A HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT

Posted: 26 Jun 2007 07:34 PM GMT-06:00 "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."                         - Rita Rudner    If you live close to Phoenix (and even if you don't) you'll want to sign up quickly for the limited-seating live event I'm doing August 4th, 2007 called 100 Ways to Create Wealth.       Some people who have already signed up are people we have given books and CDs to as a way to simply get to know them and, especially, to serve them. A lot of people ask me why I do that. Why do I honestly and truly care more about serving people than selling them?       Unselfish service has a magical track record.       President George Washington was known for signing all his letters, "Your most humble and obedient servant."       No one questioned his power. What they didn't know is where he got it: in his commitment to serve. He knew the power and the grace he could get from service.       Service is the opposite of inferiority to another person because in service, the other person can't touch you. You are so high above your emotional center, you can't be intimidated. When your focus is on service, you are in the most spirited part of your being and it gives you the feeling of having wings.       People used to ask Mother Teresa how she found the inner strength to live such a life of self-sacrifice. All of her selfless service to the poor seemed so unimaginable to the journalists who interviewed her. However, as she often said in her interviews, "If people knew how much joy I was experiencing, they wouldn't consider this to be a sacrifice."       People who serve are way beyond the opinions of others. They are not worried about what other people think of them. They are too busy serving. And, as my mother used to annoy me by saying, "Busy hands are happy hands."       Studies at Harvard University show that helping others has a measurable impact on the immune system of the body. Even thinking about reaching out to serve others has a dramatic effect. Harvard researchers had 132 students watch a film of Mother Teresa helping the sick and dying in Calcutta. After the viewing they tested the saliva of the students for the level of immunoglobulin A, a vital defense against the cold virus. They found that students who watched the film, no matter whether they admired the work of Mother Teresa or not, experienced dramatic increases in immunity. Then the students were asked to watch a film about Nazi Germany and Hitler, and the same test was made afterward. The immune systems were depressed after the Nazi movie. This experiment has been called "The Mother Teresa Effect" ever since, because it has helped scientists explain why people who are serving others live so much longer.       Dr. Allen Luks created a breakthrough study of what he called "helper's high"---the rush of endorphins into the brain that people get when they help other people. He compared it favorably to "runner's high," and demonstrated that people who are in the act of helping others receive profound physiological and psychological benefits.       Meditation expert Dr. Herbert Benson also concluded that helping others gave the same kind of relief from stress that meditation gave, if not more.       Once when meeting with the Dalai Lama, Benson asked the famous holy man what one could do to maintain inner peace and joy once the meditating was over and it was time to go out into the chaotic world. The Dalai Lama replied simply, "Look at what's in front of you."       In the years that followed that conversation, Benson pondered that answer. "For a while I wasn't sure what he meant," said Benson. "Then I realized that by looking at what's in front of you, you attach your thoughts to other persons. That breaks the message of stress. And now I see that a way to make that really happen for a lengthy period is through helping."       Serving others breaks the message of stress because stress comes from focusing on personal worries. The more I worry about myself, the more worried I become and soon I am even worried that I might be worrying too much.       But the moment I shift that focus to what's in front of me, I see someone who could use some help. And the more I help, the higher I get. That's the huge personal benefit to making a difference in another person's life. The book 100 Ways to Create Wealth dives deeply into giving versus getting as the source of happiness in life.       I've been coaching, training and consulting with businesses and individuals for 15 years and I have never dared to do a program like 100 Ways to Create Wealth---a program that reveals (and destroys) the central BLOCK to making money---the one consistent OBSTACLE in the brain of the person desiring a breakthrough in their wealth curve.       What's that block we put up? We are reacting. We are distracted. We are busy. We are overwhelmed. We are solving problems and fighting fires. And none of that activity creates wealth. Not the kind of wealth you want to create---not the kind of quantum breakthrough that would give you total financial freedom.       There are certain activities that you do that would produce wealth. Yet 80% of the day (at the very least) is spent on OTHER NON-WEALTH PRODUCING DISTRACTIONS. You are busy instead of effective.       How do I know this? Because in those 15 years of working with small businesses and professional individuals like you it has always been the case that what is stopping you from a wealth breakthrough is distraction. A habit of reaction. How busy you always are with other things. Life has become one big emergency.       Bestselling self-help author and radio talk show host Michael Neill said about the wealth book Sam and I have written, "After years of reading books about how all I needed to do to have more money was 'think positive' and 'visualize success,' it dawned on me that I had accumulated more books than money. Steve Chandler helped me to turn that around and in three months I earned more than I had in the previous year. Want to know the real 'secret' to creating wealth? Read this wise and wonderful book!"       My friend and partner Sam Beckford co-wrote this book with me. He became a millionaire in his early 30s (just a few short years ago) after failing FIVE TIMES in business. His five business failures taught him so much that he became a millionaire, and has coached literally hundreds of small businesses to become highly profitable. He discovered the same thing I did: failure comes from distraction and emotion. Success comes from logic and discipline.       Discipline is remembering what you want.       We distilled and compressed 100 ways to rejuvenate your approach so that you are CREATING wealth all day instead of reacting to problems. This is not the Law of Attraction as taught in The Secret. (Even though one of the key people in the DVD of The Secret now raves about our book.) The law of attraction is good but it's only step one---getting your mind cleared for a vision. 100 Ways to Create Wealth is about action and execution as well. Just doing it.       I've had my own painful lessons, too, in how NOT to become wealthy. I'll share those with you. This program won't be about investments or money management. This will be about actually generating a flow of wealth into your life, dramatic and immediate. What you do with it is your business and for other experts to discuss.       My dream has always been to take this teaching to the world, so that anyone who chooses to can become wealthy. There is no longer any mystery to it. You don't need rich parents or years of study at the Harvard Business School. You just need to know what you love to do, and then apply the 100 Ways to that.       I've been asked to make a presentation of this book's content at the University of Santa Monica in January. I am donating that day and taking no fee for myself. As a service to the University I believe in. The president of that University, Dr. Ron Hulnick said: "100 Ways To Create Wealth is more than worth its weight in gold. If you apply only one of the ways, your wealth will increase significantly. Applying four or more will change your whole life."       Believe me, come to one of these events and we will apply more than four.

Comments

[Cristine]

Was it just me? I'm afraid I found I codlun't listen to the Radio 4 adaptation of Life and Fate after having been able so very powerfully to imagine the characters in all their Russian-ness' when reading Robert Chandler's translation. I read it only about 9 months ago so it is still very fresh in my mind, and I just found the radio characters incredibly English' in the way that only radio drama (and particularly Radio 4 drama) does them accents especially but a whole manner as well somehow. Adopting fake Russian accents would be ridiculous and patronising (wouldn't it?) so I don't know what the answer is to this or any other adaptation, but I do know it grated terribly against what was in my imagination, to the extent that I had to switch it off. Maybe the fact that I am Welsh has something to do with it, I don't know, but did anyone else have this unfortunate experience?

[monil]

Dear Steve Sir,

I follow your Blog , Website and Read your books religiously. I would appreciate if you can srite more about your book 100 ways to create wealth and wealth creation program you have with sam beckford.

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