The Philosophy for Manifesting Prosperity

Well I'm quite willing to comment it right away, but in fact I have to read the whole text again, then I'll think it in French which is my mother language, and also translate it in spanish for my organization which mostly stands in Colombia, and finally leave you a comment in English. Hope not beeing too long. Thank's anyway. Have a nice day.

If I'm discriminated because of my color then they're the one's missing out, not me. Who knows, I could spend thousands there. Their loss I guess.

Reading a blog written by Randy is so very refreshing. The fact that you can take something as basic as "Free Enterprise" and show how it is your Universal Right to do business with whoever you chose and however you want without government involvement is absolutely correct. The problem that disturbs many with your last paragraph is the truth when exposed hurts. Thank You for keeping us mentally fit. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

"Democracy during the 200 years or so that it lasts, as seen from history, shows us a nation always progresses through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Which phase do you see the USA in currently?

ur right Randy. grate blog Your article is fantastic i read it .

Thanks for the information

More people will shift to this way of thinking or philosophy in the years to come.

Whether the investment company that is palinure Forgot speech in Dubai?

Well, well, well... lookie what we have here....!

You know, if one business or even a group of them, chose to discriminate against dogs, Asians or glue sniffers (for e.g..) etc., there will probably be another that will spring up to cater to this segment of people. Free enterprise is what gives entrepreueur-type people an impetus to study markets and identify niches to target with potential solutions.

And what happens when a solution offered to a problem is accepted by others casting 'buy' votes???

Prosperity...

u r very right Randy. i do business with u if i like and trust u. now if for any reason u don't want my business, my money, my service, because i am black, or green, great! i shouldn't be forced down your throat by some legislation. the day u want me and my kind of people for business, that's the day u've opened up to enlarge your business. that's the day u demonstrate u've grown up!
but trust, someone else, somewhere else, wants, almost desperately, to do business with me and my group....

I'm all for people having the right to not like something. I happen to be gay, and don't expect everyone on earth to like it.

I'm curious to see what people think about this, as this is a tad different from race. It's about who you are intimate with.

Is a gay man wanting the civil rights a heterosexual couple have considered entitlement?

Tired of the government being involved in that too.

P.S.

Reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Amazing book.

Love the fact it says that without innovation the world is basically screwed. (Seems to be something that some of the corporations have forgotten about, that and people).

I toally agree. Government should allow the natural laws of the Universe to function without interference. It's too crazy the super abundance of rules that make no sense. I work for a "temp" service, but we have to pay unemployment when our temp jobs expire. What part of "temp" didn't they get. I should be able to decide who I hire, fire or don't service. If I have a client who doen't want a college student, but a more mature worker why would I send him a college student and make everyone unhappy. Doesn't make any business sense at all. The nautral balance will assert itself if left alone.

GMC

Good looking out.

Well, then what about "I'm looking for an income/business opportunity. Please don't offer MLM"?
This is discrimination par excellence!
But - you live in a free country!
What I think is when you say beforehand that you don't offer something, it is just and fair. Sometimes people don't know what to expect. And, it's much better than to serve anyone and clench your teeths.
As a matter of fact, every business is a discrimination in a way. Because you can't serve everybody. For example, I am a medical doctor and work with homeopathy. I prefer to work with children. But I still accept adults - and often regret it. Now that I hear Randy, should I put a sign "Children only"? Yes and yes - if I believe that this is my calling and that Universe will send me enough parients because I am good enough. No - if I am in this for the money only - welcome anyone...
Same wit MLM - should I sign up all the Rednecks? Been there, done that - nothing good happens.
So you first define what and whom you want in your business and in your life. After all, you are not supposed to marry any woman that asked you.

By regulating everything, this kind of neighbourliness is dead! The great mass of people who do not apply critical thinking only (barely) rise to the expectations placed on them. By turning it into law, government has said: "I will see that these people are looked after" so the rest of the populace don't see the need to assist.
Always thought provoking
Steve

hey Randy..

theoretically your concept looks good.. but i'm a practical guy..

so i just want to know.. in all the locations you've traveled in the world.. did you find a place where they practiced true "free enterprise" (invariably allowing discrimination) - where people at large were happy and successful ........ and was making the society as a whole more happy and successful?

Hahahaha - that made me laugh....

Randy is TRYING to be provaoctative. He got you!

He has nothing against being gay. He's just trying to see what gets a rise in you, so you can check your beliefs.

And yes -the aim IS to see what gets you emotionally so that you can see how your emotions run you, rather than living beliefs that serve you!

Sexist homophobic racists are gonna flock here and LOVE you!!!

:-)

Discrimination is a fact of every day life, wherever we are - in some places it's just a little bit more subtle than in some others. What do I care, I must be blind - can't see the difference between races, ages, sexes; can't figure how anyone could be better than somebody else. We all have the same insides.

It's that it?

Every reason from the real world is sent to you, if you don't like it, you answer with "does that serve you?". Does that means that we have to put our head in the ground about what we don't like? That's great, but for a fairytale story.

And "fags" ? Yes, I would put "No homosexual allowed", but I wouldn't put "No fags allowed" ... Don't you deny their rights by calling them that?

One of the fundamentals of Randy's philosophy is that you shouldn't harm others. Giving people freedom to put a sign outside a restaurant saying no blacks, gays, or redheads doesn't really harm anyone, although some would choose to let it piss them off.

Burning down a black township is a bit different and would have no place in a prosperity mindset. That behavior could only come from fear and lack.

Hey there Tony,

sure there would still be discrimination. I don't see the connection between freedom of choice and an individual being discriminative against another. If anything it's really just an expression of that freedom and I think that's the whole point of this blog post.

I think the whole point is if a controlling government will get out of the way and let "the market" decide what business to reward with their patronage then the market will be served very well.

remember the only way we receive money or this case let's call it business... so the only way we receive business is to add value to the collective (the market). the bigger the collective our business serves the greater we are rewarded.

so the business owner with the "no fags" sign in the window (or whatever) will really only limit themselves (their businesses) by limiting their portion of the collective or market which they can serve or add value too.

make sense?

Now randy your sounding a little crazy. The work of Martin Luther king, Malcolm X , The civil rights movement and others had to demand equal rights. these folks died for people of color to have the right to prosper here in America. Do you know there were many prosperous Black Townships burned down by angry whites. So the idea of prosperity is excellent but if a Black mans prosperity was burned down or killed. Then that is racism gone wild. Give some respect to those who fought and died for the betterment of all. Yes you are correct we can maneuver and make a better lives for ourselves but no one needs to be discriminated against. Laws i think if you lived in a Country where Black Supremacy was the hidden agenda your words would be a little different. Certain laws are created to keep the crazies honest will the stop being crazy, no but the threat of punishment will make them go home. i could give you many examples, be careful on the racism and discrimination issue when you talk to people of color if you don;t believe blacks, asked the Native American. Yeah he has prosperous Casino's now but he once had this prosperous land. Again be careful my Brotha.

Hey, thanks.
I was just talking about word of mouth. I won't even go into what cyberspace can do for or against one's business.
Lucinda

Today I drove by a school and saw kids playing together from different races. Leave kids on their own and racism doesn't exist. They learn racism from others.

Allowing free enterprise to practice racism would be educational to many that racism is okay. That is why it should not be tolerated.

I appreciate extreme examples to sort out the mess, however how free can free enterprise be?

Does anymore imagine truly free enterprise with no constraints. I can certainly imagine some extreme examples of what people are capable of in a 100% free enterprise system that most people would consider unacceptable.

The message "the market place will reach its own level of taking care of people" with the idea that true free enterprise would end discrimination is a bit naive.

Right now there is a huge market for "racism" and a quite profitable niche. That market would just feed itself and get bigger and bigger and influence and educate others, if not constrained.

In a prior blog post you talked about our core beliefs and to examine them.

Well my core belief is that government should be smaller; let the market place sort things out. But when I take a closer look I start to have doubts that allowing free enterprise to be 100% free may not be the answer, that there has to be some rules.

Now my core belief has evolved; free enterprise with some rules, which probably is a contradiction :)

And then when you start to have rules others jump on board and pass more rules until we end up with the convoluted system we have now.

As my head spins I have just one constant, that racism should never be tolerated, even in a free enterprise system.

If free enterprise, if practiced absolutely freely, would eventually sort itself out to the point that there would be no discrimination, why allow discrimination in the first place?

I like the way the blog challenges us to think about the impact a free market can have on a society. The free market will always find a way the service the needs of the people. Yes, the last paragraph was straight forward in your face type of stuff and it may make some people sad..but as entrepreneurs what an awesome way to get wealthy..someone puts as sign up that says they won't serve this group or that group..I have the freedom to put a sign up that says I will..I believe this is free enterprise at it's best.
Thanks Randy, have a blessed day bro

Very perfect.

-RG

I would suggest that you question if that belief serves you.

-RG

I see that all of the comments in the last paragraph were about our hot buttons..I don't believe that our government needs to regulate our everyday activities to ensure that all is fair..Will discrimination ever go away no because we are all different, Racism exists because people are different, gender discrimination exists because we all make different choices, all of these hot button topics cant be resolved because we all differ in what we believe to be important.
Something that I heard once truly works, Teach People Correct Principles and they will eventually work things out, but you must continue to teach. You gotta believe in what you teach and then respect the fact, there are others who will never accept what you teach. But thats the greatest gift we have is to choose. As we continue to allow the governments (local, Federal etc.) to pass laws to require us to do things that are best for all we lose more and more of the greatest gift we have FREEDOM.
A parenting class I once took taught about the law of consequence. The point was that eventually the consequences of our choices will turn us in a direction and we must choose whether it is right or wrong. I know that we want to help others make fewer mistakes, but forcing them to not make mistakes doesn't work. Has killing stopped because there are laws against it, How about Drunk Driving has it stopped, have we won the war on drugs after passing laws and throwing billions upon billions at the problem, Has abortion stopped, Discrimination is it gone, all of these problems still exist yet most of the change has come from Education of the masses and yet we allow education to take back seats to important issue like steroids in baseball, NFL rule changes on and on and on..
Just a thought..

Your final test will certainly give rise to many arguments but only in those who forget to attach it to the real thrust of your message which is, "If you let free enterprise loose without all the government restrictions, requirements, and regulations – the market place will reach its own level of taking care of people".
That is the real message, and so very true. There would certainly be a lot more prosperous people around. How sad is it to know that by putting so many restrictions in peoples' way, so many have let themselves become afraid to realise their true greatness.

Question for you. Why did you use the word discriminate when you said "I think all businesses should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they want!".
If your suggestion to let free enterprise loose really was the status quo then there would be no discrimination.

If I understand the idea, each person has the right to inflict their own prejudices, discriminations and hate on others in the name of personal freedom? What was the outcome when this idea was used in other times or countries? Hitler killed millions justifying it with little more than - those people are different; it’s OK to discriminate against them; it’s actually a good thing to hate them. How many are slaughtered in Africa simply because one tribe has a “prejudice” against another tribe?
At one time in the USA the commonly accepted discrimination was women weren’t smart enough to vote and blacks weren’t even human beings. These things changed when that group got pissed off enough to decide not to take it any more leading to hotly contested legislation. Isn’t the country better because these ideas were no longer acceptable?
Randy, I strongly disagree that it is ever OK to discriminate. Not for moral, ethical or even legal reasons but because of where you end up. The idea that if I don’t like your race/color/gender … I should have the right to discriminate leads to only one place throught history when followed to its logical philosophical conclusion - you are wrong and different – I am right making me better – if I am better than you must be less – if you are less then you don’t deserve the same freedom/respect/protection … History has shown it is a frighteningly small leap from “they are different” to “lets kill them and take what they have”. Is there anywhere you have seen in your world travels that is both prosperous and practices any form of explicit discrimination?
I believe that a person has the right to believe anything they want – even if I would call that belief prejudiced or hateful – but with this right comes the personal responsibility not to inflict those beliefs on me. Don’t want me in your business – that’s your right – but it’s your responsibility to let me in anyway. Go ahead and tell me what you think of me/my kind – I don’t really care – just as long as you let me in.

Hmmm, to me: a jerk is a jerk! It doesn't matter what color the skin, sexual orientation, hair color (even lack of hair) or physical ability. If the person is a jerk, I don't do business with them, and that includes selling my business service to him!

I am sure that somebody out there has no problem doing business with jerks! I would give you mine but I don't have any! I'm associating with the same people that you are plus the ones you don't want!

Just to add, If went into a bar in Harlem, said "hey Bro, Gimme a double" , and two bouncers came over and threw me out into the street, I would not have a problem with that.

I believe that discriminating against someone is morally wrong. It is not fair . I also believe that a person has the right to do so if they so choose. If they run a business, they have the right to sell and restrict their services however they wish.

Oh my ... I wouldn't have guessed that high!

I can understand the argument about over-accommodating people with special interests, whether a handicap or a religious requirement, especially when it comes to the costs for small business.

However I do not agree applying the concept to race or sexual preferences. It creates too many ugly situations.

If I run a business and I am rational, I want to sell to everyone and not allow my emotional responses to people who are different than me affect my bottom line.

Over-accommodating lowers my bottom line, just as racism and homophobia would also.

I am just being honest here, I would not want to live in a world where racism and homophobia was accepted because the "market" will correct and other businesses would accommodate.

Randy, I just love the way you write, and how you approach things and get them into our minds first, touching some issues here and there, stirring up a little, and finally getting us to think and break some old molded thoughts to newly altered beliefs or views. Thanks for being such a unique human being combined with good thoughts and emotions, love, skills, great knowledge coming from your many experiences and super intelligence. You're an absolutely fantastic person and are a great teacher/leader. I know many of us know and agree. I love ya, Randy. Hugs:: Saachi

You are, dear sir, 1,000% correct in your assessments about the disabled and free enterprise. Many will be shocked by your last statement and that is because we have beed droned to death by liberal do-gooders with tons of political correctness. Eventually, all people will be served in some manner if we are allowed to serve them. But when governments force us to serve others in the name of equality and fairness, it becomes next to impossible to please and cater to all. Then again, a govenment has no concern for cost in any form or fashion because, as we are seeing today, as in the past, it answers to no one.

Lets face it, politicians have no responsibility to the people they are supposed to be serving. And those whose duty it is to enforce political responsibility are mostly too busy with their daily lives to care very much about what happens in Washington. Even if we vote the rats out of office in the coming elections, our government will still be on an illogical and unsustainable spending trajectory. There are simply few people alive today with the will to make the required changes in government social-program spending. By nature, all politicians suffer from crooked-neck...that is watching their own behinds.

Randy:

I am giving you specific examples on what has been done in the name of "Free Enterprise" and "Personal Responsability."
I spend 15 years working for a Supermarket where all the managers were white males with a high school diploma.
Women who are 51% of the population couldn't earned more money than white males because of their gender.
The same for Blacks. In your philosophy that's okay because it is the ultimate conclusion to the idea of liberty.
I am not clouding the issue with emotions. I am giving raw,specific facts.
Life as a reality not a philosophy.

perfect.

I have one thing to say about this blog post...

Who is John Galt?

-BJG-

Randy you are right on the money with this. Here in New Zealand local Government have taken this to the exact ridiculous extremes you describe. Even our local farmers markets have been stomped all over because they don't have commercial kitchens and are not in line with health regulations blah blah, these markets are being crippled when they provide a great service with fresh produce, goods being baked by lovely old Nana's who care about people. One nana who was giving a percentage of her market proceeds to a youth suicide charity was shut down because of some pea brained beaurocrat hung up on 'protecting the public' . Frankly, I want the choice to buy where I want be damned, it's my choice. Free market rocks. Government are stifling people everywhere with this crap. Good for you keep sticking it to them and waking people up with a sensible and somewhat provocative stance.Keep it up

True leadership absolutely requires courage, challenge and fresh free thinking. Thanks Randy. I always love the way you get into my head and poke around, stirring up the dust and breaking up any lazy neural pathways.
I live in Australia, the land of 'compassionate capitalism' or democratic socialism. We do take care, officially, of those who can't take care of themselves. Sadly, we found that their families weren't. Sadly also, of course, we now take care of those who WON't take care of themselves. And of course the government loves that, because when you are fed by the kind giant, you always vote for the kind giant.
I totally agree that business needs to be completely free enterprise. Free to open any day or night, free to employ whom they wish and serve whom they wish. It needs to be a commercial decision how to operate, not a moral, ethical or political decision. My passion is ethical and moral business. But the best morality is empowerment, not imprisonment.
Love you
Catherine

hmm, I don't know what you are heading for. You will probably give me one of your 'aha' moment I will keep for the rest of my life. I actually read it a few times but the thing that comes to my mind is....true prosperity is about freedom of choice in all aspects of life. Live in abundance on all levels. So it is YOUR choice wether to be offended by it and how you react on it.

This post is I believe about prosperity not racism and the black and white issue, steeling peoples freedom in slavery or business opportunities. Quite the contrary so I look forward to your next post! I am cracking my brains on this one in total honesty! Let's see how my belief and prosperity mindset is and if it even slightly strokes your.

whoa - the mind police rushed in and there was an immediate struggle for mind equilibrium!
I deal with the mentioned A.D.A. Compliance litigation waged against small businesses on an all too regular basis. Conversely I rarely come across a person with disabilities or physical limitations who doesn't share your philosophy, Randy - 'if a business doesn't want my business, then I don't want to use their services nor buy their products'. The contrary of that are those vexatious litigants who make a living targeting the businesses who haven't caught up to the federal and state requirements - putting them out of business. A process of elimination is a process of discrimination. You cannot legislate that away for the massage of a law-makers' guilt. People with disabilities do it as well.
Point well taken, thanks.

Ah, free enterprise. The corporate fat cats give themselves big huge bonuses as the country crumbles around them.

Do I want to be rich? Yes. Do I want to be rich at the expense of others? No.

There just doesn't seem to be a happy medium!

Randy,

Once again you have hit the nail on the head. When will all the political correctness just calm down! Thanks for keeping it REAL!

Rick

I remember waaaay back before mandatory wheelchair ramps, I'd be sitting in a restaurant, and a person in a wheelchair would approach the steps. I would almost get trampled as nearly everyone got up out of their seats in a mad rush to the door. The first four people out would each grab a corner of the wheelchair, and carry the person up the stairs, chair and all, into the restaurant. None of this dignity crap - the person in the wheelchair was always grateful, and the people doing the lifting were more than happy to help. It all happened spontaneously. People used to look out for each other. But that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

i absolutely agree with your post. anyone who sees it differently is infected with the notion that government can somehow give us rights. government is not the giver of rights. your example of the disabilities act is the essence of the rule of unintended consequences.

I am trying to understand what you are trying to say but you will explain it tomorrow! I know for sure you are not a rascist or against people in wheelchair or anything else crazy that people without consiousness can think of. So where is the freedom, the point, the future in what you are saying? I am courious!!!I guess it has more to do with me who pass by that window where I read:We don´t want asians. Because to get real prosperity, you have to make room for it, right? And where that lack is, a room will be created where my true feeling for the real in this world can be created...

You are clouding the issue with emotion again, which is the exact thing I warned about yesterday. You're talking about school systems funded by tax dollars taken from everybody, versus a private cafe or beauty shop that someone would set up on their own.

-RG