The Maturity Test

Spank Your Inner Child And Tell Him To Grow Up Or Else

by preston

"Reality is like a fine wine; it will not appeal to children."

-    Don Miller, Author of ‘Searching For God Knows What’

"When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child,
reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things."

-    1 Corinthians 13:11

There are two types of people in this world.  Those who like Neil Diamond… and those who don’t. 
This article has absolutely nothing to do with the sentence right above this one.

There are another two types of people in this world who actually specifically
matter as far as this particular article goes…

One type seeks to discover life as it truly is, no matter what the cost. 
Reality is held in high esteem.  Even if it hurts.

The other seeks to discover nothing; his only concern is to avoid pain
and experience pleasure.  Kind of like… an animal.  A really dumb one. 
Like a buffoon.  Reality is subconsciously avoided at all costs.  It’s like kryptonite. 
Just a whiff of it is enough to turn him into an ostrich.

For the former, the value of truth supersedes the value of a good time. 
For the latter, complete delusion is chump change in return for the comfort it affords.
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"Ignorance is bliss."

 - Cypher, The Matrix 1999
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Did you know that the majority of men out there in the scary scary world are
only men in terms of chronology?  Inside… they are still boys. 
Still looking for someone to take care of them, still holding on to fairy tales,
still believing the world is a playground.

These man-boys rarely have money, never get girls, usually whine, and love prison.

Children expect someone else to take care of them. 
Mature adults take full responsibility for their lives.

Children believe in fairy tales and magical spells. 
Adults know how complex life is and how hard they have to work in order to
see anything actually happen.  They take the words "easy" and "simple" with a grain of salt.  

Children tend to hate work and would rather play all day. 
Adults embrace work as a way of life and find joy in it.

Children are naturally selfish.   Adults… are naturally selfish too.  : – ) 
But the mature ones work hard to not be.

Children see the world in very simplistic terms. 
Adults know better than to believe there are 7 easy steps to ANYthing.
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"The simple believes every word; but the prudent considers his steps well."

-    Proverbs 14:15
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It’s changing you.  And the more you change, the more money you will naturally make. 

Get It Out Of Your Head That Money/Success Is Of Primary Importance!

Until you begin to work harder on yourself than
you do on your business, success will elude you.

Why?

Because your outer world is nothing more than a reflection of your inner world. 
Get your inner world right, and success will come as a byproduct.

Weak/Simple/Childish Inner World = Disaster In The Outer World

The world eats weak people for breakfast. 
Heck, it eats them for mid night snacks while it’s sleep walking. 
I just pictured a globe sleep walking and grabbing a miniature
alive person out of the fridge and eating it.  Is that weird?

What will you do to strengthen your inner world?

95% of the world has the weak/simple/childish viewpoint. 
Are you sure you’re not one of them?

Are you open to the possibility that you ARE one of them?  

Closed minded people operate out of fear. 
The 5% of people who do NOT have the childish viewpoint are probably
the most likely to read this article and think they’re part of the 95%. 
Strange, huh?

Here is the bottom line, and I don’t care if this costs me a thousand subscribers:

God created YOU and He created this WORLD SYSTEM. 
I think He knows how it works.  I double dare you to start asking Him to
show you the truth about life.  Heck, I TRIPLE dare you.  But I warn you,
ask this question with any degree of faith, and He will answer it…

But it’s not gonna feel good. 

Boys don’t become men without trial and suffering. 
In some cultures they literally torture the boys during their initiation phases. 
The Unites States is one of the only countries without an initiation tradition
for boys seeking to become men.

Hence all the people out there seeking Get Rich Quick schemes and being broke all the time.

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"Whoever works his land will have plenty to eat, but the one who chases unrealistic dreams has no sense."

 - Proverbs 12:11
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Are you willing to suffer for the truth?  Or are you happy with your head in the sand?

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It saw.

And it crushed.

It’s only been a few weeks, and we have already been inundated with
emails and calls from users who have finally done their first deal with
Freedom$oft. 

3 people have just received their first referral checks from the loan
mod outsourcing feature.

Several have sold their houses through the property syndication
wizard. 

As we are setting people financially free, one-by-one, I’ve been forced to get really honest with myself, look in the mirror, and say “How in the world did Stick Boy make a dime in real estate?  Cuz he’s an idiot.”

Now I can say this because I’m friends with Stick Boy, and he truly is
mentally handicapped.  He’ll tell you right to your face maybe.

But seriously … couple his lack of any and all skills that might lead to
success in real estate along with not having Freedom$oft when he
first started, and you really gotta scratch your head and wish you had
been there in the beginning to take the bets against him that anyone
who knew him would have gladly made.
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Side Note To Stick:  Sorry dude.  I couldn’t think of anything else to
write about.  You know I love you (in spite of your many challenges).
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I say all that to say this …

Even if you missed out on Freedom$oft, or couldn’t afford it or whatever,
you can still get rich buying and selling houses without spending a
dime.  Stick Face is living proof.  And so am I in all honesty.  I’m
not the sanest person in the world after all.  There were 900 people in
my graduating class, and I was voted least likely to succeed or live past
20.  It’s really a miracle that I even know how to type this article
(confession:  I’m using 3 fingers.  Fast though.  I am lightning fast with
these three fingers).

Flipping houses, and getting rich in the process, does not require
intelligence.  It doesn’t require money.  It doesn’t require connections.
It doesn’t even require Freedom$oft (although that does make it a
heck of a lot easier and faster).  It requires only one thing …

Balls.

Another word for that might be “boldness.” 

It requires the balls and boldness to get started.  Most people never
even really start because they are scared. 

-       Scared of the unknown

-       Scared of the work involved

-       Scared of failure

-       Scared of Stick Boy’s hair (that is a legitimate fear)

-       Scared of the responsibility

-       Scared of __________________ (fill in the blank with your own personal fear.  Sissy.)

Yeah, they may act like they’re starting.  But they don’t honestly
commit themselves 100% to the process down in the depths of
their souls.  They’re fooling themselves subconsciously. 

But what if you knew that you were not alone in all of this?  What if
you knew that you were virtually guaranteed success if you would
merely begin with definiteness of purpose?  Take that first step of
true faith?  The kind of faith where there is no looking back? 

“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:  that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.  All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred.  A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.  I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.  Begin it now.”  

– W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

When I first got started in real estate, I didn’t know what I was doing.
I still barely know what I’m doing as a matter of fact.  The fact that
you’re following me is questionable wisdom on your part actually.  But
whatever.  Do what you want.

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Side Note:  No one knows what they’re doing.  The sooner you realize
that, the sooner you’ll be empowered to get out their and join all the
idiots who are getting rich merely because they have the BALLS to act
despite their ignorance.
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So despite me knowing nothing and feeling the fear that goes along
with that, I decided to commit myself 100% to success with real
estate, and I took the plunge.  And I got rich.

And you can too.

You can too because the same thing that happened to me will
happen to you.  All the resources, knowledge, money, partners,
mentors, and deals will start magically coming your way.  Because
you are not alone.  A force much greater than all this world could
possibly throw at you is at your side ready to give you everything
you could possibly want.

But this force will not do a dang thing for you until you exercise
faith, decide definitely to succeed, and get moving.  Actually it
will do something if you don’t, but you’re not going to like it.
You’re probably experiencing it right now.

This force is God, but we can save that for another day.  Why
does he help out saints and sinners alike in this manner?
Because he “causes his sun to shine on the just and on the
unjust.”  So take advantage of that while you can.  (It will only
last for not much longer, that much I can tell you with 100%
surety).

Get moving.  Now.  Decide once and for all to DEMAND success,
and then do something to make it inevitably happen.  Start
today. 
 

Preston

I just had a minor epiphany …

As I was complaining through the airport last night,
I kept running a random affirmation through my
mind over and over.  I can’t even remember what
it was now.  It had something to do with a current
challenge of mine that has really been weighing
heavily on my heart (something about needing a
private jet). 

So I’m running this positive thought through my
head over and over and over, but then, out of
nowhere, a much louder thought overrode it all …

"I’m wasting my time."

Can you imagine?  At first I thought it was the
dang devil, so I just changed channels (real
important to learn how to do that effectively). But
then I realized that it was actually true. 

I was wasting my time.

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(I have to tell you these things as they come to my
mind or else my A.D.D. will win)

So here’s what I realized …

Thinking positive thoughts does almost nothing …

Unless those thoughts are coupled with faith.

Faith takes a little more work than reading or reciting
or even hoping. 

Faith is actually believing what you are thinking!

Faith is seeing the realization of your affirmation
in your mind’s eye!
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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for;
the evidence of things not seen."

Hebrews 11:1
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Faith is feeling what it will be like to have your
dream, and rejoicing in it!

Faith is expecting your desires to to be manifest in
real life!

Faith is the driving force behind every positive
and loving thing this world has ever seen or done.
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"And this is the victory that has overcome the world …
our faith."

1 John 5:4
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Have you seen the movie The Secret?  They talk a little
about this whole "feeling your goals thing." 

The moment I stopped repeating mere words in my head
and instead started picturing and feeling and expecting
the overall concept to actually happen … I felt something
change in my spirit.  An overwhelming sense of what I
would call "rightness" came over me.  A knowing that
this particular thing was now going to happen.  And it
was not about a private jet.  That was a JOKE,
Preston.  Stop judging me.

Believe first.  Then receive. 

Most people are waiting to receive things that they never
really believed they would get in the first place.  And
they’re bitter about it.  What they really should be bitter
about is that no one took the time to explain to them how
the universe really works. 

It literally runs on faith.

 - Faith is like gasoline in a car.

 - It’s like rocket fuel in a space shuttle.

 - It’s like the energy that runs your home.

 - It’s like the clinical insanity that drives Hollywood.

Nothing happens without it.  Nothing goes anywhere.
Your car wouldn’t leave your driveway.  The space
shuttle would never lift off (no matter how many times
it told itself it would), your house would suck, and
Hollywood would be boring.

You don’t a boring Holly wood do you?  Stop having
a boring Hollywood.  Stop having a boring life.

So how do you get that faith?

How you can you logically expect something to happen
that you have absolutely no control over?

A huge part of true faith requires belief in a loving God
who actually wants good things for you and makes things
happen on your behalf.  That’s just common sense really. 
Argue if you want, but it’ll just make me right and you
an idiot.
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"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."

Romans 10:17
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So the easy way to get it is to start paying attention to
God.  You know … the One who created you and all?  The
one you’ve been avoiding your entire life?  He has a name.
But let’s not worry about that right now.  You’ll be meeting
Him soon enough.

The hard way is to just practice it on your own.  It’ll
work good enough I suppose.  For material things anyways.
Getting cars, money, clothes … that kinda thing.

Try it now.

What do you want?  What’s the #1 thing you want right
now?  Declare out loud that it’s on the way to you right
now.  That you know you’re going to have it.  Thank the
Mystery Thing Of The Universe in advance for giving it
to you.  Just say "thank you thank you thank you Mystery
Thing Who Gives Me Things Just Because I’m A Good
Person.*  I really appreciate you doing this for me!" 

The Mystery Thing will probably give it to you because
He’s frustratingly graceful.  But He’s rolling His eyes at
you while He does it.  Just thought I’d throw that out
there.

Do what you want with this post.  I’m just trying to help
is all. 

Peace.

 - Preston

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*are you really?  On whose scale?

PRIVATE MONEY PARADISE
by Pete the Ninja

I’ve really been thinking hard about the market lately.  Reading a lot of articles, watching what people are doing, experimenting and what not.

Through my observations, I’ve noticed there are a ton of headlines in the meania (media) like "Multi Million-Dollar Price Cuts" and "America’s Most Foreclosure Ridden Towns." Sometimes I just can’t believe the market hasn’t leveled out yet. All I know is that if there ever was a time to carpe diem, that time is right now.

So if you can’t decide if now is the right time for you to Invest or become a Real Estate Investor, let me assure you, the game is on. It’s time to leave the weak and unpredictably failing stock market behind you. Take it from me, making 3% in a money market account or letting your money ride in the unpredictable stock market isn’t worth your hard earned money’s time or attention.

There were way too many people who made a disgustingly ridiculous amount of dough in 2003-2006. Disgustingly ridiculous! (cough : Preston : cough) But that time has passed and the market has flipped, turned upside down and revealed its’ soft pink underbelly. And I’ve taken it upon myself to give it a little tickle. I can tell you’re already tempted to join me. Well then let me open your eyes…

The call comes in from a seller who was behind on taxes.  He had received our "I’ll Buy Your House Before You Lose It" letter. She needed to get out because she was moving to Arizona.

During the initial call I told her that everything was going to be fine and that I would take care of everything for her. She wanted 45K and had no mortgage on the property. I told her because of the time constraints, that in order for us to move that quickly she would have to come down on the price. Using the ninja techniques that we teach I was able to get her down to 28K. [Freedom$oft users will have all my secrets by the way]. So now I go to the house to get the contract and build more rapport and see what we were working with. 
 
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My assessment was that I could easily assign the contract and be done with it quick.  But I decided to bring in a private investor to purchase the property for me and resell it for a higher profit. I went with the investor because I wanted to give him a no-brainer deal to start with and show him that I knew what I was doing.  I had recently met him, and first impressions are everything.

Closing on the property, as opposed to assigning the contract, also gives me more time to market it, which allows me to charge higher prices because I am not pressed for time.  Assignments restrict you to finding a buyer and closing within 10-30 days (30 if you have our ninja contracts).

Anyways … He gave me the money for the house, and I resold it a couple of weeks later for around 50k. This was a profit of 22k in 2 weeks.

Would you like to do deals like this?
 
Like I said, I could have wholesaled the property faster and made 12k, but, since I gave my investor a lay up, he is now calling me to buy more deals.  I have money at my finger tips.  This is key for wholesaling houses on a BIG level. 

You need to talk to everyone about what you do, and I promise you will be able to find people to help.  Rich people love to lend their money.  Especially when it is collateralized
by houses at 30-50 cents on the dollar.  Seek and ye shall find.
 
<<<Warning!>>> If you are a new investor, DO NOT use a private investor.  Just wholesale/assign the houses until you have at least 5-10 deals under your belt and know what the heck you’re doing. Then you can go after the bigger money. You must walk before you run.

By the way, Freedom$oft is going to be providing you with all the money you need to close on deals.  At the push of a button.  Sounds crazy .. but it’s true.  Part of it’s function is to act as a personal ATM machine.  And that’s just one of a hundred+ things it does.

The future is here.

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Good luck!

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Nice Guys Finish Last
And They Don’t Get Chicks Either

by Pre$ton

"The ordinary man is passive.  Against major events he is as helpless as against the elements.  So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

-    George Orwell (1903-1950) Famous journalist, political writer, and novelist
 

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Pulitzer Prize Winner 1925
 

"Why are there so many Georges?"

 - Pre$ton (birthdate unknown – he may be an angel) Once got 13 girl’s phone #’s in one day 2003

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"Stop being a wussy."

That is dating/pick-up expert David D’Angelo’s message to men all around the world.  Women are sick of wussies.  How do I know he said this?  Because he is a genius.  I’ve bought everything he has ever produced, and I’m not embarrassed to say it at all.  The whole "why are you dieting when you’re so skinny already?" thing applies here.  Plus I had temporary dreams of becoming a professional pick up artist at one point and time. 

Money doesn’t seem to like wussies much either.  It tends to not come around them too often.  Most wussies I know are so broke they can’t even pay attention.

You’re not a wussy…are you?

My vitamin for your mind this week actually applies to you too ladies.  If you’re in business that is.  And it has nothing at all to do with the Venutian Arts although I actually have a lot I could say on that subject.  We’ll save that for another life.

My message to you this week is simply this:

Stop being so dang nice.

Nice people are broke.  Every time.  And broke people can’t feed their children.  I don’t call that nice.  Modern culture often confuses "niceness" with "goodness" when in all actuality those two terms couldn’t be farther apart in meaning.  I’ll be "good" as often as possible.  I’ll be "nice" rarely. 

Sound mean?

Consider that the common "nicety" is really no more than a counterfeit expression of kindness rooted in fear with the intent of making sure you like me so that my weak wussy ego doesn’t suffer.  9 times out of 10, "Nice" people are actually "manipulative" people.  "Good" people tell it like it is with an ounce of grace.  They could care less what people think.  And I didn’t copy that out of a text book or any other thing for that matter.  It came right out of me, and frankly I’m pretty impressed with it!

"I do not receive honor from men."

 - Jesus

Good people are strong.  Nice people are weak.  Good people have power to help others.  Nice people have only words to talk about helping others.  Good people have true wisdom which manifests itself in a prosperous and meaningful life.  Nice people have mere head knowledge which manifests itself in me making fun of you in my newsletters.  : – )

Hey You
Stop Being So Nice 

Toughen up.  Stop allowing others to have their way with you all the time.  They only do it because you let them.  This is YOUR world.  YOUR reality.  Act like it!

Did you know that you are experiencing life right now exactly how you want to experience it?  Why do you want things so difficult?  What purpose is that serving for you subconsciously?  Why do you believe the things you believe about life?  Is it because your parents raised you that way? 

It is time for you to start taking control of your life.  No one is going to do this for you.  Get angry for once.  Shoot, I’m angry every darn day.  I’m mad right now for crying out loud.  I’m mad at everything that causes anyone to suffer in this life and I’m out to fix it.  I’m doing my part.  Are you?  Or are you sitting around complaining about your life when it’s mostly your fault in the first place?

I honestly could write for a hundred pages right now.  One day I will, and you’ll see it at Borders for $21.39.  I like odd numbers.

Let me wrap up by cluing you in on a common social dynamic that you may not be aware of.  Whenever you have two or more people in the same room or on the phone conversing or whatever, something very important is going on that you need to know.  And that something is this: 

Each person is trying to figure out who the leader is.

Did you know that?  It’s true.  And here is the interesting part – whoever believes the strongest that he is the leader, gets to be the leader.  The person who believes in their own reality the strongest wins every time.  Their reality becomes everyones reality.  Well that person is rarely referred to as "nice." 

And he or she is never ever a wussy.

Here’s the bottom line – you being a wussy is total bullcrap and everyone around you is sick of it.  Including me.  Stop it!  Consider this mental surgery on your dome.  The wussy has got to go.  On the count of three I want you to get real ticked off, scream the following words – "WUSSY BE GONE!", picture a wussy spirit that looks like Michael Jackson moonwalking out of your body, and then punch yourself in the face.  Ready?  One, two, three – "WUSSY BE GONE!"

Feel better? 

© 2009  R. Preston Ely  (Don’t steal my stuff.)
all rights reserved

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