85. Setting Your Standards

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in your life, you'll find it easy to slip into attitudes and behaviours for a quality of life that is far below what you deserve. A good place to start is to list all your values and then sort them by priority. E.g. do you value Love more than Friendship or Wealth etc. ?

83. Life is not a Rehersal

Boris Pasternak once said: "Man is born to live and not to prepare to live." The way to do this in practice is to come fully into the present moment and still the mind.

82. Master Your Finances

Know that you deserve financial wellbeing right through your whole life. You deserve an early long and wealthy retirement or a long series of mini retirements. The date on which you retire is a function of the level of Passive Income you achieve - not a function of your age. Once your passive income (derived from your assets and investments, not from your labour) exceeds your expenses, then you can retire. To learn these principles, you need to read all of Robert Kiyosaki's books, visit his website and play as many games of MONOPOLY and CASHFLOW 101 and CASHFLOW 202 as possible. Play them regularly with your Mastermind Group (See Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. http://www.richdad.com/default.aspx, https://www.richdad.com/Richdad/RDBlog/RDBlog.aspx?TopicID=13

81. Engage Fully

Whatever you do, do it fully; do not dabble

80.Heroes

Find good heroes and never lose them or your faith in them. People love to destroy heroes. This is the well-known Irish art of Begrudgery. Do not listen to tales of your hero's human failings. If you lose your heroes and become cynical, you will have nowhere to turn when things get tough. Let your teachers be heroes and your heroes be teachers. Study the lives of great men and women. Draw inspiration from the speeches that have changed the world. Find your own heroes but you may have some of mine : Padraig Pearse, Winston Churchill, Deepak Chopra, Countess Markievicz, Violette Tzabo,Alan Turing, Napoleon Bonaparte, Edward Hopper, Mahatma Gandhi, Catherine de Medici, Leonardo Da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Feyneman, Warren Buffett, Anthony Robbins, Paul Golden, Chuck Mellon, Joe Williams, Noel Coward and many more. Here are some links :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6NIt-Oye8,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7OBTiyMoSE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8u313eY_c&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srSbAazoOr8&feature=related,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHT3phgAurQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9ar3X_u1k

79. Standards

Regularly raise your standards. Change what you demand of yourself. This is the practice of kaizen or C.A.N.I. - constant and never-ending imptovement. By making tiny improvements every day,(1% or less), you will over time make huge changes. It is well worth while.You will also need to change your beliefs in order to support your new standards.

78. Envy Not the Wealth of Others

Do not look into the bank accounts of those others who are richer than you. Do not envy them their wealth. Rather, you should fill your own accounts from your investments and earnings. Keep your financial plan in front of you and keep to it.