Awaken your power for greatness.

All of us has an inner power. We have within us some drive, determination, courage, and persistence as well as a host of other powers. We have these Powers deep within us. And if we ever tap into these powers they can lead us to greatness. They can lead us to prosperity.
 They can lead us to great heights in life if only we tap into them. Now many of us aren't achieving greatness in life because the power lies dormant within us. We haven't tapped into the power and brought it out of us. Those who have tapped into these powers have achieved miraculous things. We have to get rid of the doubt and all of the things that suppresses us.
 It’s the things that suppress us, which suppresses that special power that lies deep within us, that keeps our greatness at bay. Once we can rise above our own suppression and rise above the things that suppresses us, we can move on to fulfill our true destinys. We have all been granted miraculous abilities. Many of those abilities we can see. They are visual and we have experienced them often.
We have physical abilities and mental abilities and abilities of the mind and soul and the capacity to think and to feel and the capacity to rationalize and so forth. But we also have other special powers which often go unrecognized. We don't recognize these powers that we have. We see them in great people often. We see people who do great things. We see the power in them but for many of us, we don't see the power in the rest of the masses of people and we don't see this power in ourselves.
And so we have to figure out a way to be able to tap into this power. We need to use this power to the best of our abilities and to better our lives and to fulfill our destinies of being all that we can be. We need to be all that we were created to be. That’s the only way that we can find our true purpose in life. Our purpose in life lies just beyond our supression.
 Once we get past the supression of our special inner powers, we can get to our true destinies which is just being great at something, being masters. Our main mission in life is being the very best that we can possibly be.
Having lots of physical things and material things in life is one such accomplishment. But having your own inner powers and mastering those powers and knowing how to utilize those powers to achieve whatever you want in life is the greatest achievement to make. Material possessions are things that will or can be taken away or stolen or lost.
 But to master your inner powers and your inner strength is something that no one can take from you. They're all yours for the rest of your life. So tap into your inner powers and master them and achieve greatness.
Stanley Thomas

There Is Money All Around You.

By Stanley Thomas.

There is plenty of money floating around. When I say money I am referring to cash,  known  as the US dollar bill. There is a lot of cash in circulation  today because the federal reserve prints a lot of it. They print trillions of dollars waiting to be placed into circulation at the right time. Money used to be backed by gold which meant that for every dollar in circulation  there must be a certain amount of gold in the US Treasury to backup that gold.

 During the time Nixon became president, He took the dollar off of the gold standard,  Causing the dollar to become more volatile, going up-and-down and suddenly dropping rapidly in value. Now the dollar isn't backed by gold,  but by a promise to pay in the future.  The dollar is backed by the confidence in the US government to repay. The government secures the money to pay by using taxpayers dollars. The hard work of the taxpayer is really where the money comes from. So there is an abundance of money circulating all around the planet. Every time someone borrows some money and promises to repay,  new money comes into existence.

Since the government backs the US dollar with a promise to pay, the US is backed by debt or an IOU. The dollar is nothing more than an I owe you promising someone that they will be paid someday. And since we have a system where we have to create jobs by creating businesses, and also we need to create housing for people, that always lead to a system where more money can be created and recreated. Since the money is backed by a promise to pay , it is ultimately backed by the work of the people and their labor. The money is also backed by the entrepreneurs and job creators. So the whole U.S. currency system is ultimately backed by our ability to work, earn, and to pay back the money owed.

 So when a business owner or investor goes to the government or goes to a bank to borrow a million dollars, they usually take that million dollars and start a business with it. If the business person is a developer, he or she will put the money in a real estate project. They just created another million dollars into existence.The money goes on the project, and people go to work at that point, building the project, whatever that might be, like a strip mall or it might be a combination of residential properties and shopping centers. People can live and shop in the same area. The money goes to create the project.
People are employed and they go to work to build this development, and in turn the money generated from this development goes to pay down the debt or loan. At that point, so many millions of dollars have been created. And that is how the system works today. So as long as you have people and their ability to work, think, and come up with new ideas, you always going to have an abundance of money in the world. If you didn't have entrepreneurs coming up with ideas and people who work in the business and make everything work out, the economy would have been collapsed a long time ago. The economy really rest on the people.

The national debt keeps getting higher and higher so people think that the nation will go bankrupt one day. That's up for debate because the United States technically have been bankrupt a long time ago. They are bankrupt on paper that's true but since we have a large population with lots of workers, business people, and land with lots of resources we always manage to handle that debt. It's always business as usual without collapse of the government. We won't collapse like Argentina have, at least not yet.

 With our abundance hopefully we can keep on rolling along without the wheels falling off. So the point I'm making is that there is plenty of money to go around. There's lots of money in circulation and that money is ultimately backed by the people's ability to work, to earn, and to create more wealth. As long as people are thinking, creating, and working, and long as you have producers coming up with more innovations and more unique ideas and technologies for the future, and for the present, you always going to have a scenario or and environment of us having plenty of goods, food, services, and money. We always have been a nation of plenty, and there will always be lots of money.

 There is a lot of money right now in existence. For people to get their share of the money, people have to do certain things. That's the reason why the government is actually printing more money because they are hoping that people will come together to create more businesses so more money can be created. If we can create wealth at a higher rate than the amount of debt that is in existence then perhaps the United States can prolong bankruptcy or perhaps reverse the process altogether. Even though that’s a serious issue that the U.S. is in it shouldn't be one where people should be afraid of.
 If the United States does collapse we still have to deal with the pain anyway. So why be afraid. We might as well just suck it up deal with the failure. but at the same time it seems funny that we have been in this situation so many years for so long and yet the United States still keeps moving along even though we have a federal reserved that's not federal but is owned by private investors who don't have the United States in their best interests. With all of this going on with our money, we are still in existence as a nation.

 So even though there are people who run the federal reserve which is in control of the U.S. dollar, and we don't know how honest or crooked they are for some reason, those people know that they have to be careful with the money supply, that things don't get too out of hand when it comes to their decision-making. If the Federal reserve let things get out of hand with the money, we would have a serious crisis to deal with, and it would be worldwide. So we do have plenty of money in this country, that’s true, but there still has to be control over the management of the money. We leave it up to those who control the money supply to handle that part. We as informed citizens must handle our part by remaining informed and being knowledgeable about money.

Our ability to think and to create is two of our biggest assets. You have some very talented entrepreneurs in this country who are getting paid a lot of money for their talent. Their assets are their ideas, which can generate money. So even if something was to happen to the U.S. dollar, the entrepreneurs or producers will still have their assets, which is their ideas. So our ideas are actually more valuable than the money generated by the ideas.
 There is plenty of money around because so much of it is being printed, and the money is backed by the whole nation. So there is never a shortage of money. The thing that you don't want to run out of are people, their ideas, and their abilities. Right now there are plenty of people with abilities and ideas all around the country. One thing about money is that money is not the root of all evil, but the lifeblood of the whole entire economy.

 Money runs through every single aspect of our economy. It keeps the economy running. And if something happens to our current form of money, some other currency would have to take place. It is vital to have a form of monetary currency for the economic trade of a Nation. The word currency means to flow. Money is also patterned after electricity, which runs through the whole system. That's why you hear terms like currency when it comes to money, similar to electric currency flowing through power lines.

In this instance, money is like electricity. If you use a credit card, you make a charge at a store, just like a battery in a car being charged, as the battery stores the electricity. Often people go to a department store to buy something and they have an account with the store and they simply have the cashier charge the merchandise to the purchasers account. Money is also patterned after water because it flows as a current or currency as money does. With water you have rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, and oceans. Water flows between and into each.

 Water flows into rivers, creeks, and streams. It flows into ponds, lakes, and oceans where water is stored. This is very similar to electricity. You have batteries, wires,and capacitors, that store electricity briefly and let it go. There are diodes that briefly holds electricity and lets it go. There are power lines, transformers, and charging stations or conversion stations to convert power.

If you take a closer look at money and our money system, it works the same way, similar to electricity and water. You have money in your pocket. You have money flowing to your bank account in the form of direct deposit from your job. The bank holds the money until you come and get it. When you go to the store and buy something, money flows there.
Money can also flow into insurance companies. Banks come in different sizes. there are large investment Banks and small community Banks and banks in between. Money can flow from bank to bank or from bank to individuals. So money is very similar to water and electricity in how it flows and how it is stored and released later on. There is one more thing that money has in common with water and electricity. There is plenty of it all around.

Stanley Thomas

Fight off enemies by becoming more successful.

Fight off enemies by becoming more successful. By Stan Thomas.

If you have a great reputation in your community how can you  protect it from those who wish to  defame  you? Success is hard to get and the last thing you want is for some person to take it from you. If someone attacks you with a  negative statement to make you look bad how do you fight back?    There is a  simple solution to this problem .

 What   you can do is wait  for the attacker to stop attacking . Then go on the  offensive. This works very well when something bad happens to the person who attacked you. This is when  you let them have it.  However there is a better solution to this problem .

Instead of attacking the person back directly or indirectly what you can do is simply become more successful at what you do . You have to be better than the competition. You have to be bigger  than the enemies who wish to destroy you.  If  your reputation is larger than their reputation then their voice does not  matter as much as yours. You have  to defeat your enemies  by becoming more successful at what you do than your enemies are at what they do.

 You have to push yourself out there so far ahead of your enemies that they cannot catch up with you.  By becoming more successful  a large number of people  know about you as a  highly successful person . Your enemies cannot keep up with you because  they are way too small to persuade the public against you. When you grow bigger  your enemies will look  small and petty.

 There is a board game called go. It is different from the game chess . In the game go  the objective is to dominate the board by taking up  the most space  on the game board . In life successful people dominate the public perception of  them . The more  success  a person has and the more well-known  the successful person is  the more  protected this person is from their enemies .

 Have you noticed how  hard it is to criticize a highly successful and popular person and  get away with it. Some people have such a good reputation that you would look like a fool criticizing  this person.  That's The Power of  success and a big reputation. Superstars are more well-known   than critics.  A critic attepts to make a name for  himself  by attacking someone who is highly successful .

 Like the old saying goes , there has never been a statute erected to a critic . So keep on pushing  and keep on striving for higher Heights.  That way you will leave your enemies in the dust .

Be a Showboat.

Be a Showboat.
By Stan Thomas.

Why do you need to be a Showboat when it comes to your career? If you are in sales, real estate, finance, writing a book, music, or acting or in business for yourself you need to put on a show for the public. If you create a product or service, you have to sell that product or service to stay in business. But how are you going to sell a book you wrote if no one has ever heard of you? What a person would do is write a book and shop it around as a manuscript trying to get a book deal.
The problem is that publishers don’t want to sign you because you are an unknown author. They can’t make money off of you because no one knows who you are. No one has ever heard of you before. So it is a real struggle for a first time author to be successful because of that reason. They are unknown and they have to get their name out there some kind of way.
 People have to know about them and their work before they can be considered for a deal. You have to be on TV, the radio, internet and other media to grab attention and have a large following. This is called marketing where you strive to put your name and product in the minds of the public. Not only if you are trying to get a book deal are you going to have to market and promote yourself, but even if you publish yourself you have to market and sell yourself in order to sell your product. So whether you are in music, acting, real estate, insurance, or whatever, you have to move your biggest obstacle in the way of your success, nothing.

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No one calling you and no one talking about you mean that you do not exist in that particular field. So what you have to do is to be a showman and tell the whole world about what it is that you do. You have to give away some free content in order to attract eyeballs and ears. Get on TV, radio, and internet and get your name in front of thousands of people and you would have a better chance at making it. If you want to sell one CD or download of your music you may have to let 50 people hear a song of yours.
One great example of showmanship is that of             Nicoli Tesla and Thomas Edison. Nikola Tesla was an inventor first and foremost. He didn't believe in politics or business. In his mind working on his inventions was more important than show boating around to businessman and politicians . He did not care about showing off his inventions to financiers or making sure that he gets recognized for his work.
 As a result he was not as successfully well known as he should have been. Thomas Edison on the other hand was a businessman and a show man. Everything he did was about making sure that he gets recognized for the invention and that the public becomes highly aware of the invention. Thomas Edison was well-known and well connected in the business community at that time. He was also well-known in the science community as well.
 And as a result Thomas Edison is the scientist that we all know about and only a few of us have ever heard of Nikola Tesla. If you study the history of these two great men you would realize that Nicoli Tesla was the better scientist of the two. Thomas Edison however was a better Showman than Nikola Tesla and it is Nikola Tesla who worked for Thomas Edison. Nikola Tesla did not care about fame and fortune and was more concerned with being a genius and thought that the rest will just take care of itself. But it did not.
 As the person who is in charge of your own success you must do everything in your power to sell, market, and promote yourself and your products. The key take away from this story is that if you are in business for yourself and you have an excellent product, you need to let the world know about you and your product or service. Become a showboat and present yourself to the entire planet and let everyone talk about you and your product.
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Bend but don't break.

Bend but don't break .

By Stan Thomas.

Once upon a time when I was driving a tractor trailer rig , I was driving down a rual Highway.  There was a broken branch that stuck out into the roadway . The problem was the branch was not sticking out far enough to be noticed at a distant. It only stuck out slightly. My right view  mirror hit the branch and the mirror arm was bent to the point where I could not see out of the mirror. I thought I had broken the mirror. I pulled the rig to the side of the road as soon as I found a safe place to do so. When I got out of the truck I went to the passenger side and looked at the mirror. I was relieved. The mirror itself was not broken, and the arm was designed to bend in on contact. So I pulled the mirror back out to the proper position and got back in the cab and drove off. The mirror was designed to bend but not break. Had it not been designed that way it would have broken on contact. In life many challenges will come your way. You have to design yourself to be able to bend when hit with something bad  and absorbed the blow.  When you get a chance you can readjust yourself and go back on your journey. You have to be able to bend but never break under stress. A spring which is made out of metal is a perfect tool which is designed to bend under stress. The coils are spaced apart just right to allow it to stay cool while being pushed on regularly.  With all of the constant stress of being pushed on it never breaks. It just goes back to its former shape waiting to be nudged again. The spring bends but it never breaks.  End.

Be Crazy.

Be crazy.
By Stan Thomas.

Do you know something? To achieve anything in life you need to be crazy. Stop trying to make sense all the time. Stop only looking to do what is reasonable. Why be sensible? You need to be crazy. That's the only way you are going to achieve anything in life. You have to be crazy enough to believe you can actually do it. You need to have people calling you crazy. " Look at that fool. He can't do that. Boy you are crazy. Girl you are crazy." you should say yes I am crazy. There is a movie about an olympian from the 1980s who won at the 1988 Winter olympics. The movie was called Eddie the eagle. Eddie wanted to be an Olympian every since he was a little boy. He wanted to get into the Winter Olympics to be a long jumper. The jumps can be anywhere from a 50 meter jump to a 90 meter jump. They come sliding down the ramp, next thing you know they're high up in the air. The jump is looking just as graceful and peaceful when they're up in the air. Then they hit the ground missing their Landing , tumbling violently until they stop. Sometimes they may break their neck and have to go in the hospital for a few months. When they get out they go and jump again. That's what Eddie did. He wanted to be in the Winter Olympics to win a gold medal so bad he just did not care about getting hurt. He had a dream of winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics since he was probably 4 years old. And that's how you got to be, crazy. By the way eddie the dreamer was at an Olympic Training field one day as he was watching the Winter Olympic team practice. Eddie watched as one jumper was at the top of the ramp. The jumper took off down the ramp and was flying gracefully into the air. When he landed on the slope he must have flipped a dozen times. When he stopped flipping and tumbling one of the team members ran towards him. He was hurt badly. He had to be carried out on a stretcher. There was a certain man there. He was a worker who maintained the field. He had noticed Eddie a few days prior at the field. He knew that Eddie had Ambitions of being a long jumper. The worker told Eddie while pointing at the injured long jumper. He is an experienced jumper. You have no shot. But that incident did not deter eddie any. He went for his dream anyway. To make a long story short the field maintenance worker whines up training ready to jump because he was a former Olympian himself. Eddie trains, jumps, breaks his neck, is hospitalized, and still ends up winning a gold medal, all because of his natural craziness. It's a good thing that he was not logical at all. Logic would have told him that he did not start skiing early enough in life to have a shot at the Olympics. If he would have listened at the logic of the naysayers He Never Would Have Made It. The moral of the story is that if you want to achieve something great in life you have to forget about being logical and just be crazy. The moment you decide on what you want to be and do and write your goals down, you will hear a voice asking you how are you going to do that. How can you possibly make this happen? The minute you hear a how to write it down as a step toward your goal. Write it as another thing to get done as part of what you want to accomplish. You are going to do it just write down all the things that bring a doubt and list them as steps to be completed. With enough thought you will stumble across the how to. In order to achieve anything great in life you have to be crazy. You don't have to be crazy to be average or do small things. But you have to be crazy to go after something big. The end

Be Anything You Want to Be.

Be anything when you focus. 

You can be anything you set out to be when you focus your efforts. You can be as good or as bad as you want to be. So if you want to be good you have to really want to be good. Success is just out there. It may be just beyond your reach. So you have to stretch a little further. You have to work a little harder and prove yourself just a little more. Along the way you are going to learn certain lessons, those certain lessons that life will teach you from being in different circumstances. I was listening to sports radio one day and this was a local station in town and the radio announcers (two of them) were having a discussion about the local football team. They said that the football team has a challenge coming up this week referring to the opposing team. So-and-so is coming to town. And one of the announcers said that these players are going to have to get rid of all distractions and stay focused on the game. They will also need to eliminate the need to make a whole lot of decisions. They don't need any major decisions to make in their lives right now. They just need to focus and concentrate on the upcoming game. Also I heard a discussion about how some football teams would take their teams and put them in a hotel the week before the game. They would stay there a week before the game to eliminate any chance of the players coming into contact with someone from the outside which could cause a distraction. When I first heard these things I thought that was very interesting. So in order to achieve great success you look at others who have achieved great success like Tiger Woods to Michael Jordan to Michael Jackson and I guess these people have very little to think about outside of what they do. Tiger woods when he was great as a golfer he only focused on golf. He did not think about too many other things. Distractions was minimized.Usually a lot of athletes spend a lot of their time away from family and friends so they can focus and eliminate any distractions. That way they can focus solely on their task of performing at their very best. They can focus solely on the task in which they have to do and give it their undivided attention. This is what helps them to enhance their performance.

So that is what is needed for many of us. We have to look at our own lives and look at the reason why we are not as successful as we would like to be. Could it be that the reason why we're not as successful is because of our inability to focus on one area and concentrate on one thing at a time? Often we concentrate when we are at work when we have a job. We concentrate on that task. We should not work in an unsafe way. So we are encouraged to focus on our task at hand by our bosses. That's what it's going to take in order for us to get that job done safely and effectively. The same thing applies to your dream. You are going to have to eliminate  all distractions. Get some place where you can focus solely on what you want to do, eliminating the need to make other petty decisions about other things. You can become excellent at something by applying this approach. How good could you really be at something if you can put everything you have into it. Imagine if you put your whole heart, mind, and soul and body and concentration solely on that task that is in front of you. You can become great at it. So you have to figure out ways in which you can do just that. 

By Stan Thomas.