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WOW! Now this is something I have been waiting a long time for.

Roger is the creator of the amazing Wealth Dynamics system. If you are in South Africa this weekend (20-22 June 2008) make sure you get along to BOTH his evening talk and the entrepreneur breakfast the next day.

Book your seat here.

What an exciting weekend I just had. I’ve just got home from my first ever book signing at the Agape Spiritual Centre in Los Angeles.

That’s me in the middle holding my book (with 9 of the other authors) >>>

In December 2006, on New Year’s Eve, I met up with 4 of my close friends and we set our goals for 2007. One of my goals was to have a book published and have it go to #1 on the NY Times bestseller list. Well, the first part just got ticked off, now for the second…

The book, titled “Thank God I…” is a compilation of 47 inspirational short stories about regular people overcoming extraordinary circumstances. Each story is entitled “Thank God I…” e.g. “Thank God I Was Raped” and “Thank God I Went Bankrupt” etc…

My story in the book tells the tale of how I spent SIX months living as the only white man in an African township (shanty town). It just got published in a book called “Thank God I…”

My story is called “Thank God I Was A Racist” and is an honest account of how I overcame my racial conditioning that I inherited while growing up in apartheid South Africa by moving to Gugletu. Guguletu (population 100,000) is a shanty town 15 km outside Cape Town. After SIX months of living there as the only white man, any predjudice I had moving in was completely gone. It was a defining expereince in my life.

You can get yourself a copy at Amazon and read these 47 inspiring stories. We (the authors) need all the help we can get making this book reach #1 on the NY Times bestseller list, so please tell all your friends about it too and help us make this book a bestseller.

Master the Inner Game and the Outer Game of Money
with Bruce Muzik and Wendi Friesen.

Are you still struggling to make the kind of MONEY you would LOVE to be making?

Does creating WEALTH sometimes feel like an uphill battle?

Watch the recording of the FreeFlow Online Seminar here. 

In today’s world, everyone has a different opinion about how to become wealthy. Some teachers tell you to diversify your investments while others will tell you to FOCUS on one thing. Some teachers teach that property is the BEST investment vehicle, while others will tell you to BUY a franchise.

Everybody has a valid opinion and everybody thinks that their opinion is right. It probably is, but it is right for them because of who they are, and may be very, very wrong for you.
There Are Only EIGHT Paths To Wealth
Each one of us also has the potential to amass large amounts of wealth effortlessly, but only if we create it in a particular way. Just like Tiger Woods is naturally predisposed to playing golf, so you too are naturally predisposed to creating wealth in a particular way – a way that is the most natural (and most effortless) for you.

Join us, Bruce Muzik and Wendi Friesen for TWO hours of profound insight and straight talk about HOW you can become a person who attracts REAL wealth, without the struggle.

Wendi will teach you:

• How your childhood conditioning is still influencing your finances today.
• That you probably have a love / hate with money and what to do about it.

Bruce will teach you:

• How FLOW relates to making omney
• The EIGHT Wealth Profiles and how each profile creates wealth effortlessly.

PLEASE NOTE: You will NOT learn ANY new MONEY making techniques here.

You can BUY those in a bookstore. However, you WILL learn who you need to be and how you can CLAIM your WEALTH naturally, FREE from the struggle.

If you missed the FreeFlow Wealth Seminar that Wendi Friesen and I led, I’ve made it available for you to watch online here.

Hey,

I’m still in Los Angeles and I just finished FIVE days volunteering for my market competitors.

I donated my time, paid for an airplane ticket from London to California and flew 13 hours to get here to work for them for free.

Why would I do that, I hear you ask? Good question…

If you want to make a BIG difference in life and get highly paid for it, you need to get REALLY GOOD at whatever you do… One of the best ways to get really good at something is to learn from the best in your industry.

I flew to California to volunteer with what I believe to be the best personal development training company. For FIVE solid days, I worked 17 hour a day from 8am - 1am, carrying boxes, running errands and helping out.

What I learned about organizing seminars these last FIVE days would have taken me years of trial and error to figure out. I scored big time by helping them.

So %$firstname$%, are you still battling to get ahead?

Well, you too can get your hands dirty, and benefit from the years of experience that the masters of your industry have gained. Here’s how to do it.

HOW TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

1. Identify the top FIVE performing people or companies in your area of interest.
2. Figure out WHAT you could offer them in return for training you? Lead with your giving hand. Be more focused on what you can GIVE and you will find yourself GETTING more back than you expected.
3. Pick up the phone and call the person or company you want to learn from. Tell them that you’d like to help them out in return for some work experience or training.
4. Keep calling until someone says YES!
5. While you are helping your ‘mentor’ out, be sure to over deliver on value. Add as much VALUE as you can and you will create a powerful relationship with your ‘mentor’ that could open many doors.

Here’s another example of how I successfully got my hands dirty. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have been following my series of posts on INTUITION, you will want to listen to my intervew with Darren Eden below.

Last week, having just posted my last blog on Intuition, I received a call inviting me to a networking event.

Networking events are not my cup of tea and I usually decline these invitations, but something inside (do you think it was intuition?) urged me to go.

As I arrived, I introduced myself to the first man I saw. We got chatting and I asked him what he did for a living. He replied, “I teach people how to MASTER their INTUITION!”

His answer sent a tingle down my spine and I sensed that this was too synchronous an opportunity to pass up, so I did what I always do when faced with synchronicity – I took ACTION!

I asked him if he would teach you about “How to be more intuitive.” He agreed and I’ve posted the interview here.

Take a listen now – it’s fascinating.

The Darren Eden INTUITION interview:

Listen now or download the Darren Eden INTUITION Interview.

 Enjoy…

In last week’s lesson we learned about INSTINCT, and distinguished it as the natural process of ‘thinking without thinking.’ INTUITION on the other hand can be thought of as a super-natural process of ‘knowing without knowing.’

It’s super-natural because it occurs beyond the realm of what most people consider ‘normal’.

But, we both know that if you read these lessons each week, you are probably not interested in ‘normal’ things anyway!

INTUITION COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

Have you ever thought of someone and the next minute they call you on the phone?
Have you ever had a feeling that you should ‘do’ or ‘not do’ something, and then had that feeling confirmed? That’s INTUITION at play.

In a study of train crashes between 1950 and 1955, researchers discovered that on most days when accidents occurred, there were significantly less passengers on the trains.

In ONE crash, there were only NINE passengers on the train. Normally, that train averaged 65 passengers… So how come less people got on the train? Could it be that their INTUITION saved their lives?

Interestingly, in the weeks leading up to the Titanic disaster, many passengers cancelled and the Titanic sailed at only 58% capacity… Pretty cool, eh?

WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?

It’s difficult for me to stick to the speed limit when I ride a motorcycle that can do almost 300km/h (190 mph) in a heartbeat. Often, while riding, a thought pops into my head that there is a speed camera ahead.

Having learned to trust these thoughts, I immediately slow down. More often than not, a speed camera is hiding around the next bend…

Very often though, my mind is not RELAXED enough to hear my inner voice as my FIVE speeding fines last month testify to! A friend recently advised me that it would work out cheaper for me to remove my number plate and just pay the fines for not having a number plate!

YOU HAVE AN INTERNAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM…

and if you learn to recognize it is communicating with you, you’ll become a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Your INTERNAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM is INTUITIVE and behaves a bit like a GPS in a car. It is designed to GUIDE you to where you want to go with the least effort.

Read any biography of any successful person and they will make some kind of reference to a sixth sense or gut feeling. That’s their INTERNAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM at play.

THREE TIPS TO HELP YOU PERCEIVE YOUR INTUITION

1) Relax and listen…

To continue the metaphor of the GPS, most of us are driving with the radio up so loud that we cannot hear our GPS telling us where to go, so we stumble through life wondering why we feel lost so often.

However, if you make a habit of relaxing for 10 minutes sometime every day, you’ll notice you are more peaceful and will begin to just ‘know’ the right thing to do. You’ll also get more done, have more energy and achieve more of your important goals.

I use the Relaxation For Manifestation to help me relax and visualize my goals (www.RelaxAndAttract.com). It works. Try it.

2) Learn how your INTUITION communicates with you…

We all receive intuitive information in different ways. My wife sees pictures in her mind’s eye. I feel an ‘opening’ or ‘closing’ feeling in my heart area. Others hear a nagging inner voice…

Generally we receive our intuitive ‘hits’ in one or more of the three primary senses:

- Visual sense (getting a FLASH of inspiration),
- Auditory sense (hearing an inner voice) or
- Kinesthetic/Feeling sense (a gut reaction or inner knowing).

Notice which way you receive your intuitive information and it will help you become more aware of it.

3) Take responsibility for your life…

I could lead a THREE day seminar on this one alone! Until you begin to accept that you are responsible for how you EXPERIENCE your world, your INTUITION will be like a compass next to a magnet – spinning all over the place with no fixed direction.

Here’s a good place to start taking responsibility. Call the people you are avoiding calling and say what needs to be said to them. Set yourself an inspiring goal (so your internal GPS has a destination to guide you to) and begin taking action towards it.

CAN INTUITION MAKE YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL?

In a nutshell, YES!

Learning to trust my intuition has saved me from bad business deals, led me to great opportunities, helped me answer important questions and given me a competitive advantage in life. Jeez, it has even saved my life a few times.

One of my teachers, Dr. Tony Quinn (who I consider one of the most successful men I know), refuses to make any decisions without first checking in with his intuition. He says that his intuition is what made him a Billionaire.

In next week’s lesson, I’ll teach you some techniques for developing your INTUITION.

Till then, keep smiling, stay happy and remember to have fun…

Bruce

P.S. The Relaxation For Manifestation works like magic for manifesting your goals. Go get it at www.RelaxAndAttract.com. Tomorrow morning, when you listen to it, you’ll be so glad you did.

Your response to last week’s post on INTUITION was overwhelmingly positive, so this week we are going to delve deeper into this mysterious world. If you missed
last week, visit www.designer-life.com/blog to catch up.

INSTINCT vs. INTUITION

I’ve noticed a lot of lazy thinking and misinformation when it comes to INTUITION.

The New Age community are particularly quick to credit INTUITION to explain what is often INSTINCT.

So, let’s look at what the difference is…

My dictionary defines INSTINCT as “a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.” So what the dictionary is implying is that INSTINCT is both NATURAL and INNATE (a function of the intellect).

INSTINCT is not supernatural in any way. It’s just your unconscious mind rapidly computing millions of variables in the blink of an eye; what Malcolm Gladwell calls
‘thinking without thinking’ in his book “Blink”.

INTUITION, on the other hand, could be thought of as ‘knowing without knowing’. My dictionary defines it as “the direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process.” In other words, INTUITION does NOT involve any mental process.

So, we can loosely distinguish INSTINCT as a NATURAL process of rapid thought and INTUITION as a SUPERNATURAL process of knowing.

AN EXAMPLE OF INSTINCT – HOW I SURVIVED BEING MUGGED AT GUNPOINT!

In 2003, I arrived home at 1am on a dark, rainy night. As I got out of my car, two men approached me asking for a cigarette. I cheerily answered that I didn’t smoke and continued to lock my car.

Suddenly, one of the men grabbed my cell phone and before I knew it he was threatening to shoot me. Although he was not pointing an actual gun at me, he had his hand on the front of his belt and told me that he had a gun and would kill me if I tried to follow them. My attackers then turned and fled into the rainy darkness.

I STOOD IN SHOCK FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE MINUTES,

but was probably only a few seconds. My INSTINCT told me that my assailant was bluffing and that he did not have a gun. I had no logical evidence to support this theory, but before I knew what I was doing, I was running down a deserted street screaming for help as I chased my TWO attackers.

After a 300 meter lung-bursting sprint, I caught up to the thief who had my phone and I expertly rugby tackled him to the ground. Having never played rugby at school, I was particularly proud of myself for executing my first tackle with such style!

So there I was, lying on top of this man who had my phone, attacking my attacker. Up until this moment, my only experience of fist fighting was as a 12 year old when I got my glasses smashed in by the school bully.

I FELT A THUMP ON MY BACK…

as the second thief jumped on top of me and proceeded to grab my testicles with one hand while he attempted to choke me with the other! This was not going well…

What seemed like hours later, the guy on my back disappeared and I heard a groan underneath me. My neighbours had heard my screams for help and had come to my rescue. They kicked the crap out of my two assailants and retrieved my phone.

The thieves got away, probably more shocked by the whole experience than I was. One of the neighbours later confirmed that my attacker did not actually have a gun.

My INSTINCT was correct.

WHY THIS WAS INSTINCT, NOT INTUITION

Initially, I attributed ‘knowing’ that my attacker was bluffing to INITUITION. I was stunned at what I had done and thought that my ‘knowing’ came from some sixth sense.

In retrospect, my ‘knowing’ was clearly INSTINCT, not INTUITION. Here’s why…

I remember that there was something about my attacker’s voice that seemed uncertain, perhaps causing me to doubt what he was saying… something about the way his shirt hung under his hand where he was hiding his ‘gun’, did not look right… something about his posture made me think twice about believing that he actually had a gun.

In a split second, thinking without thinking, my mind computed all this information and reported to me that the odds were good that he did not have a gun. Before I knew it, I was sprinting into the darkness, chasing two ‘gunmen’.

I love this story, not only because it was a real personal victory for me (I got my phone back and ‘won’ my first street fight), but also because it so beautifully illustrates how powerful the unconscious mind actually is.

Your mind is SO powerful.

It is trained to be able to read situations, people’s faces and vocal inflections with deadly accuracy. Unfortunately, most of the time, we are too busy ‘thinking’ to hear its messages.

This is why I am so disciplined about making sure I relax every day. When I’m relaxed, the voice in my head shuts up and allows room for my unconscious mind to be heard.
I use my Relaxation For Manifestation to help me relax (http://www.relaxandattract.com/). Check it out, it’s an awesome tool.

So, this week, see if you can become aware of the signals that your unconscious mind is always giving you. Relaxing for TEN minutes a day will really help to clear your mind and hear your inner voice.

Next time, we’ll look at INTUITION and how it is completely different from INSTINCT.

Till then, chill out and have a relaxing week.

Bruce

What you are about to read may PUSH your buttons or EXCITE you, depending on how OPEN minded you are… Let’s see which it is.

In my early twenties, I met my first real African Sangoma (an African medicine man) while travelling through the country of Botswana. Not only was he a Sangoma, but he also trained others to become Sangomas.

His name was Brian and I had the privilege of being invited to spend THREE days living in his Sangoma ‘school’ where FOUR of his students were being trained to eventually practice as qualified Sangomas in their communities.

I never got over those three days and some of the things I witnessed are still pretty hard for me to explain using only logic and reason. For example…

THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN WATCH

A Sangoma is possibly the most revered member in an African tribe. As a Sangoma, you must be able to access your INTUITION to help diagnose an illness or ailment etc… To make sure that his students could do this, Brian had designed a test for them. Here’s what he did…

In the early hours of the African morning, while we were all sleeping, Brian sneaked out of his mud hut and hid his watch. During breakfast, while sitting around the campfire, Brian asked one of his students to go and fetch his watch.

The student respectfully asked, “Where is it, teacher?”
“Ask your Ancestors…” Brian replied.

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Last year, Roger Hamilton introduced me to a concept he calls ILR or the ‘Illusion of Limited Resource’.

We have all faced ILR from time to time, for example:

- When we don’t have enough money to do what we want to do.
- When we don’t have the know how to make something happen.
- When we don’t have the time to do something.

What most people do when faced with ILR is give up on their goal and return to their daily lives, citing their limitation as the reason they cannot live the kind of life they want to live.

All of your so called ‘limitations’ are actually ILLUSIONS.

- “I’ve got kids to think of!” = Illusion of Limited TIME or MOBILITY.
- “I can’t afford it!” = Illusion of Limited MONEY.
- “I don’t know how!” = Illusion of Limited KNOWLEDGE or SKILL.

People who use this kind of language don’t accomplish much. They don’t get to experience the excitement, adventure and joy of living a Designer Life because they don’t allow themselves to overcome their Illusion Of Limited Resource.

If YOU don’t have the MONEY, someone else does.

If you don’t have the TIME, someone else does.

If YOU don’t have the KNOWLEDGE, someone else does.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET CREATIVE

One of my best friends, a singer, recently bumped into ILR when she discovered that it was going to cost her R300,000 ($40,000) to record her debut album.Instead of giving up, she decided to do something CREATIVE. She decided to sell her album before it had been recorded. She called the album “Yet To Be” and when you buy one, you receive a demo CD and become a FUTURE OWNER of “Yet To Be”.

As a ‘Future Owner’, you get to actually help create the album by choosing which songs go on the album, by having your name listed in the artwork as a contributor and by helping choose the final album title. Pretty creative, don’t you think?

This amazing woman has now sold 1800 copies of an album that does not exist to people in 25 countries around the world. She needs to sell only 200 more before she reaches her financial target and the album will be shipped to the 2000 future owners in the next few months.

So, who is this resourceful woman? Her name is VERITY, and I just interviewed her (see video to the right).

You too can be a part of music history by becoming a ‘Future Owner’ at www.IAmVerity.com.

So, next time you find yourself facing some kind of limitation, just know that it is an illusion and ask yourself, “Who does have the resource I need and how can I access that resource from them?”

Just asking yourself this question will force your mind to think in a totally new way and come up with a creative solution.

So, till next week, get CREATIVE.

Bruce

This is the 4th in my series of lessons on finding your wealth effortlessly.

I was having coffee the other night with an old friend, Ash. He said something that startled me. “Bruce, I know you teach about creating wealth, but I always have ENOUGH TO GET BY, so wealth doesn’t interest me.”

I resisted the urge to grab Ash by the shoulders and shake some sense into him. Instead, I relied “Well, if you want to continue to just GET BY, then by all means, go ahead. But, if you want to live the ‘GOOD LIFE’ and really contribute to making the world a better place, you are going to need some money.”

Now, I’m the first to teach that money can’t buy you HAPPINESS. However, it CAN buy you some pretty cool things, like FREEDOM and TIME.

FREEDOM and TIME are things that Ash values highly, so why did he say that creating WEALTH didn’t interest him?

LIES, MYTHS and DECEIPT

Many of us were brought up to believe that making money has to be hard work - that it requires sacrifice or being unscrupulous. So if MONEY can’t buy you HAPPINESS and is going to require HARD WORK, SACRIFICE and possibly being UNSCRUPULOUS, then why would anyone waste their time trying to make money?

This is the BIG LIE that so many people LIKE Ash have bought into and it is this lie that is probably also keeping YOU financially stuck too. Why? Because if this lie is a part of your WEALTH BLUEPRINT (your unconscious beliefs around money), your unconscious mind, attempting to protect you, will not allow you anywhere near money for too long, before it creates a circumstance to make sure that you return to ‘just getting by’.

CREATING WEALTH DOES NOT HAVE TO BE HARD WORK

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