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 Youth Destiny Camp 2010 in just around the corner!
Each year my wife organises and runs YDC ... Youth Destiny Camp ... I help out and we change the destiny of about 50+  teenagers!! Before I briefly share about YDC let me define the word 'retire'. I put a post on FaceBook yesterday and instead of reading it for what it is commonly meant, they turned 'retire' into a negative ... They wrote, "Useless if your retire at 30, you'll have alzheisimers or worse by the time your 45. What do you mean by retire?" They should have attended YDC!   By retiring before the age of 30 I mean to "Living without having to work." Work becomes a choice not a necessity. YDC came out of a discussion around our kitchen table with our 6 boys a few years ago as our eldest son Matthew shared his concerns about his friends. He found that he couldn't find teenagers who understood anything about mindset, wealth creation or creating you own life how you want it to be. From the time we learnt that most people think and create lack, poverty and sickness in their own lives we have taken our sons along to events such as Tony Robbins' UPW in preference to them attending school for a few days. (Matthew often challenged his school teachers on how they taught and what they taught!!) Living in disease, sickness, lack, poverty, unhappiness is neither a natural or normal state of being. We were not created to live like that and it is certainly not biblical or spiritual. Living is the state of dis-ease or poverty is living in ignorance or darkness, not in knowledge or light. Yet most of us are brought up believing the disease and lack go hand-in-hand with life. IT DOESN'T!!! Disease and lack go hand-in-hand with death - someone quoted a heap of mis-interpretted scripture to me recently to try and prove we should live in sickness and lack, denying our God given desire to be and have more ... God can't give what He hasn't got! He is not sick or broke ... so why do many people think its ok, even righteous to be so? ALL of God's amazing creation shows us that we are either growing and moving into more light and fulfilment or we are decaying and moving toward darkness, emptiness and death. Everything God created is doing one or the other - even the heavens and stars. So how come it takes some of us 30, 40, 50 or even 60 years to figure this out ... Sadly, many people die without understanding what the bible says that "Heaven is within you."  I have been teaching people about creating wealth for at least 18 years ... and the one most common comments adults make when I show them how to create wealth is "Why isn't this information taught in schools?" Great question! It realised after being asked this question over a period of years that it was my job to help do it. To teach children about money, life skills, business, mindset, self-image and success.
That's what we do at out 5-day Youth Destiny Camp ... we take the kids out of their normal environment, treat them like successful young adults and teach them stuff that most parents and adults don't know! The change in these children over 5 days is staggering. We often have parent call us up afterward and say "What did you do? My child now loves school, saves their pocket money and has started their own business!" We just laugh! One of our YDC teens had created a share portfolio of over $38,000 by the time she was 18 ... all from savings from working part time at McDonald's. If you have children, grandchildren, nephews or nieces who are 12-19, encourage them to come to the next YDC in January 2010. If you don't have teens but would would like to sponsor a teenager and help change their world please contact us and we will let you know how you can help. Every year we sponsor Youth who's parents simply can't afford their child to come to YDC but have a burning passion to change their circumstances. Often we get asked if YDC is a Christian camp ... it's not. We do give thanks before each meal and share some insights on the thought or spirit realm however it is a non-demonational camp to help teens from all belief backgrounds. We also require parents and adults to help assist at YDC. To find out more about YDC 2010 or to reserve a place click on this link: http://www.YouthDestiny.com
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We had a phone interview a couple months ago about how we could help teens be successful at school and in life. I love what you are doing with your Youth Destiny Camp and was wondering if there is any way I could participate in some fashion. I am really pleased to tell you that my book Student Mind Power is about to be printed and would be a great resource for the teens at your camp. I would love to hear from you or Lorna to see if we could work together in some way that would help the teens you work with.
Kind Regards,
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