The following is an excerpt from Happy Pocket Full of Money By David Cameron.

"Cause others to experience wealth massively, increase their wealth
consciousness massively, and you will experience wealth massively. Look at life
today. Any business that deals with the increasing of people’s productivity and
connectivity always becomes a very big self-sustaining business. It may not be a
perfectly good business, but it is big and self-sustaining. Software, networks,
transport, electronics, and such businesses improve people’s productivity and
standard of living and in return, they grow. But that is only a scratch on the
surface. Even more magnificence will come our way when we start building
businesses that deliberately are designed to give rather than receive. Businesses
designed to cause first that other people get wealthy. Future businesses will be
designed to cause growth that is true growth and not growth with serious side
effects somewhere else. These businesses will cause elevation of populations
from a lower standard of living to a higher one, and elevations in their
consciousness and well-being. The more you cause others to have in wealth, the
more you will have in wealth, effortlessly."

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Haven't written a Life Rhyme in almost a year, but this one was inspired by my reading of Happy Pocket Full of Money (See previous post for download link)

The World About Me

This world of points and edges
is not always what it seems
It's just manifestation
of your thoughts and of your dreams

This world of loss and laughter
is not hard at all to know
it's merely a reflection
of a you from long ago

This world of lack and luxury
just an image of the past
and thus can be transformed
the players all can be recast

For thoughts create reality
but take their time to build
Today is made from yesterday
for life is thought fulfilled

The world you see about you now
Illusion. Nothing more
it's yours to shape at will
and thus create what lies in store


Excerpt from Happy Pocket Full of Money
"Remember how we saw that you are
at cause over things that happen in your world. Those who have taken time to
study and experience this know experientially that every person causes 100% of
their world. Now, remember that thought takes time to manifest into the physical,
depending on the subject matter. So, what then are you looking at when you use
your eyes to see things? What are your eyes seeing? If you are at cause of all
you see, and thought takes you time to manifest, you are obviously looking at
yourself at various stages of your 'past'. Read that through again. It is all an
illusion. An illusion designed to allow you to look at yourself so that you can
create the next version of yourself, design your growth. What you see with your
eyes is an illusion designed from various stages of your past.

The way to use this world you see with your eyes is to see it as your past
and actively use it deliberately to observe your Self and see what to change and
grow. That is one way to use the illusion, which is a gift brought to you kindly so
that you may know your self.


Present results are the effects of previous thoughts. In other words, when
you look at the world today, you are actually looking at yourself as you were
yesterday. The world at any present moment of now reflects your thoughts and
state of being before the present moment of now. It is all an illusion. Use it as the
illusion that it is and you will live wonderfully and richly."

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Not sure why this memory has come to me, but it may have some relevance to someone out there, so I’ll share it with you. Several, actually, many years ago, I had the opportunity to work a summer job while in college. It was my sophomore year in college, if I recall, my first real job, and I was determined to enter the ranks of manhood and use the proceeds to purchase a car. I did the math, and realized that the full amount I would earn for my summer of employment would just barely cover the purchase price of a mazda 626 that, at the time was selling for $2500. I would be able to do it, but I would need to cut my spending to practically zero. (the beginning of my minimalism, perhaps?)
So, for that summer, while living in Johnson Hall on the Columbia University campus, I subsisted on pop tarts, bagels, spring water, generic spaghetti and ketchup. My breakfast would consist of a pop tart and spring water. I would have a bagel for lunch, but would often skip that meal. And my dinner would be a plate of store brand generic spaghetti, smothered with store-brand ketchup. Eating like this, I could average about a dollar a day on food, and since my dorm expenses were already paid, I wasn’t spending much else except the train fare to get to work.
If ever I felt that the deprivation was a bit austere, I could treat myself to a lunch special of two pieces of chicken and a side of French fries for $1.90, or some batter-fried shrimp for about the same price. (I hadn’t yet been enlightened to the virtues of being vegetarian). However, I didn’t splurge very often as I constantly held my eyes firmly fixed on the prize.
Well, as reward for my summer of restraint, I was able to surprise my girlfriend at the time as I proudly pulled up to her mother’s apartment in Washington Heights, a Dominican enclave in upper Manhattan, and show her my light blue Mazda in which we excitedly took our first dating drive together through the humid summer streets of New York.


Didn't learn anything useful on the job. I was as skinny as a rail, but I was mobile!

Ahhh! Yes, life is great!

Take what you will from the story, and let me know what, if any relevance it has in your life.

As I think about it now, I'm sure it's some subconscious message from myself to me relating to a book I'm re-reading entitled Happy Pocket Full of Money, one I've recommended here on the blog, but which I'll recommend again.

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Someone asked me yesterday what I do. I replied that I'm retired.

People think I'm joking when I say that, given how young they say I look, but in many respects it's completely true--I consider myself as having retired from corporate America in 1995 when I walked away from nine-to-five employment to pursue my passion.

It's truly been a retirement of sorts since I didn't come to Saipan to work or build my business. I came to enjoy life. It was a decision based purely on my private and personal desire to experience new things, new people, new lands and new experiences. I've always wanted to travel to this part of the globe, but never allowed myself the freedom to do so--intent as I was on putting things in place for such a departure. Everything I've been doing throughout my working and business life
has been with the express purpose of achieving a state of freedom. The sorts of income I was methodically building were designed to be passive and residual--not requiring my physical presence in any location for them to be sustained. So while the mechanics of how that freedom would be financed were taking shape, I never had the actual location clear in my head. But on that fateful day in Brooklyn in December 2005, when my friend raved about his experience here on Saipan, something clicked and I heard Saipan calling, and made the decision to up and leave!

Now that I'm here, the adventure of learning new languages and experiencing new social norms, is one that provides me with endless amount of enjoyment and satisfaction.

The unique adventure of navigating personal relationships across language and cultural barriers is a fun challenge. (I'll probaly write more on that in a future post)

Not a day goes by that I don't smile a wide smile of happiness at having made the decision to come here.

However, while the decision to come here was mostly personal, the public/activist side of me could not be submerged.

If I see a situation that I feel I can help, I'm duty bound by my commitment to the universe to do so. I can't NOT help. That would be alien to whom I've come to know as my self. (Of course, one's assessment of a situation, and the nature of one's "help" is purely subjective, but hey...) So, everything I've done while here, the workshops, coaching, the Food Co-op, the NFL (National Forensics League) student competition judging, the weekly Saipan Tribune column, the WeLoveSaipan site, the New Saipan ActionTank, have all been engaged in with the intention of lending my perspectives, talents, and ideas to helping people achieve what they wish to.


So as I immerse myself in these projects and ventures, I realize that a metamorphosis is taking place. The nature of the thoughts and activities that fill my day take on a different hue than when I was in the states.

Now, I'm a "volunteer," and a "community leader," titles I wouldn't have typically assigned myself, but which others here have bestowed.

The dilemma that I mentioned in the previous post is one result of that metamorphosis. As the New Walt emerges--one who is involved in establishing industries on a pacific island, it continues a tradition of shifting identities--a transition--that started back in college, and which included (but was not limited to)

student-->radio DJ-->civil engineer-->record label owner-->author--->passionpreneur-->career coach--->nomadpreneur-->?
and is taking a turn to something which is yet to be fully defined.

Much like the New Saipan which is taking shape, there is a new me developing the end result of which cannot be fully predicted, being a conglomeration of numerous inputs, but which can be steered in a particular direction.

So, what's the point of my rambling? Couldn't tell you. Perhaps when I re-read this tomorrow, I'll detect something more coherent in what I wish to impart, and develop it more then. For now, the simple message is....Stay tuned....a change is gonna come...

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At times you may not think that what you are doing has an effect.Here's a nice concise example to illustrate why it's important to keep doing it anyway, and why every little bit that we do to better the world is important.

[Excerpt from a book entitled "A Happy Pocket Full of Money"]

"Imagine now that there are two people in a room. They are both gloomy and sad. Their energy level is low. One tells a joke, and the other one laughs. The one telling a joke causes the one who starts to laugh to raise his or her energy level and become vibrant, laugh. This makes the one telling a joke laugh because there is new joy in the air and they are sharing a joke. Person A caused a change in Person B, and it went back to cause a change in A. Now have you noticed how you feel great after you tell jokes to many people and they laugh; how it feels greater than telling to one person only? And those people take your joke and they tell it on and on to other friends and friends of friends, and it spreads.

Well, the universe is a whole lot more complicated than that. A shift on one part of that massive field of energy ripples on and causes shifts in the parts next to it and they cause shifts in the parts next to them and that ripple goes on forever! Can you imagine that! Your smile changes the composition of the entire universe! Scientifically! Your anger does the same.

Anything you do, any thought you have, ripples on forever and changes the composition of the whole universe, however small that change is.

[And] Because you are part of that universe, that ripple comes back to you and gives you back a dose of similar essence.

That is how, scientifically, the law of cause and effect works, and works multiplicatively. This happens on an energy level and on a spirit level. In both cases, the betterment of one individual in the system causes a betterment of the whole system, and betterment in the whole system causes betterment in the individual. The reverse is also true."
[End of Excerpt]

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