Working On a New Book--Will You Buy It?

In my "spare time," I'm working on my next book. The working title (and I believe it will be the actual title because I haven't come up with anything better in two months, and I like it a lot) is "SETTLE FOR BEST: Why ‘Settling for Less’ Will Never Satisfy the Winner You Were Born to Be". I'm at least a third of the way through it, I think, and averaging 3K words every time I tackle it (every few days recently).

It's premised on the list of mindsets and actions that Napoleon Hill discovered when he interviewed and studied the "self-made" millionaires who existed before, during and after the Great Depression. The same attributes serve today when it comes to the mindsets and actions of successful people. 

As a lifelong self-help book aficionado, I'm putting my own spin on Napoleon Hill's findings to make the book both a primer and a word of encouragement to those who have leaned their ladder up against the wrong wall (professionally or in any other way) for much of their lives (or not) and now want to pursue the courses of action that their spirits have been prompting them to follow since they were little. 

The new book resonates with me because I finally followed the prompting of my own spirit (five years ago) and dedicated myself to becoming a full time professional writer and I've never been happier. I want readers to feel the thrill of pursuing your lifelong goals, too, if you aren't already (although I pray you are!). 

What they say is true: "Do what you love; the money will follow."  It's true, I surmise, because doing what you love is such a joy that you  keep doing it pretty much non-stop, waaaayyy more enthusiastically than you'd do anything else, and enthusiasm and dedication like that is rewarded on earth and in the spiritual realm!  I bet the angels sing when we do what we're here to do... and I bet God smiles, too.

I'm on chapter eight or nine.  Each chapter is short; just two pages, so far. One or more of the future chapters might exceed that; I didn't start out thinking I'd make each chapter two pages long; it has just worked out that way so far. There will be at least 22 chapters, I think, because Napoleon Hill listed 20 kindred mindsets of wealthy individuals.

Incidentally, I'm happy to note, NONE of the 20 mindsets and actions have anything to do with politics as we see it practiced today. I found that very refreshing.  If I had to do what many so-called "self-made" millionaires do today to get rich (use/screw the poor of all ages in other countries in sweatshops and the poor and middle class in this country by using them up for too little in return) I'd prefer to remain poor and honorable to "filthy" rich. 

To be sure: I'm not against money; if you are, send me yours!   I'm against those who will do anything to anyone to get more of it and then hoard it abroad in off shore bank accounts, skip out on their fair share of taxes, and do as little else for America as they can possibly get away with. To me, that's a return to  Gilded Age/Robber Baron principles. No one has to do that to get ahead; it's just easier that way: the "lowly" serfs and wage slaves make the products and deliver the services while the wealthy sit on their asses, drink sherry, play golf, and laugh.

I hope anyone who reads my book and gets rich will remember what I think of rich people who contribute too little to society. I like to think that the folks who read my book will want to get rich for all the right reasons: to make a real contribution to the world, both with their passion and product or service and with at least 10% of the profits they make from them. Ideally, I'd like them to get so rich that they are able to "reverse tithe" and give away 90% and keep just 10% for themslves and their progeny. 

I salute Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the too few other gazillionaires who use their money to bless people, not to rape and pillage them and the planet.

Money is amoral. It's a medium of exchange. You can exchange it for good things or for bad things. It takes on the character of the person who has it...

I'm all for getting more of it. I have splendid plans for it...and very few of them revolve around me!