“No man is a failure who has friends” is the moral of the film. It’s a hard lesson to learn, and we’d all wish it to be some other way – something that finds us valued as people for “what we have on the inside,” or something about how worthy of love we are, how many friends we have, and all the spirit of the film, It’s a Wonderful Life. If this is true, and if in that same program we discover how one of the ways a man can actually measure his progress in the area – and in himself in general – is to QUANTIFY success relative to other men, and the most efficient, effective and accurate way to do that is through the dollar amount you make per day, month and year frankly. In some of our other programs we lay out how it is that a man’s identity – and masculinity itself – is rooted in just two things: It is your own understanding of yourself that guides everything you do potentially, or else its absence lets the random forces of nature steer your path – which is NEVER in your best interest, and NEVER creates wealth. He was saying that in an open marketplace of ideas, goods and services, the market tells US what we are worth (to the public)… “You’re worth what people pay for your goods or services.” There is an old mentor’s oft-cited advice about value, and as we are about to see – wealth itself – is about as candid and honest and dead accurate logic as I’ve ever heard from a mentor: At least they absolutely will not “get in their own way.” When the reality is that they are ALREADY wealthy in “psychological resources.” It’s inevitable that they prosper. They want to be doing what they know they were meant to do, and it is in fact highly likely that they will prosper as a result. Some people don’t need or want all that much money. In other words, there needs to be REAL VALUE coming back to you for the psychological resources that you put into it. And if you aren’t in a creative career, you ought to be, even if that means that you steer your organized, analytical career in a new, innovative direction.Īnd yet it is so true that in building a life, what men MUST face is that at the end of the day it’s not good enough just to “do work” or “go to work” or “to find your mission as a man.” The mission you find for your life DOES need to pay you back at the very LEAST to the degree of the amount of work you put into it. Paul Dobransky – Wired to WealthĬhances are that you are in a creative career, or you wouldn’t be here looking at new ideas in psychology for your personal and financial growth.