The Best Revenge
During this next week, we'll see and hear many reminders of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Yet a message we rarely hear is what everyone must do in face of terrorism and other attacks our success.
The best advice our leaders in the USA and around the world can give us is, "Flourish and prosper as never before! Show them we are not afraid, but are strong. Fight back by becoming happier, wealthier and more powerful!"
When we decide to flourish (excel, thrive) and prosper (succeed, gain wealth), we build taller buildings, we travel more extensively and we make more money. We get even by living well.
Anyone who wants you to fail gets very upset if you ignore them and succeed. You ruin their efforts to ruin you. Nothing makes terrorists less significant than their "victims" moving forward and flourishing and prospering.
In 1991, L. Ron Hubbard released "The Way to Happiness," a booklet that gives you 21 principles to achieve happiness. The 21st principle, reprinted below, outlines the most effective way to beat those who want to harm you and those you care about.
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Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and one, himself.
By ridicule and many other means, another who is evil-intentioned toward one can try to bring about one's decline.
For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks.
It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long range handling that seldom fails.
What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward. They must conceive that one is dangerous to them in some way: that if one got up in the world, one could be a menace* to them. So, in various ways, such seek to depress one's talents and capabilities.
Some madmen even have a general plan that goes like this: "if A becomes more successful, A could be a menace to me; therefore I must do all I can to make A less successful." It never seems to occur to such that their actions might make an enemy out of A even though he was no enemy before. It can be classed as an almost certain way for such madmen to get into trouble. Some do it just from prejudice or because they "don't like someone."
But however it is attempted, the real object of such is to make their target grow less and fail in life.
The real handling of such a situation and such people, the real way to defeat them is to flourish and prosper.
Oh, yes, it is true that such people, seeing one improve his lot**, can become frantic and attack all the harder. The thing to do is handle them if one must but don't give up flourishing and prospering for that is what such people want you to do.
If you flourish and prosper more and more, such people go into apathy*** about it; they can give it up completely.
And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper! - L. Ron Hubbard
(*menace: a threat or danger) (**lot: one's destiny or condition in life) (***apathy: complete failure, no feeling, no emotion)
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