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Healthy Addiction to Money, Relationship and Power

Look at the title. Appear confusing and conflicting. Right.

The title may be more appropriately re-phrased as "Healthy commitment to the game of money, relationship and power". Our lifestyles are basically driven by our desires. In modern societies our desires are moulded over and over again by the rules of money, relationship and power. For many of us our interest to play this game of "money, relationship and power" gives meaning to our purpose in life. In other words our lifestyles are driven by our desires to play this game which is also a game of public victory.

If our time are taken up to play this game, we can say that this is addiction, just like addiction to golf and movies. If we are addicted to something that contribute to our purpose in life, this resourceful lifestyles would prevent us from being addicted to other unresourceful or negative lifestyles like alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking.

Addiction to the game of money, relationship and power can be extremely dangerous when handled irresponsibly.

Just like scuba diving, we are not allowed to dive without training and certification. Even after that we are still not allow to dive without a buddy. The whole emphasis here is on responsibility.

Responsibility is the basis of this game of "money, relationship and power". Responsibility protects us. Loan sharks play the game irresponsibly. Banks are shrewd but generally showed high standards of responsibility. Casinos, alcohol companies, cigarette companies attempt to mitigate this problem of responsibility by contributing to society.

We can create or develop this desire to play this game of "money, relationship and power" through conditioning by the environment and our thoughts and involvement. The easiest way to change the environment is to change the people we mix with. Remember the rules of seven. The seven persons we shared the most of our time with are the keys to our future. The easiest way to change our thoughts and involvement is to attend seminar. We attend seminar primarily for "change" rather than for knowledge. Seminar creates an ideal environment for change. Acquisition of knowledge do not change us. Just make us better informed. The seminar fees we pay should be easily affordable. We should not take loans. A no, no! No instalments.

As a safety valve always remember our responsiblility. Responsibility means we must have mentor or teachers for certification. We must have our support group just like buddy in scuba diving. We must be aware of our strengths and weaknesses. We must take steps to eliminate our weaknesses, but prepare to accept our weaknesses Accepting our weaknesses is a sign of maturity and wisdom. Only when we can accept both our strengths and weaknesses then only can we accept others with all their strentgths and weaknesses. This is the the first step in our game of relationship.

Bearing these principles in mind we notice that smart people do not really have advantage over dumb people because they play the game at their level. Smart people are equally vulnerable to do dumb thing as dumb people.

If there is no difference between smart and dumb people then what matters. The answers are:
1. The principles we live by.
2. Pro-activity to choose resourceful emotions like love, courage, joy, trust, integrity.
3. Self-awareness.

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posted by DR SOON @ 12:25 AM