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1st Module - 1st Month

Motivation & Drive



A Word of Caution In General:

Do NOT accept EVERYTHING you read from any source (including this website) as what YOU should do or think.  Use YOUR filtering system AND prove ALL things for yourself.  YOU have to live with whatever decisions you make and whatever you do.  Therefore, prove all things.

We do NOT endorse nor accept nor believe EVERYthing that is written in ANY of the non-AGS Life Academy or non-AGS Financial Services listed  websites or books (with a few select exceptions), on tapes/CDs/DVDs or in the various seminars, workshops, boot-camps, "whatever" listed anywhere on this website or from other websites linked here.  With or without great reputations. 

Now, that is quite the blanket statement.  Read it again to understand - we recommend these items that are listed, but not necessarily EVERY point they make.  That is up to YOU to discern which YOU want to believe or not believe and that decision can only come from YOU.

Having said that, we  DO  believe and strongly endorse reading the specific textbooks, sites and other resources listed as there IS a lot in each one of them to learn.  AND, ... we do recommend reading and studying them in the order they are listed.  They are listed in a specific order for multiple reasons and personally selected over the hundreds of other potential textbooks the Founder & President could have chosen.  Each monthly module will explain the whys behind each textbook.

YOU are his reason for this site.  YOUR improvement.  We believe YOUR potential is so much greater than even YOU can believe.  With all due respect, you don't have a clue at what YOU can become.  In 6 months, write us and tell us what you think.  Are we right or not?

Please understand, ... IF ... you can glean just one new item and implement that one new item, then the time spent getting that one new item from whatever source you received it from (including this website) was well worth it.  If two, so much the better.  We're expecting a whole bunch more than one or two items...

 

 

Month One Is Jam Packed - Read the news and stay informed in what is going on internationally.  Check out this page AND the reasons behind this.  30 days is what we ask for to SEE the results for yourself.  Begin this immediately.  Check out the caution there as well as the caution above.

While you're at it, also check out this page on health.  You do want good health, don't you?  6 months from now, not only can you double your income or become an expert in whatever field you want, but you may be able to be healthier running circles around most teenagers as the Founder & President can do in his upper 60s while not taking any drugs nor medications nor having seen any doctors in the past 10 to 12 years.  Don't allow the medical profession in keeping you sick or holding you back from being the vibrant person you could be.

Concerning your finances, that too should begin as quickly as possible.  The first week is not too early enough.

Month 1 still - Read "The Autobiography of Ben Franklin" ISBN 9780486290737  within the first month.  And digest it perhaps going through it multiple times in the first month.  

The first time, read it all the way through.  The second time, read it again with a yellow highlighter highlighting the key points YOU find and YOU think are important.  Then, go back and read it a third time studying it more profoundly attempting to internalize those points you highlighted.

This book is critical to set the stage for what follows as each of these 8 points in this foundation are.  YOUR future is the rest of your life.  Remember, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of YOUR life.  How do YOU want to shape it?  The same as the past five years?  Or, ... is it time to make a change?  A determined change to never again be like these past few years?!?!?  For YOU to be in charge and not at the mercy of others over YOU?  Yes, you can do it.  Keep going.

This month's foundational book of the month will open YOUR mind and force YOU to think.  It will build in you the capacity to dream big dreams, which is what I want YOU to do.  Your potential is beyond your wildest expectations and YOU need your mind expanded to accept what you can become and be.  Step by step just like school - kindergarten to grammar school to high school to higher education and beyond.

According to http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/,  this textbook about Ben Franklin is a wise choice to begin the series of practical street smart readings and learnings.  Benjamin Franklin was not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.  He was a leading writer, publisher, inventor, diplomat, scientist, and philosopher.  He is well-known for his experiments with electricity and lightning, and for publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac" and the Pennsylvania Gazette.  He served as Postmaster General under the Continental Congress, and later became a prominent abolitionist.  He is credited with inventing the lightning rod, the Franklin Stove, and bifocals.

Some of the things one can learn from this textbook and this first month's module

He sets the stage for YOU.  For YOU to become as great as he was.  Look at where he came from and what he had to endure and the obstacles he had to overcome without real family or other support at such a young age.  Think of putting yourself in his situation and learn it can be done.  He takes away YOUR excuses.  

He was a young lad on his own in two unfamiliar countries with nothing and in some cases less than nothing learning to live within his means while taking care of others.  He learned not to trust others regardless of their position.  He learned how to eat for the least amount of money and be more healthy than his peers.  He set goals and then went out and achieved them.  He learned good work ethics in how to succeed on his own while planning for the future and saved money in the process.  He listened to others but made his own mind up as well.  Character became important to him and then set out methodically in raising his own standards.  There really is so much in this textbook.  An excellent foundation to build on.  Some real excellent fundamentals.  And attitude, if he did it, there is hope in YOU.

This month's selection of textbooks is an excellent motivator and an encourager.  And a whole lot more.  A real good book to begin the practical street smarts series for YOUR personal growth.  You need that as you progress.

That's what AGS Life Academy is - a prep type school.  To develop the whole person.  In all 7 areas of life.  To prepare YOU for YOUR future.  In whatever field of endeavor or industry, or business, or public life or whatever YOU choose to do in YOUR future.  

It is filled with encouragement, motivation, practical how-tos, if someone else can do it, then you can to street smarts you can do as well.  All within 6 months of concentrated studying of a few select textbooks that are uncommon but super practical  AND thinking AND in the process, tailoring it to YOU.  It prepares YOU to go forward in YOUR quest for greatness.  You'll look back in 6 months and marvel at the progress you'll have made.  WOW!  You'll think it really was much easier than you expected.  You'll even have had fun in the process.  Excitement along with the sincere smile on YOUR face will boldly come forth like never before.  Seriously.  That's what I expect and guarantee.  All from a FREE website.

By the way, here is a comment from a student about this month's textbook:

 

Gary,

As a nice bit of timing, the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin arrived, in time for me to bring it on my journeys to the AHVMA convention in KY.

I read some things (actually many), that I thought would be of benefit to your AGS Academy students.  For one, his 13 points program for self improvement.  I laughed however, that he suffered mightily in the same skill - that of "order".  His remaining tenets for a good personal life, though, are excellent, and worth sharing.

Thanks for the recommendation.  It is a bit of heavy reading sometimes, due to the old English, but still a remarkable accounting of a life well lived in service to humanity.  Politicos would do well to read and adhere to his beliefs.

PJ

A quick update from PJ...

 I finished the book this morning.  Might re-read it, as it is full of advice for bountiful, grateful living. 

Once you have finished the Autobiography textbook of Ben Franklin, read "A Message To Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard and "The Way To Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin.  Each should be able to be completed in one separate sitting.  Both are short books, yet, super powerful.  Especially, after Ben Franklin's Autobiography.  Then, ponder the three together and how they relate to YOU.

Reward Yourself

Once having completed the reading assignment, it is time for your Music Appreciation class.  If at all possible, find a classical concert in the area and go.  Dress up nice and treat yourself.  Take someone else with you if possible.  

Do an investigative study about the particular concert you are going to concerning the artist (composer) and all the who, what, when, where, why, how, and the purpose of the concert when it was first written.  

Begin a new notebook or file on Music Appreciation with these notes and what YOU, the student, got out of the concert, if anything.  Wait at least 3 days before you write about your thoughts in that regard.

Also...

Towards the conclusion of this month, take the last few days to review How To Get The Most Out Of This Academy and also The Purpose, Objective & Vision pages.  Do this before you begin the next section.  Then, ponder deeply what YOU got out of this first month at AGS Life Academy.  Think about YOU.  Are YOUR goals still the same?  How would YOU modify them or tweak them to be more current for YOU?  Look at the time management section once again.  Update your progress.  

By the way, are you keeping a journal of your progress?

Now is the time to consider either the Certificate Program or the Diploma Program, wouldn't you say?

Then, go out to dinner and enjoy the reward.  You've earned it.  Make it special.

Additional Reading Considerations To Do After The Initial 6 Months Program

I Can by Ben Sweetland

Acres Of Diamonds by Russell Conwell

As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino

"Politics Among Nations: The Struggle For Power And Peace, 5th Edition" by Hans J. Morgenthau

Others





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