"Different Paths to the Same Finish Line"

"Different Paths to the Same Finish Line"

From the Recaps Archives originally posted on 6/21/2019

Dinarville Seems To Have Some Undeniable Divisions In It – Which Kind Of Reminds Me Of The Three Sects In Iraq 

Dinarville seems to have some undeniable divisions in it – which kind of reminds me of the three sects in Iraq.

Each one sure of their path and beliefs, and ‘they’ are right – or somehow more correct than the other two.

It seems to me, there are those that follow the Elders, Dragons, Chinese – Landa Global (zap) – bonds and their redemptions….

Then those that are following global economics, implosion, crash, the changes internationally in banking, old system out while new system comes in….

We have the republic folks, believing in our constitution being restored to the way it should have remained before we were all duped…

And we have the Iraq newshounds, following each move made there, each step of each law, watching them follow a well laid out blueprint and many of these folks know more about THEIR government than they do their OWN!

Many of these groups claiming this all 'has nothing to do with the other!'

Unfortunately, it’s sad when each of these sects in dinarville speak so terribly of the others – and develop such venom towards another's beliefs, one guru against another, and dinarians follow that lead.…. I say – BIG DEAL! Who cares..

 It’s not all that important what the rest of the gang thinks, or believes – they have waited just as long as the rest, sweated, hurt, and tried their best to hang in there based on what they believe.

All that's important is that YOU are comfortable with what YOU believe - that's all that matters at the end of the day, that we're ready.

Each one - of these sections of Dinarville – also seems to have a few leaders in their arena to choose from.. some which make a living at this, others that don’t.. again – who cares what they get.

Anyone noticed how extremely well respected and highly educated individuals believe directly opposite from the way you do?? doctors, lawyers, doctorate degrees in dinarville -

I think they can be found on each of these 'paths'....

I just find it extremely ironic – that each one of these different avenues seem to be reaching an end and in their final scene. Anyone else notice this?

The Republic folks are all giddy with excitement, the last leg, seeing what they have dreamed of finally coming to an end, etc….

The Bond Redemptions – are reported to be upon us for those that have lived the Chinese angle with every breath and dollar they have…

And Iraq is about to vote on their final laws, talking everyday about deleting zeros and international compliance of this, that, and more!

Is there only one road to the finish line? Who said so?…

Could there be truths in each path? Ha!!

I think it’s mighty amazing tho – that all of these paths seem to be in the final scene, right now – and never has that been the case in the past that I know of.

Goes back to the ‘we are one big Dinarian family’ – heck, families never get along with EVERYONE in their family – but it’s so darn true… and, over the last year or so – I’ve certainly become less judgmental when others have beliefs total opposite to mine…

Chances are – they will arrive at that finish line following their path precisely the same time as me!

.Does Money Buy Happiness?

.From Dinar Recaps Archives posted on 6/25/2019

Does Money Buy Happiness?
Britain’s Most Eccentric Billionaire Reveals the Truth
October 22, 2018 By The Money Wizard

If you’re from the United Kingdom, you’ve no doubt heard of today’s guest.

If you’re an apple pie eatin’ American across the pond like myself, you’re probably just as confused as I was. Well, let me tell you, you’re in for treat.

Our guest is worth an estimated $750 million British pounds, which translates to about $965 million US dollars and places him close enough to a billion to allow me to fib on this article’s headline, mostly guilt free.

He began his path to wealth exactly like you’d expect… as a broke singer in an R&B group, selling magazines on street corners.

Ok, probably not the most common road to riches. But his weird side hustle led to a light bulb moment he couldn’t ignore. He had an unbelievable talent for selling magazines.

Before long, he’d founded his own magazine company, but still strapped for cash, he moonlighted as an unqualified biographer. He took the jobs nobody else was interested in – like a biography about a still relatively unknown martial artist named Bruce Lee.

When Bruce Lee’s unexpected death randomly coincided with the release of the biography, our guest found himself as the world’s premier Bruce Lee expert overnight. Not to mention, the proud owner of the rights to the world’s only Bruce Lee biography. He made a fortune.

How’s that for the most random story to riches ever?

From there, he used his windfall to build up a publishing empire which now includes Maxim, The Week, Men’s Fitness, and a host of massive online properties, like MentalFloss.com.

His name is Felix Dennis.

And he’s one of the world’s most eccentric multi-millionaires.

is wealth is just one reason for his fame. He also gained notoriety when he admitted that during one particular binge filled decade, he spent over $100 million dollars on a frequent mix of 12 high priced escorts at a time and cocaine “delivered by the bucketload.” (His words)

Oh, and in one especially bizarre drunken interview, he me may or may not have admitted to killing a man.

All this makes him sound like a bit of a scumbag. But the Brits assure me he’s more like the country’s lovable (and rich) drunk uncle.

To continue reading, please go to the original article at

https://mymoneywizard.com/does-money-buy-happiness-felix-dennis/

David Wilcock: What’s Really Going On? Part 1 of 2

David Wilcock: What’s Really Going On?

The Great Pandemic Part 2 with Slides 3-23-20

From Dinar Chronicles Transcribed by Kat at 10:39 AM EDT on March 24, 2020

David Wilcock: What’s Really Going On? Part 2 with Slides 3-23-20

A little about David Wilcock—his IQ puts him in the genius category, which gives him the ability to retain massive amounts of information.

David can remember every bit of everything he’s ever read or heard. He has an unparalleled grasp on the history of the illuminati, and he connects the dots for us in this masterful video that is a little over 5 hours. He takes us from the gold that was stolen in WWII, through many of the heroes of the resistance—Eisenhower and JFK—to Meg Anon and then Q.

Like Steve Beckow, I recommend EVERYONE listen to this master class dissertation on the cabal.

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/03/23/allowing-the-alliance-to-do-their-work/

We have to remain at home anyway, so we have the time. It should be required listening for those of us envisioning a beautiful Nova Gaia, a world that works for everyone: Pristine planet, Peace, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Immortality, Cities of Light, all good and wondrous things.

For those of us who have a particular interest in the Global Currency Reset aspect of this Operation Freedom, David verifies that is one of the essential elements of the shift. David reports that on 10-9-17, a Pentagon Insider explained that the “storm” would be mass arrests, the issuance of a new currency, and the launch of a global currency reset.”

In a channeling of Adama of Telos, via Asara Adams on March 21, 2020, Adama says: “It has begun. The great shift that so many of you have been asking for has begun. First, there is an entire reset of all systems on planet Earth necessary. This is the state you are in right now.”

https://sananda.website/adama-of-telos-via-asara-adams-march-21-2020/

I put one of my favorite David rants at the start of my transcription notes below because it is EXACTLY how I feel and have been feeling for years. I suspect BILLIONS of us feel this way. We may not have known it was the same group of people/cabal destroying everything and everyone over and over again, but we know it now.

Thank God, or All There Is, or however you call your Higher Power, and thank you President Trump and the Alliance—that these people—the cabal / illuminati / new world order / Luciferians / are, as I write this, being arrested and removed from all aspects of New Earth. Hallelujah!

I agree with David 100%—enough is enough is enough!!

FYI, David’s bio: https://divinecosmos.com/about-david/

“1:47:35 You guys (cabal) have done enough! It’s time to go home, it’s time to stop… If you want to surrender the Alliance is allowing you to surrender but enough is enough with this cr*p, this Luciferian cr*p:

Killing people, threatening people, assassinations, targeted murders, false flag events, fake wars, fake pandemics, fake economic collapses that cause real damage to real people, and you’re keeping everybody in poverty, and you’re not allowing us to expand into Space, you’re hiding technology that’s going to do that.

1:48:12 I’ve had it, we’ve had it, enough is enough! We are done with this cr*p, we’re moving on, we’re taking the planet back, can you feel the freedom? Can you feel what’s happening with Defender Europe-20?

1:48:25 Do you understand that I’ve been telling you for 11 years that there was a group in the US Military and the International community that are going to arrest these people in a mass event, the last holdouts, OK?

1:48:40 Do you understand that’s what’s happening in Europe and that’s what’s happening in America? And we told you everybody was going to be home when this was happening. We told you, you needed to have food in your house. We told you that you weren’t going to want to go outside. It’s (Covid-19) the perfect cover.

The Alliance didn’t do this, they’re defending us against this attack, but now they can get in there and get things done” ~ David Wilcock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I10P5tMLlI

 “The great pandemic.” I am not freaking out about this thing… this is not the bug out. In fact, the virus always has a bell curve, what they’ve already seen in S. Korea and China, it peaks and then falls off.

China was quarantined in January, as of March 11 or 18, there are no new cases… everybody is going back to work in China. Yet in USA media [Newsweek, etc.] is saying in might be 18 months… trying to stoke up paranoia…

This is not some epic End of the World as some are thinking…

3:08 I want you to understand what the heck is going on:

3:20 2 days before China, in the Wuhan province, went on lockdown… a Harvard professor named Charles Lieber, was arrested, along with 2 of his students… if you read the DOJ complaint.. it says they were caught trying to smuggle 21 vials of biological samples into China… He was replicating the research of one of his colleagues and had grown this on his own…

The place he was going was Wuhan… they say vials had brown liquid.. had Covid-19 in the vials… wait a minute? Isn’t that just some random virus that showed up from nowhere?

5:40 Don’t freak out… but this is a man-made virus… and it’s worse for Chinese men than anyone else… 5-times worse for Asian men than for any other race…

6:40 Male favoritism is so extreme it’s 80%... fatalities trending strongly male… 5-times more likely to hit Chinese men… 49% of Chinese men over the age of 15 in China are cigarette smokers (49%)… whereas only 2% of women smoke in China… also there’s extreme air pollution so everyone’s lungs are already damaged… they all use public drinking fountains…

8:00 The people who are Asian 5 X more likely to get this… and 80% of the people dying are men… why would “someone” make this virus to go after Chinese males… there is an economic war going on between the “deep state” and China… I do NOT support the deep state, the new world order, the cabal, illuminati… I have been a great proponent of defeating them… there has been a great deal of trauma in my physical life, death threats, as a result of taking this on…

10:38 The facial similarities between me and Edgar Cayce… Edgar Cayce did 14,000 medical readings… (Fascinating chat on Cayce…)

13:07 I spent all of last year working on my book THE GREAT AWAKENING… I took some big gambles…I said in the book that by the time this book comes out I expect that major, major changes in Society will have already taken place that will lead to the arrest and the defeat of the illuminati / cabal / deep state / new world order… the last day I could edit my book was January 23rd, the exact day Wuhan, China went into lockdown… so the book is prophetic.

14:02 Slides begin – What is really going on? Biblical… respect Social Distancing… This is NOT the end of the world…

 17:14 This is the culmination of a fight to the death between the current US Administration and the deep state… you’ve seen this… you know some crazy thing is going on between POTUS and the media…. It verges on 100% negative towards Trump…

22:35 The deep state folks… 6 major media conglomerates… the media is controlled by a centralized group that doesn’t have our best interest in mind… a lot of fear has been seeded in… MK Ultra is real… mind control is real… they do want you to be a afraid…. they do want you to have a panic response in a situation like this… they want you to be freaking out…

23:28 But look at what’s happening… the Federal Reserve is bailing out too big to fail banks @$1 trillion dollar a day… the full nature of the 2008 economic attack has yet to be understood… then it was $29 trillion dollars… but $1 trillion dollars a day to the end of the month… this is where the misdirection is… another bailout for the banks… these guys are stealing another 10 years of money to keep their zombie banks going…

25:19 Economic study… looking to see if there were hidden tentacles… all the world’s corporations… they found out that out of 48,060 transnational corporations there was a super-entity of 101 corporations through hidden info… 151 companies actually are earing 80% of the money in the world… they are run by one single thing… 2/3 of the things on that list are financial institutions including all the too big to fail banks…

26:51 Different corporations appear to be in competition with each other, but they’re really not…

27:30 We’re looking for a Global Financial Reset in which trillions and trillions of stolen dollars will be freed up for the planet… I am expecting this thing to be very positive… very few people really dying… the number of deaths in America is a ridiculously small percentage of our population… they’re not going to keep this thing going… I look at this as a Global Time Out…

30:38 The Chinese Administration is in a war with the deep state… there are 16 Intelligence Agencies in America and… most of them are doing the right thing, working for the positive, as is the US Military… so the deep state has lost its control over the power in America…

But there is a corporate part where a battle is being fought… so this corporate part is always putting out disinformation… like impeach Trump… and they ignore all other news…

33:38 All this stuff going on right now… I don’t want you to be afraid… I’m not afraid…

34:34 3-books from college… Ford Motor Co. built Hitler’s tanks… WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER by Anthony C. Sutton… treasonous idea that Wall Street itself with British Bankers actually created Hitler and Hitler is the illegitimate son of British Royalty… Kaiser Wilhelm.. Hitler was a Brit., changed his name, sent him to Germany…

AMERICAN SWASTIKA by Charles Higham…Boeing manufactured Hitler’s bombers… Hitler couldn’t have done what he did without American help, total treason of an unimaginable scale…

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY by Charles Higham, the Nazi American money plot from 1933-1949… IN 1933 merica goes off of the gold standard… made it illegal to have gold… they literally went into people’s Safety Deposit Box and took your gold… American corporations financed Hitler…

38: WWI and WWII was a sham… 90% of the guns were made by the Remington Gun Company, owned by Samuel Bush, father of George Bush Senior… Prescott Bush… Samuel Bush running Remington gun company…

39: This is not a random thing… it is not an accident that this happened… this is intentional to scare people… while $1-trillion dollars a day are going to banks… which is more than the 2008 bailout…

41:03 Deep state… there it is… I’ve shown you 3-books… Is the world being run by some secret industrialist cabal? Absolutely yes… They created WWI, WWII they own both sides… they create the problem, then they have a reaction, then they offer you a solution… in this case would be, OMG there’s a big pandemic the solution is… let’s just slip $1 trillion dollars a day to the banks…

41:38 Please do not fall for the authoritative media… if you haven’t figures out that the MSM is totally compromised… and seen the interconnectedness of this thing…

43: The deep state folks… this is real…. Back to Samuel Bush, Remington gun company, making 90% of the money on all gun sales in WWI… Prescott Bush is GHWBush’s father… Prescott Bush was Hitler’s banker… there’s a lot more we could do with that… get familiar with the idea that this deep state… oily men.. oily because they’re literally oil men… they took us off of the gold standard… took us off of currency being based on collateral something that’s physically tangible… and put it into the magical Babylonian printing press where you print money out of thin air… the Federal Reserve was started in 1913… the dollar had 99% more purchasing value than it does now…

44:16 I don’t think the economy will be in tatters for long… we’re looking at an Economic Reset the other countries involved in that Economic Reset have already signed off on it… we had another insider Woody… Woody was found face down dead in his house the day after he had signed off on the new Financial System with the Chinese Dragon Family… where they have an enormous amount of gold in private collections… much more than has been reported in the world… gold is supposed to be “scarce”… Asians had way the more gold than the cabal, so the cabal had to do a whole lot of stuff to take over the world, new world order…

46: Asians had a lot more gold than the world… (Discussion and history of gold—important)…

50: Every time Hitler invaded a country the first thing they did was go right to the gold… in exchange for “paper” bonds… had to do WWI and WWII in order to get people off of gold…

51:38 Everybody fell for the scam of getting rid of gold in order to “save the world…” buried gold in SE Asia… Much gold has been given to Extraterrestrials… in exchange for technology… we still have a lot… gold will be reinstated that is part of the Currency Reset… gold will destroy the Fed as has been said by Q-anon…

53:40 After WWII over and Nazi’s lose… they wanted to bring Germany into the new banking that was being created and a lot of people had problems with that… we’re going to print money out of thin air… Basel III accords, Bretton-Woods 1944... just started printing money out of thin air…

And then in 1971 Nixon takes us off of gold… they were selling off silver from US Treasury… Kennedy tried to stop that, and that’s one of the things that got him killed… Kennedy was going to issue Silver Certificates that were backed by actual Silver but it was US Currency not Federal Reserve notes… one of the things that got Kennedy taken out of the game…

54:40 We’re going to talk about the Alliance and all the people that was formed to stop this, it’s a major coalition…

55: This gold, this stolen money, is how these people (cabal) were able to literally control the whole planet 80%...

56:38 If you try to say anything good about POTUS they won’t let you… what does that tell you? They’re really afraid of something… The best chance we have is all the INTEL I’m sharing with you, when you put the pieces together, it might blow your mind…

57:20 Do I agree with everything Trump says? Heck no… sometimes he says things that are incendiary and pisses people off… but understand something… Trump didn’t want to run… we had multiple meetings that there was going to be a Military overthrow by the good guys of the US Government during the Obama administration… steal the planet back from this centralized group that you could call the illuminati who are really nasty folks, they want to kill everybody on the planet… they want to get population down to 250 million people… they want to destroy 6.7 billion they want to be destroyed…

1:00 The media fear-porn is at an all-time high… they’re just jammin’ this thing...

1:02 China reports no new cases of coronavirus after 3 months…

But… we have power, water, sewage, gas all available… doctors, restaurants, grocery stores…. All that stuff is available… The Alliance, the good guys, will not allow the mega-banks to destroy the flow of currency…

1:03 This is NOT the end of the world… you’re not going to see America descend into chaos… you’re not going to have zombies walking down the streets… they want you to be freaking out…

 1:06:44

1:07 Think about the gravity of that statement… remove or eliminate every obstacle… what they can do under the Stafford Act is declare Social Media critical infrastructure… as well as pharmaceuticals… so everybody gets the medicine they need… pharmaceuticals, media, high finance, banking, 80% of the money in the world, and the 20% is probably China..  so China and the deep state are going head to head

1:08 There was a deadline sometime in February 16th or 19th… where China was no longer was going to give us, the Corporate Deep State US… not the Trump administration… it would not be allowed to buy anything with the fake hot air funny money that they print out of thin air by stealing everybody’s gold after WWII… and then creating the oil-dollar... after 1971 Nixon abolished of gold and now we’re on a petro-dollar… which means they can run the printing press and make as much money as they want… because gold is safely stowed away in Southeast Asia…. It really is true…

1:09 This deep state has got into everything but now the Military turned away from them, and the Intelligence community turned away from them… not just the US… most of the world has joined this Alliance.. it started as BRICS… Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (joined in 2010)… but it has now gone way beyond that… and that is what Defender Freedom Europe-20 is all about

1:10 Very strong likelihood that Mass Arrests are already happening… US already sent 30,000 troops to Europe where most of these guys running the illuminati live in their strongholds… Most of those troops have gone in the last 2 weeks…

1:11  Very important… flanked by rest of the International community in NATO… not just Trump going crazy… it’s the largest US troop deployment in Europe in 25 years but you never hear about it… what the heck are all those soldiers doing over there?

1:15:53 Defender Europe-20 could very well be going into the Vatican… they have lot of tanks, lot of soldiers, 37,000… 3,000 war materials.. this is how we get our planet back… 18 countries are involved… 3,000 pieces of equipment is probably tanks and jets…

1:20 This is the mass arrests we’ve been hearing about… lot of cabal is surrendering… this is an International effort… a lot of countries pulling together to get rid of the deep state including Saudi Arabia… Saudis collapsed price of oil to bankrupt the cabal… a lot of their money is from oil…

So Saudi Arabia is participating, happily, in the defeating them… prices at the gas pump might to .99 cents which is a big problem for the deep state…

1:23 Defender Freedom started in January… when everybody’s home… most people are too afraid to leave their house… that’s when you can do all kinds of special operations… even though virus is below 1%... here’s this war going on between deep state and China… this is all happening for a reason1:24 Google searches no longer being censored…

1:24:35 Bill Gates did step down on March 13, that is fascinating in light of what we now know… stepped down from Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and his own Gates Foundation… why would he do that?

1:28:32 They want you to be very afraid… why are people hating on Bill Gates exactly… and the vaccines?… Why is it called “Windows” ? Because there’s so many darn windows that Bill Gates built into that thing to hack your computer and spy on you… and the endless updates as the hackers keep finding the windows… built hundreds and hundreds of holes in this thing… Q Anon revealed Big Tech are using cabal symbols to create suicide, sadness…

1:31:42 Classic quote from Prince Phillip in 1988… they start to look like Sith Lords… Prince Phillip… “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.” OMG.

1:33 This is the Queen’s husband… not just some guy…

1:34 This is going to blow your mind… think we’re safe, they’re arresting these guys… it’s 18 countries… here we go… May 24th 2009, MSM… billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation… convened on the initiative of Bill Gates…

1:37 Have to go back to 2011 to find this article… deleted just after Oct. 6, 2011

1:38:20 … should be called “The Lucifer Club…” but OK if you want to call it The Good Club.. I am not making this up… Guess who’s in it? David Rockefeller Jr., Warren Buffet, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg (didn’t he just try to become POTUS and attach Hilary Clinton as his VP? Yup.)… the stuff we know on the inside about Biden is not good… and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey…

Oprah did go but when she found out what they were up to she staggered out of the meeting and threw up… this is a Satanic cult… it’s very real… I do not for one minute believe that Oprah believes in this or supports this… she’s one of the good people…

1:43 They got to try their end of the world pandemic… it’s going to be OK…

1:44:10 There’s a financial reset coming… the currency gets rebooted… there’s been various plans in place on how much money everyone’s going to get… don’t worry about your business at this point… don’t think this is the end of the world… don’t think you’re going to get screwed… things are going to get set right… that’s a big reason why I’m doing this show

1:47:35 You guys (cabal) have done enough! It’s time to go home, it’s time to stop… If you want to surrender the Alliance is allowing you to surrender but enough is enough with this cr*p, this Luciferian cr*p:

Killing people, threatening people, assassinations, targeted murders, false flag events, fake wars, fake pandemics, fake economic collapses that cause real damage to real people, and you’re keeping everybody in poverty, and you’re not allowing us to expand into Space, you’re hiding technology that’s going to do that.

1:48:12 I’ve had it, we’ve had it, enough is enough! We are done with this cr*p, we’re moving on, we’re taking the planet back, can you feel the freedom? Can you feel what’s happening with Defender Europe-20?

1:48:25 Do you understand that I’ve been telling you for 11 years that there was a group in the US Military and the International community that are going to arrest these people in a mass event, the last holdouts, OK?

1:48:40 Do you understand that’s what’s happening in Europe and that’s what’s happening in America? And we told you everybody was going to be home when this was happening. We told you you needed to have food in your house. We told you that you weren’t going to want to go outside. It’s (Covid-19) the perfect cover.

The Alliance didn’t do this, they’re defending us against this attack, but now they can get in there and get things done.

1:49 I’ve just showed you with absolute proof, in writing, that’s the rules, I told you that’s the rules, they have to tell you what they’re doing. They did tell you in the 2009 Sunday Times that they’re planning on de-populating the planet… with Bill Gates who’s doing the vaccines… they wanted to get it down to 250 million people which are easier to control… you can enslave them

1:50 Bill Gates puts out $10 billion dollar pledge for vaccines… gigantic amount of money, to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world… if the children survive the population will go up… but didn’t he just say he wanted to population to go down… the vaccine IS the problem.. the vaccine HAS the problem…

1:51 $15 billion dollars has been spent… “Billionaires’ Plan For World Genocide Exposed…” Warren Buffet pledged $31 billion dollars… and David Rockefeller…

1:53 Total of $46 billion dollars of research money on a frickin’ vaccine…..

2:20 Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board…

https://inteldinarchronicles.blogspot.com/2020/03/david-wilcock-part-2-with-slides-by-kat.html

Powerful Wisdom From One Of The Toughest Men Who Ever Lived

Powerful Wisdom From One Of The Toughest Men Who Ever Lived

Notes From The Field By Simon Black 

March 24, 2020  Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico

One day back in the late 1990s when I was a wide-eyed 20-year-old cadet at West Point, we were told that a distinguished visitor was coming to speak, and to be seated in the auditorium by 1pm sharp.

This was pretty routine; one of the great things about attending West Point was the seemingly endless line of world leaders, athletes, scientists, and even celebrities who would address the Corps of Cadets.

During my time at the academy we heard from people like Colin Powell, Oliver Stone, Bill Clinton, and countless more.

On that particular day, the speaker was Vice Admiral James Stockdale.

Stockdale isn’t a household name, but as I would come to learn, he was one of the most impressive and toughest human beings who ever lived.

He was in the twilight of his life when he came to speak to us, just a few years before his death. But even at his advanced age, he had the presence of a giant.

Stockdale had been a US Navy fighter pilot. His full name was James Bond Stockdale, so his call sign became “007”. Perfect.

Stockdale’s life changed in September 1965 while flying a mission over North Vietnam. He was shot down, captured, and spent the next 7 ½ years as a Prisoner of War in the infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’.

As a POW, Stockdale was tortured regularly, beaten savagely, and exiled to solitary confinement.

But he never broke.

At one point during his captivity when he found out that he was to be paraded out in public in Vietnam, he beat his own face to a pulp with a wooden stool, and slashed his scalp with a razorblade, so that he couldn’t be used as a propaganda tool.

He also slit his own wrists once, demonstrating to his captors that he would rather give up his own life than capitulate.

Stockdale was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary leadership and personal sacrifice.

Years later in an interview with author Jim Collins, Stockdale was asked about his captivity in Vietnam—how on earth did he deal with such harsh circumstances and uncertainty?

“I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”

When Collins asked, “Who didn’t make it out [of the POW camp],” Stockdale replied,

“Oh that’s easy. The optimists. They were the ones who said, ‘we’re going to be out by Christmas.’ And then Christmas would come, and Christmas would go.

And then they’d say, ‘We’re going to be out by Easter.’ And then Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving. And then it would be Christmas again.

And they died of a broken heart.

“This is a very important lesson,” Stockdale continued. “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose-- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

This is the situation that each of us is facing right now.

We want to be optimists. We want to believe that this pandemic is going to magically vanish tomorrow morning and that we’ll all be able to go on with our lives as if nothing has changed.

But that’s not going to happen.

The brutal facts of our reality are that this pandemic continues to spread rapidly, and it has the potential to kill millions of people.

Reducing that projection requires shutting down the entire global economy… resulting in a wide range of catastrophic consequences, including tens of trillions of dollars of prosperity wiped out, countless jobs lost, millions of bankruptcies and defaults, entire governments going broke, and more.

Saving the economy condemns millions to die. But saving millions from dying condemns hundreds of millions to suffer.

These are the facts. And they are brutal.

To make matters even more difficult, we’re also dealing with a tremendous uncertainty.

There’s no telling what’s going to happen next. Or when. We could see martial law. Supply chain disruptions. National defaults. Looting. Bank failures. Even hyperinflation.

EVERY scenario is on the table… even ones that seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Anyone who says, “There’s no way that could happen,” clearly doesn’t grasp what’s happening.

And frankly we haven’t even seen the real problems yet.

Just wait until the healthcare system is totally overwhelmed, the unemployment rate soars, and major companies start declaring bankruptcy.

I mean… there are still millions of people around the world right now (including countless shit-faced university students on spring break) who aren’t taking this pandemic seriously yet.

We’re clearly still in the opening phase of this crisis; so things could become much worse before they improve.

But amid such harsh circumstances and uncertainty, we should also recognize, as Stockdale did, that the world is not coming to an end.

We cannot afford to be misguided, ignorant optimists who irrationally believe that everything will go back to normal tomorrow morning without any consequences.

Everyone needs to confront the most brutal facts of our current reality—both the challenges and opportunities.

But we should never lose faith that we will prevail in the end and may look back on this pandemic as the most formative and defining event of our lives.

To your freedom & prosperity, Simon Black, Founder, SovereignMan.com

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/powerful-wisdom-from-one-of-the-toughest-men-who-ever-lived-27575/

99+ Thought Provoking Questions to Ask and Answer Today

99+ Thought Provoking Questions to Ask & Answer Today

By Dan Western

What are thought provoking questions?

The meaning of these questions is to get you think deeply about your answers, and the effects they’re having on your life. Thought provoking questions help you to become more self-reflective, and therefore be able to improve your life in multiple areas.

It’s probably best to write your answers down, so that you can look back on them at a later time and analyze whether the question has helped you to think differently.

1. Are you able to say no, even when it makes you unpopular?

2. Are you satisfied with your work?

3. Do you bring your work home with you?

4. Do you follow through on commitments?

5. How do you apply the learning from this regret to your actions today?

6. How do you react when you encounter a homeless person?

7. How much time are you spending on social media?

8. If you could ask for one wish, what would it be?

9. If you could spend 10 minutes with anyone, living or dead, who would it be? Why?

10. If you had a year left to live, what would you achieve over the next 12 months?

11. If your entire life was a movie, what title would best fit?

12. What are you looking forward to?

13. What did your life teach you yesterday?

14. What gives you meaning?

15. What have you done today to make someone’s life better?

16. What is the source of your procrastination?

17. What small habit can you change today?

18. What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life, what would that look like?

19. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you have done?

20. When you think of your home, what immediately comes to mind?

21. Who are you becoming?

22. Would you break the law to save a loved one?

23. Are you content? If not, what is the source of your lack of contentment?

24. Are your goals and dreams written down?

Thought Provoking Questions (25-49)

25. Do you choose happiness or leave it to chance?

26. Do you have a personal mission statement?

27. How do you challenge your assumptions?

28. How do you spend the majority of your free time? Why?

29. How often do you keep in touch with family and friends?

30. If you could eliminate one things from your life today, what would it be?

31. If you could start over, what would you do differently?

32. If you had to teach someone one thing, what would you teach?

To continue reading, please go to the original article here:

https://wealthygorilla.com/99-thought-provoking-questions/

What Happens If Oil Prices Go Negative?

What Happens If Oil Prices Go Negative?

By Tyler Durden  Sun, 03/22/2020

Authored by Sturart Barnes via OilPrice.com, 

Various reports hit the news feeds today quoting a deliberately headline-grabbing statement by Paul Sankey, managing director at Mizuho Securities, in which he is reported as saying, “Oil prices can go negative.”

That is, they could as a combination of Saudi Arabia (and Russia) flooding the market with increased oil and the market running headlong into COVID-19-induced curtailment of activity that is suppressing consumption, which combined will create the perfect storm of excess supply.

In reality, inventory levels are already rising.

CNN quotes Sankey, who said global oil demand is only around 100 million barrels per day.

However, the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could crash demand by up to 20 percent.

This would create a 20 million barrel-per-day surplus of oil in the market that would rapidly exceed storage capacity, forcing oil producers to pay customers to buy the commodity – hence, in effect, negative oil prices.

[ZH: Think that's crazy? Think again... as we detailed previously, NatGas prices went negative in 2018] 

 The American government plans to purchase a total of 77 million barrels of oil starting within weeks the article states, but according to Sankey, this can only be done at a rate of 2 million barrels per day, leaving a massive excess that will be looking for a home.

Brent oil prices have already fallen to the lowest level for 17 years. The consequences for the U.S. oil industry if a coronavirus-induced recession drives down demand could be catastrophic.

West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) collapsed by a staggering 19.2 percent to $22 while the Mexican Basket is down 22.4 percent.

For a short while, hedges will protect producers and they will continue to pump oil. While that will protect producers for a while, it encourages counter-cyclical practices; producers should be cutting back but instead will probably continue to pump and ship into store.

To continue reading, please go to the original article here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/what-happens-if-oil-prices-go-negative

About Gold Fringes and Missing Seals and Martial Law

About Gold Fringes and Missing Seals and Martial Law

By Anna Von Reitz   Monday, March 23, 2020

I have commented about this topic before, but I am seeing a lot of confusion and questions out there regarding the changes in flags and presidential seals and the absence of the UN flag and other trappings in recent Whitehouse Press Conferences, etc.

The gold-fringed, sometimes called "Executive Flag", is technically called the "National Colors" and has been used to operate this country under "Color of Law" by the Pope and the British Interlopers.

It has no more real "power" or significance than a piece of fancy bunting.  It is decorative and meant to "evoke" an "appearance" of the government of this country----- without really doing so.  Just like the "appearance of justice" that the Courts have been giving us, it's an illusion, an apparition, an impression of one thing, while in fact, something else is going on. 

The actual flag of the Federal Republic (the American Confederation missing since 1860) can be seen on display, struck, in the Capitol Rotunda and House and Senate Chambers, where it is seen hanging in a vertical "struck" position, giving notice to everyone who sees it and understands what it means, that that "government" is struck, incompetent, bankrupt, or otherwise in "abeyance" and "distress".

This struck flag has been there in plain view for over a 150 years, and all the Americans and especially all the U.S. Military personnel who saw this in person or on C-Span over the years, never connected the dots. 

I excuse average Americans for not knowing international flag protocol --- but our highest ranking Generals and Admirals and the various generations of United States Senators and Congressional Members all "missed the point" too?  Really?  How credible is that?

Everything I have told you about the Confederacy never being Reconstructed and the Confederacy "accidentally-on-purpose" being "mistaken" as the actual government of this country is true.  The evidence is all around you, in your face.

Also, please note, that this country has been under Martial Law since 1863, as a direct result of the circumstance described above.  Any talk about oh, wow, we're under martial law! --- as if this is anything new or different, is silly.  

The only things "new" here is that: (1) the People of this country woke up, declared their correct political status, assembled their States of the Union, and are operating their unincorporated (sovereign) Federation of States, The United States of America, and (2) sensing that things were not going well for them, the Board of Directors of the Municipal Corporation of the District of Columbia decided to seek bankruptcy and run  That bankruptcy of the UNITED STATES, INC., is in the process of final settlement right now.

As a result you will no longer be hearing references to the "President of "the" United States" and no longer seeing the associated Seal of that Office in use, nor will you see the United Nations flag, because the Territorial Government, doing business as "the" United States of America, never joined the United Nations.  

In truth and in fact, our unincorporated Federation of States, doing business as The United States of America delegated all the "Delegated Powers" ever granted to any of the Federal Subcontractors or ever exercised by them for us, so the "pretense" that the Confederacy (our primary Federal Subcontractor) was ever necessary for our government to function is ridiculous. 

It is also patently false to imagine that the "Powers" delegated to the Confederacy somehow devolved upon the remaining Federal Subcontractors as a result of Civil War.  The Powers delegated to the Confederacy returned to the Federation of States the moment that the Confederation ceased to function in March of 1861 by Operation of Law.

Any supposition otherwise is predicated merely on the fact that the States and People were not properly given Notice and information necessary to take the proper action and complete the Reconstruction.  

We were instead purposefully mislead by the British Monarch operating in Breach of Trust, who substituted their Territorial "States of States" for our American States of States, like a cuckoo bird in our nest. 

Unfortunately, many American bureaucrats were fooled by this deception or proved disloyal or were bought off, with the result that this deception and substitution went unnoticed for over a century and a half.

Mr. Trump is hereby authorized and instructed to enter the Capitol and set the American flag in the Rotunda, House, and Senate Chambers in the upright position --- horizontal. 

Our flag is to be flown in the upright position in the Capitol Rotunda and in the House and the Senate Chambers now and forevermore.

Any "emergency" occasioned by the disappearance of the Confederation is resolved by the presence and assembly of the American States and People and their unincorporated Federation of the States of the Union doing business as The United States of America, the Delegator of all Powers ever delegated to the Confederation or any other Federal Subcontractor.

All members of the Territorial Government are to be fully informed as are members of all world governments.  The American States and People are home, populating their States of the Union, running their State Assemblies, settling their business, operating their Federation of States, working toward the completion of the long-overdue Reconstruction of the Federal Confederation of States of States. 

While all these tasks and duties are being accomplished, we rely upon Mr. Trump and the Treaties and Contracts we maintain with the Government of Westminster and with the Government of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, to provide us with the uncontested and complete re-venue of all the assets owed to us and to the land, sea, and soil jurisdiction of this country, 

Our assets, both public and private, are to be returned to the control of the American States and People and to our rightful international government, The United States of America, complete with the loyal and proper assistance and compliance of the Territorial United States Government throughout the process of restoration and reconstruction.  

http://www.paulstramer.net/

Zimbabwe Partnering Up With Fintech For Gold-Backed Digital Currency

Zimbabwe Partnering Up With Fintech For Gold-Backed Digital Currency

Zimbabwe has already seen the surge of bitcoin casinos along with different online websites

• In the most recent effort to embrace the fintech revolution, that country has set out to partner up with local fintech professionals to create its first-ever gold-backed digital cryptocurrency.

• According to Apollo, this isn't the only project that the company will be collaborating with the Zimbabwe government on and there is much more in store for these two.

Zimbabwe is starting to embrace the fintech more and more, seeing the potential of the technology and how it could make life easier for a lot of citizens.

In the most recent effort to embrace the fintech revolution, that country has set out to partner up with local fintech professionals to create its first-ever gold-backed digital cryptocurrency.

The government will be backing up the entire process and hopefully, we will be seeing the results of this collaboration soon enough.

Even though the information has not been confirmed by the government quite yet, the local residents are saying that the deal is pretty much done and on top of that, recently the CEO of Apollo Fintech recently publicly confirmed that the collaborations with the Zimbabwe government is in place and the citizens will be able to access a gold-backed cryptocurrency very soon.

Digital currencies have been gaining more popularity across the country and more businesses are now offering the option to pay with digital currencies, most often with popular cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, etherium and etc.

Zimbabwe has already seen the surge of bitcoin casinos along with different online websites that offer you to make your deposits through cryptocurrencies online.

Who is the company behind this project

Apollo is a world-famous blockchain technology provider and probably the fastest as well.

The friction payment methods have been rolling out across Zimbabwe for a while now, but the country wants to explore the cryptocurrency industry more and focus on the blockchain technology in order to deliver the fastest services to their citizens while guaranteeing their security and transparency of the entire process.

To continue reading, please go to the original article here:

https://www.the-star.co.ke/business/africa/2020-03-19-zimbabwe-partnering-up-with-fintech-for-gold-backed-digital-currency/

Dinarians, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Humanity

Dinarians, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Humanity

By Muhammad Ali

For those who have been subscribers to my website and following my weekly newsletters know that I have a column entitled "Mr. Seymour Good Column", which in case you haven't figured it out, translates to 'See More Good".

I have posted positive videos of encouragement on the power of doing good and having a positive attitude.  If you would like to follow my recommendations, please subscribe to my weekly newsletters thru my website.

The reason why we need this reminder is that it seems the sounds of Alert bells are going off on our RV and looks like we are finally there.  

I would like to remind us all, not to lose sight of our humanity, as when our bank accounts start to fill up the devils will come running to us and do whatever it takes to separate our blessed wealth from our hands, preventing us from doing good.

God has chosen us for a reason, we have all bought currency in hopes of a better future and God has promised this to those who kept the faith.  God has made us wait for His reasons, and I believe in the time to come He will show us these reasons.  So please do not lose sight of this and when it comes time to give, give generously as all of this wealth is a temporary loan to us from the Creator.

For some people, along this journey, they didn't make it, either sold off their currency or passed away.  Just a few days ago, one of my Dinarians here in my Malaysian group, passed away from a major stroke.  He was 51 and I just had another Dinarian due to financial reasons had to sell off his currency.

We are still holding our currency and still breathing and for those reasons we need to be grateful and give thanks to the Almighty.  

I recently wrote an article called "Family Planning" with advice tips on giving money anonymously.  If you missed reading the article you can find it on my website in the Articles menu.

In our after RV days, God will send people to us, maybe out of the blue, asking for help or we may even pass by someone who looks like they could use some help and I do not mean that you must go help every single homeless person in your state or give money to a druggie so he can get his next fix.

On the contrary, I am suggesting that we may be out and may come across someone in need of help.  You may be in a community WhatsApp group and there could be a single mother of 3 kids, in need of supplies to help their kids go to school.  Whatever the case may be, try not to lose sight of your humanity, not everyone in the world will be after your money. 

There are ways to help people from a far without them knowing who you are, as from some of the Seymour Good videos that I shared in my newsletters and then there are times, you want to help people just to see the joy it brings them and letting them know it was you that helped them. 

Seeing the tears roll down their eyes and the contagious tears and feelings that magically engulfs you too.  This super incredible joyous feeling is something that I encourage everyone to experience, if you haven't already.  But, just to warn you, you may want to crave that wonderful feeling again and again.

So how do you know when someone genuinely needs your help or they're after your money?

Alright let's look at the negative first; here is a link to '11 Signs Someone Is Using You and What to Do About It' ( https://pairedlife.com/friendship/9-Signs-Someone-is-Using-You-How-to-Tell-If-Your-Friend-is-Using-You-For-Money-Social-Status-or-Anything-Else ). 

Remember that these signs will work only for those who you know.  For those people that you do not know that you met out of the blue, you don't really need to categorize them as they won't be after your money but your genuine help.  

Another important point that I would like to add is draw a line between helping others and your personal safety and security.  For example, you may want to help others in another country but you don't know the language and customs over there and may soon find yourself in dangerous situations. 

In these types of cases best you work within a group that has a system in place.  For example, organizations like Doctors for Humanity or Physicians for Humanity.  You can either donate and sponsor medical trips or donate and travel with them so you can see your contribution first hand and then you would be safe within their umbrella.

There is a Chinese saying that goes: “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.  If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.  If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.  If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”  For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others.

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others,” Albert Schweitzer.

Helping others or “Doing unto others” could very well be one of the best things you can do for yourself.

Turns out that being of service, volunteering to help an organization, a colleague or friend, offering to help not only makes you feel good, it is good for you.  It can help you to live longer and happier!

How is that?  Let's look at the science behind it all.

Endorphins, that wonderful brain chemical that gets produced when you are out there doing that three-mile run.  It is what puts you into the state athletes refer to as a Runner’s High.  Well, you can experience a similar feeling without busting a lung when you give someone a hand. 

Though instead it is called, Helper’s High—a euphoria that happens when you do charitable deeds.  The psychological theory being that giving and acts of kindness produce a natural mild version of a morphine high.

Please remember, your help can come in every size and shape, big or small.  The size, or the amount, of help is not so much the point as is the gesture of genuinely wanting to help.  The emphasis being on the ‘genuine’ part.

On the receiver end, when you help someone, that person picks up on, and are touched by, your heartfelt offer to help, no matter what it is for.  They feel greater comfort and less stress.  The giver, the helper, in turn, experiences a profound sense of satisfaction, of joy, of delight, of happiness, which decreases their stress levels as well.  Do this often enough, and it could add to your life expectancy. 

There is a relatively recent body of research on telomeres, the end-caps of our genes, which shows that long-term stress not only shortens these end-caps, it can also lead to an earlier death.  So developing a positive emotional state, offering your time, a warm smile, an empathic touch, may increase the likelihood of you sticking around a while longer.

Conversely, empty gestures get empty results.  That is because people want to feel supported rather than feeling like they are putting you out, or are being a burden.  It makes them feel guilty.  For example, you may only want to help organizations that provide you with a Tax Deductible Receipt.

If you are thinking about some meaningful way to be of service, first, offer to help either someone or a group, as I suggested above.  Then two, do it from the heart.  Helper’s High is what you will receive when you give from the heart, a gracious act of kindness. 

It also gives you the added value of being in touch with your life’s purpose.  I think Ralph Waldo Emerson put it well. “The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”  

On that note, I will end this article.  Everyone, with the Blessings of the Almighty, our long awaited RV will now be upon us.  If you have not set your exchange plans in motion, please visit my website and take a look at my Currency Exchange Planner, my software will definitely help you with your exchange. 

It covers all of your planning needs, including, debts, precious metals, charity, family and future planning.  It has a projection and investment planner, along with a budget planner, serial number tracker and envelope planner.  There is absolutely nothing like this currently available to the Dinarians. 

And now I have created the Add-on, Companion Edition, which helps you plan your Taxes and Net Worth, it even includes a 15 year Advanced Wealth Management Tool and a lot more!  

The only way to secure your wealth and make it lasts for years to come is with proper and sound financial management.  My easy to use planners can definitely help you with that.​

I hope you have benefited from my article.​

Thank you and I wish you all the success in your currency exchange.

Muhammad Ali

www.CurrencyExchangePlanner.com

The No. 1 Planning Tool for the Dinar community.

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Majority of Americans Have Cried Over Money

Majority of Americans Have Cried Over Money, Study Says

Dhara Singh Reporter  Yahoo Money October 21, 2019

 Pass along the tissues, because Americans aren’t afraid of letting the tears roll when it comes to finances.

Seven in 10 Americans said they have cried about money in their lifetimes, according to a recent online survey of 1,004 Americans by Compare Cards.com. Many cited worries over their job or making ends meet.

And household debt, which peaked at $13.86 trillion in the second quarter, weighed the heaviest on Americans. Almost a third admitted to crying over this looming concern, according to the survey.

“So many people’s financial margin for error is so slim that an unexpected car repair can be a real hardship,” Matt Schulz said. “Then, if you factor in things like job loss or a medical emergency, that can make things even worse.”

Which debt hurts most?

Credit card debt evoked the second-most tears. One in 5 Americans said credit card debt – which increased $18 trillion since the 2008 – has made them cry.

Student loan debt – which hit a $1.48 trillion in the second quarter – followed, with 13% of Americans naming it as a top stressor.

Students wearing academic regalia attend their graduation ceremony at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), June 14, 2019 in Los Angeles California. - With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5 trillion, the student debt crisis in the United States has exploded in recent years and has become a key electoral issue in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections.

"Somebody who graduates from a public university this year is expected to have over $35,000 in student loan debt on average," said Cody Hounanian, program director of Student Debt Crisis, a California NGO that assists students and is fighting for reforms. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

Melanie Lockert, founder of the blog deardebt.com, is familiar with that student loan stress. After graduating with a master’s degree from New York University, she was $81,000 in the hole. Even after she shrunk the debt to $68,000, she still couldn’t look at the remaining huge balance.

“I deleted my Mint.com [account], because I was completely in denial paying off debt,” said Lockert, who is now debt-free. But “denial always catches up to you.”

Who’s the most emotional?

To continue reading, please go to the original article here:

https://money.yahoo.com/cried-over-money-182455308.html

35 Hard Truths To Know Before Becoming “Successful”

35 Hard Truths To Know Before Becoming “Successful”

​ 1. It’s Never As Good As You Think It Will Be

“One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,” says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has studied the relationship between money and happiness for over two decades.“We buy things to make us happy, and we succeed. But only for a while.

New things are exciting to us at first, but then we adapt to them,” Gilovich further states.

Actually, savoring the anticipation or idea of the desired outcome is generally more satisfying than the outcome itself. Once we get what we want — whether that’s wealth, health, or excellent relationships — we adapt and the excitement fades. Often, the experiences we’re seeking end up being underwhelming and even disappointing.

I love watching this phenomenon in our foster kids. They feel like they need a certain toy or the universe will explode. Their whole world revolves around getting this one thing. Yet, once we buy the toy for them, it’s not long before the joy fades and they want something else.

Until you appreciate what you currently have, more won’t make your life better.

2. It’s Never As Bad As You Think It Will Be

​Just as we deceive ourselves into believing something will make us happier than it will, we also deceive ourselves into believing something will be harder than it will.

The longer you procrastinate or avoid doing something, the more painful (in your head) it becomes. However, once you take action, the discomfort is far less severe than you imagined. Even to extremely difficult things, humans adapt.

I recently sat on a plane with a lady who has 17 kids. Yes, you read that correctly. After having eight of her own, she and her husband felt inspired to foster four siblings whom they later adopted. A few years later, they took on another five foster siblings whom they also adopted.

Of course, the initial shock to the system impacted her entire family. But they’re handling it. And believe it or not, you could handle it too if you had to.

The problem with dread and fear is that it holds people back from taking on big challenges. What you will find — no matter how big or small the challenge — is that you will adapt to it.When you consciously adapt to enormous stress, you evolve.

3. There Is No Way To Happiness

“There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” — Thich Nhat Hanh​​

Most people believe they must:

First have something (e.g., money, time, or love)

Before they can do what they want to do (e.g., travel the world, write a book, start a business, or have a romantic relationship)

Which will ultimately allow them to be something (e.g., happy, peaceful, content, motivated, or in love).

Paradoxically, this have — do — be paradigm must actually be reversed to experience happiness, success, or anything else you desire.

First you be whatever it is you want to be (e.g., happy, compassionate, peaceful, wise, or loving)

Then you start doing things from this space of being

Almost immediately, what you are doing will bring about the things you want to have

We attract into our lives what we are. This concept is confirmed by loads of psychological research. In his popular TED talk, Harvard psychologist Shawn Achor explains that most have happiness backward.

They believe they must first achieve or acquire something to be happy. The science shows that happiness facilities success.

For example, Scott Adams, the creator of the famous comic series Dilbert, attributes his success to the use of positive affirmations. 15 times each day, he wrote the sentence on a piece of paper, “I Scott Adams, will become a syndicated cartoonist.”

The process of writing this 15 times a day buried this idea deep into his subconscious — putting Adams’ conscious mind on a treasure hunt for what he sought. The more he wrote, the more he could see opportunities before invisible to him. And shortly thereafter, he was a highly famous syndicated cartoonist. It couldn’t not happen.

I personally apply a similar principle but write my goal in the present tense. For example, rather than saying, “I will become a syndicated cartoonist,” I write, “I am a syndicated cartoonist.” Writing it in the present tense highlights the fact that you are being who you want to be, which will then inform what you do and ultimately who you become.

4. You Have Enough Already

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https://benjaminhardy.com/35-hard-truths-you-should-know-before-becoming-successful-2/