How to Lose Wealth, Love and Happiness

Hilda's blog on 8/29 on "The Joy of Doing What We Need to Do" and the exchange between her and Christabelle started me on a train of thought. Like Christabelle, I am a flower lover and they provide a significant part of my daily "warm fuzzies". In Oklahoma we have a short growing season so we see a rapid transition from seed to plant to bud to bloom to fade and replacement by the next beautiful flower. Like our own life, we can influence that some by having it in the best environment for it, giving it proper feeding and watering and protecting it from insects and other threats. But we cannot double it's life span or keep it forever. Just like our life, isn't it?

I, like a lot of others, have enjoyed watching Hilda's and numerous others blossom and bloom as a result of their exposure to a different type of thinking in the environment Kyle and Carson have created among WA members. Very frequently we come in wondering how much we can make and how soon we can get it and before long we are feeling more concern for others and trying to find ways to be helpful to others as we continue our growth and begin to first blossom and then to bloom. How many times have we seen from someone new on the scene and asking how soon can I make some bucks and how many can I make and caring members with our "fixed" response...focus on the lessons, do them thoroughly and don't move on without doing the assignments and understanding each.

Kyle mentioned, at one point, if you want to know about the path ahead ask someone coming back. So now to my point in hoping to be helpful to a person or two.

The hardest I have cried in my life was at about age 5 when I lost a nickel on the way to get an ice cream cone. I looked for it and cried for 3-4 hrs. because it had been a couple of months since my last one and I had no idea when the next would be. It was a big deal. I have been a millionaire a couple of times and I was able to cure that condition with divorce and a couple of other poor investments. I have had love and was able to get rid of that and by combining these skills I was able to get rid of happiness.

The good news is that, by trial and error, I have been able to grow myself enough to allow me to regain some of all of these and to have a life that I can truly love moment by moment and day by day. Here is what I hope may be helpful to some, as you prepare yourself, to achieve and to have all you feel you want. Prepare yourself for them, clarify their place in your life and please realize and believe that the more you can help others have what they need and want the more rewarded you will be in every way.

Develop a self that you can love because if you can't love you it is unlikely that some other will be able to. If you want love learn to give it and to nourish it so it can grow. Don't use it just to see how much you can get from it. If you have health learn to sustain it and to help your body by providing what it needs to maintain it. As you develop wealth learn to put your money to work so it can grow and use it to do good things so it also can be happier and want to stay with you. And lo and behold, if you do these things you will be filled with and surrounded by happiness and it will be your constant companion. If you have things you love hold them gently without squeezing so they can be with you by choice rather than because of a fear of leaving.

My best to each of you. Hilda is going to have a great week because she has planned to. After all....that is how we get them, isn't it?

Harold