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!
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
Monday, July 13, 2009
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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