Building
Abundance
6-week eCourse by Randy Gage
Lesson Four: The Purpose
That Drives Your Life
“That’s the difference with
you,” my friend remarked at dinner one night. “You
really don’t care what people think about you.”
“That’s true,” I responded.
“No, I mean you really don’t
care!”
Guilty as charged. Now I would be lying if
I told you it was always that way. In fact, quite the opposite.
Now I could regale you with stories from my
childhood and analyze where my insecurities came from—but
what’s the point. Existence exists. Things are what
they are. Or as I have been known to tell guys in my seminars,
“If I find your inner child, I’m going to kick
his little ass!”
At some point, you have to let it go. Move
on with your life. You have to be willing to give up your
victim mentality and go past that, for that is where the real
breakthroughs are.
Once you have strong self-esteem, you really
don’t care what others think of you. You really get
that the responsibility is theirs, and has nothing to do with
you.
So we’ve really got two issues here,
both springing off of the same base. First is the issue of
self-confidence, and the second is having a thought process
different than most people. Not participating in “tribal
thought.”
How do you develop the natural tendency to think
different for success and not participate in “tribal
thought?”
It all begins with your fundamental core values.
The things that are the most important to you, as this drives
the actions you take every day. And these spring forth from
your central purpose in life. Which immediately tells you
why most people go through their entire lives sick, broke
and stupid.
Now I don’t say that to be mean or arrogant,
but we need to speak truth here. And the truth is that most
people struggle through life simply reacting to events around
them, oblivious to the fact that they help to create those
events. Like a ship tossed at sea, they see themselves buffeted
by external circumstances, a tiny object subject to the wrath
of the universe.
Most people are nowhere near ideal health.
In fact, you could conservatively estimate that 90% of them
suffer from obesity, low energy, disease, or a combination
of these.
Most people are nowhere near wealthy. Now that
may sound crass, in light of how much prosperity there appears
to be in developed countries like the States, Europe, Asia
and many other places. And there is no doubt that a great
deal of progress has been made.
Even most people considered poor in those areas
have good shelter, electricity, telephone, heating/air conditioning,
and of course—TV. So while they are wildly rich by the
standards of the third world—truth is, many of these
people are one hospital bill, or two weeks layoff from bankruptcy.
Personal debt has never been higher, and personal savings
have never been lower. These people give the appearance of
being prosperous, but the reality is that they are broke.
Which brings us to door number three. Stupid.
Just the fact that most people live their lives sick and broke
tells us that they are not rocket scientists. And before you
accuse me of arrogance and insensitivity, stop. I’m
not happy that those people live that way. And while I agree
many were born as victims of circumstances, I don’t
believe they have to stay that way.
I myself was born sick, broke and stupid, and
lived almost 30 years in that reality. But I ultimately prevailed
in rising above that, and I believe everyone can. And that
is why I write this now, and do the work that I do. I want
you, and millions more like you to taste the life of health,
abundance, and intellectual stimulation. To look forward to
each and every day with eager anticipation, passion and joy.
Now to do that, however, may
take having a dramatic shift in your mindset, beliefs and
opinion on life . . .
It may mean developing a life purpose for the
first time, or replacing the one you have right now. And that
may mean you have to dramatically alter the view you have
of yourself, and your role in the world. If you’re like
most sick, broke and stupid people, you define yourself by
your roles (husband, engineer, symphony board member, etc.),
and you view your purpose through the eyes of servicing others,
contributing to the greater good, or looking after the people
around you.
If this is the case—you are insane. And
you’re no doubt sick, broke, and stupid!
Now if you haven’t thrown this lesson
away after that last statement, let me explain my comments.
If you define yourself by your roles (Ray’s wife, Becky’s
husband), then you have no personal identity. Which means
a low self-esteem and opinion of yourself.
And if you see your main purpose in life as
serving others, you’re probably personally responsible
for the founding of at least three co-dependents anonymous
chapters. Let me go on the record and say, if your main purpose
in life is to “serve others” or “serve God”—you
have an extremely low opinion of yourself, don’t believe
you are worthy, and will experience a tremendous amount of
lack and limitation in your life.
Now you might come back with something like,
“Really, I don’t need all those outside things
to be happy. I don’t care about money and material things.
A car just gets you from point A to point B. I am happy to
live in a hut in the rain forest and teach the savages about
Christianity. If I get enough grubs to eat, and a thatched
roof over my head I am happy. I am serving others, which is
the noble thing. I am doing God’s work, and I will be
rewarded in the afterlife.”
Now you could come back with this type of recourse.
And if you did, put this down right now, back away from your
binder and call in to cancel your membership immediately.
You are so stupid and emotionally dysfunctional, there is
nothing I can do for you. Sell all of your possessions immediately
and join an Ashram, monastery, or cult. Or you might want
to consider running away with the carnival.
You have a condition. A condition clinically
termed insanity.
So why do I say that? Well let’s look
at what exactly insanity is. I would define it as: “Unsoundness
of mind to render a person unfit to maintain a relationship,
or look after his or her own needs for emotional well being
and survival.”
People who spend their existence worrying
solely about the needs of others and not themselves are not
nobles, benevolent, and spiritual. They are crazy.
And because they don’t look after their
own needs first, they really can’t help others in a
healthy way. They can console them, participate in their drama,
or enable their co-dependence, but they can’t offer
them real, meaningful help.
Or to repeat an oft-quoted line from a character
in “The Fountainhead...”
“To say ‘I love you,’ one
must first know how to say the word ‘I.’”
You know that to love anyone else, you must
first love yourself. But are you really aware of what that
means on a practical application level? Ayn Rand taught, and
I absolutely believe she was correct, when she said you must
live your life by the fundamental values of:
Purpose.
Self-esteem.
Reason.
What do you think when I tell you that...
Your highest moral purpose must be
your own happiness.
Does that threaten you? Offend you? Make you
angry? If so, please take a good look at that. Because this
is the only healthy, sane way to live. And the only way that
ensures the survival of the species, and the well being of
most people. In fact, it is the only honorable way to conduct
any relationship!
-RG
* Chapter excerpt from "Accept Your
Abundance" by Randy Gage.
Prosperity Action Step
1. Think about the values/things that are most
important to you in your life
2. How might those values be holding you back
from living a life of true abundance?
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