Reincarnation

WARNING: This post contains subject matter that is highly controversial, and might shake your beliefs. Please note that I offer my understanding with the purpose of helping you to clarify your thinking, and NOT to convince you of any new belief.

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Whether you believe in God or any particular religion such as Islamism, Hiduism, Christianity, etc. might matter less than whether or not you believe in reincarnation.

For example, Christians believe that if they lead a good life, they will be rewarded and go to Heaven. If not, well, Satan will be waiting for them.

Note: This is what I understand to be the mainstream or official doctrine of Christianity, although it might NOT be what Jesus himself was saying and teaching.

In other words, you get one shot at Heaven. If you screw up this life, well, you'll be spending Eternity in hell.

Reincarnation has a different twist; it's a cycle of birth and death, and until you are enlightened, you will keep going back to a physical existence in order to "learn your lessons."

Mother Teresa, for example, was a human being who became enlightened in her (last) lifetime, therefore she has freed herself from the perpetual birth and death cycle that most people are "trapped" in.

So reincarnation basically says that different souls are at different stages of evolution. Young souls that incarnate, don't understand much while older, more mature souls (who obviously have lived many more lifetimes) are wiser and understand more of life (although this understanding is subtle and unconscious).

This is why you might see a 30-year-old woman who is wiser than a 50-year-old man. It's not the number of years that counts, but the number of lifetimes they've incarnated (and the quality of learning during those lifetimes).

So it's likely that Mother Teresa was the incarnation of a soul that has lived many lifetimes before, and in THIS incarnation as Mother Teresa, she had enough wisdom and knowledge to be able to see through the body (of lepers) and see the reality of God. This enabled her to become enlightened.

So why does it matter whether or not you believe in reincarnation? There are two cases:

1. If you believe in reincarnation, then you would try to meditate in order to access the knowledge that has been learned and accumulated by your previous lifetimes.

2. If you do NOT believe in reincarnation, then you would try to read books and attend seminars to gain knowledge in THIS lifetime.

In other words, your belief or non-belief in reincarnation determines, to a certain extent, your learning strategy. Of course, meditating does not exclude reading books and attending seminars.

Perhaps more importantly, your position regarding reincarnation determines whether or not you fear death.

If you believe in reincarnation, then you necessarily believe that death doesn't exist because you are NOT your body. You are a soul that will survive the body and will reincarnate in another human body.

In other words, your body is like a shirt or dress that you take off, and then you wear another dress or shirt (and go to a different party).

So a person who died is simply a person who left a party, and is going to a different party.

For example, if a husband died and leaves behind his wife, then he simply went to another party and perhaps later on, his wife will go to that party too, and they'll be together once more.

Note: Of course, I wouldn't put it in those terms if I was talking to someone who just lost a dear relative or friend. Sensitivity to people's feelings is important.

So if you believe in reincarnation, you are more likely to NOT fear death, because you know the soul is eternal. Also, you are likely to focus on your spiritual evolution in this lifetime. Ultimately, if you are really serious, you want enlightenment so you really, really focus on your spiritual evolution.

However, if you do NOT believe in reincarnation, this means you believe that THIS life is all you got. So you would normally fear death more than the people who believe in reincarnation.

You would also focus more on having a pleasant physical experience because you believe that you will NOT come back to planet Earth. Once you die, you die forever.

What does all this have to do with "success"?

Well, success is defined by each person differently. Reincarnation believers might define success as "evolving spiritually" while reincarnation non-believers might define success as "accumulating riches and living a good, comfortable material life."

In short, reincarnation believers focus on "learning" while reincarnation non-believers focus on "earning" (money). The latter focus on earning money because only money can buy the stuff that makes for a pleasant physical life experience.

Of course, it's possible to learn and evolve spiritually WHILE creating prosperity, just as it's possible to focus on earning money while evolving spiritually.

My point is that reincarnation believers focus primarily on learning while reincarnation non-believers focus primarily on earning.

I wrote this post because up to this point, I talked about success secrets from the point of view of seeking abundance and wealth.

However, from now on, I will ALSO write about success secrets from the point of view of spiritual evolution. Yes, I care about your soul's evolution!

Obviously, spiritual evolution is far more important than financial wealth, because the spiritual knowledge and mastery than you gain in this lifetime, will positively affect your life experience in other lifetimes.

In other words, the spiritual treasure that you accumulate in this lifetime, will follow you in other lifetimes. The money you make in this lifetime, will NOT follow you in other lifetimes.

This doesn't mean money is not important. It is important, but it's critical to know that it's only relatively important, not absolutely important.

BMW audiobook CD for sale

I have great news! I just finished recording a 47-minute audiobook on the BMW workshop, which I've been teaching in various business schools and colleges since May 6, 2006.

Since many people from Asia, the U.S. (L.A., New York, etc.), Europe and other provinces in Canada, have been requesting the BMW material, I finally took the time to record, edit and produce an audiobook to share the BMW workshop with the rest of the world!

If you wish to purchase that audiobook, which is NOT available in any retail store, here are the prices:

If bought in October 2008: $30 (Canadian dollars)
If bought in November 2008: $50
If bought in December 2008: $100
If bought in January 2009: $200
If bought in February 2009: $300

Simply email me at peter@powerknowledge.net your mailing address (with postal code), and I will email you a Paypal invoice and ship the audiobook CD to you promptly.

The reason for the accelerating pricing schedule above, is that the BMW principles and concepts are truly revolutionary and will give an incredible edge in business to any person who uses them. So the early buyers will benefit from exclusivity, since as the price increases, fewer will be able to buy.

Also, this audiobook CD has content that will continuously evolve, and the value will reach equilibrium at around $300.

If you want to get rich in this life, I highly recommend that you invest $30 and get this audiobook as soon as you can. The BMW is the result of nearly 10 years of research and experimentation that I did, quite successfully. The secrets I share in the audiobook are simply NOT available anywhere else.

I'm using the BMW principles myself to become a millionaire. This is my objective: :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdWjgNmVT7Q

If you are a subscriber to this blog, let me congratulate you and give you a $10 discount, so the price for you will be $20 in October, $40 in November, $90 in December, etc.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime. Don't miss it! I wouldn't want you to look back, a year from now, and see all my students make tons of money while you're still struggling financially!

Details on the BMW workshop at http://businessmodelworkout.blogspot.com

The key to wealth is to STOP being productive

No, folks, it's not a typo.

I really mean it: The key to wealth is to STOP being productive.

I call it the Art of Being Profitably Lazy.

With Facebook and Linkedin, this art is being democratized and becoming accessible to the masses.

Before I explain to you what I mean, let me ask you this question: "What do most people see when they look at the Niagara Falls?"

Answer: The Niagara Falls.

That is, they see an average of four million cubic feet of water fall at high speed. It's the most powerful waterfall in North America.

My point is that only a hydroelectric engineer looking at the Niagara Falls would see the economic potential of the waterfall.

This is because engineers understand how energy can be converted from one form to another. In this case, the kinetic movement of water downward could be captured and converted into mechanical, and then electric energy, which can be sold and delivered in a highly controlled manner.

Society is like the Niagara Falls, except that there are many forces in society, and they are often invisible and silent. So it's not that easy to detect those forces, let alone leverage them.

Yet, a trained business mind can SEE those forces everywhere and all the time. This enables the trained business person to leverage such powerful societal forces, and convert them into capital, which then produces value, which is converted into cash.

Unfortunately, the majority of mankind is NOT encouraged nor trained to detect, see and leverage those powerful forces in society. This is why most people are "forced" to be productive -- whether they are employees, free agents, small business entrepreneurs, etc.

The enlightened entrepreneur is rather lazy physically but very alert mentally. He (or she) can detect forces around him and guide those forces for productive purposes.

Although I agree with the old saying that "an idle man (without vision) is the devil's workshop," I would submit that an idle man with a vision can be an angel's studio.

In other words, the first step on the path toward wealth, is to STOP WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU ARE DOING. (Unless, of course, you are making millions of dollars from it).

In other words, stop trying to be (personally) productive. Rather, try to see the ecosystem of which you are a part, and try to see the forces around you. Look at the trends, study what is happening in society, seek opportunities and threats (a threat for a group of people, could become an opportunity for you if you have a solution that would neutralize that threat).

Most importantly, learn to make people respond to you. This is really the key behind all great Internet marketing success. Often, Internet marketers are former copywriters who simply use the Internet to dramatically magnify their reach and influence.

Basically, they put an offer on the table (or on a Web page, rather). Then, they wait for the response from the target market. A response rate of 1% or 2% is good, 5% is very good.

Also, they try different offers and tinker with all the components of their Internet marketing until they reach the highest response rate.

By the way, that is precisely what I will do for www.etalentelle.com.

I will share with you the secret business plan behind eTalentelle in a future post.

My point is that to get wealthy, you have to stop trying to be productive personally, and create tools for OTHER PEOPLE to be productive.

Here's a metaphor to drive my point home: Imagine that as an employee or free agent or small biz entrepreneur, you are in charge of baking a cake. This is what you are paid to do.

Eventually, you want more things in life, which cost more money. So you try to increase your productivity. Instead of baking ONE cake per hour, you try to bake TWO in the same hour. And so on and so forth.

Yet, this approach leads not to wealth.

To become wealthy, you have to remove yourself (your physical person) out of the value creation equation. And you have to inject ideas into your wealth building approach or formula.

$1 , 2 3 4 , 5 6 7 . 8 9

The above is what I call the Million-Dollar Secret Leverage Code.

To become wealthy, you have to work on the numbers on the left (1, 2, 3), not the numbers on the right.

And the numbers on the left can only be increased by clever leverage. Ideas, either from yourself or swiped from others, are the seeds of leverage.

Henry Ford, for example, copied the idea of an assembly line from the meat-packing industry. It enabled him to create car manufacturing plants that churned out a great number of T models, the original Ford car.

In other words, to become wealthy, stop being productive and start being INNOVATIVE.

Self-made billionaire Ross Perot put it this way: "It just takes a single idea to live like a king for the rest of your life."

He didn't mean a "product idea" or a "service idea." He meant an idea that is so revolutionary that it would give you TREMENDOUS POWER AND LEVERAGE.

Frank, the new CEO of Melaleuca in 1985, had one such idea: he created Marketing Executives at the company, in order to greatly motivate his marketing people to sell the product.

Jimmy Wales also had a great, high-leverage idea when he launched Wikipedia.

So did Steve and Chad, when they built Youtube.

The success secret here is that you've got to have an idea and and grow it and PUSH IT till it becomes a crazy and absolutely ridiculous idea!

Only then will it have a chance of giving you GREAT POWER AND LEVERAGE.

The Internet is truly the GREATEST ECONOMIC LIBERATOR OF MANKIND.

Let's get back to our baking example.

Rather than try to bake more cakes, it's much better if you capture your recipe on paper and SELL that recipe to millions of people through the Internet.

Better yet, give away that recipe for FREE in order to build a database of fans of your recipes, and then sell them future recipes that you develop.

In short, here's the secret to wealth: Stop being productive, and start capturing on paper or in a digital document the METHOD by which you produce a desired outcome. In other words, sell your productivity method. Sell your value-creation recipe. Sell any process or formula that you personally use to create desired outcomes.

But whatever you do, stop selling your personal time and your labor! Stop exchanging your life for dollars!

There is a much more intelligent way to generate an income (or multiple streams of income, for that matter!).

Revise your assumptions and beliefs about "work" and "value" and "money" and choose the easy, effortless path to wealth.

Learn to be "lazy profitably."

Learn to have ideas, lots of ideas, every day. Learn to discuss ideas, and evaluate them rigorously.

And before you know it, you will begin to see money everywhere around you. You will see the "money code" everywhere you go.

Why not franchise your success?

Here's a tough question for you: Are you successful in ANY area of life?

Chances are, you are successful in at least one area. I'm convinced of that. Sometimes, you just have to look carefully.

The next question is, Why not franchise your success? In other words, why not capture in the form of a book or a 20-page ebook the process or methodology you used to become successful in your field?

Here's the reason why I asked that question: If you cannot write a simple 20-page ebook to describe your "success process", then perhaps you do NOT have one.

Some people might counter, "Well, Peter, I'm not a writer." That's not a problem, you can hire a ghostwriter.

So what happens if you do not have a success process? What if you succeeded, but do not have a process?

Well, that would be like succeeding at baking a great cake, but not having the recipe to share it (or sell it) with other people.

In that case, you might be losing TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!

Here's an example in my case. I was successful at creating many workshops now being taught at Talentelle.com.

So a few weeks ago, I thought, "Why don't I capture the process I (intuitively) used to create such successful workshops, and then sell that ebook and make enough dollars to buy a Maserati?"

Needless to say, I was pretty excited at that idea!

Then I thought of PowerKnowledge.net, the portal I created with my brother and associate Joe. We're making money, Joe even took a snapshot of the first check we received from Google!

Why don't I capture all the emails, chats and phone conversations we had, as well as the process we used to plan and launch PowerKnowledge.net? CareerKnowledge.net too, why not?

My point is that if you succeed at something, that's great. You'll be making some money. But if you can CAPTURE the process you used to become successful, then you will BECOME RICH!

Why? Because success requires personal effort, while selling a process (in the form of a DVD, ebook, etc.) only requires a website. This means you'll be making PASSIVE INCOME! Yes, that means making money while you're sleeping!

The key is to ask yourself, "What is it that I'm doing in my life, that works for me and that produces GOOD, POSITIVE results?" Next, write down the process you use, and sell it to the entire world.

I'm available for consulting on this topic, at a rate of $100 for 2 hours by phone. Contact me if you want to further explore this incredible money-making opportunity.

Resellable ebooks so you can make lots of $$$

Check http://talentellenews.blogspot.com for details!