therefore, by aligning your subconscious mind with your goal, you can let your subconscious mind fully bring its creativity power into play and create inspirations for you, give guidance to you how to achieve your goals.

Cynicism doesn't help you

This article comes from my answer to a question on quora.

Success doesn't magically and suddenly happen. Success is an event, while there is a process before it which leads to it. That being said, before you succeed, you need to desire for success, crave for success, you need to be interested in success, you need to feel no shame to talk about success. You even need to visualize that you have been successful. If you can visualize that you have been successful and are comfortable about it, it means that your subconscious mind has accepted it and it will assist you in achieving that goal.
That being said, an outcome can't be caused by something after it, it is not what you say and what you think after you succeed make you success, it is what you say and what you think and what you do before you succeed make you success. To succeed, you need to embrace the concept of success, like to talk about it, let your mind always open, willing to learn the science of success while cynicism makes you feel morally superior but it doesn't actually help you succeed.

We write what we think, and our thinking precedes our actions and will lead to corresponding actions. So we can say that it is our thinking that leads to our success, rather than our actions, because our actions are dictated by our thinking, it's like that a person kills another person with a gun, it is not the gun that kills the person, it is the person who holds the gun kills the other person.

We often trick ourselves. For example, when we think that someone is showing off, actually you don't know whether the person is showing off, quite the opposite, it is the viewer/audience who feels inferior, therefore he/she thinks that the person is showing off. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. It is our own mind that determines how we interpret and feel what we see.

The subconscious mind and success

Any one achieves anything is an effect of all of his thinking, all he has seen/read/heard,  all of his behaviors, and all of his actions beginning from a certain moment of his life. At any moment, a person has innumerable choices regarding what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do. The person who achieves anything has made many choices of what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do from a certain moment of his life, and all of those choices together lead to his success. So how does the person make those choices? At any time, our choice is made by our rational mind(conscious mind) and our feeling. Our feelings most of the time directly come from our subconscious mind, sometimes come from our thinking at our conscious mind level, however our conscious mind uses "axioms" and "theorems", it's like that the conscious mind is a cook, but this cook uses ingredients(food materials) from the subconscious mind to cook, because conscious mind can conduct logical reasoning, imagination, etc., but it doesn't have memory function, all of thinking products are stored on the subconscious mind. Therefore you can see how all of the choices are mainly decided by our subconscious mind, maybe by 95%. Also think about how many times that your thinking is purely rational? Thinking on the conscious mind is like mathematical reasoning, and you have to use "axioms" and "theorems" on the subconscious mind to conduct the reasoning, it's like that you can't cook without ingredients.

So if our subconscious mind doesn't know if we can achieve a certain goal, how will the subconscious mind make us make choices?  The subconscious mind will ask us to act halfheartedly, to wait and see, to think about what we should do if we fail, to let us have doubts, to let us doubt what we are doing, to let us doubt the matter we are dealing with. What result will all of these behaviors, actions and thinking lead us to? Will they help us achieve the goal?

So what if  our subconscious mind doesn't believe that we will achieve the goal, what will our subconscious mind tell us to do? It will tell us to quit,   it will tell us to reluctantly engage in it, it will tell us to frustratedly engage in it. So what will these "instructions", persuasion or influences lead us to?

And if the subconscious mind believes that we can achieve the goal, the subconscious mind doesn't doubt it, so what will the subconscious mind tell us to do? It will think how to achieve it, it will tell us to make the realization/success happen, it will tell us to act towards the realization/success, therefore every decision or choice(what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do) we make is what we believe by our conscious mind or/and subconscious mind will lead us to the realization of our goal. So what do you think these choices and actions will lead us to? The answer isn't difficult to see.

Levitation

Do you believe levitation?
No.
Why?
It is fake.
Why is it fake?
I don't know.
So when you came to this world, say, when you were 1 month or 2 month old, did you think that levitation was fake?
No.
Why?
I didn't know anything at that time.
So why did you think that it was fake later?
It doesn't conform to science.
Why is it fake because it doesn't conform to science?
I don't know.
Is whether conforming to science a criterion to judge whether something is fake or real?
I don't know.

How does it affect you?
Since I don't think anything is real unless it conforms to science, I close my mind to new things(or new learning). As a result, I will end up only possessing traditional wisdom(or conventional wisdom), and my life will  be less wonderful/marvelous than it could have been.

Belief

You will admit that it is your behaviors and actions that create your life, you will admit that it is your behaviors and actions that create the results. So when you believe that you can achieve a goal, you subconsciously believe it, you will behave and act differently from that you don't believe you can achieve your goal or differently from you are neutral(You don't know if you will achieve your goal). Your behaviors and actions will be guided by the belief that you will achieve your goal. It's like that you drive a car. There are many roads which lead to different destinations, and since you believe that you will achieve your goal, you choose to drive the road which will lead to the destination of achieving your goal. Whenever there is a fork, you always choose the branch which will lead to the destination of achieving your goal, therefore you will certainly achieve your goal.

Just see if you believe you can achieve a goal, and you subconsciously believe it, see if you will behave or act differently. Since your life is created by our behaviors and actions, different life is created by different behaviors and different actions.

So based on the fact that you believe you will achieve your goal, what will your conscious mind(your rational mind) do?

I will try to make it happen, I will try to think how to make it happen.

So if you don’t know if you will achieve it, what will your rational mind(conscious mind) do?

I will not wholeheartedly think how to make it, I will not wholeheartedly try to make  it happen.

So what will you do?

I will think what I will do if I don’t achieve it.

In this way, do you think that it can happen?

No.

Why?

Because I don’t try it wholeheartedly.

So what if you don’t believe if you will achieve it? What will you do?

I will quit.

Why?

I don’t want to waste my energy and my time.

So will your goal be achieved if you quit.

Of course not.

Conscious mind and subconscious mind

On the conscious mind, it is thinking produces thoughts, thoughts produce  feelings, and feelings produce behaviors and actions.  Thoughts can also directly produces behaviors and actions.

On the subconscious mind, it is thoughts produce feelings, and feelings produce behaviors and actions. Thoughts can also directly produces behaviors and actions. The subconscious mind contains your habitual thoughts. Your habitual thoughts reside in your subconscious mind. Your habitual thoughts are your automatic thoughts.

What's the difference?
The difference is, on the conscious mind, thoughts are produced by thinking on the spot, while on the subconscious mind, thoughts are already made, thoughts already reside in our subconscious mind. On the subconscious mind, there is no thinking, there are only already seated thoughts/perceptions.

How to send a thought produced by conscious mind to the subconscious mind and make it reside there, by affirmation. How is affirmation done? You speak to your heart, you tell a statement or a resolution to your heart, again and again, until your heart fully accept it. Make sure when you say it(the statement or resolution), you 100% mean it.

What if I can't 100% wholeheartedly tell the statement or resolution to my heart?
That means you have resisting thoughts that are affecting you doing this work. You can use rationality and logical reasoning to rid of your resisting thoughts.

How long can a thought produced by conscious mind be sent to the subconscious mind and reside there by affirmation?

It depends on how devout when you speak to your heart. Make sure when you conduct affirmations, you really mean what you say, and you really accept what you say. You 100% accept what you are saying to yourself. The more devout you are, the fewer number of repetition required.

Irrational mind, conditioned mind

Our mind is a conditioned mind, while also an irrational mind, because many irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions have been conditioned into our mind ever since we came to this world. Although we have been conditioned many irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions into our mind, we still survive and don't die, we are just less happy and less achieved. How are these irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions conditioned into our mind? By simply believing that they are true  and absorbing them.

That said, wrong or irrational thoughts/concepts/notions don't make us die(unless some extremely wrong or irrational ones), it just makes us less happy or less achieved, therefore we can do it the opposite way, we can condition thoughts/concepts/notions which are not necessarily correct but help us more achieved into our mind. How can we condition these thoughts/concepts/notions into our mind? The same. By simply believing that they are true and absorbing them.

What is important is not correct or wrong, rational or irrational, what is important is helpful or unhelpful, empowering or disempowering.

Your thoughts should be responsible for the outcomes, not your actions

We often think that it is our actions that make us success or gain what we want, or produce the result we want. This cognition seems innocently accurate, nevertheless, it is wrong.

Let me give you two examples:

Example 1: You have a car. The car is turned on with its key, the car is turned off with its key. So we may think that it is the key that controls the car, right?

Example 2: Someone is killed by a gunshot. So we think that the person is skilled by the gun, right?

In example 1: It is not the key that controls the car, it is the person who possesses the key. The person decides when to turn on the car and when to turn off the car, not the key.

In example 2: It is not the gun that kills the victim. It is the person who uses the gun that kills the victim. The gun is just a means the shooter uses.

To our people, every action is dictated by its respective thought.  We act because we have the thought that dictates the act, we do nothing because we have do-nothing thought; we do something in a certain way because we have do-it-in-a-certain-way thought. When we focus on the action, it is like that we punish the gun after the victim is killed, while the shooter should be the real culprit, when the action is wrong, it is our thought that dictates that action is wrong. Unless you have some nervous system problems, every action, every movement,like raising your hand, extending your leg, opening your mouth, leaning forward, even a tiny movement, is dictated by your thought.You can't think wrong while do correct, and you can't think correct but do wrong. If you trade stock and lose money, it is not that the action of buying that stock or the action of selling that stock is wrong, it is the thought that dictated buying that stock or/and the thought that dictated selling that stock is wrong.If you blame your action, it is like that you blame the gun for killing the person, while actually the shooter should be responsible for killing.

Happiness and Success

Some people are happy but not successful, some people are successful and not happy, while some people are both happy and successful, therefore you can be happy but not successful,  successful but not happy, and you can also be happy and successful. Success doesn't necessarily guarantee happiness,  if you think that you will be happy after you achieve success, please take care.  However, what's interesting is that the erroneous belief/thought(I will be happy after I achieve success) can act as a big motivation factor that motivates you to do what it takes to succeed, therefore this erroneous belief/thought may help you succeed, but of course it will also make you disillusioned after you achieve success. The same thought can make you very unhappy in the present moment while driving you to succeed in the near future.

However, being depressed definitely prevents you from success. The more depressed you are, the less likely that you will achieve success.

Our emotions can make us unhappy, but it can also help us succeed. For example, if you see that your old classmates make much more money than you and live in a very good house but you don't,  and you feel shame, you can channel that strong feeling of shame into a burning desire to make more money to overtake your classmates. Let your emotions help you succeed, don't let your emotions hinder you from succeeding, but in the meantime please understand in your heart of hearts that your unhappiness or bad feelings are caused by your thoughts, not by not succeeding, so you won't  kill yourself in case that you don't succeed.

Declaration

Our mind is a conditioned mind, our mind is an irrational mind. When we come to this world, we don't know anything except body language and a few physiological needs. Later, as we grow up, we learn everything. So everything is learned and conditioned to our mind. When we learn them, except for the stuff in science textbooks, we don't critically accept them, we blindly accept them. A lot of beliefs/concepts/notions we accepted do us more harm than good therefore are in  our best interest. To let our mind better support/serve us, we need to replace those beliefs/concepts/notions with more beneficial ones. When we accepted them, we didn't use rationalization or logical reasoning to accept them; but we need rationalization or logical reasoning to get rid of them, and then to install new ones with non rationalization ways. Namely, we simply believe that the new beliefs and ideas. If we have resisting thoughts that prevent us from believing new beliefs or ideas, we need to use logical reasoning to tackle the resisting thoughts.

For example, if we don't think being humiliated is good, we can use logical reasoning or rationalization to ask ourselves:
1. What will happen to you if you are humiliated?
   I don't know.
2. Will you be killed if you are humiliated?
No.
3. Will you be physically injured if you are humiliated?
No.
4. Will you lose money if you are humiliated?
No.
5. Will you be put in jail if you are humiliated?
No.(You will only be put in jail if you break the law.)
6. Will you lose happiness if you are humiliated?
No.
7. Will you lose friends if you are humiliated?
No.
8. Will you mentally break down if you are humiliated?
No.
9. Will you become suddenly ill if you are humiliated?
No.
10. So what will happen to you if you are humiliated?

You don't know what will happen if you are humiliated, in deed, you may just become more composed after you are humiliated.
Then you can make a declaration:
It is OK that people humiliate me.
It is OK that people humiliate me.

When you make the declaration or announcement, you need to 100% believe what you are telling yourself and absorb it.

Magic will happen after you do this, because your mind will accept it and internalize it, it will become part of you.

Business vs Brand

The core of creating a business is to create a brand.

Businesses survive. Brands thrive.

Without a brand, you can't duplicate. Without a brand, you will struggle in price war. Without a brand, you will struggle to survive, and never have an opportunity to thrive. Think about Starbucks Coffee. Is its coffee the best coffee in the world, doubtful, probably not, but they have the strongest coffee brand, it thrives not because it has the best coffee in the world, but because it has the strongest coffee shop brand in the world.

Your price doesn't have to be the lowest,  and you don't have to satisfy all people in the market, you need to invent some great benefits that can differentiate you from your competitors' products. You can choose to satisfy part of the customer base. Expensive products or cheap products, all have their respective buyers.

Charming

I don’t want to be charming.

Why don’t you want to be charming?

I want to express my ideas, my thoughts.

Why do you want to express your ideas, your thoughts?

I want to express my ideas, my thoughts, and let them accept my ideas, my thoughts.

Why do you want to express your ideas, your thoughts, and let them accept your ideas, your thoughts?

Because my ideas, my thoughts are insightful, penetrating, thoughtful, farsighted.

Why do you want to express your ideas and your thoughts and let them accept your ideas and your thoughts because your ideas, your thoughts are insightful, penetrating, and farsighted?

I don’t know.

When you came to this world, do you have want to express your ideas, your thoughts and let people accept them?

No.

Why?

I didn’t have any ideas or thoughts.

Is your want(you want to express your ideas and your thoughts and let people accept your ideas and your thoughts) innate?

Of course.

So where is it from?

It is learned.

How is it learned?

I don’t know.

Why are your ideas and thoughts insightful, penetrating and farsighted?

I don’t know.

So why do you want to express your ideas and your thoughts and want people to accept them?

I don’t know.

How did it affect you?

Since I didn’t want to be charming, I just wanted to express my ideas and thoughts and wanted them to accept them, I sometimes expressed my ideas and thoughts in an uncharming way, and people didn’t want to hear my ideas, people wanted to feel good, they didn’t want to hear my ideas or thoughts, if I expressed my ideas and thoughts in an uncharming way, they didn’t feel good, and their didn’t-feeling-good feeling let them not want to hear my ideas or thoughts, let alone accept them. They would cut me off, they would leave me, they would ignore me, and I would never be able to fully express my ideas and thoughts, let alone let them accept them.

I have to be charming all the way if I want to fully express my ideas and thoughts and let them accept them.

Experience

Just once sentence:

You think that your experience taught you, but actually you created your experience.

How did you learn

How did you learn anything? By associating, from your parents(guardians).

When you were very young, when something happened to you, when someone said something to you or had a certain attitude towards you, you didn't know how to act, you didn't know whether it was good or bad, then, at this time.your parents would act for you, you would know whether it was good or bad, right or wrong from your parents. How did you learn it? Your parents would explicitly tell you, if your parents didn't explicitly tell you, their attitudes, their facial expressions, their tone of voice would tell you, then you learned something was good, and something was bad.

Create a strong desire for your goal

To realize a goal, the goal can be wealth, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a better living environment, a skill, etc.
firstly, ask yourself, in your heart of hearts, do you desire it, for example, do you desire a girlfriend or boyfriend? Strangely enough, you say that you want to realize a goal, but you may actually not desire it in your heart of hearts, because when you say that you want to realize a goal, you actually mean that you should realize that goal, but actually you don't desire it.

One way to create a strong desire for something is by empathy. How does empathy work?
Say, your goal is to create wealth, but in your heart of hearts, you don't desire it. OK. That's fine. Imagine that there is a person in this world who has a burning desire for wealth. There should be such a person, right?
Then deeply empathize and write down his thoughts in his brain. Write down why he desperately desires wealth and what are his thoughts associated with wealth. Write down this paragraph, as long as possible. This is using empathy to borrow another person's mind. After writing down the paragraph, you will immediately desire wealth, and that's in your heart of hearts, you even don't know why you have that desire. But that's OK, we just need that desire, we don't care why you  have that desire. Don't believe this method? Give it a try and you will see that it works.

Another method is imagination and visualization. Image that you already have what in your goal, imagine the inviting scenario  with it or her, or him, you can also write down that scenario. How do you feel in that scenario, what do you do, what do you say, what do you look at, etc. This method also increases your desire. You may even crave it after this practice.

Competition

Differentiate your products or services from your competitors. Don't be the same as your competitors and then wage a price war. Focus on your own business, focus on the customer's needs, innovate your business to serve your customers better.

Don't always check what your competitors do. Because as you spend more time seeing what your competitors do, you have less time examining your own business and the customer's needs, you will inevitable become reactive to every move of your competitors and become a follower. Why not focus on your own business and customer's needs, be proactive, innovate your business, let your competitors check what you do and reactive to your moves, when they follow you and copy, congratulations, you become the leader in your industry.

Four steps to recondition your mind for realizing your goals

Four steps to recondition your mind for realizing your goals

It is a self-enlightenment process.

If you love yourself,  please enlighten yourself.     ---Steven Tu


First, please remember that we can't control the outer world, we can only control ourselves. We can control our thoughts(if we have learned how to do that), we can control our behaviors and actions(what we say, what we don't say, how we say it, our facial expressions, our body languages, what we do, what we don't do, how we do it.) We influence the outer world with our behaviors and actions. Our behaviors and actions are just product of our thoughts. Our thoughts are generated from our mind. We're the reason for everything, if we're not the reason to create it, then we're the reason to maintain it. We should not blame an external factor for something, because it doesn't help us. We should be the force which creates a result we desire, or we should be the force to change an undesirable situation or result.

More accurately, since our behaviors and actions(or inaction) are just a product of our thoughts and thoughts are generated from our mind, we can say that our mind is the reason for everything, if our mind is not the reason to create it, then our mind is the reason to maintain it. Our mind should be the force which creates a result we desire, or our mind should be the force to change or improve an undesirable situation or result.

For our physical problems, our thoughts can directly(without through behaviors and actions/inactions) be the reason for it, either be the reason to create it or be the reason to maintain it.


Second, you need to realize that when we came to this world, we had a few basic physiological habits(like that when we were hungry, we would want to eat something, when we were thirsty, we would want to drink something, we sucked milk to satisfy both needs.) and we understood body languages. Besides both, we didn't know anything else or have any other habits.  This means that our thoughts and habits are not innate, they are just learned. Since they are leaned, they can be unlearned, they are not innate, they are not like our lungs, our ears which can't be removed from us. Moreover, we only unlearn the thoughts/habits that harms us, and replace them with better ones that can help us.


Whenever you feel that something is against you realizing your goal,  you try to deal with the hindrance(Something against you realizing your goal), you feel emotion from yourself, then you should use this method. So two factors together hint that you should use this method, hindrance(you from realizing your goal) and emotion.

When you have an undesirable emotion, you can also use this method.


The four stops to recondition our mind for realizing our goals are as below:

Step 1: Write a paragraph to remind you and let you understand that your thoughts, habits(except for a few physiological habits) and tendencies are not innate, they are just learned after you came to this world.

Step 2:  Write down the hindrance, and then ask "why". Have you ever proved a geometric statement with backward induction? This process is like that. You keep asking yourself why to force yourself why, and you try to answer your own why questions until you can only answer your question with "I don't know." This conversation traces the thought back to its root.

Step 3: With the root thought or habit from the last question in step 3, write down how it affected you(or how it affected you from realizing your goal.) Your thoughts causes feelings, your feelings cause behaviors and actions, Your thoughts can also directly lead to certain behaviors and actions, your behaviors and actions influence the outer situation and outcome. Write down this chain process. With this thought, how would you feel, what behaviors or actions would you have, how the behaviors and actions would influence the outcome, until you realize that the thought wouldn't do you any good but harmed you.

Step 4: Based on Step 3, you already know how your thought would affect you, you replaced it with a new one you're willing to adopt.

I've already given several examples in previous posts. More examples will be given in new posts.