Scott Free Thinking

Lately my lifestyle has been a demanding one. Sleeping odd hours, waking up and working more than full time hours almost every week at my job, meeting and getting to know new people, and working on businesses as usual. An ironic keynote I share with many others is the fact that I’m generating more money than I ever have before, but somehow have some of the lowest numbers in the bank I have ever had at the same time. At the time of my writing this, I’m struck with something that resembles a cold or perhaps just some kind of bacterial infection. So, in other words, I’m sick. And under my belief, this illness was likely caused by my own heavy physical activity. The heavy physical activity is based on a symbolic abundance of physical holdings, but without the fuel to power it(money). While my physical traits are constantly changing and growing, my spiritual state has remained fundamentally the same for the past year or more.

And what determines personality? I would say it leans more toward the spiritual state, because your spiritual beliefs are often one of the key factors in driving your decision making behavior. People have differing opinions of my goals and what I’ve been doing to achieve them. Outlook, or perspective, has been a major influence under the scope of my own model of the subjective reality in which I live. While I do not have enough to give up a day job or give up college, it can be said that my businesses are profitable. Profitable, by definition, that is. Are my personal finances profitable when taking into account my expenses and potential expenses? Well, no.

But I think that some important first steps have been made, and anyone attempting the same things I am I would suggest that they gain a similar perspective, because optimism has been proven essential for the “big win” in your own personal finances and simply your personal goals. A lot of the people out there starting these personal development blogs seem to be following a common trend - they get inspired by a single item of personal development and then attempt to emulate that item’s interest for their own success. Some people choose the Law of Attraction, some people choose some particular dieting lifestyle, it is different for everyone. But even the very teachers in which people are attempting to copy are telling people to be original themselves. For instance, Joe Vitale has said that the people to benefit most from an idea are those who are the first to come up with that idea. A group of people may utilize it afterward, and they might get some level of success, but the success people experience will likely follow a sort of pyramid structure.

With that in mind, you might imagine how much people are earning off of their personal development blogs these days. Now, I have no one telling me their numbers in order to back up the claim, but my guess would be: not much, because many of them are recycling the same material and repeating themselves over and over again. In my writing, I’ve made it a specific goal during my first 6 months to lay down the basics I already have knowledge, but make sure I do not repeat myself if it is not necessary.

Steve Pavlina is probably one of the top people on the PD blog pyramid structure, earning more than $200 a day, and has been for a long time, off of his personal development business. There are few dedicated bloggers who have not at least heard of him by now, and his website gets millions of visitors each year now. But what about all those others, including myself? We’re mostly getting dollars and pennies, not thousands, yet much of the content we have could be deemed just as valuable as Pavlina - we simply were not the first.

But enough about this whole “setting yourself apart,” in business. A lot of that can easily be seen by many as common sense. The real thing that needs to be focused on here is your own personal choices. Business is interesting, because as business ties in with the economy and the rest of the world, it shows a reflective, and more simplified model of common daily life. While money’s benefit can be quantified and measured, life’s common daily benefits can be harder to gauge. This is one of the main reasons why it is so critically important to keep trying new things, to keep learning, to keep experimenting. Many people can find one thing that is successful and then they’re caught in a routine.

Imagine if some of these successful people were to keep searching for those gold nuggets of opportunity while carrying on those routines. But if one is rich and wealthy in all areas of their life, the motivation to search for these new opportunities of change can often go limp, because what motivation do you have once your own personal success is achieved?

There is a simple lesson I have been trying to teach my readers for a while now, even through all of these goofy veils of self promotion and self advertising - we are all connected. The influence that one person has on the world, and on other people, can simply not be expressed in words, nor can it be quantified as I said money could be. By simply continuing to interact with the world you, as a single individual, are making a difference, whether you realize it or not. Your affect on other people and on your surrounding environment is much greater than you think - this is something I have experienced myself throughout the short while I’ve been alive on this Earth.

If you must have illness, as I do on this very day that I write this, do not have it for long. If you must be sick, do not be miserable. If you must be a victim at first, accept responsibility and be a victor shortly thereafter. If you must be apathetic, be apathetic about failure. I am not yet the success I have envisioned for months on end, now. You must acknowledge your firt steps, but always, always ask: what is the next step? Where do I go from here? What exists that can give me aid that I am not currently aware of? Keep your eyes, ears, and most of all your heart, open.