Fortunes Creator

On your way up the escalator of success (stairways and ladders are too slow and take far too much effort), you will find a few unnerving milestones that you have to crush beneath the heel of your mighty Louis Vuitton loafer.

1. Your friends and family will disappear…maybe not all of them but definitely some to most of them.
2. Those that don’t disappear will start to resent you, and make it quite clear that they think you have more than you deserve (mainly because they think they deserve it more than you do…even if they don’t).
3. You will start to feel guilty…wondering if maybe they are right, and you don’t deserve all the great stuff and true love and happiness you have in your life.
4. You will feel doubly or triply guilty when you start to want more…an even bigger house, even more expensive clothes, even more attention from the media, and a more prestigious award to put on your mantle.
5. You will wonder if it’s time to chill…to kick back and enjoy what you have and let somebody else get all that stuff you still want, and achieve all the successes you’re dreaming of.

Let me tell you from experience, you have to fight against all of that! We humans were made to be ambitious (or greedy, if you are a Gordon Gecko fan). Not only do you deserve whatever you have managed to attain so far, but you deserve anything you can imagine yourself having!

Those thoughts don’t come from you. Those desires and dreams and wishes come from a force much higher than your own ego. You are merely a conduit for those things to come into reality. There are forces at work that you perhaps can’t even imagine, but it all matters. Call it destiny. Everything you do, buy, make, or imagine has an affect on the world around you. You are a cog in the wheel of the Universe, and the Universe wants what it wants…from you and for you.

That BMW you are considering buying won’t only make you feel good about yourself when you slide behind the wheel…it will also inspire the kid down the street who sees what you have accomplished for yourself through your due diligence and perseverance. It will also help out the guy who sold it to you…the commission might have come in just in time to help pay for his daughter’s next semester in college.

Try to stay focused on the big picture at all times. And if you still feel guilty after buying that Beemer, then maybe it’s because you didn’t earn it in an honest way, in which case you need to clean up your act and make sure that you really do deserve what you’ve got. Keep your Karma clean, and those flashes of guilt will show themselves to be what they truly are…just shadows of other people’s failures to work with the Universal intelligence that is geared solely toward CANEI…Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

The author, JoAnn Roselli, is a successful living consultant, screenwriter, webmaster, entrepreneur, real estate investor and author of “How to Get High-Quality Plastic Surgery…CHEAP!” She resides in the Dominican Republic with her husband and their 12-year-old son.