Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: choices, commitment, contribution, Modevate, modevation, motivation, nick smith, NTS Modevations, percentage, possibilities, rich, wealth
If you want to have a visual of what wealth distribution looks like, picture the downtown area of a large city. There is generally an area of large, high-rise building clustered in one area. Spread out around it is a large city that spans out beyond these areas, in some cases as far as the eye can see. These city centers make up a small portion of the total city, generally 10% or 5% of the total city. The city centers have buildings of varying sizes and quality and the city’s around them host an array of average buildings that are nearly innumerable.
A small percentage of wealth is controlled by the masses. The largest portions of wealth are held by the minority. The wealthy generally outperform the poor by 90 to 95%. That means the wealthy poor, the middle class poor and the poor all work with about 5 to 10% of the wealth.
Those that break through to wealth will outperform their piers by upwards of 90%.
Both are choices. Being poor or being wealthy is a choice. Most people feel that all of the abundance that exists is already distributed. The beautiful thing about abundance is that when one pie run’s out, you just make another pie. There was no oil and transportation empire in the time of the Roman’s. There was no Bill Gates in J. Paul Getty’s time. Be open to the possibilities.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: action, champion, commitment, difference, expect, goals, idea, Modevate, modevation, motivation, nick smith, NTS Modevations, persist, persistance, pinnacle, succeed, success
Imagine a person with a great idea, a great new way of being or invention, coming to the top of a mountain. As they approach the pinnacle of success as they see it, they approach a large crowd of people who are all holding the exact same idea or invention. There is very little difference, if any between their inventions. They look at the dauntingness of all those people who are attempting the same thing.
There are certain people who would turn around and walk away. They would say to themselves, “It’s not worth the effort, I’ll do something else.” There are others who would fight the crowd for a little bit, mingle and explain why theirs is better than someone else’s. This person would fight, bicker and quarrel with those who are similar to them.
Then will come those who will push, one by one through the crowd until they become the champion of that idea or invention.
We live in a world where most people get stuck or give up. They either get stuck in the crowd or turn around and leave before they ever have a chance to stand out. Every idea has multiple recipients. Many receive them at the same time. Few of these recipients will actually push it through to its fruition. Most people would rather mingle in the crowd and fight for scraps or turn around and walk away before they ever begin.
Where do you fit in? Are you going to be the one who takes it through the crowd? Are you going to be the one that takes it to the forefront and receives the credit or are you the one that will mingles with the crowd or turns away before starting? It’s up to you. No one else can choose that for you. This is not an ability reserved for a select few. This happens by the individual choices you make.
Step up and through. Become the champion of the idea.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Battle, communicate, ego, fear, feel, inside, inspire, Modevate, modevation, motivation, nick smith, NTS Modevations, self, spirit, zero point
There’s never a battle against other people. The battle I wage every day is against myself to see what I can do to overcome my weaknesses, my challenges, my trials and they are heavy enough. So when I go out and attack someone else, it’s not about them! It’s about what’s going on inside my head, a constant battle between ego and spirit. This is something I’ll get to battle every day of my life.
I have one email and my reaction was to go into the fight or flight response, myriad ‘what if’ questions popped into my mind and I jumped into worst case scenarios. I know all of the teachings about internal fears (which is the only type of fear there is). I know that when a fear or worry comes into my mind from that point I am to step into zero point and choose another path. I don’t have to keep snow-balling it.
This is the battle I’m fighting. There is no war of I’m better than you. It’s a battle of being better than who I am currently. A battle of overcoming my internal dialogue. I have grown up teaching myself stories and justifications of why things are the way they are. Every man woman and child does this. Is there any wonder why there is such confusion in communication? Each dialogue is different. Not one of us will ever think exactly like the other. Therefore it is my privilege to allow others to believe how, who or what they may.
Erich Fromm, a world renowned social psychologist said it perfectly; “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make those people sane.” The ‘everybody is doing it, that’s normalcy’ mindset, doesn’t work in this world. This is where external battles form. We feel people should act ‘normal’ and work to force them into it. What if their normal is different than yours? Fix yourself and fix the world.
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Acting with purpose is stronger than working with intention. Intention literally means to pay attention to something. Purpose is defined as putting into place, fulfilling and doing according to design. When we purpose something, we not only pay attention to it as we do with intention, we also plot, plan and work diligently towards it’s attainment until it becomes what we originally envisioned it to be. As you set your goals, do it with purpose and then work your tail off to actualize it.
