Self Improvement

It is difficult to accept the full responsibility of our failures because it is easy to blame someone else for your mistakes and we do it often. Failure is not real until you have accepted that you failed. Norman Vincent Pale said, "It is always too quick to quit," and he was a personal motivator that was publishing books for more than 70 years and his books are still best sellers.

Winners change the world only when they become better. There is a story of a man who wanted to change the world. After trying as hard as he could, he did not do it. Then he tried to change his country and found it almost impossible to do. Then he tried to change his city and was not able to do it. As the last resource, our hero tried to change his family and he could not do it either. When he was dying, he told his butler. "During all my life I tried to change the world, my country, my hometown and my family and I failed."

The answer of the butler amazed our man. "If you've tried to change yourself first, your transformation would have made a change in your family. If you would have changed your family; your city would have become a better city; city becoming a better country a different country and then the world would have been a better place to live in."

The dreamer died. The lesson was learned but it was too late for him. Think beyond your limitations. Be as great as you want to be. Imitate the Creator in his greatness. Abundance is infinite and it makes us richer when we share it. It is noble to think that we are not here to compete with God but to complete his work; to maintain the energy of the creator and his light circulating in our lives and in the lives of those who interact with us. The reason of this book is for you to be competing on God's side, on his team not against him. Enjoy every day of your life as it were your last one; one day it will be the last. Since we are born, we hear, "not" at least a million times. "Do not do this or that," "Do not touch that," and "do not say that."

There are children that learn how to say "no" before learning to say "Dad" or "Mom." Society conditioned us to imitate everything that surrounds us. We follow fashion. We want to buy the house or the car someone else said was the perfect one. We are victims of magazines, TV shows, newspapers, and advertising.

We can become machines that answer at the command of others. Advertisers put ideas in our minds for us to react in certain ways to them and we buy whatever they want us to buy. If we follow what others have to say about our lives, we limit our ability to prosper. It does not matter if we are following instructions of the media, our friends or our families; none of these ideas serves our greater good.

Grow up and do what you have to do to improve the quality of your life. We do not have any good reason to limit ourselves and become imitators. We need to create and to go out of our comfort zone to bring better things into our realm. We do have the power to change society's programming. We marry the person who is similar to our father. We imitate their lives. That is the perfect recipe to failure. We study what other people want for us to study. We leave our dreams forgotten in a corner to remember them when it is too late. Thus, we lose our lives. The first roof that we put over our heads is the salary of our fathers. In our homes, what our fathers used to make is good enough for the surviving of the family even if he had to have two jobs and the same happens with everyone's mother. That was the example for which we settled for. Nobody wanted to be better than mom and dad. To be as good as they are was good enough.

Family also used to celebrate poverty as something special. "It is spiritual to be poor" or "We are poor but honest." Who has not seen an aunt crying meanwhile watching the soap opera where the rich guy leaves the rich wife for a poor girl? That does not make our families and friends ant better or worse. Neither does following the image of life that soap operas reveal on television. That model is the one we should not be following. We are being programmed by the media and our surroundings; not realizing why we don't prosper. Furthermore, at a subconscious level, we are happy with our miserable existence. We are tempted and programmed not to leave our comfort zone. There is nothing normal in being poor.

Poverty generates envy, sorrow, murder, domestic violence, drug addiction and a lot of pain. Poor people can be excellent human beings as well, but they have nothing to offer to other people or themselves except kindness. It is no good to be poor, period. It is not good to see our child or someone else's crying for a toy and not having the money to buy it. I know it because I have been there.

It is important to know we have been programmed but also that we can change the way we believe. We can create our own movie or soap opera; we can be the writer, the director and the main actor of this one.

We can change the quality of the material we face. We can improve the quality of the magazines, books or movies that we bring into our lives. You can be the marvelous person you always dreamed of, if you decide to do so. Everyone has something that they can improve, here and there, we are not perfect. However, you are the only one entitled to make that change...

We are always in control of the things we invite to come into our minds. If we were to improve the music the listen to, the radio, TV shows and the books we read; we are programming ourselves a better way of thinking and inviting better experiences.

The only way of killing a bad habit is replacing it for a new good habit. If you want to quit the smoking habit, get a toothpick and put it in your mouth every time you want a cigarette. President Reagan left the habit, by eating jellybeans. I do not think this was a good choice for a diet, but make a list of your bad habits, and start changing one every 21 days and you will realize the difference in your life.

If you want better things to happen into your lives, you must raise your standards, and what you settle for in your life. There are times when we are happy to accept whatever comes to you. That is not prosperity. The Universe sometimes provides us with real life test in order to find out exactly what we want. It is good to let the Lord, Higher Being, Universe or gods know it is not exactly what you want.

Maybe what I am telling you is not what you want to hear. But I am going to tell you something that is going to make you a better human being. That is what counts. There are two standards for abundance. One is where people get things by any means, without caring about whom is hurt on the way to the top. This attitude only brings riches to its owner, is not prosperity, and it does not last and if does it cost a lot to the beholder.

These are the people with money but are not rich or prosperous. These people make their lives miserable. These types of human beings act like the rich people do. The closest rich person they have seen acting is Donald Trump in his TV show. There is another kind of prosperity attached to the material and spiritual abundance of the human being. Those who follow this school act with integrity and are looking for the common good. These human beings are interested in leaving a legacy in their time and in the world.

Think seriously in leaving a better world for your children and for the children of their children. Our planet is the result of good people that even knowing that they were going to die, left a legacy. It is impossible to use a perfume without other people smelling it. When we become prosperous, we transform our environment even without noticing it. We start acting different. We are the main actors and actresses in our adventure. Start acting different if you want different results.

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By Jose Emilio Polo Madero

Author of the book "Compete With Life and Win!The Secret of the Prosperity Laws"

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Jose Emilio Polo Madero was executive writer for Men's Health Magazine Spanish language edition and worked in the editorial coordination of the first publication of Newsweek magazine in Spanish. Having started in 1980, Polo's cartooning career has seen his work published in over twenty countries in different publications: (Witty World, Artsy, Accent on Living, Hombre, El Nuevo Herald, Diario Las Americas, Mundo 21, Latino Internacional (USA), El Universal, El Dia, La Ley de Herodes (Mexico), Eulenspiegel (Germany) El Batracio Amarillo (Spain) JEZ (Yugoslavia), Kokodril (Russia), Etc. Polo is author of four Cartoon books: "Little World 1"," I love Sports 1," "I love Sports 2", and "Crazy Animal World". Author also of the prosperity book "Compete with Life and Win! The Secret Truth About Prosperity.