Your True Talent Will Set You Free

Your True Talent Will Set You Free

by David Czach

When you get home from work, do you feel enriched, fulfilled and empowered? Or does it seem like you just finished an uphill battle on a treadmill? Imagine being paid to do what you love. You could return home feeling as though time stood still. Being “in the zone” virtually all day. Coming home invigorated knowing you consistently live a natural high.

• Place a new piece of blank paper on your night stand.

• Write “While I sleep tonight, I am connected with my heart and soul. I allow myself to travel with the Ultimate Spirit. I bring back to my consciousness my honest desire, life purpose and grand plan to integrate with our current society to benefit others and myself. I now release the power and intentions of these words. And this is so.”

• Go to bed. Close your eyes. Mentally repeat the same phrase until you fall asleep.

• During the next 21 days, remain consciously alert for any clues to your answer.

An Amazing New Short-Cut to Make All Your Dreams Come True

Inspired Action:

An Amazing New Short-Cut to Make All Your Dreams Come True

by Joe Vitale

Ever since my latest book, “Spiritual Marketing,” became a #1best-seller at Amazon last June, people have been writing me. Most of the time people are just praising the book. Sometimes people have questions about the five-step process in the book for creating wealth from the inside out. By far the most common question is about step five, the one called “Let go.”

Spiritual Marketing

Bob Proctor (Foreword). AuthorHouse 2002, Paperback, 136 pages, $8.11

“But what do I DO if I let go?” is the question I get the most. “If I let go, don’t I just sit there?”
What I didn’t fully explain in the book is that you usually still have to do something to achieve your dreams. That something might be as little as answering the phone. Or making a call. Or buying a book. Or joining an association. Or answering an email. I have no idea what that action will be for you regarding achieving your dream. But you usually have to do something, however small or large a step.

But the magic answer to the question of what action to do next is this:
You want to take what I call “Inspired Action.”

Inspired Action is any action you take based on an inside nudge.

In other words, an Inspired Action is when you suddenly get a desire to drive to the store. You may have no idea why you need to go to the store right now. But something within you is urging you out the door. Follow that hunch. It may lead you to your goal. At the store, you may meet the right person. Or find the right product. Or pick up the right magazine that will lead you to completing your dream.

For example, in “Spiritual Marketing” I talk about how I managed to get into Nightingale-Conant with my own tapeset, called “The Power of Outrageous Marketing.” I had tried to get Nightingale-Conant to pay attention to me for over ten years. (Ten years!) Nothing I did would ever work out. Yet I was doing all the “right things” people said I should do—make calls, send letters, follow a plan of action, etc.
Nope. None of that ever worked.

So I stopped all that planned action. I didn’t stop wanting my goal of being in the famous Nightingale-Conant catalog, of course, but I did stop struggling to make it happen. I, in short, let go. I waited for divine inspiration to tell me what to do next.

And then one day I started to get emails from someone asking questions about my book on P.T. Barnum, called “There’s A Customer Born Every Minute.” My gut said to answer the questions. So my Inspired Action was simply to write back to this stranger. That’s what I felt guided to do.

I did. And after three weeks of email exchanges, this man finally wrote me an email that rocked my world. He said, “I appreciate all you’ve done for me. If you ever want your material considered by Nightingale-Conant, I am their senior marketing director. Just send your stuff to me.” I still get goosebumps when I think of that email. That miracle occurred not because of any planned action, but because of Inspired Action.

So here’s how to make Inspired Action work for you:
Step One: As I explain in “Spiritual Marketing,” set an intention. An intention is your declaration about your dream, or goal, that you want to be, do, or have. This is your request of your subconscious, unconscious and universe itself. The clearer your intention, the better your results. One of my intentions was, “I intend to have a best-selling audiotape program with Nightingale-Conant.” Another was, “I intend for my ‘Spiritual Marketing’ book to become a #1 best-seller at Amazon.”

Step Two: Follow your hunches. Listen to your intuition. If you get a desire to make a plan of action, so be it. Do it. But if you get a desire to go for a walk, or to watch television, or to surf the web, then do that. You never know where your Inspired Action will take you, but because you set an intention (step one), your intuition will find a short-cut to your dreams.

Inspired Action works because your ego can only see limited terrain while the universe can see it all. Your ego might say, “Write a business plan.” But your intuition might see that that won’t work in your case and instead urge you to do something else, maybe even something strange. Trust it. Inspired Action comes from the bigger picture, which you can’t always see until you’ve taken the actions you’re being inspired to take.

Finally, the more you can quiet your mind, still your thoughts, and relax your body, the more you will hear the inner voice nudging you in the direction of your dreams. When it speaks, move.

That’s Inspired Action.

Do it and you’ll find amazing new short-cuts direct to the fulfillment of your stated desires. It’s an easy path more fun, more relaxed, and usually more profitable, than planned action and constant struggle.
Try it and see.

Joe Vitale is author of way too many books to list here, including the #1 best-selling book “Spiritual Marketing,” the best-selling e-book “Hypnotic Writing,” and the best-selling Nightingale-Conant audioprogram, “The Power of Outrageous Marketing.”

The Four Emotions That Can Lead to Life Change

by Jim Rohn

Emotions are the most powerful forces inside us. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

Which emotions cause people to act? There are four basic ones; each, or a combination of several, can trigger the most incredible activity. The day that you allow these emotions to fuel your desire is the day you’ll turn your life around.

1) DISGUST

One does not usually equate the word “disgust” with positive action. And yet properly channeled, disgust can change a person’s life. The person who feels disgusted has reached a point of no return. He or she is ready to throw down the gauntlet at life and say, “I’ve had it!” That’s what I said after many humiliating experiences at age 25, I said. “I don’t want to live like this anymore. I’ve had it with being broke. I’ve had it with being embarrassed, and I’ve had it with lying.”

Yes, productive feelings of disgust come when a person says, “Enough is enough.”

The “guy” has finally had it with mediocrity. He’s had it with those awful sick feelings of fear, pain and humiliation. He then decides he is not going to live like this anymore.” Look out! This could be the day that turns a life around. Call it what you will, the “I’ve had it” day, the “never again” day, the “enough’s enough” day. Whatever you call it, it’s powerful! There is nothing so life-changing as gut-wrenching disgust!

2) DECISION

Most of us need to be pushed to the wall to make decisions. And once we reach this point, we have to deal with the conflicting emotions that come with making them. We have reached a fork in the road. Now this fork can be a two-prong, three-prong, or even a four-prong fork. No wonder that decision-making can create knots in stomachs, keep us awake in the middle of the night, or make us break out in a cold sweat.

Making life-changing decisions can be likened to internal civil war. Conflicting armies of emotions, each with its own arsenal of reasons, battle each other for supremacy of our minds. And our resulting decisions, whether bold or timid, well thought out or impulsive, can either set the course of action or blind it. I don’t have much advice to give you about decision-making except this:

Whatever you do, don’t camp at the fork in the road. Decide. It’s far better to make a wrong decision than to not make one at all. Each of us must confront our emotional turmoil and sort out our feelings.

3) DESIRE

How does one gain desire? I don’t think I can answer this directly because there are many ways. But I do know two things about desire:

• a. It comes from the inside not the outside.
  b. It can be triggered by outside forces.

Almost anything can trigger desire. It’s a matter of timing as much as preparation. It might be a song that tugs at the heart. It might be a memorable sermon. It might be a movie, a conversation with a friend, a confrontation with the enemy, or a bitter experience. Even a book or an article such as this one can trigger the inner mechanism that will make some people say, “I want it now!”

Therefore, while searching for your “hot button” of pure, raw desire, welcome into your life each positive experience. Don’t erect a wall to protect you from experiencing life. The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

4) RESOLVE

Resolve says, “I will.” These two words are among the most potent in the English language. I WILL. Benjamin Disraeli, the great British statesman, once said, “Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purpose.” In other words, when someone resolves to “do or die,” nothing can stop him.

The mountain climber says, “I will climb the mountain. They’ve told me it’s too high, it’s too far, it’s too steep, it’s too rocky, it’s too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You’ll soon see me waving from the top or you’ll never see me, because unless I reach the peak, I’m not coming back.” Who can argue with such resolve?

When confronted with such iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, “We might as well let him have his dream. He’s said he’s going to get there or die trying.”

The best definition for “resolve” I’ve ever heard came from a schoolgirl in Foster City, California. As is my custom, I was lecturing about success to a group of bright kids at a junior high school. I asked, “Who can tell me what “resolve” means?” Several hands went up, and I did get some pretty good definitions. But the last was the best. A shy girl from the back of the room got up and said with quiet intensity, “I think resolve means promising yourself you will never give up.” That’s it! That’s the best definition I’ve ever heard: PROMISE YOURSELF YOU’LL NEVER GIVE UP.

Think about it! How long should a baby try to learn how to walk? How long would you give the average baby before you say, “That’s it, you’ve had your chance”? You say that’s crazy? Of course it is. Any mother would say, “My baby is going to keep trying until he learns how to walk!” No wonder everyone walks.

There is a vital lesson in this. Ask yourself, “How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?” I suggest you answer, “As long as it takes.” That’s what these four emotions are all about.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher.