Brian Johnson (with Alexandra and little Emerson pictured above) is a philosopher and giver of joy to many thousands of his readers, viewers and subscribers.

Brian was featured in the fantastic and highly-recommended movie, Finding Joe, a documentary about Joseph Campbell and the hero's journey we all (consciously or unconsciously) take in this life.

He is the author of one of my favorite books, A Philosopher's Notes, and you can find out more about his colorful life and many offerings (some at no charge) at www.entheos.com.

As Brian says, "Isn't it a bit odd that we went from science to math to history but somehow missed the class on how to live?"

We could always just wring our hands and curse the educational system. But Brian has a better solution. Why not just provide that missing piece? Why not create email messages and cool YouTube dramatizations of the best philosophy and positive psychology in the world for everyone to learn and use? He has done that. His work is mind-blowingly thorough and easy to grasp.

In my wealth warrior inner circle members listen as I interview a new dynamic hot thinker each month on the subject of wealth and creativity... it costs a membership fee to be in that group, so I don't share the webinars. Or at least I usually don't.

But this once, I am going to. Because this one was so extraordinary and inspiring and game-changing and life-changing for people in the group that they are sending it all around the world and the internet ... so here it is for you:   Loving What You Do with Steve Chandler and Brian Johnson

....and here is a recent message from Brian and En*Theos:

ENJOY| by Brian Johnson

"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy."  

                          ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

 I absolutely love that.

Imagine a life in which we seek to GIVE joy.

A life in which we enter relationships to GIVE joy. A life in which we work to GIVE joy.

Can you even imagine how much we would ENjoy that?!!? Stunning... To giving full expression to the highest within us!!

~ Brian Johnson
www.entheos.com

"You grieve, you learn,  

You choke, you learn,  

You laugh, you learn,  

You choose, you learn,  

You pray, you learn,  

You ask, you learn,  

You live, you learn."

~ Alanis Morissette

What I love about the lyric of Alanis is that it describes so well the third category of experience identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as anti-fragile.

The first two categories are 1) fragile and 2) resilient. When a box is marked "FRAGILE" that means it breaks easily and is vulnerable to shocks.

The second category, resilient (sometimes called robust), means that it can withstand a shock. If you ship champagne glasses mark the box fragile. If you ship a bowling ball you don't have to mark the box because it is resilient.

Most people live their lives in the first two categories. And by most, I mean 99% because they do not even know of a third possibility. That's why there is no word for it.  

That's why Taleb had to invent the word antifragile.  

For the package bearing something antifragile would be marked "BENEFITS FROM SHOCK."

A candle is fragile to a strong wind. The wind blows the candle out. But a forest fire benefits from a strong wind. It is not resilient to the wind, it grows from it.

Most people are either fragile or resilient to rejection...to hearing a NO. They either get upset and depressed (fragile) or they learn to be okay with it...to withstand it without being upset (resilient).

But there is that 1% who have learned to benefit from a NO.  

They learn from it.  

They grow from it.  

They even welcome it. They are anti-fragile now, and they are powerful as a forest fire.

Same is true with divorce. Most people are only seeing the possibility of the first two categories. They are either devastated and depressed over their break-up (fragile to it), OR they have learned to "get through it," withstand it and survive (resilient).

But what if there were a third category?

And what if we could learn to go there?  

Allison Pescosolido

Allison Pescosolido has created that third possibility for people "going through" divorce.  

She calls it a reframe.

And when you have done her intensive program, you are no longer merely resilient to your divorce.

You are stronger for it.  

You have reframed every aspect of it. You have used it now to improve dating skills, improve your sense of freedom and maturity, and to strengthen your independence and your capacity to apply your love to all of life.

She calls it DIVORCE DETOX and you can find her here: http://divorcedetox.com/.

In my own world I work with a lot of coaches. I had a coaching prosperity school for years. Today I have a very intensive three-day workshop that I put on with master coach Rich Litvin that teaches coaches to move out of the first two categories into the third. The next seminar is May 17 - 19 in Los Angeles....Marina del Rey, actually. If you are a coach whose career, practice and prosperity have been going from fragile to resilient, you can register here to begin your move to antifragile in the category of prosperity: http://thatconfidenceguy.com/prosperous/.

Why should we live our lives in the first two categories only? Either fragile and vulnerable (a weak victim) or resilient, and withstanding things (a stoic victim).

Why be a candle in the wind, when the very real possibility is to grow like a forest fire?

Can I not find such a fire in my heart?

You don't have to make all the difficult  decisions you think you have to make.

You can choose instead.

Choosing is bolder and cleaner.

You can do it in a nanosecond.

Decisions are messy and filled with second-guessing and self-doubt.

So many of my coaching clients come to me inside the agony of Trying to Decide something. They don't know how to decide. Would I please decide for them?

Live for them? Love for them? Breathe for them?

My life changed completely when I learned to live at the level of choice. It became fun.

Let me tell you where I first saw this most clearly.

I was giving a seminar and I had brought in my good friend, Lindsay Brady. People knew Lindsay because of his great book  on hypnotherapy.

Not only is Lindsay is a hypnotherapist but he is also  a very profound philosopher who understands the interplay  between the brain and the mind better than just about anyone  in the world.

As he was talking to my group, one of the younger people  in the group raised his hand. Lindsay had just done a really  great presentation on how the mind works and he had done a  demonstration and this young man raised his hand and said, "I am so confused; I don't know what to do with my future. I have a feeling that you could really help me. I really have a sense that you know how I can make my decision.  I don't know what to do. I don't know how to decide. I've got this opportunity and that…"

...and he explained a few options he had and a few places  he could go career-wise and things he could do, but he didn't  know how to make the right decision! He didn't know what to do.

At least that's what he was telling Lindsay at the time.

Remember there's a real red flag here--I don't know how to decide,  I don't know what to do, I don't know who to call. Listen for those. Listen for them in yourself. When you tell yourself "I don't know how to, I don't know what to, I don't know who to, notice that you're not telling yourself the truth and you are keeping yourself stuck.

So, this person tried to tell Lindsay that he didn't know how to decide,  he didn't know what to do.

"What should I do?" he said.

Lindsay stared at him for a second and then he said, one word.

He said "choose."

Now that was very profound because the room grew silent, and the person  who was asking Lindsay just stared at him like a deer in the headlights  and then he got a big smile on his face because he could really see it-- That's it!  That's what I haven't done!

What I've seen in my own life and in the lives of my clients, is that people aren't choosing and so they are stuck. They are wavering between not knowing what to do and not knowing  who to call and not knowing how to do something.

And it's simply not choosing.

I was working with a very brilliant woman who had a tremendous business and wonderful employees and a great service she was presenting to the world. But the business itself was losing a little money every month and she didn't know how or why and she hired me to coach her and she said, "I know how to do what I do, but I don't know how to run a business."

Fortunately I had received this distinction called choosing by that time, so I was able to say, "No that's not really true. It's not that you don't know how to run a business. You have not chosen to run your business. That's all there is and by the way that's good news."

See it's not a way to shame someone--this is not a way to shame someone  into thinking, "Oh look what I do, I trap myself, I keep myself stuck by  lying to myself and pretending I'm impotent and powerless."

That's not what this is about.

This is about freedom. This is about finding the freedom in choosing. Because it's action instead of agony.

Even if you make the "wrong" choice, you are better off  because there's so much to learn from that.

Then she said, "I have not chosen to acquire and use the knowledge necessary to run my own business well. I've chosen not to. I've chosen out. I've opted out." And when she saw that, she said "Oh, yeah. You are right. I've never wanted to do that. I've always hoped someone else could do that for me."

Well, that's a possibility… if you've found the right person, but what she could now see was there wasn't this lack of knowledge she thought she had, because that's where people go wrong.  They walk around and they say to themselves, "I don't know how to  do this, I don't know how to do that" and it's infantile.

Nathaniel Branden, the great psychologist, once said, "Suffering  is the easiest thing human beings do." It's the easiest place to go.  Suffering. I am suffering from my lack of knowledge. I'm really suffering.  I don't know what to do.

I get e-mails all the time saying, "I need you to coach me. I don't know  what to do. I need you to coach me, I don't know how to get clients, I need  you to coach me, I don't know how to succeed, I don't know how to be happy, don't know how to do this, I don't know how to make my business work," and that, by the way, is never, ever true.

This person is simply not choosing something.

And if I do end up working with them, we move out of the I don't know how, we move out of this false knowledge problem and we move into the freedom and the power of choosing.

When he was young and lost in career indecision Lindsay Brady found his career by going through an entire Yellow Pages book and circling the professions and services that struck a chord with him.

When he got to the H's he saw "Hypnotherapy" and being curious, he circled it. After looking into it he learned self-hypnosis to cure himself of various fears and weak habits. He was so successful at that he went to school and took up the profession and never looked back.

Notice that there was no decision necessary, he just CHOSE!

He had also circled beekeeper and airplane pilot, and after securing his profession as a hypnotherapist, he mastered those other two hobbies as well. By choosing to.

I can coach you in this choosing stuff too. How much would it cost you for that?  For at least 20 hours of work with me?  Ninety-nine dollars if you do it this way:

CHOICES for a More Powerful YOU includes the following downloadable mp3 audio programs by Steve Chandler:

Are You a DOER or a FEELER?
We all have a choice to be a “Doer” or a “Feeler.” Steve shows how the mind, body and spirit are intertwined and how we can move beyond feelings-inspired resistance and build more DOING into our lives.

Choosing
“I don’t know what to do” and “I don’t know how to do it” are common complaint-themes in people’s lives. Transform the “I don’t know” lie by choosing. Yes, it really is that simple. Learn how to use the power of choosing to move out of stagnation and into action.

Expectation vs. Agreement
Creating agreements works wonders. Up-vibe your personal and professional relationships by learning to create agreements instead of expecting others to do things (and then being disappointed when they don’t).

Information vs. Transformation
Break free from “information addiction” by applying, testing and experimenting with what you’ve learned. Step out of your comfort zone and into transformation. Steve shares his own experiences of transformation-based learning.

Is It a Dream or a Project?
Steve shows how we can get what we want by cultivating a mindset of choosing. Move beyond wishing and dreaming and have your life’s adventure be one of choosing and converting dreams into projects.

Purpose vs. Personality
Everything looks frightening when you’re living from your personality rather than from purpose. Make friends with purpose and take it with you throughout the day. To live from purpose, wake up to what you’re up to and practice it.

SERVING vs. PLEASING People
People often confuse serving people with pleasing people. Steve shows how the Owner mindset is serving and the Victim mindset is pleasing. This program gives clarity on what serving is and does and how you can benefit from making it a life practice.

TESTING vs. TRUSTING
TESTING vs. TRUSTING is a distinction which can truly strengthen your day! The active path of testing and testing and testing throughout your day can become your path to mastery of any activity you wish to master.

The How To vs. The Want To
Coming from a place of “Want To” means the “How To” is never a problem, because the best “How To” is to have more “Want To” than you’ve ever had before.

The Owner / Victim Choice
Based on the bestselling book, Reinventing Yourself. Owners have an awareness of their own freedom of choice and they love to make and keep agreements. They own their own spirit and energy and have a sense of personal responsibility and self-control. Victims are victims of circumstance who navigate their days based on their shifting feelings.

Who You Know vs. What You Do
It’s who you know – that’s how you succeed in life. Wrong! It’s really all about what you do and how you serve. Put your creative energy into your work first and foremost, rather than into networking and collecting “friends.”

Why Should I Reinvent Myself?
Reinventing yourself can be a fun thing to do and people who get really good at it can see that it serves them every time they do it. Embrace reinventing yourself as a way of being and experience the fun and the joy that it can bring you.

http://www.stevechandler.com/choices.html

WHO ARE YOU TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT WOMEN?

The woman sounded angry when she asked me that. Or maybe I should say seemed angry, since it was in an email, in response to a blog I wrote that mentioned I was working on a book called Why Women Rule: The Rise of the Female Warrior.

I had to think about that question. Who was I to write a book about women? My first answer I typed to her, would not be the right answer because it contained an accidental obscenity, so I didn't send it. I used the backspace button to delete it. Besides, everybody says that obscene stuff these days in response to the slightest provocation, and I don't want to be like everybody else just to look trendy.

Who am I to write about women? Well! I had a mother. Is that good enough? Well, maybe not. Everyone has had a mother. So I'm not exactly an outlier there.

I have two sisters. I have three daughters. I have a wife. I have women clients. My favorite philosopher/spiritual advisor is Byron Katie, a woman. And I cheer for Jennifer Lawrence every time she picks up her bow and arrow in The Hunger Games.

Besides, I have always rejected the excessively tribal claims that only women can write about women, only blacks can write about blacks, only dwarves can write about dwarves, and on and on. If we have too much more of that tribal isolation no one will be bonding with anyone else ever again. It will just be islands of isolation and tribal rage.

Oh, I forgot one of my best qualifications: my grandmother was a woman. She was a hero of mine, and a role model. She never hated anyone. When she didn't like someone she would always say they were "insignificant." Sometimes she would say, "He's the most insignificant man I know of!"

My grandmother was not tribal, either. If the boys (her sons and grandson) were in her living room watching a football game, she would poke her head out from the kitchen and ask, "Who's the underdog?" We would shout back who the underdog was in the game, and she would say, "That's who I want to win."

She was always for the underdog. But it made no sense to her tribal boys.

"Who's the underdog?" she would say, as we watched our Arizona Wildcats play New Mexico.

"New Mexico!" we would shout.

"Then I hope New Mexico wins," she would say.

"Why?" We couldn't understand it. "They're playing Arizona!"

"They're the underdog, that's why."

"But Grandma! You live in Arizona, your children and grandchildren went to the University of Arizona."

"That doesn't matter. I hope New Mexico wins."

Her loyalty was always to the underdog. Ours was to our own exclusive tribe. Her heart was bigger. Her ego was smaller. Her anger (the ultimate result of tribal loyalty) was almost non-existent.

She was my hero. But who am I to write about women?

My real answer? I don't care who I am. I am insignificant.

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching,
or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
                                      ~ Emily Dickinson  

I've had the pleasure of helping Jonathan Keyser edit his upcoming book on how he converted from a self-centered, egotistical life of seeking business success, to a life of selfless service.

The book inspired me to search for a quote that best described Jonathan's heart and soul. That's the quote you see up there from Emily Dickinson.

It sure doesn't look like a quote that has anything to do with business.

Which is why it is perfect, because Jonathan and his team of like-minded, service-obsessed commercial real estate consultants do not do business in a normal way.

For example, let's take a look at their operating principles that the team co-authored for itself. And before you allow yourself to be pleasantly stunned by these, what's even more impressive to me is how his team continuously imprints these by reading them aloud at meetings and reporting back to each other about how they are being lived out there in the real world:

1. We SERVE our clients, partners, and each other fully, selflessly and completely and only involve ourselves in projects, activities and conversations that can truly add value to another individual. We are known by one word….SERVICE…and we live the statement: “It is not about me.”

2. We outwork our competition and win as a result. We work relentlessly, tirelessly, and passionately towards our cause and do not allow ourselves to be distracted, discouraged, or deterred from our mission by ANYTHING, no matter how enticing it may appear.

3. We encourage bold action and are not afraid of making a mistake. We never punish mistakes, but rather embrace them because to fear mistakes makes a person timid, and keeps them out of bold, fearless, massive action which is precisely where value is created.

4. We always do our best, and produce more than our clients request or expect every single time. We provide the highest quality service, materials, and deliverables to our clients and partners, and nothing is ever done half-ass. Everything is done to the very best of our potential.

5. We expect to win every single time. Period. We do this because we think and act as we truly are…the best in the business. No one delivers greater service or quality representation than our team. We are the BEST and we honor ourselves by being and doing our best.

6. We are one team, and each person plays an integral role. Together we are more successful than we would be on our own, and we honor the importance of everyone’s contribution. We each serve a critical team function, and no team member is superior to another.

7. We give first, fully and exuberantly, knowing that if we focus on giving and truly seeking opportunities to help others in real, tangible ways, then we experience true joy and fulfillment in our own lives, and as a side benefit, experience resounding success as well.

8. We always follow through with the commitments we make…always. People can rely on us because we do what we say we will do, and when we see that we cannot, we quickly clean it up. We are our word, and as a result, what we speak into existence actually occurs for us.

9. We have fun with what we do, and with the members of the team. This is a mission we are thrilled to be a part of, and we won’t take on a client unless it will be fun for everyone. Nothing is worth sacrificing our happiness over, and so we are lighthearted and playful in all we do.

10. We invest in our own self-improvement, always striving for greater awareness of ourselves and our creator, for we know that as we align with our true identity and remain focused on our purpose that the power within us will manifest and create our highest potential.

11. We are a family, and always protect and serve each other. In love, we hold each other accountable through authentic, honest, and kind discussion. We are a tight knit brotherhood, and we love and care for each member of the team at all times because they are family.

12. We are 100% coachable. We do not resist feedback, we are never defensive, and we look deep within ourselves to find where feedback could be even partially true. We find great value in the perspective of others and are fully committed to the consensus of the team.

13. We are 100% present in all that we do. We commit all of our mental energy to what we’re creating and do not allow ourselves to be distracted by Anything (technology, other people, or our own thoughts). We are fully present, and thus maximize every action and interaction.

14. We are disruptive, we embrace change, and we are forward thinking in all that we do. We continuously explore and integrate new tools and innovations, to maximize personal responsiveness & efficiency, and provide best-in-class service to each and every client.

15. We are strong, healthy and fit. We value and respect our bodies with regular exercise and proper nutrition, knowing it increases productivity, confidence and well being. We care for ourselves, and as a result, discipline flows into every aspect of our lives.

Jonathan Keyser has not created some kind of blue sky ideal future scene for his team and him to live toward. I know the man (he and I share the same transformational unstoppable coach). Keyser's principles are a description of how he lives NOW. He's performed this way for quite some time, in fact, and is now devoted to teaching his team, and even beyond his team..... (when his book comes out) the entire world the profitable results of living for service.

I received a quote from Brian Johnson this week that made me think of Jonathan and the company they call Keyser:

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”
                                                                   ~ Carlos Castaneda

The Business Jounal had a great little article on Keyser that you will want to read, here.

"We're not looking for the correct method, we're looking for the incorrect method."

                              ~ Keith Richards

    I found this Keith quote in Seth Godin's wonderful new book, The Icarus Deception.

    His quote is a great refresher for anyone attempting to create anything (a service, a product, a business, a life).  Creativity thrives when it is fearlessly unaware of whether I am doing it right or not.... creativity and quality-of-product thrive when they have a lot of heart and very little head.

     That was Nassim Taleb's point about being willing to make a mess of things in the name of making something that will be timeless and popular and sell like crazy... like the Bible (which is disorganized to say the least) or any of the great books that follow no formula or outline or ANYTHING bureacratic or thought-out-in-advance or planned carefully.

    Kathy and I once went to a talk given by Lee Child in a little bookstore in Scottsdale. He is the author of the wonderful, colorful,  bestselling Jack Reacher series of books. He said he never plots or outlines his stories. He never knows from one page to the next what's going to happen in the book. He just wakes up and pours his heart into it. A controlled explosion.

    Taleb compares the messy beauty of an emerald forest with the carefully organized-and-planned freeway system in L.A.  

     One is beautiful and timelessly alluring and the other is a repulsive hell on earth. Messy wins again. Because organic has heart.  Synthetic loses again.

    No one wants to read your book if it's organized like a textbook or business book. No one wants to feel that fear that was in you when you put it together, editing even before you wrote it. Trying to use the brake pedal to drive with.

     Most people I coach try to "create" that way. With one foot on the brake and the other foot amputated by a premature quest for acceptance.

    It's the classic HOW TO taking all the steam out of the WANT TO. I created an audio program that addresses that issue....why be modest...solves that issue. It's a mess of a program. No script. Clearly ad-libbed. You probably think I am going to now try to sell it to you.

   That would be the correct thing to do, because all the marketing gurus tell you how to sell and grow rich. I am just going to give it to you, it's called The How To versus the Want To. Email my business partner and audio publisher Maurice at reinventingyourself@gmail.com and he will send it to you.  

     By the way, the clients I coach do not use their brake pedal to drive with for very long.  I help them see how ineffective it is.  

     Try it with your car.

     Then sit in your car for an hour or two and ask yourself if you've been living your life this way. With this abundance of caution.

   I know I did that. But only for about five decades. Then it hit me as I slowly pulled my foot off the brake: I'm not getting anywhere this way.

My new book is in the process of being written. It is called Why Women Rule: The Rise of the Female Warrior.  

Those of you inside the wealth warrior movement will know why this book is being written. You may even start to get an idea of whom the book is being written about. Our game-changing webinar on Women and Prosperity with Carolyn Freyer-Jones started the idea.  

You can listen to this webinar even if you are not a member of the WW movement simply by emailing our benevolent Director, the brilliant personal development scholar and book publisher Maurice Bassett (find him at: reinventingyourself@gmail.com.)  

If you are a woman you will love this webinar and it will confirm your most optimistic hopes about women and wealth. If you are a man, this webinar may wake you up a little bit to what's happening all around you.  

Another clue as to why it is that Women Rule is to be found at Doug McGhee's website: www.thenewmasculineheart.com

Doug writes: "Men are creators and warriors in so many areas in life but it is an extraordinary  man who lives from his heart and has surrendered to the machismo archetype while still maintaining  incredible power and intimacy."  

Another clue is to be found in the heart of Louisa May Alcott.  

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 My daughter Stephanie gave me a quote in a nice wooden frame as a Christmas present. She bought it while visiting the home/museum of Louisa May Alcott in Boston this year. Alcott is most famous for having written Little Women.  

I told her I loved the gift and the quote, and that I would be using it in the Wealth Warrior Movement messages:  

"Work  is always my  Salvation." ~ Louisa May Alcott  

I love this quote because it so honors and elevates work. In an age when I am constantly urged to find balance and soft comfort and meditative states of peace and bliss it heartens me to hear her bracing, courageous words.  

Really, I do not want balance in my life. I want what she has.   

Stephanie then wrote this to me:   

You should look into Louisa May Alcott's story. I believe she was a perfect example of a woman warrior:  

At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"  

*****

A favorite quote of mine.

From The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin.

(Once, a few years ago, I sent this quote to someone who was STUCK in passivity, career-wise, and this quote alone completely changed his life):

"As a man's real power grows;
and his knowledge widens,
ever the way he can follow grows narrower:
until at last he chooses nothing,
but does only and wholly what he must do."

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One day it hit me that I wanted to help people become self-reliant and create wealth for themselves and their families. It wasn't exactly a choice. I had just finished Time Warrior and was enjoying the response to that book, and the break between books.

A year passed and my publisher was ready for a sequel. My original idea for the sequel was Catch Fire, yet another book about motivating yourself. Then I asked a trusted friend and mentor about what ought to be next. What do people care the most about? What's even more vital than becoming a warrior around managing one's time?

"Money," my friend said. "People want to know how to make money. That's even more important to them."

It hit me like a thunderbolt and it was beyond choice. It chose me. I whispered to myself, "wealth warrior."

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something for you from Wealth Warrior:

This kind of "service" does not pass the giggle test

 When I say the word "service," what do you think of?

If you are leaning toward warrior, then I know you are not thinking of "public service."

Often people think of politicians who have been in the government for long periods of time—senators, congressmen, people like that—as being somewhat heroic for spending their lives "in public service."  

We see tributes and very expensive dinners featuring toasts to these politicians who have "given their lives over to public service" as if it was a tremendous sacrifice on their part.

This whole "public service" idea has inflicted confusion upon the word "service" in the worst possible way.  

Because this senator (Republican or Democrat, doesn't usually matter) sitting there being toasted and roasted is someone who has lived a lifestyle of deal-making and good-old-boy favor-trading while never having to pay for anything. He is being chauffeured and flown around the world like the king of Brunai on government money.  

Not his money.  

He has a huge staff running around doing work for him so even if he has to sit in a committee hearing, you can see the staff around him buzzing like bees—a staff of people who have done all the real preparation for that meeting.

So, where's the "service" they are all talking about?  

Not only does this "public servant" live off other people's money and do no work of his own, this same public beneficiary gets rich, and receives huge speaking fees. When he comes into office, his net worth is x and when he leaves office it's 100 times x—how did that occur?  

Service!

Really?

No. Some company he did a political (financial) favor for is now going to have him come speak for $50,000 at their big dinner.  

When presidents come into office without a lot of money and leave multi-millionaires, even though their presidential salary was not all that big, we have to wonder about the term "public service."  

It's a mockery.  

It's hilariously mislabeled.  

It hardly represents a service to the public.  

This is one of the reasons it's sometimes hard with clients of mine to have them understand that the source of all wealth is service.  

Because they hear terms like "public service" and "a life of service" about these people that they know are not serving.

They know that these people are actually being waited on hand and foot.

While performing "public service" from the back of a limo.

It's a tremendous disservice to so tarnish this glorious word.  

Part of seeing the source of wealth for you and for me is to clean that word up and give it a fresh new understanding so that it really means something. It really means helping someone else, assisting another person, and delivering actual value.

Politicians are not public servants. We just all call them that because we've fallen asleep.

It's like the hotel operator said to me this morning. This is your wake up call.

"Being good at business
    is the most fascinating kind of art."

      ~ Andy Warhol

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One of the many impressive aspects of Andy Warhol's artistic life was his love of business.

He was always selling his work, and enjoying the whole enterprise.

There was never a victim mindset of the starving artist, misunderstood and badly in need of grants and hand outs.

The only "grant" he ever needed was "God GRANT me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

~ Andy Warhol

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What I love most now is the writing I am doing three times a week for the wealth warrior movement. You can Google the movement and join.

It's my own way of painting money.

On October 6 thru 8 there will be a great LIVE event in Los Angeles that Michael Neill (pictured above) and I are going to be speaking at (along with two great speakers, Mandy Evans and Rich Litvin).... and it will be rewarding to attend.

I dedicated my book Wealth Warrior to Michael Neill, and one of the early pages reproduces a Facebook post he made awhile back that I saved:

From Michael Neill:

Question of the Day, with thanks to Clarence Thomson:

What's missing from your life and how do you keep it out?

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I'll say it a little louder: WHAT'S MISSING FROM YOUR LIFE AND HOW DO YOU KEEP IT OUT?

I love to take these questions personally. Instead of pretending that this is something I already know all about and I'm going to teach YOU about.

Not credible. As a place to come from.

For most of my life I would ask this question a little differently: What's missing from my life and who are the people responsible for keeping it out? My parents who didn't teach me how to be a billionaire. My partners who weren't appreciative. My government. My planet. My religion. That was me. That was me in the corner, losing my religion and everything else. Including most of my marbles.

Because that's what the mind of an entitled victim does. It becomes so open-minded, all the marbles are lost and only the insanity of disappointment remains.

Michael Neill (www.supercoach.com) is great at changing all that for people. Here he is in a youtube video clip about the big live event October 6-8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT9yP3IAEOg

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Here is something from the new book:

Yes there actually IS a cure-all:

"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness,  and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."

                    ~ Tim Ferriss

 I love learning from people younger than I am.

Tim Ferriss is one of my favorite authors and teachers, and I can say that he has, in many ways, improved my warrior status when it comes to creating a life.

Are you trying to make money in a way that is not exciting for you?

 Step up the excitement factor. Watch the effect it has on your income. Stop shooting for happiness.  

You are aiming too low.

http://www.stevechandler.com/wealth_warrior_movement.html  

(They say it's not bragging if you can do it:)

My Personal Internal Commitment is my new book's name WEALTH WARRIOR. I am the Napoleon Hill of the modern age. I create wealth for other people with my coaching, training, audios and books. I am a soldier of fortune, and a warrior of wealth. A spiritual mercenary. I transform sales teams, fundraisers, small businesses and individuals in personal coaching and consulting practices by teaching them 100 Ways to Create Wealth (my previous book on this subject). I regularly draw strength from Deuce Lutui and our mutual coach Steve Hardison and share that strength with my clients and the world. WEALTH WARRIOR is now available and it IS the bestselling of all my books and it FLIPS the entitled mindset of the financial victim to the mindset of an OWNER OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.