"That's Peanuts!"

The day my mother handed me a bag of nuts and why I should’ve never assumed what it was she was trying to tell me. It fascinates me and used to scare the living hell out of me how a perspective from one person to another can be as different as night and day when it comes down to anything especially something as small as peanuts. When you spend a lot of time pondering the universes vastness you can get a whole lot out of a nut. Can you imagine how complicated life would be if every food built up consequences in your life like the principle of cause and effect? The food nightmare began with a nut yeah probably me. How does a person go from, l would eat peanuts for the rest of my life to get my family back, to peanuts aren’t that great? A paradigm shift in the mind and a huge misunderstanding—a nightmare that lasted for nearly 5 months of my life. Free at last, free at last, this wasn’t, “I have a dream.” It’s mind boggling how many perspectives I had on food in error and now I’m free and healthier.

For years I gave my uncle peanuts as a gift because my mother said he liked them. This same uncle who never had kids, who speaks fluent German, who escaped the military, and knows quite a bit more than he’ll ever admit. We learn so much from our parents and sometimes we follow and other times we have to lead. I was thinking…are nuts really a good source of protein or are they full in saturated fats? Remember that saying, “It’s the thought that counts?” That statement is more true now in my life than ever. The thoughts we have can make us or break us, imprison us or free us, starve us or feed us and definitely plant seeds in our mind that will produce what we sow. Like the law of gravity it doesn’t care, it just is. If you wake up and say it’s going to be a wonderful day, you’ve already decided what kind of day you’re going to have and the opposite is true as well. This is where the power of intention can form your life taking you from struggle to success, broke to rich, and the pursuit of happiness into a fixed reality.

Many times I’ve heard other people refer to poverty to peanuts. Like “that’s peanuts” or “chump change” meaning very little money. These sayings go way back and started with an idea, a thought, and thoughts are things. Every good idea starts with a thought and the power is endless. What we give out comes back and why I like to share and also why I’m going to be very successful in this life time. And so will you if you take these principles and apply them to your day-to-day living. If my mother knew I was going to misunderstand her that day she handed me a bag of nuts, maybe she would have thought to give me something else. But I don’t blame her, I learned a valuable lesson—be a leader not a follower and don’t always assume, clarify. Actions do speak louder than words and why I was just trying to get some direction or guidance but I’ve unfortunately had to learn everything the hard way up until recent.

I stared at my half-eaten jar of peanuts and I got this crazy idea. What if each one of those peanuts was worth a thousand dollars? Then, I thought, what if each one represented a new idea? Even crazier, what if every time I ate a peanut, I got a new idea? The Power of belief. Are peanuts not a food from the earth created by a powerful creator? A natural food. Natural Law so fascinates my mind in all its wonders. Yes, that jar of nuts probably produced in a factory but what if I am telling my subconscious that every time I eat a peanut, I am obtaining a new idea from the earth and the matter of the universe? So I know you’re wondering…what happened when I ate one peanut. It was good but I wanted more so I ate a handful. I realized that if those peanuts were each worth a thousand dollars, I wouldn’t have eaten them, I would have saved them. Is there really a difference between a jar of peanuts and thousands of dollars? I don’t eat money, I thought. But we do every day. We buy food and them we eat it. I’m always thinking of ways to turn a quarter or a dollar into a hundred or more. I accomplish it with my book business, buying and selling. But I often think “that’s peanuts!” I’m still dealing in peanuts “small money”. I longed to do more on a larger scale. I was saving money but to reach my goal of ten million dollars, I had to get creative. How could I turn those peanuts into money? This is how I think every day. So as I eat up those good ideas, I fill my jars with chump change—saving more money. Great idea!!! How much money could I get out of one jar of peanuts? I wondered. But this was still too small, I was starting small but I had to think bigger.

This big idea was going to create more money with less consumption and less saturated fat. I knew that I needed more assets and not liabilities. Assets pay you money and liabilities cost you money. You know that saying, “time is money,” I’m not sure how true it is because you can replace money but never get the time you use back again. So I discovered that time is much more valuable than money. And, I also knew why I was saving ten thousand dollars in a short amount of time. Why? Because I wanted more time to focus on the things I enjoy doing with my time. Ironic isn’t it? Because I don’t currently have a vehicle, I occasionally pay a taxi and also do a lot of walking. Currently, I work in two different cities so the other night I decided to stay the night in a coffee shop so I could save the money on a taxi and get some work done. In my mind, instead of paying a driver, I will pay myself—like a job and spend my time writing. Well, I may have saved the money but I was so physically exhausted the next day. It wasn’t worth it. Sleep is valuable to your health and well-being and is also worth paying for. My health was more valuable than a small paycheck to myself. But this whole idea of paying myself—I knew I was on the right track. Investing in myself, looking for assets and opportunities. Check out my other blog here: https://howtobeamillionaire76.blogspot.com/