Yes PERFECT GOOD I have personal experience of being flat broke with no future. I felt like I was invisible and slowly being crushed by the society.

How did I get out of this situation? Well I had an old book that I'd bought many years before "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches" and I really put it's teachings into practice though I think I must have not quite got it right, the mental programming I mean, because from there on I started stealing vehicules. It got me out of a sticky spot and I was able to put some money aside and buy a place to live ... and of course the inevitable happened (I'd spun a web so tightly around myself that I trapped myself ) ... the police caught up with me and I did some time.

Moral of the story; make sure you get the mental programming right. :)

This was all a good lesson for me because it made me realize I had a poverty conscious outlook;

http://www.sherryransom.com/are-you-living-in-poverty-consciousness/

Nowadays I"m a lot better and a lot wiser, actually I'm studying the teachings of Robert Scheinfeld, he says "the primary reason you're not experiencing true happiness (that is you're experiencing unhappyness) on a consistent basis right now is that you've accepted a series of lies, illusions and stories as true ... I think that what he says is well worth investigating :)

Update saturday 27th june; so how come using the "Lazy Man's Way to Riches" method did I end up stealing vehicles to gain money? because in my eyes the system was bent so the only way to get around it was to be bent too.

Robert Scheinfeld "Why don't the typical techniques work? There are zillions of books, audios, videos, courses, events and workshops offering techniques, strategies, and prescriptions for how to be happy. If we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that virtually all of them end up as dead ends

You'll continue failing to produce the desired result and driving(notice the "driving") down dead end after dead end ... until ... you discover why the techniques fail and how to "turn around" and take a new "road" that really can take you where you want to go."

To me this is very enlightening ... using the "Lazy Man's Way to Riches" method my prime goal was to make money, and in this sense it worked. However the truth is that hiding behind the motivation to make money is the ultimate goal "be happy" ... so I was auto- (lol) matically self sabotaged. This I found to be True I did make a lot of money but still was unhappy, depressed, angry, fearful exactly the correct vibration to attract [prison].

Here's the paradox, it's in prison I found real freedom, when I was in prison the only true escape I really found was to go inwards ... once a week there was a yoga teacher that gave seances ... my nick name was "voleur de bonbons" which means candie thief, the other members of the group were two murderers, a rapist and a bank robber and of course the teacher quite a unique group with which to practice yoga lol

When I say "murderer", "rapist", "robber" I'm just repeating the words that have been stamped into me by my education ... my experience of murders, rapists, robbers, child molesters, (fill in the blanks) is that they are just like me, that is, anyone ... the upshot is that I discovered that unlimited space within that Robert Scheinfeld mentions. The Inner Space is like when I look at a 2D drawing that suddenly transforms itself to 3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2VYPsovZM

or is it the other way round? :)

What do I mean by the system is bent? ... I have the impression that the prime motivation in Story Space that is, in the real world is to make money and that being happy is just a secondary goal.

My conclusion is that the prime motivation is "happiness" whatever that means, I know that it's classed in the "3" sector and is just one of the 22 emotions but I'm sure there's more to than that ... all the other goals are secondary. Any method, technique or "other" should take this into consideration.

All this is not theory, ideas, concepts ... it is based on my own personal experince.

So what is happiness? That my friends is a fundamental question :)

Hello @PERFECT GOOD. In response to your comment,

For the courtesy nobody questioned my question... 'been flat broken how can you except for success' (thanks to everyone for that). I know 'flat broken-failure' is the combination but 'flat broken-success' is the resistance. Hoping for success itself is the resistance.

@Stingray has provided you a link to an excellent tool that will help you to feel successful no matter how "bad" or "poor" your physical situation seems to be. This tool is called the Prosperity Game. Here is another link, with additional links, that will explain to you the process of the Prosperity Game:

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/91896/how-do-we-achieve-the-real-kingdom-mind#91915

Next, in response to your question:

Does anybody become successful after being financially flat broke?

The answer to this question was provided in the video I posted by Tyler Perry in the comments section under your original question.

To sum up, the answer is: Yes. People do become successful after being flat broke (and worse).

There are many additional examples of this. In addition to Tyler Perry, here are a few well-known people who became very successful after being flat broke:

• Jim Carrey
• Oprah Winfrey
• Martin Sheen
• Matt Damon
• Chris Gardner

I am also reminded of an even more extreme example, of a certain filmmaker who was not only broke, but $100,000 U.S. dollars deep in debt.

This particular man had made two previous movies, but in his efforts to get them made (without having the comfort of an ordinary day job), had borrowed money from all of his friends and family (to the sum of $100,000). However, he had a dream to make one more particular film. He had written four massive drafts of a script, but was not able to find financial backing.

Just as Tyler Perry also suggested, this man put all his focus into this one script, this one story. Many people thought the script was silly, as it was extremely fantastical in nature. Also, this happened to be a time (the 1970s) when most of the popular films were gritty, hard-boiled, and cynical; this man's script, however, was full of idealistic---some claimed naive---and spiritual themes.

He took the script to nearly every studio in Hollywood. However, they thought his script (which included, among some things, talking beasts and talking robots) silly and idiotic.

After much time and effort by the author, this man's script had been rejected by every studio in Hollywood except for one. The author took this script there in a last-ditch effort to get it made. Amazingly, after all the many rejections, an executive (named Alan Ladd) at this last studio took a liking to the screenplay, and managed to secure financial backing from the studio itself (20th Century Fox).

That man was George Lucas and the script was Star Wars.

On the eve before the release of Star Wars, George Lucas was still $100,000 in debt.

The rest is history, and no doubt you know it all. Star Wars and its sequels became the most popular film franchise of all time, and George Lucas is now a billionaire.

There are many similarities in George's story to your own situation, except for the fact that he was not only broke, but deeply in debt.

In his interview with the Academy of Achievement, Lucas describes how he was brought to the brink of hopelessness during this period:

No matter how easy it looks on the outside, it's a very, very difficult struggle. You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have. But I haven't met anybody here at the Academy or anywhere else that hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that. The secret is just not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile, I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. You just have to hang in through that.

You can watch the video here:

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/luc0int-2#

Now, this is Mr. Lucas's view because of his own experience and his own set of beliefs. However, does everyone really have to be pushed to the brink of hopelessness to make a successful movie?

The answer is: Absolutely not.

I myself have personally known two individuals who "floated straight to the top" of the film industry within only a few years of college. These two individuals have directed movies which everyone on this website has probably heard of. From the very beginning, they had no visible angst, anxiety, or apparent resistance to becoming successful. They didn't even really seem to care that much. To them, it was all a big game.

Now, to look at your own specific situation:

As I have already noted to you here, putting all your hopes (and your power) in the hands of people already "successful" in the industry can be a difficult ride. It's not that success can't come to you this way (it can), but telling yourself (and the Universe) that it can only come to you through this particular channel is like trying to suck a river through a reed. It tends to be a lengthy and unpleasant experience. :)

Putting all your hopes, and power, in the hands of these people is pretty unpleasant, isn't it? Believing that only they have the power to make or break your career, to make you happy or unhappy? This approach is creating more resistance, isn't it?

So I would try re-focusing your power and energy (per Tyler Perry's suggestion) on your work, on your own writing, on your own imagination, on your own creative abilities. That could mean writing more scripts, if that is your passion and highest excitement. Or, if you prefer to focus and streamline your efforts even more, it could means doing more creatively with the the script that you have already written, to realize that particular vision, by doing one or more of the following:

• Writing director's notes for the future actors and cinematographer
• Creating concept art (this is what James Cameron has done to secure investors)
• Creating storyboards for the film version
• Auditioning and casting local actors in the roles
• Holding readings of the script with the actors
• Filming the read-throughs with whatever camera you have (cell phone, etc.)
• Shooting a short film of part of your script, or a trailer for it
• Starting an internet Kickstarter to fund the feature
• Shooting the entire script, or part of it, with whatever resources you have

By way of example, you may have heard of a young man who recently filmed a short preview for his movie idea, basing his film company out of his Grandmother's basement, casting his friends (and himself) as the principal actors, and using home computers for the special effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjQu28iuNts

With no local film industry around him (in Sweden), he put this three minute video up on Youtube and Facebook, and began a Kickstarter campaign on the internet which raised enough money to expand his trailer into a thirty minute film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

This last short film was accepted at Cannes, and debuted on the internet for free. Soon afterwards, the filmmaker was contacted by Dreamworks Animation, and offered a deal to expand his idea into a feature-length film.

And so it goes.

No one's path, of course, is exactly the same, but I hope that this post has given you some ideas, and a few things to think about. :)

I would say that I had to change the attitude towards myself. This is what changed in me, I stopped comparing myself to the worlds expectations, and began to create things based on my knowing there is a way out. I had to changed who I thought I was, to what am I capable of doing. By spinning my self talk, I found that situations around me changed with those thoughts and feelings and that anything is possible.

Yeah, me. I used to live in a shack where a neighbor let me use his shower in exchange for mowing the lawn. I lived mainly off of oatmeal.

I did various things to improve my standard of living, such as make arrangements with the government (my bout of poverty was a side effect of some strongly held anarchist beliefs I decided to let go of), getting freelance jobs, getting normal jobs, and so on.

About a year ago I started getting very serious about practicing Huna and I set up a daily routine using several Haipule prayers (like a creative workshop with a little extra pizzazz) and the La'a Kea (a way of influencing your aura with visualization).

Then Bitcoin shot up, and I just quit my job. I did nothing at all to prepare for this- I bought my coins in 2011 because I thought they were a fun toy. People kept telling me to sell for fear they might crash, but I didn't. Other people told me they couldn't handle the rollercoaster of ups and downs, but I just don't mind. The universe prepared me well- I was a perfect vibrational match to this.

I am continuing with my practice and I am very excited what else may come up.