Full Speed Ahead

FORWARD

Many of you reading this book will never finish it. This book is about change which is an uncomfortable thought for many of you. So if you don't finish this book then let me thank you in advance for your patronage. At least one of us has benefited financially in this relationship and it wasn't you. If you're offended by my comments then good. Maybe you should read on.

This book is about taking practical proven steps to improve yourself, the quality of your life and those around you. It is a formula for wealth, business, and personal success. It was written in an attempt to help guide and mold you into the supreme being you always wanted to be but never achieved. It requires you to take steps in a direction that I warn you involves risk.

As a teacher, trainer and mentor my job is to tell you what you need to hear not what you want to hear. So here is the first of many wake up calls you need to know. You are responsible for where you are today and you have no one to blame but yourself. If that comment unnerves you or makes you feel uncomfortable then you have never been totally honest with yourself, ever.

Fortunately some of you have it better than others. If you're a big shot success reading this, then you will find that this book will make life sweeter, neater and more complete. If you're a little shot trying to be a big shot then I admire you for your intentions and look forward to you putting the principles of this book into action.

Many of you reading this, however, are sitting there with your credit cards maxed out, are facing or have faced bankruptcy, foreclosure or both and think that your solution to your problems can either be found in the bottom of that bottle on the table or the gun on the upper shelf of your closet. You keep hoping for a miracle and that your retirement can be funded when those six little numbers on that piece of paper suddenly pop up on the TV screen at 10:59 one night. Your ship is not coming in but what's worse is that it is lifting on its side and fixing to go under and take you down with it.

The fact is you made choices and those choices relate to the status and stage in life you now find yourself in. Instead of taking control of your life, you let life happen to you. Quit whining and get over it. Now's the time for you to get a grip, get a glove and get back in the game. This book can be your life raft. It can be used to save yourself from yourself and give you another real chance at life. The one you have always dreamed about. If you decide, however to take the path of least resistance and go down with the ship, I'll watch you drown safely from shore. I have empathy for everyone but sympathy for no one.

To move forward, you will be given choices and a series of scenarios that must be practiced and exercised with extreme effort in order for you to succeed in an attempt to make a new and better you. Many of you who watched the 2012 summer Olympics believe that the gold medals won by such names as Gabby Douglas, Missy Franklin or Michael Phelps were made out of precious medals. They were not. Those medals were made out of a precious many blood, sweat, and tears. Because they are athletes, many of you think they're special or unique in comparison to you. The last time I looked they still put their pants on the same as you and came into this world the same way, upside down and naked. I don't think the doctor told Mrs. Phelps, that Michael had, when he was born, the words born athlete stamped on his rear, either.

They're special because they did something with their lives that you and millions of other around the globe recognized as unique. Each of these athletes found something that they liked and enjoyed that eventually turned into a passionate obsession. They increased their perception not only in how we see them, but in how they now will eventually see themselves.

The biggest problem many of us have is that we think we are handicapped. You are no different than these so called exceptional athletes. People and events may stop you temporarily but you are the only one who can stop you permanently. We have and suffer unfortunately from a very common social disease that runs rampant in our society, known as can't do I tis.I want you to believe that you can. When people look at you, what do they see? Most importantly, when you look at yourself what do you see in those eyes coldly starring back at you?

You cannot have a better life until you feel better about you. Go back in your life and find even one special moment where you did something exceptional, special and great and try to remember that feeling. Hear the people clap for you, see them rise to their feet in appreciation, see the smiles and energy of that moment and dare tell me it can't happen again.

You need a will to win. Whether its money, personal status or peer recognition, you do not have to remain where you are with what you have if you will make a simple but difficult decision to look inside yourself, and make a commitment to change.

I don't care whether you are or claim to be big, fat, short, skinny, rich, poor, black, white, republican or democrat. To me none of these little labels or facts count. But to many of you those labels and views of yourselves are holding you back from gaining and obtaining what you want most in life.

Over time many of you have unknowingly allowed your parents, your friends, relatives and society in general to program you from success until you did the only thing you knew how to do, which is to accept their appraisal of you as factual and true. Then from every decision you made both consciously as well as unconsciously became a conditioned response to meet and obtain not success, but failure. I want you to meet and obtain success.

Cars today have fancy control modules that tell us where the fault is and units that help us clear the fault and explain the steps necessary to get to the remedy. The actual steps to the process can be found in the operating Manuel. Where's yours? Each of us came with one. You just need to find it, look up the fault code and clear the memory to solve the problem. And yes some of the repairs necessary and time involved may be more expensive for some than others. But you can be fixed. There are solutions if you will let your professional mechanic help you fix the problems and get you back on the road better than you were, operating at peek efficiency and firing on all cylinders.

I want to be your mechanic. I have and understand, have lived and overcome many fault codes you may have flashing before you on your dashboard of life. I have the Manuel and have read and studied it cover to cover. I know how to fix your problems if you are willing to bring yourselves in for service.

As a salesman, with a background of 38 plus years in real estate, I use to tell people that I was in business to help them. Today I am in business to help those who are willing to help themselves. Many of the people I have encountered have serious real estate and financial problems. Many of these people, who are offered my services, are reluctant to take it, not because of me you understand. I am the best at what I do. I have tens of thousands of satisfied customers who have benefited from my services. I do business with people because I choose to not because I have to. If I offer you my services it is on my terms. Yet many of these people would fail to commit because they were either to bull headed or living in denial of what was happening to them, and rationalizing to themselves that the problems they faced really weren't that great. Then weeks or days later when I could have saved them from foreclosure, I see them standing next to all their worldly possessions as they are being evicted by the Sheriff and put out on the street.

If you are one of those, who expects things will get better if you just hang in there, I got news for you. More of the same leads to more of the same. Problems and challenges, particularly in your life, cannot be solved at the same level they were created. You may wish for things to get better but they won't not until you create the cause and effect to make and effectuate change from within yourself. Many of you may think that I have no vested interest in whether you succeed. You are sadly mistaken. I do care. I do because I believe that this world and our country today have a great many problems that need to solved and addressed. I know more than anyone that it takes changed people to attack the problems we have and offer solutions for the empowerment and betterment of all of us. I don't just dream about a better life for myself and family and their kids. I'm actively doing something about it.

If my methods seem pushy, good. If I were to walk up to you and attempt to push you backwards your natural instinct is to resist. Simply put, you push back to stand your ground and keep from moving backwards. Resistance is a natural part of change. Our natural instinct is to at least attempt to hold ground where we are so we don't move backwards. Change is difficult for many of us. We hate it, we don't like it but change is necessary if you are tired of your life that related from the previous choices and poor decisions you have made. The process for both of us, me helping you, must start with your willingness to accept the possibility of change by relaxing yourself, and when I push hard in an attempt to make you better, don't push back.

Within each of us lies a certain magic gift, a talent or ability that if developed, can help us overcome almost any obstacle we may eventually face in life. I believe we have both the seeds of greatness and the seeds of destruction within us. You may have simply been sowing your farm with the wrong seeds. If you are prone to get on your knees and look for answers above, you are looking for answers and solutions in the wrong direction. You need to look from within.

When you ask for answers and get none you need to know that no answer is indeed an answer. The reason the solutions aren't magically coming forward is because you already have the code and solutions. You were created in the eyes of God and God doesn't make no junk. That is why he gave you a belly button. That is where he stuck his thumb in your stomach and said baby You're done.

Ever since you were born and had your umbilical cord of security cut, many of us have spent our whole life going around and trying to find another place to plug it back in. It's time to grow up and take responsibility for both where you are and where you would like to go. You are on your own now and the only person that can help you is that poor nervous soul staring back at you in the mirror every night and morning. That person wants help from you to make his or her life better. Would you please help them?

If you would even consider yes to the possibility, I will start by asking you to relax yourselves, give me an open mind for a minute without any natural built-in resistance, and let's explore the one thing many of us misplaced, the operating manual for the real you.

INTRODUCTION

If you were fortunate to have received and read a copy of my book The Six Billion Dollar Man, you would already know and have been exposed to many of the ways we are conditioned and programed consciously and unconsciously against our own will on a daily basis. Most of the programming we receive from others is negative and effects our unconscious mind that in turn effects our conscious actions, leading us unfortunately in a direction built with inherent limitations.

The desire to improve your life is really your thoughts to improve your life. Success, therefore, in your business or your personal life is really the thought of success. Instead of thinking thoughts that program ourselves for success, many of us focus our thoughts instead on the exterior things we can more readily identify with, rather than inner qualities we cannot touch, see, smell, taste or hear. The acquisition of material things like cars, boats, and houses then becomes a way for us to demonstrate to ourselves our competence in life.

Some of your reading this book obviously have more competence than others, some have very little and many have almost none at all. Am I down on material things? Absolutely not. I like a good many people intend and am taking a big bite out of life and already have plenty of that so called stuff. However, it came into my life because of the success I developed first between my two ears. My stuff arrived not because I had to have it to measure my competence against others. It came because I changed first my unconscious inner world and my conscious world then happened to have changed, as well. The ability to change outcomes by rescripting and reprogramming yourself from the inside, well, changes everything. Take a moment and look at yourself and what's happening in you right now.

Every seven years, without any thought or influence on your part, every cell in our body is replaced by a new one. This is an involuntary change that happens within us at and when it is supposed to happen. Every organism, including the human organism, is ruled by these involuntary actions. Many of these functions in nature are ruled by patterns related to day and night. As night changes to day, the conscious world you see changes with it. Every animal and organism's conscious actions are affected by this unconscious programming. I suggest you go sit in a forest at 4:30 one morning and watch this in action for yourself.

Instead of focusing inwardly for answers we have grown up in a world looking outside ourselves for the answers that trouble us. We want the world to change or others to change. The simplest solution to both is we need to change. When we focus on visible objects we believe are in control of us, we limit ourselves and our abilities. Take the clock on your night stand for example.

Today, I do not use an alarm clock to rise in the morning. Instead I rely on my own internal clock to wake up naturally at and when I am supposed to. I almost always rise and awake up a moment or two of when that alarm clock might have gone off, if I had set it. By simply telling my conscious mind what I must do and why I must do it, I program myself to rise at a specific point in time and my unconscious mind follows through on getting it done. No wonder why so many of us are alarmed at getting up. Having to face the conscious world with excitement and enthusiasm is nearly impossible when it is literally scared into you.

If you doubt having this ability, try this simple exercise for yourself. One weekend morning before you go to bed, talk to yourself about what a busy morning you have planned, why you need to get up, and when you must rise to meet your own self-imposed deadline. Don't play at this. Get serious with yourself. Stay focused on why and when you need to get up and let nature do the rest. If you do this exercise right and don't wake up at least at or near the time you intended, I'd be surprised. The more you practice this simple exercise, the better at it you will become. My intention here is to show and let you experience firsthand that your unconscious mind can and will over time move your conscious body into action.

Our unconscious mind is capable of many things, yet it is the least understood tool we have in our available arsenal. I want you to first understand its value and second, learn how to use it to your benefit.

Not long ago scientists discovered that monkeys in one part of the world were changing the way the acted. Within years all monkeys all over the globe developed the same peculiar behavior, without having any direct physical contact with one another. How is this even possible? More importantly, why is this possible and how can this benefit us? I believe it is possible because we have it in the internal programing, a gift from the superior being that created us.

To be able to tap into this resource and develop change from within, you need to consciously be aware of and know the four levels of learning and development that you must go through to ultimately reach your life goals and dreams. The first level is what I call the unconscious, incompetent stage. That started when I told you that you are where you are because of your efforts and you have no one to blame but yourself. That was an attention getter that immediately moved you to the second level of learning and development known as the conscious, incompetent stage. Now you are fully aware of your inferior programming and hopefully can and will take steps to make and change yourself for the better.

This book from here on out will take you through the third sage, conscious, competent. This is where with the principles taught in this book, will not only be able to change you, but be able to be used to change and influence the actions of other people. Eventually you will be able to use that power to influence the world around you and what you ultimately attract to yourself. You will be very competent and capable on a conscious level. This in essence, is the sheer purpose of this book. To be really successful, however, by my standards, you need to reach the forth level of learning and development known as the competent, unconscious, stage where you have the ability to use the techniques I outline, without thinking. This level can only be achieved with conscious practice that will eventually manifest themselves into a habit and unconscious action if practiced repeatedly for twenty eight days.

I told you I could fix you if you wanted to be fixed. I didn't tell you that this journey was going to be easy. The investment you have already made in the book will give you all the necessary codes to fix you. It will give you all the conscious actions necessary to produce the results you desire for yourself.

I want to end this introduction by asking you three simple questions. These questions need to be answered honestly to you about yourself. Do not lie. It might also be good if you grab and pencil and piece of paper and keep plenty available as you read and go forward from here with me. If you're already a big shot think you are too good for this, and cannot possibly believe that you can learn anything further that will enhance you, your business or person life, then at least be kind enough to pass this book on to someone who many need it more than you. You won't need that pencil and piece of paper. But that little shot that you pass it on to will. In fact one day they may be so grateful that they thank you again for such a kind offer as they buy up your company or become your next boss. Yes, this book is that powerful.

If you feel you are willing to take yourself seriously, then here are the three questions you need to answer about yourself. 1. WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU ARE WORTH? Forget what others believe, what counts is what you believe. If you are a Forbes Magazine 400 big shot reading this, forget what they say about you. What are you worth, to you? In college, many of the top fortune 500 companies came to my school and attempted to hire people to work for their company. This recruiting show was back in the early seventies mind you so the figures today would be quite different. Some would say to me, when you graduate, I'll offer you $36,000 a year, give you a company car, health insurance and funded retirement benefits. Every job offer regardless of the company was within five hundred dollars of one another. My question to all of them eventually was, How do you know how much I'm really worth? Obviously none of them gave me a job. I fired them because my perceptions of myself were far greater than they were willing to pay. If I had taken any of those jobs I would only be worth what they paid me. If you believe that you are only worth what you receive, then you are letting others determine your ultimate net