The inner life of effort — why we work, business principles grounded in character, and money as a practical subject.
List every item that you will spend money on per year, or month. Some things are monthly expenses like rent or mortgage or food, other things are not every month, like flights, hotels, etc. You must get an annual cost of living, so determine each...
Business ethics of how a company should be run.. To do the best we can for the simple and pure sake of doing the best we can rather than just for profit. We set the standard of how business should be run, it's reason for being: To serve the cli...
In our daily life, from the big goals and desires right down to the smaller things we want to have or achieve, failure is far more common than success. Why is that? The reason is, freedom to choose means that our weakest parts will win. The sayi...
When you go to someone for advice, be that a mentor, coach, lawyer or anyone at all, always consider the most important question before you agree to enlist them as your adviser. Why are they in their profession? You must be much more concerned w...
Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret to making the Universe deliver your goals, whatever they may be. The decision to achieve your goal, making your plans, following all the instructions you have read and heard is NOT enough. A de...
For people who think that being spiritual means you should not care about money or material things, there is something to bear in mind if you are using the justification that Buddha and spiritual people had nothing. In fact, they were effectively ...
In the parable of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and thus being evicted from the garden, we find an interesting concept to explain why our world is so materialistic as well as how to master our mind and increase the...
I am forming a MasterMind group in Penang. If anyone would like to join a small group (max 10 people) to discover what a carefully selected group of jointly focused minds can achieve is invited to inquire. We will discuss the focus of the group w...
Poor people think they can do what they want, but that is not true. They are limited by their poverty. Rich people can choose to do what they want. For example, poor people have to travel by public bus. Rich people can go in a car or on a jet, or...
David was interviewed on KCLau.com, the largest Malaysian financial advice website.
Steps Four to Six of The Nine Principles Of Success video series are now on line. Please visit the videos page, Beyond Success section to view them. The remainder of the series will be posted next week.
Many people hate money because our life is controlled by it. That is valid and true, but for every negative there is a positive, and the positive side of being controlled by money is what I would like to discuss. The most important part of achiev...
The concept of splitting the bill when out with your friends for a meal or coffee for example, each paying for themselves, is a terrible thing because it robs us of the joy of giving and joy of receiving. Not only the joy is lost, but there is a f...
There are many good hearted people who just cannot seem to get ahead in life. Every time they are saving some money or moving forward, someone comes along who needs help and being soft hearted, they drain their savings to help out. Sadly the peopl...
These nine principles are a basic outline that you can memorise and keep with you as a guide to how you have conducted your day. Review them at the end of the day to see if you have followed them and then try again tomorrow. Do what is in front...
Everyone knows the saying; ‘money is the root of all evil’. I believe that is only part of the truth. The whole truth is; ‘LACK of money is the root of all evil.’ If you examine all the things that make you, or anyone unhappy, how much of that co...
I would like to thank and congratulate Ande Schurr for achieving a monumental task. After working with you for the past 5 years, your achievements would make any teacher proud. For his 30th birthday and on the third anniversary of purchasing a $...
If you find yourself going in circles and not getting anywhere with your life, personal or business, this article will help give you the power to break the endless loop. Look at every part of whatever you want to do and find the part or parts tha...
There are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some ...
Religion. What better proof of the power from the combined force of large numbers of people for a single goal or purpose is there than religions. In a religion, everyone believes in one god, or Christ or idol. That works for sports, music, or mov...
The principle of the Mastermind group is well known by many people and there are many groups that have been formed under the premise of mastermind support groups, but they rarely if ever deliver a successful outcome. I have seen many of these gro...
In my business career as well as with with my clients and students, I have developed a firm belief that our business success is 10% skill and 90% who we are, the quality of our character. This is exemplified by Richard Branson, a man with little ...
For some people, struggle gives purpose, which is why people who are not rich, stay that way because if there is a struggle to survive, they have a purpose in their life. There is nothing worse than a life with no purpose and any purpose will do. ...
I was first introduced to Think and Grow Rich by my grandfather when I was 12 years old. He gave me his copy, an original printing from India, his home country. I read it and it worked. From literally zero assets and no help whatsoever from my pa...
You may have started out not knowing anything about the spiritual side of life, you where only material, but there was something different about you that made you feel something was missing in a so called normal life. Or perhaps you knew some grea...
The first thing is to really understand, not just intellectually, but to sincerely finally understand and accept is that there is no one specific God given special path for anyone. We each have some abilities, either natural talents or developed a...
Depression, which is partly anger at ourselves, is self-destructive and drains our energy to the point that it is sometimes difficult to function even minimally. Depression is an illness of will, which becomes diseased, making a person incapable o...
It is a common phenomena that people working with the law of attraction, the secret and positive thoughts towards a goal will receive many opportunities, but often, they never materialize. This leads to confusion and eventually dropping of the fai...
What is important in getting something is understanding what it is. If you do not understand something, it is impossible to get it other than by luck, and luck is too unreliable to base your life on. You must understand money and what it can give...
It is a common dream, many people have it, but I have achieved it for many years on a small scale. I would now like to make my dream grow. I have built and had a successful school of this nature in Colorado, but I left that country and now live ...
I have studied many different paths and often refer to their teachings to help my students understand the same principle from many angles . One such teaching is from the Ancient Sufis – “It takes 100 years to travel a journey alone that would tak...
If you are on your own, it is very hard to get yourself motivated and continue forward. But if you have someone to work with, you have much more power. Two people together can do the work of four people each on their own. But more importantly, whe...
Law of Attraction - Achieve Goals series Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret key to making the Universe deliver your goal mentioned in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and the Movie not long ago released called The S...
Law of Attraction - Spiritual Growth and Business Can business and spiritual growth go hand in hand and both develop simultaneously? Emphatically yes. Sufism and the Tantric paths are two examples of having a family and work or business in harmon...
Law of Attraction - Achieve Goals Series I am a medical student who has lost passion for the course. If i really think about what I love in life it is to travel, to do photography and to love my family. Being a Doctor has been a goal of mine f...
This article may sound like a business or cultural discussion, but it leads to a very valuable personal growth lesson at the end. The general consensus is that ‘made in China’ means garbage quality, as if everything made in China is going to be r...
The first key principle in business success is knowing who you are dealing with, and who you are, a smart person or a foolish person. The difference between a smart person and a foolish person is that when a foolish person is foolish, he thinks h...
The successful entrepreneur operates with the individuality of each client in mind. These are a few points that make the difference between the average entrepreneur and one who's business excels. There are certain qualities of character which ar...
Have you ever tried wrapping a copper wire around an iron nail and connecting the ends of the wire to a battery? Instantly, with the electrical charge going through the wire and around the nail, it becomes a magnet. Even with the addition of elect...
When we are young we ask the question of why am I here. This is normal for most people. Some have stopped asking and forgot they asked at all, and others still ask no matter how old they are. We look for an answer, ask our parents, teachers, anyo...
I have been asked to write more on this subject, and so I am pleased to do so. I have noticed in my decades of teaching that the sincerity of a person when they ask a question determines the quality of the response that I give. But another large ...
I would like to write about a young fellow who has virtually changed his destiny. Two years ago, Ande was a 25 year old with thousands of dollars of debt, no real possessions or assets, he did not have any money in the bank, no car, and rented a ...
There is a lot of talk about The Secret and the Law of Attraction. The basis of these now very popular programs is valid, however we can be certain that if these programs were effective on a larger percentage there would be a lot more rich and suc...
Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret key to making the Universe deliver your goal mentioned in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and the Movie not long ago released called The Secret. The Secret movie is very popular...
To succeed in achieving your goal, there must be an inward satisfaction as well as the outward achievement of the goal. A goal that is related to anything in the world, for yourself or for others is what we call an ‘outward’ goal. In order for an ...
