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I am like a superstar in our barrio, which is located few meters from the city proper. People are asking me as to what my secret is because I have a very soft skin. So soft and so white complexioned. Then of course, I told them about the soap and creams that I am applying before and after I got from bed.

One day, my very fat friend in the neighbourhood knocked on my door. It was so early in the morning. When I asked him about it, he only told me that I am needed by his wife. That is why I was accompanied by that fellow in their house. I then saw the wife there, oh my God! Nearly obese, she could not easily stand up and move.

I am not a nurse or a physical therapist but that couple believed that I can help them. As such, I then brought there every morning my ab rocket and abdominal machines. I then used both during my younger years. And now I am letting the wife use it every morning.
Until now, I am allowing her to use the sit up equipment because those are the only possible help that will be available to her. I could not give her a diet that might really fit her style, because if she starves more, there would be a tendency that she’s going to adopt a particular disease. A disease that might catch all the things away. A sickness that can destroy everything. And even before I believed that dieting is not an advisable one for a person who wants to get thin.

I assisted her every morning, and until now I am allowing her to use the equipment I brought for her and I am planning to give it to her as a form of a gift. I can already see what are the improvements in my body. Somehow, I helped, right? I don’t know but I just feel so glad upon helping her. As a matter of fact, I am giving her a bucket of fruits every payday. Just to help the metabolism of that person so that all the fats might be eliminated in her system.

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Cats are great at finding new sources of food and change their habits, is there something we can learn from them?

It seems like everybody has their own plan on how to survive the recession. Just some of the kind of stuff you’ll see across the Internet and blogosphere is advice like:

1. Hang on to your job
2. Move while others are distracted
3. Earn extra money
4. Squeeze that last drop of value from your home
5. Refinance high interest credit cards
6. Plan expenditure
7. Haggle your way to savings
8. Be thrifty and reduce your energy bills
9. Avoid taking on any unnecessary debts

I really could go on to reach 99 just to represent the saying, “99 ways to skin a cat”. I’m sure you have more productive things to do with you time. Of course, you can Google it all yourself and find out what the all time experts: Tom, Dick and Harry have to say.

I will get straight to the point.

With so many ways to become rich, why do some fail with the same thing that others succeed with? Plenty of people reduce their spending and still fail to get rich? Did you know that often those with lower or no degrees have the more educated working for them? Most businesses fail within the first 4 years, why is that?

Because the secret is in HOW you go about being rich, not what you do. Cause while there are 99 ways to skin a cat, if you don’t do it RIGHT — whichever method you have chosen — it won’t bring RESULTS.

What is the formula for riches?

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So before you waste your time trying out 99 ways blindly, get this one formula that will transform your financial future.

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Affirmations Tame Reptiles

If you were a reptile, could you love? What on earth? Given that you have a reptile in you, its very important to understand what that means. Yuck! This part of the brain is called the “limbic system” or the stem brain, but it’s from our reptile ancestry whatever you call it.

Think like a reptile for a moment, what would you fear, what would you be interested in? What feelings would the new thing bring up in you? I suppose reptiles feel only hunger, sex, self-preservation and fear.

Imagine you are still that reptile, and you see something new. How would you react? If it looked tasty, well chances are we’d try and eat it, or if it looked scary, we’d probably slither away.

Now step back into “you” again. How many times has your inner reptile made you react the same way? We live in the illusion that we are one thing, a human being. We did not evolve as one “unit”, over time many millions of parts combined to produce what we are today. Our brains are made up of three major parts, the stem or reptile brain, the mid-brain which deals with emotions and the rational brain. That’s just in our brain, but these LEGO set of life is in other parts of us too. Right inside our cells, we have DNA as everyone knows, but the DNA needs RNA to interact with the rest of the body. So in some sense DNA is “foreign” to the body. Even our cells evolved from different primitive ancestors too. All our genetic heritage is passed on from the female side generation after generation, in a part of the cell called the mitochondria. That raises some interesting questions!

Our being the sons and daughters of Eve is absolutely right. Go back only 6,000 generations and our DNA shows we all originated in Africa, from one single migration. That is just the blink of any eye, so really, we are all African. The difference genetically between any two humans is barely measurable. The chimpanzee, our nearest relative, is only 2-3% different from us genetically.

So what’s with the evolutionary tour? In the brain, our friend the limbic system on really cares about survival and not much else. In fact it is hardly aware of the other parts of the brain. It does not care or even understand being rich, happy or fulfilled. Survival. Nothing fancy, just survival only.

The subconscious is where the action is though. No one really knows which part of the brain it lives in, but it really does exist and much more importantly, it is where your accumulated beliefs live. Also, the subconscious does not understand negatives or have a sense of humor and is VERY literal in its interpretation of what you feed it.

The mid-brain has a richer emotional life and is aware far more than the limbic system, but it views life through an emotional lens. There goes the idea of the brain as a super computer. The cartoon of the logical brain is just not true. Thinking often acts more to stop action, that to prompt taking action.

Want an example, when you are at a store and the attendant comes over and starts to sell to you, if you are marginally keen, what’s the most common phrase people use? I’ll t____________ it.

Notice that interesting second word? Not a scrap of emotion there. Thought tends to lead to more thought. In case you did not remember the phrase, would you like to have it? I’ll think about it.

So in the end, we usually make emotional decisions and then justify them afterwards. Think what would happen if you asked someone why they bought product X over product Y. The decision was really made on which one they liked more. The features of the product did not make the decision, they were used as justifications afterwards. We had a series of “filters” or beliefs that made one choice way more “logical” for us than the other one. Guess what? Someone walked into the same store just after you did, and for them product Y was so obviously better than X, only a fool would by X. Which person is right? Neither or both. Choose either one. Both had beliefs about something that caused them to take action and buy something.

So what about our larger lives? What role do our beliefs play in our lives? If beliefs can prompt us to take action, they can also stop us from taking action too. Let’s say you have a strong belief that you can’t swim (forget the “because’s for the moment”) well first off, you can’t swim because you have a negative belief around swimming which you can justify with lots of reasons and secondly, because you believe that chances are you’ll stop yourself from learning to swim. The belief you can’t swim, means that you can’t swim!

Now let’s apply that to money. What a thought! The dreaded “M” word. The girls like a different word with “M” that scares boys, this one drives everyone crazy: Money. There are few subjects on which there are more experts than around money. Remember how “literal” minded the subconscious is. There are more opinions on money than about the weather or this year’s fashions. Frankly, there are probably more opinions about money than sex.

Why? Well, because money is an essential ingredient to living in the 21^st century, it is the means by which we can live our large dreams and achieve the kind of freedom deep down we all believe we can have. Chances are up pops a belief saying why we do not deserve that life or cannot have it because (insert your reason here) or maybe because there is only a limited supply of wealth or some other idea. Ever heard the phrase the “filthy rich”? In that world, to be rich you have to by filthy. Who deep down really wants to be filthy if that’s what it takes to be rich. How’d you like to be a filthy person? You have to be that first, before being rich.

How about “money is the root of all evil”? That’s another common one. Bad is one thing, but evil is a whole different thing altogether. Being “bad” is breaking societies conventional rules and bad usually becomes good over time. Evil is deliberately and consciously setting out to harm others. Just reading that probably is scary. Imagine your reptile brain reacting to that one! That’s go danger written all over it, don’t you think?

It is our deepest, hidden beliefs that are guiding our lives. These beliefs are so familiar to us, that we are unaware of them. Yet, there they are guiding us with the precision of a laser bomb to our target. Do we end up with joy or sadness or worse? Whether your beliefs are explosive or not will show up in the results in your life, around money, relationships and health for instance. If you are interested in changing those beliefs for more productive ones, The Science of Getting Rich is about wealth in more than just financial terms. You can also check out The Power of Simplicity.

You see, our reptile brain is alive and well, so are all the other parts of us. In our emotions, in our feelings, our thoughts and above all in our subconscious beliefs. Imagine all of these aspects of you pulling in different directions, how will you get to where you want to go?

Emptying out the junk in our lives is called spiritual growth. Since spirit is perfect already, that is entirely another post.