More Than Anything Else, What Differentiates People

Meditation Gives You Two Things: Equanimity And Creativity. And It Does That By Taking One From Their Conscious Mind, Where There's All That Noise And Chaos And So On, Into The Subconscious Mind Where There's Quiet And Where Creativity Emanates From. You Have A Mantra, And When You Repeat It Over And Over Again, All Those Thoughts Go Away Because You Shift Them To That Mantra. And Then Eventually That Sound Disappears, And Then You're Left Not Conscious Or Unconscious - You're Left In This Subconscious State, And By Opening That Up, First Of All You Get Control Of It.

What I'm Trying To Say Is That For The Average Investor, What I Would Encourage Them To Do Is To Understand There's Inflation And Growth - It Can Go Higher And Lower - And To Have Four Different Portfolios Essentially That Make Up Your Total Portfolio That Gets You Balanced.

Principles Are Concepts That Can Be Applied Over And Over Again In Similar Circumstances As Distinct From Narrow Answers To Specific Questions. Every Game Has Principles That Successful Players Master To Achieve Winning Results. So Does Life. Principles Are Ways Of Successfully Dealing With The Laws Of Nature Or The Laws Of Life. Those Who Understand More Of Them And Understand Them Well Know How To Interact With The World More Effectively Than Those Who Know Fewer Of Them Or Know Them Less Well.

You'll See That Excuses Like "that's Not Easy" Are Of No Value And That It Pays To "push Through It" At A Pace You Can Handle. Like Getting Physically Fit, The Most Important Thing Is That You Keep Moving Forward At Whatever Pace You Choose, Recognizing The Consequences Of Your Actions.

I Believe There Are An Infinite Number Of Laws Of The Universe And That All Progress Or Dreams Achieved Come From Operating In A Way That's Consistent With Them. These Laws And The Principles Of How To Operate In Harmony With Them Have Always Existed. We Were Given These Laws By Nature. Man Didn't And Can't Make Them Up. He Can Only Hope To Understand Them And Use Them To Get What He Wants.