Self-enquiry is the process and the goal also. "I am" is the goal
and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-enquiry.
When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
Another anniversary has come around for this ezine; it's been
running for three years now without a break. I'll admit it's been
hard to maintain the momentum at times, but it's worth it every
time I receive an e-mail from someone saying how much it has
helped, or how they have faithfully been following it from the
very beginning.
I sent you an e-mail a few days ago telling you about a super
resource I just discovered online. It's called "The Law Of
Success in 16 Lessons" by Napoleon Hill. In my opinion, it's one
of THE greatest personal development courses ever. This course is
so important that, in case you missed it, I've included the
mailing I sent out in this issue, in the product review section.
What can I tell you? Napoleon Hill is THE teacher of personal
development, and pretty well started the personal growth field
single-handedly. Also, the online publisher offers an enormous
list of truly valuable bonuses, all fr*ee, plus lifetime e-mail
consultancy with him. The course comes with my
highest recommendation, because I've read it twice myself.
So, you can get the full story on "The Law Of Success" at:
Thanks for all of you who filled in the survey I sent out to you
this month. This will really help me determine better article
topics to write on, and better products to develop or present to
you in the future. I've compiled most of the responses, and the
results to date are on the website. See the "What's New" section
below.
Anyway, the No.1 topic of interest came up as life purpose.
Accordingly, I have written a life purpose article for this
issue. It may not be quote what you expect, but I suspect you
will find it interesting, and hopefully very useful. Also, since
"making money" was also a leading interest, we have another
excellent article from multi-millionaire Stuart Goldsmith.
This
one is called "The Habits Of A Winner".
Enjoy!
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What am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What contribution
am I here to give to the world?
These are the questions that haunt and plague the majority of
people. It seems to be more important to many people than making
money or even developing their spiritually.
Evidence that some people definitely did come into the world with
a specific life purpose seems common. You have the Mozarts,
Picassos and Beethovens; people who displayed incred*ible talent
and passion for their famous vocations at impossibly early ages.
They seemed targeted towards their goal from the start; endowed
in their very genes with the genius talents for which they are
now world-famous.
How could this be?...
Doubtless, they doubtless programmed themselves with clear intent
in previous lifetimes. Buddhism is a good analogy for this.
Buddhist converts generally accept, even as they take their vows,
that they are not really expecting to achieve Enlightenment in
THIS lifetime. Rather, they are commencing a process that may
take thousands, if not millions, of rebirths before their goal is
achieved. They have set themselves a goal greater than the span
of their own life, or of even many consecutive lifetimes.
That is how it may be with the geniuses of history. They come
into incarnation seemingly tailor-made for their life's work.
This may be the result of honing honed their skills, and building
their intent, lifetime after lifetime, until they finally achieved perfection in the incarnation for which they are famous. There are no accidents in the universe. Everything is the result of conscious intent.
Why do most of humanity wander through life questioning why we are taking up space here? How do you find what you were born to do, when it seems to be so concealed from you?
Well, at the risk of disillusioning you, it seems worth asking
you this fundamental question...
Why do you think that YOU were "born to do" anything in
particular?!
The fact that you feel you are here for something does not necessarily imply that you are! You may also feel that you could run the world better than it is being run at present. However, just because you can feel it does not necessarily make it true!
Beware of blindly accepting the wish-fulfilling self-help propaganda that says "you are here for something". You may be or you may not be. As we said, some people definitely are. However, it's not necessarily true for eve*ryone, and it may not be true for you.
To say otherwise is to cash into ordinary people's desperate need
to feel significant and important whilst they continue to live
their lives of quiet desperation. The truth is that you may be
causing yourself unnecessary anxiety by feeling that you are
"here for something" when you are actually not.
Actually, this should be good news to you. If you are one of the
majority struggling to find that elusive life purpose, accept the
possibility that you may not necessarily have been born with one,
despite what all the new age and self-help books tell you. That
liberates you from the erroneous notion that you have "lost"
something or need to "recover" your direction. You may not have
lost anything, since you cannot lose what you never had in the
first place! This is liberating news. You have NOT been wasting
your life away far from your "true vocation", because you
probably never had one!
However, that does NOT mean that you cannot DEVELOP a major life
purpose from this moment onward! That is the good news. The even
better news is that it is never too late. If you want a famous
example, take the artist Van Gogh. He does not seem to have been
born with a clear life purpose. After a series of failed jobs and
much bitter frustration, he finally began drawing and painting
only in his mid-twenties, and was destined to die by his own hand
in his mid-thirties. Yet, in this brief decade or so, he elicited
incred*ible talents from within: so much so that he transformed
himself into one of the greatest artists in history, and
accomplished an entire lifetime of work in just one short decade.
Accept that although you may not have been born with a life
purpose, you can still create a purpose full of meaning and
richness in the time available, i.e. right NOW, even if that time
seems short to you. It may be neither easy nor obvious, but that
should be part of the challenge and the calling. As soon as you
let go of the handicapping notion that there is something
SPECIFIC that you were sent here for, a world of possibilities
opens up immediately.
Napoleon Hill stated that the key to success is having a definite
major purpose, backed up with specific plans for its achievement.
You can DECIDE to do that any time you wish, rather than pining
over some mysterious and elusive purpose you think you were born
with and may have missed at childhood.
Seeking your life purpose is a process, rather than a once and
for all event. It could take a lot of time, or it could happen
very quickly. That depends upon your degree of resolve,
determination and effort. In other words, the speed with which
you find a life purpose suitable to you is directly proportional
to the time and effort, thought and passionate desire you invest
into it. If it's a spare-time activity, or a sort of "well, it
would be nice someday once the kids are grown..." kind of thing,
expect to wait a long time, and maybe never find it.
One oft-quoted and valid method is to work back to when you were
a child and ask yourself what sort of things you enjoyed doing
then. When people asked what you wanted to be when you grew up,
what was your answer? As adults, we tend to limit our
opportunities to what we consider "possible". Children do not
censor in this fashion (until they learn "better" from their
parents!). Hence, seeking your childhood passions is a definite
clue to where your future life direction may lie.
Another simple way is to consider your present life and ask
yourself what it is that you really love to do now. What do you
get caught up in, where you totally lose track of time, and
forget to eat or sleep? What would you love to do all day long,
even if there was no money involved? Questions like these can
point the way to your deeper purpose in life.
Be open and playful and flexible in this process. Take your time,
rather than being obsessed with the idea that time is running out
on a preordained mission you have missed altogether. Remember,
people are living ever longer these days. There is a fair chance
you will live to be 100, or even 120 as medicine advances in the
future. Hence, even if you are 40, 50, 60 or more, there is still
plenty you can contribute and give to the world in the time you
have left, for you have no idea how much time that will be.
In short, you ARE here for something as soon as you DECIDE to be.
Then pick something and go with it, developing it to the best of
your ability. Even if that does not turn out to be your best
direction, it will open doors for you that never would have
opened until you started moving. Eventually, through a strange
and mysterious process, you will find yourself in your true life
vocation. However, the key to getting there is movement, coupled
with determination to reach it. Movement creates growth; stasis
creates decay.
So , start moving today.
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2003. All Rights Reserved.
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You need to develop the habits of a winner. You want to enjoy
today, but have an even better tomorrow waiting for you.
To do this you must model yourself on winners - people who have
achieved great things in their lives. I am talking here about
'winners' and 'losers' but I do not mean the term 'loser' in the
usual derogatory sense. By a 'loser' I mean someone who, by their
own definition of winning and losing, is falling well short of
where they want to be. By a 'winn*r' I mean someone who, by
their own definition of winning and losing, is pulling ahead of the
game and achieving that which they set out to achieve.
This is how a winner operates:
1. They are brave. Like all human beings they feel fear, but
have mastered it and are able to rise above it. Whilst they
acknowledge that there are frightening people and places in the
world, in general they view the world as a benevolent place, full
of great opportunities and wonderful people. This is a vital
principle. Winners view the world as mainly benevolent with some
bad bits. Losers see the world as mainly malevolent with some
good bits.
2. They are good visualizers. They have the ability to imagine
the future, often in glorious Technicolor detail. They have high
self-esteem, and know that they are worth more than they have at
present. Life to them is an exciting adventure to be lived to the
full. In contrast, losers view life as a terrible chore to be
somehow 'got through' with as little pain as possible.
3. They are intelligent, rational and logical. If they have a
dream of the future, they know the secret technique for making
this happen. Today's dreams are tomorrow's realities. They know
that large projects cannot be tackled by finite human minds
unless they are broken down into manageable, bite-sized pieces.
They are able to work backwards from a future dream to the
present day, and to list the logical steps required to make that
dream come true.
4. Having written down the steps required to achieve their
goals, they know what is required next. Action. Up until this
point, all of their plans amount to little more than ethereal
hot air. It is action which grounds the circuit and allows the
current to flow. They know that the journey will be long and
hard. Any worthwhile dream will involve hard work, concentrated
effort and some suffering to attain. They need one more quality.
Discipline. This keeps them going during setbacks, when the list
seems too long, and when others heap mirth and derision upon
their efforts.
Five Tips to Turbo-Charge Your Dream
1. Dream of a brighter tomorrow. Your yearning power is more
important than your earning power.
2. Be rational. Mysticism is your mortal enemy. There are
obvious, logical steps between here and your dreams. Write them
down in bite-sized chunks and follow them like a route map.
3. Act. All is dust without action. Action is the key.
4. Be disciplined. Life is tough. Fight. Others want you to
fail. Ignore them. The world is against you - go your own way.
People will spout rubbish - ignore it.
5. Start today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Winners
start right now. Losers chatter to themselves that they will
start 'one day real soon.' It never happens.
Copyright 2001. Stuart Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.
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