01.28.08
Posted in Abundance at 12:40 am by BartonG
Note: Make sure to check out the companion article, 127 ways to a save little extra money coming soon.
I’ve been thinking about money matters a lot lately. Money is very important part of life - it’s silly to argue otherwise. Money is just as good as the food you eat, the schooling it provides, and the shelter it buys your family. Without a doubt, one of the biggest problems I see in peoples lives is their relationship to money. It’s such a shame too, because financial balance is key to allowing you to pursue your mission and passions in life.
Almost everywhere I hear the echo of the million dollar question ” How do I get rich?”, as it dribbles off the lips of the struggling, hopeful masses. The vain aspiration, “I want be a millionaire” irks me just about as much. To me, getting “rich” doesn’t matter and improving your financial situation isn’t just about making a huge sum money. For me, I want freedom to live, love and teach according to my own rules, not just have a gaudy pile of money. It’s about balancing the ratio of having the things that money can’t buy and many of the things it can.
With this in mind, here’s the elusively obvious secret to wealth : Read the rest of this entry »
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01.20.08
Posted in Musings at 1:24 am by BartonG
I’ve have the blessing and misfortune of being extremely curious. I’m always trying something new or tearing something apart see how it works - it’s just my nature. One of my favorite things to experiment with is the act of making money. As you may already know, I’ve done a wide variety of things to obtain it (see How to make $25 immediately and Secrets of the Abundant life). A while back, I bumped into www.Moola.com, a site that allows you to compete and win money by beating opponents and make money by subjecting yourself to advertising. It’s a blend of addictive time wasting games and an opportunity to make cash. Naturally it piqued me interest.
As I have found out, you can pull $10 checks from them every month,
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01.14.08
Posted in Book Reviews at 8:11 am by BartonG
When I joked that he seemed obsessed with women, he said, “What would you rather consider besides sex and death?”
Whoa.
My mind has just been blown. I picked up a copy of Wild Nights: conversations with Mykonos about passionate love, extraordinary sex, and how to open to God, on a whim but quickly got engrossed and read it cover to cover the night it came in the mail. I’ve read several other of his books and enjoyed them, but none of them are as intense, crude, and brash in sharing his unique flavor of wisdom. After I finished I felt like I had just bitten into the fruit David shares instead of just listening intellectually about it. It was raw, sour, clear. Aside from being fascinated by it’s audacity, I genuinely liked the book for what it said.
A word of warning for those with more puritanical sensitivities - you probably shouldn’t buy a copy. Then again, if you’re feeling unfulfilled in being mild and conservative, this may just be the shock to your system that the doctor ordered. In any case, it’s definitely for a mature audience.
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01.07.08
Posted in Musings at 11:59 am by BartonG
Road less traveled
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
- Robert Frost
Prologue
I’m striving to write with a flair for the uncommon and unique. With personal progression in mind, I want to revel in the overlooked, undiscovered, and the unpopular. I partially like to be weird and esoteric just for the sake of it, but I see an ever increasing need to NOT be one of the crowd of blogs.
I can hardly tell all of the self development articles apart. There isn’t much variety in style, content or ideology. I swear in the last year I’ve read about how to increase my productivity no less than three hundred times but felt like I read the same three articles a hundred times apiece. It’s the same for almost every topic. It’s like a horde of bloggers all jumped on one single self-improvement bandwagon, unaware that it was going in a circle.
With great pleasure, and with much gratitude, I offer a few old stories to warn and teach you. I perceive that as a whole, they’re rather out of vogue. Of course, in line with all good pirate treasure, I’ve buried them at the bottom of all my dirt. See below.
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