Live a long and fruitful life

   "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.

Comments

[Abdeltowab]

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[Ali]

Actually the rogue programmer would NOT be a Spinozist in my eyes. As the blog makes clear, Iraq is, tnlceihacly, a democracy. Whether it is a good democracy, or one that will persist, is a completely different matter.Spinoza wants us to view the world as it is, not as we imagine it. He also spends a lot of time on definitional accuracy.Moreover, I cannot think of a company less stuffed with Spinozists than AAPL. Its failed megalomaniacal, monopolistic tendencies, its refusal to share/license (unlike blessed Microsoft), its overweening arrogance, all these things smack of a bunch of Stupid Cartesians.I do not think many companies have Spinozist tendencies. But the short list of tech companies that do include Nokia and TomTom. Optical telecoms equipment companies like Ciena or ADVA are also Spinozist, but only insofar as optics was a pursuit of Spinoza himself. Did you get your N95 yet? They are out in the UK at least.

[Jucatorpo]

Yes, in the nonexistent, i.e. imbpssiole, universal morality point of our view, their laws are barbaric when compared to our laws. Baruch, you are not Iranian. You are not positioned to pass judgment on the laws that 65 million Iranians have accepted. Please, don't take issue with this word accepted . Laws can not please everyone and freedom fighters/terrorists will be jailed or worse until the collective will of the people overturns the regime. You are positioned to evaluate your local laws and how the elected representatives are upholding your value system. The US perpetrates and suffers its own crimes against universal morality. Look in the mirror and cast not the first stone. Its too easy to find fault with others choose the more difficult task of seeking out these faults within your own. Bento, UDHR is a wonderful 60 year old piece of paper (like all laws). Iran went though a cultural revolution in the early '80 s and became an Islamic caliphate. That would explain why this UDHR is not relevant or applicable in their eyes. If you take the time to discover the number and type of UN resolutions the USA has vetoed, you would direct your UDHR upholding efforts at the US, not Iran. The US has directly or indirectly been involved in supporting more torture, destruction and killing, than Iran. I believe that US citizens (and all humans) are intrinsically good. If we, the people, start to use our voices (or blogs) not for cheering for the home team , (which is really easy!), but for changing the rule book from that of self-interest to a more enlightened form of govenance, based on respect for self-determination and diversity, we may affect that which we are entitled to affect our own behavior.I realize this is counter to what one may call the human condition , but a worthy cause and exercise non-the-less. What is the point of having countless baby-kissing, barbarian bashing blogs?! Think about the relative view and enlighten, or at least intellectually challenge, those around you who are ignorant of it. Otherwise, we start to believe our own propaganda

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