{"id":15974,"date":"2012-06-04T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2012-06-04T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:21:26","slug":"unchained-melody-sam-cooke-with-a-change-is-gonna-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15974\/unchained-melody-sam-cooke-with-a-change-is-gonna-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melody: Sam Cooke with &#8220;A change is gonna come.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if I seem to be ignoring y&#8217;all. I am all but completely unable to make an honest living in real estate right now, and that leaves me with next to nothing to say about making an honest living in real estate.<\/p>\n<p>I am not without things to say, of course. Never that. But I am doing most of my talking at <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SelfAdoration.com<\/a> just now.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s proof: <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/a-change-is-gonna-come-when-you-act-upon-your-life-as-it-actually-is-everything-gets-better\/1643\" target=\"_blank\">A post about changing your life for the better featuring the incomparable Sam Cooke singing <em>A change is gonna come<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Art first:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NaNzxniXxYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then rhetoric:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have a unique, inviolable nature as a type of entity. You have many characteristics in common with other entities, and with other organisms, and for the most part you cannot change those characteristics. But every purposive action you can take is guided by your conceptually-conscious mind &#8212; by your free choices &#8212; and you can always resolve to choose differently going forward. When you do, your life will change &#8212; for the better, if you choose wisely. You know this is so, and, in consequence, if you simultaneously insist to yourself that it is somehow <em>not<\/em> so, the cognitive dissonance will make you miserable &#8212; and progressively less efficacious over time.<\/p>\n<p>But if instead you accept your true nature as a human being for what it is, and then act accordingly, your life will get better and better in every way. No one can absolve you of your sins, since you answer to your self alone. But for the same reason, no one can rob you of your triumphs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is much more on that theme in <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/movie-of-the-week-what-should-you-do-act-upon-the-universe-as-it-really-is\/1797\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s &#8220;movie of the week&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; a video podcast I am doing every week.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not yet read <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/ManAlive.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Man Alive!<\/em><\/a>, I entreat you to do so &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/hello-world\/1\" target=\"_blank\">and to share it with everyone you love<\/a>. We all say we want to see the world change, but the book offers an actual strategy for making the change you&#8217;re looking for &#8212; in your own life and in the lives of everyone on Earth eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the Cliff&#8217;s Notes? Here is one very potent idea: <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/the-world-wont-change-until-people-change-if-you-crave-freedom-evangelize-egoism\/880\" target=\"_blank\">The world won&#8217;t change <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15974\/unchained-melody-sam-cooke-with-a-change-is-gonna-come\/#more-15974\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if I seem to be ignoring y&#8217;all. I am all but completely unable to make an honest living in real estate right now, and that leaves me with next to nothing to say about making an honest living in real estate. I am not without things to say, of course. Never that. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3225,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3225\/the-fall-and-rise-of-a-real-estate-titan-tony-has-the-most-valuable-asset-known-to-man-unwavering-spirit-and-confidence-in-himself\/","url_meta":{"origin":15974,"position":0},"title":"The fall and rise of a real estate titan: &#8220;Tony has the most valuable asset known to man: unwavering spirit and confidence in himself&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In line with Chris Johnson's post this morning, a charming real estate story from The American Spectator:Recently, I was contacted about a hot deal in Buckeye (the fast-growth, west side of Phoenix) by a very bright, young Phoenix wheeler-dealer. 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