Cut down entertainment. Instead, exercise, meditate. Spend time in solitude. Notice the simpler pleasures of life.  Behind a highly successful company, a best-selling book, is a person – who battled uncertainty, but showed up anyway. So many people think that an ordinary job is beneath you. But in actuality, this is why they stay broke. The dignity of work is sacred.

This is the force that produces birth. Regain your spirit by helping others. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. A good garden will always have weeds that will keep us working.  An easy life will lead to delusion an unhappiness. A life without challenge is a life without worthy contribution. Learn that a useful life is a challenging life. 

 

Time does not heal the wound but we can grow a scar. The greatest strength is the one that affects courage and drive. It is our duty to function again – if not for ourselves, but for others. We can recover from anything because we must. Tragedies are only tragic when they become excuses.

 

 

“A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” We ignore the whisper of our soul in the comfortable life. Only nature can produce a seed and make it grow. When you doubt with the unknown, you doubt yourself. 

 

Money grows from the seeds of desire, backed with faith and ever changing plans. You must keep it growing with daily impact hours or it will eventually wither and die. Wealth seeds are the path to financial freedom.

 

The Wealthy Gardener warns against pursuing your own passion [same with Cal Newport’s book So Good they can’t Ignore you] because it leaves you the notion that you’re suppose to feel happy and easy. The important work is in reality UNEASY, CHALLENGING. That’s what makes it worthy. 

 

The key to wealth building is patience. Look at nature. The nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. The season of reaping will have its time. Be patient.

 

Another word for complicated is unfamiliar.

 

“Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.” – Theodore Roosevelt. Do not pray for easy life. A good garden will always have weeds that will keep us woking. In the depths of winter lies within me an invisible summer. WE must only outlast the season. Universal intelligence operates through serendipity.  Love. Practice simplicity and humility and don’t worry about the opinion of the worlds. “A mighty oak was once a little nut who stood its ground.” What is the alternative of of pursuing a worthy cause? Do something extraordinary on your time.

 

“Be courteous to all, but be intimate with a few. And let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.” – George Washington

 

If you desire to be wealthy then guard your mind against susceptible negative influences and focus on your goal. Do we work more hours to pay for our bill this month, or do we work more hours to build our fortune?

 

 

Remarkability is an impression worthy of remark due to a rare quality or standing out by surprise. If you’ve never experience the joy of achieving something you cannot imagine, plant a garden. Meeting expectations earns a paycheck. But surpassing expectations gains / earns upward mobility.

 

To be remarkable, thing about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel. Doing something unexpected in a small business is vital.

 

Being remarkable in a corporate setting is key to get into higher position. Volunteer to do more work, ask the boss what needs to get done. The opposite of relevance is remarkable. Be so good they can’t ignore you, says Steve Martin. All growth requires resistance. So push past hard. Mediocrity is the hardest life of all and its not for you. Your goals will be beyond trials that others won’t bear. Be glad that they are hard because that means you can win. Your critics will be silenced by the show of your discipline. 

 

Happiness equals direction. Direction in life comes from discipline. Do what you resist. Glory is found beyond comfort. Go for failure. Challenge your current capabilities. Pain is an ally that eliminates the weak. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.