I’m a firm believer that ALL of us – every single last one of us – is different from others in some way shape or form.

There is something unique in ALL of us.

We all feel it.

Deep down inside, we all feel it.

That inkling feeling.

The trouble is, due to social conditioning, we suppress it and choose to be like everyone else because we deem it as “safe”.

All the meanwhile, there’s this thorn pricking deep inside of you and the further you shove it down, the less and less you begin to feel until you don’t even know it’s there in the first place.

When you get to that point, it’s very hard to get “it” back.

Here’s why you must embrace what makes you different.

IT’S BECAUSE IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO FULLY BECOME WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Here’s a classic case we can all relate to.

Growing up in school, in every class there was always the joker. The class clown. The comedian.

What happens to that student?

Usually the teacher brings down the hammer telling this student to quiet down, behave like the rest of the class, get serious about his future, etc., and with enough conditioning over the years from authority figures like these teachers, the class clown will slowly suppress what makes him different. He will dial down the funny, buckle down, study, go to university and years later, becomes a lawyer, but is secretly dying inside.

He doesn’t know why.

Something just doesn’t “feel” right to him.

Every day is an internal struggle he doesn’t reveal to others around him, but must face every time he puts his head down to sleep.

It’s because he did not embrace what made him different from all the rest.

You have to realize that more often than not, what makes us different, makes us great.

It gives us that edge.

If you nourish it, it can lead you to success beyond your wildest dreams.

Going along with the class clown example, take Jim Carrey.

Do you think he would’ve had much success becoming a lawyer or even going along with his acting career, auditioning for roles such as the one Russell Crowe had in Gladiator?

Jim Carrey’s career skyrocketed with his over the top comedy movies like Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber. He embraced what made him different - his wacky, bigger than life, laugh out loud comedic personality. He nourished it and it took him to the top.

If there was a certain director who loved producing blockbuster action movies that had explosions every 2 minutes, do you think he would fare well in producing romantic comedies?

What makes you different – is what you’re drawn to.

And because you’re drawn to it, you give it focus.

You give it attention.

And because you focus on it and give it attention, it grows and begins to manifest in your life.

And when that happens, other people take notice and become attracted to it.

It’s like seeing a hot rod red color convertible among a sea of black family sedans.

Here’s something different from all the rest of the cars out there.

And it looks pretty cool too.

So people begin to gravitate toward it and that’s when success starts becoming attracted toward you.

All these people bring you opportunities and money from their own pockets to see more of this figurative “hot rod red color convertible”.

Take this story model that I just described and you’ll see if fits perfectly with the stories of all successful men and women.

They chose to take a stand, fully embrace what made them different, fully embrace what they were drawn to – whether it was Mother Theresa helping the poor, Martin Luther King with his dream, Bill Gates with his vision of a computer in every living room - they all nourished what made them different, what they were drawn to and as a result, other people and all the resources and opportunities they bring along were drawn to them.

If you choose to ignore what makes you different, to surpass it out of fear of being “different”, then you will have no choice but to live the lives of the masses who have chosen the same thing and as Henry David Thoreau so eloquently stated, lead a life of quiet desperation.

Embrace what makes you different.

Focus on it.

Give it attention.

Nourish its growth.

And the fruit it will bear for you will be nothing like you’ve ever tasted before.

Membership to the BrianKim.net Inner Circle is now open for 72 hours!

For those of you patiently waiting, the window to join the BrianKim.net Inner Circle is now open for 72 hours!

For those of you who aren’t aware, the Inner Circle is a discussion forum I created based on Hill’s concept of the Master Mind

“The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony.” He continues …

“No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind [the master mind].” To give you an idea of how important the “Master Mind” principle is, it’s THE VERY FIRST LAW OF SUCCESS in Napoleon Hill’s book Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons and is a VERY IMPORTANT THEME in his other book Think and Grow Rich.

Because readers of this site can’t possibly meet consistently physically, the next best thing is a virtual forum which is where the BrianKim.net Inner Circle comes in:

Here’s the major definite purpose of the BrianKim.net Inner Circle: It’s adopted from one of Zig Zigler’s quotes:

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Zigler

I tweaked that quote a bit to come up with this:

The Definite Purpose of the BrianKim.net Inner Circle is to:

“Create a HARMONIOUS, FUN, ENCOURAGING group of POSITIVE like minded people who want to GROW in life and will HELP each other get what they want out of life.” Why?

Because in doing so (and in looking back at Zig’s quote), you will get everything in life YOU want, AND you’ll have FUN doing so!

Membership is only offered once a month and it comes with many privileges and benefits.

Here are a few of them:

Membership Privileges:

- Direct Access to me personally as I post in the forums. Feel free to ask questions you've always wanted to ask. I cannot answer them via email as there are way too many but I can answer the questions of IC members.

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- Members contributed ideas on night time jobs to help a member earn more money

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- One member found a TREASURE TROVE of videos on youtube that are simply awesome and created a thread on summarizing all of them (this is GOLD)

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This thread alone is MORE THAN ENOUGH to cover the investment for membership because of all the opportunities in there that members have posted.

- A member sharing his experience of moving to a low cost of living country and LOVING IT

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- I will manually approve your account within 24 hours and notify you that you’re all set to go.

Members lives have ALREADY been changed because of this Inner Circle and I have no doubt that when new members come in and share their knowledge and experience, we can all learn and grow.

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