When I was in my late teens to twenty years old, I got
involved in a cult.

It’s true.

Looking back, it’s hard to believe I fell for all their
nonsense. But I did. I ate it up hook, line and sinker
and ended up handing over thousands of dollars to someone
who was disguised as a ‘spiritual leader’… but was
really just a powerful communicator with a lot of
certainty… who didn’t have my interests at heart.

I’m not going to go into what the cult was all about…
or who they were… right now. I think that’s better left
in the past. But I am going to tell you what I learnt…

Never trust a guru

Never hand your power over to anyone else

Trust your gut feeling above everything else

The person with the most certainty rules the system

People can be easily influenced by a powerful leader

Some powerful lessons to get at a young age. I went
through a period where I slept only 12 hours in
7 days. I paid for counselling to be criticised and
told everything I thought I knew was wrong. Needless to
say it was a horrible experience which taught me a lot

But I never thought it was a cult. And neither did
anybody else who was in the group. Interestingly enough,
there were some very intelligent people involved who were
high up in their chosen professions.

It was only just after my 21st birthday when I came down
with chicken pox and went home to my mothers to recover
that I received a call from a friend (who was much more
involved than I was) telling me “Scott, it’s a cult.”

At first, I thought she was crazy. But then I listened
and came to the same conclusion. We had all been slowly brainwashed… like a frog who sits in cold water while
it is slowly heated up… and eventually boils to death
because he can’t notice the subtle changes.

What was even more interesting is that after that, I
told other people in this group about my experience.
Needless to say, I never heard from them again.

These were friends I had known for a couple of years.
Friends I invited to my 21st Birthday party. Friends
no longer.

I have often reflected about my experience with
that cult.

Essentially, everyone involved in a cult believes in
a particular set of belief systems. But isn’t that
really an exaggerated example of what happens to
us all.

We fall for the belief system that there’s not enough
money. We fall for the belief system business is
hard. We fall for the belief it’s difficult to get
new customers. We fall for the belief life is tough.
We fall for the belief system that it’s difficult for
us to create wealth. We believe it’s impossible to
create a successful and prosperous business fast. We
think it might be possible for others, but not for us.

We are all “programmed” from an early age into thinking
a certain way based on our upbringing. And there comes
a time in our life when we need to “deprogram” ourselves
from all the junk and start to believe it’s possible
because the truth is our beliefs really do create
our reality.

I know this from my own experience.

That’s one of the main reasons why the rich get
richer. That’s one of the main reasons why the poor
get poorer.

But obviously, you can’t change your beliefs… sit
on your butt… and expect to get wealthy overnight.
You’ve got to work at it. You’ve got to hustle. You’ve
got to “see it before you believe it” and then work
to create the life of your dreams.

And when you have those little successes, it changes
your beliefs which make it easier and easier to go
to the next level whereby your beliefs shift again.

But it’s not just about hard work. It’s about having
the right tools too. And you’ll find plenty of tools
for getting all the new customers you need by right here

All for now,

Scott Bywater