If you’re like us (and most people, for that matter), you can easily rack up several hours checking Facebook, doing Google searches, writing emails, and chatting.

If you work on your computer, add another good chunk of the day to that.

One recent study said the average American spends 3 hours a day in front of digital media, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot more for you.

That alone would be 21 hours a week, and if you’re using a computer for 6 hours a day, we can double that to 42.

Now, think about this:

What if you could use this time — much of which is often wasted — to actually “train” your mind?

To think faster, be sharper, and generally become more effective… even smarter?

Imagine turning idle social media time into one of the most effective self-development sessions possible, and significantly boosting your brain power every time you use your computer!

We may have found the solution to make that happen…

We just discovered a simple yet powerful self-help tool called Brain Bullet.

It’s a neat little app that you install on your computer, and it sends positive, mind-enhancing affirmations to your screen at split-second intervals — faster than your conscious mind can register.

So when you think you’re just using the computer, your subconscious mind is taking in the mental suggestions subliminally, and your mind acts on them automatically.

So far, tens of thousands of people have used Brain Bullet to increase their mental abilities.

Now, you can join them and:

– Learn new skills at lightning speeds
– Expand your capacity for thought
– Develop a “super glue” memory
– Ramp your creativity up to the highest notch
– Dissolve stress, and melt away tension
– Destroy bad habits in a flash
– Banish negative behavior patterns, for good
– Control your emotions with ease
– Conquer fears forever
– Alter your personality for the better
– Improve the speed and clarity of thought
– Empower your physical self
– Master new skills and talents
– Attract the opposite sex
– Gain a new zest for life
– Enjoy an incredible edge in business
… and much more!

Learn more about this system, and download it instantly (and risk free), by clicking here…

Your Partners in the Quest For
Living a Life Without Limits,

Everyone wants a piece of you;  you’re the center of attention. When you speak, people LISTEN.

They cling to your every word. You crack jokes effortlessly, and people find you funny… irresistible… and strangely magnetic.

Members of the opposite sex can’t help being around you. Everyone wants to be your friend… to seek your advice… to indulge in your stories. You’re strong, attractive, confident, radiating power and respect.

You’re the top of the food chain — the *alpha* personality that everyone loves and adores (and is secretly jealous of!).

If that describes you, great — you’re well aware of how this rare ability affords you an incredible lifestyle, fun and thrilling social encounters, and opens doors to career opportunities closed off to the general public.

But if that’s NOT you, listen up… because you’re seriously missing out. And what’s more, you *can* be that person, almost immediately.

In fact, if you’re the type who shies away in the corner… avoids social confrontation… can’t stand being the center of attention (but would love to!)… and is SCARED TO DEATH at the thought of standing up and speaking in front of a crowd of people… you can now become the most confident person in the room!

See, the reason you’re shy and introverted isn’t because you’re any less social, humorous, intelligent or charismatic than others. Many confident people aren’t smart or charismatic at all… they just don’t fear what other people think of them.

As a child, you were conditioned to keep your mouth shut (ever been told by your parents “Don’t talk to strangers?”). You were ordered to obey authority figures like parents, teachers, adults. As a grown-up, this “learned” behavior is like a knife to your confidence… and is no longer relevant to your life.

It’s time to shake it off!

The good news is, you can completely *reverse* the conditioning that’s no longer valuable in your adult life… in just minutes. It’s quick, effortless, requires zero practice, and works even if you don’t think it will.

That’s because a new powerful hypnosis CD targets your negative ego, and re-programs your mind to immediately enjoy greater confidence.

It’s called “Extrovert Me!” and it has already helped HUNDREDS of people kill confidence issues dead (and it’s only just been released to the public!).

You can grab it instantly here…

But all the personal work doesn’t amount to a hill of beans if you don’t have rich relationships with other people. It’s like trying to live in a void, a vacuum, or a hermit cave, without accessing the things that form the core value of human experience: a full range of heart-based emotions and feelings, as well as the clearest mirrors possible for your own behavior.

Now, depending on the depth of your personal growth to this point, that might all sound like a given. But the sad truth is, most (or, perhaps, ALL) of us have challenges with it. And the patterns we create in our relationships with others — the good, the bad, and the ugly — are programmed in us so deeply that sometimes it’s hard to even see what’s going on, let alone change it for the better…

For example, maybe you grew up like me, in a household full of intellectual people who could recite facts and thoughts until the cows came home, but rarely expressed heartfelt feelings. It’s a classic case of the mind over-running the heart, which not only makes it difficult to share your true essence, but causes a tendency to judge, blame, make assumptions, have a need to be right, or simply take people for granted.

Or perhaps you grew up with a parent (or two) who ruled with an iron fist, causing you to be afraid to say what you thought or felt, run away — physically or emotionally — when things got tough, or let problems and misunderstanding simmer until they boiled over.

Or maybe nobody paid attention to you, so your mind wanders when people talk to you, or you become defensive and focus on your own agenda.

Becoming aware of your patterns is the first step to correcting them, and while it’s the simplest step, it can also be the hardest.

This is something I’ve been wrestling with myself lately, because it took many painful discussions with Barry — somebody with a completely different background, and hence totally different patterns — for me to see what I was doing on a subconscious level.

Yeah, you know how it is… whatever you grew up with just seems “normal” until you’re able to see it from an objective viewpoint, reflected in the mirror of a close relationship.

That doesn’t mean we should blame our upbringing or our families for our own shortcomings, because eventually you have to take a stand and admit that the buck stops with you (and hey, if I can do it, so can you!)

Then, of course, the next step is changing the old self-defeating pattern into a newer, better one.

One resource that has helped me in this area is the Relationship Reverse Report by Susie and Otto Collins. It goes over 14 ways you may be thinking, acting, communicating or being that can take you further away from what you really want… and, of course, tells you how to correct the ones that you struggle with.

I say “the ones you struggle with” because I’d go to Vegas on the fact that you, like everyone else, has at least a couple of these bad habits… and if you feel you don’t, you’re either in denial or have already done a LOT of conscious work on yourself and your relationships.

Barry and I have talked with Susie and Otto several times on the phone, including some heart-to-heart conversations and a couple of interviews.

And what we really like about them is pretty simple: unlike some teachers, they admit that they’ve gone through many of the same destructive patterns that they talk about, and they openly share their own challenges in a keep-it-real, relatable kind of way.

The Relationship Reverse Report has the same easygoing style, and it’s their free gift to you. Once you claim it, you’ll have immediate access to print it out or read it on your computer.

Then you just have to work through the pages that relate to you (no pun intended), and commit to improving not only yourself, but the way you relate to others.

That’s definitely worth far more than the price of admission!

Your Partner in the Quest for
Living a Life Without Limits,

The following commentary is from our friend, and fellow renegade researcher / publisher, David MacGregor.

Since 1998, he has been writing extensively on the subject of financial survival and sovereignty angles. Not only has he been sharing what he knows, he’s been passing along what he experiences by being in the mix of it too. He personally lives a true James Bond off-the-grid, international lifestyle.

When he speaks (or writes), we listen (or read). We suggest you do too…

Offshore bank accounts, companies and trusts — as well as second residencies and passports — are all great freedom tools. But if you don’t have sufficient funds to make use of them, how can you ever get off the starting blocks?

Consequently, one of the questions I get asked most often is: “I would really like to internationalise my life, open an offshore bank account, form an offshore company, protect my assets with an offshore trust — even travel to or live in different countries — but how do I get enough money together to even get started?”

It’s like a “chicken and egg” situation. What comes first, the freedom or the money? Do you need freedom to gain money, or money to gain freedom?

The truth is, money is the ultimate freedom tool. If you have that, then anything is possible – whatever your goals are. So the big questions are: “How much money do I need?” and “How do I increase the amount of money I already have?”

I know what it’s like to not have enough money to do what you really want to. Back in 1998 I was totally broke, and had to get really creative in order to dig myself out of that hole. But that’s another story.

What I have learned since then, is that there are ways to build up your financial freedom nestegg — ways that most people can take advantage of — if they know where to look and how to get started.

Money makes money. And in order to grow your own financial freedom nestegg, you do need some money to get started. But what if I told you there were legitimate ways to seriously improve your financial position without breaking the bank?

Well, I’ve sourced what I believe to be two of the best ways to boost your financial status over time. And if you have between $1,000 and $15,000 in available funds, then I urge you to check them out. One or the other, or both, could be just what you are looking for…

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Both of the opportunities/resources quoted above have the potential to seriously improve your finances, and enable you to grow your own freedom fund. But, as always, nothing happens without action.

Yours in freedom

David MacGregor

And of course, the answer was yes… we’ve all done that. And some people do it on a regular basis.

But I also told you about a fantastic resource I’d been using that spells out what to say in common situations, what words never to say, and what other major communication mistakes you might be guilty of.

And that resource is called “Magic Relationship Words“ by Susie and Otto Collins.

Susie and Otto are relationship coaches that Barry and I have both interviewed, separately, and talked on the phone with numerous times. They’re grounded, they focus on tools you can really use, and they understand how the metaphysical and physical worlds come together around relationships.

So now you don’t have to worry about what to say or how to say it to your spouse, partner or lover ever again… because you can start using these Magic Relationship Words in just a few minutes.

You can even use these techniques on friends, family, co-workers, and more… people in any type of “relationship” with you, in fact.

Their flagship “Magic Relationship Words” book has 101 magic words, phrases and sentence starters that you can start using immediately to say it right, every time.

What will learning these “magic relationship words” do for you?

One person who just saw them said… “If I learn how to use these words, my husband and I will have had our last argument.”

We believe they can work miracles in your relationship or marriage too.

Because if you use these magic words when you talk to your spouse or partner, you will be able to:

~ Build or rebuild trust
~ Reduce or eliminate jealousy
~ Improve communication
~ Increase connection
~ Create more passion and intimacy both in and out of the bedroom
~ AND Much More…

These words will truly affect your communication skills, which can in turn determine the quality, happiness and connection in all your relationships.

They can make the difference between whether someone opens and listens to you, or closes up, gets mad or just ignores you.

And besides the “Magic Relationship Words” book, you’ll also get:

>> “21 Words, Phrases and Sentence-Starters That You Should NEVER Say to Your Partner, Spouse or Lover”

>> “The Top 10 Communication Mistakes People Make in Their Relationships… and What to Do About Them”

>> Two special “Magic Relationship Words That Build or Rebuild Trust” audios

To learn more about these words that really will work like magic in your relationship, and see an example in action, read this letter from Susie and Otto now.

Your Partner in the Quest for
Living a Life Without Limits,

Have you ever grasped blindly and with futility for the “right” words to say in a difficult relationship situation?

Have you ever “not said anything” to someone, even if the situation was important to you, because you didn’t know what to say or how to say it?

Of course you have.

We ALL have!

You’ve been in enough relationships to know that “words can hurt and words can heal…”

And while HOW you say something is incredibly important, sometimes WHAT you say can really have an impact (good or bad) as well.

A few weeks ago, I found myself clamping my mouth shut and staring at the kitchen counter because the wrong thing had slipped out… again.

My intention was good, and I didn’t realize until I saw Barry’s reaction that it had come across completely different from how I meant it.

Then, of course, he retaliated with words of his own that stung hard. He was trying to be constructive, but I took it as an attack.

Yes, words have a way of snowballing into something bigger.

Unless we know how to properly approach an issue in the first place.

Unfortunately, most couples don’t know how to do that.

Luckily for us, some colleagues of ours — one of whom I’ve been working with very closely lately — gave us a copy of their wonderful resource that spells it all out. It tells what words to use in certain situations, what words to avoid at all times, and what major communication mistakes to be aware of.

See, what you may not have known is that there are actually “Magic Words” which smart couples use to create more closeness, connection, peace, harmony, understanding and even passion in their relationships.

Now it’s becoming second nature to say the right thing at the right time, with the right intention and beliefs behind it, so it doesn’t get perceived the wrong way… or worse, totally backfire.

You can get your hands on the same resource, which helps you overcome one of the biggest relationship problems of all — and in all kinds of relationships.

Watch the space above tomorrow to find out how you can finally start, magically, saying all the right things… and reaping the rewards.

Your Partner in the Quest for
Living a Life Without Limits,

“Playing For Change” has a completely different meaning to musicians around the world who are working hard to inspire us all to come together as a human race.

We introduced you to Playing For Change founder Mark Johnson in our Hidden Heroes series. If you haven’t read his story, you’ll be impressed by the effect brought about by a seemingly innocent moment in the New York subway.

Now Mark’s movement has inspired a collection of musicians and singers from Japan to come together and highlight their recently-ravaged country.

This is beautiful on so many different levels:

1. Physical: Wow, what incredible scenery — a stark contrast to images we’ve been seeing of late from Japan.

2. Emotional: While I don’t understand the words, the singing is full of heart… and it touched my heart, too.

3. Mental: These performances bring out respect, admiration and thoughts of solidarity.

4. Spiritual: I felt almost transported to Japan as I watched this, and it spoke directly to my soul.

Even our two-year-old, Konan, was mesmerized for the first half, and dancing for the second.

Enjoy whatever levels the song inspires you on, and share your thoughts and feelings below.

It’s a show some call inspiring, and others (those, possibly, with an eye for self-reliant behavior) call just interesting.

In a very uncharacteristic move, I’m refraining from telling you the level of conviction I have for either side of the spectrum (er, for now!)

But, well… heh… maybe just a hint.

Certainly, I’m licking my chops to be first in line to see the coming Atlas Shrugged movie release (April 15th 2011), which undoubtedly will be chastised by every government payroll leech, every anti-capitalist, every greater-good elitist, and all those who eschew achievement and the concept of being rewarded for the fruits of one’s labor.

So, enter the other side of the coin: A TV show based upon a hit UK series that selected several millionaires to mix it up with those mainly experiencing life through welfare-level wages.

The goal: To find ordinary (read: broke but still courageous) people doing extraordinary (read: selfless) things for those in need.

Certainly the premise is designed for the Masses who need a reminder that, even in the face of economic worries (not to mention natural disasters, political uprisings, debt concerns, and the fear and uncertainly that TV accentuates), HOPE is still alive.

Then, again, as we’ve mentioned in various prior LWL posts… HOPE, if mainly relied upon for a sense of comfort and ease, can stall individual progress and production too.

But, before I renege on my promise of not getting carried away with my overly-critical thinking about the show, I’ll just let you decide.

After you watch the first two episodes online here, tell us what you think by using the comments section of this post.

And, oh, by the way, a future Secret Millionaire to appear on the show has been making a foundational difference in people’s lives by helping them instill the beliefs, habits, and correct thinking around money for several years now.

After you watch prior episodes, click here to see the strategies this Las Vegas multi-millionaire used to be one of the most highly paid people in his field.

But we don’t need to have irrational fears, or fears that hold us back, or fears that stop us from living normal, everyday lives.

Those types of excessive, paralyzing fears are not keeping us safe — they’re putting us in more danger.

Whenever I’m dealing with a fear, or a limiting habit — or anything else that stems from a subconscious level and gets in my way on a real-world level — I look for the most powerfully effective solutions.

Often, the best way to tap into the subconscious mind is to go deep with tools such as meditation, or even hypnosis.

But just shutting your eyes and relaxing isn’t going to help much when it comes to really solving problems.

So how can you do that effectively?

One of the best places to get quality audio programs for self-hypnosis — on just about any issue you can think of — is Hypnosis Downloads.

They have over 700 audios available that focus on both broad and specific topics.

If you’re not doing what you want to do, or if you are doing what you don’t want to do, there’s probably a hypnosis audio to help you change the pattern (and at very little cost).

Let’s get back to fears, because — as I mentioned at the top of this post — we all have them, and they often cause stumbling blocks that keep us from accomplishing what we could.

You can get audios that will help you overcome intangible classics like the fear of failure, or the fear of success, and tangible classics like a fear of flying, a fear of heights, or stage fright.

Then there are those for relationship-based fears, like a fear of commitment, rejection or abandonment… and interpersonal fears, like a fear of authority or confrontation.

You can also find help for fears of creepy-crawlies, like germs, bees, spiders and snakes. Or furry friends, like cats and dogs. Or health professionals, like doctors and dentists.

What if you have a more obscure fear, like a fear of numbers of a fear of the phone? No worries, you can undergo hypnotherapy for those too.

Some of these fears might hit close to home, while others are so foreign to you that they seem odd… but since phobias are the result of a fear response being falsely attached to something that wasn’t really scary in the first place, they can be associated with a lot of different things (trust me, I’ve only scratched the surface here).

The good news is, they can be fixed.

One particularly debilitating fear, especially these days, is a fear of poverty. It makes you blind to opportunities around you, and wrecks your ability to think clearly and make rational decisions.

It fulfills its own prophesy by causing you to make dumb mistakes that will lose you money.

And while many fears will bring about understanding or compassion from others, this is one the media often plays on.

Yeah, they want to push you further into the fear instead of helping you overcome it.

So when the economy is in the doldrums, like it is now, you’ll hear a lot of reports about how America is going down the tubes (mixed in with pseudo-uplifting false stories about how unemployment rates are going down, just to keep you in a comfortable rut where you’re frightened enough to do what you’re told, but not frightened enough to engage in mass panic).

Removing your fear of poverty can help you sort through this type of misinformation by looking at it with a critical eye.

But just ridding yourself of a fear of something isn’t going to stop that thing from happening… it’s only going to reduce your triggers and change your typical reactions.

So not being afraid of poverty won’t stop you from being poor (in any areas of your life). If you really want to prosper regardless of what’s happening in the economic world around you, there’s another step to take.

That step is to find the opportunities that can grow your money — where you put in a little bit, and get much more back — in weeks (or maybe months) rather than years.

You might think that part is pretty easy… but if it was, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?

The fact is, since so many people fear losing money, and crave having more of it, it’s easy pickings for unscrupulous people who like to prey on the weak.

Then again, it’s also an area that causes people to yell “scam!” at even the most legitimate resources, just because it’s different (and therefore they perceive it as “too good to be true”).

So knowing what’s what — what’s real, what’s hype, what’s possible, what’s impossible — is the crucial key that makes the difference between success and failure.

You can find that key through a lot of due diligence, trial and error. But it’s a steep learning curve that can be very expensive to climb.

Luckily, there’s help for that, too.

If you want some guidance in navigating the stormy waters, so you can start enjoying your own work-free passive income (yes, it still is possible), read this open letter from one of our business partners who will show you the possibilities.

And enjoy overcoming your fears, moving ahead, and opening new horizons.

Your Partner in the Quest for
Living a Life Without Limits,

“The road to success looks like this: go to school, get a degree, and work at a good job for the rest of your life.”

It might be old advice, but I grew up being very familiar with its essence. After all, my parents both have degrees (my Dad has several, including a PhD), my brother has a degree, and I have a degree.

My Mom has worked in several libraries, from the public library to my high school library to her church library. And my Dad recently retired as a long-time University history professor, but still works as an archival historian in my home town.

Yes, when you break it all down, my family is big on education and book smarts. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — in and of itself.

See, I love to learn. And the educational model as we know it worked fine in the past.

Well, I should say it worked fine for some people.

But it pigeon-holed and alienated others, while giving us the idea that what we are is a sum total of everything we know.

I don’t know very many people these days who are actually doing anything related to what they learned in school. Certainly many of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs have gone a completely different direction, if they even finished school at all.

That’s because we don’t all learn the same way, and formalized education doesn’t always serve, as many of our readers pointed out in their comments on the post we wrote in 2009:  Institutionalized Thinking Via Formal Education?

To relate this back to Metaphysics 101, doing something you don’t enjoy — like forcing yourself to pay attention to a lecture when you really learn best by getting your hands dirty, or vice versa — will backfire in a big puff of dejected energy.

But following your passions, with an aim to serve others and give value, takes you on a fun ride. And as Barry figured out sometime during high school, it’s often the entrepreneurs who make the most lasting, beneficial contributions to the lives of others.

Learning to become an entrepreneur is very rarely done in school, and the most profound a-ha moments you’ll ever have come from doing, making mistakes, adapting, overcoming and improvising (to paraphrase a favorite movie quote of Barry’s).

In fact, the most interesting thing about learning is that it can happen when we least expect it…

Case in point: Yesterday, Barry happened upon an excellent RSAnimate video about education that we both found enlightening and profound. We’ve shared these types of videos with you before, which use animation to add depth, interest and new facets of input to an otherwise one-dimensional talk.

The topic of this one happens to be education (or the lack of it), and it brought up numerous thoughts in us both. A short discussion later, and the basis of this blog post was born.

But as I started fleshing out the points I wanted to make, something was niggling in the back of my mind.

Hadn’t I heard about the video’s presenter, Sir Ken Robinson, before? In fact, hadn’t my own father — someone I equate with the epitome of formalized education — shared something of his with me?

I went back and searched in my email and found that, sure enough, my Dad had sent me the exact same video a few months ago, along with the following commentary:

“I found this to be quite an interesting discussion, and thought it might appeal to you, too. It hits at one of the paradoxes that I observed with many students over the years. They became more narrow-minded over a relatively short time. It seemed to me, they were more concerned about right answers than about right questions.”

That should have piqued my interest. But, making an incorrect assumption about the probable content of the video, I hadn’t bothered to watch it right away.

Yeah, that’s exactly what overly-educated people do… close their minds to new possibilities.

And I admit, I fell into that trap, and based my actions on past patterns instead of future potential.

But that was a big learning experience in itself.

So I wholeheartedly apologize to my Dad for not watching the video when he sent it, and for subsequently forgetting about it until now. Because it’s definitely worth the 11 minutes to see why education, as it was designed hundreds of years ago, is failing our kids today.

The good news is, it’s never too late to admit we’re wrong, and make changes or take a new path.

And it’s never too late to share a great, inspirational and… yes, educational… piece with you.

The part that hit me hardest is that 98% of kindergarten kids are geniuses at divergent thinking, which allows us to be creative and see multiple possibilities. The video doesn’t share the next stats, but apparently that drops to 32% of kids aged 8-10 and 10% of those aged 13-15.

By the time we hit 25 and beyond? A measly 2% of us make the cut. Yikes!

Almost as fascinatingly disheartening as that (or maybe even more so) is the look at the fake ADHD epidemic, and how kids are being put to sleep with anesthesia when they should be woken up with aesthetic experiences like the arts.

Interestingly enough, my degree was in Visual Arts… but I was exposed to how formalized education can even take the creativity out of that, when most of my art teachers tried to make us paint and draw the same way.

Only one of them — ironically a teacher that my fellow students had warned me was “too tough” — ended up encouraging me to break out of that cookie-cutter mold.

So yes, there are teachers every now and then — Claude Breeze, my favorite art teacher; John Keating, played by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society; Samuel Pickering, who that character was “loosely” based on; and, from what I’ve heard, my own Dad — who encourage students to think outside the box and break out of the status quo.

For those teachers, I say “thank you”.

For the rest, and for any of us who’ve been students frustrated with the school system, I say listen deeply to Sir Ken Robinson’s message, and then leave us your comments below: