Childhood Stories

Childhood stories tell a tale often more profound than a simple child’s story.

Recently I downloaded the tale of The Grasshopper and the Ants, and old Disney 33rpm LP album that was popular when I was a child. I shared it with my children and listened along just for old times, when all of a sudden a line popped out at me with powerful clarity… “’That boy will grow up to be a Cheat’, said the first ant, ‘or a King’ said the second ant!’”

What a bold and simple facet that little childhood story contains. A fact that I certainly didn’t grapple with as a child or even ponder beyond entertainment reasons.

Telling the story of the Infinite Banking Concept is somewhat similar to telling a childhood story. It’s such a simple and wonderful story that sometimes the bold details contained are lost on certain folks for whatever reasons.

Perhaps one of the biggest; however, is that many folks don’t ponder things beyond the entertainment phase any more. For instance, how many folks consider economics as just a bunch of graphs, numbers and statistics? If they do so, it is because they simply haven’t contemplated long enough to realize that economics is consequences…the consequences of decent (morally right) decisions or dishonest (morally wrong) decisions. Just as the two ants theorized in the story of The Grasshopper and the Ants, a decision or action may qualify one for becoming a Cheat or a King depending on the action or decision made.

Today decisions have been made (and are being made) which subject the American consumer to being responsible for Greece and Ireland’s dishonest (morally wrong) monetary decisions. That puts “The Cheat” and “The King” on equal footing if not being one and the same entity. Rarely is one willing to pick up the tab of a close friend let alone a mere associate who has squandered their resources. However this is exactly what has taken place today... and all under the name of economics, international banking and monetary policy.

This is just one of the bold stories behind the simple story of The Infinite Banking Concept and it is what led this author to write the Prescription for Wealth, a simple story to encourage people to become their own banker and practice The Infinite Banking Concept.

Most folks who’ve read the Prescription For Wealth understand that there are more reasons why you should become wealthy besides personal gain. Most appreciate that being wealthy is a decision which you make that empowers you to become more beneficial to others. While some decisions you make ultimately lead to poverty, you can just make decisions which produce greater prosperity for you and others too.

But grasping this concept moves beyond the entertainment phase of just reading a book or listening to a story. It requires you to ponder the fact that your decisions and your actions really do affect and produce an effect upon everybody…rippling, as it were, through the world like a stone thrown into a pool of water.

If you’re currently happy with the tale of the world today…more and more of the world’s wealth rising to the top, then continue doing what you’re doing. It’s working.

On the other hand, if you’re concerned about “The Cheat” and “The King” being one and the same entity today, you’ll benefit from the bold ideas which await you by listening to the Infinite Banking Concept story…a decent idea which has, and will continue, positively altered the dishonest economic consequences suffered by many due to dishonest ideologies.

By Tomas McFie

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