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 March 23, 2005

The Prosperity of a Nation and Creating Positive Social Change

What a powerful observation. In other words, it is to our benefit for everyone to be successful and wealthy. We don’t have to compete against each other for scarce resources.

I would also like to add this observation:

The quality of our world depends upon the quality our thoughts as individuals. If the majority of individuals are positive and successful, then society itself will naturally be positive, successful, and prosperous. If the majority of people are negative, hateful, and unsuccessful, then people will live in unhappy, unsuccessful, perhaps even dire circumstances. “As a ‘Society’ Thinketh…” It is simple cause and effect.

When you look at it this way, it is as if we each have an individual responsibility to be positive and successful and to help others be positive and successful.

If you will take the initiative to condition your mind be positive, to help other people, to be successful, to fill your life with happiness, then I have accomplished one of my primary objectives for my work. If you also unselfishly share this information with others, with no thought of personal gain for yourself, and it helps them, then my purpose is truly fulfilled. For you see, if you help two people, and they help two people…through the miraculous power of compound growth, we can create massive social improvement that will spread throughout the world.

According to my calculations, starting with just 2 people, at just a 3.75% daily compound growth rate, we can easily reach 1 million people in a year. How would our world improve if millions of people around the world adopted this philosophy?

If you doubt that we can help millions, here’s the formula for compound growth:

FV=PV(1+r)^n

• FV=Future Value
• PV=Present Value (in this case 2)
• r=Compound Growth Rate (in this case 3.75%)
• n=Number of Compounding Periods (in this case 365 days)--I'm using the "^" symbol to indicate that this is an exponent. For example, 2^3= 2 x 2 x 2 =8.

If we solve the equation,

• FV=2(1+.0375)^365
• FV=2 (1.0375)^365
• FV=2 (684,949)
• FV= 1,369,898 people reached in one year.

Perhaps this is “utopian.” Perhaps this is “unrealistic.” But how will we know unless we try? If we all do a little, then together we can accomplish a lot. We now live in the world of the internet where accomplishments such as this are not nearly as difficult as they used to be. The internet is the democratization of information for both readers and self-publishers. Never before has it been so easy or inexpensive to reach a mass world-wide audience.

For example, according to my latest web statistics, I have already reached over 75,000 people in at least 18 different countries—all from the comfort of my living room. Isn’t this goal worth just a little bit of extra effort?

Just to be clear, this is not about me and my website, book, or recordings. This is about all of us working together in harmony to improve our lives and our world.

Together we can make the world a more positive place, one person at a time.