The way it’s animated is really quite awesome. I love this video and I hope you enjoy it too!

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If you’re going to utilize the T.V. (the box that becomes the Electronic Income Reducer if it’s used too much) for enjoyment this week, be sure to tune into NBC starting Tuesday, July 27 at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST).

You may have a similar experience as one of the families he’s going to help break through their self-imposed limiting blocks, beliefs, and errant ways in thinking.

See the trailer here…

You get the gist… working FOR entrepreneurs who owned their own products and who were in the business, presumably, of ADDING value to people’s lives through those products.

Sure, it was nice to be able to work from my home-office… the work allowed me to be autonomous, self-reliant, and in control of my schedule and, most importantly, my association with people who I felt were like-minded, ethical, and in business for all the right reasons.

While those reasons are another conversation for another time, the short version of that phrase (“right reasons”) is this:

Is the business associate, vendor, JV partner, or client doing what they’re doing for the love of the game (to use an expression often associated with Michael Jordan) — for their genuine interest and fascination with their niche, product line, or topic ?

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Not only is KNOWING this answer essential when dealing with others, it’s what you should ask yourself anytime you think you’re supposed to be selling or marketing something.

When your interests are MORE rooted in exploration, truth, and ever-expanding knowledge, and less in what others say is trendy, profitable, and mainstream, you’ll naturally surround yourself with curious, open-minded, authentic people.

Now, here’s some million-dollar advice: when you find those people — and you will if you come from a place of inquisitive-fascination about a topic — HAVE A CONVERSATION with them.

Better yet, tell them that you’d like to record it, and share the recording with fellow like-minded people. Explain to the interviewee / teacher / fellow explorer that you”ll end up packaging up various interviews on the same topic and sell ‘em. Give away a few interviews in exchange for somebody’s email / name, and then sell them (don’t worry about the word “sell” — your integrity, purpose and passion will shine through your “pitch”) on more of your interviews.

Tell the interviewee that you want the vibe and the energy of the interview to be like you’re both sitting in an empty coffee shop, on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. Tell them to expect unbridled and raw conversation and questioning about the topic, their experiences, successes, failures, etc. (However, DO NOTE that true blue professional interviewing requires you to have the skills to be much more than a conversationalist.)

How do I know this is a good business model to follow? (Assuming you want to create, own, and sell your own product):

Because I’ve been living it for the past 5 years full time!

It started in early 2005 when I had (and still do, but in different degrees and depths) a fascination for “manifestation / conscious creation”. 14 mentors later, The World’s First Multi-Media Manifestation Portal was born (i.e. ManifestLife.com — er, don’t try and go to that site. The content is being re-purposed).

For nearly 20 months, that first interview-driven product was an honest exchange of MY energy… My time, interests, and hard work in putting it together for people’s investment (money) in themselves. I collected their investment, and they collected valuable content (my investment). Win-Win!

When I was operating solo, interviewing solo, and being a solo entrepreneur, Heather was doing the same thing (well, until that one day when we met. LOA in action, baby).

Since then, of course, we’ve expanded, added products, and re-configured processes, brands, etc. Yet, still to this day, Heather and I know that interviewing will always be the foundation of what we do.

Why ?

Life is part of a continual process of exploration with not just ourselves, but with “others” too.

Like Heather has said many times before here (it’s so important, I’m going to repeat it):

When you strip away all the fluff, hyperbole, and timid behind-the-computer communication, you’re only left with fresh, candid, uncensored conversation.

That basis is the root for nearly everything we do — and that’s because secrets are discovered, ideas are created, thoughts are provoked, and answers are revealed during the course of asking the right questions of the right people.

How you ask those questions, how you find and make an offer to an interviewee in the first place, and how you then make the arrangements to create a product out of it (and other interviewers) is discussed inside:

Interviewing Unwrapped — The Ultimate “Profit With Interviews” Home-Study Resource.

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www.profitwithinterviews.com/presentation.html

Just watch at least 12-minutes of Heather’s presentation and the order link will appear.

Your Partner in the Quest For
Living a Life Without Limits,

… at least the part of YOU who dares to go beyond your own comfort zone and continually strive for new, expansive experiences in life.

But, before we give you the details on what all this means, a big strong shout and cheer goes out to everyone in the USA celebrating the 4th of July Weekend! (And… anyone in Canada still celebrating Canada Day!)

We hope you’re doing fantastic, spending time with family and friends, and having an incredible holiday…

Before you head out to watch fireworks, take 5 minutes of your time to read just ONE thought — a recommendation for a “shift in thinking” — about your FINANCIAL GROWTH…

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For the past 10 months we’ve been creating, tweaking, and super-improving The Wealth Vault by sheer “design on the fly” movement!

What that means is that while we ARE putting the same level of due diligence, critical examination, and thorough research into this product as you’ve come to expect from us via our “personal growth products and interviews,” we’re not WAITING around for consensus approval or “crowd” market demand.

Based off the PURPOSE of The Wealth Vault — to continually research and disclose underground money-growing resources and alternative wealth-building / investing programs — we’d never expect, or want, the MAJORITY to become members.

We know better!

While there’s a slew of entrepreneurs who will bury their integrity and independent spirit in a heartbeat, so they can be OKAY with creating and marketing hype, sizzle and instant gratification “me too” junk, we’ll continue to take the road less crapped on:

Creating and publishing diversified, rare, and uncommon information products that actually, if put to work consistently over time, can dramatically AFFECT somebody’s ability to ACCOMPLISH and EXPERIENCE.

Like personal growth tools that “stick” (not the surface-level kind that cajole you to wish, chant, affirm, dream, and hope for your desires every day), rock-solid, grounded financial wealth is an accumulation of little things (represented by money) over time.

Without question, setting the foundation for lasting monetary (and asset) wealth DOES take time; however, doubling your money every year and having sources of passive cash-flow doesn’t!

Financial accomplishment, or the psychological effect of experiencing higher income and lower expenses, is easy once you’re willing to approach problems and opportunities in a DIFFERENT way than what you’re used to.

Take this for example: years ago it was enough to plan things out, to relentlessly analyze all possible scenarios, to sit back and ponder the possibilities of just being “better than average” — better than your fellow employee, better than what society expects, better than the next competitive product, better than the guy or gal who is wooing the girl or guy of your dreams, etc., etc.

To observe, to ask, to probe, to learn… yes, that’s certainly all very essential to gaining an edge in life; HOWEVER, it’s just not enough anymore.

As an entrepreneur or business-minded, wealth-ambitious person, you have to be different; you have to become outstanding in order to be noticed and move PAST the herd. You should look like a purple cow to attract attention, and “snap” the world into SEEING (and truly knowing) your KVP (Killer Value Proposition).

Seth Godin wrote a great book called Purple Cow. And it is all about that… how to become remarkable.

So, in our quest to continue providing you quality, personally usable information, here’s something of an amalgamation of Seth Godin-LWL-inspired ways to be remarkable:

>> Always understand that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going (well, thanks to Mike Litman, too, for popularizing that phrase)… whatever that “it” is for you (i.e., new business, pursuing a relationship, attracting new clients, or writing the cook book of the century). And once you get it going (moving)… then go ahead and modify, tweak, and enhance along the way.

>> Act upon your inward courage, and natural inclination, to be an iconoclastic thinker – challenge value systems, controlled processes, and anything or anybody that you KNOW (from a gut level) prevents you from expressing your opinions and your own unique ability to reason.

>> Be extreme. Shock others in some way, attract their attention and keep it. Get to the edge. The remarkability is on the edges.

>> Relinquish your need to have the world see that you’re “all together” or that there’s no strife or disharmony in your life. That’s nothing more than a nice-looking, feel-good smoke-screen. Instead, find a confidante, a coach, a personal mentor who will help you be aware of what you are FEELING. Because what you’re feeling (vibrating) NOW is basically thought-energy in motion, or e-motion, which in turn causes what you experience. A coach will nudge you along to be aware of this, be honest about it, and accept responsibility for it.

>> Combine the spirit of adventure with deep thinking. In other words, don’t be normal. If you’re living from congruency (meaning that if you have conviction about X, you’re also behaving X a majority of the time), providing true value to somebody or some group, and you’re operating from the heart to affect change and growth in yourself and the people around you, who cares what others think? Being remarkable is knowing that your dreams are worth more than other people’s opinions.

When we speak to people on the phone about their challenges, dreams, habits, skill set, knowledge, lifestyle, etc., the common thread amongst all our combined solutions always has something to do with that person doing a few things that are DIFFERENT…

… a change in habit… a shift in beliefs… a commitment to stretching their imagination… a request to spend less time soaking up knowledge and more time meeting new (and different) people.

But really, all that advice is still just a stepping stone for the big GOAL:

To earn more, work less, and enjoy life!

And, in our experience, how much somebody actually DOES that… is directly proportional to how much somebody excites, energizes, involves, and disseminates with pure intention.

We now have something, without sounding bombastic and overly-biased, that is incredibly life-changing.

When it comes to money-accumulation and financial wealth, it’s often about WHO you know.

And, our Wealth Vault takes that idea to new levels of implementation –  an ever-growing smorgasbord of personal contacts, insider vendors, and coveted programs that are specialized in making, growing, and keeping money.

Yup, it’s unlike anything you’ve most likely seen, or ever been a part of.

We’re inviting you to take your first step towards your own Financial Independence by becoming a member between now and July 7th (if you do, you’ll get an extra 25% off our already-discounted price).

If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t YEARN for a positive quote-of-the-day, another viewing of a “mind movie,” or the reading of every self-appointed self-growth guru, our venture MAY be for you.

If you’re more about LIVING than LEARNING — more about discovering LIFE than analyzing yourself to pieces — our venture MAY be for you.

If you’re into exploration of “self” and “things” yet you never let the former over-shadow the fun and coolness of the latter, our venture MAY be for you.

If you know that the whole reason to be interested in the desire to make and grow money is to HAVE financial and time FREEDOM now (as in, while you’re in physical form), our venture WILL (without question) be for you.

Note: If none of the hyperlinks above work for you, simply type this into your browser:
http://wealthvault.net/info

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Your Partners in the Quest For
Living a Life Without Limits,

The other night — last Thursday, actually — I was in the gym working up a sweat and burning off some ideas.

Yeah, strange to say… I know.  “Isn’t it calories,” you ask, “you’re supposed to be burning along with the sweat?”

Guess so… but, I don’t hit the hardwood with a basketball with the intention of caring about calories. I don’t  count ‘em.  My body just knows it needs to sweat, and I do it very well once I’m in the humid gymnasium at our local fitness club.

So, there I was, 20 minutes into my routine of 3-point shooting, running to the basket to get my shot (or missed shot — more of the former, though) , and letting all the mental energy I’d corked up throughout the day escape my noggin.

NOTE: If you, like me, have millions of ideas and business possibilities / To-Dos running through your brain, you really should try shooting hoops by yourself sometime, in a hot, sweaty gym.

And, out of nowhere, comes some wanna-be Mike Tyson, with this iPod earphones in place, shadow-boxing his way to the speedbag. That’s fine, as I too often like punching the crap out of it.

But two minutes later, he leaves the speedbag for the rack of basketballs.

And suddenly, he starts foot-dancing around one like he’s David Beckham or something. 

So, while I’m shooting around, I’m wondering how long this guy across the court is gonna move a basketball around with his feet… and then it happened:

“Whaaaaam!”

The ball goes flying into the wall, kicked by the Bozo who thinks he’s in the final seconds of a World Cup match or something.

I go fetch my own rebound, look at him and wonder:

Does this nut not get what the difference is between a soccer ball and a basketball?!

I’m thinking it was a one-time occurrence when again, “Whaaaaam! Smack!”

I’m sorta getting peeved about this time, and then I hear the voice…

It’s my big voice, or what Heather likes to affectionately call “Bigger Barry” — that inner voice we all have, if we are just willing to hear it, regardless of what it says or asks.

It says: “Man, you know that pisses you off. It should. He couldn’t care less what his foot does to deflate or warp the ball, or how to respect it with the proper use. Go say something.”

So, the question is: When you know something isn’t right, or you feel like somebody around you is doing an idiotic thing, “What Would You Do?”

That’s exactly the question ABC’s John Quiñones has been asking lately (but more on that in a second).

Maybe, unlike me, you didn’t play organized basketball. So, maybe a guy super-booting one around the gym wouldn’t get you all worked up.

However, when something of idiocy does hit close to home for you; when you’re in a position to express your inner-voice OUTWARD towards somebody who’s doing or saying something foolish or senseless… do you?

It’s an important question to ask yourself and answer with honesty, as having the ability to gently confront, incite honest reflection, and throw out raw perspective when needed is often the difference between lethargic, unfulfilled wishes… and living authentically, without regret.

Heather and I know plenty of so-called students of higher-learning who make it their focused quest to avoid anything ‘unplesant’, or retreat from any experience that is less than ‘feel-good’ or ‘uplifting.’

Yet, what these folks are missing is that life operates in CONTRASTS. 

Life is basically saying: “Hey, yoooooooooooo, come on already… if you choose to see ONLY what you WANT to see, you miss the point of all this.”

It’s this very flawed, and dangerous, belief – that they MUST evolve to a detached, emotionless state about something they want to change or don’t like — that causes them to feel UNEVOLVED if they confront it — i.e., get angry, express dissatisfaction, or rant about something or someone who they oppose or disagree with.

So… while to many, I know, a guy super-booting a basketball against the wall wouldn’t cause them to take a second look… I also know that there’s plenty more people out there (maybe you?) who would want to say something, but never could — due to a lot of reasons.

But, the ol’ adage of “Its not what you say, but how you say it” often helps you move from fearful hesitancy to confident action.

In my case, I simply walked over and said, “Hey, you do know that’s not a soccer ball, right?”

“Yeah, I know.”

“Great, so being that it’s a basketball, and not designed to be kicked, please quit kicking it.”

“What does it matter? The staff here don’t care if I kick it.”

“It matters because it matters to me. Respect the ball for what it is.  You down with that?”

“Mummmmble… yeaaaah…” He walks away and starts punching the speedbag again.

Anyway, this little minor expression of my values is what reminded me of this show we started watching about three weeks ago.

Here’s one of the first episodes, found on YouTube:

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By the way… another thing that we often speak out (or up) about is the whole “Wealth is an inside job” nonsense. For more, read this short interview…

Ignorant people aren’t stupid but merely uninformed; a marvelous advantage when you need a perspective from “outside the box.”

The truly naïve are so thoroughly “outside” they’re not even sure what you mean by “the box.”

When you consult specialists within your industry, you’re talking to the builders of the box, the guardians of the box, the faithful defenders of THE BOX.

So when specialists fail to provide the innovative thinking you need, ask the opinions of intelligent people who have no experience in your industry. This is the second quickest shortcut to successful innovation. (I’ll tell you the quickest shortcut later.)

Each suggestion you hear will tempt you to say,

“But you don’t understand…”

Bite your tongue. Don’t say it. The goal of this exercise isn’t to drag people into your box but to get a fresh perspective from outside it, remember? So just listen and ponder all that would have to change if you were to implement the suggestion made by your naïve friend.

The naïve suggestion won’t be workable. What you make from it will be.

Frank Kern is senior vice-president of IBM Global Business Services. On May 19, 2010, he released a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value. Are you ready for this? According to that survey, today’s CEOs identify “creativity” as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future.

“That’s creativity—not operational effectiveness, influence, or even dedication. Coming out of th e worst economic downturn in their professional lifetimes, when managerial discipline and rigor ruled the day, this indicates a remarkable shift in attitude.” – Frank Kern, IBM Global Business Services

BUT we’re not getting more creative. As our society moves deeper into this Civic cycle (2003-2023) we’re becoming more deeply committed to following the rules. We’re becoming more regulatory, less tolerant of divergent thought. Under the guise of “working together for the common good,” our young men and women are choosing to become guardians of the status quo, especially when it comes to problem solving. In short, we’re “playing it safe.”

When it comes to advertising and marketing, “playing it safe” is the least safe thing you can do.

A report just released from M.I.T. reveals a surprising connection between progress and “playing it safe.”

When bonuses were given for increased performance, the bigger the bonus, the better the performance when only mechanical skills were required. No surprise here, right?

But when bonuses were offered for cognitive skills, even rudimentary ones, higher incentives led to poorer performance. I swear I’m not making this up.

“These findings have been replicated over and over and over again by psychologists, by sociologists, and by economists.” – Prof. Daniel Pink

Daniel Pink speculates that we respond most strongly to offers of 1. autonomy, 2. mastery and 3. purpose.

Watch this video:

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I agree with Pink but I interpret the M.I.T. data with a slightly different twist; it seems to me that the higher the reward, the greater the tendency of respondents to second-guess their creative right-brain impulses.

In other words, they over-thunk it and “played it safe.”

Fear is a terrible master.

It is by attempting the ridiculous that we accomplish the miraculous.

“If you will expand your world, you must crawl on your hands and knees, get on your belly and squirm under the fence that surrounds your insulated life.” – Inside the Outside, Wizard Academy Press

Rita Mae Brown says it more colorfully. “As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I’m the only one in the room with balls.”

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To learn about Roy and what he and his staff have cooking up at the Wizard Academy, click here…

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In an era where there’s so much delusion and downright blatant propaganda about just what it means to be “free,” I can’t stand the thought of finishing today’s blog title with the misused word “Pride.”

Genuine pride for me, and most anybody else who has learned to see life through a much broader unconditional lens, is about things that are a lot more personal.

For instance, seeing my 19-month-old toddler climb up the stairs to the slide in the playground and slide down by himself, without needing Daddy’s assistance or cajoling.

Its about accomplishing a project with my wife and over-achieving business partner, Heather, knowing that we’ve just put more valuable information out in the world…. information that is designed to inspire, expand belief systems, effect change, and assist in getting results.

You see, contrary to what “they” (the Masters running the worldly show) want you to believe, there is NO pride in the blind patriotic and religious fervor that fuels a culture of war, over-the-top fear, and needless violence under the guise of ‘freedom.’

This obviously isn’t your typical “Say thanks to the soldiers who gave their life to preserve all that is good and great about the American way of life” Memorial Day post.

‘Cause, quite honestly, I have grown weary of the war lovers taking over every holiday and exploiting them in efforts that lie in ignorance and pigeon-holed ‘Americanism’ thinking.

As law professor Butler Shaffer put it:

 ”Turning July 4th into a celebration of militaristic statism (see the old Bing Crosby musical Holiday Inn) was bad enough. But then seeing a Santa Claus in a flag-draped Uncle Sam suit on a Christmas card a couple years ago was simply too much.”

But, on this Memorial Day 2010, here’s what I will say:

The original intent of this legal holiday was to set aside a day in which we commemorate the members of the United States Armed Forces who were killed in war.

As a veteran myself, I can honor that — their bravery, their interest in doing the right thing (seemingly, what American culture still encourages them to think), their commitment and defense of the original ideal of independence.

But, the ‘right thing’ just isn’t so clear anymore.

Now, new and current-day soldiers, airmen, and seamen are seemingly pawns in some grand scheme to globalize the world — to land and meddle in foreign lands who don’t want, or even need, us there. To act and assist in somebody else’s political and philosophical quagmires.

So, on this day, let’s give thanks to those, in uniform or not, who clearly “get” that America was founded upon the principle of secured liberty — independence, in a new land, away from an oppressive monarchy, where ambitious, sovereign-minded, hearty souls could live their lives unobstructed by big government and overburdening regulation… and driven by free enterprise.

On that note, I want to pass along something that Simon Black, one of our wealth renegades* (see below for description), advised a young man about to enter the Military to consider:

“First, the military has a way of taking young people at an impressionable age and teaching them how to excel within a bureaucracy… not to mention the military can also inoculate groupthink. I’m speaking from experience.

“This may be good for unit discipline, but it’s terrible for the mind of a free man. I would strongly encourage you, during your service, to focus on keeping your mind free and creative — read as much as possible, ask questions, and understand that the military microcosm is not the real world.

“Second, as you will not have much time or availability to build financial assets during your time in service, you should focus on building up your most important asset — yourself.

“This means developing skills. Learn as much as possible — a foreign language or two, a technical trade, medical training, etc. These are subjects which are easy to pursue in the military. On the side, I would also be reading about sales and marketing — generating revenue is always a valuable skill.

“Third, I would focus on cultivating an international mindset. Try to get stationed overseas, and immerse yourself in the culture. If you unfortunately end up deployed to the Middle East, make the most of it by interacting with the locals as much as allowed and learning the language.

“Fourth, be smart with your money. The military makes it easy to save — they provide a roof over your head and food on the table, so save as much of your salary as you can so that you have a sizable pool of capital by the time you are finished.”

Simon Black is Editor of SovereignMan.com

Simon is one of close to 80 renegade, international investors that we follow on a consistent basis. We also have an in-house network of “investment investigators” who scour the world for the most valuable ideas, resources, opinions, and opportunities.

Collectively, we sift through many ideas, resources, and insights about politics, economics, worldwide currency news, real estate trends, emerging markets, inflation / deflation indicators, privacy and personal asset protection, futures and options trading, and unique business news.

Through our Wealth Vault, you can see the filtered part. In other words, it’s where we archive our best assessments of the most viable, easy, and hassle-free unconventional passive-income opportunities, cash-flow strategies, and wealth-generation programs across the globe.

One final thought before I close out this post:

Socrates once wrote that true wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When it comes to money or cash-flow, we’re on a HUGE mission to ensure that you don’t get caught up in the matrix of doing what everybody else is doing in an attempt to make,  manage, and multiply it.

More about that here…

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Not only are your neighbor, Aunt, and close co-worker of many years struggling to figure out finances, so is practically every frickin’ country on the planet.

Based off a lot of conversation, email replies, and support tickets, we know that a grand majority of our LWL readers are in the very same pot of snot that seemingly sovereign nations throughout this great planet are in:

Debt up to their noses. Yup, borrowing far beyond the means to pay is not only a sticky situation… trying to spend without producing or saving is one slimy mess too.

If that’s not you, congratulations!

You’re the minority, playing in a very small crowd of people who ‘get’ how money, quid-pro-quo, lifestyle structuring and design work.

But,  if you’ve yet to get your feet wet in the smart money pool — a place where common sense meets hard work and self-reliant critical-thinking — isn’t it about time?

Isn’t it about time you closed the damn metaphysical book that you only bought because it made you feel good?

Isn’t it about time you realized that some teleconference or webinar about wealth, by some loftier-than-thou self-professed inner-world guru, isn’t the train you want to be riding on?

Isn’t it about time you learned how to protect yourself from the financial tornadoes sweeping the globe, through an understanding of asset protection, cash preservation, and anonymous living?

Isn’t it about time you started putting your money to work through low-entry, high-yielding investments in natural resources, commodities, energy, etc. — “foundational international industries” that make all economic and social activity possible?

Well, if you said yes to at least 3 of the 4 questions above, you should take the time to read this page…

In it you’ll see that we’re not asking you to do anything that we’re not also doing.

Myself and Brad Wajnman (the Managing Editor of The Wealth Vault) just got back from Vegas where we mingled, networked with, and learned from some of the brightest, most in-the-know global investors on the planet.

And, via our next Wealth Vault member update, we’ll be sharing what we discovered…

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www.lwlurl.com/fortune

“I don’t have the time!”

Well, if you don’t, in theory, neither do I. You see, time is the one constant that all us human beings have. After all, we each have the same 86,400 seconds per day to do what we need, want, and have to do.

Somebody once said that life gives us only two things: opportunity and time. Now, when you think about the old adage, time is money, can you see how that really means that life gives us money?

If you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, that might not seem right, but it really is. See, whenever you do something, or get something, you use up one or more of three resources: time, money or energy.

And really, since everything in the Universe is made up of energy at a quantum level, all three of those are energy. So let’s take energy out of the equation and say that you either use (spend) time or money. Always. Every second of the day. All 86,4000 of them.

In return, you get a certain level of value back (another form of energy). You can trade time for sleep (value), trade money for food (value), trade time and money for a date with someone special (value), and on and on.

Now, you know from high school physics class that energy can not be created or destroyed; it can only change forms. So when we say we “make money” or “make time” for something, what it really means is that we’ve effectively turned one into the other… or another type of value into one… or one into more of the same.

Huh?

If that’s about as clear as mud, just stick with me for a minute (see, I’m asking you to give me some of your time… and I’ll give you value in return, in the form of some thought-provoking information).

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Look, if you work a job for a paycheck, you’ve obviously traded time for money. But if you clear your schedule to do something important to you, you’ve traded time for more valuable time.

If you spend (or invest) money to make more money over the course of time, you’ve traded both time and money for more money… but the time spent didn’t take any effort, because you were just waiting for it all to happen.

And the more money you can make using that method, the more you’re essentially buying time. See, you don’t have to put 6 months of your own time into an investment that’s going to pay off during that time frame, you just have to put time into a little due diligence to see if it’s really a good investment. Then the money works on its own in the background.

And the reason money buys time is, when you have money, you don’t have to worry about trading time for it anymore. Now you’ve got both already. That’s where the phrase “the idle rich” came from.

So when you say, “I don’t have time,” it really means that you haven’t figured out how to properly leverage the time you do have. You either don’t know what you value, or you don’t know how to effectively make that time give you that value.

Sure, we’re all busy. But the more money you can make by wisely spending a bit of time, and a bit of money, the more time you’ll also have in the long run.

Now, here’s something really weird: sometimes we have members of our alternative investments club who say they don’t have time to invest. They think they don’t have time to put their money to work for them, when they joined the club precisely to put their money to work and free up time.

Ironic, isn’t it?

It may be that they just didn’t get the correlation between the two before. But hey, if you got something out of this little article, hopefully it’s how you can definitely afford a bit of time and a bit of money to make the money you desire.

Okay, my time is up… go forth and multiply your money.

If you need some help doing it, look no further than The Wealth Vault…

Your Partner in the Quest For
Living a Life Without Limits,

It can be a crazy world out there at times — a world driven by crowd-thinking, political correctness, and philosophical nonsense that is bombarding you to “fit in.”

If it’s not conservative religious groups trying to regulate and control morality, it’s human rights activists going overboard to the point of trumping common sense.

Because of time-worn social norms, meddling governmental regulations, protectionist mindsets and victim-driven thinking, it’s NOT easy to fight the peer pressure to fit into a mold that isn’t YOU.

Is the world missing the real you because you’ve been conditioned to play it safe?

That’s not something we need to expand on any more than just asking that question.

Because, here’s something you can do to find out:

LISTEN to the song, from 3 Doors Down, via the video below. Close your eyes (you really don’t need to watch the Shrek clips, as it’s not the images that really matter). Feel the energy of the words. And, when listening to the song, in a quiet place, just ask yourself:

“Is it okay that I fight to ‘be myself’, even if others don’t approve?”

Only you can really know for sure.

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For another version — the official Let Me Be Myself Music video — watch at YouTube

Here’s the RUB though: finances often hold 90% of the populace back:  without a solid flow of income, without understanding how to use money to grow money, without fearless cash-flow, you’re standing in quicksand.

Read our short 5-page PDF here:
“How To Shake Off Income Worries”

No we’re not fanatics of the color blue… If your browser displays the entire post below in DARK BLUE, please use FireFox to view it. The background of our blog displays WHITE in 90% of browsers.

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Last year, in May, we included a seemingly misfit person — someone no longer with us — on our Hidden Heroes series that so many “in crowd” thinkers (let’s call them the ‘comfort-zoned herd’) shied away from.

Why?

Simply because the intensely passionate, self-styled, preaching comedian named Bill Hicks caused them to think DIFFERENTLY.

He had depth and a sense of spirituality, without surface-level drivel and ‘feel good’ musings attached to his messages.

Our ode to Bill has already been written, via our Hidden Heroes #3 post, so we won’t continue to edify him here.

However, we do want to make sure you know that his legacy is soon to be captured by American: The Bill Hicks Story, a new and very promising-looking documentary that combines animation, footage of Hicks’ stand-up sets and remembrances by ten of the people closest to him.

Click the play arrow below to watch the short trailer:

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For selected interview clips from the documentary, click here…

Interesting Report: It’s about intelligence, as it relates to credit. We know a guy in Neveda (who we consider a friend now) who can, without question, clear up any confusion you may have about credit repair. Like Bill above, Jay is a no-nonsense, no-B.S. kinda guy. This report is a fascinating read…