Most successful people recognize the need to have a method of determining what is important to them. Since each person's life experiences are unique, it is difficult to define a universal system to identify what is best for someone. You might be asking yourself why you should even have a system for determining the good. After all isn’t that what thousands of disagreeing religious leaders and philosophers have debated for millenia?
I remember clearly the first time I had the eye opening realization that I could be successful and prosperous. It was several years ago as I drove my Toyota Corolla from Utah to Florida. Before leaving on the trip, I loaded my laptop with several audiobooks--one of them happened to be "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. Listening to that book was a turning point. I knew that I would never think the same way about money and work again.
"She [Aunt Polly] was a subscriber to all the 'Health' periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils. All the rot they contained about ventilation, and how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to take, and what frame of mind to keep oneself in, and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to her, and she never observed that health journals of the current month customarily upset everything they had recommended the month before. She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and, thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with 'hell following after.'"
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ch. 12
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