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.