Intuition is something we all have in great abundance. After
having taught thousands of people from all walks of life my
simple technique for recognizing their intuition, I’ve found
that there are a number of common questions.
I‘d like to answer the three most common questions that I get.
But even more importantly, there are questions seldom asked
about our intuition that, when understood, can greatly
enhance your daily lives.
I’m going to answer the 3 most important but usually unasked
questions about your intuition and how to use it more
effectively.
I was scared and beaten down. I recoiled at the sound of my own phone ringing. My physical and mental energy had been so depleted that close friends were worried about me.
I’d been a vital, happy young man, then in my mid-20’s, and seemed to have the world on a string. Great things had been happening to me for over two years.
I’d held a dream job as an executive for Playboy, then a TV production vice president/producer. I’d gone from that to hosting and producing my own television shows. I even had an office at Universal Studios with a TV star as my partner.
I had always been interested in the powers of the human mind. I’d researched psychics, intuitive teachers, and business executives who said they used intuition to make decisions and many areas of deep paranormal study.
A whole world had opened to me when I began doing, quite by accident, intuitive coaching, which wasn’t what what it was called then. I’d never thought of myself as intuitive, at least not in the way it was turning out.
I had no intention of doing coaching or any sort of one-on-one work. It seemed to take on a synchronicity, which I’d surely pay more attention to today than I did then.
I’d been introduced to various movie and TV celebrities and executives who I’d been able to help out, giving information that I didn’t even understand myself sometimes. They, some of my friends began referring new people to me.
At first, I was happy to help, though uncomfortable with it all. I didn’t even charge for it. It was easy for me.
The build up had been slow but then someone called me a psychic. That jarred me and I very forcefully explained that that’s not what I was or did.
Most of the psychics I knew were either self-delusional or outright frauds who preyed on people’s weaknesses. I’d even investigated psychics and other frauds in that world behalf of a non-profit organization that I was involved with. Some of them were closer to psycho than psychic.
However, I also knew some psychics who were incredibly accurate and consistent. I was close to two of them who were actually retained by the CIA and other intelligence agencies to find lost agents and other clandestine information. Read the rest of this entry »
A friend of mine and I were talking about his business recently. I was giving him some suggestions about how he could use the Internet to increase his cash flow.
He then said something that is uncharacteristic of him, because it’s
a loser statement, and he’s no loser. This is just one of the most
dangerous mindsets that anyone can have.
Here’s what he said; “I wish I’d started doing something online when you first suggested it two years ago. It may be too late now.”
To me, that’s like going to the airport and discovering that you missed your flight. What would you do? Say, “Well, there will never be another airplane going there again. I may as well go home now.”
No, you’d make arrangements to catch the next flight.
We all miss opportunities in life. I, somewhat jokingly, say that I’ve missed so many “boats” in my life they’ve started to name piers after me.
Truth is, I really have missed a lot of opportunities. It’s easy to get reminded of them too, especially when it’s someone I know who got on that “boat” and is now making boatloads of cash.
Even if you were taking action on something else that failed, you were in action, and you stayed to see it through.
We question our personal power all the time, don’t we? Did we make the right decision? Have we made too many wrong decisions? What happens if we’re wrong the next time?
I call this mind chaff. Stay out of mind chaffs, they are dark and dangerous!
That’s not to say that regret can’t be a useful tool for leaning from past actions. Again, action was the defining factor and it just didn’t work.
I would change the word from rejected to failed now. “If you haven’t failed recently. . .”
Here’s the real danger of failure; inaction. There’s the feeling of overwhelm when things aren’t going right. Our self-doubt becomes magnified, “what if I fail again? What will happen when others see me fail again? I can’t afford to fail again. . .”
Mind Chaff! Self-doubt magnified by events that could be helping you instead of harming you. Failure is a learning tool unless it freezes you, causes you not to act.
Failing can cause people to seek safety. A “secure” job or making what may appear to be “safe” decisions. Regimented lives can feel like safe zones against the pains of the potential for failure.
This is not a bad thing for society. We need people who are dedicated to work on factory lines, do clerical work, take care of our basic needs in the service industries. These are safety zones for many who don’t feel or know that they have options.
I’m not addressing these folks, but I would say to them, keep on keeping on. Thank you, that is unless you want more.
But for those who seek upward advancement, even in 9-5 jobs who are willing to take risks, you’re my audience. And let’s face it, you wouldn’t have read this far if you weren’t!
The use of our personal power is in direct proportion to our awareness of it. There are great examples of people who came up the corporate ladder in what seemed do be the regimented lifestyle.
How? they took risks, they took action, they dared to be wrong. I admire people like these because they are surrounded by witnesses who will see their errors. In the corporate world there are always predators waiting to capitalize on others mistakes to make themselves look good.
Smart risk is to use the risk/reward ratio. Is the potential risk worth the potential reward? If so, take smart action. Smart action is the beginning of the forward motion needed to accomplish your desired result. It could begin with research, or it might be to write the check right there.
In the latter case, the potential risk would be that you could absorb the financial loss if you’re wrong. Wrong action would be to foolishly spend what you can’t afford without more active research.
Sadly, some people never consider the risk/reward factor. They are in the extreme category, they either go all out all the time for as long as they can, or they seldom ever take action. The former often hopes for luck because they long ago gave up on their own personal powers to accomplish their goals. The latter often comes from being fearful of being seen failing.
Failure is like an element in the Periodic Table. Think of it as an ingredient. I heard Stephen Pierce use the example of h20; water. Two elements of hydrogen and oxygen. Do that, and presto, water!
If you change it by just one molecule, and I’m terrible at this stuff, I forgot which one, instead of water, it becomes sulfur. Stinky smelling poisonous sulfur! Just one small, very small change.
That’s why I’ve been so curious about how we can tap into our personal power! It’s conscious, intelligent use of creativity to keep exploring what works and avoiding repetitious mistakes. But even if the latter occurs, to just keep on keeping on.
Here are 3 steps to use failure to get what you want. In other words, failing UP:
1. It happened already. You can’t undo it.
2. What’s left? Use it, even if only the lessons of what not to do.
3. Resolve to begin taking action to accomplish whatever monetary or personal goals that drove you to act on what didn’t work.
Know that you have a reservoir of personal power and do all that you can do to find more of it, more resilience, more knowledge that you already have and forgot you did. Know that you have the resources at your disposal right now to get what you want.
Always fail up, it’s the next stepping stone to success.
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I believe that progress in life is predicated directly in proportion to the number of “AHA’s” we receive then act upon.
These are the epiphanies of life. The sudden realizations that hit us, that can change us forever for the best, or that can also protect us from harm.
This is the foundation for all creativity, life changing innovations, the greatest writings in the world to “C” movies that amazingly got produced. Some actionable thought that hits us in a much bigger way than normal that is followed by our inspired actions.
If you’re like me, you get these ideas from time to time then wonder how in the world you could implement them. Some of them are outrageous. Some are so thought provoking it’s hard to let go of them.
The failure to at least investigate these is the platform for life’s failures. The foundation of this is often within our own disbelief of self. Who am I to. . .? etc.
It’s not that we should take action on every big idea that comes along, but that we pay attention to them. Watch for the signs of confirmation. Synchronicity, sometimes thought of as coincidental are often great clues.
For example, you might have an idea about an unusual type of clock. You know nothing about clocks and didn’t really care too much about them until this idea hit. But it won’t leave you alone. Then, seemingly out of the blue, you meet someone who has some connection to the clock business. AHA? It would be worth investigation.
The human being is first and foremost a creator. All we do is create. We create our lives, our situation, or challenges and our solutions. Those who are unwilling to acknowledge their own personal power are doomed to being, by choice or ignorance, the victims of circumstances and outside powers.
Every AHA presents the problem of how? Maybe even when and where too. But, if the AHA is big enough to excite you, it’s small enough to find an answer to. What’s your risk/reward ratio for going for it?
One of my memorable AHA’s was on a walk through Bloomingdale’s in New York City one day. I saw a mother scolding her 5-year old boy in public. I wondered how long that feeling of public humiliation and rejection would stay with him.
I thought about the disappointments in my life and rejections I’d suffered through. Not only that, but how they had sometimes almost defeated me and yet had always made me stronger. That was a real AHA.
That night I was giving a speech to over 500 top sales people at the New York Hilton. I tossed out my prepared notes and told the story of that little boy. I discussed the power of rejection and how it could actually vault us to greater success. I imparted some very personal stories that night. It was a feeling of amazing release.
I’d never had a reaction like that before. Like most professional speakers, I’d had standing ovations, but never with the flow of tears that came with it from my audience that night.
Instead of shaking hands with me afterward, people were thanking me and hugging me in gratitude. I was in shock.
“How To Take No For An Answer And Still Succeed,” became the most popular speech in my career as a professional speaker. I later wrote a book by the same title that got the endorsements of Larry King, Jack Canfield, Og Mandino (“The Greatest Salesman In The World”) and many others.
I eventually got the rights back to the book and converted it into an electronic version, which has now gone around the world, selling more copies in the first three months that the original publisher sold in the first two years!
That single moment of AHA was life changing for me and others. I’m glad I paid attention to it.
So, I urge you to allow for the AHA’s in your life. Never shut them down, but explore them with an open-mind.
Amaze yourself with the possibilities of potentiality. If the AHA hits, then so does a way to realizing it, as long as there is a passion, belief, and gratitude behind it.
Who knows, the next one could be life changing.
AHA!
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Please Note: This is different than my usual post. It happened because I came across a single piece of scrap paper in my file cabinet today that was written many years ago.
I was inspired to write this now, immediately after finding that piece of paper.
You will know within a few minutes if you want to continue reading. If so, you’ll discover that I want to start a conversation with those of you who resonate with this.
Here’s what triggered this:
I was looking for something in my file cabinet today and pulled out this faded scrap of paper. I instantly remembered writing this on the beach at La Jolla California, many years ago.
It was a dark period financially and emotionally too. I needed at least $20,000 within the next month just to get caught up. Things seemed to be going wrong all around me.
I was in a rut. So I went to church on Sunday, something I hadn’t done for some time. The minister’s sermon, which I didn’t know in advance, was, “You Deserve Financial Success.”
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Now, I’m not a very religious person within the man-made religions, but am a big time believer in God and prayer.
The latter I have treated like a forgotten relative at times. The former, an exercise that I know works but for some reason I fail to do for periods of time.
So, that Sunday I marveled at my excellent timing and maybe even prescience for showing up at this particular church in San Diego, which was over 150 miles from my home.
I had driven there on an impulse that morning because I especially liked the preacher, Terry Cole-Whittaker, and I needed some spiritual sustenance. I probably passed 500 churches on my way there. Why there?
There was a prayer box in the lobby. So I filled out my slip with a prayer that described my need for $20,000 within four weeks.
After church I drove to LaJolla, where I sat down on one of the most beautiful beaches and views in the world, and worried.
I thought about all that had gone wrong. All the mistakes I’d made. I
focused on my lack of consciousness that led me to this place.
Then I heard a voice behind me that said, “You deserve financial
distress.”
It was if all other sounds, the oceans, beach goers,
helicopters and the breeze all stopped. Just that voice from someone
right behind me.
I whipped around to see . . . nobody. At least nobody close enough to have said that so clearly to me.
I turned back quickly towards the ocean. All sounds were up full volume
again, the kids, the surf, the laughing and my heart pounding.
That voice was so real, so vocal, right in my ear. And what did it mean?
Something else that was weird too. Though the voice was so absolute, yet I
had no sense of it being male or female. But the words echoed through
my mind and seemed to be bouncing right into my soul.
I shivered a moment in the warm air. Once I settled down, it took awhile, I began to think about it.
The minister said I deserved financial success. The voice said I deserved financial distress.
I walked for awhile, not seeing or hearing the beauty or sounds around me. How could I deserve financial distress? I wondered.
I walked back towards the village and stopped in a convenience store
where I bought a writing pad. Then to a little cafe overlooking the
beach.
While I don’t hear “voices,” I know that I’ve been directed in
the past to do certain things. I know it was always my choice, and if
my Intuitive Click was strong enough, I usually followed it.
So, I began to doodle on the pad. This process will often help me
create an idea or find an AHA! I recall writing this first page,
like a cover page.
“You Deserve Financial Distress (?)”
Then, on the next page I wrote the question, “Why do I deserve
financial distress?” As soon as I wrote the question mark, I wrote
this; “Because you had a choice. Distress or success. You chose to
distress. So, you deserve what you choose. You always do. That’s the
gift.”
Distress as a gift, I thought. But then, no, that’s not the message, the gift is choice. We always have a choice.
Not just in what we do but how we react before and after what we do.
The gift is how we use our control mechanism. Do we act and react as a
victim or do we product as a positive force for good, ours and that of
others whom we touch?
In an instant the worry left me. I had a sense of completion of that
“need” for $20,000 more dollars. Had I given it much critical thought I
would have doubted it all.
What, no more worry? Completion? No stress about it?
Thankfully I didn’t think much about it.
Within days I got a new consulting client. The fee was $20,000 exactly.
The previous events didn’t even hit me until I had the contract and
check in my hands!
But all of this was not the lesson. The lesson was that I had to
relearn the real lesson over and over. I have a choice. Every decision has a consequence, good or bad. Our subconscious is the driving force.We are the programmers of our subconscious. So, we can reprogram anytime, right?
I’m seeing stuff today from gurus and others in the Law of Attraction (LOA) work about “effortless
success.” I’m sure they don’t mean no work needed, just effortless in
mind and spirit.
It’s true. It can be very difficult to drop the “armor” of worry and
distress. Somehow, those feelings almost seem protective. That’s like
saying Heroin is okay for you because it makes you feel so good.
Maybe those feelings of “negative comfort” are God’s little test for us? I don’t know.
Of course, it’s not just financial, it’s all success from relationships to how we deal with our daily lives.
We deserve what we choose. So, if you’re not happy with what you’ve been deserving lately. I have a couple of ideas.
Here’s what I know. It worked for me then. I forgot about it, went
through the same cycle later. Rediscovered it. It worked for me again.
I forgot about it again. Recycle time, ad nauseam.
So, today, when I discovered that single scrap of paper. “You Deserve
Financial Distress (?)” it brought back that episode from when I first
wrote it.
Now, here we are today. I relearn this lesson once again and share it here because that’s what I think I should do.
It’s so simple, I have to wonder why it was so difficult to maintain.
Now, thanks in part to you, I think I know how it will work better for me and for you. I’ll simply share this in a bigger way.
No other agendas. If this resonates with you, then I’m doing service.
You can pass it on too. Let’s just keep reminding one another and pass
it on.
Long ago I learned to listen to my intuition or my “Intuitive Click.” I also learned what happens when I ignore. it.
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The large casino coffee shop was bustling and clanging with dinnertime activity. Busy hostesses, servers, customers, and patrons were an endless stream of movement.
I noticed two uniformed police officers emerge from the kitchen. They flanked the doorway, their backs against the wall as they scanned the dining room. One of them gave a subtle nod to the other end of the room where there were two more officers entering from the casino. Wow, I thought, something big must be going down here.
Someone was tapping me on the shoulder. I turned to see a short, stocky steel-haired, gruff looking guy in a gray suit. He flipped a badge in my face and said, “Are you Tom Justin?” I nodded numbly, my eyes darting around the spacious dining room. Then I heard him say he was the chief of police.
I noticed the four uniforms closing in on our location. They surrounded us. I was shocked and freighted at this sudden show of power. And the chief of police?
I was 16 years old. I’d run away from my hometown in North Dakota a few days before, making my way to Las Vegas and a busboy job at the Thunderbird Hotel.
Of course the police were looking for me. But still, I was shocked at the manpower that had arrived.
I was holding onto a tray of dirty dishes, which I was instructed to put down. I slowly laid the tray on the stand while aware of the sudden quiet in the room. I detected the hushed whispers of the wide-eyed patrons, who were probably guessing as to the heinous crimes I must have committed.
The chief took me by the elbow and guided me back through the kitchen into the employee’s locker room. After searching me he sat me down on a bench.
I discovered that I’d misunderstood the “chief of police.” Turns out he was chief of hotel security, not the police chief. And all those “cops,” with one exception were also security. Nevertheless, I was terrified and deeply embarrassed.
He explained that the police officer standing behind him would have to take me down to juvenile hall for processing and detention until my parents could arrive and take me back home. He said, “Your parents have been very worried about you.”
Until then I’d held everything in check, barely breathing. The realization of what was happening burst forth in a torrent of sobs and tears that doubled me over.
A minute later, I felt an arm across my back. The gruff looking chief had seated himself next to me. He waited for me to calm down. He asked why I’d run away. More tears and choking sobs followed until I could compose myself.
I came from a good middle-class home in Williston, North Dakota. My dad was a chiropractor, but more than that, he was a highly respected healer, whose reputation went beyond even the borders of our small state.
Mom was always working, either at home or running dad’s office. Both were well-known, liked and visible members of our small town of 10,000.
They were good and loving, even tolerant parents to their three children. Growing up we had frequent trips to California to see our grandmothers along with the usual sites of the ocean, Disneyland, and other fun events. It was a good life!
So, why then, you might ask, did I run away from all this, and why am I telling you this story? There is a point to this, so please bear with me.
Dad’s weakness was an occasional drinking binge. He’d would come home, angry with someone or something, not usually his family. But the few times he did, it usually be directed at my mom or me. I was the oldest.
Dad was broad shouldered and strong; he looked much larger than his six feet. His voice was a cross between Walter Cronkite and John Wayne. His physical strength came from being born and raised on a hardscrabble Montana farm in the 1920’s.
A few years before, late at night, was the first time he’d directed his drunken rage at me. He yelled upstairs for me to, “Get down here now!” He met me at the bottom of the stairs and grabbed me by my pajama tops and pulled me down two more steps. I stumbled and started to fall backwards. Before I could land, he pulled me back up onto my feet.
His face was red with rage. I was as mystified as I was scared. He put his face up to mine and I could smell the mixture of cigarettes and bourbon as he yelled, “I thought I told you to empty the trash!”
I nearly ran out to the trash barrels to do my duty and and returned hoping to avoid any more conflict. Mom had tried to calm him down, but it did no good and she while she was mentally strong, she was no match for him in this condition. Fortunately, other than some shoving, he was never physically abusive.
The next day, sobered up, he was apologetic, asking for forgiveness. He’d always been such a loving father that it was nearly impossible not to grant forgiveness.
But after a few more events in the next few years, I finally broke. I confronted him after another night of his drinking and yelling. It was nasty, but mom was able to separate us until he passed out.
Back in my room, fuming, I had some cash stashed in my sock drawer from part-time jobs. At 3:00 AM I wrote a note, packed a bag and got in one the family’s cars and left.
The chief, his name was Tom Bellis, asked me what happened. After telling my story, he patted me on the back. Then he stood up and looked down at me. I was exhausted and dry with no more tears left.
Then I heard his gruff, but softer voice say, “Look at me.” I raised my head up. “Listen. I could loose my job over this, but if you promise not to run off I won’t let them put you in juvie, it’s full of gang bangers and no place for a kid like you. So I’m going to take a big risk.”
The cop behind him began to look uneasy, and stepped forward and started to say something. The chief held his hand up, signaling quiet, then continued. “My wife may kill me for this but if you give me your word that I won’t find an empty bed in the morning, you can stay in our guest room.”
The cop again began to protest, and the chief turned to him, “Look Don, I’m taking responsibility for this one, so you can take off.”
On the drive to his house, after making sure that I’d never been physically abused, he asked me about the rest of my life at home. What did I like, what was I grateful for? It took me awhile, but I poured it out.
I didn’t run away that night or ever again. Once more my father’s apologies were accepted, but with a wary sense of caution.
Not only was I not punished for my escape; dad did all he could do to make up to me.
The “wound” that had occurred with dad’s first incursion had been loosely bandaged but never properly dressed. The infection was slow but grew with every incident until finally it exploded in this puss of rage and reaction.
Now we worked hard as a family to clean and heal those wounds.
A coaching client asked me once why I was so good with my coaching, especially in my life coaching. I realized that my greatest lessons were from my most negative events, and that my outcomes were determined by my focus.
Every negative thing that happened to me in life created ultimately, a positive outcome. From Dad’s story to being homeless at 21-sleeping in the back of my car, crashing an airplane, car, and motorcycle, to being shot (scary but not so bad) getting divorced, and a myriad of other unpleasant times.
Maybe that’s why personal growth and development has always been so important to me. So many crazy, bad, and wonderful things have happened to me that I became an open-minded skeptic, rarely hesitant shut the doors on anything out of hand.
I would later fly around in private jets, speak in front of thousands, host radio and TV shows, consult to clients from celebrities to corporations, make good friends and money too.
I would loose much then gain more.
I also recognized the power of you. The power of all of us because we have the ability to choose our thoughts and reactions. It was an overwhelming “AHA!”
My purpose in telling you this is two-fold:
May whatever negative events that happen to you be less powerful than your negative reactions to them. And may you find peace with a life of forgiveness and gratitude.
More power to you
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You find yourself on a cold, deserted, darkened New York street late at night. You’re blocks away from any traffic and surrounded by old decrepit buildings with no signs of life.
Suddenly you’re not alone. Pacing behind you are two shabbily dressed men who stop and start when you do. You have no phone or other way to call for help.
What do you do?
Here’s what I did. I call it creative self-defense.
I stepped out of my hotel into a cold crisp New York City night in December. The plumes of car exhausts to the exhales of scurrying pedestrians left traces of life everywhere.
I was in town for a friend’s annual Christmas party. She’d just moved in to a new loft that was remodeled from an old warehouse. This industrial area was going through a gentrification process designed to create an upscale series of old warehouses into multi-million dollar residences. Hers was one of the first completed.
A group of us hired a car to take us there from our hotel. The streets surrounding her building were empty of pedestrians and even cars. Usually anywhere in New York City where there’s a parking spot it’s grabbed up right away, but not here.
We arrived at her address and I marveled at what was being done to beautify the building, and later the others, in the middle the deserted urban squalor.
Later, my friends wanted leave before I was ready to, so I told them to take the car and I’d grab a cab.When it came time to go, I thought I’d just walk down to the next major street to get my ride.
When I stepped outside from my friend’s warm and beautiful home I realized how bleak everything else was. I’d also misjudged the distance to the next major street. Many blocks away I could see the streaming car lights flowing through the distant intersection. Oh well, I thought. I love walking in New York City.
Only about every fourth street lamp worked. All bundled in my heavy overcoat and scarf, I marveled at how the crunching snow beneath my feet echoed through the deserted buildings. It seemed strange that these were the only sounds around me, magnified by the frozen air in the middle of this city of sound.
But then another sound intruded on my solitude as I noticed the magnified sounds of more footsteps. I stopped to listen, and heard a few more heavy crunches before they stopped. I knew these weren’t my echos. I walked a several yards then heard more crunching that sounded like it came from behind me. I stopped suddenly and heard two more crunches, then silence, except for distant sirens.
I stole a glance behind me as I began walking again. There, on the other side of the street, about a half block behind me, under one of the few working street lamps, were two men dressed in what appeared to be old army fatigue jackets. They didn’t look like any of the party goers I’d just left.
As I walked faster, they walked faster. I slowed down, they slowed down. The nearest active intersection was at least another five blocks away.
There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. No lights were on in any of the buildings and going back was not an option. I let out an involuntary groan. At that moment, and upon hearing my sound, the two men stopped.
Without thinking about it, I made another loud, but now an agonizing groan. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see they’d stopped again. I abruptly faced the building closest to me and began yelling obscenities toward it.
Crazed yelling erupted from my mouth and I began flailing my fists, fighting off imaginary enemies, cursing and yelling that, “You’ll never take me alive you (expletives!)” I pretended to have a knife as I slashed out at my invisible advisories, all the while glancing at my two very real potential threats, who were now frozen in place, watching my theatrics.
I could see them looking at one another and then talking and glancing over to my side of the street as I continued my tirade.
Suddenly I stopped and turned to look at them as though seeing them for the first time. Focusing on them now, I yelled more obscenities as if they were the continuation of my imaginary battles manifested right on the street. They paused, looked at me for a moment, then turned scurried off in the opposite direction.
Taking no chances, I continued my rant as I aimed myself toward the safety of the busy street. By the time I reached the intersection my voice was so weak that I could hardly yell, TAXI!
I was never so happy to find myself in heavy city traffic.
NOTE: You were born creative. Everything new thing that you do comes from your core of creativity. Those who say, “I’m just not creative,” couldn’t be more wrong.
Like any natural gift, you can improve on it. You can heighten any or all of your senses with training. When you combine your intuition with your creativity the possibilities are endless. This is how you can get “the edge” in life.
My experience on the streets of New York are just one example, and it’s not even an extraordinary one. We are constantly presented with opportunities to advance in life and the way we increase our personal power is through exercising our creative process.
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If you’re wondering what that means, you may be an “AA person,” Above Average. Maybe, maybe not. Let’s take a look.
Years ago I took a creative writing course and one of the exercises was to come up with a grabbing first sentence for the beginning of a book. That was my lead. Where it would take the reader (and me) is yet unknown because that’s all I did with it.
But did it gain your curiosity? It must have because why else would you have opened this?
This is not a trick. But it’s a small lesson in the human condition, curiosity. It’s also one of the attributes of the above average person. But with a catch. The curious “AA” person is discerning and one who knows when their curiosity will be helpful and when it’s a waste of time. Then they take continuous action.
Curiosity may have killed the cat but it’s advanced human kind in all the good ways to where we are, what we’ve become, and how we’ve evolved.
Except for intelligence, above average people aren’t born that way they are created. Above average people, regardless of their intelligence, are self-created.
They are created through a resolve to first survive, then to excel and then to thrive.
Once anyone with at least average intelligence comes to the knowledge that regardless of their past, their current circumstances, their bank account, their age, or any other “reason” for remaining average or below, they have no excuse. If they do, it’s between them and their conscience.
Above average people seek the edge in all things. If that requires extra learning, personal experimentation, a willingness to fail, and to be rejected, they understand that’s part of the pathway to their designed intentions.
Above average people have massive expectations to succeed from one moment to one day at a time, and then into the future. They prepare for success long before it comes, just as the cabin dweller in the woods stocks up on firewood before the winter. They know it’s coming, and they will be prepared.
The above average knows that failure is not an insult or personal failing but quitting is. Quitting is an injury to themselves, damaging to who they are and to what they represent. Failures create the stepping stones to the successes that the above average person is seeking.
There are three kinds of above average people:
Average – Yes, there are average above average people. They do just a little bit more to get just a little bit more of life and life’s experiences and bounty. They don’t play it as safe as the average person, but pretty close. They are easily satisfied as they slip into the comfort zones of being more comfortable in their slightly above average lives.
Horizon Seekers – This type of above average individual is searching, seeking, and curious, with a set of goals and standards, yet never satisfied with the status quo. They will move toward new horizons both geographically and mentally. These are seldom contented people and may annoy others easily with their obvious aggressiveness.
Evolving – This person is seldom satisfied either, but more at ease in life. They are usually open-minded and to open-minded skeptics. They are expansive in their knowledge, willing to share and to network for their own personal gain, yet they will share and create synergistic relationships to continually work on and achieve goals as they discover new and better ways of living. Their success seems almost effortless as they move through life with far less stress and negative emotions during even the most challenging times.
These are the above average positive types. Of course there are the above average criminals and negative types too. But that’s obvious.
The above average know that it’s not where they are today but what they are doing today to get to where they want to go in life.
I use the term, “Your Inner Wizard,” (YIW) which is the power of all that you’ve done to date in your life. The lessons and wisdom that you’ve accumulated from all of your successes, failures, rejections, in fact, all of your experiences and knowledge.
If you call upon the inner resources that you have available, you have to ability to at least sense right/wrong decisions before you act. Sometimes it seems like magic or high level intuition, but in reality it’s being open to listening to that inner voice that will sometimes gently nudge you via a feeling or knowingness without your necessarily knowing how or why.
The AA’s take risks in proportion to their potential rewards. They fail left and right, then move straight ahead when they have more answers and more information. They use fear with the acronym; F.E.A.R. First Evaluate According to Risk. They fail but don’t quit. They may change direction, find another way, but they don’t stand down easily.
You are above average for reading this, even if you don’t agree with it. You’re on the search for more and better information. You are curious and above all, you take action.
Please continue by making your comment below. Be helpful, be heard, TAN, Take Action Now!
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If you’ve read much of my writing, either on my blogs or my books, by now you know that I believe we can all do magnificent things. So why that heading?
Most people can’t make sudden and dramatic changes, even if their behavior is hurting them and the ones they love. Even if their health or finances are in danger.
Here’s the good news, you’re not most people. Neither am I. We write and read things like this to explore the possibilities. Sometimes we even (surprise!) take action.
Yet New Year’s resolutions are to goals what empty calories are to nutrition. They may look and taste good, even give you a sugar high for a short time, but in the end, it’s mostly a waste of time.
But there are ways to plan and get what you want, or at least get the edge on what you desire.
I had 300 people in a seminar once and I asked this question: “How many of you have made New Year’s resolutions and actually took action on every one of them? How about 50% of them?”
One person raised his hand on the first question but admitted that “every one” was only total of two, and his action lasted only a short time, seeing no success in keeping his resolutions. Four people admitted to 50% action but only one person achieved any significant results.
This may sound like a contradiction, but I believe in writing down goals, making whole lists of them! At least that implants the idea of a little more depth in your psyche. And while there are lots of great goal setting systems, I’m not talking about that, just the New Year resolution kind. I suggest just one.
Creating a whole list of resolutions is like writing to Santa as an adult without children. You may as well lay out cookies and milk on December 24, then consume them yourself. Santa ain’t coming. Sorry.
Just One Thing
Find the one thing in your life that is the most frustrating to you. If you’ve felt that it’s unsolvable, take another look at it. If you still feel that it’s overwhelming take another look at it.
Write out any steps you could possibly take that would make a difference. If it would take more money than you have or think you can have, write it out anyway. In fact, forget about why you might not be able to solve this frustration, just write out what it would take to do it, regardless. Just for that one thing. That one very important resolution.
I call these solutions without obstacles. The very act of writing this out can begin a plan. It can create “ahas” that show you possibilites, and there are always possibilities.
Just take that one thing and begin it. Write out a list of the ideal people you know or anyone, living or dead, famous or or not who might have the solution or could help you find it.
This will help you power up your imagination. Napoleon Hill wrote about masterminding with anyone and everyone. Whether they were available or not. Play with it. Ask yourself what the most successful person in the world might suggest to you. It can be truly amazing.
One of the events that can happen from this is that it will trigger your intuition to go where you might not otherwise have gone to find the solution.
Get “The Edge”
Getting “The Edge” In Reaching Any Success
You have the edge over most other people in. . .something. You may know something that your competitors don’t. You could have a connection in business that enhances your possibilites of success. Or, you might have read a book that helped you at a specific time and place to WIN.
“The Edge” is something all winners in life search for. And believe me, every success story you’ve ever read has embedded in it, whether revealed or not, some edge that brought that person over the top.
The mistaken assumption that is often made is that having an edge means an unfair advantage, or making it so that someone has to lose while you win or the other way around. Not so!
You’ll have the edge if your applying for a job at a Fortune 500 company with an advanced degree. Of course, that alone won’t guarantee that you’ll get the job, but all other factors being somewhat equal, you’d likely beat out the BA with an MBA.
What’s your primary goal or desire for this coming year? After you’ve written it down, write out what edge you have now. What do you know or what could you have that would increase your odds of getting what you want? If you can’t think of one, what edge would help you?
Maybe you need to know someone you don’t know. Who do you know who could introduce you to that person or that kind of person? You may have to really think about this, but your connections are far more vast that you likely realize.
Is there a book, seminar, course, or networking group that might further your likelihood of getting to your intention?
We all have a built-in “edge.” I call it “The Wizard’s Edge,” for that Inner Wizard in us all. It’s the combination of intuition and life’s lessons that we don’t always know how to call up. Nevertheless, so much is there and available.
There’s a free report on how to use the basics of this technique, if you don’t have it yet, at YourInnerWizard.com.
>>Watch for Part 2 on Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work!
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