success and fear, anger and greed

If the desire for success and financial well being frequently directs your thoughts, ask yourself, 'if I'm so clever why I haven't been able to position myself to make more money?' Is this desire is all the more real in the face of successful entrepreneurs? Does anything other than mild stability seems to elude you? Until such time as you are able to fulfill the desire to employ your skills toward a better life for your family, you may feel painfully incomplete... and in this you may recognize an inability to truly focus on other critical aspects of life - social and family interests beyond the everyday and the ephemeral, for instance.

The ability to focus may only really happen when you have either fulfilled this desire, feel that this desire is in the midst of fulfillment, or you overcome this desire. This, the overcoming of desire, is akin to what an old friend has suggested about not wanting, or what I call negative wanting. Once you recognize your desires are futile, the intention is to then cease wanting. One should not want what one cannot have. Or is this really the case? A thought about any successful entrepreneur provides evidence. Herein lies the dilemma.

It is not altogether difficult, then, to recognize that one may not find what one seeks in a place in one's life where motivation and ambition is left unresolved, unrealised. It will not happen like a surprise, the face of opportunity. It will not suddenly rear its gleaming, golden head.

Wanting and desire make true clear vision difficult. Transcend this and feed on your own ambition, on your own fear - as did the man from IBM - about failure, about stagnation, about starvation... Feed on whatever it is that inspires you to action - anger (about poverty and hunger and anger itself), greed (for a better world), intolerance (towards mediocrity and laziness). This will drive you to what you require, should your own motivation and trajectory come up short on those inevitable and difficult days.
9804110050, amended here.