Surely she has goals and dreams and aspirations and perhaps these are to do your unproductive chores making her a maid, cook, and errand runner instead of an equal or romantic partner. Instead she becomes a slave... a slave for love, a slave for money but none the less, a slave. Perhaps this is your destiny to be a slave owner or slave driver and she a slave. "
He had a point as he always did.
"Or," he said, "You could assist another in fulfilling their true purpose and at the same time fulfill your own by hiring a professional servant to allow you the time and energy to reach your absolute potential that is forever connected with the amount of time we have on this planet."
I had a lot to think about after he said this... and when I came to Singapore, it suddenly began to make sense.
The other option I had was to take these extra two hours per week day and reinvest them back into myself, my future and my business. If I had a value of $50 per hour for my professional expertise I could covert the 1,040 man-hours to earnings of $52,000 per year and this is a figure that would grow exponentially over time due to increased advertising, promotions and the like.
However, if my value increased or was set at $100 or $200 per hour, then my wealth would balloon to $104,000 or $208,000 per year at a bare minimum. My investment power would also increase dramatically in real estate, stocks or others investments. The houseman would beckon a salary of $30,000 so the investment in my future was a profitable one from the initial looks of it.
The other option, George said, was to get myself a wife and get her to take on the "houseman" role and in turn, suck her life force dry. "Her energies could be directed into taking care of all your menial activities thus, controlling her destiny and solidifying her purpose as one to support you to get ahead, which ultimately means she will also get ahead but at what cost?
He suggested that when the time comes I hire a "houseman". A houseman is a complete butler meaning the houseman functions as a cook, maid, and is essentially an extended personal assistant.
He asked me how much of my day time-wise is spent on menial duties such as cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, yard maintenance, laundry, paying bills, and endless miscellaneous errands such as washing my car, returning purchased items and other such time consuming exercises.
After careful calculating, I discovered that I averaged 2 hours per day Monday to Friday in such activities and up to 6 hours per day Saturday and Sunday doing more of the same. This totalled 20 hours per week out of a possible 84 waking hours or close to 25% of my time engrossed in unproductive activities. Multiply 20 hours per week by 52 weeks and the figure becomes a staggering 1,040 hours a year or 43 days or a whopping 6 weeks!
But this isn't just 6 weeks; it is 6 full weeks @ 24 hours per day. Run the math again and we see 87, 12 hour days spent in menial activities. So here I was wasting close to 90 days per year (25% of my life) stuck in a merry-go-round of acceptable living by most standards.
My mentor, whose name is Jorge (George) opened my eyes to the real value of time when I realized I could learn a second language with 1,040 hours of extra time each year, in addition to playing the piano, climbing Mount Everest, learning how to skydive, endless travel and the list went on and on.
When L.L. spoke of wealth he viewed this as total wealth in all aspects of life from health to relationships to money but more specifically in the realm of overall pleasurable living and personal enjoyment.
He saw time as the most valuable commodity we as human beings have and were given. He saw that there was an unlimited supply of nearly everything from money, to jobs, to love, to hate, to laughter, but there was a limited amount of time.
Time was the most limited factor in every pursuit and situation. It wasn't until a few years after my time with L.L. did I fully understand the profoundness of the above. L.L.'s thinking was way ahead of mine as he was more than twice my age and grew up under a vastly different set of circumstances.
I befriended another wealthy individual who grew up as royalty in the Philippines. This gentleman's family owned plantations and had a net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars way back in the 1940's and 1950's.
When Marcos came to power the political climate changed drastically for the worse and his father left the country for Canada and had to pay $10,000,000 USD in bribes to get $1,000,000 USD out of the country.
This wealthy friend became a mentor and altered my thinking regarding time compression, progression & life acceleration. Here are this thoughts on this subject:
The word acceleration in every context means to speed up yet what is being conveyed in this writing is to take the slow and steady approach to using the Science Of Time.
Equally ironic is the word compression, which means to reduce the volume of a particular thing, in this case is time, and by doing so we expand your result or the level/amount of success.
The progenitor of this fascinating system, the wealthy man from America, was very much a champion and fan of the Warren Buffet line of thinking in that long term investing is the very best way to build and maintain vast wealth.
Talk with any modern day master in any particular field and they will all agree that slow and steady is favoured for success over the quick and dirty approach to the expenditures of your energies.
The wealthy man from America, an astute gentleman who goes by the name ‘L.L. Chopin", was rather fond of the Chinese axiom, "Every journey begins with a single step".
What do you mean “time” is my friend and my “enemy”? PART 5
So, what is the verdict? Are you an energetic vampire? Know anyone close to you who is?
Can you see how an energetic vampire can be dangerous? You can if you view them as a black hole or plague…
I recall watching a movie recently and the main characters were discussing such a topic. They were asking why a person would commit such terrible crimes to his fellow human and the one dumbfounded reply was, “Some men want to watch the world burn.”
Perhaps why a person would suck the life force out of another is because it is their purpose to do so. I mean really, what else would they feel the need to do this or act in this way? Everything we do we do because it makes us feel good. Even when we do things like sabotage our very own lives and success we do it because it makes us feel good. There is some kind of a pay off.
But can we really blame an energetic vampire for all our problems? Can we really point the finger at them and make them responsible for our troubles and difficulties?
We certainly can if we are not “aware”.
A car accident is just waiting to happen if you decide to drive your car into another one. This can happen if you are drunk, very sad, very mad or really tired… all of which means being unaware of the task at hand…
… and is the same as choosing to feed an energetic vampire by keeping them in your life.
Awareness is only as good as your ability to make a proper decision once the issue has been fully uncovered thanks only to having awareness.
The energetic vampire can only suck the life out of you if you allow it to.
Awareness is really everything. It can be a matter of life and death. It is the difference between existing and living rich or living a life full of life and not a life full of boring-ness. What makes me say this?
Well for starters, I was not born aware but I have become aware. I guess at this point I should define aware and unaware so I don’t lose anyone.
I see people living a life of awareness or being totally unaware. For me it is two different types of life. Awareness is living your life and recognizing how your internal thoughts, feelings, and attitudes affect your external world… even shaping the situations and circumstances you find yourself in and facing… and how this relates directly with what is inside your mind.
Awareness is also recognizing how what you do affects other people. Lack of awareness is a lack of consideration for others.
Take the cold businessman for example who is unaware:
He makes it a lifestyle to always take from people. He is a predator. He is a hunter. He will use you, your money and your network to score a deal. He will over step his boundaries when it comes to using you, your money and your network and will have no problem abusing you so long as he can score a deal or close business.
He will have no regard for you or your money or your network and the impact his abusive actions have on all of this including himself.
When he oversteps his boundaries and you scold him for his improper and dangerous actions, he stands there with a blank look on his face. He stands there looking at you funny thinking you are talking crazy or simply doesn’t understand what he has done.
He doesn’t understand that his actions could have ruined the entire operation for everyone including other businesspeople and companies who are partnered with the operation.
Then he has the nerve to ask for an advance on commissions or to take a bigger stake in the next deal. Meanwhile he just got caught doing a side deal with a fierce competitor and this side deal has angered all partners globally because the side deal he did crashed the profit margin for all partners.
He basically screwed everybody – all the other “team members” or partners – for his own personal gain and doesn’t understand or see why he is being denied the advance in commissions nor does he realize how close he came to losing his job and being homeless.
This is what I call an unaware person. He doesn’t see how his actions affect everything around him. He has zero clue about how playing on a team means cooperation with others is essential for victory.
An unaware person is usually a self-ish person. They do not realize that by working with the hopes and needs and wants and feelings of others they may score the biggest deals of all time.
An unaware person is a taker. They are an energetic vampire and usually are cheap in every aspect of their lives. They love getting a deal, which means they love screwing another out of their livelihood and ability to feed their families and provide for them a decent quality of life.
This makes the unaware person dangerous to all of society.
So my question is… are there any energetic vampires in your life? Know of any? How about you? Are you a taker and don’t even know it?
We will talk about awareness in this part but we must do first things first.
When things repeat, there is a cycle involved. Take music for example. An old album spinning or a new CD or DVD spinning. These objects are circular and rotate or spin. Round and round they go repeating their cycle and with it, brining wondrous sounds and great entertainment value.
This spinning mass is an object that stores data. Same with your hard drive in your computer. It spins close to 7200 rpm and stores data. The earth is a globe that spins on its axis and spins again and again in large volumes being a part of a solar system, universe, galaxy etc.
When you repeat something, you get a second and third and fourth chance to improve it. It's called practice and usually we can't get it right the first time around. So we go through the motions (cycle) again and again and this is called practice. Practice makes perfect. This means Mother Nature is constantly practicing over and over again to improve Herself and this really means us. But how do we improve ourselves? How do I use this to better myself and to experience more success. more financial success?
We must take four steps to accomplish this and it really begins with understanding and awareness.
1.Recognition
2.Acknowledgment
3.Acceptance
4.Application
We live in a world chalked full of circular laws and a world of repeatable events - "history repeats." Our cells are round and not square. The wheel is round not square. This permits motion and fluidity - better known as life. Dead things do not move.
Chances are if you square yourself into existence with everything from attitude to planning to physical action, the cycle will repeat itself over and over again until there is so much pain it forces you to re-think your participation into a different mode of operation. It really isn't hip to be square. It's a prison sentence.
Care to put this circular / cycle concept into scientific discovery?
Ready???
Grab a bottle of Windex or glass cleaner, a roll of paper towel, and approach any shaped window or piece of glass, mirror included. Now spray the glass cleaner on the glass and clean it by wiping the glass.
What did you discover?
p.s. Understanding (realization) is far, far more important than putting it into words or actions.
p.p.s. Self fulfillment is more powerful than all the kings horses and all the kings men.
p.p.p.s. Working and on "thy Self" is vastly more important than working on the whole.
Fulfill thy Self, let God/Universe fulfill all the rest. Awareness is EVERYTHING.
