How you can be successful

How you can be successful

To be successful one must try to eliminate greed, hatred and delusion.

What is greed?

Greed is a desire and pursuit of excessive wealth, things, status, and or power, which they think is of value. Greed is control by our thinking or intention. A split second of greed can cause us tremendous pain and suffering, mentally.

Watch this real life example of greed.

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Greed is the root of all evil, not money. Money is very useful. Since the beginning of time, greed has lead to the destruction of countless lives and nations. Wars, plundering, fighting, why? During that particular era or nation, the general public were told there were not enough of land, food, jobs, commodities etc. We were told by marketers there's not enough of “stuff”, could be oil, food, inventories. Good marketers create a sense of scarcity so the consumers will want that particular 'thing'. Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having humans who have wants and needs in a world of limited resources. It states that society as insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs.

Example:

The movie Total Recall, what were the scarcity? Air that we breath.

Real live examples today are like share market, real estate. Due to greed marketers will create news, reports that certain commodity is getting scarce any everyone should get it for themselves. 

Before the housing bubble in America, everyone whom invest in real estate are feeling great, because their net worth has gone up. The more houses they own coupled with easy and cheap mortgages, the more houses they buy. It's a great formula in a bull market.

Marketers advertise there's scarcity of land and that's why the prices of real estate goes up. But as we can see today, after the bubble burst, what happened? The entire nation is in debts. Were there scarcity of land that caused the rise in real estate in the first place? What happened to the smart real estate investors? If they are smart and rich now, you know they were not greedy and escaped the bubble. Will it happen to other places? Sure, as long as theres greed involved.

Images of greed:

Human are creatures of habits. We should cultivate our selves to be generous. Look at Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, George Soros, Walton Family, Li Ka Shing, Jackie Chan. Tan Sri Vincent Tan from Malaysia pledged to donate at least half his wealth to charity through the “The Giving Pledge” campaign that was initiated by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, his wife Melinda and investor Warren Buffett. Chen Guangbiao, a chinese businessman, pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity when he passes on. Mavis Khoo, Singapore donates millions of her own money to cancer research. Terry Gou, Taiwan's richest man, with a fortune valued at $5.5 billion, said he plans to turn over his wealth to charity before he dies. Focuses much of his philanthropy on health care.

Why are they generous? One will say that “Oh, they have too much money” “Oh, They do it for advertisement” etc. What ever being said, it's their power over money, that's the reason they give. It shows you are in power of money and not the way around.

If we want to be successful we must not let greed delude us. Lets make this world together a better place for you, your love ones and me. Make peace, be kind and be gentle.