Of ALL the questions I get emailed to me, this has got to be the #1 question.
THE #1 question.
Why?
Usually the question is preceded by a statement like this:
“Brian, that M.I.T./Essay was EXACTLY what I needed to read today. It applied so much to my situation and helped me a great deal!”
And then the question:
“How the heck do you come up with that stuff?”
I’m here to answer that question and it’s great timing too as it will help you understand what the brand new Exclusive Premium Subscription I will be revealing next week is all about.
You might remember about 4-5 weeks back I hinted there would be 2 new brand new Exclusive Premium Subscriptions that would be a bit different than all the other subscriptions I released. The first one I released a couple weeks back was the Masculine Rite of Passage Subscription – one that obviously applied to a select percentage of my subscribers due to gender.
I’m happy to say this brand new subscription I will be releasing next week will be gender neutral and will have a ton of value to it that other subscriptions do not provide as well.
But I digress.
Let’s get back to how I come up with the ideas I write about.
It’s so simple that for those who haven’t read my site for some time, will not believe it. Those who have will understand and nod their head in agreement.
Here it is.
Everyday, I ask myself these two questions:
1. What does the world need to know?
2. How may I serve?
Then I wait.
Wait for what?
You know what.
That flash of insight.
I’ll be walking down the street, resting in between sets of my workout, sitting on a chair, showering, and then it hits me.
I know I don’t have much time so I grab a pen and paper or my cell phone and start writing it down.
Now I don’t write down the full essay right then and there. Just one or two core ideas.
When I get on my computer, that’s when my conscious, logical, analytical brain takes over and expands those “core idea seeds” into a fully grown “tree” and when I feel it complete, I upload it as a new article on my site.
Again, if you’ve read my stuff, you know just how valuable this flash of insight is.
Now you know why I harp on this so much!
Write it down when it hits.
You WILL forget.
Forgetting that flash of insight when you don’t record it is one of the worst feelings ever because you know it was something valuable and that the idea is going to find a new home somewhere else in someone else’s mind.
You read ANY biography of creative people who have lived on this earth and the process they go through when receiving great ideas is the same.
I believe I’ve tapped into that creative vein that others before me have like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, James Allen, etc.
Some call it God. Some call it the superconscious, some call it the subconscious, some call it the universal mind, the oversoul, whatever you want to call it, the ideas I have are coming from there for sure.
I think I just perfected the art of “tuning” into it.
This may sound a bit freaky and weird and I can definitely see how it might for people who are new to self improvement, but for those of you who’ve been on my site for some time, who have read my advice, taken it, seen the fruits of it, and experienced it for themselves, they know what I’m talking about. It’s a mysterious process, but one that definitely works.
And the serendipitous nature of the ideas hitting me and then me getting emails the very next day of how it applies to my readers so perfectly – I must admit, when that first happened, it was really unnerving. It kind of freaked me out.
But now I smile and nod my head because I understand.
I can’t “force” these ideas to come.
When it comes to creativity, mental effort tends to defeat itself. You just have to do the right things to open the connection to that creative source and patiently wait for it to deliver. What those right things are to do – I think I’ve figured it out and I think that’s the reason why the material I write is so different from the rest of the fluffy stuff out there.
I hope this will help push those last non believers of recording down their flashes of insight over the edge because I used to be one of them. I didn’t really trust those hunches. I didn’t bother to write them down. I didn’t think very much of them. It all sounded pretty hokey to me but don’t knock it until you try it.
There’s so much out there that we still don’t know and still can’t explain.
Until we can fully know it and explain it, let trust in yourself and faith outside yourself help you along the way.
