Today I have 4 free power gifts for your self education. You know how I love to find low cost & free transformational tools. These four gifts are all free to access, right now, today.

Choose the one that would most closely fit your next stage of personal growth. Or, visit all four and spread these over your week.

Be mindful that TWO are time-sensitive and really need to be visited TODAY. Here they are…

At some point, all of us who’ve been searching for deeper meaning will reach a point where we feel stuck and ask the question, “Is this it?”

To find out just how HEART INTELLIGENCE can transform your world, watch this brilliant free video by Christian Pankhurst.

Watch Christian’s free video here…

Christian’s video, especially the bit about ‘Embodied Awareness’ is amazing. He says he’s taking questions on the blog, so watch and comment. The video will teach you how to get unstuck and connect to another level of mastery & authenticity.

SECONDLY, we’ve all heard the term “feminine energy” but few of us actually understand what it really is, how it really works, and how to access it.

Crystal Andrus says,”Authentic feminine energy is not only sexy and strong, it is the true power behind the greatest expressions of ourselves as women.

I call it WOMAN energy; it is very different than MOTHER energy. It is receiving versus giving. When we learn how to step fully into our WOMAN energy, we can become unstoppable at anything we desire!”

Listen to Crystal’s free call…

Can’t make it live or, did you miss the call? Sign up anyway & she’ll forward you the replay.

THIRDLY, below is a must-see NEW video from Brendon Burchard. Incredibly smart & inspiring stuff.

Everyone is struggling to have MORE ENERGY, success & influence these days, so this hits the mark.

A lot of people know Brendon as the motivation guy and the #1 New York Times best-selling author.

Brendon STRUGGLED his way through until he learned these secrets.

Watch him LIVE on Tuesday 15 May at… 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern U.S.

He’s doing an entire SHOW… Get 4 hours of live training for free!

Hope you’re asking yourself Brendon’s six questions for high-performance everyday.

If you missed them… see his earlier 3 free training videos here!

ALSO, VERY IMPORTANT:

Brendon is practically giving away $14,792 of training right now as part of the LAST DAY of registration to his coaching course. This expires at MIDNIGHT tonight (15 May)!

FOURTH, with this growing collection of hypnosis audios, there’s something which will help you to achieve your goals, RE-WIRE your negative patterns of thinking and perhaps even change your entire life!

Browse a huge collection to help you to gain confidence, increase your motivation and even to help you to achieve success with the law of attraction.

Collect your free hypnosis MP3s here…

All of those albums are available as instant MP3 downloads so that you can be listening and making powerful changes, in minutes.

A FIFTH AND EXTRA GIFT just flew into my in-box today and I just had to include it here…

My friends at The Ultimate Game of Life have put together a cheat sheet called “100 Ways to Save $1,000 – $2,500 a Month”.

It’s a great resource & free as well! Go grab your copy & check out their upcoming 24 Hour Wealth Challenge.

For the last 10 years, they’ve coached over 10,000 clients and tracked their long term performance – peering into their lives and looking at their finances.

Their research reveals something interesting…

Join this upcoming 24 Hour Wealth Challenge where you’ll get to participate in a FUN, interactive environment with other players to see how much we can cut our expenses in just 24 hours.

You know? The last time they ran this game, a handful of players collectively cut $110,071.31 from their expenses…

How much will YOU save in 1 day?

Get your 3 free videos and your free hard-cover copy of this BRAND NEW book, before they’re all gone…

In a short introduction video, Brendon runs through 4 of 10 human drives.

Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives. Learning to harness and activate those drives, is our access to success & happiness.

I suggest you get the book & videos now, while Brendon is giving them away, and before the official release.

Go watch this today…

Last year, I read Darren Hardy’s book “The Compound Effect” (a couple of times), he’s another great author and here’s what Darren has to say about Brendon’s NEWEST book:

“I look for authenticity and proof when I learn from someone, and I can share that Brendon Burchard is one of the most engaged, energetic, and enthusiastic people I’ve ever met. I’ve always wanted to know how he developed such a remarkably strong internal charge. This book reveals his secrets. If you too want to perform at higher levels of joy, engagement, and productivity – get this book. It’s a must-read for any serious student of success and high performance.”

He is ONLY giving away 1000 copies…

It’s opening up at 2am in my time zone so I hope there will still be books left over when I get to the site in the morning.

You, and many others, will be hearing a lot about this – not only from me.

If you have never had the pleasure of watching Brendon Burchard in action, you’re in for a real treat…

GET THIS while you can!

It’s Your Baby by Alan Cohen [with permission]

In a remote region of the Andes, two tribes were feuding. One tribe lived high in the mountains and the other in the lowlands. One day the highlanders raided the village of the lowlanders and kidnapped a baby.

The next day the lowlander tribe assembled a rescue team to climb the mountain to find and retrieve the child. But the lowlanders did not know the trails and they were not skilled at mountain climbing. They struggled to make their way up the mountain, but after a half day of climbing, they could not ascend anymore. Discouraged and disappointed, they packed their gear to return.

Suddenly, to their amazement, the rescue team saw the baby’s mother coming down from the mountain, holding her baby in her arms. Baffled, they asked her, “How were you able to scale this steep mountain and rescue your child, when we were unable to do so?” She answered, “It wasn’t your baby.”

If you want something enough, you will find a way to do it. If you are not very motivated, you will either not attempt to reach a goal, or if you do, your efforts will be half-hearted and you will attain no measurable results. Motivation and intention are far more significant elements of success than circumstances.

Do not assess your possibilities on the basis of the beliefs or the unsuccessful efforts of people less motivated than you. Their results are less a function of reality, and more a result of their beliefs and intentions. Nor do you need their permission to do what you want and need to do. The mother who retrieved her child did not ask the search party if the mission was possible nor did she request their permission. She just knew what she needed to do and she did it.

The compelling documentary Man on Wire chronicles the brazen feat of Philippe Petit, a visionary circus performer who, in 1974, strung a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center and, without asking anyone’s permission, walked between the skyscrapers eight times. Petit and several cronies planned the stunt for years with an Ocean’s 11 level of craftiness and detail. They cased the World Trade Center for months, fabricated phony I.D.’s to gain access to study the building’s design, found an inside agent in whose office they stored their equipment, and hid overnight under a tarpaulin with guards walking past them just feet away. At one moment a guard saw the intruders scaling a back staircase with their equipment, but for some odd reason he overlooked them. Once atop a tower, they shot an arrow across the 200-foot span to begin to secure the 450-pound wire. While Petit’s feat was extraordinary, what it took to pull it off seemed even more astounding. After his tightrope walk Petit was arrested for trespassing, but he was released when he agreed to put on a show for kids in the neighborhood.

How could Petit get away with such a Mission Impossible? The answer is simple: It was his baby. He conceived the idea in the waiting room of a dentist’s office, where he read a magazine article about the planned construction of the World Trade Center. When he saw the sketch of two towers looming 1368 feet over Manhattan, the idea grabbed him and would not let him go until he accomplished it. Petit ate, drank, thought, slept, and dreamt the idea for years. That’s what a vision baby feels like.

You, too, have a baby you love and believe in. It may not be as outrageous as Philippe Petit’s, but it is life-giving to you, and bigger than your history or fear. It speaks to you in your quiet moments and stirs you when you think about it. You are hungrier for it than safety, comfort, or the status quo. That’s the depth of cry of your baby that will drive you to fetch it.

A young man asked Ernest Hemingway, “Should I become a writer?” Hemingway answered, “If anything can stop you, let it.” If other people’s opinions, or scientific data, or fear can put you off from retrieving your baby, don’t even bother starting the climb up the mountain. But if you care less about what others think and more about what you feel, start your journey. If adversity does not put you off, it will strengthen you. If old friends fall away, you know you are on the right track. When new ones show up, you have a confirmation. And if you need no recognition from the world, but simply take deep reward from your adventure, it is worthy indeed.

Les Brown said, “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.” Wayne Dyer echoed, “Motivation is when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is when an idea takes hold of you.” Quit trying to do something, and let something do you. There is a Power in the universe seeking to express through you. If you let it, doors will open that you could not imagine how to open yourself. Your goal may seem mountain high to accomplish, but if you love your baby enough, you will find a way to bring it home.

Author: Alan Cohen is the author of many popular inspirational books, including The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and I Had it All the Time. For more information about Alan’s free inspirational quote program, or his daily Wisdom for Today lessons via email, visit alancohen.com

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By quinet (Mother and Child) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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By Lloyd Arnold [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

I pat YOU on the back, for being right here and for living your life beyond what’s right in front. You wouldn’t be reading this blog if it weren’t so. You’re looking for what else is possible and asking yourself the “What if?” questions. Congratulations!

This post is about creating your future, yet you really only ever have the one moment. That is this moment, right now!

If you have decided on something that you want for yourself, your life or the lives of those for whom you care, then NOW is the time to begin.

Are things not happening that you want to see happen? Do you live “in waiting” for something external? Then …it is time to get truthful. Have you honestly decided on what you want? Do you truly know what you want? I can tell you that, once you have a vision, when you can clearly see it and you fully desire it, there is nothing that will stop you. Nothing will get in the way of you reaching that target.

Quit wanting things because others say it is what you should want. Spend some quiet times with just you and get connected to your own personal desires.

In the following paragraphs, I’ll share a couple of personally empowering exercises that you can use, to get you unstuck and in momentum, when things are not quite looking the way that you would like. Many of these will help get you connected to your true desires. I’ve selected self reflection exercises which are most in tune with the topic.

Intuition: Each of us has a higher consciousness, an intuition, that is connected directly to the energy of the universe and provides us with the absolute truth and our inspiration for our existence. We all create obstacles for our intuition, and often times do not get the messages it is trying to send us. If you’re trying to decide between two specific options, you can do an interesting variant on the coin flip to help get in touch with your intuition. Decide that if the coin lands on “heads” you’ll go with option one; if it lands on “tails”, you’ll go with option two. Now here’s the key: After you flip and get the result, see how you FEEL. Were you disappointed and said, “Oh heck!”? Or, were you pleased and said, “That’s great!” or “Whew!”? Based on your response, you will know the right answer for you.

Integrity: When you are complete with your environment, well-being, money and relationships, you will have more natural energy . The Clean Sweep Program consists of 100 items which, when all checked, give you greater vitality and strength. The program can be completed in less than one year. Just Google “Clean Sweep Program Forward Steps” and you can download a free copy for yourself.

Reframing: This is a ridiculously simple exercise in framing and instructing your subconscious. 1. Each day, take a clean piece of paper, divide it into two columns, write “successes” at the top of the left hand column and “failures” at the top of the right hand one. Then date the page. Under “successes”, briefly note each of your successes that day, one per line. Include both the little and big ones. 2. Similarly, under “failures”, list each of what you perceive to be the day’s failures. 3. Then read through your success list. After reading each success, remember the experience it refers to and say to yourself, “That’s a success. I’ll have more of those!” 4. Next read through your “failure” list. After each failure, remember the experience and say to yourself, “That’s a failure. I’ll have less of those!” If you do this every day, you will soon see that the daily list of successes increases and the list of failures decreases simply because you consciously framed the experiences that you consider successes and the ones that you consider failures and told your unconscious to focus on generating the former and reducing the latter. What you focus on is an instruction to your subconscious. If you want more successes, focus on successes.

Consequences: When you or someone else is faced with making a decision, check out the effects, consequences and outcomes, while exploring the overall. Ask the following questions in the order presented and after asking each one, ask “…and what else?” – a few times over. Here are those very useful questions. What will happen if you do ‘X’? What won’t happen if you do ‘X’? What will happen if you don’t do ‘X’? What won’t happen if you don’t do ‘X’?

Values: Imagine that you are at your own funeral. You’re listening to what your loved ones are saying about you: the good stuff (and the not so good), the dreams, the aspirations, the things that you were connected to, the things that meant a lot to you. Perhaps they mention the things that you didn’t get to do, or the opportunities that were lost. Take 15 minutes to write up your eulogy. What are the core values and the achievements for which you would like to be remembered?

Clarity: Revisit your current goals and make sure to ask yourself, am I moving towards something that inspires me or am I pursuing this goal to move away from an undesired situation? One of these two choices brings with it much more power and fun for accomplishing what it is that you’re actually seeking to achieve, from your heart. As expressed by Abraham-Hicks, “Get so fixated on what you want, that you drown out any vibration or reverberation that has anything to do with what you do not want”. I have a 50 Life Power Questions exercise which is an excellent tool for getting “clear of trees”, giving you a magnificent view of the “woods”! Just Google search “50 Life Power Questions” and you’ll find it. This exercise may take well over an hour to complete, if not two. It is very much worth spending that time to get yourself clear about what you truly want to accomplish in life.

Self-Talk: What do you see around you, and what do you take on board emotionally, when you say to yourself: I have no money? Try this at home! Look around your home and say those words several times over. Do you notice what your mind is picking up and tuning in to? Now, try the flip side of that exercise, allowing at least five minutes to just be with it. This time, walk around your home saying: I am so wealthy. What did you notice? You can use that very simple exercise with anything you like. Walk around for an afternoon, with the words: I am so alone. Then try it differently, and this time repeating the words: I have so many wonderful people sharing in my life. Consider then how else you use language to interpret the things surrounding you each day. How do you think the cells of your body might logically respond to the words: I am starving? What image does that conjure? Would it cause a shift in the cellular and chemical response of your body if instead, you were to tone that down, and use the words: I am hungry? New words, new pictures, evoking empowering emotions.

Answers: Write down the problem you want to solve or the question you want answered. Be very specific. Close your eyes and grab a book from your bookshelf. Any book whatsoever. (Don’t despair if it is completely unrelated to your question — that is often better.) Randomly open the book to any page. Let your finger run down the page to stop wherever you’d like. Read the section your finger is pointing to. Make this answer the answer to your question. Figure out how IT is the answer.

Pretending: Write a letter, filled with many questions, to the “guru” of your issue. That is, if you’re grappling with a business problem, write to a business expert, or if it is relationship related, write to a relationship guru. Once the letter is written, send it to your own address. Put the issue aside and out of your mind until you receive that letter a few days later in your mailbox. Receive the letter and open it as though you are the expert who as just opened their mail. Pretend that you receive mail like this every day from hundreds of people around the world. You ‘are’ the expert and know a great deal about this topic plus you ‘have’ a history of experience in dealing with these issues because you have helped thousands of people who have the very same questions and concerns. Write a response to the letter from that perspective and objectively. Remain detached from the fact that this is your personal issue — remember, a perfect stranger has just mailed this letter to you. Once you (the guru/expert) has replied fully to the letter, send it in the mail. Once more, to your own address. Again, disregard the issue and allow your subconscious to do with it what it will over the period that the letter is in transit back to you. Upon receipt of the expert’s reply back in your own mail box, either completely take action on the advice given in the letter or finally decide that it’s all too hard and choose to not take action in this area of your life at all.

We have more objectivity available to us than we know when it comes to decision making. Often it’s purely a matter of asking the right questions to gain access to the answers that are right for us. Whenever you’re stuck with, “I don’t know”, ask the question, “What would you do if you did know?” That almost always works to provide a solution. Another one of those powerful questions is “What would you do if you knew that you could not fail?” It takes away those doubt thoughts that creep in at the moment that we come up with a vision for a successful future.

Exercises like the ones above, and particular questioning techniques, can support us by removing us from the issue at hand and give an ability to look at it from a distance so that we can relate to it more objectively and in a detached manner, thereby getting unstuck and back into momentum.

Most times we are too close to something and cannot see wood for trees or we have past-based thoughts tied in with a current scenario. Find any way that you can to take yourself away from that kind of mind-play and allow yourself to be ruthlessly honest about what your next step needs to be.

Thea Westra is the author of “Time For Your Life: 365 Stepping Stones”. Make the decision to change! We often achieve our goals by taking small steps and practicing every day. That principle applies to achieving your dreams for the future too. Take more baby steps and more often. In our fast-paced lives small, achievable steps in your desired direction will get you there!

Getting Unstuck And Back Into Momentum by Thea Westra – Forward Steps is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.forwardstepsblog.com.

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I was just thinking about a piece of advice that we see around the place so often. It’s the one which says, when you like or dislike something about another person, it is usually a reflection of an attribute that you like or dislike about yourself, simply being mirrored back to you.

I ran through my mind to consider which people I most admired and what I most liked about them.

I then thought of any people who annoyed me, and what aspects about them grated on me. I was curious to see what could do with a little more “work” on my part!

While doing the latter, I realized that some of those attributes are not part of my life today, rather they are from my past. A couple of the things that I did not like about particular people are not things that describe me now, yet they do describe some of the ways that I used to be.

I concluded (and this is important), that those elements from my past, were likely parts of me for which I’d not yet forgiven myself.

Which is precisely the reason that they are still “alive”, today, and are instantly activated when I meet someone who demonstrates those behaviors. It reminded me of the terrific title of a book I once read, “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die“.

In my mind, it then naturally follows, that in order to improve all my relationships (including the one I have with myself), and to move them to a new level, I have some work to do on forgiving myself, on clearing away any “charge” associated with those “pieces” of myself.

On my computer desktop, I have a question which asks, “Are you willing to let go of the thoughts, situations, people and actions that are keeping you where you are?” An important question because I know that, sometimes, we avoid “looking” and opening up to the truth about ourselves. We can so fiercely resist change!

Knowing that life will always mirror back to us what is happening inside us, it’s imperative that we recognize what’s at work in our subconscious, getting to the source of what’s causing the results that we produce in our life.

“Once we are in touch with our inner workings and can see the origin/source of our ‘automatic reactions’ (as opposed to our more conscious responses), we’ll know exactly where we need to be doing our work.”

The first step is always awareness and a willingness to “be” with “what is”. Only through acceptance, of every part of us, can we be open to effecting change and taking on a new “way of being”, refreshing how we interpret the events in our life.

What we resist, persists. When we push away and reject any part of ourselves, or are unwilling to accept a possible truth about our life and about ourselves, then we will magnify its effect on our day to day experiences.

We continue to “collect more evidence” for what we believe to be true! So, if our belief is one that does not support our goals, we will only entrench and compound that belief as our absolute truth and, we sometimes think, that it cannot be any other way. Thereby, keeping us stuck or it has us spinning our wheels in the sand!

Once we do become aware of something that needs a bit of work (something that wants forgiveness or clearing) and we shove it aside, then we can be certain it will keep popping up for us until we clean it up.

There are so many tools available for removing the blockages, that might get in the way of us achieving in certain areas of our life. One of the fastest, that I love to use, is tapping.

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There’s a link, taking you to my newest video for you, at the end of this post.

Before that, I’d like to introduce you to two wonderful free training opportunities with The Tapping Solution And Calling In The One.

NOW, I’m not a psychic and don’t pretend to know exactly what’s going on in your life, yet I do know one thing…

If stress, anxiety and overwhelm are not controlled properly… they have dire consequences on your life.

I suggest watching this video. It’s life life changing information that you need to know about…

The Tapping Solution

ALSO, chances are, that at least half (and possibly more) of you are SINGLE and wishing you weren’t! Here’s a solution that’s great!

Katherine Woodward Thomas & Claire Zammit, Ph.D., creators of the nationally acclaimed “Calling In The One” 7-Weeks to Attract Your Soulmate Online Course, offer a proven step-by-step program.

It teaches men & women how to clear away the inner obstacles to love and “call in” the relationship of their dreams.

For the past five years, “Calling In The One” has led thousands to the relationship they want.

To learn more about this course, visit…

Calling In The One

I think the course is great for couples too, simply to renew your relationship with each other, and gain some fresh perspectives.

Enjoy my newest video, with 48 Life Lessons from the book “How To Create Your Future”…

How To Create Your Future Video

Be sure to check out each of the sites, above. I know you’ll benefit greatly.

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See the new video with 48 Life Lessons from “How To Create Your Future”.

16 world-class authors and teachers have each contributed an outstanding lesson on various topics such as setting goals, manifesting money, creating a magnetic personality, increasing your brain power, and simply being happy, no matter what.

Download your own copy of “How To Create Your Future” at the video absolutely free & start your mind power training today!

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I just bought myself a copy of The Path Book I: Spirit and Mind and …I will also get a copy of the The Path Book II: Mind and Body when that comes out on Kindle.

The Path is the result of asking the fundamental questions of life, and then digging deep for the answers.

Even if you’re a complete novice, The Path teaches you basic science, eventually building upon it to give you deep understanding of the very latest, explosive findings in genetics, neuroscience, game theory, communications theory, applied psychology, anthropology and more.

Eric was fortunate to receive feedback, photographs and other information from some of science’s greatest living minds, and spent years painstakingly illustrating and presenting all that he found. University professor Dr. Vicki Swier graciously vetted all the information as well, to ensure its accuracy.

The Path condenses the essence of three dozen books, several hundred lectures, and as many academic papers, bringing you the condensed, deepest, most immediately useful kernels of scientific discovery available – secret research which is so new it has never reached the mainstream public.

Central to “The Path” is the theme of habits, and how to master them. Sigmund Freud once said, “Biology is destiny,” but that’s only part of the equation. “HABIT is destiny,” master your habits and you master your destiny. “The Path” will teach you how, better than any book that has ever existed before.

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“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is-I will form good habits and become their slave.” -Og Mandino

“Some habits, say researchers, are more important than others because they have the power to start a chain reaction, shifting other patterns as they move through our lives. Keystone habits influence how we work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate. Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transforms everything.” -Charles Duhigg

There are three basic characteristics that keystone habits all share, and if you look for these characteristics, you can figure out which parts of your life can become leverage points for success. Read about those at “The Right Habits”.

This post was inspired by my friend Cindy Cullen who sent me a blog post, titled “How to Form Good Habits”. A good read, if you have a few moments.

Cindy recommends HabitForge and you can take advantage of her generous coupon code, which is – CindyCullen The coupon box comes up near the end, seconds before you’re about to pay! I decided to go with the carefree paid option. Gosh, $7.46 for a full year of transformation. Aren’t we worth that?

“Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.” -Warren Buffet

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This year’s April Fool joke is postponed until next year. Next year’s April Fool joke is also postponed, until the year following.

Aaargh, the Procrastination Monster is here!

Did you catch last week’s message?

TODAY, we get to see a more vulnerable side to Natalie.

She shares more about her personal story of ups and downs, leading to her current massive success & happiness.

Best of all…

She shares one of her tactics, a small change in thinking, which made a huge difference in her life.

Watch Episode 82 of The Inspiration Show…

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Natalie is so genuine & down-to-earth, she’s truly dedicated to helping others achieve.

Oh yes, and…

If the video at that link doesn’t play for you, please clap your hands 3 times while chanting “I believe”, before trying to open it again. lol

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