"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive
everybody everything every night before you go to bed."
~BERNARD BARUCH
Bernard Baruch lived 94 fruitful, prosperous, energetic and happy years.
He was an American financier, statesman, and a consultant to public figures before they used the word coaching. After his success in business he devoted his time toward advising Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.
Baruch was highly regarded as an elder statesman. He was a man of immense charm who enjoyed a larger-than-life reputation that matched his considerable fortune. Baruch is remembered as one of the most powerful men of the early 20th century!
When asked about his long life and success, Bernard Baruch said he discovered the key to freedom when he was younger. He said, "In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
What? What about winning people over and dealing with outside obstacles?
I learned Baruch's lesson late in life. But what does late mean? Nothing! Because of coaching, I switched my whole life from the outside to the inside. I can't control the outside, but I can control the inside.
Imagine going to the airport with a huge suitcase. You don't even consider trying to take it onto the plane with you because you know it won't fit or be allowed. So you check this bag and let the airline take care of it.
But what if you tried to board a plane the same way I used to live my life? You'd be carrying all the baggage on to the plane! All your hurts and resentments and tiny betrayals would get carried on board with you. Imagine going through the airport and picking up other bags, not even your own, and trying to carry all of them onto the plane with you! Your spouse's baggage, your kids', and all your parents' baggage. Is there even room on this whole plane?
That sounds like a slapstick comedy, but it's how I lived my life. Until I found out about getting coached and how dramatically a human can change for the better.
By trying to carry all this baggage (by trying to remember who had done me wrong, who I don't trust, who disappointed me,) I was too burdened to fly.
The internal power that can lift you up through your career is more like the internal power that Superman had than the external power Rambo tried impose on events. Rambo was a human being who could be brought down by a bullet. And if he were shot in the heart, he'd be dead; there'd be no more Rambo.
But Superman had the ability to have things bounce off of him. So he had a power beyond Rambo. Things would just glance off of him. If someone fired a bullet, he'd just push it away with his hand and move on; it wouldn't affect who Superman was. That's why his archetype calls to us. That's why he endures and speaks to the inner hero in children and adults.
Or, again, as Bernard Baruch said, "One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed."
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Email me if you want to be in the next coaching prosperity school. StephenDchandler@cs.com. Four people have verbally committed so there are three spots left. Tell me if you want one. You'll have a specific financial goal to hit in your six month program with me. You'll have seven successful coaches coaching you toward hitting that goal. How could you not hit that goal?
One of the texts for the work we will do will be Larry Winget's book, You're Broke Because You Want To Be. Not that I think you're broke. But you get the point.
I used a novel and a coach I admire by the name of Robert Chance to dramatize an idea. This idea is this: we are seduced by the easier, softer way. We look to "attract abundance" because we think it's easier than just going out and serving people and earning money. We are wrong to think there's a mystical magical attractor factor when it comes to money. We are gullible.
But down inside, we are stronger than we know.
The direct route to wealth, as a coach or any other profession is the simplest and the most exciting way to go.
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