What you Stare at You Become

This is the parable of Paul the Accountant and the parable of Joe the Meat Man.

Little Paul was only 12. Just 7 years ago he was just knee high to a grasshopper and now he was almost grown up. His parents said stare at books and get a good college education and he asked “how come?”

They replied “so you can be a bean counter like your father”. By the eleventh grade his guidance counselor asked ‘so what is it you’re going to be and what college and why’. And Paul answered ‘any college will do that can teach me to be an accountant because I want to be the guy to count other peoples money.’ After he got his degree in accounting everyone asked Paul ‘who are you?’ and big Paul, now age 22, said ‘I’m an accountant’. Paul was totally convinced, even his subconscious mind was sold.

By age 35, Brother Paul was asked multiple times and each time he hit the streets to look for more beans to count and each time people cried ‘what do you do?’ He shouted ‘I told you already. I’m an accountant and nothing more.’

Now here’s what happened next. Now the economy tanked and guess what. No one wanted an accountant and those who did were only paying now by the hour because of cut backs. And now all Paul could do was earn what he was earning back when he was fresh out of college. Yikes!!!!

So he sat at home, near broke and used his past to justify his future. He complained at anyone at the local bar who would listen and he also handed his ‘I’m an accountant’ speech to everyone.

One day someone walked up to Paul and showed him a manual and said ‘You looked like the kind of fellow who always had their eye out for a good second income, true?’ He said ‘I’m certainly not. I already have a career. I’m an accountant, a broke one though.’

What you stare at you become!!!!

The parable of Joe the meat man

Joe has a free spirit. His parents never had the nerve to talk him into going to college because by age 14 all he could obsess about was magic. By age 24 he’s been around the world doing magic and some of his magic buddies became rich and famous. Joe got bored with traveling and decided to get a job. In the real world no one was hiring guys who did magic. So Joe answered an add in the newspaper that was hiring door to door men. They gave Joe a meat truck and his name became known all over New Jersey as ‘Joe the Meat Man’.

He was inspired by his great magic buddies who’ve attracted great fame and money and decided to listen to Tony Robbins audio tapes in his truck, non stop for 8 hours per day for years. Now here’s the weird part. What happened was that Joe without even knowing it was actually teaching his subconscious the memory and imagination of prosperity.

Almost like learning a new language. Next, he knocked on some doors to sell more steaks and people said ‘we earn $25,000 per month in network marketing. Do you want to take a look? Joe replied ‘I’ve been using my mind and studying money and increase for years, of course.’ So the rich guy said ‘You see, you were supposed to meet me’.

The meat man said ‘I guess what you stare at long enough begins to stare back at you’.

Then the rich guy says ‘That’s right. Here sign this MLM application’. So, years later Joe got over 10,000 people who stared at money to sign the MLM application and the little meat boy became the number one distributor with 75,000 people in the company.

What you stare at you become!!!

So, here’s the lesson:

1. Paul could only allow himself to be an accountant. So therefore when the economy tanked he had no other means to receive an income. Joe on the other hand, had a self-image that was not confined to work or even assigned a label. All Joe could think of was being a free American and living with more money than he needed.
2. Jobs are only for people who never took the time to learn how to make their own work. If you want to change your income, then change how you receive it. Joe decided to serve 10,000 people and 10,000 people gave Joe money in return for his leverage. Paul on the other hand, only asked one person, a boss. Do you see the difference?
3. If you change how you look at money, money itself will rearrange itself and change how it looks at you. For instance, most people work for money and become a salve to having never enough. What if you made money work for you and use money to circulate ads to attract other people who stare at money and you use their energy as our money.
4. If you think you are whatever you learned at college back when you were a kid and only 21 and years later when society moves and all jobs get screwed up, what will you do if what they taught you in school is no longer relevant or even needed? You can decide to make a career out of being you and making income in a free society and make it in all sorts of ways. Or you can remain a hostage in the banking system and remain at the dinner table of Visa and MasterCard. God knows they love to eat you alive. You can choose the open market or you can follow the company and dress in some corporate fitting costume and remain in a game called we will only pay you enough so you never quit and only be on a job with a title.

What you Stare at you Become!!!

So as 2008 closes down and you prepare for 2009 what will you stare at and what will you become. In 2009 will you choose prosperity or struggle? Will you choose lack or abundance? Will you choose that attitude that ‘you deserve better and your family deserves better?’ The defining moments and changes that happen in your life will come from changes in your mind, changes in your thinking and changes in your self-image and not from a change in the government.

Unless you are mentally prepared for success you will not receive it. Unless you are the person who can attract the crowd, you won’t build a following. All the answers that you are searching for are found within yourself. You just need to learn how to unleash them.

Be Well,

Keith S. Aul
“When You Change Your Thoughts, You Change Your Results”
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