You’re so right and I completely forget that there are parents out there who don’t teach their children to have respect for adults, authority figures and even themselves. It’s a tragic situation that happens too often.
Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Sean Rasmussen – Aussie Internet Marketer Making a Difference

I know I have said it before, but I feel that the power behind all our actions is a burning desire to recreate a feeling state, whether it be bliss, peace, ecstasy, power, love, whatever, we are always searching for feeling something.

Not many people like feeling nothing, which is not easy to do.

Even people who do things in anger or hurt others do it because they want to feel something, it could be feeling powerful over the feeling of powerlessness which they don’t want to feel.

People who give to others, even if they don’t want anything in return, do it because it makes them feel good.
A burning desire to have, be, do is one almighty driving force, but he feeling state behind all of that is the fire that provides the energy!

Unfortunately Jazz there are many kids out in the world who have no respect for others, especially adults. I taught for a short time in the public system and I have seen first hand and known of teachers who have had their lives destroyed by the malicious attacks of children on them. Not only physically, but mentally because children know that the law is weighted on their side. Some of the things I witnessed kids doing in the public system were unbelievable and they got away with it because the teachers had no power to stop them. I won’t get on my soapbox here, but I also had some very negative experiences while teaching because there was no support, you were completely in there ‘at your own risk’. I chose out before I had a breakdown.

Even those in law enforcement are subject to violence now from children and teenagers.
Sad, but true.

I must admit, I read Think and Grow Rich a few years back, now (I think it was included on a list of recommended reading by Robert Kiyosaki). I read the entire book, cover to cover, and at the end of it, couldn’t think of, or determine, what this ’secret’, this ‘power’ was. It could very well be that I wasn’t ready for it, but it could also be that I didn’t have anyone else to talk about it with, to discuss and exchange ideas with.

Reading through your blog, taking it in bite size pieces, and reading the comments as well, so far, have given me a few insights already. If I had have known some like minded people who were reading Think And Grow Rich at the same time I was, maybe I would be in a different place to day than I am, with an entirely different understanding.

Just a thought!

Cheers,

Pete