I honestly believe it's one person at a time. I know that may sound naive as vast nations keep moving vast sums of borrowed money around trying frantically to keep their treasuries afloat.
How could one person counter this?
But recently a client of mine told me about one person. One person donated a gift to his small college in the midwest. And it was an anonymous cash gift of $100,000,000. Yes you read that right, one hundred million dollars.
Steve Jobs was one person, and look at all the wealth (and jobs) he created. True, too, with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. He was one person, one nerdy college student in a dorm creating a network for the school to connect with online.
Creating.
A woman I know is a wonderful actress and could have remained simply an actress forever but instead divined a mission to teach women to become amazing trim and fit through pole dancing and music....Sheila Kelley... now a movement... called SFactor... check her out.... here: www.sfactor.com/
Although SFactor now employs hundreds and serves thousands, Sheila Kelley started it from zero. Nothing. And now all this.
Sheila, too, is one person.
I myself pay various coaches, designers, event planners, airlines, bookkeepers, accounting people, etc.... I pay them money and add to their own prosperity. I am able to do this because my books and my seminars sell. In fact, my books sell in China. China pays me for that... China pays one person.
Our government borrows money from China just to make the interest payments on its own out of control debt. But I don't borrow from China; the money
China sends me is for work I have done.
I don't owe China anything. I am one person.
You are one person.
I believe that one person at a time we can create worldwide prosperity.
I am ready to start.
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If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop.
~ Rolling Stones
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HIGHLY Recommended reading:
Change Your World One Word At A Time: How the way we speak creates our lives by David Firth
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The Making of a Bestseller
Steve Chandler's Authors' Roundtable
June 29, Phoenix, Arizona, 8am to 5pm.
For published authors (self-published and traditionally published, OR have a finished manuscript that we can read).
How to write your breakout book, instead of simply your "next book."
How to do final edits on your book so that it changes from "a good book" to a bestseller.
The writing process.
How to make use of Robert Frost's advice, "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader...No surprise for the author, no surprise for the reader."
Learn why your previous book had no tears and no surprises.
Creative marketing and promotion of your book versus standard ineffective promo and marketing activity.
Word of mouth marketing for today's world of interconnected "friends."
How to write and promote a bestseller.
This roundtable has limited seating around the table and is hosted by Steve Chandler, author of 32 books, and six bestsellers.
Nine hundred dollars.
Email to apply: [email protected]
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Posted by: Deno | June 03, 2012 at 04:06 AM
hey Rich
I love your comment... you are right..... if you
are WILLING and CREATIVE and want to serve people, the opportunity is always there.....
Steve
Posted by: steve chandler | May 15, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Outstanding post. Steve Chandler is a hero, on a hero's quest. He always reminds me to stay focussed on the opportunity.
I graduated from college in mid-70's. America was consumed by Watergate. The Rust Belt industries were starting to die. My father's company -- a place where I planned to work -- was starting to fail, and would be bankrupt in 3 years. I was despondent -- where would I find a job? How would I survive? What I didn't know was that, at that exact time in history, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were busy inventing the personal computer, and other geniuses were busy creating the Internet -- two astonishing acts of creativity that literally "reinvented the world," and created millions of jobs. I often think of this when I start to mope. What can I create that will make the world a better place? As Steve so aptly points out, the opportunity is ALWAYS there, waiting for us.
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