Living Up to 120 Years; Healthy and Strong!
By Alfred P. Licata Sr.
Is that possible? Yes! What’s the gimmick? None!
My child, listen to me and do as I say,
and you will have a long, good life. Proverbs 4:10
We have been sold on the fact (facts are not always based on truth) that we are doing well if we live between 70-80 years; and that is with sickness or disease included. What if I told you we have been short changed between 40-50 years of good life. Go into the home of the average elderly person today and you will find all kinds of medications that for many are draining all their money; for many even their food. How can that be in a day and age that brags of great breakthroughs in medicine? Billions of dollars are being spent on medications, ointments, supplements both natural and man made but people are getting sicker and sicker. There are new and more serious sicknesses and diseases being found daily. What is going on?
Did you know the number 3 reason for death in the U.S.A. is prescription drugs prescribed by our medical doctors that we are lead to believe are healers? So why are people getting sicker, in so much pain and suffering when our bodies were made to last 120 years without sickness and disease?
Who am I to tell this to you? I am not a doctor; I have no degrees but I have been experienced in being sick for 6 years and know how it feels to run from one doctor to another; both allopathic and naturopathic and some real quacks out of desperation. I lost my income, self esteem, and even trust of many close friends and associates who thought I just gave up. I too at one time thought that people who were sick were either not strong mentally or emotionally. It is true to a degree but I want to tell you something that could help you and me to live over 100 years of age with good health and strength.
Now here comes the Challenge!
My dad was a man who loved to joke and make people laugh. He used to ask, “Do you know what the problem with common sense is?” ANSWER; “It ain’t common!” He would say and laugh! (He was one of those people who worked all his life and could not wait to retire; then died in his 70’s but the last 15 years suffered with diabetes) The longer you live the more that statement seems true. That’s what makes it funny but sad at the same time. So here is the Challenging part.
When I was a younger man in my mid 20’s (now 61) I was up to my neck in financial trouble and I had an unexpected visit from a younger man who was not very successful in our society’s terms. I was in the material sense successful but stressed to the max. In a conversation he started to tell me about God and reading the bible. I was ok with that if that is what helped him even though I thought it was a crutch for the weak. Then he said something to me which completely changed my life. He said, “What you want to know is the truth!” Everything in my body pounded like an alarm going off saying Yes! Yes! That is exactly what I want to know. I had just come back from Las Vegas having lost around $200,000 trying to become the world’s greatest entertainer. (I will explain some other time). I was now in a place many find themselves in; trapped. I was married with one and a half children (wife pregnant), in a business I hated because I hated myself, burdened with a hefty mortgage, Car payments, etc. that at one time where easy to meet; but now with the recent loss I was falling deep behind in debt. In addition, the embarrassment of failure, in my eyes, I was stressed beyond any words will ever explain. So, the truth! Yes! What is this thing between birth and death we call life about, anyway, I thought? The truth? What is it? So I started to listen but then this young man started talking about Jesus Christ. I almost fell over backward in my executive chair and rushed him out of my office as fast as I could without being rude (in my mind; but maybe I had been rude?).
The God thing was ok but the Jesus thing I could not deal with at all! I don’t know to this day if that young man was an angel sent by God to plant a seed that has grown into a full garden of love, peace and joy that I never thought possible.
I am going to try to explain why that most of our doctors who do represent some of the greatest minds of our times, who are highly intelligent and greatly educated people who truly want to help us get better, can’t? They can’t heal us; only somewhat manage our sicknesses and diseases. In my opinion it is not that they don’t want to; they don’t know how to! They have not been taught how to heal; many will tell you at best they may be able to manage illnesses.
How could the best minds of this society during the Information Age, not know the real answers; The Truth? Well it’s simple, they don’t know because someone stole it from them! Stole what? The Truth! Did you know the average medical doctor lives about 20 years shorter than the average American does? So what does that tell you? Those who are dying younger than the average person are those who we are intrusting with our health?
I am not saying they are evil; well not most of them! I am simply saying they are not educated in the truth. They are educated by other men how to manage sickness and disease both mentally and physically. The very schools which are teaching them have been influenced by Drug companies who developed drugs and remedies that in many cases have worse side affects than the original problem. But more and more are getting sick? The Drug companies are getting wealthier, the Medical field is flourishing, and there is a shortage of Doctors and Nurses and all those who support them. Are the people running the schools evil? Well not most of them. Most of them don’t know the real Truth either! How could the greatest schools and universities of our time not know the truth? It has been slowly stripped away by an enemy that is so cunning and intelligent; that has been stealing the truth from our educational system for years. The truth has been replaced with knowledge that has replaced the truth. How? I am glad you asked!
Knowledge vs Wisdom
7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7
I have searched for the truth for over 34 years now; I know that is not a record, but for me, that has been a long time! I have found only one thing consistent; ok here it goes! The bible! Yes, for over 34 years I have lived and tested it to see if it is the truth, about life. The word bible means book of books. The bible is a book of books written by men; inspired by God. II Timothy 3:16 Oh boy, I can hear some of you even thinking now! Not another bible thumper, right winged, bigot, etc. another lie and twisted view of all those who believe in the bible as a book written to instruct us about the truth of life. I will have to admit there are many who do believe in the bible as God’s written words and they are as goofy as a $3 dollar Bill. And some as phony too! But because some people including myself at times are off it does not mean the bible is.
Still interested in living to 120 being strong and healthy?
If the bible is the truth (I know that it is, now) and has been inspired by God through people; it has the answers we are looking for to live a long and healthy life. You can read for yourself how some in the Old Testament were living for 100s of years in good health and strong.
The Bible is never wrong but the people who are trying to learn and understand it can and are at times. In fact the principles that God is trying to teach us work against those who do not believe and those who do believe but do not follow His instructions. Then we have to go to the words of the person the bible claims to be the word of God Himself in human form. In the words of Jesus Christ the Holy Anointed One of God, Quoted by John a disciple;
31Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. 32And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32
Free from what? Lies for one; Lies about what? Sickness, disease and the length of life here on earth plus much more but for now let’s stay well and have a long healthy and strong life.
The beginning of wisdom
Oh boy we are getting closer now!
As we study the bible through the Spirit of God rather than our finite minds we find all the books fit together like a masterful puzzle. Do I understand it all? No! However I have lived and experienced enough to know that it works and the more I learn, understand and apply the better my life gets. Do I have to understand everything about electricity to put a light on or just turn on the switch? You can not read the bible with your intellect and get it; it needs to be read allowing your spirit to ingest it. (I will explain this later too).
In the book of Proverbs mostly written by Solomon the wisest and wealthiest man that ever lived, states that; “The beginning of Wisdom is the fear of God”. Not like horror type fear; but great respect, honor or reverence.
Psalm 111:10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom.
All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom.
Praise him forever!
Who should you believe; the wisest and wealthiest man who ever lived or a group of people who are dying young?
I need to make one thing very clear; if I break a bone or have an accident I will run to the closest doctor as quick as anyone. If I am not feeling well and I want a diagnosis of what is going on in my body I will go to a doctor. However, before I listen to how I should manage my life I want to know the truth! Living like hell and expect the best: I don’t think so! Then go and get some drug to fix me up; again, I don’t think so! I want to know what made me sick then eliminate it, not medicate it, not dull it but get rid of it.
What does the bible tell us about sickness and disease??
If I have made you curious I would like to send you a free report on how you could possibly learn how to live a long and healthy life; it will open the doors to the truth and then lead you into the promises of God which said
3Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.” Gen. 6:3
Did you read that? It says that GOD said that our normal lifespan will be up to 120 years! The Free Report is titled FREE TO BE THE TRUE YOU! It will give you important info toward how we can live a long successful life with strength and health.
30A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all. 31The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn’t been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel. Matt. 15:30-31
Did you read that? Even if you are sick now, you too could be healed and then live a long healthy life up to 120 years in good health and strength.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Truth About Success!
The Truth About Success!
(The Lies We Have Been Told)
By Alfred P. Licata Sr.
How do you define success?
In the book written by Og Mandino “The Greatest Salesman in the World” He writes “Which two among a thousand Wise men can define success in the same manner? But failure can be defined only one way; by a persons inability to accomplish their goals in life whatever they may be”.
Read any book written by the gurus of success today and they will always teach we must start with a goal! That is true but what if that goal does not get you where you really want to go? What if at the end you find yourself empty or trapped by the very thing that you sought after? What if you spent many hours, years or worse a whole life time chasing after something to find it was a waste of life?
In the book written by Stephen Covey, “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People”, he writes that people could be climbing the Ladder of Success to find out that they are up against the wrong wall! What if you spent your entire life going after the wrong things and find out you were wrong?
Book after book in the Success Arena tell you; you must be willing to pay the price and so many have! What was the price? Broken marriages, families, relationships, mental breakdowns or physical break downs through sicknesses or diseases! In addition, they have addictions to alcohol, drugs, power, success, material things, etc. What a great reward! What a pay off! Trapped by the very thing we gave up so much for- Success!
Have you lost your identity in what you own, wear or do?
Do you know who you truly were supposed to be?
We are brought up in a society that teaches in school that those who get A’s are better than those who get B’s and C’s etc. In College the goal is 4.0 and so on! A Masters Degree is better than an Associates Degree, a Doctorate is better than a Masters, etc. The title of the job determines your success; the stuff you own shows your success! Says Who? How much money you have, the home you live in, the clothes you wear! We are told to dress for success! Who decided which clothes are successful clothes? Is it the people on Madison Ave who design or make clothing to sell you? What if we have the most expensive clothing, homes, cars, investments, cash flow, travel in what seems the upper class groups but inside we are in fear of being found out to be something different than our outward appearance?
Do I sound anti success? I am not! But what is success? Who really determines Success? Which wall should we be climbing? What’s at the top? What is the reward for paying the price? What if I end up like the greyhound dog that catches the electric rabbit? What if I find out that what I have been running after isn’t real; or did not give me the satisfaction that I was seeking?
Checking Our Motives Reveals What We Really Want and Why!
What is it you want? What is your underlying motivation for success?
Power
Security
Identity
Independence
Pride
Social Status
Freedom
Winning
Helping Others
Serving Others
Greed
Competing
Fear
Many times the very things that we deep down are trying to fulfill can not begin to satisfy us by success; because there might be a psychological or a spiritual need that achievement can’t fulfill.
People selling you their Programs on Success!
First of all, who are these people who you are following? People who have found success in accomplishing worthless goals? What did they accomplish over all? Are they healthy in body in the later years? How many marriages or relationship have they had, are their children successful (secure)? Are they at peace or are they stressed trying to climb the next mountain or worse are they totally stressed trying to maintain what they now have. Are they in fear of losing the very thing they were told was worth the price?
Come on let’s smarten up and see the truth! Most of the people who are selling success are selling it so they can become more successful financially at your expense.
Oops was I supposed to say that?
What if even those who truly are trying to help people are themselves deceived? What if I told you that you and many of them have been lied to? By whom you may ask? I am glad you asked! The Father of lies! Who??
Before I get too deep; let me remind you of a story told by Walt Disney called Pinocchio; Well not the whole story! If you ever saw the movie little Pinocchio was trying to please his father by going to school but on the way he ran into a Weasel and a Cat (I think, it’s been a while) that conned him into going with them and they sold him to a Circus because of his uniqueness as a live boy made of wood. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience/H.S.) helped him out of the jam. Pinocchio comes home and tells his dad that he is going to be a good boy and will go to school for sure this time but on the way again gets deceived and goes to pleasure Island instead! Everything a boy would want to do or have during those times was available to fulfill their pleasures! But what happened? The boys were turning into Jackasses! They no longer were able to be who they really were but instead were sold as Jackasses (slaves) to be used by their new owners.
Are you getting the message? We are being made into human jackasses by a masterful enemy so corrupt and deceitful that slowly but surely will steal your true identity. The real you! The true person that you want to be but might not know how or believe in anymore!
Peace = a piece of True Success!
What are we really looking for? Purpose! Learning who we truly are! Who am I really? Am I meant to be a businessperson, actor, entertainer, lawyer, doctor, janitor, teacher, pilot, baker, shoemaker, etc? What good is being something that eventually will make you sick in the later years or even now? If we put constant stress (fear) on our minds it will break into a sickness or a disease. (I will explain in more detail later if you do not already know this). That is part of becoming a jackass! Giving up years of your life for something that does not truly satisfy; is that really smart?
Security = a piece of True Success!
Many are chasing material gain to find security, only to find that getting there has a bigger price than they thought! Giving up their peace can make them sick but the security in things that can be taken away over night by a bad economy, a war; sickness, etc. are not true security. But what if you could find out who you are; and what you should be doing and finally became successful being the True You? Having confidence in who you are and being successful at being you brings a sense of security that no material things can replace.
Are you saying I can’t have lots of nice stuff?
No, not at all! What if I told you that when you have found out who you are and being successful being You could bring to you financial success, material things and peace too?
If your are a little interested in the answers to many of the questions above I would like to give you a 26 full page report that you will have to read slowly to see the lies and how we have been sold. It is titled; “Free to Be the True You!”
Why? What’s My Motive?
For the first time in my 60+ years of life I have personally found true peace. I have been financially successful, owned businesses, even taught others the same lies that I was sold on by others, traveled, owned boats, expensive cars and all the fixin’s but was totally not at peace. I thought that achieving goals would help me find that elusive peace. Oh yes, there were temporary highs related to achievements but there were losses by having to pay the price that cost me physically, relationally with my own family, friends, and associates.
This place of peace that I am at now enjoying is something my wife of over 40 years has had since she was 7 years old! I envied her for many years; it was the major things that drew me to her in marriage and the many young men who sought after her during our school years and after. The thing that made her stand out was peace, knowing who she was and was loving life; she still does! Everyone who met or knew her loved her because she loved them first. It took me over 40 years to find the same peace and rest; I can teach you in less than 40 minutes. If you are sincerely interested!
I believe that like me there are many who would like to know the truth! What this thing between life and death we call life is truly all about! What’s in it for me? The more I help others find the same thing; I get more of it! To watch others find freedom is a high that money can not buy!
Read the REPORT; It’s free!
You have nothing to lose except the troubles that the stress and pressures of living the lies you have been sold.
Click Here; for your free 26 Full Page Report!
(The Lies We Have Been Told)
By Alfred P. Licata Sr.
How do you define success?
In the book written by Og Mandino “The Greatest Salesman in the World” He writes “Which two among a thousand Wise men can define success in the same manner? But failure can be defined only one way; by a persons inability to accomplish their goals in life whatever they may be”.
Read any book written by the gurus of success today and they will always teach we must start with a goal! That is true but what if that goal does not get you where you really want to go? What if at the end you find yourself empty or trapped by the very thing that you sought after? What if you spent many hours, years or worse a whole life time chasing after something to find it was a waste of life?
In the book written by Stephen Covey, “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People”, he writes that people could be climbing the Ladder of Success to find out that they are up against the wrong wall! What if you spent your entire life going after the wrong things and find out you were wrong?
Book after book in the Success Arena tell you; you must be willing to pay the price and so many have! What was the price? Broken marriages, families, relationships, mental breakdowns or physical break downs through sicknesses or diseases! In addition, they have addictions to alcohol, drugs, power, success, material things, etc. What a great reward! What a pay off! Trapped by the very thing we gave up so much for- Success!
Have you lost your identity in what you own, wear or do?
Do you know who you truly were supposed to be?
We are brought up in a society that teaches in school that those who get A’s are better than those who get B’s and C’s etc. In College the goal is 4.0 and so on! A Masters Degree is better than an Associates Degree, a Doctorate is better than a Masters, etc. The title of the job determines your success; the stuff you own shows your success! Says Who? How much money you have, the home you live in, the clothes you wear! We are told to dress for success! Who decided which clothes are successful clothes? Is it the people on Madison Ave who design or make clothing to sell you? What if we have the most expensive clothing, homes, cars, investments, cash flow, travel in what seems the upper class groups but inside we are in fear of being found out to be something different than our outward appearance?
Do I sound anti success? I am not! But what is success? Who really determines Success? Which wall should we be climbing? What’s at the top? What is the reward for paying the price? What if I end up like the greyhound dog that catches the electric rabbit? What if I find out that what I have been running after isn’t real; or did not give me the satisfaction that I was seeking?
Checking Our Motives Reveals What We Really Want and Why!
What is it you want? What is your underlying motivation for success?
Power
Security
Identity
Independence
Pride
Social Status
Freedom
Winning
Helping Others
Serving Others
Greed
Competing
Fear
Many times the very things that we deep down are trying to fulfill can not begin to satisfy us by success; because there might be a psychological or a spiritual need that achievement can’t fulfill.
People selling you their Programs on Success!
First of all, who are these people who you are following? People who have found success in accomplishing worthless goals? What did they accomplish over all? Are they healthy in body in the later years? How many marriages or relationship have they had, are their children successful (secure)? Are they at peace or are they stressed trying to climb the next mountain or worse are they totally stressed trying to maintain what they now have. Are they in fear of losing the very thing they were told was worth the price?
Come on let’s smarten up and see the truth! Most of the people who are selling success are selling it so they can become more successful financially at your expense.
Oops was I supposed to say that?
What if even those who truly are trying to help people are themselves deceived? What if I told you that you and many of them have been lied to? By whom you may ask? I am glad you asked! The Father of lies! Who??
Before I get too deep; let me remind you of a story told by Walt Disney called Pinocchio; Well not the whole story! If you ever saw the movie little Pinocchio was trying to please his father by going to school but on the way he ran into a Weasel and a Cat (I think, it’s been a while) that conned him into going with them and they sold him to a Circus because of his uniqueness as a live boy made of wood. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience/H.S.) helped him out of the jam. Pinocchio comes home and tells his dad that he is going to be a good boy and will go to school for sure this time but on the way again gets deceived and goes to pleasure Island instead! Everything a boy would want to do or have during those times was available to fulfill their pleasures! But what happened? The boys were turning into Jackasses! They no longer were able to be who they really were but instead were sold as Jackasses (slaves) to be used by their new owners.
Are you getting the message? We are being made into human jackasses by a masterful enemy so corrupt and deceitful that slowly but surely will steal your true identity. The real you! The true person that you want to be but might not know how or believe in anymore!
Peace = a piece of True Success!
What are we really looking for? Purpose! Learning who we truly are! Who am I really? Am I meant to be a businessperson, actor, entertainer, lawyer, doctor, janitor, teacher, pilot, baker, shoemaker, etc? What good is being something that eventually will make you sick in the later years or even now? If we put constant stress (fear) on our minds it will break into a sickness or a disease. (I will explain in more detail later if you do not already know this). That is part of becoming a jackass! Giving up years of your life for something that does not truly satisfy; is that really smart?
Security = a piece of True Success!
Many are chasing material gain to find security, only to find that getting there has a bigger price than they thought! Giving up their peace can make them sick but the security in things that can be taken away over night by a bad economy, a war; sickness, etc. are not true security. But what if you could find out who you are; and what you should be doing and finally became successful being the True You? Having confidence in who you are and being successful at being you brings a sense of security that no material things can replace.
Are you saying I can’t have lots of nice stuff?
No, not at all! What if I told you that when you have found out who you are and being successful being You could bring to you financial success, material things and peace too?
If your are a little interested in the answers to many of the questions above I would like to give you a 26 full page report that you will have to read slowly to see the lies and how we have been sold. It is titled; “Free to Be the True You!”
Why? What’s My Motive?
For the first time in my 60+ years of life I have personally found true peace. I have been financially successful, owned businesses, even taught others the same lies that I was sold on by others, traveled, owned boats, expensive cars and all the fixin’s but was totally not at peace. I thought that achieving goals would help me find that elusive peace. Oh yes, there were temporary highs related to achievements but there were losses by having to pay the price that cost me physically, relationally with my own family, friends, and associates.
This place of peace that I am at now enjoying is something my wife of over 40 years has had since she was 7 years old! I envied her for many years; it was the major things that drew me to her in marriage and the many young men who sought after her during our school years and after. The thing that made her stand out was peace, knowing who she was and was loving life; she still does! Everyone who met or knew her loved her because she loved them first. It took me over 40 years to find the same peace and rest; I can teach you in less than 40 minutes. If you are sincerely interested!
I believe that like me there are many who would like to know the truth! What this thing between life and death we call life is truly all about! What’s in it for me? The more I help others find the same thing; I get more of it! To watch others find freedom is a high that money can not buy!
Read the REPORT; It’s free!
You have nothing to lose except the troubles that the stress and pressures of living the lies you have been sold.
Click Here; for your free 26 Full Page Report!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Finally Free!
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Finally Free!
Finally
Free!
(60 years of Hell)
ALFRED P. LICATA SR.
It is amazing don’t you think, that I did not even know that I was in hell until I was set free? What do I mean by that? Four months shy of my 60th birthday a realization came upon me, inner peace was mine, traveling through this life, searching for this secret for close to 60 years. Never having the elusive peace that had been promised over 30 years ago, when becoming a committed Christian.
Oh yes, there have been many great moments with feelings of highs but with every height reached there seemed to be a new and lower low. As far back as the mind can go: there always was something to worry and be stressed over, whether in school as a young boy or as a grown man failing in business, even when reaching financial success.
As a man in American society, (women to) it is never cool to admit that you are fearful of anything; especially if you have learned the secrets to success; having a positive attitude! But I have found behind many men and woman there is a great sadness and loneliness, not being able to admit or show that you are in fear of anything. How can I prove it?
In America alone there are over 40, 000,000 people diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome); that is 40 + million! What is the root cause? FEAR! We don’t call it fear; we call it stress, worry, anxiousness, concern, etc. but fear is the root cause. I never knew IBS existed until developing it and running to doctor after doctor to find out what was wrong. 4 years of suffering and not being able to work a full work week, having my income affected and using most of our assets to simply survive brought greater fear and worse symptoms. What a mess! But outwardly, like most people, I tried to show that everything was ok even with this handicap, feeling incapable to compete in life on any level; especially at work where most men are getting their sense of self worth as providers for their families or at least being able to compete in the sport of life by having a meaningful job, position or business.
Never hearing of IBS before receiving symptoms was a wake up call that there was an even bigger picture to sicknesses, all hidden behind fear, the root of many other diseases such as Heart Failures, body immune system breakdowns, nervous breakdowns; to mention only a few! I mean just a few! The list goes into the hundreds of Physical and Mental illnesses that plague our World. What is going on? How is this happening? When we are supposed to be a superior generation with all this high tech knowledge?
I am glad you asked because this is what this book is all about! Sharing of myself my journey, and what I have learned, and now discovered. A peace that is beyond human understanding, Is that possible? Yes, you to can learn to understand how and why you have been ripped off from experiencing a true and real peace that you can take everywhere with you; at home, at church, on weekends with friends and even some family members who have been robbing you of peace for years and oh yes even in the high stress work you are involved in or should I say locked in to, because of the need to fill the wonderfully stressed life we have developed in order to have all the stuff we were told was supposed to make us happy! But doesn’t.
I don’t mean to be so sarcastic but as the saying goes; “I have been there and done that.” Some even say, “I even bought the t-shirt.” I bought the factory!!! I want to share with you what I didn’t know, that truth is, not knowing fear (or we’ll call it stressed) bound me, until peace, joy, and love found me. No It did not take having to run away to an unmanned island, to get away from family or even work… It did however take a choice, that I wanted to “not be blind but see” with making this choice a real peace and joy that I did not know, really truly can exist. Others may tell you, If you would only read this book, go to this new doctor, take this pill, join a new church, new this and new that. This book will not teach you anything new at all! I am going to share some basics that are very old, follow me until the end of this book, read all that is in between, and then apply it. I can promise that you will find the peace and fulfillment that you have been seeking an maybe you will even shed some of the sicknesses you have been carrying (mentally and physically) too! So please don’t give up until you have read this whole story. Why? It is important to me that you will attain peace, healing, and joy. Well you don’t know me why do you care? I love people, and if my journey can prevent others from waiting nearly 60 years to receive what I now have, then by GRACE this journey will have touched someone’s life, and they in turn bless another the line is infinite, it’s a “pay it forward” reason. These promises are granted by someone far greater than me. The very creator of this universe, the being that has been trying to communicate with you since the day you were born. Is this a religious book? Read it all and then decide for yourself. I don’t think so. This is a book about healing. Getting physically, mentally, financially, socially and with your self healing. The worst thing that could happen is you spend the cost of this book and get a little rest while reading it but the best thing that could happen is that you will find a peace and joy for life that you and most of the billions of people living today are trying to find but only very few have. I dare you to read this entire book to its end. I know that what worked of me will work for you too! Good Reading! Enjoy!
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1 “Is anyone thirsty?
Come and drink—
even if you have no money!
Come, take your choice of wine or milk—
it's all free!
2 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.
3 “Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
Isaiah 55:1-3 NLT
Posted by Alfred P. Licata Sr. at 1:09 PM
Finally Free!
Finally
Free!
(60 years of Hell)
ALFRED P. LICATA SR.
It is amazing don’t you think, that I did not even know that I was in hell until I was set free? What do I mean by that? Four months shy of my 60th birthday a realization came upon me, inner peace was mine, traveling through this life, searching for this secret for close to 60 years. Never having the elusive peace that had been promised over 30 years ago, when becoming a committed Christian.
Oh yes, there have been many great moments with feelings of highs but with every height reached there seemed to be a new and lower low. As far back as the mind can go: there always was something to worry and be stressed over, whether in school as a young boy or as a grown man failing in business, even when reaching financial success.
As a man in American society, (women to) it is never cool to admit that you are fearful of anything; especially if you have learned the secrets to success; having a positive attitude! But I have found behind many men and woman there is a great sadness and loneliness, not being able to admit or show that you are in fear of anything. How can I prove it?
In America alone there are over 40, 000,000 people diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome); that is 40 + million! What is the root cause? FEAR! We don’t call it fear; we call it stress, worry, anxiousness, concern, etc. but fear is the root cause. I never knew IBS existed until developing it and running to doctor after doctor to find out what was wrong. 4 years of suffering and not being able to work a full work week, having my income affected and using most of our assets to simply survive brought greater fear and worse symptoms. What a mess! But outwardly, like most people, I tried to show that everything was ok even with this handicap, feeling incapable to compete in life on any level; especially at work where most men are getting their sense of self worth as providers for their families or at least being able to compete in the sport of life by having a meaningful job, position or business.
Never hearing of IBS before receiving symptoms was a wake up call that there was an even bigger picture to sicknesses, all hidden behind fear, the root of many other diseases such as Heart Failures, body immune system breakdowns, nervous breakdowns; to mention only a few! I mean just a few! The list goes into the hundreds of Physical and Mental illnesses that plague our World. What is going on? How is this happening? When we are supposed to be a superior generation with all this high tech knowledge?
I am glad you asked because this is what this book is all about! Sharing of myself my journey, and what I have learned, and now discovered. A peace that is beyond human understanding, Is that possible? Yes, you to can learn to understand how and why you have been ripped off from experiencing a true and real peace that you can take everywhere with you; at home, at church, on weekends with friends and even some family members who have been robbing you of peace for years and oh yes even in the high stress work you are involved in or should I say locked in to, because of the need to fill the wonderfully stressed life we have developed in order to have all the stuff we were told was supposed to make us happy! But doesn’t.
I don’t mean to be so sarcastic but as the saying goes; “I have been there and done that.” Some even say, “I even bought the t-shirt.” I bought the factory!!! I want to share with you what I didn’t know, that truth is, not knowing fear (or we’ll call it stressed) bound me, until peace, joy, and love found me. No It did not take having to run away to an unmanned island, to get away from family or even work… It did however take a choice, that I wanted to “not be blind but see” with making this choice a real peace and joy that I did not know, really truly can exist. Others may tell you, If you would only read this book, go to this new doctor, take this pill, join a new church, new this and new that. This book will not teach you anything new at all! I am going to share some basics that are very old, follow me until the end of this book, read all that is in between, and then apply it. I can promise that you will find the peace and fulfillment that you have been seeking an maybe you will even shed some of the sicknesses you have been carrying (mentally and physically) too! So please don’t give up until you have read this whole story. Why? It is important to me that you will attain peace, healing, and joy. Well you don’t know me why do you care? I love people, and if my journey can prevent others from waiting nearly 60 years to receive what I now have, then by GRACE this journey will have touched someone’s life, and they in turn bless another the line is infinite, it’s a “pay it forward” reason. These promises are granted by someone far greater than me. The very creator of this universe, the being that has been trying to communicate with you since the day you were born. Is this a religious book? Read it all and then decide for yourself. I don’t think so. This is a book about healing. Getting physically, mentally, financially, socially and with your self healing. The worst thing that could happen is you spend the cost of this book and get a little rest while reading it but the best thing that could happen is that you will find a peace and joy for life that you and most of the billions of people living today are trying to find but only very few have. I dare you to read this entire book to its end. I know that what worked of me will work for you too! Good Reading! Enjoy!
Copy Rights 2007
1 “Is anyone thirsty?
Come and drink—
even if you have no money!
Come, take your choice of wine or milk—
it's all free!
2 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.
3 “Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
Isaiah 55:1-3 NLT
Posted by Alfred P. Licata Sr. at 1:09 PM
The Beginning of Truth
Thursday, April 3, 2008
How it all started
I was stressed to the max; trying to inhale a sandwich between the morning training session and the upcoming afternoon sales meeting for the more experienced people. A young man asked to come into my office to speak with me. He was not sure he had entered the right business. He didn’t seem to have the drive or desire that it took. He started telling me about his relationship with God and his experience reading the Bible. I felt like the walls were closing in on me. My life was a mess. Could he see it? Was he trying to help me? the man with the new white, shiny Lincoln Continental in the parking lot, wearing a new expensive suit with all the trimmings and the diamond pinky ring to show that I have arrived financially? Our home was a beautiful custom condo with designer everything. I was only 27 years old; on the surface, it seemed that I had everything. I was overseeing 33 offices and had a great titled position.
The young man started to tell me that his father thought he was off his rocker reading the Bible and studying it. I was trying to be courteous and I remember saying to him, “If that works for you, that’s cool.” But when he said that he had been a hard drug user and was now free of it, which got my attention! Why? I was hooked on marijuana – at least mentally, in order to deal with the disaster that I had made of my life. I had just come back from Las Vegas with my tail between my legs, after trying to become the world’s greatest entertainer! I lost a small fortune in just six months. I was now in debt up to my eyeballs trying to keep the image that had been created. Did this young man know this somehow? Did God send him? Was he an Angel? To this day, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything about him other than that one day, and that one conversation. His face had a unique brightness that radiated with peace, a peace that I did not have and had lost all hope of ever finding.
As sales trainer and motivator for my own company and others that I wholesaled to, my job was to tell people they could become financially successful like me. What a joke. I did not feel successful even having had all the things that most people where trying to obtain here I was only 27. Having the knowledge on how to get everything back that was now missing financially, was easy, go back to the grind and work through it.
It all seemed to happen so fast, six and one half years in the trenches selling and then an opportunity with a new company to run my own business. Becoming the #1 distributor in the world in 1974 with many awards and income to match! Traveling and speaking on my favorite theme, “The Little Engine That Could.” You know, I think I can, I think I can! What happened to me? After my failure in Vegas, I could not get out of bed for one month. Now I was in an office working with someone who really did not want me there but knew he needed my help. To top everything off, he was jealous of my ability to get his sales up from 15 in a month to eventually hitting 135 in a month, within a 3 month period, for doing what I had been hired to do! That job brought to my life great stress and torment. Oh yes, I knew how to make this business work and make money, but the methods I had been taught were eating away at my soul. trapped in this world. I now had an image with high living expenses to maintain and needed to catch up from what seemed like overwhelming debt.
Being married to a wonderful woman whom at this time I was not sure I was in love with any longer, all while expecting our second child. Was added emotional stress. (Thank God, we are still together now over forty years later with four amazing sons and four and a half grandchildren; and still counting. She is the #1 most trusted and loved human in my life.) Why was I here? I wanted to go back to Las Vegas to finish what I started. I did not want to take that defeat and I certainly did not want to be in this business any longer. I truly went to Las Vegas to save the world (I am not kidding) and teach people about what I then thought I knew about success and love. In actuality, I did not even know what love was.
At the peak of my so-called success, while smoking pot, I read, “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran, receiving the illusion of finding some of the deep hidden secrets of life. What love and success I thought I found was totally lost in the deep depression and humiliation of failure. My fear was people knowing I was a fraud and no way near a together person. What about all the positive thinking and a drive to succeed? I Was now driven by the fear of failure.
Then this young man who had nothing I wanted materially, made a profound statement that changed my life sending me on a quest that continues for me to this day. He said, “What you’re looking for is The Truth.” Those words became alive and resonated deep within my entire being. The Truth, yes! That’s what I wanted to know. I wanted to know what this time between birth and death, that we called life, was all about!
I came from an environment of insecurity and inferiority, only to continue into a place where I thought I had found the answer to succeeding at anything. What I had learned from all the books, tapes, conferences and gurus of success was that developing a solid goal, maintaining a positive attitude and continued determination to complete whatever you started. That is what they were all selling and I lived it, and then was becoming a mini guru to others. People in the business could only see the outside glitter in my life. Yes, I had the expertise to get financially the things I wanted, but felt something was missing. I did not know what it was, but I knew there had to be more to this success thing.
I started to listen with more interest, As to what this young man was saying about how he was freed from the use of heavy drugs. Although dressed poorly, ( this young man I would later learn was richer then I had ever been.) He was what I would learn later, richer than I had ever been, he had something that I desperately needed – peace.
That is what I would like to share with you, where the quest for the truth has taken me and how I have finally found a place of peace, joy and love that I never believed possible for me. It did not happen overnight. As a matter of fact, it took me years to really begin enjoying it, but it does not have to be that long for you. It could take as little as a few months, or even weeks depending on ………….
copy right 2008
Posted by Alfred P. Licata Sr. at 1:52 PM
How it all started
I was stressed to the max; trying to inhale a sandwich between the morning training session and the upcoming afternoon sales meeting for the more experienced people. A young man asked to come into my office to speak with me. He was not sure he had entered the right business. He didn’t seem to have the drive or desire that it took. He started telling me about his relationship with God and his experience reading the Bible. I felt like the walls were closing in on me. My life was a mess. Could he see it? Was he trying to help me? the man with the new white, shiny Lincoln Continental in the parking lot, wearing a new expensive suit with all the trimmings and the diamond pinky ring to show that I have arrived financially? Our home was a beautiful custom condo with designer everything. I was only 27 years old; on the surface, it seemed that I had everything. I was overseeing 33 offices and had a great titled position.
The young man started to tell me that his father thought he was off his rocker reading the Bible and studying it. I was trying to be courteous and I remember saying to him, “If that works for you, that’s cool.” But when he said that he had been a hard drug user and was now free of it, which got my attention! Why? I was hooked on marijuana – at least mentally, in order to deal with the disaster that I had made of my life. I had just come back from Las Vegas with my tail between my legs, after trying to become the world’s greatest entertainer! I lost a small fortune in just six months. I was now in debt up to my eyeballs trying to keep the image that had been created. Did this young man know this somehow? Did God send him? Was he an Angel? To this day, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything about him other than that one day, and that one conversation. His face had a unique brightness that radiated with peace, a peace that I did not have and had lost all hope of ever finding.
As sales trainer and motivator for my own company and others that I wholesaled to, my job was to tell people they could become financially successful like me. What a joke. I did not feel successful even having had all the things that most people where trying to obtain here I was only 27. Having the knowledge on how to get everything back that was now missing financially, was easy, go back to the grind and work through it.
It all seemed to happen so fast, six and one half years in the trenches selling and then an opportunity with a new company to run my own business. Becoming the #1 distributor in the world in 1974 with many awards and income to match! Traveling and speaking on my favorite theme, “The Little Engine That Could.” You know, I think I can, I think I can! What happened to me? After my failure in Vegas, I could not get out of bed for one month. Now I was in an office working with someone who really did not want me there but knew he needed my help. To top everything off, he was jealous of my ability to get his sales up from 15 in a month to eventually hitting 135 in a month, within a 3 month period, for doing what I had been hired to do! That job brought to my life great stress and torment. Oh yes, I knew how to make this business work and make money, but the methods I had been taught were eating away at my soul. trapped in this world. I now had an image with high living expenses to maintain and needed to catch up from what seemed like overwhelming debt.
Being married to a wonderful woman whom at this time I was not sure I was in love with any longer, all while expecting our second child. Was added emotional stress. (Thank God, we are still together now over forty years later with four amazing sons and four and a half grandchildren; and still counting. She is the #1 most trusted and loved human in my life.) Why was I here? I wanted to go back to Las Vegas to finish what I started. I did not want to take that defeat and I certainly did not want to be in this business any longer. I truly went to Las Vegas to save the world (I am not kidding) and teach people about what I then thought I knew about success and love. In actuality, I did not even know what love was.
At the peak of my so-called success, while smoking pot, I read, “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran, receiving the illusion of finding some of the deep hidden secrets of life. What love and success I thought I found was totally lost in the deep depression and humiliation of failure. My fear was people knowing I was a fraud and no way near a together person. What about all the positive thinking and a drive to succeed? I Was now driven by the fear of failure.
Then this young man who had nothing I wanted materially, made a profound statement that changed my life sending me on a quest that continues for me to this day. He said, “What you’re looking for is The Truth.” Those words became alive and resonated deep within my entire being. The Truth, yes! That’s what I wanted to know. I wanted to know what this time between birth and death, that we called life, was all about!
I came from an environment of insecurity and inferiority, only to continue into a place where I thought I had found the answer to succeeding at anything. What I had learned from all the books, tapes, conferences and gurus of success was that developing a solid goal, maintaining a positive attitude and continued determination to complete whatever you started. That is what they were all selling and I lived it, and then was becoming a mini guru to others. People in the business could only see the outside glitter in my life. Yes, I had the expertise to get financially the things I wanted, but felt something was missing. I did not know what it was, but I knew there had to be more to this success thing.
I started to listen with more interest, As to what this young man was saying about how he was freed from the use of heavy drugs. Although dressed poorly, ( this young man I would later learn was richer then I had ever been.) He was what I would learn later, richer than I had ever been, he had something that I desperately needed – peace.
That is what I would like to share with you, where the quest for the truth has taken me and how I have finally found a place of peace, joy and love that I never believed possible for me. It did not happen overnight. As a matter of fact, it took me years to really begin enjoying it, but it does not have to be that long for you. It could take as little as a few months, or even weeks depending on ………….
copy right 2008
Posted by Alfred P. Licata Sr. at 1:52 PM
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