Moneylove–Earl Nightingale to the Rescue

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Back On The Path To Prosperity

Like every human being, once in a while I get down in the dumps, discouraged, frustrated. For me, the lucky difference has been that I have quick recovery time, thanks to many tools that can get me back on my path, back on purpose. And thanks to mentors like Earl Nightingale.

First let me share one of the ways I just got out of a funk that occurred because a very famous person reneged on an offer to share this blog with his many thousands of readers, and my AT&T high speed Internet service went out and I spent six hours on the phone, including at least nine disconnects, before I found a tech person who actually was able to reconfigure my modem. And a couple of other things I was waiting for just didn’t seem to happen. Here, in the following cartoon gag, is what snapped me out of it:

SCENE:  BOARD CHAIRMAN TO BOARD.

CAPTION:  “Gentlemen, our main issue today is how to come up with the highest bonuses for ourselves that fall just short of causing employee riots.”

This and thirty-some other gags will go out to several cartoonists, and then be drawn up and hopefully sold to such publications as Harvard Business Review, Barrons, and The Wall St. Journal. I had been working on other priorities for several months and decided to go back to this creative activity after hearing an old tape by Earl Nightingale. It was on the other side of a cassette I discovered of me talking about prosperity consciousness that I am going to transfer to MP3 format and send out as a bonus to The Moneylove Club subscribers.

Work Your Way Through It

It may sound simple, but the best answers usually are. What Earl, whom I had the pleasure of meeting and discussing lots of stuff with in Florida some years ago, said:

Times come to all of us, I suppose, when we feel at odds with the world. There’s a fix for this, but it’s the cure a person in this fix feels least like doing. Here it is, and it works every time. For a moment, forget yourself completely and decide on something that needs doing; then begin to do it as best you can. As you work, as you see accomplishment developing under your hands, your problem will begin to fade into the background. If I can find some work that needs doing and lose myself in it for four or five hours, I feel like a new man. It’s impossible to concentrate on work and on our own problems at the same time. The work into which we throw ourselves is the best medicine there is.

There it is, direct from the pioneering master of motivation. If something is troubling you or bringing you down, lift yourself up by throwing yourself into something you can totally focus on. I did this and as the creative juices of my comedy mind flowed, completely let go of the negative feelings. And the change in mood has lasted, as I realize my own power to focus on what really matters.

I strongly believe that this advice from Earl Nightingale, passed on to you free of charge right here and now, is worth more than many courses and seminars that you might be tempted to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on.

So I have now put into my storehouse of uplifting tools, a couple of gags I’ve written–ready to be expanded to several pages and sent out when I feel the need to throw myself into that work again. This is now added to a strategy I’ve used for years, to always have several books by favorite authors unread on my shelf, ready to lose myself in them at the first sign of disappointment or upset or lack of enthusiasm for my life. It happens to all of us, and what matters is how we respond and how we move past it.

Jerry

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