| Are you a rich successful guy, or do you think you | | | | trust them because you know you are not being |
| can't find the person you want because you don't | | | | yourself. You may also attract the same kind of |
| have enough money? Does it seem like having more | | | | person. |
| success would bring you more dates? | | | | *Am I lucky? |
| One guy I met recently told me that he has to drive an | | | | Luck is when preparation and hard work meet |
| expensive new car, even though he can't afford it. He | | | | opportunity. When two people meet who have earned |
| thinks the car will attract dates for him. I also met a | | | | what they have, their chances of happiness are |
| young woman who thinks that guys only care about | | | | strong. Romantic love has a good chance of surviving |
| how someone looks so she spends most of her time | | | | if it exists between equals. Both people need to be |
| shopping. What she is really shopping for is a guy who | | | | able to take care of themselves. One of them cannot |
| can afford to take care of her. | | | | be looking for a free ride. |
| Since both of these people share the perspective that | | | | *Do I have a career plan? |
| it is their presentation that matters most, if they aren't | | | | What do you want to accomplish in your life? Where |
| careful, they may run into each other. | | | | are your talents and your deep interests? What do |
| If you are not a rich guy, and if you are tempted to act | | | | you need to do to develop the skills that can get you |
| like you are, you are not living the truth. What kind of a | | | | what you want? Do you need to go back to school, |
| girl do you think you will attract? If you are a woman | | | | take a course online, or find a teacher to mentor you? |
| and your self worth is tied to your looks, what kind of | | | | You may have abilities that just need to be polished |
| a guy do you think you will find? You might want to | | | | and presented in new ways. |
| stop and think about what you are doing. Ask yourself | | | | The young man and woman who wanted cars and |
| the following questions: | | | | clothes to make them look good were heading down |
| *What does rich mean to me? | | | | a road to disillusionment. If they had found each other, |
| If you are trying to get noticed for what you wear or | | | | both of them would have blamed the other for their |
| drive or own, you will always be a beggar. Because | | | | unhappiness. |
| essentially, what you are doing is begging for attention | | | | Finding the life you want and the love you long for |
| to feel worthy. You will never find the love you want | | | | won't be achieved through deception. Most of us know |
| by believing that you are your possessions. | | | | that it isn't the quantity of goods that we have that |
| *What kind of person do I want to spend my life with? | | | | would make us loveable, but rather, the quality of our |
| If someone is attracted to you for your possessions, | | | | life that makes us attractive. So...get ready to embrace |
| or how you look, you will never feel safe with them. If | | | | your new life. Your happier, honest, fulfilling new life. It is |
| they are drawn to your false presentation, you will not | | | | possible--and you deserve it. |