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Wisdom Nuggets
Here are some more wisdom nuggets from Robert G. Allen’s e-book The Road to Wealth:
“Ask any successful person why they are so successful, and they will answer in two words: good decisions.
But how do you learn to make good decisions? One word: experience.
But how do you get experience? Two words: bad decisions.
Question: Are you willing to risk making enough bad decisions so that you can gain the experience necessary to be able to make good ones?”
“A negative thinker sees something suspicious on the horizon immediately imagines the worst and follows things to their logical negative conclusion. Something goes wrong, an unexpected bill, and before you can say “whoops” he is preparing for bankruptcy. No wonder a negative thinker never makes any success happen. He’s always too busy battening down the hatches because he thinks the sky is falling down.
On other hand, the optimistic thinker always tries to see things in a positive light – to follow things to their illogical positive conclusion. When he sees a problem on the horizon, he immediately starts trying to find something good with it. If you look hard enough, you know, you can always find something good. No wonder positive thinkers are always smiling.”
How to Develop the Skill of Grace Under Pressure
“When you find yourself in a stressful situation (i.e., a closing that is coming up, an especially important negotiation) you may discover that your normal cool is replaced with panic. With practice, you can learn to handle these situations with grace and poise. Here are some points to consider:
1. Step back and see the big picture. Almost invariably, when you find yourself losing your cool it is because you fail to see things in perspective. Look back ten years from where you have come. See the progress you have made. View your present situation as just another stepping stone in your long-term progression. Ask yourself where you are going to be in 10 years. The stress you feel in your present circumstances will diminish when viewed in this context.
2. Review your goals, Hannah More wrote, “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes of the goal.” Keep your eyes on the goal, and you won’t have time to lose your cool.
3. Realize that stress is caused by fear. Fear is not a thing. It’s just a thought. It can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. So get out of your own way. Quit thinking fear thoughts. Start thinking success thoughts.
4. Give yourself a pep talk with phrases like these: Inch by inch, anything’s a cinch. No pain, no gain. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Who am I doing this for? My family. Is their long-term success more important to me than this momentary stress that seems to be holding me back? Yes. Is there any other way? No. Then do it.
5. Do it now. Develop the habit of doing what you need to do when the thought comes to you. Don’t put it off. Your habit of procrastination is really just another camouflage for of fear. You must face it. Do it now.
The ability to exude grace under pressure is the result of passing through many positive and negative experiences in which you finally see that you can handle whatever gets thrown at you. Things are rarely all or nothing, make or break, do or die. Regardless of the outcome, the sun still comes up in the morning. Life teaches that things are never as good as they seem or as bad as you imagine. Even the failures often turn out to be the best answer in the long run. There are good things in bad situations and bad things in good situations. There are just as few reasons to be overly excited about something, as there are to be overly despondent. Wisdom dictates that you learn to be more even-tempered. Moderation in all things, and from this comes grace.”
Inspiration
I love books. There is so much wisdom in each one of them. So much experience, so many lessons to be learned… Books inspire us, and satisfy our hunger for knowledge. They let our imagination loose and answers questions, “what if?” “what is more?” “how come?” They bring us to different worlds. They open our minds, so we can expand our vision.
Recently, I finished e-book The Road to Wealth by Robert G. Allen. He is a best-selling author and real estate guru. Also, he teaches thousands of people real estate tricks and how to start an information empire. He is wealthy in knowledge and very generous with information. This is a second book I read by him and looking forward in reading other books of his, including “Nothing Down.”
Here, I want to share some excerpts and quotes from Robert G. Allen e-book, The Road to Wealth, that will make you think, encourage you, inspire you. It inspired me, for sure. Enjoy these nuggets of wisdom:
“Confidence comes with practice.”
“Don’t look at the immensity of the goal. Don’t look down at the penalty for failure. Just keep your eyes on the next step.”
“You’ll slip and bruise yourself. Maybe even break a leg, figuratively. But you’ll heal, and if you maintain the proper attitude, you’ll emerge a stronger, more courageous and less fearful person.”
“Face your fear. You always find the best fishing holes in the places where the average fisherman is afraid to go.”
“The masses are always afraid. This leaves more for the few who dare. We don’t have shortage of opportunity in America. We have a shortage of courage. The lakes are teeming with fish. But you have to dare to climb the cliffs to get them. Where the risks are great the rewards are greater.
Once you understand this concept, you’ll never lack for anything again. That is, if you’re able to overcome your fear.”
“As in all fairy tales, if you want to marry the princess, you have to slay the dragon. The greatest dragon you’ll ever face is your own fear. ”
“If you can learn to live with the fear, the world is yours.”
“Watch the crowd. Go in the opposite direction. Success does not come by following the crowd. Where there are many fishermen, the lakes get fished out fast. You must not be afraid to go against the grain – to go alone to unclaimed territory.”
“To be successful you must learn to be different. Find true friends who will admire you for your courage. Any friend who encourages you to be less than you can be is not real friend by anyone’s standard. Be different. While the masses seek security, do the contrary. March out into the risk. If the masses huddle in a corner, afraid, stand out from them. Face your fear. Look around you. See the masses standing in lives, waiting for someone to take care of them. Step out of line and form a new line – with you at the head of it.
If fear of failure causes the multitudes to cower, let this be your cue. Like all great people before you, determined to fail way to success if necessary.
If the masses yearn to be loved, strive instead to be respected. It is greater to be respected than to be loved. For respect is the foundation of love. There can be no love without it. When you learn to face your fear, you will come to respect yourself. And you will be irresistible. It takes courage to step out of the line marked “security” into the line marked “risk.”
“You’re already wealthy. You are your wealth. Wealth is not having. It’s being. Nothing you have is as important as what you are.”
“Acceptance is harder to give than advice but infinitely more valuable.”
“From ashes of failure grew my greatest success.”
“If you refuse to accept failure, you cannot fail. You may fall down a cliff or two, but you must learn to get up, dust yourself off and keep climbing. Only those who are willing to fail again and again deserve to make it to the top.”
“The brain is the most powerful computer in the world – your personal Einstein.”
“How do you stretch your brain to accept bigger and bigger ideas? Associate with big thinkers.”
“Often hunches are correct. Try to create an environment in which hunches can be nurtured.
Feed the faith, starve the doubt. Learning how to recognize and follow this still-small voice can lead us to levels of success that we could not attain otherwise.
Thus, by listening to positive thinkers, reading positive books and by learning to follow our hunches, we can actually program ourselves to be more successful.
One of the best brain-stretching activities is some form of regular exercise. Exercise builds self-esteem. And self-esteem is the fuel that keeps us running after other people give up. The better you feel about yourself, the more willing you will be to accept those big ideas from others and those hunches from your own computer.”
“You are obliged to help other people in anyway you can because it’s going to come back to you. Your success is assured if you help enough people get what they want.”
“Whatever you plant in your life, you’re going to get back.”
Interesting Ways How to Make Millions
“Paul Hartunian figured out how to make a fortune from selling pieces of the bridge. This is a true story. Hartunian was working as paramedic, looking for his lucky break. One day he was watching a newscast of some work crews repairing parts of the Brooklyn Bridge – taking down old wooden beams and carting them away. And this idea popped into his head. He immediately called down to the construction site and asked the project manager if he could buy the old wood. Of course, the manager thought the wood was worthless so he was happy to get rid of it.
Hartunian took the old beams of lumber and had them sliced into one-inch-square and 1/8-inch-thick pieces of wood and glued them onto an official certificate saying that the holder of the certificate had purchased the Brooklyn Bridge, or a piece thereof. Then he did something quite remarkable. He sent a press release to hundreds of media outlets that said, “New Jersey Man Sells the Brooklyn Bridge for $14.95!” His phone rang off the hook! Literally hundreds of media outlets called him on the phone and wanted to learn more. He ended up selling thousands of these pieces for $14.95, plus a couple bucks for shipping and handling. He turned those old, worthless beams into SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.”
“Cindy Cashman took an old idea and added a twist to it and made a fortune in the information business. Cindy was able to purchase a huge mansion on a lake in Texas, having made over a million dollars from marketing her specialty book, which she published with a partner. You might have seen her book, Everything Men Know About Women, by Dr. Alan Francis (her pseudonym). But here’s the real amazing part: Cindy’s book is totally blank! There isn’t a single word printed on any of the 128 pages of this paperback! And yet women bought this book by the caseload. A hundred books at a time to give to their friends! Cindy made enough to retire.”
The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen.
What great idea lurking in your head? Follow it through. You never know unless you try it! 
The Real Rocky Story
In 1974 Sylvester Stallone was a broke, discouraged actor and screenwriter. While attending a boxing match he became inspired by a “nobody” boxer who “went the distance” with the great Mohammed Ali.
He rushed home and in a three-day burst of creative output produced the first draft of the screenplay entitled Rocky.
Down to his last $106, Stallone submitted his screenplay to his agent. A studio offered $20,000 with either Ryan O’Neal or Burt Reynolds playing the lead character. Stallone was excited by the offer but wanted to play the lead himself. He offered to act for free. He was told, “That’s not the way it works in Hollywood.” Stallone turned down the offer though he desperately needed the money.
Then they offered him $80,000 on the condition that he wouldn’t play the lead. He turned them down again.
They told him that Robert Redford was interested, in which case they’d pay him $200,000. He turned them down once more.
They upped their offer to $300,000 for his script. He told them that he didn’t want to go through his whole life wondering “what if?”
They offered him $330,000. He told them that he’d rather not see the movie made if he couldn’t play the lead.
They finally agreed to let him play the lead. He was paid $20,000 for the script plus $340 per week minimum actor’s scale. After expenses, agent fees, and taxes, he netted about $6,000 instead of $330,000.
In 1976 Stallone was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor. The movie Rocky won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. The Rocky series has since grossed almost $1 billion, making Sylvester Stallone an international movie star!
Follow your gut. Stick to your guns. – from book The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen.
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