I don’t think it’s a co-incidence that I’m writing about this on 11-11-11 (2009 reduces to an 11), but I finally feel much clearer and connected to my life purpose.

As some of you may know from my previous article “The Future of Inspired Money Maker“, I’ve been trying to get some clarity and make some decisions about the future of both this blog and my businesses.

The last few weeks have been a mind-blowing experience for me, all leading up to the last few days when everything just kind of fell into place and I’ve finally decided my future path.

The Last Few Weeks

Have you ever wanted to do something in your life, but were caught in some sort of “chicken-egg” limitation / scenario that prevented you from doing it?

For example, have you ever wanted to quit your job and find something more suitable, but found yourself unable to find any other jobs because you didn’t have the time to attend interviews because you were busy working at the job you couldn’t stand?

Or have you ever needed to get a loan, but the bank wouldn’t lend you any money because you didn’t have any money or collateral?

I’m sure you can think of some scenarios in your life where you wanted to do something (A), but in order to be able to do (A) you needed to first do (B), but you couldn’t do (B) because (B) required that you first do (A).  This is the kind of “chicken-egg” thing that I’m talking about.

Financing

Anyway, my affiliate marketing business has suffered from this kind of “chicken-egg” limitation for a while now.  In order to increase my income, I’ve been needing more working capital (money) to be able to make more money.  Normally this is something I could call my banker about and get a business loan or a line of credit, but with the new banking rules that have been put in place after the financial crisis in the US, my bank (and most other banks in Canada and the US) don’t offer loans to businesses that have been around for less than two years.  Since I incorporated my business in Aug 2008, I still have another 10 months or so before I could quality for a business loan.

So that has been a frustration for me for a while now, but a few weeks ago things changed.  To keep the length of this post reasonable I’m only going to highlight the main points of what transpired.

I woke up in the morning on a Thursday, frustrated about my lack of working capital.  I went back to bed and did a new meditation I’ve never done before.

About an hour later I synchronistically happened to be listening to a Marc Allen Audio CD in my car that talked about securing financing for your business.  Within a few hours, without any action on my part at all (except answering a telephone call), I had secured financing for my affiliate business from a man I’ve never met before in my life from a city I’ve never been to on the other side of the continent.

The event totally blew my mind.  This excuse of not having the working capital I need to grow my business, which I’ve been walking around with for months literally evaporated in a matter of hours.

Book

After the financing event transpired, I was walking around in a state of awe for a few days really feeling connected to my true self and imagining the amazing possibilities available to me if I could manifest something like that so quickly.

Another desire of mine that I’ve been walking around with for over a decade now has been to one day write a book and have it published by one of the top publishing companies.  Within days of the financing event, I was asked by a publishing company to submit a book proposal.  About a week or so later I was also contacted by another publishing company about helping to promote a book they are publishing and to open up a channel of communication with me.

Guidance

A few days later I woke up in the morning and asked for guidance from my guides to help me experience a Quantum Leap of growth in my life.  That same morning, a spiritual coach and friend of mine contacted me out of the blue and offered to help me experience a “Quantum Leap” in growth even though I didn’t tell her about asking about that exact thing just that morning.

That day I had an unusually profitable day for my affiliate campaigns and that same evening I stumbled onto a website which had a video presentation in which the person talked about taking a “Quantum Leap” in your life specifically related to your money situation.

The author on that website was selling a book called Busting Loose From the Money Game which I bought that same night in digital format, and read the whole thing the following day.  That book along with Robert’s other book (Busting Loose From the Business Game) which I read yesterday have provided me with the missing puzzle pieces I needed to get more clear on my True Purpose.

Other Events

There have been at least a dozen other events similar to the ones above, which have really expanded my awareness in the last few weeks.

Getting Clear on My Purpose

At first all the events that were transpiring kind of “baked” my mind.  I had all this new information/experiences coming in that were shaking up my beliefs and almost making me dizzy.

To tell you the truth it wasn’t easy or comfortable, but I think my mind has finally sorted through everything and it has become a lot clearer now as to what I want to do with my life right now.

It took a lot of clarifying and simplifying but I’ve finally narrowed down the Purpose / Mission for this Blog, my businesses and my life to be:

1. To help people connect with their True Self / Spiritual Self, to understand who they really are and where they really come from, and to help them clarify what their True Purpose in life is.
2. To help people transition from their current job / career to a career or entrepreneurial path that connects them to their True Purpose in life, and to help them make money doing that.

In a way, I’ve already been doing both of these to some extent on this Blog and in my life, but I now want to focus a lot more of my energy on these two paths.

This Blog has really been focused on #2, helping to connect people with the personal development resources they need to help them make money doing what they love (their purpose/passion in life).

I’ve written over 300 free articles on this topic, and I have plans to expand this out to more resources such as books and more structured courses on this topic, but I haven’t really focused a lot on #1.

I’m very confident in my abilities to help someone who knows exactly what their purpose in life is to make money and build a thriving business.  To that second part of my purpose/mission I want to add structure in the form of possibly writing books and/or producing multimedia courses.

The first part of my purpose / mission is something that I’m going to be working on developing.  I want to develop my intuitive abilities to help people connect with their True Self and really connect with their True Purpose in life.

Intuitive Abilities

Although this is not something I’ve written a lot about, I consider myself to be fairly intuitively connected.  For the majority of my life, while working in the corporate world I never really talked about intuitive abilities except with my closest friends and my wife.

In fact for the most part I’ve kind of ignored anything spiritually related in my life up until about six or seven years ago when I discovered a book called “The Science of Getting Rich“.  Although it’s not really a book about spirituality – it’s a book about money and wealth – the content of the book introduced me to New Age concepts such as “The Universe” and “The Law of Attraction” etc.

Previous to that, I never really saw spirituality as something that was very important in my life.  I equated spirituality with religion and I never really resonated with traditional religion, even though I was born and raised as a Roman Catholic.  As an adult, the only time I ever attended church was when someone was getting married or to attend a funeral.  Religion just never resonated with me.

To my surprise however, some of the spiritual concepts taught by most “New Age” books and courses totally resonated with me so I began to pursue them heavily.

My library of books went from being totally about non-spiritual personal development topics like “Time Management” or “Leadership”, to being full of spiritually related books.

Long before the movie The Secret came out, I was playing around with Law of Attraction and managed to manifest some incredible things that basically proved to me that there is a lot more to life than just this physical world we see today.  I guess you could say that the illusion of the physical world began to slowly dissolve for me.

In 2006, I began working with an “intuitive coach” and one of the questions I wanted to gain clarity on was whether or not psychic abilities really existed and if so how could they be used to help me grow consciously on my personal development journey.

I have to say that prior to 2002 my view of psychics and psychic readings was very skeptical.  At the time I knew of a few people who have gone and had psychic readings done and the information they were given wasn’t very “intuitive” to say the least.  However, I realized that I couldn’t judge something without having first-hand experience with it so I decided to try getting a few psychic readings done.

I wrote a more detailed story of what happened next on my old blog ( see here ), but the short story is that I no longer question whether psychic abilities are real.

Since then I’ve always wanted to take the strong intuitive abilities I have to the next level to see how far I can develop them, but until now I never really made that a priority.

Besides reading a bunch of books on the subject, and having had numerous readings done for me, about a year ago I took a course called Soul Realignment™ in hopes that it would help me develop my abilities further.

However, this was around the same time as my decision to leave the corporate world and to pursue my path of making money doing what I love working from home, so that course was put on the back burner until now.

My intention is to allocate a lot more energy into pursuing the development of my intuitive abilities, specifically around learning how to help people connect with their True Selves, their Spirit Guides and anything else that will help people understand their True Purpose in life.

Even though I feel that even as a kid I’ve always had a strong intuitive sense, I consider myself a total beginner to this area of study so it should be interesting to see how things progress for me.

I plan on documenting parts of my journey and what I learn on this Blog.

To all the analytical types, be prepared for some “woo woo” stuff.

I’m currently looking for a course or mentor to help me on my journey in this area.  I have a few friends who may be able to help me here, but I actually came across a course by Slade Roberson which he is releasing today called Automatic Intuition – Professional Intuitive Training Program.  I don’t know why, but for some reason the course outline really resonates with me.  I get this feeling that Slade may think very similar to me, based on some of the Blog posts I’ve read on his Blog.  I get the feeling this may be the course I’ve been looking for.

Blogging & Affiliate Marketing

I know some of you may be wondering where Blogging, Affiliate Marketing and generally Making Money Online fits into the picture here.  Does this mean I’m not going to be doing affiliate marketing anymore, or writing Blog posts about how to make money online?

The answer is that I see Blogging and Affiliate Marketing as integral parts of building successful online businesses.  By being a Blogger and an Affiliate Marketer myself, it gives me a real-world perspective that I can share with others and teach/coach them to utilize those kinds of strategies to make money doing what they love.

Blogging, Affiliate Marketing and Making Money Online all fall under #2 in my Purpose / Mission.  I’ll be writing more about this in the future, but I think it’s of paramount importance for people learn how to use those kinds of strategies to build their online businesses and to make money doing what they love.

Summary

The last few weeks have been fairly intense and crazy for me.  The clarity I’ve gained in connecting with my purpose however has been very exciting.

I’m looking forward to seeing where this road takes me.  If the expansion and growth I’ve experienced in the last few weeks is any indicator, this is going to be an awesome ride.

Looking forward to sharing it with you guys and gals!

When it comes to planning for the future or having dreams, I have found that there are usually two types of obstacles we see in front of us.

The Doable Obstacles

The first type of obstacles are “doable” obstacles that may require effort and energy from us, but our internal assumptions about them are that we could overcome them if we really wanted to.

For example, let’s say that you are a Blogger and a mentor you’re working with tells you that you need to be writing an average of one Blog post per day in order for your Blog to take off.  Let’s say that currently you are writing two Blog posts per week.  Well, going from two per week to seven per week may require energy and effort, but it’s probably not an obstacle that would stop you dead in your tracks.

If you truly believed that you could have what you want by writing those seven articles per week, you would do it, because it’s not a very difficult obstacle to overcome.  You’d probably feel like it’s 100% within your control.

Another example could be starting a savings program where you put away 10% of your income each month.  It may require effort, it may require energy and changes to your lifestyle but it’s probably one of those obstacles that you could overcome if you really had to and really wanted to.

Whenever you sit down and dream about your future, and plans start to emerge on how you can achieve that future, your plan will usually involve a whole bunch of these “doable” obstacles.  Things you’ve either done before, or deep down know you could do if you really wanted to.

The Impossible Obstacles

The second type of obstacles are “impossible” obstacles that your mind has decided are not within the realm of its power to overcome – often without you really even realizing it.

For example, let’s say that the mentor from the first example above told you that one of the steps you need to take to get your Blog growing is to contact 5 multi-millionaires and arrange for an interview that you will put on your Blog.

This of course could be just one step in a series of twenty or thirty steps, but for whatever reason your mind declares this step as “impossible” – often without you really even realizing.

So let’s say that your mentor gives you these steps to follow to grow your Blog:

1. Install a new custom made Wordpress theme on your Blog.
2. Re-arrange your categories in a specific way.
3. Write an average of one Blog post per day.
4. Contact 5 multi-millionaires and arrange for an interview that you will put on your Blog.
5. Install AdSense on your Blog.
6. etc.

Usually without you even realizing, your mind quickly scans through the list and labels each step as either “Doable if I really wanted to do it” or “Impossible”.

For the sake of this example, let’s say that your mind labels 1,2 and 3 as “doable”, 4 as “impossible”, and 5 as “doable”.

Here’s what usually happens next.  Unless step #1 is super easy, we’ll usually procrastinate and avoid doing it even though we know it’s totally doable.  Why?  Because most of the time our minds will not want to make an effort in a direction or with a plan where there is an “impossible” step involved prior to completion.

You mind basically says “Well, we can’t do step #4 because it’s impossible, so why even start at all?” and so you procrastinate.  You spin your wheels, trying to find a custom made Wordpress theme for you Blog but for some reason you just can’t get yourself to do it.

You sit there wondering what’s wrong with you, since that step is so simple yet you can’t seem to find the time or energy to even get started.

The reason you’re procrastinating is because your mind is trying to avoid facing step #4, not #1-3.  It knows it can do the first three steps if it really wanted to, but if there is an “impossible” obstacle along the way, then why even bother?

Are Impossible Obstacles Really Impossible?

The obstacles your mind labels as “impossible” are not really impossible.  They may seem impossible to your mind, but they are far from impossible.  In fact, for a lot of people out there in the world, the exact same obstacle is probably labeled as “doable” in their minds – usually because they’ve done it before, or because they don’t have any limiting beliefs that make the obstacle seem more difficult than it already is.

For example, one person may label something like qualifying for a mortgage as “impossible” while another person may label the exact same step as “doable” even though they could have the exact same income and the exact same credit rating.

For whatever reason, usually based on our beliefs and social conditioning, we all have internal blocks and labels on things and we all label things differently in our minds.

What if Impossible Obstacles Were Really Possible?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of goal setting, planning and visualizing my future.  As part of the process certain plans have begun to emerge on how to accomplish my goals.  At first, without realizing it, my mind had labeled some of the steps within those plans as “impossible”.

However, over the last couple of weeks I have also had a few incidents happen where things that seemed very improbable or even impossible to my mind manifested in front of me with complete ease.  These weren’t huge things, and some people out there I’m sure would label these things as completely “doable”, but for my mind they seemed very difficult and then they manifested in my life with complete ease.

These events had a very interesting effect on me.

They made me question two things:

1. What else is my mind labeling as “impossible” without me even realizing?
2. What if anything at all was possible?

Have you ever asked yourself these questions?

They can be very powerful.  I’ve been asking myself these questions over and over again over the last couple of weeks – especially the second question.

What if anything was possible – what would you do with your life?

Who would you want to be?

What would you want to do?

If asking yourself that question seems impractical because you know that anything is not possible, you could start by asking yourself something along the lines of “If the things that I label as difficult were actually easy, what would I do with my life?”

The idea here is to try to “relax” your convictions as to what your mind labels as “doable” vs what it labels as “impossible”.

By “impossible” I mean stuff that your mind believes is not within your control.  For example, let’s say that your dream is to start a video game company that develops a certain type of video game.

However, part of your plan requires that you have a million dollars to start the company, and your mind labels that as “impossible”, because you don’t have a million dollars, and you don’t know anyone who would be willing to give you a million dollars, so your mind thinks “Well, unless we win the lottery, which is impossible anyways, there’s no point chasing this dream because we don’t have a million dollars.”

That’s the kind of stuff I’m talking about.

What if it was possible for you to have a million dollars, what kind of video game company would you start?  How would it work? What kind of games would you develop?  How would you be different from the other game companies? etc.

If you sit down and spend some time dreaming a little bit, based on the assumption that any of these seemingly “impossible” steps in your plans are actually possible, what would you want to do with your life?

Even just becoming aware of what your mind labels as “impossible” or even “extremely difficult” can be a very liberating experience.  Sometimes just by becoming aware of that you realize that some of those things on your list aren’t really that difficult and surely aren’t impossible.

So, if anything at all was possible, what would you do with your life?

Do you avoid certain people because every time you get around them you feel like they’ve sucked all the energy right out of you?

Are you attracting more and more people who want your help, but then find your own energy levels exhausted and run dry?

Do energy vampires really exist?

There is a misconception amongst some Spiritual teachers and Law of Attraction practitioners who believe that there are people out there who are energy vampires which steal your energy and must therefore be avoided and ignored at all cost.

In reality, the strength of your spiritual energy is proportionate to your spiritual connection to Source (God / the Universe ).  The more “connected” you are, the more spiritual energy strength you have.

However, Source energy is inexhaustible so it’s not possible for “energy vampires” to steal that energy.  Even if they were to “suck” your energy, the supply is infinite so when they finish “sucking your energy”, you’d still have exactly the same amount as when they started.

It’s an illusion that someone can come in and drain your spiritual energy.

But if this is true, then how come when we get around some people we feel like crap?  How come we feel depressed, sad, and negative after being around people who exhibit those qualities?  Are they not sucking our energy dry?

Energy vs Vibration

To understand why we feel “low” after hanging out with certain types of people we like to label as “energy vampires” we have to understand the difference between energy and vibration.

Spiritual energy is infinite.  There is no way it can be “sucked dry”.  The amount of spiritual energy you have available to you to is directly proportionate to your conscious connection to Source energy.

Regardless whether you are alone, or around a “negative” person, your Spiritual energy remains the same.

However, what can change is your vibrational frequency.

For example, if your energy normally vibrates with peace, confidence, joy and love, but you get around a person who vibrates at much lower frequencies, such as fear, anxiety, depression, mistrust, doubt etc., what happens is that your energies kind of form a new in-between vibration that’s somewhere between where you’re at and where the other person is at.

So lets say that normally when you pull into a parking lot, you always seem to find parking right up front close to the door within just a few minutes.  Now lets say that the person you’re with normally circles the parking lot for 30 minutes before finding a parking spot and constantly complains about the lack of parking everywhere he goes.

If both of you are in the car, what tends to happen is that your two realities kind of merge and form an in-between reality.  You pull into a parking lot and you do find parking, but it takes 10 minutes which is an abnormally long time for you.  To the other person though, your ability to find parking in only 10 minutes will seem like a random stroke of luck.

So you’re a bit cheesed off because it took you much longer than normal to find a spot, and the other person is a bit surprised that you were able to find a spot so easily.

In a situation where one person vibrates at a higher level and another person vibrates at a lower level, the person who was originally vibrating at the higher frequency leaves the situation feeling “low” because his vibrational frequency has been pulled down, while the person who was originally vibrating at the lower levels actually feels better because his energy was raised during the interaction.

Energy Vampire Addiction

This kind of situation can be very addictive to people vibrating at the lower energy levels.  They’ll get around a person who’s very positive and they’ll throw a whole crapload of negativity at them, and leave the situation feeling refreshed and inspired.

The other person, however, feels drained and depressed until once again they regain their natural state of vibration and most probably attract the next “negative” person into their lives.

The important thing to understand here is that in these kinds of situations, your “energy” isn’t being drained.  You have exactly the same amount of energy before and after your interaction with a “negative” person.  What changes though is your vibrational state.

You may have started out vibrating at the level of confidence and you have a lot of energy behind that confidence.  However, after your run in with the “energy vampire” you are now vibrating at the level of doubt but you still have a lot of energy behind that doubt.  See your energy levels haven’t diminished – it’s just the type of energy that’s changed.

How to Prevent Vibrational Hijacking

When you get around people who are vibrating at a lower level than you, the combined reality you create with the other person will seem much more dense and negative compared to what you normally create in your life.

You’ll hit every red light while driving with the person, catch a flat, get pulled over, and will have a hard time finding parking – for example.

However, none of those things have to lower YOUR level of vibration unless you allow them to.

Which leads me to the point that these so called “energy vampires” are not really here to suck our Spiritual energy.  We attract them into our lives to test our ability to maintain a level of vibration, regardless of the external circumstances that try to affect it.

If you can maintain a high level of vibrational energy when everything your life is going great, that’s wonderful.  But that’s easy to do.

What’s more difficult is to be able to maintain a high level of vibrational energy during times when “external reality” seems so be trying to pull us down.

You always have control though.

Even if you get around a “negative” person and it takes you 10 minutes to find a parking spot instead of the usual 15 seconds, you are 100% in control of how you react to the situation.  You could get upset and cause your vibrational frequency to lower, or you could choose to maintain your higher level state.

By doing that you increase your vibrational frequency even more.

Being an optimist when circumstances in life are in your favor is easy.  Staying positive during times of challenge is much tougher.  That is the sign of a true optimist.

Imagination vs Observation

It doesn’t take any faith or courage to “see” what our senses observe in front of us.  It does take courage and faith to see that which we want to see.

Our ability to maintain our vibrational state regardless of who we get around has to do with our ability to connect with our imagination and “see” that which may not have even been created yet.

It takes courage, faith and imagination to see the positive in a seemingly “negative” situation.

Consider it like training.

You develop a positive attitude and a positive expectation in your life.  However, soon enough a “negative energy vampire” type person shows up in your life and you’re mad and hoping that they would just go away.

In reality, you attracted the person in the first place because you want to develop your imagination and your faith.

You’re testing yourself to see how much “negativity” you can handle before it starts to affect you.  It’s like building a muscle.  The more you practice/train the more you can handle.

Feeling Drained?

If you feel drained every time you get around a person, you may have bitten off a bigger challenge than you can handle right now.  Maybe you need to attract slightly less “negative” people to practice on.

Just remember that the energy you had when you started is still available to you at any time.  It’s not the “energy” you need to replenish, because the energy is infinite.  It’s your vibrational frequency that you need to re-tune.