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Published by Bob on 18 May 2009

The Final Posting… And The End Of This Blog

This is the 301st posting on this blog.

As a result of coming into a greater realization of my own true purpose - providing an opportunity for people to rediscover their innate potential - which is only possible by consciously surrendering to a power greater than themselves - has caused me to recognize that I can directly affect many more individuals with a very different mechanism than this blog and weekly newsletter.

Therefore, this is the last blog posting in the “Best Years of Your Life” series… These articles and postings will continue to be available on this web site.

My time and effort will now be focused on helping individuals - who are ready - to discover their true life purpose utilizing the “mechanism” I believe most fully exemplifies the ideals, aspirations and principles I have always believed in and espoused.

With this in mind I am going to make available - free of charge - access to the Intentional Prosperity™ System 24 lesson online program - to those who join with me in this step I am taking into the future…

It is my intention to assemble a group of individuals who are ready for profound change in their lives - and want to positively affect the world around them.

It is time to us live a life of real significance

Touching others in a manner which opens hearts and minds to a power greater than themselves - a power which transforms, uplifts and brings true joy and fulfillment - and real prosperity- is the most significant thing any of us can do in the time we have left with our lives.

Please join with me - the world has never been darker - more confused - or in more need of illumination. In this physical world that illumination can only be expressed through your heart into the hearts and minds of others.

Because first and foremost - you are a conduit of light from the source of all love - God.

Together we can change the world - one person at a time.

Please call me at 406-475-3458 if you would like to talk about participating with me in this exciting new adventure.

Warmest Regards,

-Bob Baran

Behavior, Emotional healing, Passion, Personal Finances, Personal Growth, Radical Prosperity, Relationships and Marriage, Strange Phenomenon, The Price Of Greatness

Published by Bob on 11 May 2009

Having A Vision Is Not Enough

Having a vision is not enough - it is nothing more than a fantasy unless you marry it to action.

I often run into people who tell me their “great story” of what they are going to achieve one day. Then, when I ask them what their plan is - you know, how they are going to get from here to there - they get real uneasy - sometimes they get defensive - (I even had a person accuse me of trying to crush their dreams because I asked them how they were going to make it happen)

More often than not - the bigger the “story” the quicker they “get lost” when I start asking questions.

I learned a powerful lesson many years ago about keeping your “dreams” close to your chest - the lesson was this: Keep repeating the story and pretty soon your sub-conscious mind will accept the story as if you already experienced it.

When that happens - all the energy - drive - determination and resolve dissipates - because your sub conscious believes you already experienced it - even though you never really did.

Have you ever heard the old saying: Tell a lie often enough and you’ll believe it’s true - That’s what I’m talking about here.

Don’t confuse what I’m talking about with positive affirmations

I’m a big believer in the power of self-talk - but self-talk isn’t telling “your story” to everyone that comes within three feet of you.

I’m talking about those unfortunate souls who don’t understand that they are wasting precious life energy every time they “tell their story” and never back it up with action.

A vision without action is nothing more than a fantasy

On the other hand, a vision with action is a dream coming true.

-Bob Baran

Behavior

Published by Bob on 07 May 2009

“Not Interested”… Or Are You Depressed?

“Not Interested”? …Or Are You Depressed?

I have a friend in the Seattle area who lost his job a few weeks ago. He’s put in several applications for similar jobs but has been turned down - the economy is the excuse he’s given…

So like too many people he just “going through the motions” of looking for another job. The problem is the job he’s looking for will more than likely never “come back”. It’s been consolidated or eliminated altogether. Only the very best - brightest and frankly lowest paid are going to “qualify” for the few jobs left in his “field”.

Which brings me to the point of this blog:

I told him about an opportunity that would allow him to “cash-in” on his years of experience and profit from what he already knows - in a manner that would bring him a substantial increase in income over any possible job he could find.

The irony is that he could surpass the starting pay of the type of job he’s been trying to find in the next two to three months - within a year or two - several hundred thousands of dollars a year. And yes he knows it’s possible because he’s familiar with the type of opportunity I was telling him about.

He knows it’s possible - he’s not making any progress finding a job -

And now he’s not returning my phone calls or emails…

It’s not like I was “bugging” him. I had one conversation with him where he was very open - then no response.

I don’t think the reason is he’s “not interested” - I think he’s depressed!

I actually think he’s afraid of his own passion. It’s easier to just go through the motions and hold back on hope - then allow himself to dream again.

This is why the world is in a recession

Too many people are afraid to dream…

Thank God I “woke up” out of my own malaise a couple of months ago and realized that “the recession was over”! The overall economy is down maybe 10-15%. The worse case scenario is that it’s still 85% viable. People have only pulled-back on their spending - they haven’t stopped completely. We’re going through a “reset” right now.

People are reevaluating their priorities…

For some who decide that their current job is a dead-end - that there is no more adventure in their lives - that they have no quality time for their families - that they’re really not happy with what they’re doing - This recession is the best thing that could have happened to them. They are being shocked out of their denial.

Maybe they’ll finally take a long hard look at their life…

Then maybe they’ll do something about it.

-Bob Baran

Behavior

Published by Bob on 05 May 2009

Shrinking Reality

I talked to an old friend over the weekend

We hadn’t communicated in almost 15 years. We met while in college - so I’ve known him a long time. We even partnered in a couple of business ventures many years ago.

So it was with a great deal of shock that I listened to his “story”. One he told with great passion and detail about his “great fall”.

You see, he’s now living in a one room cottage in the North Carolina mountains. He has no bank account-his house was foreclosed upon - his wife divorced him and he can’t afford to declare bankruptcy so if he tries to get a job all his wages will be garnisheed - So now he can’t hold down a job.

All of this happened before the financial meltdown.

Listening to his story one thing became clear:

He kept retrenching - ever in the survival mode - and never drew the “line in the sand” and taking his “stand” against the onslaught of “poverty consciousness” - which has now fully overtaken his rationale.

He rationalizes his poverty.

This guy is no dummy. In fact he could have just as easily written the “Intentional Prosperity™ System as I did. He knows the principles and techniques just like I do. But somewhere in time he chose to use the principles and techiniques against himself. That’s right against himself.

Poverty shrinks your reality - Prosperity expands your reality

You see, we all do it to a greater or lesser degree. If you were to lay out your attitudes, opinions and beliefs - you would find an amalgam of both prosperity and poverty based rationalizations - that’s a normal part of the human condition.

It’s also what keeps you in your status quo - your current day-to-day reality.

Change 1 or 2% of your “poverty rationale” to prosperity and your life will become transformed as you rapidly move toward living the life of your dreams. On the other hand, change 1 or 2% of your prosperity rationale to poverty and you begin the downward slide…

In my friend’s case - he is living the life of his dreams - his dreams of poverty.

IF YOU ALLOW YOUR FEARS, UNCERTAINTIES AND DOUBTS TO BECOME THE FOCUS OF YOUR ATTENTION - YOUR DREAMS - YOUR DAY-TO-DAY REALITY WILL REFLECT WHAT YOU PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON.

My friend understood this truth - yet for some reason he chose to “buy into” the F.U.D. - and now his life reflects the nightmare he chose to keep dreaming.

There’s so much fear in the air right now because of the economy that it’s very easy to let yourself justify “shrinking your reality”.

Now more than ever you have to DREAM BIG. You have to go contrary to the “mood” that’s in the air. Right now we are all facing the greatest test of our lifetime. Are you going to keep keep retrenching like my old friend - stuck in the survival mode - until your entire world becomes the four walls in a shack on the side of a mountain somewhere?

Or are you going to “draw a line in the sand” and begin to expand your prosperity?

I plan on reaching out to my old friend and giving him a large dose of hope - I’ve asked some of our mutual friends to do the same - call it an intervention. I don’t know if it will break through the “cement of his current belief system”.

All I can do is try - because I love my old friend - I still see his heart.

When you see someone’s heart you have a responsibility to send him or her love. To mirror the light of hope and just maybe break through to the point where a person “remembers” who they really are - that it’s never too late - that life is just a classroom after all…

And this too is just another lesson.
-Bob Baran

Behavior

Published by Bob on 30 Apr 2009

The Phenomenon Of Conditioning

As I’ve been pursuing my new business venture - I’ve run smack into a phenomenon I refer to as “conditioning”.

Here’s what I’ve noticed:

I’ve provided a number of people with a sample of my product - the world’s most powerful anti-oxident anti-aging formula based upon the acai berry from the  Brazilian rain forest.  It’s a natural delivery system for good nutrition. Four ounces of this stuff a day (the juices of 19 different fruits)  is also the nutritional equivalent of 13 servings of fruit a day -  Really good healthy stuff.

Everyone I’ve given the product to try has said they knew they were not doing all they could as far as even meeting the Government’s “minimum” dietary suggestions of 7-10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

What separates the group into two distinct patterns of results is this:

Group A - are people who have a history of setting out and accomplishing  things in their lives.  These are people who have had several careers - entrepreneurs - artists - people who have different “chapters” in their lives.  The kind who have made decisions to “go their own way” and succeeded in doing so. Not so much “employee types” but people who engage life as a series of projects and challenges whether or not they are working for themselves or are employed.

Group B - are people who have a history of living their lives in the most predictable and “secure” manner possible - basically in the same kind of job - working for the Government - or other long-term institutions - never really achieving much as far as being aggressive  with their career path.  The quality of their lives are determined by the financial constraints of their jobs.

The group B people also tend to have more “chronic” problems - health - money - relationships - than the group A  people.

Even though both group A and group B people acknowledge their need for better nutrition - my personal experience has been that by far - people in group A have a substantially better experience with my product - they feel better - they want to continue using it - they are more apt to share their good experience with family and friends - for whatever reason they seem to be more sensitive to the good effects of “basic nutrition”.

I’m convinced from my own experience that there is a conditioning process which is the result of people accepting and living their lives within predictable financial - emotional  and lifestyle limits  - which acts to preclude them from having the sensitivity to recognize and acknowledge the effects of good nutrition  (or possibly “good” in general) their bodies may actually be “craving”… It’s as if there’s some kind of internal barrier they have in place which prevents them from doing anything that could possibly threaten their “status quo”.

What I’m saying here is that an individual’s mindset that has been conditioned over time to accept a predictably limited and structured reality will tend not to respond (emotionally) to something which is “good” that is placed into their day-to-day life. I say emotionally because - even though their bodies may be responding positively - they have an emotional disconnect so they fail to “experience” the good that’s happening.

I believe this is happening  because they have - over time -  reinforced their expectation that “there is nothing good - new  or unexpected” that is going to show up in their lives that can change anything.

It’s possible they are experiencing a kind of self-induced state of depression which negates any possibility that something new (and good for them) has appeared in their lives … and this happens before the good thing challenges their (depressed ) comfort zone.

Yes - I do believe this is the case!

Needless to say I’ve shifted my focus onto those individuals who fall into group A.

They tend to be more positive about their future - more open to new ideas - things and experiences -  which have the potential to enhance their lives - and they’re  more sensitive to perceiving and experiencing  “good” when they do experience it.

I’m looking for people who’ve lived their lives as a series of adventures.  They’re fun to be around - have a passion for whatever they happen to find interesting - and are naturally open to considering “the next good thing” in their lives.

For these group A types - the best is yet to come!

-Bob Baran

Behavior, Passion

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