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My buddy Jason Marshall is doing a great offer for a heartfelt cause.

He recently competed in the web’s first competitive reality show,”The Next Internet Millionaire”.

Jason works full time as a one-to-one aide for my “main man” Petey.

Petey is a 12 year old boy who suffers from a fatal disease called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

This disease is causing his muscles to be steadily eaten away.

Coming into his late teens, Petey will experience respiratory failure and live dependent on breathing assistance. Cardiac failure is inevitable and his life span… early twenties.

I’d recommend you checkout this site and help support Petey.

Jason has an amazing deal in which he will use the funds to purchase a special van for Petey.

Check it out:

http://www.ruddyortiz.com/recommends/PartnerwithPetey

Be Blessed,

Ruddy Ortiz

Slave Girl: “What do you want?”
Achilles: “The same things all men want…only I want it more.”
- Troy, 2004

You want financial freedom, do ya? Interesting. *yawn* So do the masses.

Tell me something more important…

How bad do you want it?

Your real and true answer to this question will tell me your likelihood of ever achieving it. I wouldn’t know how honest your answer is of course unless I saw your facial expression when you responded.

Words lie. Faces don’t.

If you and I were sitting down for lunch and you asked me that question, my answer would send shivers down your spine. You would feel my sincerity and determination in the bitter roots of your twisted soul. There would be no doubt in your mind that there is something different about me and the average Joe.

That’s how bad I want it.

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“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life.

The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what

they want.”
- Mark Twain

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What is it that you really want? No matter what your average person might respond to this question with, 9 out of 10 people, in reality, want nothing more than to be comfortable.

That simply is not going to cut it.

This world is not a bed or a couch. It is a battlefield.

This is not Romper Room. This is war.

You know, it’s amazing. Now that we are in 2008 (where did 2007 go?!?!), allot of people tend to reflect on the past 12 months and begin to take inventory.

They start setting new year’s resolutions and thinking about the goals that they want to achieve in the coming new year. This is great. As a matter of fact, I’ll be bold enough to predict that you who are reading this now will be in one of three groups of people come this same time next year:

1. The proud few who will dramatically change their lives by actually setting realistic goals, staying focused, taking massive action and assimilating them into their everyday lifestyles and living out their dreams.

2. The bigger crowd who will start with hopeful wishes to do something different this year but will hardly even think about, let alone take the necessary steps to realize anything barely two weeks into the new year.

3. The biggest group of all- The ones who gave up on dreaming and settle for the “good enough” life that they manage to eek out. They are ok with living paycheck to paycheck, taking a one week vacation once a year (IF their slave master- I mean boss says it’s ok), gaining 50 pounds and letting life just push them around-accepting everything that comes along allowing it to become their destiny.

So sad.

Some even believe that everything that happens, good or bad ,is totally God’s Will for their lives so they don’t even think that trying to change anything is worth the effort! (Not that God doesn’t allow bad things to happen to his children; but not all “bad” things are bad and certainly not all “good” things are good! But that’s for another post…)

Listen to me: If you are one of the rare beings walking around the face of the earth that actually knows without a shadow of doubt that you were made for greatness; if you are like me who has a fire shut up in your bones that doesn’t allow you to settle for the “good life” ; if you are sick and tired of being told how you can live your life, where you can go and what you can and cannot do and you have made a conscious choice to radically change your life this new coming year, then you are the type of person that will appreciate the sheer wisdom that I am about to share with you here today.

Don’t just skim over this article my friend, no no! Cling to every word as if your life depended on it…I can promise you this: if you want to truly experience an explosive 2008, then it actually does!

For most of us, our emotions can be our best friend or our worst enemy. The fact of the matter is if you are going to accomplish anything in your life, you must get emotional about it. Let me explain what I mean.

Emotion is what fuels the thoughts and beliefs that you have inside of you. Emotion is what gives life to your thoughts and perceptions in life and in return, the thoughts and your perceptions of life will continue to feed your emotions, whether in a negative or positive way.

Whatever goal, whatever dream, whatever vision that you have, will never come to fruition unless you first get emotional about it.

Let me give you an example: Let’s say that you wake up one morning and it is cloudy and gloomy outside. The sun is nowhere to be seen. You start walking over to the bathroom sink to brush your teeth and on your way you stub your toe on a corner of the door. Ouch! Then you turn the knob on the sink to run some water to wash your face and …there is no running water for you to use!

At this point most people would say “Boy today is going to be a bad day”. Emotionally they have aligned themselves with the negative perception for the entire day based on circumstances that happened in the first 5 minutes of the day!

And sure enough the day ends up going down a spiral path of energy sucking, non productive situations within their minds and robs them of their victory.

This is because your thoughts, combined with your feelings, are creating your emotions which are literally attracting and creating the effect of the circumstances which you find yourself experiencing each and every minute of each and every day!

When I was a young boy growing up,  I became very impressionable. This turned out to be something that most of the time worked against me since I always seemed to attract the wrong crowd around me.

My grandfather would always tell me "Dime con quíen andas y te dire quien tu eres". Tell me who you associate with and I will tell you who you are. Wow…little did I know just how much wisdom there was and still is in that saying.

We usually hear that “birds of the same feather flock together.” We are subjected to opinions depending on the circle of friends that we keep.

Those words are not just a fancy parable that makes us sound smart when we say it, it is in fact a Law that governs Human Nature!

To prove my point to you, I’m going to encourage you do a quick exercise. I promise that after you do this, your life will never be the same and you will look at how you invest your time and with whom more carefully. Let’s begin!