Summary

The author of the article expresses skepticism about quick-fix solutions to success and happiness, emphasizing the importance of personal intuition and the potential of manifesting desires through positive thinking and belief.

Abstract

The article titled "Anyone Got a Match?" reflects on the author's disillusionment with common success blogs and motivational advice, particularly those promising easy wealth and happiness. The author, who has come to realize that true success cannot be found in the advice of others, encourages readers to trust their own gut and intuition. While acknowledging the value of courses and webinars for learning, the author stresses the need for personal discernment before investing money in such advice. The piece suggests that most success advice is a "false promise," as humans naturally question and think independently. The author finds solace in writing fiction and blog posts, hoping to grow an audience and eventually make a living from it. Despite struggles, the author advocates for the importance of believing in a better future, drawing on the teachings from the book "Ask and It Is Given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which promotes the idea that one can manifest desires by feeling and thinking about them simultaneously. The article concludes with a biblical quote from Isaiah 42:16, reinforcing the message of hope and faith in better days ahead.

Opinions

The author is critical of the motivational blogosphere, especially those claiming to hold the secret to wealth and happiness.
Trusting one's own intuition and doing personal due diligence is seen as more valuable than following the advice of so-called success gurus.
The author believes that the promise of easy success through following someone else's advice is generally a false one.
There is skepticism about the effectiveness of self-help materials, with a warning to be wary of spending money on them.
The article suggests that personal success is not about imitating others but about finding what is important to the individual.
The author envies those who can naturally motivate themselves and maintain a positive outlook.
The concept of manifesting desires through feeling and thought, as presented in "Ask and It Is Given," is endorsed by the author.
The author finds traditional axioms like "work hard play hard" and "no pain no gain" to be challenged by the idea that achieving desires can be easy.
A quote from the Bible is used to support the article's overarching theme of hope and the belief that things will improve.

Anyone Got a Match?

Because sometimes I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel…

I wish I could believe in one of those top ten blogs, those hustles, those crazy words written by some 25-year-old-maniac-who-made-a-million-dollars, but no way Jose, that’s not where it’s at for me. (A Hint: Tony Robbins and Jim Rohn already covered all this kind of stuff and do it better than anyone else on the blog-o-sphere I might add. You can go listen to their sage advice on YouTube, for free, all day long if you want to). In the past I often thought other people had the answers. I thought groups of people had the answers that I didn’t have. This was wrong. If you believe someone else can tell you how to be successful and happy then you will end up broke, paying them big bucks, or you’ll end up broke by imitating what the Jones’s bought.

“Surely if it’s good enough for the Jones’s it’s good enough for me?” you’re thinking.

It ain’t. I think there are courses and webinars that can teach you important things, but you really, really, really have to do you own due diligence before you pull out your wallet. I read some sales fodder recently that said a person has to see something seven times before they buy it. If that’s correct then you should take that number and triple it before you ever spend you’re hard earned money on any advice on getting rich. Most everything sold is a false promise and it will usually fall flat because humans don’t do what we’re told automatically like a robot, whether it’s advice on how to make money or how to be happy. We human “beans” ask questions and most importantly we think for ourselves.

Nowadays, I’m real good at following my own gut and my own intuition. I’m writing fiction and blog posts and that’s what’s important to me, right now, and a few people are reading what I write and I hope in the future I will learn how to get more and more people to read me and then one day I might find myself making a living at it.

Because that would be cool! Trying to figure out what’s important to you is just way better than just giving up.

It just is. There’s always someone worse off than me, I believe it, but whatever. We all feel what we feel, and that’s what we’re feeling and we always have to start there. In fact, I envy people that habitually see the light at the end of the tunnel. I envy anyone who has the ability to cheer themselves up, to motivate themselves, every single day.

You know the type. They’re dressed like they’re going to go run a marathon, but really they’re just doing every day things with a big fat smile on their face.

They’re so lucky to have a body and a brain that’s chemically balanced!

Lately, I think my main problem is a giant bout of stubbornness I inherited somewhere and often times it leaves me feeling like molasses and I get this dreaded feeling of not knowing what to do next.

I think the biggest idea I’ve been trying to digest and implement, without much success, is how you don’t have to see it to believe it!

This idea comes from an encouraging book, and you should do yourself a favor and read it yourself, called Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, the teachings of Abraham.

This book is weird and wonderful all at the same time and has some of the most valuable information on the planet about how to obtain your desires and how to be happy and, get this, according to them… It’s easy!

I’ve watched them a lot on YouTube as well and their message encourages you to relax and not stress out about anything, which I personally need to hear.

This goes against the age old saying of the opposite, work hard play hard, no pain no gain, you have to see it to believe it, right?

According to the authors you don’t need to see it to believe it. You need to feel it and think it at the same time like say you want some money. How would you feel if you already had this money you want? Excited? Happy? Rich?

Imagine what it feels like!

For example, a cool thing to do might be to think about what you would buy and how you would feel buying it and acquiring it.

This the gist of this book and I gotta say I love these kind of ideas about manifesting. It’s a blessing to have such practical advice out there. Made available just to help cheer yourself up everyday and believe in yourself and your future.

I also really like this quote form the Bible, which helps me when I struggle.

“I will guide you. I will turn darkness into light before you and make the rough places smooth.”

Isaiah 42:16

So believe things will get better and not worse!

You must have faith and hope that better things are coming down the pipe! Apparently, the best thing I could do today is to start to believe in my future, and that it will only get better and better, so you should do this too!