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My wise and wonderful friend Jerry Hayes sent me his rules for living he obtained from the Hudson Institute. After years as a successful businessman, he spends his retired years fixing up old cars and donating them to those who, without his generosity could not own a car.

The rules are wisdom for everyone who has the courage to follow them.
No one owes you anything—not the government, your employees, your family, or your spouse.
.RULE 1. Be responsible for your own destiny: entrepreneur your life.

Remember when people thought the world was flat? Remember when people thought the sun orbited around the earth and now we see it as primitive thinking? It was a mind bender for people of that day to recognize our world as round and that the earth orbited the sun.

The television crews are on the scene. A man is about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. A member of the TV crew asks him for an explanation saying, “The public has the right to know.”

“I lost 500 million in the stock market! I’m devastated. I’m wiped out.”

“Do you have anything left?”

“Well, between the chateau in Switzerland, the yacht and the Rolls Royce, I guess I’m still worth about ten and a half million.”

..For the past few days I have been thinking about the importance of having your own voice as a writer, and how important it is to be your own creative self no matter what you are creating. We are all creators; even if it shows up in how creatively we are organize our cupboards.

I keep reminding myself over and over that a belief is simply a thought we think over and over again until it becomes a belief… but that doesn’t make it the Truth (with a capitol T) It is only our perception of the truth . How can we know whether our beliefs are True (with a capitol T)?

We know if our beliefs are True…by the results they bring. If tour thoughts (beliefs) bring peace and prosperity, they are true; if they bring pain and suffering, they are not true, indicating that we are living illusions.