It was 1957 and the Silhouettes put out a song destined to make rock and roll history, GET A JOB. It was a catchy doo wop song, meaning it contained lots of sha na na, dip dip dip, and mum mum mum vocalizations, with very few actual lyrics such as:

Every morning about this time
She gets me out of my bed a-crying
‘Get a Job’

I wonder how many teenagers and younger kids were programmed by that song with the message that they were lazy and useless without a job. Before the Silhouettes were even formed, Rick Lewis had written the song, inspired by the constant nagging of his mother after he got out of the service and didn’t want to go right into the job market. She kept saying, over and over again, “Get a job!”

How much more nurturing and effective a message it would have been had the song been titled, Get a Life! One of the core reasons for high unemployment is that millions of people are under the mistaken notion that the key to success and symbol of making it in our society is to have a job. That is changing in that the ranks of the self-employed are steadily growing, but obviously some people are still stuck in the ancient paradigms.

When I wrote my longest chapter in Moneylove, the one I called Worklove, I wasn’t referring to just work that involved having a job. In fact, I have consistently pointed out that by working for someone else, you allow them to obtain more of the benefits of whatever you produce than you yourself enjoy.

What triggered this post was an email I received today from a woman who complained about the fact that for many years she has not been able to find satisfactory jobs. She says, “The ‘good jobs’ seem so invisible to me.”

I am, of course, not suggesting all jobs are unfulfilling poverty traps. Some can be uplifting, rewarding, and allow people to manifest their highest purpose. It’s just usually so much easier to have all of these aspects of doing the right work brought forth by working for yourself instead of someone else. There is no doubt some people are better at jobs than at creating their own employment. But I would suggest that today’s correspondent and millions of others should have gotten the message after decades of disappointment that a job is not their particular path to prosperity and contentment.

When I hear the high unemployment figures, I don’t want to know how many people are out of work or have stopped looking. What I am curious about is how many of those individuals actually lost jobs they loved, jobs that creatively fulfilled them, jobs that truly paid them what they were worth in money and other benefits. How many of those lost jobs are actually worthy of crying over?

One of the best gurus in this whole new paradigm is Barbara Winter. Her blog has some great posts on being joyfully jobless.
http://www.joyfullyjobless.com/blog

In one of those posts titled “8 Delightful Lessons Self-employment Can Teach Us,” Barbara cites a profound reason to let go of the job mentality, “Personal responsibility is heady stuff.” To those who haven’t yet tried taking that responsibility for their own employment, I suggest, “You have no idea!”

My temporarily final thought on all of this,

Being on your own is all about owning your own being.

Jerry

One of the primary foundations of any success we have in life is a curious, active, and always expanding mind. You don’t retire from being a creative thinker.

Chances are there are opportunities for a major booster shot to your imagination all around you. So here is the exercise I propose:  Imagine that you will be leaving the geographic area where you now live permanently in the near future. Now look around and think about what resource or adventure or fascinating sight or site is nearby that you have never yet explored. And simply go there, perhaps spend a day soaking it in. Living, as I do, in the San Francisco Bay area, for me that might be a visit to the campus at Stanford University, or taking a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, or spending a day in Santa Cruz, which I hear is lovely, but have never visited. Suppose, for some reason, I decide to relocate in Central America and never come back this way again. What would I regret never having done or seen?  There are neighborhoods in San Francisco itself I have never walked around, which is a shame in what many consider the best walking-around city in the world.

Just the other day, I had dinner with a new friend who lives in a neighborhood I had never known existed before. It’s known as Cow Hollow, for the dairy farms that used to be plentiful in the good old days. Her home was originally owned by her great-grandparents and has a magnificent view of the bay. I’m sure there are other parts of the city equally interesting and perhaps downright breathtaking. When is the last time your breath was taken away by some new place you visited or came upon? This is what keeps us young and alive, and what stimulates that part of our brains that helps us manifest prosperity.  After all, if you believe (as I do) that prosperity is a state of mind, the nourishment of your mind is an activity you want to keep replenishing with new stimuli.

Things change–which is the one constant we can always depend on in our lives. There was a restaurant called Spork that I experienced a few months ago in San Francisco. There was one dish I was looking forward to trying on one of my future visits. But suddenly Spork was out of business, and that specialized meal is something I may never ever get to taste. If I do leave this area, a real possibility in the next year or so, there are many things I will have missed out on. One I didn’t even know about until last year was The Marsh, home of the theatrical solo performance, where I took a class with Charlie Varon, their artist-in-residence, and performed a brief workshop version of my one man show in their theatre. Another opportunity unique to this area is the San Francisco Comedy College, where I am now enrolled in a class and exploring a completely new career in stand-up. Whether or not I am successful at this, the impact on my brain will be hugely beneficial. In a few days, I debut a five minute stand-up bit at the famed Purple Onion club. I am already finding myself bursting with new ideas funny and serious.

Even though I will never get to explore all the possibilities in this part of the world, I can honestly now say I am soaking up some powerful local stimuli. Wherever I may or may not settle in coming years, I can feel that I have “done” San Francisco in some creative and most satisfying ways.  And if you can’t even think of something interesting and stimulating to do in your area, then you’ve probably overstayed your welcome and your time to move on is long overdue.

Jerry

If I ever am asked to make a list of the top ten things I’ve eaten that gave me peak pleasure, I always have to include a dessert that I can’t even remember the name of. It was at an almost deserted resort during the off season in Jamaica. At a former plantation called Sign Great House, the dessert was some kind of solid chocolate concoction that was about an inch wide and long and two inches high. Every bite was exquisite, and though not a large amount to consume, it was totally satisfying, and obviously memorable.

I remember a brief conversation I had with noted author and anthropologist, Ashley Montagu, at a psychology conference in the 1970s in which he said that all great discoveries and the answers to all profound questions were usually simple things. I have found this to be true in life and love and even politics. In relationships, for instance, the most solid advice I ever received and put into a practice as a guideline for success was for the man of any couple to be willing give the woman whatever she wants. This is based on the wisdom that the foundation of any relationship is a happy woman. Everything else springs from that simple well.

In politics and world affairs, the simple solution to almost everything is “Let’s sit down and find common ground and be willing to negotiate and each compromise a little.” Sounds easy.  It isn’t–but it is simple. Sometimes simpleminded humans find it difficult to carry out the simplest solutions and tasks.

In terms of prosperity, the simplest answer and mantra is to, “Find what you most love doing and then do it with total passion and commitment.” This is the basic law of attraction, the short and sweet answer to fulfillment and material abundance. It’s the essence of Moneylove and every other prosperity philosophy or teaching.

I suppose the point I am making is that in a world overwhelmed with complexity and complication, the path through all the clutter is often a direct line to the simplest of answers. Sometimes we dismiss these because they seem too easy, too simple, too obvious. But in our hearts and in our gut, we usually know these simple answers are the right ones. We just need to focus our minds to accept and enjoy the shortest, sweetest, most obvious answer.

Jerry

I recently posted the following statement on Facebook:

As a confirmed and certified optimist, I am absolutely certain that all pessimists will get what they deserve and expect.

Pessimism is not a winning strategy and is contrary to the principles on which the United States was founded. This is probably why the most optimistic candidate always wins presidential elections, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton being the most recent examples, though the value of Barack Obama’s 2008 slogan, Hope and Change, cannot be overestimated. FDR perhaps set the standard, being the first president to use mass media in his radio Fireside Chats, and with perhaps the most authentically American phrase ever uttered by a commander-in-chief, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” from his first inaugural address.

But it is not just about politics, which after all is a reflection of the national psyche. A Harvard study just released shows that people who optimistic and upbeat about life are less likely to have heart attacks. I have talked extensively about the importance of having “robust expectations.”  And sixty-three years ago, Rodgers and Hammerstein encapsulated this hallmark of the American spirit in that great song from South Pacific, A Cockeyed Optimist.  You can Google the lyrics, but here are a few of the most essential ones:

I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we’re done and we might as well be dead,
But I’m only a cockeyed optimist
And I can’t get it into my head.

Just recently I coined the word, “neopessimism” to describe those people who are whining about the economic catastrophes facing us, and the lack of opportunity today. In other words, focusing on the doom and gloom rather than the boom and bloom.  One definition of bloom is a condition of vigor and freshness. This is what really is going on now as Americans have broken all records on productivity, foreign exports are at all-time highs, and we have survived an economic challenge that, when history looks back on it, may actually have been more threatening than the Great Depression. There are certainly problems, and lots of hard decisions to be made, but, as was true in the 1930s with FDR, the best decisions need to be made in an aura of hopefulness and genuine optmism that we can do it. FDR tried some things that just didn’t work, but he never gave up, and many of his experimental solutions are still around today, like Social Security. The challenges facing us now are nowhere near as daunting as those we have faced and triumphed over in the past.

Those who count the nation and themselves out, who see current challenges and obstacles as insurmountable are sadly ignorant of our own history, and how time and again that indomitable American spirit has kept our heads above water. The basic definition of “indomitable” is “impossible to subdue or defeat.” Someone recently pointed out how many potential catastrophes we survived in the 20th Century–the great flu pandemic, AIDS, two World Wars, the Great Depression, and countless others. A part of our national psyche that is not emphasized enough, I believe, is our resilience.

In other words, we are very, very good at bouncing back.

Jerry

I got this one from the amazing Sara Blakely, just added to the Forbes list of the billionaires of the world as the youngest (41) self-made woman to make the list. She’s the inventor of Spanx, and creator of the whole industry known as shapewear. I feature her among the billionaires I think we can all learn from on my latest Moneylove Club audio. This fits in with my Law of Attraction, which I discuss on page 5 in my 38-page Moneylove Manifesto, which you can download free by clicking on the cover in the righthand margin of this page.

It also fits in with a wonderful teachable moment I had over thirty years ago. Five women millionaire entrepreneurs were on a TV talk show, perhaps Phil Donohue. They included cosmetics tycoon Mary Kay Ash and Ruth Handler, who invented the Barbie doll and then went on to head the huge Mattel toy company. All five women agreed that the secret of success they all had in common was that they didn’t know enough to realize how impossible it was to accomplish what they were determined to accomplish. Unlike men, when they were younger, they weren’t indoctrinated with all the rules of how to create and run a business, and therefore were able to innovate without the restrictions of preconceived notions.

Sara Blakely put it like this,

What you don’t know can become your greatest asset.

I got the title for this post from the Gershwyn opera, Porgy & Bess:

I got plenty of nothing
And nothing is plenty for me.

Back in 1990, TIME essayist Lance Morrow did a piece on how important it was in the age of information overload, just starting then, to empty one’s mind of unnecessary, inhibiting, and cluttering ideas and information. One sentence of his became one of my favorite quotes, and I used it in the Moneylove Manifesto:

“The mind takes its shape from what it holds, and therefore, Zen-like, sometimes grows more graceful because of what it has kept out.”

There was an old and very popular radio show called, It Pays to Be Ignorant. It was a spoof of quiz shows, running from 1942 to 1951 and even spent a few years as a TV show. Panelists would be asked very dumb questions and come up with wrong and funny answers. Questions like, “For what meal do you wear a dinner jacket?” But I am being serious when I say it sometimes pays to be ignorant of the way things have always been done. In recent generations, young boys have been taught to be good, get a good job and stick to it for forty or so years and the company will take care of you and provide you with a good pension so you can live out your golden years in comfort. I doubt any of the 1226 men and women on that current billionaires list paid any attention to that advice, and in the case of the women, they probably never even heard it.

A useful exercise might be to look back and decide what early advice you received that did not serve you well, that you would have been better off not knowing.  What haven’t you known that turned out to be an asset?

Jerry

Some people reading this will just assume I am kidding, trying to make a satirical point about the current campaign. I suppose this is understandable, considering my background in writing many cartoon gags for major magazines, along with stand-up material, and my recently previewed one man show combining humor, inspiration, and revelation about my prison experience. But while I am smiling as I write this, and hope you find it amusing, I am also seriously suggesting you can positively affect your prosperity consciousness by playing the Presidential Election Moneylove Prosperity Game I unveil here for the first time.

Though it could easily be converted to a drinking game, as a non-drinker, I prefer to use it to add not only fun to the process of following the next nine months of political pregnancy, but a way to use the often frivolous campaign rhetoric to enrich ourselves. It’s very simple and can also be challenging, especially if you are resistant to using money in exchange for pleasure in difficult economic times.

Many prosperity teachers have adopted money games I have created for my Moneylove Seminars over the past thirty years, and all of these games are designed, as is this new one, to give those playing some new perspectives on prosperity, and new experiences in the actual handling of money. An additional benefit of this election campaign game is that it is a way to playfully look at what everyone is predicting will be one of the nastiest political battles in American history. We are already seeing that with the unprecedented attacks the Republican primary candidates are making on each other.

This game also fits in with my basic optimistic philosophy. “So, Jerry, we are looking at a really negative political skirmish in both the current primary season and the coming general election campaign, as well as facing some tremendously difficult challenges with both the U.S. and global economy–what do you suggest we do about all that?”  ”Well, folks, my suggestion is that since there is really little any one of us can do about it except let it play out and then vote to elect the  person we think will be best equipped to deal with the major issues–we should have as much fun and use this period in as positive a way as possible to enhance, enrich, and enlighten our daily lives.”

And it doesn’t matter if you are liberal or conservative, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, or Green Party member–or even, as I sometimes have been leaning toward, None Of The Above. So lets get to the game.

The Moneylove Election Prosperity Game

As I said, it’s very simple–as the best games often are. First, you need to find a place to pile up some cash over the next months; some specific drawer, container, receptacle that will hold potentially hundreds of single dollar bills. Next, you just have to pay attention to the campaign rhetoric. Whether  you read it online, in blogs or in magazines and newspapers, listen to it on radio or podcasts, or watch it on TV or your computer–or even attend live political speeches and events. Using the following formula, you simply deposit the appropriate amount of dollar bills in your chosen vessel.

1. Every time a candidate criticizes another candidate by name, deposit one dollar bill.

2. Every time a candidate exaggerates or tells a lie about himself or an opponent, deposit two dollars.

3. Every time a candidate says something really stupid or even crazy, deposit three dollar bills.

That’s it–I told you it was simple. By the end of October, you should have amassed a substantial collection of dollar bills. And you have all these months to decide how you will celebrate, no matter who wins the election. Perhaps you will have enough to take you and your significant other out to a fancy dinner, or perhaps even a luxury weekend trip. If you really are a political junkie and read and watch a lot of the campaign, you may even be able to spring for a cruise. As long as you exchange those dollar bills for something that brings  you pleasure, something that creates some extra fun in your life, and something that makes the election a lighthearted, positive event in your life, whether the result exhilarates or disappoints you.

Some Variations

Not being someone who embraces rigid rules, I suggest you feel free to come up with any variations to my game that feel right. You can vary the amounts, using higher denomination bills, especially if you feel that will challenge some of your negative beliefs about using money in playful ways. You can also widen the scope by also following Congressional races, or even local contests for mayor, governor, etc.

Happy Campaign Season!

Jerry

Let me make this clear, I don’t believe in magic or mumbo jumbo, airy fairy prescriptions for success. Some of the programs that suggest you can become wealthy just by thinking about wealth or just by declaring your intention to be rich are plain silly.

What I have been saying for over thirty years as a prosperity teacher, however, is that it all starts with thought, it all starts by understanding what you want, having a clear vision of that desire, and taking positive action to make it happen. And it is true that sometimes the results this produces seem magical and even miraculous. But it isn’t really magic, it’s a testimony to the awesome power of the human mind to create intention and manifest positive outcomes in the physical world. It’s about energy, it’s not so much about attracting what you want, but rather about making yourself attractive enough so that others will want to support you and give you what you want.

Over and over again, I have seen people who produce the kind of energy that wins other people over. And those other people will be happy to support, participate in, and even buy whatever the person creating that kind of energy is offering in the world. My three secrets:

1. Your Wake-Up Call. I strongly believe that the attitude with which you face the beginning of your day has a lot to do with the quality of your attraction, your personal power, and what you manifest on any given day. I have talked a lot about the phrase I got from Norman Cousins, “robust expectations.” Norman told me this was the single thing rich and famous and powerful people he encountered in his amazing life all had in common. They woke up every day expecting good things to happen, no matter what was going on in the world or in their immediate environment. When you bounce out of bed with a smile on your face, looking forward to your day, whomever you encounter during the rest of the day will find you pretty irresistable.

2. Daydream. Great thinkers and producers of magical-seeming manifestation, people like Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs–all of them made a practice of daydreaming on a daily basis. Wikipedia defines it as:

A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.

If you are not now a daydreamer, take some time to become one. At least twice a day, taking at least ten to fifteen minutes, just imagine something you want actually coming to you. You might even start a daydream journal.

3.  Celebrate the positive result in a flamboyant way in your mind. A still further way to stimulate the imagination into alignment with your fondest aspirations is to picture exactly what your success will look like and how you will celebrate its achievement. I have pictured myself receiving a standing ovation at a Broadway theatre for my one man show, and then taking all my friends who attended opening night to an elegant restaurant for a wonderful meal afterwards. Or standing on the deck of a luxurious cruise ship with the people I love most to celebrate my reaching the top of the best seller list. Or starting a foundation to foster real prison reform with the millions I earn from my prison memoir. Or flying friends in from all over the world to stay in luxury hotel suites and attend my stand-up comedy act in Las Vegas.

Though not all of these scenarios will play out, they help create a certain energy momentum that will make any one of them less improbable as my life goes on. And if one or more of them do occur, or something equally wonderful, it won’t be magic, it won’t be a miracle, it won’t be due to just thinking about it–it will be a triumph of the imagination and the follow-up intention and action I put into that vision. I am not conjuring my own future, I am rehearsing it.

Jerry

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A lot has been made of the fact that the Mayan calendar ends with 2012. Those doom and gloomsters who like to continually predict the end of days, the end of the world, the end of civilization as we know it, have been having a field day with the so-called apocalyptic date of December 21, 2012, or the Winter Solstice in 2012, which is supposedly the date it will, or rather WE will all go down.

This all strikes me silly rather than striking me down. Many Mayan researchers have disputed even that date from the calendar that was created in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and also used by other ancient peoples like the Aztecs. The one thing all predictions of doom and the end of the world have in common is that they have all been proven 100% wrong when the supposed date actually arrives.

But I’d like to suggest that we use this as a positive instrument for change. What if you imagined that 2012 actually was the end of the world as you know it, or rather the beginning of a whole new world, a whole new paradigm, a shift in the way everything operates in relationship to you, and you in relationship to everything and everyone else in the world. In other words, to paraphrase cartoon cliche, picture a white-bearded prophet carrying a sign that reads:

The Beginning Is Near!

After all, the end of anything is always the beginning of something else. So here’s an exercise you can use to manifest this new paradigm in 2012. It’s one you can begin right now and continue for as long as it takes. There’s no hurry, you will definitely have a lot more time than just the months leading up to December 21st.  Make a simple list of 100 things you can support the end of in 2012, leading to a lot more opportunity and space and time in your life to make wonderful new beginnings, changes, and breakthroughs in your life.  You can choose any heading you like. I started mine like this:

The End Of…..

1. All restrictions I create for myself on what I can do.

2. Waiting for friends I want to stay in touch with to reach out to me.

3. Telling people I am a technical idiot.

4. Being stingy about using the words, “I love you.”

As you can see, they don’t have to be profound endings or life-changing declarations. That’s it, just four so far, but I am thinking about quite a few others. I am in no hurry, I have all year to reach 100. As I compile my list of endings which can lead to beginnings, I plan to read it over and over again. This is a big year we’re talking about. A major election in the U.S., and major continuing upheavals around the world. While no apocalypse is planned or expected or likely, those who are not willing to look at their reality in a new way could be left behind. Not by The Rapture, but by the changing world passing them by. I don’t intend to be in that group, and I don’t think you do either.

Happy New Endings and Beginnings,

Jerry

If I were asked for a quick one word answer, I would have to say, “Yes!” We live in a world where cash is the main medium of exchange, and life with restricted cash flow can become difficult in the extreme.

At the same time, a total dedication to building wealth, excluding all other human values and joys, is a pretty empty endeavor. It isn’t the pursuit of wealth or capitalism that is the evil force in this equation, but rather the imbalance that a devotion to accumulating wealth produces in many people. Obviously, multi-billionaire Warren Buffet has his head and values screwed on straight. For him and Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs and some others of immense wealth, there is a wisdom and balance in how they handle it. But these are exceptional people, and even a larger number of the wealthy haven’t had the training, education, or upbringing that gives them the tools to maintain their prosperity equilibrium.

I just came up with that term as I was writing this, and immediately decided it was the perfect title for this post. Equilibrium is described as the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced. Capitalism and entrepreneurship are what made our nation great, and are good forces for enriching and even ennobling. But not when they are tainted with greed, selfishness, pathological obsession, lack of human compassion and lack of any uplifting vision.

What set me off on this tangent in the first place was a question posted on a religious blog someone sent me:  ”Can cash console you at 1:00AM?”  And my answer there, too, is an emphatic “Yes!” If I am feeling lonely, depressed, upset, or anxious at one o’clock in a dreary morning, having access to lots of discretionary funds can console me a lot. And I don’t have to even go the route of that poor emotionally disturbed creature, Charlie Sheen, and buy hookers and cocaine to do the job of making me feel better. If I have piles of cash put aside, I can invite a bunch of friends to visit me from all over the world, fly them in from London and Panama and South Africa and Hawaii and all across the United States–put all of us up in a beautiful resort and just visit and play together for several days or a week or two. Or I can fly myself to a poor village in a third world nation and dispense gifts that would mean something, like a good water system, a medical clinic, computers for all the children. I guarantee, either of these expensive ventures would take me out of myself and whatever real or imagined troubles or anxieties I had. But even simpler and smaller exchanges of money could do the job. I’m sure you can think of many ways you could use some extra money to console yourself at 1:00AM no matter what was happening. And even some that wouldn’t take cash.

A basic rule of human existence that we all learn in one form or another is that if you are having a good life, money can do things to make it even better–and if you are having a bad life, money alone can’t help. But it certainly can console us in many of life’s travails.

If I haven’t convinced you of my basic premise, then I will make you a special holiday offer. In this time of generous good cheer, I will be happy to receive any extra cash you want to send to me, and I will use it to console myself in very positive, enlightened, and highly pleasurable ways–and send you a full report of how I used your cash so you might learn what to do with it in the future.

Jerry

And that is, after all, the essential question that I don’t see fellow prosperity teachers and authors asking. I have been very fortunate in that a large number of people have seemed to have gotten some valuable information from my books and audios and even this blog. But I have always maintained that such success is to be only partially credited to the material offered. It really has more to do about whether the student is willing and ready to absorb the information; whether it strikes a compatible and resonating chord within him or her–and maybe most importantly, whether the timing is right.

This latest musing on my part was triggered by a question asked by one of my Moneylove Club audio subscribers. He has put some of the ideas from my audios into practice to great prosperous effect in his life. He wondered whether I got frustrated or upset that with such powerful stuff to share, some people just didn’t bother checking it out, or joining the club. Actually, the only thing that frustrates me, and I mean the only thing in my entire life right now, is that I haven’t figured out a way to reach the two million people who bought and read Moneylove over the past thirty years. I don’t think it would be unreasonable to expect to eventually connect with twenty to thirty thousand of them. And if I could get 500 to 1000 people, out of the original two million, to be as excited about my new audios as they were about the book or my earlier cassette programs, I would feel I had achieved a major accomplishment. And especially if those people, already predisposed to the Moneylove concepts, were ready to put some new strategies and ideas into practice right away.

But a lot of people aren’t ready to do that, even if I could reach them and tell them about what I am offering. And this is true for everyone in the information, training, motivational and inspirational business. We can be arrogant and suppose people who don’t immediately sign up or enroll in our programs are idiots, or we can accept the reality that no matter how great something is, it isn’t for everyone. And it certainly isn’t for everyone at this exact moment in time. Moreover, if we are honest and aware, what any of us offer out into the world may not be the most effective or valuable product or service or information that a specific individual can successfully use.

For whatever reason, there are millions of people out there who will respond more positively to someone else’s prosperity ideas. I’d be a fool to suppose otherwise. Or to let it bother me. This is why I never take for granted someone’s positive feedback, and cherish every compliment. If I share something I have learned or created and it makes sense for you, and you decide to try it out and it works in producing positive results, then we are joined in that moment in a very precise and mutually inspiriting way.

And while I have been spending almost all my time on producing my audios rather than promoting or marketing them, so cannot expect a very big audience yet, there is one major blessing I celebrate. My internet guru friends tell me that I have one of the lowest attrition rates in the information field. Most of my original subscribers are still members almost two years after I started the Moneylove Club. I think we can all do a lot better job of appreciating the people who stay rather than being concerned about the ones who got away, or never showed up in the first place.

Jerry