Happiness is not pleasure.  I only comes when you work at it and sacrifice now for a better future.  There is more to happiness than what most people think.  It is never easy, because it can not be.  Years ago I would never have understood how to become happy.  Instead it came on its own.

This episode is about the importance of improving yourself and less on expecting the government to solve our personal or even national problems.  Improve yourself and the world will improve with you.  

Sometimes the best way to advance above the competition is to Leapfrog over them to a hire level.  But only if you are prepared and able to offer full Commitment to your business.  Unless you are able to take on every major problem as if it is a life or death situation, your mind wont be able to find an answer.  Focus only on what you can do and not on what others claim to have done better. 

Confrontation.  Its something we all want to avoid whenever possible but many times it is just what we need in our lives.  We almost always find out that we are stronger than we think we are when faced with a challenge.  But avoiding a nagging situation or personal confrontation it continues to eat away at us inside.  You may think that eventually the issue will pass as the years go by but the loss in productivity you suffer each day until then diminishes your performance each and every day in between.  Its hard but we can do it.  Sometimes a little at a time if possible.   Stanley Diaz [email protected]

Not geting enough sleep will retard your mind's abillity to think.  What does it mean to "Think", in the first place?  I learned a graphic example of the effects of lack of sleep on the abillity to think at a late night job for two weeeks. 

So often people think that they can instantly change complex parts of society with laws governing race, climate, equality of outcomes, and so many social causes without being appreciative of what those same institutions have provided based on many years of very complex evolution.  If you want to improve society start with the individual.  Start with you and then it will be so much easier for the world to improve with you.

Every obstacle can be a great opportunity in life but only if we take ACTION.  The problem is that even though we know what action we need to take or what action we need to avoid, our minds will talk us out of it within the first few seconds of thinking aboout it.  One way to overcome this weakness of will is to count down within the first 5 seconds and burst into action.  Once you have started moving it is much easier to continue. Stanley Diaz

This true story tells the importance of being honest in all your dealings.  It is impossible to cheat someone without cheating yourself at the same time.  This will hold you back.  Allways get your monkey with a chain. Stanley Diaz

This is a short introduction in how I got into the rental real estate business.  Most great fortunes involve real estate but it can be a hard business as well.  The advantage to it is that almost anyone can get real estate and eventually grow wealthy.  I did.  I could have done it a whole lot better but atleast i persevered and succeeded.  Its something to think about.

Setting goals is very important IF they are aligned with your purpose in life.  The key is to constantly ask yourself better and better questions.  Asking better questions is more important than the answers you may have at the time.  Eventually the right questions will get you the answers you need. Stanley Diaz