Diamonds or Rocks

By José Ramírez

Diamonds or Rocks is about the awareness of your inner self because that is where we find the balance of our lives, and that is also where the origin of most of our problems is found. As kids we were very happy, yet it is in our childhoods that most of our problems started. Through this book you are going to learn that there are elements the author calls rocks, which are not a natural part of you, but due to your lack of awareness of them, they are harming you. They managed to get in your mind and take up residence there, and now these intruders have got to be stopped. Through the concept behind the book Diamonds or Rocks, you will gain the tools that have the power to get rid of them and stop the damage they are doing to you.
The author says, I may be the first human being to figure this out, but when you read this book you are going to realize that it all makes sense. These intruders are crushing your mind just like viruses and malware cause a computer to crash.
Diamonds or Rocks was created to be as simple as possible so anyone can take advantage of it and understand it. The book uses analogies through which you will be able to distinguish such an intrusion of these elements, or rocks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Jun 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781463383183

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

My early life

School

Why I wrote this book

How I Created Diamonds or Rocks

Rough times

Greatness already waits within you

Highest and best

Diamond days

The invisible mirror

Analogy: my dirty home

Your business analogy

But how?

How rocks get into our minds

The people around you (negativity)

Imperfect timing

Unlucky shot

Most choices are not yours

Your mind knows best when awareness is built

The diamonds or rocks concept at work

Race

Self clean your mind

Rocky businesses

Two stores

Like a TV show

Part Two

Thinking in creating a business

Natural instinct

Personal success

Rocks for sale

Jessica and I

It’s your mind—why hurt it with rocks?

What are thoughts?

Your intentions

Building your business success

Teaching our kids

What are we teaching our kids?

Being positive

Bombardment of rocks

Finding love

I wish I had inner peace

How awareness is created

The rocky way intention 

Personal growth: the key to success

Rocks affect all areas of your life 

A positive thought will open future doors of creativity

My biggest diamond

The intention

As parents, we want the highest and best for our kids

Highest and best in all realms

The part of you that governs your whole life is the inner self

Your natural instinct

Your natural instinct is that part of you that knows what’s best for you

Your inner intention signal

Physical or external success

Leaders

How these rocks are given to us

You and positivity

Can you see the rock?

I want a better job

Wishes and wants

Your physical world vs. your inner world

Replacing your highest and best

Positivity

Unaware

Killing rocks

Tenancy analogy

Diamonds Only

Facebook

Facebook Posting

The author has taken the fair safety measures in the preparation of this book and believes the facts in the creation of this book are correct as of the date it was written. However the author and the publisher do not assumes any responsibility for any mistakes or omissions and also disclaims any liability resulting from the use of this book.

This book’s information was never intended to be used as legal and professional advice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I ’d like to acknowledge the support of some of the individuals who made a difference in my life and in the preparation of this book. First, I am indebted to two great friends who always were there, trying to help me understand what it takes to achieve success. Even though they did not have answers to every one of my questions, they opened the doors of my mind to begin the search for many answers, so this book, Diamonds or Rocks, could come to life. These are my great friends Angela Mauro, who I miss so much since her recent passing, and her husband Jerry Mauro, from Florida.

There have been many people in my life to whom I extend my deepest gratitude for making me grow by taking my mind to a higher level of understanding. I will always bless them in my heart. These great individuals are Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Robert Kiyosaki, Napoleon Hill, Tim Sales, and many others.

Also I’d like mention the inspiration of my life: my kids. They are the reason I had to change so many things in life. Finally my beloved mother, Josefa, who never left me when things got tough, and no matter how the wind blew, she always stood firm with an open hand, ready and able to help me.

Diamonds or Rocks is a concept that will take you to a different level of inner understanding, where you will be able to see and overcome the obstacles that are stopping you from achieving your dreams and goals.

This is a book about developing the awareness to see those elements that harm your mind. You will be able to recognize their power and what it does to you.

You will be able to see that your mind is at risk, and taking action to fix it is a must in order for you and those around you to have a better future. You are going to see where the problem starts and also how we are blindfolded so our creativity and greatness decrease. You are going to learn techniques in the form of a concept that will teach you what is the tool given to you that creates positivity. You are going to become aware of what really belongs in your mind and what doesn’t.

Through this teaching you will be able to help others in a more effective way instead of simply telling them they have a problem, making it easier for you to explain.

From the deepest part of my heart, I prayerfully wish you the best, for my only intention is to help you to see a problem that I once had and overcame, and teach you how to overcome it too.

Your friend,

Jose Ramirez

INTRODUCTION

W e all want to better ourselves in one way or another, but so often our efforts seem not to take us anywhere, and no matter how positively we try to think, we still fail, and we may even lose the hope that there is a better tomorrow. We keep going back to the drawing table, the point at which we started, and think of new ways to kill the odds that made us fail, but it doesn’t work. It’s like trying to ride to your goal on a merry-go-round: You won’t get anywhere.

Since we were kids, almost everyone has told us to be positive. The message is instilled in us by our parents, other relatives, our religion, books, and all manner of other individuals and institutions. When we were young, life for many of us was great, but for most of us, as we grew a bit older, life became somewhat harder. What’s worse, no one seemed to have the answers to our problems.

Many people throughout our lives have tried to teach us how to become successful in whatever endeavor or aspect of life we desired to be successful at. We also have been taught through books, television, seminars, webinars, and other sources of communication. Yet no matter how hard we try, and despite the good intentions of those who try to teach us, it just doesn’t work. While many people do become successful, their success is often transient. It does not last, and what’s worse they lose the power to enjoy their success to the fullest.

Every day of my life I try to find the answers to some of these problems because they are universal; they exist everywhere. They have nothing to do with what sort of background you come from or what your family makeup is or what your ethnicity is.

When we are born, the first people we are surrounded with are our family members. As we grow a little older, we make friends. We spend time with people from our town, school, and church. Then, as we grow up, we begin to explore the places we once dreamed about, and we meet more new people.

Some of the problems we are going to face in life first take root in our childhood, and is here where we find that many things shaped our minds. This is where some of the problems that stop us from achieving our goals and dreams got into our minds in the first place, without our being aware of the tremendous role they will have in shaping us toward our future.

Developing the ability to remove these obstacles is what will open the doors to becoming successful and enjoying life in both worlds, your inner world and your external world, and creating this ability. But how do you remove the obstacles? That is what this book will tell you.

It took me years of research—in fact, I looked for answers like everybody else—but most of the answers I found were not as solid or helpful as needed. This was because most people are full of opinions rather than helpful answers. But as I see it, life is not about giving a superficial answer, the way most people do. Life is about creating an effective way to make people see the solution to a problem so it can be eliminated forever.

You must develop this ability and help those who need it as well as helping yourself. Otherwise, with no answers, you will be running around like a chicken without a head, and no matter how successful you become in your external world, you will not be able to enjoy your life the way you are supposed to.

Also, these developed abilities will help you understand that many problems are nobody’s fault, and that many of them were created because our psycho-immune systems (the protection within our minds) were not fully developed when we were kids, making us easy targets for negativity to get into our minds.

Through the concepts laid out in Diamonds or Rocks you will learn not only how to help yourself but how to help other people without being critical of them. You will also develop the ability to look within yourself at those elements that keep you from attaining the success you desire. What’s more, you’ll also get to see the elements that are trying to get into your mind from the outside world.

By doing this, you will be able to protect yourself. Negativity is everywhere, and only by awareness of the power it holds are we able to get rid of it once and for all and to help others do the same as well.

I intend this book to serve three purposes:

•   To help you help yourself in overcoming negativity and obstacles.

•   To help you show others how to accomplish the same goals.

•   To help you protect your children, present or future, so that they will not have to undergo the same negativity and obstacles that have faced you.

It took me years to realize I had something great on my hands, but one evening before going to bed, I asked myself, If I died right at this moment, what would be my greatest regret? It took me a few seconds to figure out that my greatest regret would be not getting my concept about diamonds and rocks into a book, into print, and into other people’s hands. At that point, I said to myself, I have to start writing it tomorrow. And I did.

From the deepest part of my heart I thank you for becoming part of this great and simple concept, and I pray and hope that it begins to change your life for a better tomorrow as it did mine. Enjoy the book, the concept, and the changes in your life that reading the book and following the precepts in it will bring to you. I thank almighty God for giving me such understanding.

Jose Ramirez

PART ONE

T his book will help you understand that the power to be the best already exists in your natural instinct. It will also help you understand what causes this power to derail, how the problem was created, and how to fix it right away. This will be a very simply worded book because it is through simplicity that we find most of our workable answers. There are already some great books out there, but unfortunately most people do not comprehend these books’ terminology. It’s easier for people to grasp ideas and follow through on them when they have them explained to them in a simple way.

We are great from the time of our birth, but in the course of our lives there are factors that develop internally that cause our bodies, our goals, and our dreams not to work the way our natural instinct intended, which is for us to be great. Some of these factors are developed within us by unpleasant experiences, and others are adopted by us as a result of other people’s experiences, but the relevant point is that these factors are what make us fail in life. They have to be stopped before we are robbed of our chance at greatness.

That is why I created the concept of Diamonds or Rocks, so that through this concept you can see how this problem came to be and how to eliminate it for good. Stop reading for a second and ask yourself what life is made of, and you will see that it is made of thoughts. You can see, then, that choosing the right thoughts is very crucial to you.

I strongly believe that the elements to create what is valuable to you are already inside you, and making you see this gift in a very simple way is what this book is all about. Why did I say in a very simple way? Simplicity makes it much easier for someone to understand what you are talking about.

I have read many books that are fantastic, but somewhere in those books the terminology gets a little sophisticated, at which point many readers simply quit reading the book. My concept of Diamonds or Rocks is couched in simple language so people won’t have trouble following it and won’t be tempted to put the book down. I believe I can make people visualize life in a totally different way, but most of all in a very simple way.

Now, before I share my Diamonds or Rocks concept with you, let me tell you a little bit about myself. It’s relevant to what I want to teach you.

My early life

My name is Jose Ramirez. I was born in San Salvador, the capital of the Central America country of El Salvador. Living in El Salvador was a very wonderful experience, but I also had hard times as a kid.

When I was growing up on the streets of San Salvador, I was always very happy, even though my father frequently doled out abusive, painful punishment. I had four wonderful brothers, named Carlos, Paco, Juan, and Angel, who happens to be the smallest of all. Unfortunately, our father was a very cruel disciplinarian. When it came to disciplining a child, the only option he knew was causing pain, and I mean severe pain, in order to get his point across. He had many rocks (negative thoughts—I will explain the concept of "rocks" shortly) to deal with, but today I can honestly say that I love him more than ever, and God bless his soul for being my dad. He just did not know that when it comes to raising kids, there are better methods than causing physical harm. I had to live sixteen years of my life under his rule and his cruelty.

I had to put up with my rocky (negative) father all that time, and I wonder sometimes what I would have turned out to be or what type of future I would have had if he’d been as great as other fathers. In the end, though, it doesn’t really matter, because things turned out for the best thanks to the diamonds (positive thoughts) I implanted in my mind when I was still little. My diamonds really worked and saved me from future psychological catastrophe

I also should mention that our economic life was not as great as what many of you in the USA experienced. We were in survival mode all the time until my wonderful mother moved to the USA and started to work. Thank God nothing ever happened to my father and mother, otherwise economically speaking life would have been even harder when it came to monetary matters, but despite my negative experiences, I survived.

School

My school grades were not very promising because my family did not provide me motivation to study. Today I cannot understand how so many teachers passed me to the next grade, considering that I never did homework and I only partially read my first grade reader. Given these facts, it’s hard to understand how I made it to the sixth grade with no effort at all.

My second-grade teacher flunked me two years in a row. From the vantage point of maturity, I now understand that she was my best teacher of all because she knew deep in her heart that I needed the help, and she would not be doing me any favors by passing me to the next grade. The other teachers just passed me, not caring how difficult my future was going to be if I didn’t learn what I needed to.

When I got to seventh grade, things got very tough because the subjects I had to take were so hard. I did try to do my best, but my best wasn’t nearly good enough. Eventually, I realized I couldn’t make it, at which point my dreams about school collapsed.

Can you imagine what my father’s reaction was? My father said that I was the family’s donkey, which in our culture means the ignorant one of the family. He also said that books were not meant for me at all, and that I was not born to be smart. One day he decided to send me to tailoring school because, as far as he was concerned, I was the one of his kids who had no future. So off I went.

By this time (1969) my mother had emigrated to the United States. I will never forget the day she left us, and only God knows how much I missed her, but the greatest thing about my mother is that she never forgot about us.

I had said that I would not shed a tear when she left, but I was very wrong. I shed an ocean of tears. I cried all afternoon after we took her to the airport, especially when I saw the plane going up into the air with her on it. All I could say at that moment was, God bless my mother.

My tailoring days started in 1972. My father had begun spreading rumors that my mother had married, and she was applying for us to travel to the United States. For me it was the best possible news because the torture and cruelty I had undergone would finally be coming to an end. He also told us that if we told our friends, we wouldn’t make that trip at all but would have to stay in El Salvador for the rest of our lives.

I knew how serious he was, and even though I was very excited, I had to keep it to myself. The months seemed years, but the day finally came when he told us, You are traveling to the United States. They have approved your residency. At that moment I was the happiest kid in town because the suffering and torture were finally going to come to an end.

What a great feeling! I said, USA, thank you. I already love you for opening the doors for all of us. My father announced the travel date: December 2, 1972. That will be the day all of you will be traveling, and also remember once more, I do not want you tell anyone about this, for all of you know what is going to happen to you.

The days began to drag, I could not wait to get the hell out of there. You know the old expression, Time stood still? That’s exactly what it felt like. Finally, though, one day my dad said, Wake up. The day to leave El Salvador is here. Take a shower, get dressed, and then you have an hour to say goodbye to all your friends.

I thought, What a great feeling! Finally I am leaving, I am leaving. I kept telling myself, The day is finally here. When I went out to say goodbye to everyone, nobody could believe we were leaving. Some people smiled, while others wept with emotion. I remember that moment like it was yesterday.

Just a few minutes later the taxi came that would take us to the airport, and with no delay I got in, saying, Goodbye, my beloved neighborhood. One day I will be back. Bye

Let’s go, my father said, and we took off. Finally, we arrived at Ilopango airport. I had at one time told a friend of mine, Some day I will be boarding one of those planes.

He had looked at me, smiled, and said, Yeah, in your dreams. Maybe one day you’ll get a job here and work in the maintenance department. I