Scott Free Thinking

It has recently occurred to me that when it comes to the internet, there seems to be only a few different things that people might be looking for, based on the bulk of advertisements. On the sites that I visit at least, I’m often being elicited to buy into either making more money, love and sex, or just all around general information like news, how-to’s and so forth. When we think about all of it, though, we probably can come to realize that at the basis of all of this is money itself. People are making money by showing others how to make money. Or rather, people are making money by convincing people to buy in to profit making schemes, when in reality they are probably selling total fluff. Then there is love and sex which shows up in the form of dating sites, sometimes social networking sites, pornography, and so on. General information is perhaps one of the few ways left that might be “pure” in its agenda, but then again - how many people have tried advertising themselves through free community sites like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia?

Everything, in essence, can be measured by money. What is money, though? Money is the numerical value assigned to any particular thing deemed to have any price what so ever. Money is simply perceived value, but what is interesting about money is its ability to tell the truth, even while some may claim that money has a distinct ability to cover up the truth with gradiose lies. When there is political wrong doing, follow the money. When your education system is not working as you would wish, perhaps you should start by looking at where the money is going. When you’re living on the street and are no longer under a roof, perhaps you should follow the money. Money can tell us all kinds of things.

The main thing I would like to propose is - what can money tell us about who people are? Society’s monetary wealth system is vastly askew, misbalanced, teeming with ill proportions. While it may seem like a rich guy has something that other people don’t - sometimes they’re those few who are “just plain lucky.” With a population of millions of individuals, the United States has a tiny percentage investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other basic financial strategies. While a thick chunk of total business in the United States is being done by small business, very few people you ever meet actually own a small business with land, a reputable name, and something truly recognizable. Most people are simply working through their hourly wages without ever even attempting to do anything in financial excess!

Understanding that the money system is misbalanced, and that under the current model not everyone would be able to be wealthy short of extreme circumstances and conditions, I begin to think about my current situation. You may be thinking of yours as well. But whoa, wait a minute.

Some of you reading this might believe in the Law of Attraction, others might believe in simply a model of subjective reality. The two are fairly similar. The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on becomes your reality as your thoughts carry an energy. Energy itself, in its most basic concept, is said to be the whole composition of everything in the universe - it’s all made of energy. Therefore if you are focusing on one particular goal, vision, or reality, then you are attracting more of that particular kind of energy. Whether you’re talking about an objective or subjective model of reality, the Law of Attraction is always in motion. Subjective reality states that whatever your manifesting in reality is solely because of your own thoughts. Therefore, if you are poor, it is because your subjectively created model of reality says so. Likewise, if you are rich or wealthy, your subjectively created model of reality is working there as well.

Does this mean that if you are financially lacking, then you are attracting that financial lack? Of course it does. Does this also mean that if you view poor people, that perhaps you see yourself as poor?

Some find a large problem with the whole Law of Attraction idea, or the subjective reality model, simply because of a few different things going on in their lives that may seem beyond their control. I find a problem with it as well, because many of the biggest personal development names out there are spouting out advice that can be terribly confusing. For instance, why would you tell someone that looking at debt is going to create more debt? Is that necessarily true? They say that whatever you focus on will grow, but what that also means is that if you recognize one particular facet of any particular subject, that facet is created for you in your own reality. To look the other way and try to ignore one thing is simply denying an idea you’ve already proven in your own reality to be fact. You cannot defy gravity, or you cannot also deny the fact that you are in debt.

There is nothing wrong with acknowledging particular facts, or acknowledging particular flaws. If you want to quote out drugstore psychology, “admitting is the first step.” The common process to moving your way through the shifting sands of strength and weakness begins with a simple process - a process some might call common sense.

1. Gain awareness of your situation. Take notice to what it is that is facing or confronting you. Yes, acknowledge the negative, but search and become knowledgable of the positive. For every piece of negative, locate three positive.

2. Admit ownership of that reality. Do not deny your current state.

3. Evaluate your possible courses of action. Carry out each possible choice to its output and end result. Where does it all lead?

4. Take action and keep acting. Once you have figured out what might be best, move forward with it and keep shifting your actions as the situation itself also shifts.

The person who is substantially wealthy carries this mindset.  The reason that fear is faith misplaced is because if you fear something, then you have faith in that thing becoming true.  Think about the idea that faith, in its concept, is a belief you might have, sometimes without evidence.  Fear is the same as faith, it simply wears a different mask.  You cannot just think you might be something, you have to know.