iMindShift with Steve Chandler

Now comes a wealth warrior

“If you always put limit on everything you do,
physical or anything else.
It will spread into your work and into your life.
There are no limits.
There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there,
you must go beyond them.”
~ Bruce Lee

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 People call me a wealth warrior in some of the organizations I coach because the methods I use tend to create wealth for people. I was nervous when I first heard that name because it sounded so mercenary. 

     A hired gun for money. Soldier of fortune. No loyalty to any good cause other than making money. 

     But it has grown on me.

     Because I have seen how the opposite of the wealth warrior (the victim of circumstance posing for the cameras with a begging bowl) is somehow now being celebrated.

     So I decided to take it on full time. In fact, my new book, being written as fast as I can write it, is now called Wealth Warrior. Watch for it, because it will be out soon, and it is going to shake a lot of people up. I'm going to lose a lot of followers who used to think of me as a loving presence for the planet.

     Napoleon Hill changed my life with Think and Grow Rich. And he did not make me more greedy or selfish. The opposite: he made me better able to help others. So many people have benefitted from what he did for me. (And his new book, Outwitting the Devil is pretty cool, too! Amazing that a man dead that long ago can write a new book. The power of the warrior.)

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"There is no defined limit as to how much money you can acquire
in what little time.  If any definition exists it does so
just in your mind and in your emotions."

~ Stuart Wilde
 
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     From 100 Ways to Create Wealth



"All appears to change when we change."

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

  Never stop reinventing yourself and reinventing your profession.  Don't let habitual patterns of thought keep you stuck at any stage in your growth.

     Start every day with a fresh start. Don't get into a rut. The only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet.

     If you run a small business or if you offer a professional service, or even if you're in an organization where you have a salaried job, ask yourself, "How can I do this work in a fresh and innovative way?"

     Because that's exactly how people get ahead. They come up with new ideas and do things in an innovative way.

     Don't just do things because that's how you did them yesterday. Be new to yourself every day. Refresh, reboot, and reinvent your work as often as you can. You can save what's good while trying all kinds of new things.  

     This approach of continuous reinvention will keep your mind fresh. You'll be amazed at how many new ideas you get from taking this approach of starting over every day.  

     Most people I coach in the ways of wealth creation have a secret life. In it, they think they will never change. They see themselves as permanent people. Fixed personalities. They don't see how to challenge that. Like the great Leonard Cohen song In My Secret Life says, 

"I saw you this morning/ 

You were moving so fast/ 

Can't seem to loosen /

My grip on the past/ 

I smile when I'm angry/ 

I cheat and I lie/ 

I do what I have to /

Do to get by/ 

But I know what is wrong/ 

And I know what is right/ 

And I'd die for the truth/ 

In my secret life."

 The truth is this: the mind-shift out of that imprisoned secret life can be easy. You have a mind, but you are not your mind. 

     So you can shift it. 

     Just like the gear box in a car. The hard part is shifting when you don't think you want to. 

     Many doctors say they keep recommending to their patients who suffer from depression to get up and exercise. Even a little, just start. Just walk around a little bit. But the patients are too depressed to do it. They don't "feel like" walking, they say. Even though their doctors are certain that moving the body would begin to lift the depression! 

     But somewhere, somehow, someone must do what he doesn't feel like doing for a true mind shift to happen. It's got to start somewhere. Someone has to do something they know they don't "have to" do. 

    And the minute you do that, you have a fresh start. You're no longer who you used to be.

    Once you arrive at that level of freshly-invented identity, you can create wealth.

     If you would like an audio download of the audio program I did with Michael Neill called Financially Fearless email my wonderful publisher Maurice Bassett at [email protected] and let him know you want it, and because you are a wealth warrior you are going to be getting it FOR FREE so you can use your other wealth to make a difference in this terrified world.

Money is the root of all good

Artists and novelists make bold statements to wake people up. The statements might not even be literally or spiritually true, but their fierce poetry wakes people up to what they've been believing. And what they have been believing has kept them from their own joy, freedom and energetic self-reliance.
   

In Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand has one of her heroic characters say, "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which people deal with one another, then people become the tools of other people. Blood, whips and guns-or dollars. Take your choice-there is no other-and your time is running out."

 "Then, suddenly, I knew not how or where or when,
my brain felt the impact of another mind, and I awoke to language,
to knowledge of love, to the usual concepts of nature, of good and evil!
I was actually lifted from nothingness to human life."

~Helen Keller

Life changes when I awaken to my WORDS about money.

I can own money
or be a victim of it.
I can create money
or react to those who have it.

Helen Keller was lost and confused and asleep while awake. Then she got it, and language flowed in. The little girl felt such joy.

If we are to create anything, it begins in language.

This language has kept people subservient to other people for thousands of years: "Money is the root of all evil."

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In The Woman Who Attracted Money I wanted to create a heroine who learned the joy of producing money and finding a productive career versus her previous vague longings around attracting abundance. Does anyone know what abundance is? Has anyone ever seen it? Outside the campgrounds at Woodstock? (My favorite moment in Woodstock was Alvin Lee playing "I'm Goin’ Home." I've watched that cut about 100 times, and played it at least 500 times. Just to wake myself up from sloppy passivity and dreams of abundance.)

There was a recent review by Readers Choice of The Woman Who Attracted Money that said, "Robert Chance is ironically named because he is not a fan of chance or any form of chaos in life. He is a just the facts kind of guy who prefers all things to remain simple. On the wall of his office is an autographed Charles Mingus album, below which Chance has written a quote from Mingus: "making the simple awesomely simple, that's creativity."

"Like Chance and Mingus, Chandler himself takes these words to heart. His prose is often both simple and complex at the same time, in the classic hard boiled noir style. Also, in the mode of writers like Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, Chandler finds room to roam within genre conventions to provide plenty of nuances to his characters and setting."

"Chance is an ex-cop, turned life coach, turned private eye for the first time, to solve the apparent suicide of a client and friend. This is a refreshing new "daytime job" for a detective, and since Chandler himself is a business coach this novel is another successful example of how "writing what you know" is often a better solution than coming up with some kind of convoluted new twist.

"Madison Kerr, Chance's sidekick, growing love interest and the source of the novel's title, is the perfect partner for Chance. Their dialog has the classic ring of Hollywood couples from the Golden Age of cinema, when men and women bantered intelligently back and forth rather than just hurling obscenities around three times a minute. She is his coaching client and a businesswoman, but also an expert computer hacker, another coup for Chandler since that doubles as a nice nuance to her character and a useful tool as the two of them work together to solve the murder at hand."

"The mystery itself is presented confidently, with a few surprises along the way and an ending I did not guess, but as with the best classic mysteries, it is the original characters, superb dialogue and brisk, fast paced prose that keep this novel constantly entertaining, thought provoking and hard to put down.

"If you are an avid reader of the mystery genre, looking for something new to read, I would rate this as: Highly Recommended/Must Read."

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A little thing called I'm going home:

My novel A Crime of Genius features some controversial explorations of defense against home invasions and kidnapping (I live in the kidnapping capitol of America here in Arizona).  And if life is beginning to feel like David and Goliath, then this here is a step in the right direction:

Are we now afraid to think?

 

 "Freedom had been hunted round the globe; 
 reason was considered as rebellion; 
 and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. 
 But such is the irresistible nature of truth, 
 that all it asks, and all it wants, 
 is the liberty of appearing.

 ~Thomas Paine

 

 

What would you do if you weren’t afraid? 

Michael Neill wrote this recently: "Whatever it is you’re trying to achieve, ask yourself what you would do if you weren’t afraid. Don’t worry about whether or not you actually are or aren’t afraid – just notice your answers, and notice which ones you want to act on."

"As I have written elsewhere, there is a tremendous difference between feeling the fear and doing it anyway and the freedom which comes from finding that space in yourself which is beyond fear. And the more time you spend living beyond fear, the sooner the answer to ‘What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?’ will become ‘Exactly what I’m doing now.’"

 

 "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. 
 Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
 I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
 And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 
 Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

~Frank Herbert 

 Dune 

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Circumstance means nothing

"There is no way you can’t have
  the best business on this planet.
  No one stops you but you-
  that's the only possibility."

~Byron Katie

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Circumstance is nothing…passion is everything.

Every once in a while we put a little slogan up in our office that says "Doing it now is more important than doing it right." We don't mean don't do it as well as you can, we just mean if you wait until the timing is perfect, it'll never happen. Just do it now. This time.

And those thoughts come from a book called 100 Ways to Create Wealth written by two formerly bankrupt guys, me and Sam Beckford. Sam had so many businesses go under in his young life. Then it happened. Circumstance lost its meaning.

It actually happened at a grocery store. Sam and his wife had finished shopping and went to pay for their groceries with his debit card and the card didn't clear through. So he tried it again and the card didn't work again, and the cashier offered to try a third time saying, "There must be a problem with the card."  Sam said, "Yeah, I know the problem-there's no money in the account." 

He was there with his wife, and they had to leave the store, and leave all their groceries to be put back on the shelves. And there was something very painful about reaching a point where he couldn't even feed his family.

"It was the most embarrassing, humiliating thing," Sam said. "And I said, 'This is never going to happen again. I'm sick of being broke. I'm sick of being poor.' I'd been trying to play the odds that there'd still be a little money left in the account. But walking out of that store that day was the turning point for all the business achievement that happened after that. It's the moment I woke up." 

Sam now tells that story to a lot of people who are trying to make it as small business owners, and professionals of all kinds. Sometimes they come up to him afterwards at a seminar and say, "You know, I can identify with that grocery store story because it happened to me two weeks ago." 

As for lack of wealth, I can relate. I've been there. I've been down and in debt with utterly failed careers and ventures. Probably in worse ways than you. So don't try to push that pain away. Let yourself really feel what you are missing. Because that's when you will be focused enough to say no to that feeling. You can say "no" to feeling that way ever again.

Now you can find a place to take a stand.

This is the power of negative thinking! Be completely negative about what you no longer want. Refuse to let it in. Stand up to it. Draw your line in the stand, step back, and dare it (the old you) to ever cross that line again.

Use a moment like that to be your final resolve to say, "Never again. Never."  There's a positive turning point hidden in everything. Even in something that feels that bad.

People, like me, who have recovered from addictions, eventually reach what we call a "bottom." We can't go any lower without dying. But once we've hit bottom we often find new strength to say, "That's it. There's just no way that I'm going to live like this anymore. I don't care what I have to do, I don't care how uncomfortable it is, I don't care what they tell me to do, I'll even go through those 12 steps.  I'm doing it, because this is the end of this life."

Wealth has steps, too. Just like addiction recovery. And the steps work. And the first step is to draw a line in the sand.

The second step is to team up.

Here is one good way to team up, although it's not the only way: http://www.geniuscatalyst.com/fearless.php

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 THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WAYS TO KISS THE GROUND

 by Rumi

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

NOW watch this way: BOTSWANA MUSIC GUITAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4cRw6TIIg

How rich do you want to be?

 
"Someday I want to be rich. 
Some people get so rich
they lose all respect for humanity. 
That's how rich I want to be."

~Rita Rudner

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How does one become rich? How does one not become rich? Let's start there. Because there are a million ways to become rich. But only one way not to. So if we took that one way not to away, what a start that would be.

So if we took the fear away, what a start that would be. And how would we finish after that? Maybe by delivering a hundred ways to create wealth. The other 999,900 ways would come to you if the fear left. You would have my 100, but you'd also have access to 999,900.

Some people find it offensive to talk money this openly. Especially when politicians have promised us that money will never be a problem for us because they will redistribute it in our direction, just like opening the valves of the pipes and changing the course of a big greedy river. Vote for me. Sit back. And I'll see what I can do for you. I'll take you off your job. I'll give you a heaven-on-earth retirement, and you won't have to work for it. Just vote for it.

Then there's the secret law of attraction. Another way to not work....not use your hands or your resourcefulness or your creative desire to serve. Forget those activities, because the appeal here is to take you out of action and leave you pleasantly passive gazing at pictures so that you can attract things.

The flaw being, of course, that attraction itself assumes that what you want is out there. In the hands of others. It's not in you.

So you are demeaned into wanting things. It's demeaning, isn't it? Making lists of all the things you are wanting.

Never noticing the power you already have.

People have written to me asking why Michael Neill and I are charging $10,000 for a money mastermind that dares to use the phrase "financially fearless."

My answer? Because a recession is on so we didn't think charging the full $100,000 would work. That's my answer. So we cut 90% off the price.

I would have gladly paid one hundred thousand dollars to learn what this program will deliver. In fact I did pay that, a few times over, to learn what this program delivers. If I could have received it for $10,000? True heaven.

People fear money and death for the same reasons. Because of the same deep primitive misunderstanding.

A child will believe a superstition if enough adults verify it and confirm it enough times. It becomes a belief that directs that child's whole life.

Like these: Money means survival. Money gets me what I want. It's healthy to want things and have goals. And the number 13 is a must to avoid.

Go here: http://www.geniuscatalyst.com/fearless.php

   

You have to be TAUGHT!

"You have to be taught to hate and fear.
It has to be drummed in your dear little ear."
~SOUTH PACIFIC

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Do you hate selling yourself?

The great adventure writer Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Everyone lives by selling something." But the sad truth is that only sales people know that they live by selling something. Everyone else is unaware. Unless you count Stevenson.

A mother at home sells the rules of the house to her children. An accountant sells his reports and figures to his boss and clients. Religious leaders sell the attraction of the faith to their followers. A teenager sells his father on the idea of a car.

When you know you live by selling something you can really put life into your day. In fact, you can feel like you've put your whole life into a single day. First thing in the morning you can rise up smiling and getting ready to sell. You know you become masterful when you learn to enjoy the process. The whole process.

Selling makes the world go around.  Other people say that "Love makes the world go round," but great sales people know that it's the same thing. Pump enough love into your sales pitch and you will succeed.

As a sales person you get to become a psychologist, a dramatic actor and a business entrepreneur all at once. All in the course of enjoying your day.

Yet, the overt power of the position of sales seems to threaten others. Because you are out there exchanging value for money, right up front with it, no apologies, you threaten others who are more covert in their work. People who hide out from life don't like people who are so up front.

So you get movies like Boiler Room and Glengarry Glen Ross and plays like Death of a Salesman that attempt to denigrate the profession and make free enterprise itself look demeaning. (Ironically, most sales people I know get a big kick out of these movies and plays and laugh at the caricatures in them.  Most sales people are not sensitive at all about what they do because they know it's what makes the world go round.)

Today you will see most of the popular culture demeaning the sales process and profession. You see most of society viewing corporations and businesses as evil.  Sometimes, when taken to extremes, an entire society will try to wipe out enterprise and sales altogether. Socialist and communist countries that have tried this have found out the hard way that they were killing the human spirit in the process. They were killing ambition and the joy of living when they tried to kill sales.  The Soviet Union's prison walls of no-free-enterprise came tumbling down after many years of trying to create a sales-free lifestyle for everyone. It killed the soul of the people. It stopped innovation and adventure. It led to tremendous poverty and addiction.

The human spirit was replaced by vodka on a rainy morning.

China, the largest nation in the world, is also waking up to free market participation. In a wild attempt to cure so many years of propaganda against financial freedom and personal achievement, China has now adopted a new slogan for its people: "MONEY IS A GOOD THING."

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 "600 baseball books are published every year and 599 of them
are not worth the paper they never should have been printed on.
Two Guys Read the Box Scores is the other one. It is splendid."

~George Will

George Will is a U.S. newspaper columnist,journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Will is also a news analyst for ABC since the early 1980s and was a founding member on the panel of ABC's This Week on which he still appears weekly. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including two critically acclaimed bestsellers on baseball, Men at Work and Bunts.

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My new coaching prosperity school opens August 20 and 21 and each school allows for nine coaches to attend...we focus on only one thing: how to get clients and build prosperity by transformative coaching:

Email me if you want to know how to attend or to ask about payment plans to attend...... [email protected]. Or ask anything. Like who some of the rather prosperous grads are.
Here's something we learn in the school:

Coaching is about transformation.

Change.

It's not about advice. Or tips. Or chatting with people. It's not just a sympathetic ear, either, that's just a tiny part of it.

Coaching is transformation.

If you are really into it, you will change your client's life. So act accordingly when you "sell" coaching. Most coaches I know sell coaching as if they were selling carpet cleaning...."Here's what it is per hour"...etc.

If you are really into it, you will be there for your client more than their parents were, more than their business partner or even spouse is. Their parents and spouse have agendas. They have something they want back from your client. You don't ……(you've been paid up front, even if you're paid monthly you don't let a client get in debt to you.) So you can truly be the first person in that client's life to ever be there 100% for them. A wholly committed, fearless truth-telling commitment to them who wants nothing more than their success. It's a first for a client to have someone like you in their lives.

Then why do we "sell" coaching as if it were less than that? Why don't we DEMONSTRATE that full commitment ahead of time? When a prospective client has a website or an ebook why do we sometimes not even read it? (Because we've locked ourselves into spamalot and hint-hint flirtatious selling! ...a carpet cleaner's approach to selling coaching.)

Let your prospects know what coaching with you would be like by having your intake conversations be long, extremely real and truthful… extremely lengthy!...... It is the joy of creating. This one INTAKE conversation is wading into your client's life, languishing in it, rolling in it, embracing it, living it.

…….because you are selling coaching, you don't want to mince words or do the dance of money-fear wherein you are flattering them, chatting them up and acting in ways that disgust you when the day is done.

Instead, be willing to listen deeply and then be the FIRST PERSON in their lives in many a year to tell them the truth. Be real and tell the truth about how you REALLY see their problems. Coaching is truth-telling.

Notice how fearless and direct Steve Hardison is with everyone. That truthfulness.

More than anything, that is why the check gets written for $150,000.

Truth is beauty for a client.

Come in from the storm

Why would I use my blog to SELL my upcoming seminar (a seminar that lasts six months) with Michael Neill on how to create wealth through the law of creation versus crossing your fingers and hoping for the best (sometimes known as the law of attraction.)

Why would I openly sell on a blog that people innocently read? Why would anybody ever sell anything? Why exchange value? Why not SEIZE the wealth of others and redistribute it to those with the most depressing grievances?

I got an email the other day that criticized my blogs that said, "Seth Godin would never do that. Seth expresses gratitude in his blogs. Seth never markets without permission." Seth is careful not to sell because his reputation is important to him.

My reputation is not important to me. If I can help people, I will.

My favorite teacher is Byron Katie and when she says, "Personalities cannot love. They want something." I rejoice that someone has finally pointed that out. Fearless. Club fearless. Club fearless members get daily messages from me. I try to drive people from the club with messages that stretch them to the breaking point. In many cases I succeed. But many members merely grow more fearless. A message to the club is below. So you can see what daily messages to the club are like. Am I trying to sell you club fearless? Am I trying to sell you the money mastermind Michael and I are delivering to a few brave souls who have read my book 100 Ways to Create Wealth and want to move it from theory to practice?

Seth would never do that.

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financially fearless cold-calling:

Come in from the storm.  Have the whole conversation be safe and warm like a fire in the fireplace when snowflakes fall.  And the big ponies are waiting to pull your sleigh.

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financially fearless career planning:

"No valid plans for the future can be made
by those who have no capacity for living now."

~Alan Watts

When I coach people who have small businesses, or who are coaches or consultants, or who raise children or lead other people, I notice that their greatest opportunity for success is right in front of them in the very next conversation they are about to have.

Yet they fly past that conversation, tagging it, like a drive-by shooting, racing to get to their "better" future. When I recommend that they slow down it goes against their inner anxiety, that anxiety
that runs their lives, as they strain so hard against their leash they begin to lose oxygen. At night, they don't sleep, they pass out.

No wonder no valid plans for the future can be made. Those plans are all fear-based because they want a "better" world than the one that presents itself in this next conversation, this world of infinite opportunity.

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now play this:

In The Bleak Midwinter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ

Take me out to the ballgame!

Now ready for preorder on AMAZON is Two Guys Read the Box Scores, the new book by Terrence Hill and me. It's about baseball. Mostly. It's about one amazing season of baseball. Followed by two guys. Terry and me. It's what we love doing.

In the picture above, he and I are about to settle in to enjoy a game between the two worst teams in baseball. Turned out to be one of the most enjoyable days of our lives. He and I have been doing this kind of thing together since 1955.

And here it is. The book itself:

And if you are a member of club fearless you will be sent this book without having to actually buy it. Just one of the many things people enjoy the club for...the many free goodies that keep getting sent to them...the two audio downloads per month...the webinars....the daily life-changing, mind-shifting, soul-shattering emails designed to DETOXIFY our members from the media-poisoning they are subject to living in this land of angry victims.

And speaking of writing the book you love to write and forming the club you love to form, PLEASE watch this talk by Apple's Steve Jobs...if you haven't already...many people are sending it around to friends....many people have sent it to me. How to live when you know you're going to die. How to follow your heart instead of what other people want you to do. Just two of the themes. My favorite part? "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

Watch it here:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

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Hallucination: Money as oxygen

Notice how people can play board games like Monopoly for hours on end. They play with great spirit and inventiveness. Video and computer games even more so. A pick-up game of basketball in the park after a long hard day at work can wake a person up like nothing else!

It's the joy of just playing. Kids want to stay up and play all night. There is no fatigue when you're playing.

Contrast that to "working."

Working grinds you down. It hits you even before you do it. Just the thought of it. Just the thought of your work day can fill you with dread and anxiety. You're weary before you begin.

Wealth happens to us fastest when we can play it into existence.

But it's hard, given our history, to associate play with money. Money is often just terrifying to people. Far from seeing it as a game, people see it as survival. Money is like oxygen to them. Not to be fooled around with. Serious business. You can die from lack of it!

And that very belief system is what takes all the fun out of making it. All the joy. All the creativity.

The richest man in America, Bill Gates, has always said, "We only have one product here at Microsoft: human imagination."

But how can you fire up your imagination when you are fighting to survive? Gasping for air? Drowning in debt? Those are all just thoughts. But they are thoughts that shut off the flow of life and wealth. Wealth comes from imagination. From playful thoughts and tireless energy.

WHY DON'T WE HAVE A SEMINAR THAT TEACHES THAT?

We do and it's here: http://www.stevechandler.com/financially_fearless.html

And it's taught by me and Michael Neill....who says this quote....a quote that I repeat a lot because it is so worth repeating:

"Some people have learned to live by keeping themselves under the constant threat of poverty, abandonment, and self-hatred if they don't perform up to whatever standard they have decided upon. The problem with this motivational strategy is simple: If you keep putting a gun to your head, at some point you're going to want to pull the trigger."

Michael and I have been working hard at becoming the best duo ever. Here is a photo of us recently rehearsing our scary-good workshop:

Why (oh why) can't I?

Tears of heartbreaking joy, this music is absolutely heartbreaking it's so beautiful.

Go here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZemnaIkhAN8

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Creating wealth versus attracting it

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans,
I would choose the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.'
No other language or nation had ever used these words before...
Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."

~Ayn Rand

Usually creativity is the last house on the block...down to the last dime....one final crumpled phone number to call: my creativity.

But that's what brings wealth in.

I wrote a book that chose to mock attraction. As a system. As a law. I called it The Woman Who Attracted Money, and made it a murder mystery so it would be more fun to write and read. About a woman who tried attraction. And then tried creation. Two entirely different laws.

Most people think wealth is something others have. So they try to
get it from others. They try to please other people enough to have
some wealth given to them. They polish apples. They are even
willing to lick boots.

Most don't know wealth is created. They think it's borrowed from the future. Or produced through taxes. Or seized and redistributed.

Or attracted.

By picturing things. Sitting on the couch for years and picturing things. Putting pictures on the wall of all the consumer items, all the luxury items I want. I want. I want it so bad it's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.

But wanting is degrading.

Demeaning.
There's a better way to build financial courage and strength. To put some real steel into one's life. 

Michael Neill says, "When you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it."

True! Because being clear and honest means you are now IN ACTION
and creating and producing throughout the day, creating relationships, producing wealth, creating systems, producing products, creating ideas, producing powerful acts of service. Creating and producing.

Were I merely to indulge visions and try to magically and magnetically attract wealth I might atrophy. I might rot away on that couch unfulfilled....to say the least. Sitting there like a thing. A noun.

But when we are really ALIVE we are not nouns like that anyway.

We are verbs.

Michael Neill also says this: "Some people have learned to live by keeping themselves under the constant threat of poverty, abandonment, and self-hatred if they don't perform up to whatever standard they have decided upon. The problem with this motivational strategy is simple: If you keep putting a gun to your head, at some point you're going to want to pull the trigger."

Money fear is huge, especially now. Especially now that people are learning what money really is. There's fear.

Michael says, "You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of – you're afraid of what you think."

 He also says this: "Steve Chandler and I will be taking a small group of financially fearless people through a 6 month mastermind experience beginning with a 3 day Financial Independence weekend from July 9 - 11, 2010...

...and we'd like you to join us!(http://www.geniuscatalyst.com/fearless.php) The group (of between 12 - 30 people) will then meet once a month - August and October in Phoenix with Steve, September and November in Los Angeles with me, and then again with both of us in Phoenix in December. Our intention is to assist every single person in the room in moving out past and beyond their money fears and superstitions so that they can bring their best selves to bear in any aspect of life that is currently diluted by money worry and money "problems."

"What if you joined us (and as a result of the time we spent together, reduced your financial anxiety by 75% or more - and along the way, became committed to mastering the money game as a game, from creating to accumulating to managing to using their money to create even more of what you want in your life?"

That one is my favorite Michael Neill quotes so far.

And my teaming up with him to do this intensive work is going to be the most powerful work I have ever done. If you are ready and willing to give up whole sets of old beliefs about yourself and money, I recommend that you sign up for the mastermind Michael and I are doing and dedicate yourself to full 24/7 participation in it.

Do you not think Michael and I are SERIOUS about freeing people from their financial fear and turning their lives around?

Well. You don't know us. Here is a candid shot of us in rehearsal for the first three days' work:

There's no fear like money fear

 

Let's say you grew up in a family that, for whatever reason, imparted a lot of money fears on to you.

Maybe your parents never had much, or maybe you felt their fear that the rent wasn't going to get paid, or the utilities were going to get turned off, or all they talked about was not having enough money, and how frightening it was, or all the things they had to do just to get by; and you picked up on that. In addition to that, everything that was said to you--"money doesn't grow on trees you know"--all those things that were said to you, pounded it deeper in. So this generated a great deal of fear in you as a child.

Now as you grow up, you have a little mastery over that, just from growth alone, and so it now becomes anger. Now most people who are just flat out angry at wealthy people. Or angry that someone has made money on some idea, and angry about the whole concept of figuring out a way to make money. And so the fear has now been converted to anger, resentment--a kind of slow burn on the subject.

But that, too, is profoundly dysfunctional. It won't lead you to success to indulge all of that. Success comes from the lighter touch, from being much higher on the ladder, so that money is just simply numbers that come and go, and there's a feeling of flow to it. Money doesn't make you happy. It's the opposite. Happiness makes you money.

Money flows in very easily when I am joyfully serving people, and it flows out nicely to good causes. There is a sense of flow, instead of a sense of hoarding and clinging and grabbing. The grim clench. It comes from a childhood fear that permeates adult life.

I want to see all the positive aspects of converting my talent into prosperity. How many people it really helps, including me and my family, and how much it makes me more creative, and gives me more options, than if I'm angry, and fearful, and just clinging to the very little bit I have, and resentful, and mad at the government, and wondering which program is going to be there to take care of me, and how come my health care and mortgage can't be free, and how come this, and how come that. It's just a mass of worry and resentment around everything that has to do with money. And none of it is necessary.

So step one in succeeding financially is to lose the fear. To reflect back on my childhood and notice where the fear came from so I can laugh it away. What was my original belief system around money? How big a deal did I make it in my mind? And how can I free myself from all those fears and those terrifying belief systems that have been built up over the years?

I want absolute freedom. Financial fearlessness. I want to create wealth from a beautiful present moment awareness of grateful living. So I can just create it through inventive, imaginative service of people.

So step one is to address the fears, to de-program them, and then re-program them into courage and creativity, the watchwords of an upcoming mastermind experience. It will border on the surreal.

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Financially Fearless

A 6 Month Money Mastermind with Steve Chandler and Michael Neill

Has anyone told you there’s a recession on? Did you think it was important to know that?

Join supercoaches Steve Chandler and Michael Neill for this extraordinary opportunity to:

- Reduce your financial anxiety by 75% or more.

- Master the money game as a game — from creating to accumulating to managing to using your money to create even more of what you want in your life.

- Get past — and move beyond — every single fear and superstition you may have around money, regardless of how deeply engrained they may seem to be. Financially Fearless is a six-month mastermind experience specially designed by supercoaches Steve Chandler and Michael Neill to take you beyond your current limitations and fears around money to bring your best self to bear in any aspect of life that is currently undermined by money worry and money "problems."

Here's how Financially Fearless works:

The program begins with our intensive three-day Financial Independence weekend, from July 9 through 11, 2010. This fun, scary, and transformational weekend is designed to assist you in breaking through ALL your money fears and re-creating your financial life from the inside-out, and will cover a variety of topics, including:

· Creating the impossible

· Owner/Victim applied to your prosperity

· How to ask for what you want in life

· The four masteries of money

· How to create wealth, wherever you are and starting from nothing

· Becoming financially fearless

· The art of the bold proposal

· Coaching yourself to ongoing financial success

· The secrets of the happy millionaires