When I got over the initial shock of being urged to “seek alternative employment”, I found that I was just another one of the pack following the same traditional job-hunting procedures as everyone else. It seemed as though everyone is LOOKING FOR A JOB.

To be successful amid all this competition would be tantamount to winning the lottery! It sure looked like the odds were stacked against me; especially after enduring the long non-event waiting periods that never ended. I got the same frustrating non-results and suffered the same heartaches, delays and disappointments as did most all the others who were looking for employment.

Then I realized that if I wanted to break away from this seemingly dead end system I had to make some changes. I had to break the pattern of sameness that plagued everyone else.

I began to realize that businesses are not in the business of giving out jobs. They are committed to making a profit by providing a product or service that filled the needs of its customers. Needs! As I thought about it I realize that my needs would be met only when I met the needs of others.

So I decided to bypass the system and re-focus my efforts from what I wanted and needed to finding out what my prospects needed. I must stop trying to GET something and put myself in a position where I could GIVE something. I must GIVE something to the prospective employer that he needed!

I learned all I could about my prospect’s situation, got him to define his objectives and worked out a game plan that showed him why he needed me, my talents, my experience and expertise in order to accomplish his defined objectives.

This simple procedure resulted in more than one opportunity. In my particular case, I took on more than one “job”. In fact, without realizing it, I found that I had become a consultant.

That was more than 50 years ago. Some things don’t change and these procedures work just as well today as well as they ever did. The basic axiom “Find a need and fill it” is still relevant. Whether you are looking for fulltime employment or providing your expertise on a consultation basis, the basic truth that “You fill your own needs by filling the needs of others” has been proven throughout all recorded history.

This cannot be done if you are satisfied to just run with the pack, passively wait in the employment line and make your success dependent upon the mathematical statistics inherent in traditional job hunting routines. To assure your success, you must depart from the pack, take the initiative and offer your prospect something he really needs and prove to him that you are the only one qualified to give it to him.

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From Galileo to Dr. Einstein, we have been given the answers as to how to prove our dominion over problems. Even if one professes to believe the many biblical references and allegories that detail how to “overcome evil with good” and the revelation God is all power and “beside me there is no other”, we still tend to fear and react to negatives and destructive elements more than we do to exercising the necessary mental disciplines to overcome them.

We are guilty of adhering to the old saying, “We grow too soon old and too late smart”.

One is forced to review Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” wherein prisoners are chained and immobilized inside a cave with their backs to the opening through which light projects shadows on the cave’s back wall. The prisoners could view only the shadows on the wall; these became their only sense of reality. Their interpretation of them represented the only world they knew.

Then, one of the prisoners broke his bonds and escaped from the cave. From outside the cave he could see the real world and the source of the light. From this new perspective, he realized that the shadows, which he was brought up to believe represented reality were, in fact, only fraudulent interpretations of reality. He discovered a new world free of limiting shadows, a world of ever-expanding enlightenment and an awareness of his unity with it.

In his enthusiasm, he returned to the cave to share his new discovery with the prisoners only to be rejected as a misinformed victim of some irrational philosophy that deviated from the real world. Most of the “prisoners” are not impressed by such a concept even though it promises to free them. They will continue living in their world of shadows and continue to complain about the inequities they represent. But some others will be responsive and explore this new world of expanding opportunities.

We have just had an election. Many will be elated at the outcome and anticipate better times ahead with fewer problems. Many other will be disappointed and prepare to survive in a world they feel is heading in the wrong direction.

In spite of these diverse positions, the universe outside the cave is still in full operation maintaining its own integrity. We will experience that which we accept as shadows on Plato’s cave wall or the real world powered by irrevocable laws and principles outside the cave. Being opposites, we can have one or the other, but not both at the same time.

As for me, I’ll go along with Galileo, Dr. Einstein and the bible and find balance within my own conscious awareness. I never did like caves, anyway.

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If you have not yet found the right direction, you may continue looking for more books in search of the elusive golden key to success, happiness, fulfillment, prosperity and freedom.

Good luck!

Amazon offers you 170,557 self help books to choose from! That’s a lot of books and to find just the right one for you is tantamount to winning the lottery… to say nothing of the cost, finding a place to store them and the time it will take to read them.

My experience tells me that the usual self help programs are, in one way or another, predicated on academic theories, philosophical abstractions, personal experiences of someone else and emotionally charged motivation. Because you’re still searching, you’ve found that, while they may make you feel good for a while, these ordinary programs lack any demonstrable operating principles that will sustain long term benefits.

Of that 170,557 books, there is one that’s different. It is entitled “The Science of LIVING BETTER FOREVER“. This book is outstanding in that, unlike any other, it is based solely on universal natural laws and principles that, by their very definition and nature, can assure desired results with predictable, scientific certainty.

It was written by Davis Goss who has proven the effectiveness of its principles for more than 50 years as a creative consultant. Not only is its approach to building harmonious, trouble-free life experiences unique, but Mr. Goss is available to answer any specific questions you may have and to guide you in the proper application of its principles to your own personal goals and objectives.

Statistically, 1 to 1 is better than 170,557 to 1. Feel free to contact Mr. Goss any time and discuss how this one book, coupled with personal one-on-on consultation, can meet all your needs. (Confidential and no obligation, of course)

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So where does that leave you and me? Is our only option to sit back and be unwilling victims of situations over which we have no control?

Let’s get real! Do you think for one minute that you or I, as individuals, no matter how intensely we may feel about what we are told of world conditions, that we are going to be invited to the world’s seat of authority to influence the world economy, the energy crisis, fear of destruction by terrorists or the bone-head decisions made by those in authority? Never! Our individual reaction to world conditions reaches no further than our own personal feelings.

However, when we know how, we, individually, CAN exercise control over these feelings and prosper in spite of declining world conditions. We can be like a bird who has taken refuge in a protected shelter above the turmoil of a raging river’s storm-tossed fury. We can observe the storm but remain untouched by it.

And the beauty of it is that no matter who is elected President and no matter what policies a new administration enacts, we can still be our own individual selves in control of our individual life experiences. We can do this in proportion to our focused, disciplined adherence to the natural laws and principles that comprise and sustain the order and perfect rhythm of the flawless universe of which we are an inexorable part.

From Galileo to Einstein, the world’s clear thinkers have been telling us how to find the solutions to our problems, the answers to our questions, the resolutions of our conflicts, the peace in our hearts and the stability in our lives. They tell us that we must look within our own conscious awareness. It behooves us to listen to them. To accept this as simply an intellectual truism is not enough. In and of itself, it is just another academic abstraction and “feel good” exercise.

To make it work in our experience, we must push the “activate” button. We must totally reject any and all suggestions that would oppose or challenge the integrity of our true identity as the perfect, complete, balanced representatives of the universe which is “the whole without limit or exception” (Webster)

Maintaining this mindset, any discordant picture will automatically adjust to conform to the natural harmony and balance of the universe. With this mindset, we can no more experience discord than Columbus could fall off the edge of a flat world!

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The world thrives on one crisis after another.  When one crisis has run its course, news people come up others to take its place.  This is as predictable as the sunrise.

This kind of “news” brings out all the gurus, self-appointed “experts”, analysts and “preachers of doom” only too willing to share their views on any given subject.  However articulate they may be, seldom, if ever, do they offer any viable solution to the problem.  And if they do, it is immediately challenged with hostility and rejection.

Is there a real solution?  Of course there is!  It has been articulated by serious thinkers throughout history but nobody is listening.   In more recent times, it has been presented by Dr. Einstein when he noted that, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.  We must learn to see the world anew”.

Every problem, every crisis, every conflict, whether personal, professional, corporate, national or international can only be resolved by this self-evident rule. However difficult it may seem, the law demands that we see the troubled world from a completely opposite point of view.  The opposite of chaos, turmoil and discord is harmony, balance and perpetual well being.

Where does all this take place?  Think about it.  The only PLACE it can occur is in your conscious awareness.  Your experiences take place within you; they are not a “something” that occurs externally “out there” somewhere.  This is your “mindset” which, by definition, “determines and influences events and circumstances” (Webster).

This new, opposite world is embodied in the universe, which is defined by Webster as,

“The whole body of things observed or assumed; including the whole without limit or exception; accruing everywhere”.  There is no room for chaos, confusion or conflict here!

QUESTION: The infinite universe, being the only reality, wherein does this “thing” they call a “crisis” come from?

ANSWER:  It doesn’t come from anywhere; it is merely the unawareness or absence of the answer.  It can have no more real existence than a counterfeit dollar bill can have without there being a genuine dollar bill to be a counterfeit of.

What is termed a “crisis” is only the absence or unawareness of the answer.  It is an illusory, misinterpretation of the harmony and balance already in full operation in the universe of which we are an inexorable part.  In reality, the only way we can experience this illusory “thing” they call a crisis is to accept it as real.  To the degree that we can separate ourselves from it and identify ourselves with the “controlling forces of the universe without limit or exception”,  can we prove it in the “events and circumstances” that comprise our life experiences.

This is more than a nice comfortable philosophical, abstract or academic statement.  It is the LAW!  “Law” is defined by Webster as, “A rule or principle that always works and is enforced by a governing authority”.

Living up here in New Hampshire this time of year, I observe the operation of the laws governing the universe every day as the trees change their colors.  I note, too, that the operation of these laws and principles, “the creative and controlling forces of the universe” (Webster), are no more influenced or directed by any man-made “laws”, legislation or government regulation than the sunrise.

All I can do is to be an impersonal observer of the perfect, uninterrupted rhythm of the universe.  From this perspective, all the utterances of the “bad news pundits” have no more power or authority over my world than the belief that 2 + 2 = 6.

If you need a boost, please review these four specific articles:

Handling Financial Pressures

Justification for Rejecting the Idea of “Financial Disaster”

How to Live Harmonious Life Experiences in Spite of World Problems

The Idea of Economic Collapse is Flawed

Remember the slogan of the Thought Box that says, “When you react to appearances, you are not in control”. I would also remind you of the old adage that “Nothing important is urgent and nothing urgent is important”. The balance and perfection of “the controlling forces of the universe” are still in full operation.

Maintain your focus and remember that the laws and principles comprising this entire universe are committed to maintaining your well being; NOW!

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Is there a viable “solution“? Of course there is because in a universe that has been sustained by natural laws and principles (”the creative and controlling forces of the universe”. Webster) in perpetuity, imbalance is as unknown as darkness is to light.

Throughout the centuries, there have been countless scholars who have recognized the answer to this dilemma. Not the least of these was Dr. Einstein who summed it up by noting that “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew”. This truth is ignored by our decision makers.

However difficult it may seem, the law demands that we see the troubled world from a completely opposite point of view. Webster defined “opposites” as “elements that are so far apart and diverse as to be totally irreconcilable to the other”. One is true and the other, its opposite, is false. The negative idea of economic collapse must be rejected, reversed and seen as a fictitious illusion. It must be replaced with its opposite and be in conformity to universal law as embodied in “the controlling forces of the universe”, ie financial security and balanced perfection.

Where does this positive mindset take place? It is a self-evident fact that we can only be aware of that which is in our individual conscious awareness. YOU are the only one who can resolve any problem; and you must do it by restructuring YOUR mindset to “see the world anew”. “Mindset” is defined by Webster as, “A fixed way of thinking; that which determines and influences events and circumstances”. Your total life experiences are defined by “events and circumstances” which reflect your mindset., not that of some “outside” influence.

I realize that this is a radical departure from traditional, accepted perspectives, but I have proven its viability in my more than 50 years as a professional problem solver to the benefit of a widely diverse client base. It was Voltaire who said, “It is dangerous to right in matters on which accepted authorities are wrong” but facts are facts, proof is proof and universal natural laws and principles cannot be successfully challenged, altered, modified or circumvented.

Success, prosperity, freedom and pressure-free life experiences are already a natural to you as wet is to water. You can prove this when you do as Galileo advised and “find it within yourself”.

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Ideas are the substance of the imagination. They are the effects of creative thinking. When people ignore or overlook new ideas and concepts, they risk becoming the victims of another’s creative initiative regardless of their technological competence. While any activity should take advantage of the best technological aids available, it behooves us to be alert to the necessity for balance and make specific, conscious efforts to increase our imaginative skills. We should be constantly scanning our mental horizons for new opportunities for growth and advancement and become aware of the events and circumstances that can contribute to our productivity: “to establish results, benefits and profits… through our imaginative skills.” (Webster)

Your mind, which embodies this “thing” called “creativity“, is the source of all ideas. Your consciousness is the best computer ever devised. However mind-boggling the next generation of computers may be, that master computer between your ears is the only “mechanism” that can generate new, original ideas and be responsive to the flow of mental images of the imagination.

These images are a glimpse into the future. It is vision, which is defined by Webster as, “the act or power of perceiving mental images (ideas) in the imagination.” Jonathan Swift noted that “vision id the art of seeing the invisible.” Helen Keller was quoted as having said, “Worse than being blind, is to have no vision.”

Remember, the computer and all its associated technologies are merely the outward manifestation of someone’s creative thinking. Remember, to, that an effect cannot, and never will, initiate any action of its own. It must forever be subservient to its primal cause and source: creative thinking.

It was Victor Hugo who reminded us the “there is nothing more powerful than the right idea whose time has come.” That time is NOW!

Take time to marvel at the computer with all its wonder, with all its contributing technologies and its capacity to make such significant contributions to out way of life. But always reserve a quiet place in your mind where you can retire from the pressures imposed by the “real world” and take time to THINK.

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We live in a world where every situation is challenged by some implied OPPOSITE. Webster defines “OPPOSITES” as, “elements that are so far apart and diverse as to be totally irreconcilable”. Dare to accept this natural law of opposites where “true” and “false” cannot be justified to each other. Only one can be true.

This true perspective cancels the old discordant interpretation of reality. It reveals the omnipresence of natural laws and principles that are defined by Webster as, “the creative and controlling forces of the universe”. These forces, by their very nature and definition, cannot include any idea of economic imbalance, chaos or corruption. They operate in perpetuity independent of all negative beliefs that would oppose them.

I know how abstract and impractical this seems, and we ask ourselves, “What about the national debt, mass unemployment, corruption, violence at all levels of society, the apparent collapse of the judicial system, and on and on and on”? What about them? Because they cannot, by law, be justified to the true nature of the “controlling forces of the universe”, they are, by definition, artificial, fraudulent, unreal appearances and have no more substance and reality than the flat world or the appearance of railroad tracks converging on the horizon.

We can choose to reject any concept that would challenge these natural laws and principles and embrace Einstein’s observation that, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew”. A problem is the opposite of its answer and, by definition, cannot exist unless that answer or solution was already available.

Unless we are alert to it, the constant rehearsing of economic collapse, or any other negative positions, impacts every facet of our personal, professional, corporate and national mindset. MINDSET is defined by Webster as, “a fixed way of thinking; that which determines and influences events and circumstances”. “Events and circumstances” comprise everything we experience in our lives.

The fact that all this is true is academic until you can make it work in YOUR consciousness. Then, and only then, will you prove them to be true and viable in your world of “events and circumstances”.

It is your responsibility to maintain this mindset and allow the “controlling forces” to express themselves in and as your individual experience. You determine your own circumstances. If you were to focus your efforts on attempting to improve bad economic conditions you would be giving reality to the unreal and contribute to compounding the problem rather than awakening to a solution.

With more than 50 years’ experience as a creative consultant, with particular expertise in problem solving, I have proven that nothing exists external to your own individual conscious awareness. The events and circumstances that appear external to you are effects and effects, by law, cannot induce any action of their own. They are not now, never have been and never will be a cause. They are without power or authority and must be rejected as spontaneously as you reject the idea that a mirage will put water on the desert.

From your new altitude of contemplation, there is nothing to improve, adjust, heal or change. “The creative and controlling forces of the universe” are already complete and perfect and you are the full beneficiary of this irreversible law. When the power of these facts impact your inner feeling, watch your “world” change and be in concert with the natural rhythm and balance of the universe!

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If we wish to alter the conditions, we experience in this finite world, logic demands that we do so by aligning our consciousness (thinking) with the truth of these “creative and controlling forces of the universe” and let them so dominate the false interpretation that they disappear.

This is the only proper way to solve problems and restore harmony and balance in our life. This procedure is truly “scientific” which, by definition, is “the knowledge or discovery of the operation of laws, principles and facts subject to proof”. (Webster)

Unfortunately we have been taught to be confrontational when presented with a problems or tough challenges. A difficult situation presents itself to us and we immediately look upon it as an enemy with whom we must do battle. This is the prime cause of all conflict and its resultant discords. We must see that that thing we have defined as our problem is not a condition that needs to be overcome, it is simply the absence of the right idea, answer or solution and possesses no power, authority or reality other than that which we individually assign to it.

All answers and solutions to all questions and problems are ALREADY resident in your infinite, all-inclusive mind. The negative problem cannot exist alone. Its only claim to existence is dependent upon there being a positive answer or solution to be a negation of. When you provide the necessary receptive mental environment, the answers will be revealed. Problems will disappear as surely and as effortlessly as darkness disappears in the presence of light!

Where do problems go? They go to the same place the flat world went as soon as Columbus discovered that it was really round. They go to the same place the darkness goes as soon as you turn on the light. The problems don’t GO anywhere because they never were a something to begin with!

With our new-found understanding, we can scientifically reject all problems by knowing that they are simply unreal suggestions that attempt to get a response from us. By recognizing this, we can prevent them from polluting our experiences and we can let the “controlling forces of the universe” assert themselves and keep our lives in harmonious balance in the real universe.

Harmony in our individual experiences is in proportion to our conscious awareness of our true identity as integral expressions of one infinite, dominating laws and principles that comprise the one universe. The universe is defined by Webster as, “the whole body of things observed or assumed including the whole without limit or exception; occurring everywhere”. It is an error-free continuum that has been in full operation throughout all eternity. This could not occur if it contained any element of error or self-destruction.

To bring this point home, in your imagination, imagine what would happen if, even for an instant, 2 + 2 = 7 instead of “4″. The rippling effect of that simple interruption of the universe’s perfect balance would collapse it in an instant. This is further confirmation that the chaos we observe in the world around us is likewise impossible as a reality. If problems were real and existed in accordance with natural laws and principles, they would be as perpetual as the universe and could no more be destroyed than man’s puny efforts could alter the sunrise.

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