Nemesis

NEMESIS :- nem·e·sis Pronunciation Key (nm-ss) . pl. nem·e·ses (-sz):

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome...

YOUR Nemesis?

... Underachieving!

You could be forgiven for thinking, what with all the training about making money and all, that The Omniscience Principle is totally dedicated to it ... It’s not!

Neither is it all about personal development!

It's all about becoming free and being able to do what you want when you want.

To achieve this you do need to develop on a personal level and you most certainly need loads of cash!

I said at the beginning of The Omniscience Principle that you have to be mentally prepared and ready to surmount all the challenges associated with attaining Total Personal and Financial Freedom and up till now I have concentrated heavily upon this.

Even if you are well on the road, there will be people in your business (those who should be paying you on a regular basis) that aren’t and the company logo ‘No Road is Long With Good Company’ remains our bedrock.

We all start this expedition at differing stages of development ... but I intend for us all to develop as one.

From the outset I promised you that we are going to build multiple streams of income.

At this point, you should have many sources of income built through System Ultra K ... Bong, bong, bing bing. "We got Ca ash!!!"

You should, if you are motivated and have been following the training, be generating an income larger than your household bills. In other words, your life now should be your own ... you should be in a position to either leave your job if you still have one and concentrate on YOUR life, full-time or, have built upon your own self-generated income, be fully self-sufficient and growing.

If not, then worry not. Just re-double your efforts.

In the early days it took me a while to clarify what The Omniscience Principle was all about and exactly what our aims were. The Omniscience Principle has undergone many changes in its evolution into my New Religion

It started out as a multi-level marketing product, then it morphed business systems and self development. Now The Omniscience Principle is separate and here for all to take from it what they will.

At first I would tell people that it was a marketing company selling the very best information on the planet ... Then I began thinking that wasn’t the best description and there was more to it than that.

I changed tack and began telling people: "The Omniscience Principle is an intricate business with many facets, endless strings to its bow, it’s very complicated to explain and if you have fifteen to twenty minutes spare I will."

Bad move!

All I was doing was confusing others and myself. I knew what I wanted to say and what I wanted to achieve, but was having trouble solidifying the whirlpool of thoughts and ideas.

Then, I decided that The Omniscience Principle was the best way I had ever come across to help people achieve their dreams and ambitions. We had put together an amazing marketing and business plan. The rewards were there for anyone who wanted to go to work; the support programme was in place, one of the best I had ever seen, and there really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if you work towards it.

No longer do people who want to break free have to search for half a lifetime courting chance and fate. We have a system that, when mixed with the essential ingredients of grit and determination, works.

Nirvana - it’s there waiting for those who grasp the plan, embrace it, and set to work.

I would ask people: "If you really want the good life; if you don’t see yourself twenty years from now doing the same things you do now, how are you going to change your life? A job?"

No one ever became truly free in a job ... no one.

Some people get paid a good salary admittedly, but no one ever became truly free working for someone else.

"A job is what free people give those who are willing to sacrifice their own life's efforts to them."
(Another great quote from Me!!!)

A job can set the creator of it free.

Why anyone would renounce their own precious energy and talents for someone else is beyond me.

You only have one life; you only have a limited time here and no matter what you believe about life thereafter, once your time here is up, it’s up - finished, deceased, kaput.

You die and that’s that!

And you can never have your time over again; you can never go back and change the course you chose. There's not a God-damn thing you can do to rectify your mistakes.

All you've got is your time now, the hours minutes and seconds left till it's up and you're turned to dust - bloody hell, I'm getting all depressed now!

Did you know that the average working (job) father only sees his young children for thirty minutes a day?

Thirty bloody minutes!

It's the same if the roles are reversed and even harder for working mums. A parent kisses their family goodbye as they wake and leave for work, and kisses them goodnight as they return home.

I know it’s extremely hard when you first set up on your own, you will probably work even longer hours than if you were a salary slave. But generally, Cash Club members work from home and however frustrating it is when the little horrors won’t leave you alone to make your millions - you make the most of it and revel in their unconditional love and attention.

Once the kids have grown up and left, the house has settled quite and stilled, all the reminiscing and regretting about - 'how you missed those priceless moments your partner told you about.' They will never come to life again for you; you will never replace that lost time.

That’s no life at all is it?

There's a huge difference between existing and living.

Busy, busy, busy building a future for the family, so busy that by the time you’ve finished the children have all grown up and gone!

I have read and listened to many personal development gurus whose objective is to help fellow humans find happiness in their current situation - to be a better, more fulfilled person doing nothing more than they are already doing, and to be happy embracing underachievement.

This is a worthwhile cause and there is a welcome place for it. Many, many people decide to kid themselves that freedom is out of reach for them and therefore it is perfectly possible and acceptable to be content with what they have now. The gurus make a good living in this niche, they also find it a lot easier to achieve than what I am trying to do.

You see, the overwhelming majority of people are relatively happy with their lot already. I have worked on building sites where the lowest paid laborers are some of the happiest people I have met.

They are quite content with having very little, therefore teaching those people to find inner peace and harmony is bloody easy ... they’re already happy!

What the personal development gurus constantly overlook is yes, they have done a great job in showing that anyone can be happy doing more or less anything ... but there are those people who truly aren't content with mediocrity ... YOU AND I.

Ask any one of these people as they leave one of these personal development lectures, smiling from ear to ear, happy in the knowledge that ‘it really is possible to find happiness without money and its trappings;' ask them as they walk away, if they’d like a bigger house, or a nicer car, or to be able to take more holidays or even a holiday ... just watch how quickly that smile is wiped from their face!

Would they like to be able to spend more time with their friends and families and to be able to stop worrying about menial household bills - ask them and wait for an HONEST answer!

Ask them if they enjoy waking in the morning to an alarm as it orders them to work, ask them if they enjoy being told what to do with their life ... Ask them if: "deep, deep down are they truly content?"

Many will say yes, some won’t ... and the real truth?

Well, only they know!

Most personal development tutors are simply helping people to justify their own lack of achievement.

As I was writing this I began thinking about those people who find contentment in not having the trappings of wealth, those 'Green' people who go in totally the opposite direction and become self-sufficient ... those who opt for 'The Good Life' ... They provide everything for themselves, they don't need money ... do they?

There's a great TV programme running right now following the trials and tribulations of a family trying to go 'totally green'. They produce most of their own electric, they grow their own crops, they run their car on bio-diesel, they recycle everything, including heat ... it goes on and on.

They're a very happy family and seem really content not striving for wealth and just enjoying their time ... then I thought again!!!

This guy has bought and renovated a bloody great 18th Century farm with outbuildings, a stream, he has great swaths of land for his animals and crops, he's spending an absolute fortune getting set up as a 'New Age Greenie' ... believe me, it's not cheap providing for yourself. All the teenage kids help but the parents are still managing to provide an education through university.

It occurred to me that cash, and only great lumps of the stuff, enabled him to live his dream. The programme never mentions where he gets the money for all his wonderful projects from, it's all just 'magically' provided!

He's obviously already 'loaded'. Then, he's raking in the cash from actually making the programme - no wonder he's so damn happy! He's one of the rare people who've found Personal and Financial Freedom.

He's doing what he want's, when he wants ... BECAUSE HE CAN BLOODY WELL AFFORD TO!!!

You want Total Personal and Financial Freedom right?

Isn’t that why you began reading The Omniscience Principle?

My job, as I see it, is to drag people kicking and screaming out of that discontented state, to show them how others have found freedom and happiness and in doing so enable them to do the same. That is the goal ...

BUT, and it's a BIG BUT ... Though many people are striving for 'absolute freedom' they shouldn't confuse this with 'absolute contentment'.

Total contentment is supposedly what 'Personal Development' is all about. I believe it is another weapon in The Machine's armory designed to take our eye off the ball.

People are taught that it is better to be content with what they have, than to live miserably failing to achieve bigger and better things ... BUT they never achieve it. They don't because I don’t think there is any such thing as true, all consuming happiness and contentment, especially if you’re constantly pushing the barriers, which we are.

If people want to strive for happiness in underachievement then that's their prerogative ... I guarantee that in the quite darkness of that place before sleep, they often think about all the fabulous things they 'could' be doing!

As an Entrepreneur you'll have 'happy moments', times of great joy; ones that'll make you run round the garden jumping and shouting like a crazed maniac. You'll experience eruptions of adrenalin, dopamine and endorphins so intense you'll think your insides are about to blow out through your ears ... You'll want to give the whole wide world one massive hug and cover it in kisses ... but mostly you'll just be plain, little old you!

My job is to get you to a stage where you can do what you want, when you want.

Freedom is intangible and entirely subjective ... and a contradiction - only you know what level of income you'll be happy with and how much freedom you want to balance against it.

More freedom takes more cash, which in turn, brings it's own responsibilities and the bigger empire you build, the more it needs to maintain it.

You may dream of living in seclusion on a desert island - believe me it's not all it's cracked up to be - I've done it! You're not free in the least because you're mind keeps spinning and the frustration of not being able to action those thoughts is oppressive.

You need to mark your line in the sand; you need to define your borders ... $1000 a week or $10,000 a week - Your choice!

This is what I've defined as a 'realistic' state of Total Personal and Financial Freedom. 'Achieving YOUR goals.'

Happiness? Now there's a different ball-game all together!

When The Machine says "money can't buy you happiness," it's right in a way because it simply can't be bought. What it does buy is freedom and a far greater opportunity to find it!

After all, how are you ever going to find happiness in a job you've ben doing for the last twenty years, surely you'd have found it a long time ago? Get the cash, get free and you can at least a chance of finding it!

As I was writing this section an e-mail came in from someone I admire and who works hard at his internet business.

In his newsletter, by sheer coincidence, he was discussing the very subject of 'Internet Freedom'. I've reproduced a little of it here for your enjoyment and to get others' perspectives:

Is Internet marketing just another JOB?

There was a thread on my forum this week in which a few members were discussing how many hours they spent working on their online businesses.

A handful of members admitted to putting in over 40 hours per week working online and I have to say, this is not uncommon. When I first started my Internet businesses, it was normal for me to work into the early hours and then grab a couple of hours sleep before getting up to squeeze another hour in before I went to my real job. When I left my job and went full-time, my hours online increased dramatically.

Even today (when so many of my day to day tasks are automated) I still work a minimum of 35 hours a week and this can rise to over 100 hours if I have a specific project on the go. It's not just me - you will find that most successful online marketers work some serious hours, probably many more than they ever did in any 'proper' job.

So is this online business thing just a big con? By setting up a successful Internet business are you merely committing yourself to a different type of job? Possibly yes but at least you get to do things on your own terms :-)

By pure coincidence, I noticed another thread in a completely different forum this week in which someone was asking a very similar question but in a slightly different way. The lady in question had given herself a target of earning (from memory) $2000 a month from her online business efforts.

The last couple of months she had hit this target one or two days before the end of the month. This month however, she had already made the $2000 by the 18th. Her question was simply this, 'What do I do now? Do I continue working/promoting in order to earn more money or do I take the rest of the month off?' It's a fair question - whenever anyone talks about working online, they nearly always state that they can take as much time off as they want and the 'Internet lifestyle' dictates that once you have earned your salary for the month, you should spend the rest of the month lying on a beach somewhere!

Of course, it doesn't happen like this and although it would be nice to stop working on the 18th each month, it makes more sense to 'make hay while the sun shines' and continue pulling in the money. At the end of the day, every penny that you earn today puts you closer to complete retirement (as long as you are doing sensible things with some of your money such as saving and investing!)

One of the responses to the above post was a great little story which I have heard before and I thought I would share with you. It will give you something to think about and will help focus your mind as you set goals and targets in respect of your business and your life in general...

One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.

About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family.

"You aren't going to catch many fish that way" said the businessman to the fisherman, "you should be working rather than lying on the beach!"

The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, "And what will my reward be?"

"Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!" was the businessman's answer.

"And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman, still smiling.

The businessman replied, "You will make money and you'll be able to buy a boat which will then result in larger catches of fish!"

"And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman again.

The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman's questions. "You can buy a bigger boat and hire some people to work for you!" he said.

"And then what will my reward be?" repeated the fisherman.

The businessman was getting angry. "Don't you understand? You can build
up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!"

Once again the fisherman asked, "And then what will my reward be?"

The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, "Don't
you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach looking at the sunset. You won't have a care in the world!"

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said...

"And what do you think I'm doing right now ??"

Richard Grady

It’s one of the world’s great contradictions: How can you be content if you always want more?

Even those who find a measure of solace, want to be 'more' content!

Buddhist monks strive for a whole life trying to achieve 'perfect' inner peace and I reckon they all die before they find it!

Once a person has fought their way to the top, they rarely suddenly stop being motivated. They don’t cross the finish line and say: "I’ve arrived!"

This doesn't happen because you never actually arrive anywhere on this journey.

What happens is you attain certain levels of success but there is no end ... not until 'THE END' anyway. I can tell you this now because you are far enough along your success road not to be put off.

I always thought that once I'd got my first $million something would magically happen - I'd suddenly be overwhelmed by a state of everlasting euphoria - but let me tell you now, it doesn't happen; life goes on ... which is a good thing as even euphoria would get monotonous after a while!

You feel great once you achieve Total Personal and Financial Freedom, granted but the rewards are everyday ones and even 'Total' Personal and Financial Freedom is open to interpretation because there's always something more you want that you can't have right now - but this is what has driven you this far and what will continue to push you on to bigger and better things.

I remember watching an interview with an actress who'd recently won an Oscar (can't for the life of me remember who it was!!!). She'd got to the very pinnacle of her ambitions and she was saying that her greatest surprise was that there was "life after the Oscar"

Fighting is an intrinsic component of any high achieving personality. Once one ambition is ticked off the 2do list, these people generally channel their energies in a different direction.

Another paradox:

Top achievers won’t be happy if they stop fighting...

...so fighting and all the battles, struggles and heartache this brings is intrinsic to their contentment; being on the edge and not happy makes us happy - don't worry, I'm confusing myself now too!

The reason a person finds it so difficult to be content is because we are biologically hard-coded to compete!

Modern man only exists thanks to millions of years of strife and toil – competition was the driving force behind evolution and fueled our development. That instinct isn’t going to disappear overnight!

We undergo a complete physiological change when we accomplish something. When we win our bodies release a chemical of pleasurable cocktails – testosterone, endorphins and others.

We are programmed to fight sedentary.

Conversely, if the feeling of success is exhilarating, the feeling of defeat is devastating.

When we lose or do not achieve, our bodies release a different set of chemicals far more powerful than the pleasure inducing ones. The feeling of utter despair when you lose is so potent it drives right to the hippocampus – a primitive part of the brain that is at the core of our personality.

This bodies' reaction is designed to stop us pushing ourselves to the limits and is a survival mechanism. It is an instinct in place to ensure we stay safe!

When George Forman lost to Mohammed Ali in that legendary Rumble in the Jungle he was devastated.

He didn't box for a very long period.

Can it be 25 years since Ali and Foreman created one of the great spectacles of sport under a pale African moon in Kinshasa, Zaire? A quarter of a century since Ali scored one of boxing's most magnificent upsets, crafting a brilliant strategy of inertia against the younger, stronger world heavyweight champion? Twenty-five years since the Oct. 30, 1974 fight when Ali regained the title with the world in his corner?

Yes, yes and yes.

"I may have lost that fight, but I learned a lot from it."

Old George had to dig so deep to recover from that fight and his bodies 'survival mechanism' hit harder than Ali ever did!

The point of making defeat such an unpleasant experience is that you've generally being trying to do something you're body wasn't designed for so it's releasing depressants in the hope you won't do it again!!!

Getting smacked around a ring by 250lb punching machine is not a healthy thing to do. The problem is that, although we have evolved, our primitive instincts haven't.

Losing a business deal now can be just as upsetting for modern man as losing a fight with a mammoth for the Neanderthal ... if he survived!

It takes a herculean effort to pick yourself up and try again once you've lost.

So you're now beginning to see now just how colossal the wave is; just how highly stacked the conspiracy to fail is, the enormity of the task you face to overcome all these barriers to success?

Or wiring dictates that we will never forget the dejection and desolation experienced by underachieving, which is why when most people fail they don't want to go back there again.

BUT if you're made of the right stuff the bodies' 'failure' safety net can be turned against itself. Most people give in and because the feeling of failing is no nauseous they don't wish to experience it too often. Others, people like you and I, have a totally different reaction, we learn to thrive on it. We strive to succeed so as not to experience the feeling.

Like George Forman we dig deep and overcome our demons. George has gone on to amazing success. He's is so commercially hot the phone and fax machine in his Beverly Hills agent's office rarely stop ringing. There are those Meineke Muffler advertisements, the Forman grill that has sold millions of units, dozens of kitchen products, a cookbook and an animated television show. An Italian cruise line wants to name one of their ships' restaurants after him.

Both men were well-known at the time, but they became even huger characters after that, Twenty-five years later, they are bigger than they were then. Which is bizarre. Think about it. When it was time for Foreman to disappear, he didn't. When it was time for Ali to walk off into the sunset, he didn't, either.

Twenty-five years later, they both remain huge figures. Who would have thought that could happen?

Indeed, Foreman, the brooding champion, has become a genial giant of a pitchman. Going to school not only on Ali's ring strategy, but his personal style, Foreman is, according to agent Henry Holmes, "making more money than God."

Winners thrive by being on the edge, seeking out those deals, their heart quickens and the blood pulses each time a transaction goes through.

Achieving is an addiction ...

Almost exactly 20 years after Ali stood flat-footed against the rings and let Foreman punch himself out, Foreman knocked out a younger Michael Moorer to regain the championship he had lost to Ali, a record 20 years in between titles.

But, as I said, for the vast majority of the population it is not, they get their kicks in other ways.

A study carried out on shell-shocked lottery jackpot winners found that one of the biggest problems they had was coming to terms with their new life. What a problem to have, you might say!

People who do the lottery generally aren't high-achievers who live for the deal and make their own way in life. As a rule, they are people who have nine to fives and pin all their hopes and dreams on 'The Numbers'.

They believe they are doing the lottery for the money ... they're not!

After the win, many found they were less happy than they were before.

Once the euphoria of banking that huge cheque had dissipated; once they had got through the great spending spree, winners then settled down to a new routine in a new, alien life, only now there was nothing to look forward to!

They had all the trappings of success but experienced none of the Success Journey - overnight someone just gave them everything they 'thought' they wanted without the myriad of feelings that accompany achieving them.

The win had taken the buzz out of their lives.

It was not the win that altered the state of mind and released the endorphins, but the anticipation of winning - this would send the brain neurons into overdrive.

The lottery authorities always send in their consultants to counsel big winners. They spend a lot of time outlining just why the big win and especially the money, isn't as fulfilling as they'd hoped.

Previously, they got their kicks out of DOING the lottery and checking for the numbers to come up, most weren't actually doing the lotto for the rewards and freedom the money would bring to their lives.

in fact, most hadn't even thought that part through.

They help them re-establish their former equilibrium. The way they achieve this is to teach the lucky buggers to set new goals, ones that will put the zing back in their lives so they can thrive on the anticipation of achieving a new and different goal.

The study also showed that other people were more than happy with their Lottery $Millions!!!

Achieving is what's addictive, not the end game.

My job is to help you achieve Total Personal and Financial Freedom; to give you the best chance of getting as close to it as you can, to convince you all that mamby, pamby, bullshit about how you can be happy with the life you have now is true to a degree, but … is a complete cop out.

True contentment - there's no such thing. You are who you are and will be throughout life.

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