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Millionaire
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never going to become wealthy working for somebody else. Heck, most of the millionaires
that are created are working for themselves. There are not that many million-dollar jobs
around.”
I could see her start to fidget, and she was becoming very uncomfortable. When I
pushed her on it I said, “Mary, what’s the problem? When I started talking about being
your own boss it seemed to have hit a chord with you.”
“Oh, Gerry, my father told me I should never work for myself. I should find
a secure place to work and stay there and work hard, study hard, and work long
hours.”
I asked, “Mary, how old are you?”
She said, “I am sixty-three years old.”
I said,“Mary, how old is your father?”
She said, “My father is dead.” Here was this sixty-three year old lady listening
to her father. She was not able to achieve what she wanted to achieve in her life because
she was listening to her father who had been dead for years.
There is an awesome power affecting you right now – the power of your authority
figures. Your aunts, uncles, religious leaders, educators, and people who have been around
you have influenced you. Val Stet calls them Uncle Twit and Aunt Wart, and they represent
the people who dumped concepts into you when you were young. People go through
their lives unhealthy, unhappy and broke most of the time, never realizing they are doing
that because of concepts planted in their minds by authority figures with the best of
intentions.
My parenets have both passed on and I loved them dearly, but when it comes to
the earning of money, they were dead wrong. Why didn’t your parents tell you money is
always flowing? All you need to do is think a certain way, move into action, think positively,
see yourself already having it, move it into action, and attract it into your life. Why didn’t
your parents tell you that? I’ll tell you why. Their authority figures told them things like:
Just be happy with what you have.
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
We’re not rich, but we are happy.
You have concepts within you put there by authority figures. It’s time to yank
those out. You were probably told things like: “Go and get a good education, study hard
and once you get a good education with good grades, you’ll get a good job in a good
company, work hard and long and stay there for twenty-five years, receive a pension
and be set for life.” K.C. See puts it this way: You get a chicken little education so you
can get some chicken little degree so you can go and impress some chicken little
