January 16, 2006

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                                                 Why Do We Want to be James Bond?

  
  

   

  
  

  Is it the clothes, the girls, the cars, the gadgets?    No! How about the exotic locations? Now we're getting closer. But not quite there, yet.

  
  

   

  
  

  The truth of the matter is that even though James Bond is a man of action like all heroes are, it's the lifestyle that attracts us. Even though he is a civil servant, he leads a life of leisure and prosperity. That's it. It's the freedom. It's the cash. It's the lifestyle.

  
  

   

  
  

  When your a kid and see "From Russia with Love" you get all excited about his attache case. "What's inside?" a friend asks you You answer, "A snipers rifle, an exploding gas canister, a throwing dagger, and 50 gold sovereigns."  When you're an adult making your way in the world, you answer only with, "Fifty gold sovereigns." Period. Because you know that it's really the gold that has the power of "a brick going through a plate glass window", not the Walther PPK. It's because the gold frees you from dead end jobs and bad bosses. From taking your Bond girl to a movie or a trip to the Bahamas.

  
  

   

  
  

  Yeah, we all want to tip the valet like Bond as he brings us our Bond car and opens the door for our Bond girl. But it takes cash. So do those exotic locations and fancy restaurants. And most importantly, having the the free afternoon to lie in a boat with your girl and a bottle of Dom Perignon hanging on a string in the water.

  
  

   

  
  

  This is the reason Bond doesn't get rattled when his boss M treats him badly. Is sarcastic to him. Yeah, he has to take it, just like we all have to take it from our bosses. He takes it because he knows that this is where the cash and the cool jobs come from to give him his lifestyle.

  
  

   

  
  

  For my students in my "How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle" seminars, there are 21 rules. Rule #1 is "I never run out of cash."  Rule #21 is "I never run out of cash." No typo here, because if you take care of the first and last rules, the ones in the middle kind of take care of themselves.

  
  

   

  
  

  This is why my students are encouraged to carry enough cash on them to go into any restaurant at the spur of the moment and not check to see if they take credit cards. To be able to take off on an unexpected trip anytime without having to go to the ATM machine. The James Bond Lifestyle students carry cash on a money clip and cash in their wallets, so that they will be sure to have it, even if they forget one or the other. This is why much of the James Bond Lifestyle seminar has to do with programming the subconscious mind for larger amounts of money by using various visualization techniques as well as physical techniques of using hundred dollar bills for book marks and opening a James Bond bank account from special Bond adventures.

  
  

   

  
  

  One thing James Bond would agree on is that it's better to have a Walther PPK  and not need it, than to need a Walther PPK and not have it. The same goes for cash and those 50 gold sovereigns. 

  
  

   

  
  

  So the next time you see a Bond movie and get razzel-dazzeled by the girls, the locations, the cars, and the stunts, know that it's really Bond's financial freedom and life of leisure when he's off the job that really turns you on. You want to be cool like Bond? Have enough cash to get you through any situation. That's what makes him Bond. And the next time you get into trouble,  or are at a stopping point in your career or lifestyle, ask yourself, "What would James Bond do?"

  
  

   

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