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[4 Mar 2010 | 7 Comments | ]

Lately, I have been going through another metamorphosis.
I am beginning to understand prosperity as a mindset, as opposed to a lifestyle, or at least the lifestyle promoted by the commercial media as prosperous.
As a matter of fact, I think most of what we see on the popular media as prosperity is based on lack thinking as opposed to prosperity thinking.
Prosperity thinking, as I understand it, means that there is ALWAYS enough in the world to meet everyone’s need and wants. There is never any lack of resources. If there is …

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[26 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

I have been generating a lot of motion lately…
… but not producing very much action.
And that’s not anything new.
What IS new is the realization that I am doing so.
Oh sure, I’ve known that before, and it has been brought to my attention before, but that was merely a recognition of the fact, NOT realization.
Recognition is becoming aware of something. Realization is becoming conscious of it.
When you become conscious of something, then it impacts your actions. It guides and motivates your actions.
Motion makes you feel that you are busy doing things. …

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[11 Feb 2010 | One Comment | ]

Now that I have stared at this blank screen for a good portion of two hours, and I say a good portion of it, because, I had dozed off for a while, I may as well type something on it, be it only a confession that I can’t figure out how to write a post tonight.
I wanted to tell you about a wonderful product my good blogging buddy, J D Bentley, over at Wage Slave Rebel has come up with, but I just couldn’t think of an opening line. So, …

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[9 Feb 2010 | 6 Comments | ]

“No matter how little I do, sometimes I feel I can do even less.” — Garfield, the cat
I honestly believe that hard work is overrated. A millionaire friend of mine once told me, “Rasheed, if hard work was the answer, then all the (manual laborers) would be rich.”
In his classic book Science of Getting Rich Wallace D Wattles says that in order to become rich you must learn to take effective action. Others have called it the 80/20 principle. 80% of your results are produced by 20% of your efforts. …

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[13 Jan 2010 | 5 Comments | ]

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I have been preaching the be yourself sermon for eons, but I realized that I haven’t been practicing it very much, and we all know how successful preachers who don’t practice what they preach are.
So I decided to do a meditation (write my Morning Pages) on what being me really means.
It went something like writing a page of Gibberish, and then BAM!
What am I supposed to do now?
Nothing! The question is what do you WANT to do, Rasheed? Not what you think you can, not what you should, not …