Located in Jeffersonville, IN

DESIRE

What is it?

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Ever hear, "You get what you pay for?"  It is always understood in a negative sense, yet it is a POSITIVE affirmation! 

The saying is designed to cause you to evaluate cost to value ratio (Is it worth it?). 

 

My mother always found the cheapest way of doing things. Please note, I draw a distinct line between the words cheap and inexpensive.

 

She achieved everything she set out to do, only it cost her 3 to 5 times as much and took 10 times longer to achieve it!  She ALWAYS looked for the cheap to free deals but the cost to value ratio was never right; hence, her homes ended up being warehouses for her junk.

 

This is the way most people are with their hopes and dreams.  They are afraid to go for the risk, what actually COSTS, feeling they can get by with FREE or CHEAP.  The problem is it COSTS 3 to 5 times more than to go for quality in the first place! 

 

Quality can be found at inexpensive costs, one does not have to pay through the nose to get it.  Sometimes the cost seems high e.g. your friends or family will ridicule you. 

 

When you STOP looking for a hand out (freebies) and produce a real internal desire to succeed, people of influence will be drawn to you and offer you a hand UP. (If you don't understand this,

go back and read "The Science of Getting Rich" (You did get it before reading this page didn't you?) Get it now

 

Notice, I said a "REAL INTERNAL DESIRE" and not just a "SINCERE DESIRE."  Millions of people have a "sincere" desire for better things, more money, etc... but they never DO anything to move toward it.

 

Example:  Say you fell into a deep dry well, you may have a sincere desire to get out.  You may even attempt to climb the wall a time or two.  But, you feel that if you shout loud enough and wait long enough, someone will come along and get you out (You also just might die in that condition).

 

Here is the problem; it is a DRY well. 

 

The traffic to it by those who know it is dry is zero (there is no water to draw). 

Should someone else like you happen by, they may have a sincere desire to see you get out of the well.  But, should things change and the well begin falling in on itself, your sincere desire may turn into a real INTERNALIZED desire and you will decide NOT to die under the crushing weight of the ground above you.  You will claw, scrape, or what ever it takes to stay above the falling debris.

 

A sincere desire produces no action, only a sympathetic view to the end result, not the action itself required to achieve it.  On the other hand a real INTERNALIZED desire acts as a catalyst to motivate you into action. 

 

Example: What person has sat and watched pictures of a child in other countries with flies on their face and not had a sincere desire that hunger was eradicated and the child was fed? 

 

Did you reach for the phone instead of reaching for the iced tea and sighing, "man, that's terrible?"  Most likely not.

 

There you sat with a sincere desire to help, and the child with a sincere desire to be fed and neither makes a move to action.  End result; nothing. 

 

The child has been trained (by his environment) to accept this as his/her lot in life. Wait on the government or a handout from some 'good' person. 

 

What if the child was taught to hunt, work for wages, farm etc... ? 

He would not be on your TV set as bait for your money. 

Every country has its poor population (Matt 26:11 "For ye have the poor always with you").

 

It is not shameful to get wealth in a world such as ours. 

 

I have internalized a desire to help people improve their lives, and at the same time resolved never to fall victim to the guilt trip that I MUST BE poor in order to be good. 

 

Just because evil has no conscience about being rich and allowing others to be poor, doesn't mean that having wealth is evil.  On the contrary, if I am poor how can I help others? 

Shall I beg to help others stop begging?

 

Look at North America, the greatest nation on the face of God's earth.  Yet, the majority of her citizens are low income to poverty stricken.  For NO OTHER REASON than they are taught that this is their lot in life.  They then grow up with only a sincere desire to have better. 

 

They are strung along by companies that provide a exploit that desire with a false, easy avenue for their desire to achieve more by promising rewards. 

In the end, it is still only a carrot on the end of a stick.

 

Again, I ask; "are you ready to take the harness off, grab the carrot, and walk away from the Boss who enslaved you?"  If so, let's go!

 

Ron Harvey

 

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