The only two people you need to please

About every ten years (apparently) I go back to the most foundational success teachings of my youth. My mom got be started in this, God bless her. She trained me on THINK AND GROW RICH, THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING, PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS, THE GOLDEN KEY, ACRES OF DIAMONDS, THE STRANGEST SECRET and on and on. She played them on LPs until I was SICK of hearing them. But you know what? I had my own ideas about success, and they were badly flawed because I was being protected by HER. She was the one who had to clip dandelion greens off our law to have vegetables. SHE was the one who tried raising chinchillas and parakeets and making paper dolls and selling encyclopedias trying to fill in the bills…and the one who screamed in her nightmares that her bills were chasing her in the form of the Frankenstein monster and the Wolfman.

The teachings helped her build a castle, but it was built atop a cess pool of fear and oppression, and the things that crawled up from the basement to devil her dreams were enough to destroy her happiness…but not enough to stop a single divorced woman from raising two children.

Without her burdens, and having access earlier in my life, my application took me further. And what I want is for my children to be free to choose the lives that please them.

In my 20’s, I dove into self-improvement materials by people like Dennis Waitley, Jim Rohn, and Brian Tracey. Later, Tony Robbins appeared bringing a genius for synthesizing, a pro athlete’s physicality, and vast charisma with…