Out & About
Happy Chinese New Year 2007...Kong Hei Fatt
Choy!
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Prosperity. Fook. That's the Chinese character for it,
but placed upside down as you can
see in the pix.
Why is it upside down? Because it's meant to ensure
that money, wealth,
prosperity pours into the bottom of the character which
has the Chinese word for box. In fact, the character
looks like a box, so prosperity will pour straight into
the box! Maybe that's why we
say, "bottoms up?" (Just kidding!)
Well, prosperity is what most of us want. Some will get
it. Some won't. And those who get it, need to work hard
at it.
I've found that if you're hard at it, life becomes easier.
But if you're easy at addressing life's issues, then life
becomes hard.
T Harv Eker in his wonderful book, Secrets of the
Millionaire Mind, writes a formula that makes a lot
of
sense.
It's CZ = WZ
In other others,
your
Comfort
Zone equals your Wealth Zone.
If you stay within your comfort zone, and never stretch
yourself, you'll always remain where you currently are.
Richness and prosperity come only when you stretch
yourself outside of your comfort zone.
There's a term for it in biology...it's called
homeostasis. It's a process for maintaining
physiological equilibrium in the functions, chemical
composition, and so forth of an organism. Or we could
say that it's a tendency for living organisms to stay
comfortable in it's environment...a comfort zone! To
grow, we must break through that environment.
So plan more. Do more. Make that extra
sales call. Practice your presentation opening and
closing one more time. Then do it again. And again.
Go see what else the customer needs. Then go
beyond what s/he expects you to do. Go
the extra mile.
Say 'Hello' to a stranger and be the first
to make a new acquaintance. You'll never know
whether this could turn out into good business in the
future.
Then do it again the next day. And the next.
Get at those extra duties. Volunteer for more work.
Network with more people. Solve
more problems. Become more productive at work.
Become more performance oriented. Help your team
mates more. Smile more!
And at home, love more. Understand more.
Communicate better. Talk more. Have more empathy.
Then watch your Prosperity bowl just fill up! Go on. Try
it. Just do it day by day. Don't try to go hard for a whole
year...just do it...one day at a time. Do the thing and
you will have the power. Little by little you will gain that
power to prosperity.
Then write to me at the end of the year and tell me
how much prosperity you've accumulated! I betcha it'll
be a whole lot of abundance and more!
