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Yes, success is difficult, but that doesn’t mean that the journey has to be unpleasant.  A puzzle can be difficult and challenging – that’s what makes it fun!   Having a baby can be hard – that’s what makes it a life changing experience!  A safari through the jungle can be treacherous – that’s what makes it exciting!!

It is the obstacles, the roadblocks and the unexpected difficulties that make any adventure worth remembering.  Your climb to success is no different.

You will never see the beauty of the jungle, if you don’t see some quicksand.  You will never feel the breeze at the top of a mountain, if you don’t feel the sweat on the climb up.  Make your life an adventure and savor every experience!!  Keep charging!!

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

You will never see the beauty of the jungle, if you never see the quicksand.

There are lots of negative people out there who don’t want to see you succeed.  They are cows.  Avoid them!!  Success is hard enough without having whiners infect your world.

It may sound harsh, but you can’t afford to have even one cow for a friend.  All it takes is one drop of ink to discolor gallons of fresh water.  One pinch of strychnine could kill you.  One cow friend could be the one torpedo capable of stopping you in your tracks.  Don’t risk it!

And don’t worry about what your “friends” think.  If no one is talking behind your back, you are doing nothing with your life.  If there are no cows secretly hoping that you fail, you have already failed.

You don’t take the first step towards success until you take the first step away from the herd of cattle who just want you to hang with them stepping in each other’s manure.  For excitement, they chew their food twice.  Is that how you want to live?

Get out in the jungle as a Rhinoceros and keep charging!!!!

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

They look harmless, but negativity kills!

Have you ever heard that the wealthy accumulate wealth by exploiting the poor?  This is typical of the disingenuous rhetoric that liberals like Obama use to divide people into competing groups or races.

If you understand the one rule of free enterprise – You must give to get – you can see that it is the ones who choose not to contribute (the poor) who exploit those who do get off their butts and try to be successful, despite having a government that demonizes them and will tax any productive work they do.

The poor have nothing to exploit!  It is the contributors, the people that work for a living, the productive members of society that provide the poor their welfare payments.  That is exploitation!

These “poor” people are not homeless in the streets with nothing to eat. They are in heated, air conditioned houses with plenty of food, phones and television sets.  They are poor because they have been robbed of their self-esteem, their initiative and the drive to be free by having the government continue to change their diapers, feed them, and now take their temperature.

As the government grows, it focuses on taking care of more people, because that means that they get to steal more money from you and I to pay for their voting bloc … I mean the poor.

I don’t see this as turning out well.  The best thing you can do for yourself and for our country is to get rich.  Yes, you will be exploited.  Your money will be confiscated to pay for those who have given their souls to a government that is intent on “transforming” the United States into a third world cow pasture.  But, the movie is not over yet.  There is always a chance that the good guys will win.  Keep fighting, keep giving and keep charging!!

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

We are quickly approaching this point.

Motivation is the condition of being motivated.  Being motivated means having a motive, and a motive is something that is going to cause you to take action.  You have got to have a reason to get up on Monday morning with excitement, otherwise it is easier just to be a cow grazing in the pasture.   No reason equals no motivation.  No why means no way.

Rhinos have a purpose.  They have a target that they are charging toward.  They wake up in the morning with a damn-the-torpedoes spirit, and when they get hit by a torpedo, they get back up and continue charging.  That’s what a motive does for you.

What is your motive, your passion, your reason?  If you don’t have one, that explains why you enjoy hanging around in the manure and chewing your cud with the other cows.  Nothing wrong with that lifestyle… we need  cows!  They provide a scenic view on our drives through the country, they provide milk and meat for us Rhinos, and cow hides make great wallets.

Be a cow or a Rhino.  It’s your choice.  My recommendation is to take a walk on the Rhino side.  Find your passion, change your world and make a difference.  Keep charging!!

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

Find your reason and charge!!!

I must be the only motivational author who will admit the truth – Success is difficult!  Yes, I am aware of the competing theories that say “if you think it is easy, it will be easy.”  Well, try it.  Anything that might help should be given a shot, but to say that success is easy is cheapening it.

Success is tough.  If success were easy, and all you have to do is some mental mind trick, everybody would be successful.  But, in reality, you have to have the right attitude and then go out and DO something!!  That is the part that most people are avoiding – that pesky requirement of actually taking action.

Mediocrity is easy.  You don’t have to do anything!  Just watch TV, lounge around everyday, and have no irritating goals.  If you want to accomplish something worthwhile, there is no getting around that you are going to have to get out in the jungle of life and expose yourself to failure, disappointment and frustration.

That’s why we are Rhinos!!   We have the two-inch-thick skin to deal with the rejection.  We weigh 6,000 pounds to crush fears and doubts as we charge through the thick brush.  Best of all, we have the Rhino spirit that fills us with the belief that we are here for a reason, and our dreams will become a reality.  Keep charging!!!

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

Success is tough, but so are you. You are a Rhinoceros!!

The great part of something ending is the new beginning that always follows. Days end, but another one soon takes its place. Marriages sometimes fail, but there is someone out there also looking to start anew with. Businesses don’t always survive, but you can always pick yourself up and try again. Even empires crumble, but new ones arise from the rubble.

You’ve heard the expression, “Life is not a do-over”. I disagree.  Every new day is a do-over! It’s a do-over when you decide to make it one.   Don’t be afraid of endings.  They are required for new beginnings.  Even death is just the end of a “day”.  Life goes on to the next big adventure!

Jesus told us, “I am the resurrection and the life.  Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”  Believe!!  A new day is coming!

Tomorrow is a new day.

Copyright 2013 by Scott Robert Alexander

America, previously know as “Land of the Free”, is going down.  The takers now outnumber the givers.  Obama won his 2nd term because the people that suck on the teats of the government have spread like a cancer over our nation.

While private industry shrinks, the government grows wildly.  Most of those workers will have voted for Obama.  All the people taking money from the government in any form, whether it is food stamps, welfare, free phones, or assistance of any kind, turned out in droves for Obama to keep it coming.  There are even business people that have government contracts that voted for him to keep it rolling.

If it’s not a handout that brought people to vote for Obama, it is something like being afraid that if someone like Romney won, they wouldn’t be able to abort a baby.  Others have gay friends and they are concerned that their friends may not be allowed to marry.  Lots of Obama supporters hate Romney because he is rich.  Success has become an immoral concept in America!  Ambition is seen as greed, and to strive for financial independence is viewed as selfish by this new, progressive America.

Our country is like a drug addict who doesn’t have the discipline or desire to quit.  We just had our chance, but we are too weak and voted for another four years.  It may be good. Oftentimes, it takes hitting rock bottom for an addict to turn his life around.

Being in the field of motivation, I hate to say it, but things are going to get worse.  Way worse!  Businesses will not grow in this environment.  In fact, more and more businesses will shut down, while more people jump over to have the government take care of them.  Obamacare will suffocate the economy.   Government will continue to grow at an unprecedented rate and infiltrate every area of our lives.

Our drunk country will stagger with glazed eyes, continue to deny that it has a problem, and continue drinking.  We are eventually going down.  At that point, there may be hope.  It will be either stop the drinking, or die.  Like a dog infested with fleas and ticks, the parasites will eventually kill the dog.

So, what do we as freedom loving, productive members of this drunk society do?  We are Rhinos – we keep charging!!  Damn the torpedoes!  It is going to be tough, but we have two-inch-thick skin.  There are going to be hardships, but we weigh 6,000 pounds.  There will be many disappointments, but we have the attitudes that will keep us going.  We have each other!!

History is full of amazing stories of people who withstood the most dire of circumstances and succeeded.  Let’s view this period of the next four years as one of those times.  All the ingredients are here for an inspiring story of a group of freedom loving people who hung in there as their country collapsed, after which they brought it back to new heights of freedom and prosperity.  Yeah, let’s do that!!!   It will be an adventure.  Keep the faith, keep the vision, and most of all, keep charging!!!   Scott Alexander

Copyright 2012 by Scott Robert Alexander

If there was ever a time to be a Rhino, it is now!!!

In Napoleon Hill’s classic book, “Think and Grow Rich”, is a chapter entitled The Mystery of Sex Transmutation. I wonder how many of the millions of copies of his book that sold were bought by those wanting to study that particular chapter more closely.  I certainly remember reading the chapter as a teenager, waiting to get to the good part, but it never materialized.  It seems that Mr. Hill was just suggesting putting your energy into pursuing profitable goals rather than becoming a sex maniac.

Actually, I think that being a maniac has gotten an undeserved bad rap.  If a maniac is “someone with an excessive enthusiasm or desire for something”, I say GO MANIAC!  You’ve heard the saying Nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without enthusiasm. Imagine what a maniac could accomplish!

Intense desire is what changes the world.  If you are maniacal about something positive, let ‘er rip!!  Enjoy the adventure of accomplishing, and doing what you love.  If you don’t have enthusiasm for anything, let alone excessive enthusiasm, keep looking and you will find it.

Let’s face it – life is lacking without some maniacal enthusiasm for something.  Even Jesus said, “Be hot or cold.”  That lukewarm, middle of the road, straddling the fence, play it safe mode will never get you anywhere.

Desire is the key, and you will find your inner maniac if you really want to.  When living becomes bland and you start to want more, you will find your passion right around the next corner.  When life’s skies become gray, and you long for the sunshine, head towards the light where you will find your enthusiasm burning.  Keep charging!!!  Scott Alexander

Find your passion - head towards the light!

Copyright 2012 by Scott Robert Alexander

Have you ever gone out exploring with a metal detector?  It’s fun to explore an area looking for buried coins, lost jewelry or some other treasure, as you fan the detector close to the ground listening for the telltale beeping.

In a way, we are all human treasure detectors.  We go through life with our dials set to detect whatever we happen to be looking for.  Our radar searches for our particular treasure and alerts us when it is found.  Like a metal detector that ignores anything that is non-metallic, we also pass on what we are not seeking.

I recently had dinner with an atheist who recommended a book to me entitled “How I Lost My Faith in Faith”.  Hmmm… well, that’s not what I am interested in finding, so I will pass on that book.  For whatever reasons, that is what my friend was seeking – affirmation that there is no God.

You will find whatever you set your belief dial to.  Personally, I believe that the world was created by a loving God, and I am constantly finding treasures that reinforce my belief.  I pass over everything else.

What are you looking for specifically?  Love?  Money?  A good fitting shoe in a size 10?  You will find whatever you are seeking, if you have your belief dial set and you have enough desire to get out there and start looking.

My recommendation is to set your radar to look for the good, the positive, the uplifting.  You will find it, and the unproductive, useless junk will be passed over.  Have fun on your treasure adventure!!!

You will find what you look for.

Copyright 2012 by Scott Robert Alexander

I just saw the movie “2016: Obama’s America”. One of the best lines came from Barack’s half brother, George Obama, who lives in poverty in Kenya. When asked how he felt about not being financially supported by Barack, George replied that he is an adult, and that he can take care of himself. If only more Americans felt that way.

It is a good movie, and the anti-colonial view makes sense of what Obama is doing and where he is heading.  What discourages me is that all this information has been out there with Obama’s Socialist views in plain view, and there are lots of  people thrilled to be heading in this direction.

Then there are the people that have “no interest in politics”.  That’s like going flying with a pilot who has no interest in aerodynamics.

I know that I am supposed to be positive, because I am a motivational speaker, but I must admit that I am losing faith that America can remain great with so many people enamored with living in socialism.  Like I have said for over 30 years, there are two kinds of people in the world – Rhinos and cows.  Like a topsy turvy world in the Planet of the Apes, the cows have outnumbered the Rhinos and threaten to “transform” the greatest nation in the world into a stinking, third-world cow pasture.

Please help me in a final push of education before November.  Talk to a cow today.  Invite them to experience freedom in the jungle as a Rhino.  Keep charging!!!

Copyright 2012 by Scott Robert Alexander

Cows being "taken care of", albeit, without their freedom.