Product Description

This groundbreaking self–help book reveals the secrets of manifesting health, happiness, and prosperity in your life—but not in a way you’ve experienced before. Blunt, outspoken, and brutally honest, Randy Gage shoots down the forces that hold you back and keep you dumb, sick, and broke, and shows you how to take action to get smart, healthy, and rich.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266605 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Synopsis
This groundbreaking self-help book reveals the secrets of manifesting health, happiness, and prosperity in your life but not in a way you've experienced before. Blunt, outspoken, and brutally honest, Randy Gage shoots down the forces that hold you back and keep you dumb, sick, and broke, and shows you how to take action to get smart, healthy, and rich.

From the Inside Flap
If you′re one of the millions of people stressed with money issues, struggling with health challenges, or enduring work that brings you no satisfaction, Why You′re Dumb, Sick and Broke . . . And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich! is the perfect book for you. And it′s perfect for those winning the rat race but living like a rat.

In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Randy Gage reveals the secrets of manifesting health, happiness, and prosperity in your life—but in a way you′ve never experienced before. He takes the timeless and universal principles of success and applies them to the complexities, challenges, and realities of today′s world.

Why You′re Dumb, Sick and Broke . . . And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich! takes on all of the people, institutions, and beliefs that threaten your health, happiness, and prosperity. But be forewarned: Gage is blunt, outspoken, and brutally honest. No target is off limits—from religious leaders to media outlets, from well–meaning family members to New Age self–help gurus. He is dedicated to exposing the insidious role of "memes" that can infect your subconscious mind and cause you to sabotage your own success.

From reality television to an education system that kills critical thinking ability—from cults to organized religion, from dysfunctional families to the pervasive mentality of victim–hood and entitlement—Gage holds nothing back in revealing the forces at work in keeping most people dumb, sick, and broke. Read this book and discover his powerful action plan for getting smart, healthy, and rich!

From the Back Cover
Shocking. Controversial. Brilliant.

Randy Gage has been dubbed "The Millionaire Messiah" because he believes it is a sin to be poor and you were born to be rich. His "Deepak Chopra meets Dennis Miller" style is bold, brash, but right on target if you want to know the secrets of success. He takes timeless universal truths and shows you how to apply them in today′s complex world.

This book is not warmed–over, New Age mumbo–jumbo but scathing, straight talk on what it really takes to wise up, get healthy, and get rich! Gage is controversial, politically incorrect, and not afraid to take on some of the most hallowed institutions of our day, from organized religion to government, pop culture to the food you eat.

This thought–provoking book will challenge your beliefs, confront your fears, and—if you are open to it—show you how to get smart, healthy, and rich!

Gage on:

The Late Pope:
"Like most religious leaders, his actions actually worked to keep his followers dumb, sick, and broke. He leaves behind a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair."

Governments:
". . . are corrupt by their very nature. Your government wants and needs you to be a worker drone in the collective support system in harvesting wealth from the productive people and distributing it to the unproductive—which solidifies their power base."

Selfishness:
"Your highest moral prerogative is your own happiness."

The American Diet:
"Ninety percent of what most of us eat on a daily basis is now ′fake food.′"

Religious Beliefs:
"Most people subscribe to the cosmic Santa Claus theory, believing in a God who is making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who′s naughty and nice."

The Movie Titanic:
"It panders to the fear–based, lack–centered, and limiting beliefs that most people have about money and success. Titanic programs you on many different levels that it is noble to be poor, rich people are immoral, and money is evil. And the more you liked that movie—the more subconscious lack programming you have. I think it′s the most evil movie ever made."

People Whose Life Purpose Is to "Serve God":
"Ought to be in a straightjacket."

Customer Reviews

Randy Gage Walks His Talk!
This is a must read for anyone trying to break out of mediocrity.
Reprogramming our minds so that we can tap into abundance and leave behind lack and poverty thinking is a challenging mission for most.
This book will help you get your head straight and set you on the right path to creating all that you desire. Randy Gage is a prosperity master and I couldn't put this book down.

"What's it going to be?"

As I began to read this book, I recalled Voltaire's suggestion that we cherish those who seek the truth...but beware of those who find it. Few will quarrel with Randy Gage's faith in becoming - and then remaining -- "smart, healthy & rich" but many will disagree with his opinions which he presents as facts (e.g. the late Pope "leaves behind a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair" and with his suggestions which come across as fiats (e.g. those whose purpose is to "serve God" ought to be in a straightjacket"). Somewhere well-buried within this book is a very important insight which complements Voltaire's: Too often, too many of us are unwilling and/or unable to think independently (e.g. to challenge the assumptions and premises of so-called "conventional wisdom"), and then, to take principled and effective action, guided and informed by what our independent thinking reveals.

All of us make bad decisions at one time or another. Obviously, Gage asserts, it is "dumb" to repeat them. For example, to become addicted to health-threatening behavior as well as to spend far in excess of income while maxing out credit cards. Various bad decisions can significantly reduce one's quality of life, standard of living, and career. How easy it is to be controlled by what James O'Toole has aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." Presumably helping people to avoid or escape from such control is one of the reasons why he wrote this book. It is a worthy objective.

Frankly, I would have added another star to the rating were it not for Gage's frequent use of confrontational ("shock") rhetoric which, in my opinion, creates distractions throughout the flow of his narrative. Of course, making the right decisions cannot guarantee that one will become "smart, healthy & rich!" but that will certainly improve the odds. According to Gage, the fundamental challenge is to replace a "fear of success" mindset with a faith in what can be accomplished, and then make whatever changes may be necessary in one's values, attitudes, and behavior to achieve the desired objectives. It is that easy...and, yes, that difficult...but possible.

Gage shocks, provokes and amazes
This book is not for the faint-hearted. I read this book in its entirety from cover to cover in a matter of hours. I found it impossible to put down from the first paragraph onwards. It is full of provocation and attacks as Randy Gage unleashes a full frontal assault on some of the most powerful institutions in the world.

'Why you're Sick, Dumb and Broke' is guaranteed to upset readers in their droves as Gage clearly has the courage to speak out on topics where other authors dare not tread. He is not politically correct. Period. Not for a second. Therefore, he will offend you if you are that way inclined. If you are religious, you may want to have second thoughts about picking the book up: Gage takes on all of the major religions as well as the less populous ones, too. If you are protective and insecure about your faith, then this book will thoroughly rattle you.

If you can get through the provocation that Gage lashes out, then you'll also get to discover powerful strategies that could just stop you from being sick, dumb and broke.

My overall feeling about the book? Awesome.