Chapter 2
You Are Here To Enrich The
World
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Today's Empowering Quote
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in
order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater
vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You
are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself
if you forget that errand."
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
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Today's Empowering Question
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"What can I do to best help the largest
number of people?
Why should I?"
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Today's Fast Session
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A lot of people ask me how I got into
such a unique
profession, how this form of communication got started, how
our products got their start.
As we all regularly should, toward the
end of 1996, I
asked myself the question, what do I want to do with the
rest of my life?
For me, it wasn't unlike the situation
that Tom Hanks'
character in the 1999 movie, 'The Green Mile' was faced with.
To see the similarity, you need some
background:
The bulk of the story takes place in
1935, during the
Depression, in a southern maximum-security prison. Paul
Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the head guard on death row... the
last mile.
John Coffey is a new prisoner convicted
of raping and
murdering two young girls - sisters. He was sentenced to
die in the electric chair.
The thing is, he was innocent.
John wasn't retarded, but if his IQ
were measured on a
standard test today, it would probably be very low. He was
black, nearly 7 feet tall, and easily weighed over 300
pounds. His muscles had muscles.
He was found sitting on a small
riverbank with both girls
in his arms, screaming over and over, "I tried, but I
couldn't take it back."
So he didn't exactly get a fair trial.
But what made the story so incredible
was John's special
gift...
He had the ability to heal other
people. He performed
literal miracles. He would take a person's infection or
disease into his own body and then eliminate it by opening
his mouth, and what looked sort of like black flies would
fly out by the thousands and dissipate. He even brought a
mouse, 'Mr. Jingles,' back from the dead.
The process completely exhausted him
temporarily, but the
person (or mouse) would be completely healed.
When he was found with the girls, he
was trying to tell
people that he tried to bring the girls back to life, but
he "couldn't take it back."
Learning of John Coffey's gifts,
benefiting from them
personally and witnessing other healings, Paul Edgecomb
went into John's cell a couple days before his scheduled
execution and had the following dialog:
"John, tell me what you want me to
do... you want me to
take you out of here... just let you run away and see how
far you can get?"
John replied, "Why would you do such a
foolish thing?"
Paul answered, "On the day of my
judgment, when I stand
before God, and he asks me why did I kill one of his true
miracles, what am I going to say? That it was my job?"
John answered back, "You tell God, the
Father, that it was
a kindness that you done... I know you're hurtin' and
worryin'. I can feel it on ya. But you ought to quit on
it now. I want it to be over and done with. I do. I'm
tired, boss. I'm tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a
sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of not having anybody to be
with to tell me where we's goin' to, comin' from or why."
He continued, "Mostly I'm tired of
people being ugly to
each other. I'm tired of all the pain I'm feeling in the
world. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass
in my head all the time. Can you understand?"
Paul could do nothing to change this.
So it was done... and he had to live
with the execution of
John Coffey for the rest of his life.
I felt that I was faced with a similar
question.
A decade after I created the first
audiotapes that changed
me and changed what I was able to manifest in my life, I
ultimately recognized it as a tool that could potentially
help millions change their destinies in so many ways.
So ten years after my own
metamorphosis, the work began.
And 6 years later, thinkrightnow.com is
the most popular
self-help product site on the planet.
Why?
Because the products work.
In working with people all over the
world, I believe more
firmly than ever in the ability in each of us to create the
lives we want and enrich the world in the process, as
President Wilson said.
John Coffey quit. Circumstances
made it nearly impossible
for his life to improve or for him to use his gifts to help
those who needed them the most.
But that isn't you. And that
isn't me. You may hide from
your choices, seeing them as something scary, but they
don't have to be. Practically all your daily decisions can
have tremendous power to transform you and your life into
something truly spectacular. There are millions of people
alive who are living dream lives...
You can be one of them, no matter how
old or young you are.
My purpose now is to empower others so
that they can
create a continual process of growth in the world. It's
working.
Remember, everything you do will ring
in eternity. When
you have a bad day, it could affect people for many
centuries to come.
So you owe it not only to yourself, but
also to the future
of your family, your friends and the entire human race to
grow and share all your gifts.
Maybe your gifts and skills are modest,
but to hide them,
to not develop and share them, whatever they are would be a
great tragedy.
Six years ago, I wondered how I could
live with myself if
I didn't do what I knew would improve the lives of so many.
I knew I couldn't.
Take time to reflect today and every
day on what your life
could mean expanded out over the decades and centuries.
No matter how much or how little time
on earth you have
left, you can be a great contributor and potentially a
catalyst for positive change around you... and thus around
the world, possibly for centuries to come.
So when you are ever tempted to feel
bored or uninspired,
chew on that for a while.
It should get your juices flowing.
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Today's Winning Beliefs
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-- I'm making the most of my life now
and every day.
-- I am committed to living my life with passion
-- I'm using my unique gifts to enrich myself and others
-- I'm making myself worth more each and every day
-- I believe in the future of the human race
-- I bring out the best in others
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