Elegant Solutions

Dear Peter,

There is no way I or anyone else can help you
with your marketing unless you are willing to divorce or murder your wife.

Gary C. Halbert

You know, I can hear a bunch of you laughing at my
advice... and... I must admit it is somewhat humorous. But, you know what else?
It's dead on correct.

There is no way in the world "Peter" is
ever going to achieve any of his dreams as long as the most significant person
in his life is a woman which should be thought of as "Negativity On
Steroids".

Often, my seminar attendees bring their wives with
them. Not always, but usually, I feel sorry for these men. The real
reason these wives are there is to "protect" their husbands from
becoming too excited or too enthusiastic about doing something which will make
him (and her too) a lot of money. These wives feel it's their job to hold their
husband's feet to the ground and make sure he never makes an attempt to fly
toward his dreams.

Of course "Negativity On Steroids" is
not limited to females. Whenever I'm in a brainstorming session and everyone's
hurling out one idea after another, inevitably, some guy pops up and says, "Let me play the Devil's Advocate. What if this (always a bad
thing) happens?"

You know what I do at that point? I very bluntly
insist I will no longer continue brainstorming if that particular person is
allowed to remain in the room. Why? Because the people I've just described, the
"Negativity On Steroids" type people, are in my opinion, the worst
kind of criminals in all humanity. I identify them as...

"Dream Thieves"!

There is nothing more valuable a person can steal
from you than your dreams.

Thank God not all "Dream Thieves" are
successful. If they were, we wouldn't have electricity, radios, televisions,
automobiles, telephones, computers, cell phones, or any of the luxuries of
civilization we have today. No, "Dream Thieves" would still have us
living in dank, dark, freezing caves trying to convince us how
"dangerous" it would be for us to leave that miserable environment...
and... go out into the warm, inviting sunshine.