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April 11, 2023

Become Unstoppable To Succeed

Become Unstoppable To Succeed: What's stopping you right now from achieving your dreams? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that it's only ourselves who can ever stop us from getting where we want to get, feeling what we want to feel, realizing any goal, realizing any dream, and that's because there's always a way, whether someone isn't supporting you or you need money and you're not getting it from someone, whether you're not getting support from your company from your friends from your family, the circumstances just seize. Check this out too - How To Attract Wealth And Prosperity.


Never Give UpNever Give Up

That's what persistence is. Before getting the money to build Disneyland, Walt Disney received rejection letters from about 300 banks. Nobody has an excuse. Take a second and look into your imagination and see somebody that hasn't done worse than you and still made it: people with no arms that are surfing; people from the middle of Africa that have nothing; and they end up being best-selling authors. Check this out too - How To Get Rich Fast And Make More Money Like This.

So what's stopping you from stopping in by yourself? You want to reverse the facts? Right now, Americans have the highest rate of clinical depression ever. If you want to throw happiness into the wind, we'll press "subscribe," "share," and then share a smile with the next person you see. Check this out too - You Will Get Rich Fast With These Unexpected Signs.

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Published on April 11, 2023 11:15

April 10, 2023

How To Grow As A Person

How To Grow As A Person: You should feel relieved when you step into uncertainty, feel uncertain, or feel uncomfortable because it means you're growing. If you don't feel comfortable and if you don't feel uncertain, then you're not growing, and most of us don't recognize this, and usually you don't get where you want to get because you give up—you give up on your goal and you give up on your dream because you feel uncomfortable when you feel uncertain. Check this out to learn more - How To Receive More Money In Life With Law Of Attraction.

When we trust in the unseen and continue to move forward and take action, that's when it reveals itself; that's when incredible things happen; that's when we meet the people that we need to meet; and that's when we get the situations we need to get the miracles.

Miracles Will Come Your Way If You Embrace Discomfort

You receive miracles when you embrace feeling uncertain, when you embrace feeling uncomfortable, and that's the difference between the top percent of people who have reached their greatness, their fullest potential: they were able to reach it because they stepped into uncertainty continuously. 

Just think for a second about how your muscles grow. They're growing because they're tearing; they're not growing because you're bathing them in hot water all day and doing something that you're so familiar with, something that you do for most of the day because you're sitting on the couch or what have you; they're growing because you're putting them in an uncertain and uncomfortable position that you're not in usually for most of the day for most of your life. The same thing is true with our charcter and our personality. Check th out to learn more - How The Law Of Attraction Changed My Life

We Have To Trust OurselvesWe Have To Trust Ourselves

All of this stuff grows and expands when we can step into uncertainty because we have to trust ourselves more in the face of it. So we continue to step into uncertainty, knowing that the people who have achieved the greatest things in the world were okay with being uncertain. If you feel uncertain about your life, you're on the right path. Hey, you want to reverse it back, sir? Right now, America has the highest rate of clinical depression ever; do you want to take happiness for the wind? We'll press "subscribe" and "share," and then share a smile with the next person you see. Check this out to learn more - How To Get Rich Fast And Make More Money Like This.

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Published on April 10, 2023 13:56

Loving What You Do Makes You Successful

Loving What You Do Makes You Successful: What would have to happen one year from now for you to look back and say it was your most successful and fulfilling year yet? For the sake of the question, forget what it is you would pay to do or what it is you can get paid to do, but remember that success is not the key to happiness. You might want to consider reading this to learn more - How To Be Happy Again And Attract True Love.

Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing, you can give it your best day in and day out, so what is it? Painting, reading, business, writing, sports, or social work—all helping somebody in a specific way? 

You can't have a perfect day until you help someone who can never repay you. What is it you dream about? What is it you would do if nothing could hold you back? Play the what-if game. What if nothing could stop you? What if, as soon as you took action, life would conspire to help you wherever you needed it? What if nothing changes when we don't take action? 

Most People Are Gambling On The Biggest Risk Of All said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So by now, we should know we can't cut down all the trees. that war doesn't create peace. That possessions don't make you rich in the true sense of the word, fortune is in loving what you do. So if you want to be successful, then love what you do; then help somebody else believe in what you're doing; and if you don't love what you do, it's time to make a change. You might want to consider reading this to learn more - How To Manifest Love And Live The Life Of Your Dreams.Most People Are Gambling On The Biggest Risk Of All

A friend once told me that most of us are gambling on the biggest risk of all: that we can buy the freedom to do what we want later in life after we've made some money. We all want progress, but if we're not on the road to our dreams, it's best to stop and go the other way in order to change the system that makes it impossible to quit jobs we don't really like and do our dreams instead; why not?

Since we're all going to die eventually, pursuing our dreams while making mistakes is not only more honorable but also more crucial to our personal development than living a life doing nothing worthwhile.  You might want to consider reading this to learn more - Making The Law Of Attraction Work: Easy Guide to Manifest!.

However, many people object, saying that it's not realistic. It's not possible; we can't all be doing what we love. Who's going to knit? Who's going to clean the beaches? Who's going to do this, and who's going to do that? What I say is that it's not realistic to expect that we can keep doing the same thing over and over and over and survive another hundred years.

Definition Of Insanity By Albert Einstein

Our banks are privatized. A quarter of the world is in poverty, and our money has no backing. The rainforests are diminishing at a record pace, and we're at the highest rate of clinical depression ever. - Albert Einstein


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Published on April 10, 2023 13:36

Why Can’t I Succeed No Matter What I Do?

Why Can't I Succeed No Matter What I Do? What's stopping you from feeling what you want to feel and from getting the excuses you want? Mark Twain said that there are thousands of excuses as to why we don't meet our dreams, but there's no good reason why success has to be paid for in advance. So often we think that it's just going to come to us without us doing the work or doing what we have to do.  Here are some good reads I have created that you might want to consider:

3Why Is The Law Of Attraction Not Working Secrets To Success, and When The Law of Attraction Is Not Working Do This.

You would be amazed if the energy you use to make excuses about your age, about how much money you make, about the economy, about your situations with your spouse, about how people aren't treating you right, about how you're not good enough, if you took just a little bit of that energy and used it to find a solution to find an answer, you'd be surprised at how much you would achieve. It doesn't matter what your excuses are; somebody has it worse than you. no matter what somebody has it worse than you. 

America Has The Highest Rate Of Clinical DepressionAmerica Has The Highest Rate Of Clinical Depression

So it's important to ask ourselves: Has someone who has achieved success and who has achieved a level of fulfillment that we admire done so with the same excuses that we have right now, with the same ones that happiness is here for us but only for the happiest people? The most successful people are the most disciplined people, so what is it that's stopping you? Hey, you want to reverse it back, sir. Right now, America is at the highest rate of clinical depression ever; if you want to take happiness into the wind, we'll press "subscribe" and "share," and then share a smile with the next person you see.

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Published on April 10, 2023 11:14

March 31, 2023

How To Stay Inspired And Never Give Up

How To Stay Inspired And Never Give Up: People ask me how I stay inspired and motivated when I'm facing challenges. That's my problem, which is that I can't continuously find the motivation and inspiration to keep going, and it's simple. Know why you're doing what you're doing with your life. You might want to read this also to learn more - Speed Up Your Manifestations.

If you don't know why you're doing what you're doing, how can you get inspired in spirit and be in alignment with what you're doing? Our current decisions equal our destiny, but we can't make an empowered destiny or an empowered step towards our dreams if we don't have a motive behind what we're doing in our life. 

You Can't Go On Without A Purpose

So why are you doing what you're doing when you know why you're doing it? What you're doing when you hit the hurdles is getting back up. Your motives are your fuel; they're the fuel that's going to get your vehicle where you need it to go. It's impossible to keep going when you don't have a motive. How many people do you hear who are men? I can't keep going. I can't keep them doing this because they're doing things they don't love; they don't have a reason why they're doing it; it's not fulfilling them, but they're doing it. You might want to read this also to learn more - Stay Strong During These Unprecedented Times!.

Write Down The Five ReasonsWrite Down The Five Reasons

So ask yourself why. Write down five reasons. Ten reasons why I have hundreds of reasons why I'm doing what I'm doing. I even keep letters from people with me to remind myself why I'm doing what I'm doing, and when I hit a hurdle, I review it and look at it again, so you stay inspired by knowing why. 

You want to reverse the facts? Americans currently have the highest number of reasons for doing what they do. I even keep letters from people with me to remind myself why I'm doing what I'm doing, and when I hit a hurdle, I review it and look at it again. You might want to read this also to learn more - How To Attract Wealth And Prosperity.

So you stay inspired by knowing why. You want to reverse the facts. Right now, Americans are experiencing the highest rate of clinical depression ever. Do you want to bring happiness into the workplace? Then share a smile with the next person you see.

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Published on March 31, 2023 01:30

What To Do When You’re Stuck In Life

What To Do When You're Stuck In Life: I'm going to share with you a question somebody asks. I'm a YouTuber, so I said I would make a video about it. I know it's something that we all experience, something we have experienced or someone we know has experienced, and that is, I have all these dreams, but I feel like I missed my chance to achieve them, and my life has kind of fallen apart. I lost my friends, my job, my health, and my happiness. Sounds good? Read more here - You Were Programmed to Be Poor and How To Fix it.

I don't know what to do at this point or what step I should take. It seems like whatever I do leads to disaster, so I'm afraid to do anything. I've tried changing my thoughts, my diet, my exercises, and my socializing, but I feel like this nagging pain of emptiness is constantly dragging me down. Any advice? My advice is this: you already have a clean slate, you've lost all your friends, and you have a new opportunity right now to move forward.

You Will Develop New Habits If You Don't Do Something Consistently

Number two is: How long did you try meditation for? How long did you try a new diet? How long have you been attempting this consistency? Consistency breeds results. Consistency is what creates new habits if you are not doing something consistently over time. How many people do you know who are like that? Well, I just tried this new diet, and I didn't lose weight. I wanted to know how long to try it—oh, five days. You're not going to get anywhere unless you're consistent with what you're doing with your life. Sounds good? Read more here - What to do if you have no money.

I lost pretty much all of my friends when I started doing what I was doing, and that's an opportunity for you to go within yourself. It's an invitation for you to find that balance within yourself that can keep you going, that can keep you moving, that can keep you pushing forward. Next is changing your story. You said that no matter what you feel like, there's always going to be a disaster. 

That's what you're focusing on. Our current focus equals our current feeling, which is what's creating our world. If your story is that you're creating disaster over and over again, what's going to happen? You're going to keep getting disaster jobs. You said you lost your job. Was that a job you loved? If it's a job you love, then go find another one that's similar. If it's a job you didn't like, then it was an incredible opportunity from the universe for you to find something that you love to do. 

Encourage A Healthy LifestyleEncourage A Healthy Lifestyle

Now for you to do something that fulfills you rather than something just to fit them all just to be this jet or just to be that diet. I'm not somebody who's an advocate for diet; I'm an advocate for lifestyle. Why diet when you can embody a certain lifestyle?

Don't just choose a way to eat because you see somebody else eating it; tune in with yourself and see what's best for you instead of picking a diet or fad that you do for 30 days or 60 days for a month or a year; why not pick a lifestyle? What is it that's true to you? Maybe your friends weren't true to what you wanted them to do. Your job wasn't true to what you wanted to do. Sounds good? Read more here - You Were Programmed to Be Poor and How To Fix it.

What Is It That Kept You Going?

So take the time to find something that you like that you love, and you're still here right now; you still have the energy to write to me, so what is it that kept you doing what you're doing and kept fulfilling you through everything that you were doing? There's something that was keeping you going; there's at least one thing that was keeping you going. 

How can you expand on that? Maybe that's your passion; maybe that's what makes you feel alive. So do that and keep expanding on it. What is it that got you out of bed? You got out of bed that day, or at least you're on your computer. Something woke you up. So what is it? What is that thing, and how can you expand on it? How can you give to someone else? Smiling at the cashier is a great way to start your day, so I hope this helps. 

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March 30, 2023

Finding The Beauty In Heartbreak

Finding The Beauty In Heartbreak: The most beautiful thing about a heartbreak is that it is in fact cracking, and what happens when something cracks or breaks? It's giving new space for something else to come through, so how is heartbreak an opportunity for us to bring more love into our lives? Read more to learn more - How To Be Happy Again And Attract True Love.

It's really quite simple, whether it's a heartbreak from a dream or a goal that didn't get met, whether it's a romantic heartbreak, whether we're betrayed, or something else; it's three things. One, we believe we are victims of people, places, and things. Two, we believe we are powerless to change situations because of our attitude. Three, it's a combination of all of them together. 

The Meaning Of Heartbreak

Finding the beauty in hearbreak: We believe we're victims of people, places, and things, and we're powerless to change them as well as our attitude. It's the only way that heartbreak can let us down; anything else cannot be an opportunity to let more love into our lives. If we really stop and think about it for one second, what is heartbreaking? Even if you know what it is, what is our belief about being heartbroken? It's coming from our mind, our belief that we've been victimized, so what is heartbreak? 

Our definition of heartbreak is either based on our memory of past painful experiences or on what somebody else has told us about what's pleasurable and what's painful. When it boils down to it, it's just an experience to grow and learn something new, an experience to love ourselves more and to love others more, and an experience to not be so attached to situations that when it doesn't go our way that we can't even make any adjustments after that happens, we're just stuck right there. Read more to learn more - HOW TO LET GO OF YOUR EX To Attract Your Soulmate & Manifest Love.

Turning Our Feelings Into An IdeaTurning Our Feelings Into An Idea

How many people do you know that are just stuck right where they are in their lives because something happens and they're so attached to the situation that they can't do anything about it, but really nothing can ever possibly be wrong except for our attitude and the way that we're viewing the situation because, really, as I said, it's just an experience and we can create any type of story around it about how we feel, but really we're just thinking our feelings at that point -- I feel like this, I think this -- and we're turning our feelings and experience into an idea. Read more to learn more -  Law of Attraction: How to LET GO, Surrender, And TRUST THE UNIVERSE.

If we can just leave them at that and experience and know that a new experience is coming, then we're always in an opportunity for more love and more experience, and what's the point of life in experiencing? I'd say it's to love, to feel loved, and to be more loved. So how can heartbreak not be an opportunity to let more love into our lives?

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Published on March 30, 2023 01:20

Why Am I Constantly Unhappy?

Why Am I Constantly Unhappy? Is it possible for us to always be in a position to be happy? That doesn't mean we're always happy, but we're in a position to always be happy. To me, that's possible as soon as we know what the root cause of unhappiness is, and in order to find that root cause, I'd like to take you on a journey into what it's like when we're born and grow up in this world.    Read more to learn more - How To Get Rid Of Anxiety and Depression.

This body, which is actually a bunch of cells, is actually vibrating. When we look at it under an electron microscope, it's actually not solid; it's not something that's static; it's something that's just simply vibrating. This form comes in through my mother, and this form is born immediately upon birth, and everything—the doctor, my mother, my father, the society—begins to call me Jake. 

This is Jake. This is Jake's experience. This is what Jake is feeling right now, and soon I will begin to develop this idea within myself because all over the world there are all these things that are calling me Jake, and this vibration of sound is beginning to define this vibration of my body as shake, and soon it will keep going, and soon it will start to become this callus in our minds where there's a certain limit to how far we can go as an individual, and this is where Jake ends.    Read more to learn more - Free Yourself From Toxic People.

We Feel That We Are Defined By This WorldWe Feel That We Are Defined By This World

When this happens, we feel that we are defined by this world; all of who we are is in this world. What ends up happening then is that when we get to an experience that is challenging, we believe this experience is real. So the primary cause, in my view, was just a vibration. My view is just not real.    Read more to learn more - How To Stop People Pleasing And Just Be Happy.

Either the primary cause of what's making us unhappy in this world is that we believe that it's actually real, that this is actually Jake and these are actually my problems, or that this is actually even my success; we believe that this is real and that this is all that there is.




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March 29, 2023

Victor Villaseñor Interview with Jake Ducey

Victor Villaseñor’s Interview with Jake Ducey: This is Jake Ducey, and I'm here with best-selling author Victor Villaseñor. I've just finished my book, Into the Wind, which is the story of overcoming and transformation. Victor, you were illiterate and now you're a best-selling author, and I'd like to ask you to please share about that process of overcoming. If you like to learn more, read this -  Spiritual Solution You Must Try For 60 Seconds.

First and foremost, I had no intention of learning to read or becoming an author. I was just so full of confusion, anger, and hate, and I was here in South and Southern California, and I was so mad—I'm 19 years old, just about to turn 20—that I thought I was going to kill people, you know, be one of these people who go into a place and shoot up everybody. 


So I packed my guns and ammunition here on the ranch, took off, and drove through Riverside, San Bernardino, and Las Vegas streets. George, Utah, turned left and went up into Idaho, then turned right and went into Wyoming. These antelopes ran across the road, and I slammed on the brakes. I jumped out, and I was prepared to just kill. It was so crazy, and I went running after him, and then I came up behind him. 

I'd run around, and then I suddenly thought they were all so beautiful. There were snow-capped mountains, and I started crying because I realized at that moment that part of me was full of hate and rage, but part of me was full of love and beauty because of how I'd been raised by my indigenous grandmothers.

With The Eyes Of God, The Sun And Moon Come Up

When the sun comes up, that's the right eye of God; when the moon comes up, that's the left eye of God; and I said I need help from God. My grandmother said that we're all sent here; we're all five-pointed walking stars; we're all sent here to help God plant his or her on guard, If you like to learn more, read this -  Pray For What You Want And Keep The Faith.

And I said I can't plant with all this hate and rage, so I didn't shoot him, and I'm walking away and I'm talking to myself, and I'm saying, “What am I going to do?” I'm just so full of hate; how can I plant any seeds? And at that moment, I slid off a mesa and found some white seashells, and I said, "White seashells here in Wyoming —does that mean the ocean used to be here?" 

Thousands of years ago, at 6,000 feet, I found some Indian pottery, and I said, "Does that mean that there used to be an Indian village with a front?" Waterfront property and beachfront property? and then it hit me like a lightning bolt. 

The Written Word Has Great Impact On Readers

All over the world, civilizations have come and gone. We don't know who built those hedges in England. What do they call the stones? What is it, the stone walls? And we don't know how the pyramids were built in Africa or the things in Peru. But we do know a lot about the Jews because they have a book called the Bible. At that moment, I realized that the written word is powerful, that it can influence people, that it can make a difference, and that the Bible gives the Jews a foundation so they don't panic, get full of rage, and be all confused like I was. 

Then I realized I had to become a writer, and with that vision, I had the audacity to come home and ask my high school teacher how to become a writer. I've written about this in a book called How and Why I Became a Writer, and now I realize that every one of us has a purpose here on earth, and that purpose can be so incredible like mine that I can't read and become a writer, something that you can't do. Maybe that's exactly what you got to learn from musicians who are blind and become into music. If you like to learn more, read this -  How To Pray To God | Law of Attraction.

There Is Something Amazing In Our Minds And Souls

There is something incredible inside our hearts and souls that, when we tap into it, makes overcoming anything easy. Does that make sense? So I was seeing the vision that allowed you to overcome once you saw where the purpose was taking you. It allows you to know how to overcome it because many people you know, especially young people who have lived here their whole lives, have said, "You can't do this; you can't do that; this isn't possible," and the overcoming process seems too grand for people to go beyond. Was it seeing the vision that allowed you to overcome? 

The vision made everything seem possible. Nothing is impossible. Nothing's too grand because I had so much hate. And what am I going to do? Start killing people, or what am I going to do? That's a choice. Or am I going to pick up a pen and start making a difference by touching people's hearts and souls, and we will all come up? 

I imagine every person who's ever thought of suicide or every person who's ever thought of killing somebody else wants to just get drugged out of their mind or drunk out of their mind because they can't stand it. If they take that moment and stop and breathe deeply at that moment, they can reach into parts of themselves where they've never reached before, and that's when we start touching our genius, and that's when we start teaching touching our greatness—to not commit suicide, to not kill people, to not go into a rage, to not take drugs, or whatever—to take that lonely, scary moment and do something magical with it.

Victor Villaseñor Wrote About Forgiveness

Into the wind, I write about forgiveness. I state that forgiveness is the alchemy of the soul, in which the feeling of possibilities returns to the human spirit. You said you had a lot of hate; was there a process of forgiveness of yourself and others that was creating this restriction in your body, and once you had this forgiveness, it opened up the space for this creativity and this vision to come through? The forgiveness didn't come for a lot of years; the decision to become a writer came, and then I started writing.  If you like to learn more, read this -  Spiritual Solution You Must Try For 60 Seconds.

As I wrote in the process of writing, the hate started going like there's a movie called Billy Elliot about a boy that wants to be a dancer, but his father wants to be a boxer Irish, and in the process of learning how to dance in this macho world, it's the process that makes the difference. There is no peace. There is no path to peace. Peace is the path, and it took about five years of writing without even knowing how to spell and then saying, "Well, if you don't know how to spell, look up the word." What a stupid thing if I can't spell! How am I going to look it up? 

Life Has Many Curves, Ups And Downs

The most important thing is that life is full of twists and turns and ups and downs, and like when you yourself fell off a cliff and almost got killed, it was a turning point for you to come home and become a writer. Well, we all have to fall off more cliffs and almost break our necks, and we all have these things that cause us to open up and wake up, so you know something that I know. 

A lot of people my age, and really people of all ages, deal with the idea that there's this consensus about who we are, what we're supposed to be, and what's possible, and first of all, it's not normally possible that someone who's illiterate becomes a writer, and second, coming from where you came from, it's really an impossibility, so was there a process? What was your process? 

When people would say you can't be a writer, did they tell you you couldn't be a writer? You know, that's really important. When I came home and told my friends I'd decided to become a writer, they started laughing, like Billy, a neighbor here, who said, "Oh, come on, you can't spell anything, you can't write anything, and you didn't even do well in school.” I said, “Billy, stop it." “I've decided to become a writer; if you're a friend, please help me." I had to get rid of all my friends; only three of them stuck with me, including Ted Berlin, who became a cop. John Flo Tina became an airline pilot, and the other one—I forgot his name. 

Stay Away From People Who Keep Bringing You DownStay Away From People Who Keep Bringing You Down

You've got to get away from people who keep knocking you down. I rented a dumpster in Mission Beach. I went six months without speaking down there to try to find that voice again, and on the dumpster it said it's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you aren't, and I was thinking wow, so I tried to find that drunk or that homeless person who wrote it, and then they said oh, that's the poet, he's up in San Francisco, and I said what's he doing up there riding on dumpsters?

 So here's this guy that lives in San Francisco and comes down to San Diego for the winter, and he writes his poetry on dumpsters. I was thinking I never got to meet him, but you know that guy had found a niche, and on dumpsters he'd write these great things, and there's encouragement all over the world. 

So it wasn't my friends that encouraged me, only a few of them; it was meeting people all over once you're in the search; once you've made that decision, things seem to come to you from all directions in the book that I just finished, which is called Why and How I Became a Writer. 

Beginning Boldness Has Genius

I came back to my old English teacher, and I told him, "You know, I've decided to become a writer more than I thought." He was going to laugh because I got DS and I should have gotten FS, and he looked at me, and then he said and walked me across the classroom and showed me a poster up on the wall. It said, "Bye, Wolffe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," the German writer, and said whatever you can do or dream you can do; beginning boldness has genius, magic, and power, and that's what I live by: whatever you can do or dream you can begin. 

Don't pay attention to what anybody tells you; boldness has genius power and magic because what we're doing is walking around and listening to other people's opinions. Those frightened people kept us working on two cylinders, and when we finally jumped forward, we were working with all eight cylinders. We're incredible people with incredible opinions, and everything the world tells us about school only serves to bring us down.

I actually didn't pass my normal junior English class in high school, and now I'm here with you in that process, and I'm here living my dream, and for me, it was that exact thing. It was the beginning of the action, and I wasn't hearing that around me. Would you say that's really what it boils down to: did you flunk school? I didn't; that's a normal thing. You knew English; does that mean you flunked it? Well, then just say what your junior year was like; yeah, say yes, I think my junior year was like third grade twice; congratulations.

Speeding Into The Wind Takes Guts

So what does it mean to go into the wind? Speaking of this action, to go into the wind I think it's a wonderful statement that your book is the title because when you go into the wind, it's when the sails are picked up on a ship. It's when you raise yourself out of the water and start really moving, and then you don't go directly into the wind; you go three-quarters into it, and you pick up speed. Speeding into the wind takes guts, a decision, a focus on where you're going, and the flexibility to keep switching like you're simulating. That's a great title. Thankfully, what really intrigues me the most is the process of overcoming obstacles, which began once you realized you wanted to become a writer. 

As A Writer, You Can See Your Vision And Dream Clearly

How about we hear about your five best sellers that you have? One of them is actually becoming an HBO series. How about the process? Were there rejections in the process? How about stuff like that? because we've heard about your illiteracy.

Actually, once you’re a writer at this stage, you see your dream clearly; you see the vision, but there are still things that happen. Once, I spoke to my old English teacher, Mr. Moffat, in Carlsbad, and I said, "How do I start to become a great writer?" And he said, "You're going to have to learn how to read," and I said, "Oh, you knew that I didn't know how to read," and I said, "We kind of figured it out after you were the chess champion of all the faculty." 

I'm still getting F and D work," and I said, "How do I do that?" He said, “Go to the library and check out fourth-grade books and start with those.” and I said, “Well, that's kind of embarrassing to check out,” and he said, “Well, saints for your cousin, why to them?" But I lied to them, and he said, “Of course you know that's part of life." I was thinking, "Wow," so I went to the library and checked out books for my cousin from Mexico. 

Rejection Was A Way Of Life, And Learn That Rejections Can Get Better

I started learning how to read with fourth-grade books, and then this little girl started watching me read once I got up to about seventh or eighth-grade books, which took a few months, and she said, “You want me to read that for you?” She's about six years old. I said, “What makes you think I can't reach you?” She said, “Well, you're mouthing every word.” So I'm going to the library, and she says, “I'll read it for you if you want." I said, “Okay, you read it,” but I figured you knew she was six or seven and could read. She read the whole thing fluently. So here's a seventh-grade book. She's six years old, so she can read better than I can. 

The most important thing was that I had no ego. I had no fear. I wasn't going to let anybody talk me out of it, and I wrote for 10 years and had 265 rejections before I sold my first book, which was called Alabama, which they changed to Macho, so it's 265 publishers who rejected me again and again. I finally died when I finished a book. I'd make ten copies, xerox them, and send them to ten publishers, and then, when they came back, mail it out again. That way, rejection was a way of life, and I'd say, "God, I'm doing well this week." 

Brag About Rejection Rather Than Being Afraid Of Rejection

I got eight rejections last week, but only got five, and then one time I sent it back to the same publisher, and the editor wrote back and said, “Very sneaky." I just rejected this book last month, and he said I really looked at it, and actually it's a pretty good book; you're getting better, so I started getting better rejections, and then somebody said how a rejection should be better, and I said when you have over a hundred rejections, you really learn that rejections can get better. 

So I tell people not to be afraid of rejections. brag about rejection. I asked out twenty girls this month and was rejected twenty times. You just keep going and having fun, so you know you're speaking about fun, and you're making me laugh. What is the synergy between having humor about yourself and also about your failures? Why is that important? 

Without humor, you're a dead duck. You've really got to laugh at yourself and at the world. I mean the world is upside-down, everything is a big crazy joke, and I mean like we're told and in Christianity we don't kill, then we put on a uniform, and all of a sudden onward Christian soldiers go kill everybody you can. 

Everywhere In The Government, There Are Such Hypocritical Lies

There are such hypocritical lies everywhere in the government. The bankers are supposed to give this money to the people, but with our houses, they kept it all everywhere we looked. What I've learned is that when the sun rises, it is the right eye of God, and when the mother moon rises, it is the left eye of God, as my grandmother taught me when I was a child. God is always with us, and now God is not something you believe in; God is a verb; it's what you do. 

I don't believe in God; I don't believe in anything over there, and the universe is good. Only I truly live like my grandmother would say: they lived with God; they lived with possibilities; they lived with the unknown. Once you're in tune with the unknown, no one becomes very small. What we know is only this big; the unknown is infinite, and once you're in tune with the unknown, which is infinite, no one is so little that they can take themselves that seriously, so staying in the known is limiting our capability of growth. 

We think we know this much, and we think we know everything. It's only this much that we've learned in the last hundred years, and all these goodies that we've gotten, like cell phones and jet air, are gifts to us from our sister planets. 

Anna Frank Believes That Humans Are Basically Good

My grandmother raised me by saying that we belong to eight sister planets, and our twin sister destroyed them. There are six sisters left, and they've all found harmony and peace. The question is whether there is intelligent life on other planets. The question has always been: When is there going to be intelligent life on this planet?

 So I'd like you to please think of the five most influential people, whether they're authors or other people who've made a difference in your life, and instead of listing them, I'd like you to please tell me what you think the common thread between them is that allowed them to make a difference in your life and the lives of many others. What is the philosophy behind the list? 

Anne Frank is the little Jewish girl that's locked in a room during the Nazi things, and she kept herself together by writing her diary, and the Germans have lost the war, and she writes, and she doesn't know that, but she writes that. She still believes that humans are basically good. They found her, they murdered her, they killed her, and yet she is a testament that no matter how awful things get, you don't give up on human beings because deep inside are good people. The majority of people all over the world are good people, and the testament that she left is just fantastic.

The Grapes Of Wrath By John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck, a writer who has had a significant impact on my writing, has a unique style of portraying the lives of ordinary people, particularly the workers, in his book The Grapes of Wrath. However, he has also written a lesser-known book called To an Unknown God, which unfortunately hasn't received much attention from readers. 

In this book, Steinbeck delves into the spiritual beliefs of indigenous people, which is a fascinating subject that deserves more recognition. It's intriguing to see how Steinbeck explores spirituality in a different light, and it's a shame that this book hasn't been given the attention it deserves. I have had an impact on a considerable number of people, who have come in groups or blocks. 

As someone who got a degree in philosophy, the intellectual contributions of the Greeks, Germans, and French have had a big effect on me. Throughout my experiences, I have found it difficult to fully accept the notion that every single one of them is suffering from a state of persistent false beliefs. 

According To Victor Villaseñor, Confucius Is One Of The Greatest Writers

To me, one of the greatest writers of all time is Confucius. When he was about him and he wrote this little book and this little poem, he had been brought in by the emperor to be an administrator of a state, and he brought it to such flourishing greatness that everybody else got jealous until the emperor said, "Unless you get rid of Confucius, we're going to rage and then throw you out." So he got rid of Confucius, and as he was leaving his gates, they asked him, "Oh master, what are we going to do without you?" And he said, "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” That is writing at its best. 

Now people say, “Oh no, that's English." They stole everything all over the planet, just like the Spaniards stole all the gold and everything. The English stole everything, including the literature and brilliance of other cultures; that's from Confucius, not the British.

The World's Intelligence, Brilliance, And Culture

What time has come on earth for us to start understanding that there's brilliance, intelligence, and all the cultures all over the world and stop thinking that Europe is the place? What is one thing that you would like to leave behind, especially for young people in this age where we hear more about impossibilities than possibilities? What's something you would tell somebody who is stuck, and maybe they don't even know what their creative expression is? 

I do something with the audience when I give a talk. At the end of the talk, I invited two people up. I say I want a man and a woman, and the women always come running up. Finally, a man comes up, kind of scared, and then I take the hands of the woman and say, “I want you to learn two words in Spanish.” I say, "Wet your lips." Go ahead and wet them. They'll be flexible and round. That means to be affectionate and loving. I'll say I had a blast. They say I can't roll, but you can roll ours if you're wet with little rips and if you drink tequila — once I got him there. 

I said that from now on, when you meet somebody, I will shake hands with them. I don't ever want you to ask somebody again, “How are you?” Because the truth is you don't want to know, and then they're going to say, “Fine,” and we've been very superficial from now on. You shake somebody's hand, you look into their eyes, into the pupil—the gateways into the soul—and you say, “Have a fantastic day and a great, juicy night.” 

Uptight Breath Allows You To Relax Your MindUptight Breath Allows You To Relax Your Mind

People start cracking up and laughing. I don't do that for high schools that get dangerous, but I say that from college and up, and then I say, "Let's hug heart to heart," and I've moved the person this way so the hearts are against the heart, and I said, "Bend your knees," and now heart to heart hug me. And we hugged, and I said no, “Wiggle your ass, wiggle your ass,” and I said, “The reason we do that is wherever the ass goes, the brain follows.” 

So I want all young people to know that an uptight breath allows you to relax your brain, so go with the flow of creation. So what I say is: dance, relax your ass and your brain, and start realizing that every day is a miracle. 

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How To Stop Caring About Other People’s Opinions

How To Stop Caring About Other People's Opinions: This is Jake Ducey, the 20-year-old author of Into the Wind, and the intention of this is to talk about being independent of other people's opinions of society and being normal by just being who you are because we're never going to be happy unless we are who we want to be.

According To Gandhi, The Truth Is Still The TruthAccording To Gandhi, The Truth Is Still The Truth

I'm going to start it by reading a Gandhi quote, and we'll just see where it goes. So many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for never apologizing, or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind even if you are in the minority. Hey, try reading more here if you are interested on this topic -  How To Stop Caring About What Other People Think.

Gandhi said that the truth is still the truth, but, you know, I didn't believe him just because of his name. I picked it because the words hold such a great truth for everyone to live by when we know that we're correct. What does that mean? It means that we're following our art. Our heart doesn't know right from wrong. Our mind wants to label the good and bad, the right and wrong. Our hearts know that we're correct, that we're different, and that we have our own unique purpose and reason for being here on this earth. 

You Have To Ignore Everyone's Opinion

We just have to remember that when we put our minds to anything wholeheartedly without taking in all the consideration and ideas from others, we can direct this energy that's within us that's within this whole being of ours and put it forth towards what we want, no matter what it is. 

If your family wants you to be a professional tennis player but you like doing something else, then you have to do it because you're not going to be fulfilled and you're not fulfilling your role on earth by doing what you're supposed to be doing, and there is a certain point where you have to go beyond anyone's opinion. 

Make Your Own Decisions In Life

If you really want to live your dreams of making a difference in the world, and if we're giving more consideration to someone else's ideas than a respectful one, hey, thank you for your time, but I am making my own decisions. Ultimately, if we say anything but that, then we're probably taking someone else's thought more seriously than the one that's coming through us at that time, and it's pretty crazy to think about, but we just can't get anywhere unless we are thinking for ourselves in a sense. Hey, try reading more here if you are interested on this topic -  Reprogram Your Mind To Manifest What You Want.

It's kind of like when you're surfing; you want to catch this wave. You start paddling, and this wave is coming. You're putting all your energy into this specific wave, and then you see another way coming behind it. You're already about to catch this first wave if you're going, but then you see this and you just bail out for no reason other than, "Oh well, there's another wave that I saw coming for no other reason in the same way." 

95% Of Us Make Decisions About Our Lives

Most of us, about 95% of us, live our lives after seeing what we want to do and then hearing our parents, our friends, our family, our teachers, or anyone else say, “Yeah, there's this other wave over here; there's this other way that you should go," and when we're doing that, are we compromising the real creation of who we are? And what has life really made us to be? It's something that can make or break your own happiness or success. Most importantly, I can give you a perfect example of the difference that you make in the world and in my own life.

.You know I dropped out of school after three semesters, and that's not my message. I don't advocate that. I don't advocate doing completely unrealistic and outlandish things, as I did in believing I could write a book after taking one college English class and traveling around the world without a macroplan. That's probably not the way you're going to go in life. 

You have another way, whatever it may be, but the point of that story is that I took that inside my head. I didn't listen to anyone except for a select few of my close family and friends who didn't believe in me. I lost friends; I lost all sorts of things; and people thought I was completely ludicrous

The Fact That Humans Can Do Anything Makes Me Happy

One year later, I've completed my book. I have had the opportunity to meet with Louise Hay, the owner of the largest self-help and New Thought publishing company in the world. I've connected with five, six, and seven New York Times bestselling authors, and I'm co-authoring a book with New York Times bestselling author Greg Reed. I'm not saying this in order to brag. I'm saying this because I'm proud of the ability for a human being to accomplish anything, and I'm not more special than you, and President Obama is more special than us and whoever else. Bill Gates

No one is more special than anyone; we're all made of the same exact things, and when we're moving and vibrating at that specific rate of what our dreams are, nothing can stop us except for our own minds, and our own minds are stopped when we're listening to other people instead of ourselves. Hey, try reading more here if you are interested on this topic -  When You Have No Money, Do This!.

So my message isn't to never listen to anyone. You don't quite have to plug your ears, but, you know, just let it pass like the wind. Everyone's beliefs are temporary, just like the wind. Everything, even life itself, is temporary, so would you be satisfied if you were done with this body today? Would you be satisfied if somehow you passed on while being dependent on other people's thoughts and opinions rather than your own heart and your own intuition? Do you believe we can change the world if half the people are following their own hearts?

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