I had the privilege of being invited by Dr Joe Vitale (from the movie The Secret) to speak at his Attract Wealth seminar. This was a dream come true for me.

I got to hang out and make friends with Dr. Joe and many other awesome speakers including Joe Sugarman and Wendi Friesen.

The seminar participants learned heaps and reported to me that my presentation was one one of the highlights of the seminar. Joe blogged about it here.

Here are some photographs from the event.

Joe Vitale and Bruce Muzik

Wendi Friesen giving it her all

Joe Sugarman and Bruce Muzik

I used to joke to myself that I’d know when I had made it as a speaker when I could get up on stage and speak in my CROCS (those great looking beach sandals). Well, it happened…

I hurt my foot Kitesurfing in the Caribbean over Christmas, so the only shoes that were comfortable enough for me to wear were my CROCS. I guess I’ve made it!

On stage in my CROCS!

Thanks to Mark Ryan, Wendi Friesen and Joe Vitale for making one of my dreams (speaking with the teachers from the Secret) come true.

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Have you been watching the news lately?

Are you feeling a little uncertain about your future because the banks are breaking; financial markets are crashing and the headlines say that the world is going to hell in a hand basket?

Maybe you find yourself worrying about your future, or are considering cancelling your holiday because you’re not sure if your next paycheck is a sure thing…

Well, I’d like to share a very powerful strategy for ensuring that no matter what happens in the world, you remain in the driver’s seat – positive, powerful and prosperous.

Credit Crisis? What Credit Crisis?

I found out about the credit crunch a few days after the rest of the world did. Because I haven’t owned a television in 5 years and I don’t read the newspaper (unless I’m in it ), I’m often unaware of what is going on in the world until I need to know.

Now, you might be thinking that this is a little irresponsible of me. After all, as responsible citizens, surely it’s our duty to stay up to date on current affairs, is it not?

Well, allow me to share my reasoning behind my selective ignorance.

Becoming the Gatekeeper

Having spent years studying how the mind works, I’m very aware that 1) either I am programming my mind or 2) I am allowing somebody or something else to program it for me…

If you are watching the television, listening to the radio and reading the newspapers, chances are that YOU are not deciding what is going into your mind – you’re allowing the media to decide for you!

No matter how many times you tell yourself that you are smart and can discern between fact and fiction – feeding yourself with negativity is impacting you subconsciously – without you even noticing.

And as you know, the mass media makes most of its money off bad news, because bad news is what sells newspapers, keeps you glued to the TV screen and listening to the radio.

In short, bad news is what makes money.

When was the last time you watched the news and felt fantastic afterwards? Probably not often, right?

We’ve been lied to. Society has led us to believe that being informed is critical to our success. Well, I’d argue that this depends on the kind of information you inform yourself with.

I broadly categorize TWO kinds of information: ‘Relevant information’ and ‘Irrelevant information’.

Most of the information in the news is totally irrelevant and does not support you becoming a more successful person. Yet, most of us soak it up as if it were air, essential to our survival.

I’m here to suggest that perhaps – just perhaps, you don’t need the news to be successful.

If you’ve attended one of my Designer Life seminars, you’ll already know that your THOUGHTS and EMOTIONS determine your ACTIONS. In turn, your ACTIONS determine your RESULTS in life.

So, if you are constantly feeding your mind fear driven thoughts and emotions (from exposure to the mass media), your ACTIONS and therefore your RESULTS are going to reflect this. You’re going to make choices based on fear, rather than making choices based upon where you DO want to go and what you REALLY WANT from life.

By making choices designed to avoid some kind of fear or pain, you actually give your subconscious mind an instruction to move you closer towards that fear and pain, because your mind cannot conceive a negative.

e.g. Try NOT to think of yourself lying in a hammock listening to your favorite CD with the cool breeze moving through your hair… You had to picture it to NOT think about it, right?

So, by watching the news, reading the newspapers and listening to the radio, you are actually instructing your subconscious mind to show you more of what you read and hear on the news – the things you actually don’t want…

Given that most news broadcasts are filled with bad news, you’re definitely not helping yourself like this.

Are you beginning to see what a powerful effect the media has on your mind and your life?

AND no matter how smart you are, do not underestimate its impact on your subconscious mind. Here’s why…

Contrary to popular opinion, you are not in control of your mind…

My wife was sharing our ‘media fr.ee’ way of life with a colleague last week. Her colleague was shocked to hear that we don’t keep up with the news and responded by saying that she should learn to control her mind and just block out the information that was negative.

Yes, that would be a great idea if it were actually that simple, but in order to choose what information is negative or not, you first have to READ it, WATCH it or LISTEN to it!

Unfortunately, just by reading or listening to the news, you FORCE your mind to make PICTURES in your imagination of the things you’re reading about or listening to. Your mind has to make these pictures in order to understand the content you are reading or listening to.

As you’ll remember from last week’s email, your mind is programmed by the pictures you feed it and these pictures tend to become your reality.

So, just by skimming the news, your subconscious mind is absorbing all the things you are reading.

Unless, of course, you’re watching TV…

When you’re watching TV, your mind doesn’t have to make up pictures, because the television conveniently provides the pictures for you.

Whether you like it or not, the pictures you watch on television enter your subconscious mind subliminally and over time, with repeated exposure, these images become programmed deep within your subconscious and eventually manifest in your reality.

This would be a great thing if all the television we watched was empowering and inspiring…

However, continuous exposure to this kind of negative programming has to manifest itself in your life in some form, through the actions you take, in your financial life or in your body (in the form of ill health).

The effect of our programming is compounded when you consider that we are all vibrational beings i.e., that we are all made up of vibrating energy and we attract circumstances that match our vibrations we subconsciously emit.

If we are subconsciously emitting the vibration of the news we see on TV, that’s what we’ll attract.

My intention is not to put down the mass media, but rather to drive home the point that if you are not consciously programming your mind, the media probably is…

And the more you let the media decide how you feel and act, the more you’ll end up creating a life that you actually don’t want…

Do you really need to know the daily blow by blow updates on the details of which bank just collapsed and how many people were made redundant this week or how the property prices are set to collapse etc?

Of course not…

I’m not suggesting that you stay totally ignorant of what’s going on in the world, but I am suggesting that YOU become the GATEKEEPER to your mind i.e. YOU decide what you allow into your mind and what you won’t allow into your mind, rather than letting the media decide for you.

How To Stay In The Driver’s Seat

My recommendation is not a subtle one.

I wholeheartedly encourage you to take the plunge and throw out your TV, cancel your newspaper subscription and put the radio in the attic (just in case you hear that I’m going to be interviewed on it!) – at least until you’ve given your mind some time to recover from years of mental abuse…

I challenge you to try it for just 1 month.

If after 1 month, you find your life has not improved dramatically, feel free to bring the TV back, but I doubt you’ll want to when you experience the benefits of not having one.

Seriously, by cleaning up your mind like this, you’ll be cleaning up your life and you’ll create the space to fill it with inspiring content – content that actually makes a difference.

When YOU begin feeding your mind (instead of the media feeding it), you become liberated, a free thinker, and nobody can control you without you consciously giving them permission to.

Then life becomes really fun because YOU get to choose what your mind is programmed with and ultimately, where your life goes.

Suggestion For A Liberated Mind

Assuming you do decide to take me up on my challenge and throw out the TV, here are some suggestions for how to fill your time now that the TV, Radio and newspapers are gone.

1) Create a fitness routine. Regular exercise makes your brain release endorphins, which are chemicals that make you feel happy. Not to mention all the other positive side effects of exercise.

2) Create a morning ritual to ensure that you begin every day feeling inspired. I listen to my Relaxation For Manifestation every morning to help me feed my mind with powerful pictures of my goals. This is a great way to consciously CHOOSE what pictures you want to feed your mind.

By the way, if you ever worry about money, that is a sure sign that you are carrying around limiting beliefs about your ability to earn. Make sure you listen to the Relaxation For Wealth, which I designed to subconsciously re-program your mind to attract wealth.

3) Begin filling your mind with information that actually benefits you. Try Success University for an amazing personal development library or Lumosity for some Brain games that the whole family can play and that will make your mind sharper and your memory more powerful.

4) Adele, my wife, has a ‘get up and go show’ every morning – a selection of music, dancing and general frivolity. By the time she arrives at work she is bouncing off the walls. How can you create your own morning routine that sets you up for success?

5) Do the things that you enjoy. Begin a project that inspires you. I met a woman the other day so excited about restoring her 1964 Cadillac. What’s your passion?

Doing activities you love will positively contribute to your quality of life and peace of mind – no matter what the financial climate of the day…

Take It Slow

Lastly, here are some guidelines for maximizing your chance of a total recovery from negative thought viruses.

- Before you go to bed at night, find some time to focus on being grateful for EVERYTHING you have in your life right now.

- Don’t hang around people who talk about how bad things are. Find positive people to rub off on you.

- Be generous, to yourself and to others. I recommend tithing 10% of your income to a charity that you believe in. Its counterintuitive in this ‘financial climate’, but it tends to open you up emotionally to let abundance in.

- Treat your friend’s opinions with a pinch of salt until you have actually THOUGHT about them and decided whether or not you want to see your world in their way.

- When you look in the mirror in the morning, tell yourself how much you love yourself. This will begin building your self image and when you love yourself, nothing that anyone says on the news can affect you for long.

The Future

As global citizens, we need to stop picturing how bad things are in the world and start focusing on how we want the world to be.

Now, more than ever, is the time to begin spreading possibility into your world and who better to start it than you and I.

NEW WORLD DAY

So, in the spirit of making my own difference, I am declaring the 29 October 2008, NEW WORLD DAY. Whose authority do I have to do this? Only my own, and I’m asking that you join me for 1 minute on 29 October 2008 at 16:00 GMT (17:00 South Africa Time, 08:00 California Time) to visualize our world as YOU’D LIKE it to be.

Put that date and time in your calendars and I’ll send you an email an hour before to remind. If you’re not on this mailing list and received this email forwarded by someone else, go to www.designer-life.com and sign up.

Please help me spread the word by forwarding this email to as many people as you feel inspired to.
Till next week, keep imagining the world the way you want it.

Your partner in success,

Bruce

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P.P.S. I know that this has been a longer post than usual and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. Please add your comments below.

P.P.P.S. The fastest way to re-program your mind is through your imagination, so make sure you check out the Relaxation For Manifestation and Relaxation For Wealth. They really do change the playing field of your life.

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I just found out that I have come in as one of two runners up in the XL 2008 Extraordinary Lives award!

The winner was Dr John DeMartini, so I am in good company…

XL Results Foundation is a organization that consists of Social Entrepreneurs committed to giving back. Each year, 100 members (out of 4000 or so) are nominated for the award. Nominees are extraordinary people who are making a difference in the world.

So, you can imagine what an honor it is not only to be nominated, but to also come in second place!

Read the XL press release.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me and helped me achieve this honor. Needless to say, I am blown away!

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I don’t want to set this up all on my own, so I’m looking for some people willing to donate a little of their time to help me make this project come alive and touch as many people’s lives as we can.

Here’s who we need so far:

1. I’m looking for a techie with Drupal experience who would like to help me set up the site (design, layout, functionality etc…)?
2. I’m looking for several people to transcribe my manifesting videos I’ll be making for the site. These videos will teach you how to manifest, so this will be a learning experience for anyone who takes this job on.
3. I also need someone with PR expereince willing to help promote the site to the media, so we can ge tas many people learning as possible.

If any of these resonate with you, please email my assistant, Leraunt, at info[at]designer-life[dot]com and he’ll pass your email on to me.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Bruce

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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.

Last weekend, I gave a talk about the Mindset Of Wealth at the International Convention Center in Cape Town. The audience was so taken with the concept that your wealth begins in your mind, that the organizers rearranged the speaker schedule so that I could speak again – this time on how to find your ‘path of least resistance’ to wealth. I’d like to share some of what I spoke about with you today, so you too can benefit from this valuable information.

HOW TO MAKE WEALTH CREATION EASY

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’s right for them because of who they are, and may be very, very wrong for you.

SO, HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO TO LISTEN TO?

I recently had the privilege of sharing a stage with Roger James Hamilton, the man who created the Wealth Dynamics system – a system for finding your path of least resistance to wealth. His system takes all the guess work out of HOW to claim your wealth. With that in mind, let’s look at how you can discover your path of least resistance to wealth.

Having studied hundreds of the world’s wealthiest people, Roger discovered something very interesting… All of them created their wealth in only one of EIGHT WAYS.

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 too you are naturally predisposed to creating wealth in a particular way – a way that is the most natural (and most effortless) for you.

The reason why so many people struggle to create wealth is that they are not following their path of least resistance. Let me explain…

Imagine if Tiger Woods changed careers and moved into Rugby! He would be crushed! His body is just not built for rugby. In the same way, Roger found that many of the billionaires who had created great wealth, lost it again when they moved out of their Wealth Profile.

So, what are the eight Wealth Profiles?

1. The Creator
2. The Star
3. The Supporter
4. The Deal Maker
5. The Trader
6. The Accumulator
7. The Lord
8. The Mechanic

Over the following weeks, I’ll share about each profile in greater detail, but for now, what you need to know is that each profile creates wealth in a particular way and what’s more, each profile has a unique series of steps to unlocking their wealth.

So, if creating wealth has been an uphill battle for you, then chances are high that you are operating outside your wealth profile. If that is the case, you are robbing yourself of your wealth.

The minute you understand your natural path to wealth (your Wealth Profile) you’ll also know exactly where to focus your efforts and whose advice to listen to and whose advice to ignore.

Once I understood my wealth profile (I’m a Creator profile) and began implementing the specific steps each Creator needs to take in order to claim their wealth, doors swung open for me and my wealth multiplied.

HOW CAN YOU FIND OUT YOUR PROFILE?

If you want to find out your path of least resistance to wealth, I recommend you take your Wealth Dynamics profile test online. It takes 15 – 30 minutes, costs $100 and is worth every penny because it could save you years of heartache, wasted time and wasted money barking up the wrong financial tree.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll explore Roger’s innovative system more deeply and find out how to apply your profile in your life.

Till then, have another miraculous week.

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One of my 2007 goals was to travel through Asia. It has just manifested – albeit two weeks into 2008.

Today, I met with Roger James Hamilton, author and creator of Wealth Dynamics. Roger asked be if I would be interested in going on a speaking tour of Asia in March to promote the XL Results Foundation – a foundation of entrepreneurs dedicated to giving back. As a Life Member of this extraordinary foundation, I was thrilled at the opportunity to share it with others.

When I asked him where he had in mind, he replied “Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and India!”

I tried to conceal my delight and blurted out “Look no further. You have found the man for the job!”

Minutes later, I was marveling at how the Universe delivers my intentions to me as soon as I let go of them. Over and over, this principle has proven itself to me.

So how does this concept of letting go work? In order to explain this, I am going to have to get a little metaphysical on you…

See, when I created my 2008 goals, I reviewed my 2007 goals. Rather than just transfer my unfulfilled 2007 goals to 2008, I decided to let go of most of them. Its not that I no longer wanted them to happen, its just that I was no longer attached to them happening.

In letting go of them, I was no longer wondering how or when they were going to come about. Said in another way, I left the Universe alone to bring about the opportunities for me to get my goals. I cannot stress the power of this enough. If you can let go of having to have your goals manifest, your chances of achieving them are so much higher.

I know it seems counter intuitive to set goals and let go of them, but try it and you will see that it works. In letting go of your goal, you are not dismissing it, but rather, trusting that it is on its way to you – so much so that you can let go of it. Am I making sense?

A common mistake people make is confusing letting go with not doing anything. Letting go does not mean that you do not act on your goal. Quite the opposite. It means that you act without being attached to that action producing your desired outcome.

Here is an easy way to tell if you are authentically unattached to your goals. If you can honestly say to yourself that you would be perfectly happy whether or not your goal manifested, then you have probably let go.

So, perhaps you want to take a look at your goals for 2008 and do whatever you need to do to get yourself to the point where you are unattached to your goals. Then, watch them effortlessly unfold in front of you.

Till next time, have a miraculous day…

I met Jaime at a Train The Trainer course in January 2007 and by the end of the course, I was thinking “Jeez, this woman is awesome! I have to lead a seminar with her.” She seemed to light up when I mentioned the idea, so we created a Blueprinting CD together to manifest co-leading a seminar. I listened to the CD for a month, and 4 months later, we led our first seminar together. Easy Peezy.

A Blueprinting CD is a CD I record especially to manifest a BIG goal that is important to me. I generally listen to them for a month each and then move on and make another one. Usually, my goal manifests in some form within 3 months. Blueprinting is really the most powerful way to manifest anything as far as I am concerned. I have not found another method that tops it for speed, magic and effortlessness.

Another 1st was that the Designer Life seminar came of age and grew to a 2 day extravaganza of fun learning and manifesting miracles. Ta Da!

Here is some of the feedback we got…

“The Designer Life Workshop is definitely NOT just another Seminar – this one is special. The information is presented in many different formats and Bruce & Jaime’s enthusiasm is through the roof. I loved it and gained so much clarity in order to live a bigger life. The teaching style used advanced methods to help increase retention up to 80% so I can guarantee that this will not be filed in another worthless notebook. Thanks so much for this life changing event.” – Clint Gray, London

“It was mind-blowing. I discovered how much of an impact I can have on people and the self-esteem boost really made me feel happy. I feel more organized and more confident about my life journey and I leave with tools that I can use. I not only got to meet so many vibrant people who I deeply connected with but I got to release many insecurities that have been brewing for a ling time. Thank you so much!” – Sophie Grenham, UK

“Dear Bruce & Jaime. Totally blown away with the level of professionalism you demonstrated over the course of the weekend. It is one thing to have great content (which you have!) and another thing entirely to deliver it in a way that it can be absorbed into the hearts and minds of participants. You make a great team on stage & your energies compliment each other brilliantly. I look forward to continue to watch your stars soar!” – Damien Senn, London

Wow, even as I re-read these, I get gooseflesh.

Keep on rockin’

A few years ago, I moved into Guguletu, a black South African shanty town, as the only white man in a community of 100000 black Africans. I did this to conquer my fear of black South Africans which I had been conditioned with during the apartheid years. I lived there for 6 months and it was one of the turning points of my life. I am currently writing a book telling the story of my amazing time there.

Last New Years Eve, a bunch of friends and I were goalsetting at the beautiful Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. One of my goals for 2007 was that my book is a New York Times bestseller.

A few months ago I recieved an email from a company called www.thankgodi.com. They are realeasing a book of gratitude short stories and asked me to contribute to the book. I was on tour in South Africa when I received the email and only got around to answering it last week. I called Amanda at www.ThankGodI.com and she told me that they already had hundreds of stories and books were filling fast, and that the first book was already in editing.

I was dissapointed, thinking that I had missed my chance at having my story featured in the book, however Amanda asked me to tell her my story to her anyway. When I came to the end, she said to me “Would you like to be featured in the 1st book alongside John DiMartini and Michael Beckwith (both from the movie The Secret)? I like your story so much, I’ll find a way to squeeze your story into the 1st book, even though it is full. This book is going to be even bigger than The Secret!”

I was awestruck. It then dawned on me that when this book does become bigger than The Secret, it will be a New York Times no.1 bestseller and my story will be featured in it! Remembering my New Year’s resolution to have a New York Times bestseller, I got goosebumps all over my body.

I teach manifesting and I experience miracles on a weekly, if not daily basis, but I am still stunned every time they happen.

Watch this space for more details. Rock on, the Universe!

Perhaps this was because I was also co-leading the seminars with the wonderful Wendi Friesen, the world’s most widely known hypnotherapist. Wendi runs the biggest hypnosis resource on the internet, www.wendi.com. The story of how we came to work together is so magical…

In October 2006, I registered to attend a ‘Train The Trainer’ course in Los Angeles. I thought to myself, “Seeing as I am going to California, I’d just love to lead a workshop or two there…”

Well, two weeks later, Wendi came to London and I attended one of her seminars here. I emailed her the next day to say thank you for a great seminar and also told her about my intrest in Quantum Physics. To my delight, she emailed me back saying that she would love to learn Quantum Physics from me and asked me if I would be interested in co-leading a seminar in California with her! I immediately wrote back and said, “How about leading 2 seminars?”

We ended up leading two seminars together, one in San Deigo and one in Sacramento. They were such fun! We hired a beach house in San Diego and spend 4 wonderful days there. Life is good and I have a great new friend!

What I learned from this is the power of Gentle Wishing, a distinction I am going to be writing about a lot more in the future.

Here is a fun video we made together for one of our seminars… Enjoy.
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