DAY 1 - Time Invested: 4 Hours approx.

Hi Folks! ------> Bottom line in case you aren't going to read the whole post:

Cynics BEWARE:

The 2020 Challenge is NOT a hair-brained "get rich quick" scheme. So you can relax, Don't get your undies in a knot yet.....

Yikes, 12.23 am and mission accomplished!! Just over four hours.....

So here are the goods...

I don't believe in the whole concept of "good" and "bad" but for clarity's sake I will bend the rules.

The Good:

• I thoroughly enjoyed Michael's sense of humor, I giggled a bit.
  
• No hidden gimmicks or blatant up sells that I noticed.
• Easy to read, comprehensible.
• Nothing noticeably shady (see below), if anything the material is quite genuine.

The Bad:

• It is still sales, and some techniques for selling, in my mind, are questionable.
• I think there may be some lack of information, but that's what the forums are for. I will say more about that later when I get going.
• There were a few typos. And at the expense of sounding anal, which I am by the way. If you put out print material and are coined an "expert", for goodness sakes, EDIT, EDIT and EDIT!!!
  

Well, I'm going to bed, but before I do I have to say I am impressed.

I think the bottom line here is it is not a scheme or "black hat" trick that some weirdo concocted. Michael seems like a regular man providing value. But that remains to be seen....More tomorrow.

Something Deep:

"You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything." Rainer Maria Rilke

Sound familiar?

Well it sure as hell sounds familiar to me!
It never ends, and whoever disagrees with my bold statement can publicly challenge me.
The yearning never ends, until A. We get to a highly evolved place where it does end (which isn't the people reading my blog, no offense!) or
B. We come to some degree of acceptance.

Regardless, no matter if we get what we want or not, we we always end up with a degree of dissatisfaction. Our partner rejects us, our children ignore us, our family doesn't appreciate us. We are unsatisfied.
We get the new house, our partner gives us love how we want it. It is only a moment and we know that moment wont last long. Those moments never do.

Sooner or later the love, bliss, acceptance is snatched away, as quickly as it came.

There is a place for everything, and if you have seen "The Secret", www.thesecret.tv, You know we CAN have what we want in life.
We can, most definitely, live powerfully and a life we love. Yet within that there will always be YIN and YANG. Tsunamis, hurricanes and upheaval will always exist. As well as a calm lake, or clear blue skies.

In this whole self development "positive thinking" revolution surrounding "The Secret" people fail to see that the lives of the characters in the movie don't always work. Some of them are blissfully happy but things don't always work, there will always be YIN and always be YANG.

More about that tomorrow....