Lessons from the Excerpt 1, 2, and 3 : “THE QUESTION”

Before you begin reading about “the question,” i recommend first reading excerpt 1, 2, and 3 because this is a summary of all the three posts. Now, ‘the question’: Two boys. Two frogs. Two powerful choices. Riches or poverty. Life or death.

We are making these same choices, every day, every hour, and the choices we make are spreading out through our life, just like the water hyacinth.This is where we all go wrong with the choices because You may not see the results today, or tomorrow, or even next year. They do not happen in an instant.
In fact, by the time you do finally see the results, the process will probably be so far away that the surface of the pond will be completely covered.
Now the question is, covered with what?

When the wealthy man spoke to his sons, the second boy thought he was offering them a choice of which money to take. But the first boy listened more carefully. He remembered that money was only the second gift. He understood that the choice was not whether to take the penny or the sheaf of bills… the choice was whether or not to take the third gift.

Wisdom.

The lesson was not about money: it was about wisdom. It was a lesson about compound interest, leverage, geometric progression and growth. It was a lesson about the Slight Edge.

The choice the wealthy man offered his two sons is the same choice the world offers, every day, every hour: sickness or health; sinking poverty or abundant wealth; deepening loneliness and alienation or a rich and growing circle of friends.

The Slight Edge is the guide to the wealthy man’s third gift; it will help in learning habits of thought and action that will allow you to choose the penny doubled, every time. It will keep you paddling until your cream becomes butter. It gives you the power to choose what to plant in your life, so that you will end up completely blanketing the surface of the pond with the blossoms of your choice.
Use the slight edge to your advantage.

In my next post, i will clearly discuss what the slight edge is.

 

When you no longer need MONEY

When you no longer need it, then you can have it. Why is this still a paradox to us?
People go on every day chasing happiness, success, love, money, peace, Mr. charming, Miss perfect and so on. And the funny thing is that we have only been getting the shadows of what we are looking for.

What and who we are is determined largely by what and how we think. The book of  Proverbs 23:7 says, “As a person thinks within himself, so he is.” When you chase money, love, and what ever you need in life, you create the thought of lack within you. “I don’t have enough money so i will look for more, I don’t have love so i have to find, I want a better relationship, I wish i was born in better family!”  the list is too long.

It is when you no longer feel the need for money or love  that it will come. The feeling of need for something comes from the thought that you don’t have enough, and so you continue to create not having enough of what you want in life.

Day in and day out; we are always creating moments of joy, sadness, jealousy, happiness. We have the choice to choose!  And when it comes to money or love, you are either creating the lack of it or the abundance of it.  Which one are you creating?

In one of his books, Henry David Thoreau says; “Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”  This is very true.