The Best Possible You. Michael Doiley

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СКАЧАТЬ book right now and lead an ordinary life. The choice is yours.

      So you’ve decided against an ordinary life… Wise choice; let us then begin.

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      Michael Doiley’s Qualifications

      Because you have an intelligent enquiring mind, you will by now want to know what manner of formal qualifications has the author acquired which gives him the right to spread his way of looking at the world? The answer to that question would be no formal qualifications. I have no qualification in psychology or philosophy and my keen interest in history is purely of my own volition as it has helped me to make some sense out of the phenomenon that I have personally witnessed during the past fifteen to twenty years of putting this book together. Nevertheless, even though many might view having no board certified recognised qualifications associated with my studies as a disadvantage, I personally choose to see it as a definite advantage. This is because what I disclose to you is based on what I have personally experienced and researched and not merely Other People’s Logic. It’s what I have witnessed first hand and what has been brought to me in my capacity as a coach, motivator and friend. I am not reading from centuries old passed down information that does not acknowledge electricity, the internet, ease of travel and various new forms of learning media. No nine to four schooling system has dictated what you are reading. And while I believe a good college education is great, I do not believe it is essential for your impending greatness. Amongst many high achievers, both Bill Gates and Roman Abramovich, dropped out of college and did rather well in their chosen vocations regardless. And the great Winston Churchill once said,

       “My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”

      You have your own path, it may include years of schooling and it may not, but not having a college degree is not an excuse that will be acknowledged as a reason for lack of achievement in your present or future. Forbes magazine announced in 2007 that Croydon born Supermodel Kate Moss is now the 99^th richest woman in Britain with a fortune of over 45million pounds sterling. Not bad for self-made woman in her early thirties who not only never went near a university (apart from driving by one in a taxi or limousine) but she also never did particularly well in high school, achieving mainly C’s D’s and F’s in her GCSE’s. People have said, “She has a gift,” She’s extraordinarily beautiful,” “There’s no one else in the world like her.” Every one of those sentiments applies also to you too, even if you’re not from the sunny district of Croydon. You have a gift (many gifts), you are extraordinarily beautiful (in ways you may yet discover) and without doubt there is no one else in the world quite like you (no one else has your thoughts, your unique personal history, your skills, your perspectives, or your individual character).

      I have drifted ever so slightly but no, I do not have a Bachelors Degree in Speaking Your Mind and I don’t have a diploma in Spreading Good News, I just do it. And I do repeat that while I do believe a good extensive school education is great, (it certainly helped one Barrack H. Obama) I do not believe it is absolutely essential for learning, passing on information or indeed success… What is essential is that you do all that you can to learn whatever you need to make your own life work in terms that YOU are satisfied with. These things may well require schooling, mentoring, reading or some kind of out of school coursework but whatever the case may be, it should be in line with your goal for success. Author Napoleon Hill wrote in his classic “Think and Grow Rich.”

       “Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists, not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid not merely for what they know, but particularly for what they do with what they know.”

      

      Aside from meditation, there are countless ways in which you can stimulate your intuition to have it work for you in a more efficient manner. A well-known ground level intuition muscle-builder is ‘seeing’ your parking space in your mind’s eye before reaching it. In other words, when you are driving around, especially in town, instead of panicking, picture your parking space, choose it in your mind (or have your mind choose it for you). If you get to the vicinity of the space and there are no vacant spaces, with time you can challenge yourself by putting on your hazard lights and staying put for a minute until your space appears. Perfection comes with time… and a little faith

      If you really want to jump-start your intuition into gear, then the Stretch and Shrink meditation below; will be very helpful:

       STRETCH AND SHRINK

       Before you begin this exercise, be sure that you are quite familiar with the room that you are meditating in, get comfortable, close your eyes and begin.

       Say a prayer or do whatever you personally like to do to get yourself into a calm meditative state of being and then with your eyes closed imagine that you are growing. See yourself steadily getting taller and broader and with it notice how your perspectives of the room begin to change. Now you can see clearly all that’s on top of the wardrobes followed by a new view of all the dust above your light fittings. As you imagine your head bending to accommodate the ceiling, you now realise that your growing body is no longer solid and like an upward periscope you are easily able to grow through the ceiling to see all that’s going on in the room upstairs. Eventually, you find yourself standing with your entire home below you by your ankles and the view you have of your city/town is quite spectacular, understandably you think this is cool. A bird might fly past your ear and you’ll also notice how slowly everything on the ground seems to move when you are so far up.

       Once you are satisfied that you’ve seen enough, it is then time to shrink back down, but do it slowly and progressively; through the rooftop, view the attic, through the rooms or above flats, back to the room you are sitting in with the above wardrobe view, back to you normal size. But don’t open your eyes just yet, for it is time for you to shrink further.

       As you continue the shrinking process, notice that you have to stand away from what you’re sitting on otherwise you’d tip over. Shortly you are small enough to see beneath the chair and any table that might be in the room. Then you become small enough to see underneath the bed and soon you are so small that you can actually see the individual carpet fibres and small enough to fall down a gap between two planks of wood that would form your floor boards. The landscape is incredible, even if a little intimidating. It feels as if you are on a different planet, where your chair is taller than the Empire State Building and a fly would sound like a helicopter and look like a Goodyear sponsored hot air balloon, amazing stuff.

       Once satisfied, breathe out, it is time to grow again so you walk away from under your chair so as not to bump your head on it as you regain your normal size.

       Slowly, as if you are going up in a glass elevator, your view changes and changes until you are the perfect size to sit back down in your original seat. Now refreshed, slowly open your eyes.

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       The “stretch and shrink” exercise, as well as all the other forms of visualisations and meditations that I will show you, are symbolic directives to your subconscious, telling it that you are open to view your life from another perspective. Just as smoking the peace pipe with Ancient American Indians indicated СКАЧАТЬ