Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Difference between the successful and the unsuccessful
Difference between the successful and the unsuccessful
We are all equal in God’s eyes and we all have equal rights given by Him, not by State. That said, this is where equality ends - whether between the rich and poor, or the educated and the ignorant, or the advantaged and the disadvantaged. From this point forward, it is up to the individual to protect his rights and protect his ability to achieve success. In doing so, he protects the rights of all. In the last 100 years and more so recently, we have failed in this basic mission and allowed others to re-define our rights and control our ability to live free.
If you must pay someone, anyone, just to live, you are no longer free. Just like your exclusive and irrefutable right to property, real or tangible. This is a fundamental right of all free men. Here’s an example to illustrate my point:
If you don’t pay your property taxes, see how long you own it. I give you three years maximum before it is sold on the courthouse steps. So. Do you really own it, or are you a tenant for the State? Is that freedom? I doubt it. So, the term “Success” must be defined to frame this discussion.
Success to me is “the realization of a complete and satisfactory life.” You can be a success at any age, so the measure must be more than monetary. Success is not measured in money, even though people equate money to success. It is not measured in “how much stuff you have” - for stuff meets no meaningful human need - like to be loved, appreciated, respected, liked, or admired. Material things (Stuff) is an illusion of success, used as a visible tool to show the difference between classes. To me, success is a feeling of satisfaction in life, more than any tangible measure. Success is also the realization of things other people cannot do who must work to live - such as spend time with your children, work on projects your passionate about, enjoy travel, support missions you care about and help the efforts of others become successful. Is this not the reason people work 40 years of their life just to retire and have these abilities? Would it not be nice to have those abilities a lot sooner in life? I believe anyone can.
So, when we say “successful” here, I am going to limit my focus to the empirical monetary vein…as I believe this is the focus of most people's question, not the spiritual or ethereal stuff.
In a free society, men are free, economically, politically and spiritually. They are free to use these freedoms to improve their lot in life, pray, or vote to name a few. Their government supports these freedoms and protects the rights granted by God. The degree which their government takes away from the fruits of their labor is the limit of their freedom - meaning the more they keep, the more choices they have, the less they keep, the less choices they have. Less choices mean a lower standard of living. More government, less choice, less freedom. It’s that simple.
The difference between the successful and the not successful (measured in secular world terms) is that “the successful” people (when self-made) are willing to do the things that the successful are not. Sounds trite, but it's true. The most outstanding of these differences are:
They are willing to delay gratification.
They live well under their means.
They make money work for them, (i.e. generate more money), instead of spending it for luxury goods and services.
They are generous and truly help others when possible.
They create long and short-range plans, they budget and work their plan.
They look for opportunities (a competitive advantage or new ways of doing things) and then seize them.
They are not afraid to fail and try again.
They network with their peers and surround themselves with friends and colleagues who are more successful than they are.
They are diligent and don’t give up in the face of opposition or tragedy.
They live - not for the love of money, but for the love of the process of making money.
These are the things which make the successful, successful, and the unsuccessful, unsuccessful using world measurement terms.
Parents are just as capable of creating an entrepreneur, as they are in wrecking the hopes of one very young in life. Very early on in a child's life they must be taught the concept of delayed gratification as satisfying a child's immediate wants (not needs) results in the child which does not know HOW to be successful. They must be encouraged to try again. They must be allowed to drive towards their passions, whatever they might be, as long as they hurt no living thing. They must be supported later in life towards those passions, but not so much that the victory will have no meaning. No one gets to be a success without the help of others. No one. And no one becomes a terminal welfare recipient, unless they choose to remain one. Success is hard work, and some choose not to work hard and let someone else (you and I) pay for their life’s needs. Bad decisions do not need to be rewarded. Nor should they exist without consequence. If we feed ourselves, we are successful. If we provide for our basic needs, we are successful. If we achieve enough to help others, we are also successful.
The successful and the unsuccessful will always be polarized by the differences in their attitudes to the above list. If they shared the same attitudes and beliefs, then they would be “like life travelers” on the same journey. They would undoubtedly find ways to cooperate and help each other achieve their goals, mutual and individual.
Jim Rohr
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
How high can the Market go? Ask the FED.
A critically important chart on "the effect of stimulus on Stock Market Value."
What it says:
As long as the Gov continues to "print money", (stimulus, whatever name keeps you from bringing pitchforks to Washington), the market will soar....and soar well. The traders and heavy hitters are making a killing...25K, 30K, 35K DJI Market
Printing is not going to stop...it can't stop, until it's over....i.e. "worthless dollars measuring ever increasing value of tangible goods and labor - hard assets" - not securities - I mean derivatives which have no intrinsic value and are actually insurance policies on security risk.
Welcome to the BIG RESET. Then your 401K (35 years of saving for the BIG DAY-RETIREMENT) is toast....would you like that super dark or carbon burnt?
Grow a pair and get out now. Use CARES ACT to bypass the 15% early withdrawal tax liability. Invest in silver, gold and Bitcoin. But this is not trading advice and you should do your own research.
Or continue to "ride that baby" all the way to the beach....read that as "my portfolio is actually dry sand."
To all sheeples: Here's your next little $1200-1400 FREE stimulus check....feel better now....as citizen retirement wealth is being set up to be raped to its very core?
...meanwhile billions, if not trillions, are being made. Just ask Mr. Gates and Mr Bazos.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
The Greatest Gift of all is "Truth"
(Famous Painting: Time saving truth from falsehood)
The Problem: Our world suffers from a lack of truth.
Are you reading and seeing truth, or are you reading and seeing force attempting to make a lie seem like truth? Truth is power in itself and requires no outside force to be true - be it gun, repeated sayings, violence or force to be true. Force is "an attempt" to move a non-truth, a lie, or half-truth into the more powerful position held by truth. Non-truths are always discovered and so is the motivations behind the spreading of lies.
The easiest first way to spot a non-truth, lie or deception is to ask yourself: Is it true (or good) for all? For something to be true, it must be true for ALL - anything else is propaganda, advertising, manipulation, opinion, or even conjecture.
The second question which leads to an well-founded answer is to discover the real motivations behind the statement you are hearing or the words you are reading.
What is the motivation for the projection of words? Is it to help or hurt someone? Is it to lift someone up or tear them down? Is it to self aggrandize or to provide needed wisdom? You get the point. Someone's motivation reveals all.
So as the tongue reveals a person's mind, someone's actions reveal their heart. Are you listening or watching? Hopefully both as one confirms the other. This is the reason why politics is a useless means to lift society as a whole. Far better to use the truth tests and be able to say "this Bill is good for all." Most are not good for all - and some only benefit a very select few, always at the expense of the many. The list is endless and your world is a direct result of failing to hold people accountable for truth. It is still going on and some have "drank so much kool aid they couldn't spot truth if it knocked on their door." They fail to ask the hard questions for they don't want to know the answer or are happy believing distortion. Either way it speaks volumes to the lack of their personal integrity - and the weakness of their character.
The same can be said for the News Media. They no longer seek truth. They seek agendas. Agendas which have been revealed to be so one sided, so diabolical, that their form of "the news" is pure propaganda with sinister agendas. I am surprised "good people who value the truth" have not tarred and feathered them out of town for their lies. In an earlier time, good people would have made an example of the outliers. banned them from the tribe and shunned or rebuked them into submission or repentance. Nowadays the liers receive medals.
The third test is something I am working on mastering and I am making solid progress thanks to God and a book called "Power and Force" by Dr. David Hawkins.
This test is both spiritual and physical. The spiritual side is what some people call "the still small voice of the Holy Spirit." The physical side is based on advanced kinesiology - as it appears that one can ask God of the universe "for the absolute truth of something, and get an instant physical reply. I have done it and got positive results.
Getting a direct physical feedback for "asking about the truth of something or a Yes/No question" can be very powerful. It could keep you from making a million dollar (or) life degrading mistake. It can lead into the right business, a job change, a physical move or keep you from starting the wrong business, getting involved with the wrong person, etc. It can help you choose.
I wish I had mastered the process 17 years ago. It would have saved me a recent anguish. I will master it - for it will direct my steps in my immediate future and my remaining years. I will teach it to my son.
By now we all should know that "Truth is the foundation to all knowledge." All knowledge worth knowing is based on truth. The best gift we can give someone is knowledge based on truth. Who wants to share or learn a bunch of lies or altered truths? The simple answer is "people with an agenda" or "Parrots who have nothing better to do with their time."
Back to the motivation. No agenda - high possibility of truth. Lift people up? Likely a good source of truth.
These are the lessons we need to teach our young and demand from those around us. Our high integrity should demand only truth enter our world. If it is not truth, then we should shun away from it, or expose it for what it is, or send them away. Lies. Lies are still lies and have no place in my world. How about yours?
This Christmas we need truth as our anchor in the storm. That truth is God was born, taught truth to scholars as a child, talked about His Father, His Home in Heaven, His Purpose and His Motivation for coming here - to die on a wooden cross so we could know the truth of eternal salvation and receive the Holy Spirit. High motivations that only the God of the Universe and all mankind could muster.
Ask yourself the three (3) tests and see if you can spot a lie in God's Holy Bible. I can't - and no one (not scolar, scientist or profit) has proven otherwise in 2020 years.
I would say that qualifies as truth in a world where real truth is like gold....scarce.
Share Truth...start right here.
(Copyright 2020 Jim Rohr - All rights reserved)
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Alan Greenspan - The truth behind gold and silver...and now cryptocurrencies.
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights."
-- Alan Greenspan, "Gold and Economic Freedom" in Ayn Rand, ed., Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Penguin Group, 1967), 101-108
If Cryptocurrencies are a store of value - read that as "an undefyable store of labor and production" - then the new frontier to store wealth is Cryptocurrencies....in addition to the tried and true store of value - gold and silver.
Rome devalued its currency (once gold, silver and bronze). That devaluation caused the real demise of the Roman Empire - in spite of what you were taught in school by "State sanctioned history books." Here in the U.S. and across the globe, we are on the same path. Fiat debt based dollars will lose value over time. It's a mathematical fact and speaks volumes to "those who were charged by the Constitution to protect our currency" - Congress. When was the last time you heard or a bill let alone for a Congressional cry to revert to Gold and silver? Stimulus is a means to hold up prices which would normally deflate due to technological advance. I rest this point.
Folks. When you create "something from nothing" - dollars - and charge interest on its creation - the debt based note can never pay off the interest on that debt - for the interest was never included in its creation. There is not enough money in the world to cover the debt AND interest.
Further, those who control the perceived value - the value measured as the store of labor and production - will spend that value like drunken sailors. Have you seen the national debt lately 21 Trillion and counting? Debt is exponential in nature without an external control regulating spending - gold, silver, crypto.
In the end, all fiat debt based "dollars" will revert through inflation to their natural intrinsic value - the value of paper. On the other hand, gold and silver will rise and so will locked mined crypto. "What's in your wallet" will take on a new meaning as people just like you and me run for a solid store of value. Our lifeboat during inflationary times is to move everything we can into a solid asset foundation...away from the falling dollar.
Lastly, "Property Rights" are core to this discussion. Money, assets and intellectual property all fall under property rights. The end goal of the DS is you will own nothing and rent (or be given because you serve a purpose) the right to use them - providing your contribution to society or DS end goals is deemed needed.
The rest, well...they are simply not needed and are a burden on the NWO system.
Jim Rohr
Rohr: Why Crypto's will beat the dollar - Comments to a Motley Fool chat with Mr. Matt Frankel
Hi. Jim Rohr here.
Pay close attention. I hope you learn something here as I did.
I am commenting to the cut copy below which are comments by Mr. Matt Frankel, posted as a chat dialogue on The Motley Fool.
It will make sense I promise. Read my comments and then read the chat with my comments in mind.
Point 1 - Value is determined by scarcity, and demand. The more of either the higher the perceived or real value. In both cases one could make the argument that some coins are going to be in demand and some not. Market cap and trading volume are indicators of what others think. Follow the trends.
Point 2 - In the end it will be like all markets - a 3-4 person race. Look at rental cars as an example but others could be sited. There is Hertz as #1 and then there's everyone else. Market share will be divided by the leaders...the rest playing catch up. Or phones. Samsung, Apple and everyone else - Nokia, LG and Motorola.
Point 3 - The "hidden message" here in his comment is simply this: Dollars can be manipulated because they require a custodian - the FEDRES and US Treasury. AND the value of a dollar as to spending power is falling and has since its creation in 1913. This is why you can't afford the new _______________. Not so with Crypto. No custodian and no market manipulation per se. As in Point 1, crypto is scarce and the market is saying we (the market and consumer) need an electronic payment system in an electronic world. If you are holding cash be prepared to have it eaten away to almost worthless in the next year. It's lost half its value in the last 10 years. That's your 401K spending power being absorbed. Concerned yet? Pay rising to match the 50% loss - measured at 0.7% per month? I doubt it.
Welcome to the new world of "the store of value."
In one camp is gold and silver. In the other is Crypto. In the third is the dollar. If you are holding the first two, your good. If your holding the latter in an inflationary cycle, you're well - betting on deflation - and that my dear friends is a fool's bet. (Think - a dollar buys more during deflation. Get it. So what's the opposite condition? Dollars don't buy squat in an inflationary condition. Think - inflation = cheaper payoff of debt. Who has the most debt? Right. Got it.)
(Jim Rohr 2020)
Frankel: Well, as far as mainstream adoption as a currency, there's two use cases, there's adoption as a currency and, kind of, as a store of value. So, as a currency, I see three main obstacles to really mainstream adoption of bitcoin. One, it's very volatile. You don't want to buy a type of currency that could be worse twice or half as much in a week. And if you don't think bitcoin could do that, look at some of the charts from the past few years, bitcoin can go up or down by a few thousand dollars in a week. So, that's another thing, the volatility scares people away.
No. 2, there are too many cryptocurrencies [laughs] and it's easy to make a new one. So, when I was checking just before we were on the show, there are over 4,100 active cryptocurrencies right now. I mean, most of them aren't big, but there are a lot of big ones. There's over 10 that have a $1 billion market cap or higher. There's a lot of cryptocurrencies out there, and it's pretty easy to, for institutions if they want to, to make their own. So, the idea of bitcoin at first was one central currency, but if there are 4,000 of them [laughs] floating around, it's not really that... it defeats the purpose.
And No. 3, as you mentioned, there are some really easy ways to pay with [laughs] U.S. dollars right now with a lot of these fintech innovations. I mean, I tap my wallet on a card reader at some places now and I could make a payment. I mean, U.S. dollars aren't that tough to use anymore. So, in my mind, for bitcoin to get mainstream acceptance, it needs to do something that you can't do with dollars, which I get that there's a lot of use cases for international money transfer and stuff like that, but between volatility and the fact that there's literally thousands of them. And the innovations in dollar-based fintech, I really can't make the mainstream use case myself.
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