The Secret. What Would Jung, Aristotle, Jesus Or Moses Say?
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I used to debate with my former girlfriend, a woman much more socially and finally successful than me, about the business principals to success. Though she did it, like me, the old fashioned way, made a plan and worked the plan and increased organizational skills along the way, she still believes there is some mystique and "laws of attraction" to it. Of course she is a Beverly Hills attorney, I, a cartoonist and e-tailer. Since the times of EST and other "thought mills", California has been a haven for slick re-packaged ancient scrolls disguised as "NEW"-AGE. She partly buys into it. I don't buy into it at all. Let me rephrase that. I do buy into it. I just happen to know it is nothing new except more slickly packaged and worded more for the proletariat.
Since I went back to school and studied Internet marketing, she always said I was better at it than she was. I am not so sure that is true. I spend more than half my day doing advertising and promotions and don't make nearly as much income as she does. She doesn't even have a website or advertise and people are always lined up at her office door. So who is the better marketer is a bit of a moot point. Her clients market for her via word of mouth. And it works well.
Being a Cancer (that remains my excuse), I naturally am less organized and more clumsy than my former Aries better-half (Gerald Ford was a Cancer...get the picture?). Her claim to fame is a monumental law firm on the most expensive property in the U.S. (possibly the world). My claim to fame is digital funny pictures on some expensive Internet property that may or may not make a lot of money, depending if I sell it or not. We both started small, she on a park bench after escaping her mother country and me in a metal rural Mississippi warehouse where 44 year old cartoonists, I guess, were considered "possessed" and nobody much wanted us for neighbors. I am also an inventor, writer, and student, but that is a whole other story.
Our lifestyles are a bit different. She drives a new Mercedes which she trades in every year. I have a 2000 Saturn which drives very well. You should see how it takes corners. Her Mercedes talks to her from the dashboard. My Saturn has not evolved to that level.
Her debate is one I hear often. "You don't think big. You need to learn to think big. I think it's an Arkansas thing!" That makes me laugh. I want to say, "Yeah, tell it to Sam Walton."
We differ in our opinions of "New Age". I have lived in Southern California so I realize all that is a way of life. But I also, hopefully, am savvy enough to realize that the majority of it is ancient biblical history, reworded ever so carefully, and packaged beautifully to make the new guru rich. And it works. And hopefully Oprah will endorse it, and the guru will live happily ever after.
Now there is nothing wrong with attracting wealth and good things for you and/or your family by praye and meditation. But there is nothing "New" about it. It is in both the Jewish and Christian Bibles and mentioned numerous times regarding the labors of attraction, prayer, and "ACTION". What seems to be left of a lot of the new age laws of attraction is the action part. If you've met someone who has sat on an easy chair for weeks, months or years, without moving a muscle, and suddenly his BVD Tee turned into an Armani Suit, his '57 Chevy Pickup into a new Lexus, please do let me know about it and I shall gladly edit or remove this article. The Kaballah (hardly New Age) but the mystical intrpretation of the Torah, still considered a bit controversial even in Judaism, has all the information in that is in the slick new age packaged goods. The big difference is that it is available for free. And the information is more precise and based on real spiritual dynamics, not on a spiritual guru's bank balance.
Suffice it to say, I when debating with a seasoned attorney about how to make income, I am not postured to win. A good cartoonist and etailer can make a good income, but we can't do tort about it when we don't.
Some of these new age gurus telling me to "live the dream" and "just imagine it" frankly makes me want to hurl (can I say that in print?), just speaking my mind. I live my reality. When I start living "my dream", I am out of focus and act in a manic way, as do most people who do their best to escape reality. I believe the secret is to live in one's reality, and keep your "eyes on the prize", that is, taking a glimpse of what that dream will be at the end a very hard work day. Hard work. That is what creates the dream. I wish it was not true. It is. Sorry.
But I have an ally. He's long gone now but his words live on in his writings; Carl Jung that is. Many people do not understand Jung's message and that's okay. I think it was because he was so interested in the spiritual and metaphysical side of things. So am I. But he, like I, am also interested in living in the now, enjoying the now, appreciating the struggle. For if not to appreciate the struggle, once the dream "happens", what's next? I don't want to keep living for "new dreams". I want to enjoy the ones I am living and gradually evolve into other ways of life, if they look health and positive for me.
Jung warns us that once we have achieved our dreams, we may not necessarily be 100% happy; in fact, he adds that we can almost count on that. That does not mean not to pursue happiness. It is part of our personal and national Constitution. It is just to realize that reality. We will always have problems and issues, no matter what.
I think the thing to do is "do what you like". For some people, the dream is money. Back when Nelson Rockefeller was one of the richest if not the world's richest persons, he was asked, "How much money is enough?" He answered, "Just a little bit more."
I worked in corporate America for two decades chasing the almighty dollar. I made a lot of them. I can assure you they did not buy me happiness, and, in retrospect, because I hated what I was doing for a living.
My dream is to do just what I love to do, and the money will come. Will it come immediately? I don't think so. Bill Gates money took years to compile as did Warren Buffet. The captains of industry stories are filled with failures and missteps before living the dream.
I have many wealthy friends, many middle class, many upper class, many lower class; I really don't find any of that important as a requisite for friendship. I love being around people who are doing things to try to improve themselves and others. If someone is out there just trying to make a lot of money, so be it. They bore me. If they are out there trying to provide the best service, product, or creative endeavor out there, and whether they make a pot of gold, or not, I will hang with them.
Each of us have different dreams.
Whatever your dreams and goals, try to forget some of the things our parents taught us. We now live in a "live and let live world". No more sales tactics. The ultra-sales gurus are old news.
Even though I am living my reality, I am also living my dream, not somebody else's. I have my own hours and I work at my own pace, which is twice as hard as any boss ever asked out of me. The difference is I love what I do. So my reality is a dream in many ways.
Thinking big can be a good thing, but measure your waist size first. Be sure it is not too big for your britches, and carry on, never misleading anyone. Do what you love to do. The money will follow so "they" say, and they have proven themselves right. Live someone else's "dream" and you may or may not make money, but its a moot point. One then has to ask him/herself, "Am I happy rich or not, living someone else's dream? The choice is yours. It really is.
Paupers and kings are both happy if they are true to themselves. Both are miserable if not.
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