Chapter 12

The Clarion Call to Power

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

I’ve always loved the song Always look on the bright side of life, at the end of the Monty Python Film The life of Brian. Not without controversy when it was launched in 1979, the film pokes fun at the way we take many things so seriously. Among other things, it lampoons the way in which many people are just looking for someone to follow.

At the end of the film is the death scene, after Brian has been crucified, along with others. The victims end up singing “life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true.” Pointing out that life is little more than a show, the ...

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