A bear is silently strolling around in the woods looking for food.

Out of the corner of her eye she spots a mountain lion, silently creeping toward her.  The bear slowly turns her head in the other direction and spots another mountain lion.  Her worst fears are being realized.  She is being ambushed, if there are two, there will be more.

She quickly turns her head and spots another two lions.  As her head turns she feels a hot searing pain in her back as one of the lions has pounced on her and dug his claws deep into her back.  The bear struggles but can’t find her roar to shout for help and to scare the lions away.  Another lion sinks his teeth into her leg. and the other two lions pounce on her back and front.

For a few moments the bear gives up and thinks she is good as dead.  Then a picture of her cubs jumps into her mind.  She sees the cubs looking for their mother, looking for food and at that moment she knows the cubs will die if she does not go  back to the large hole under the oak tree, where they are dwelling.  Another claw just misses her eye as she sees the lion about to bite into her neck.  The three cubs keep coming back into her mind and suddenly she rises…..she rises to shake off two of the lions and lets out an almighty roar…she shakes another lion from her leg and swats another as he pounces again, she looks at the lion face on and roars another massive, bellowing roar.  The lions stops in it’s tracks….another roar confirms his suspicion that this bear wants to live, and will do anything to survive.  He turns and walks away and the other lions join him.

The bear, limps slowly back to her cubs and cradles them in her fur as she feeds them.

The magic in you

We all have magic in us, we all have that spark that says ‘I am not going to settle for a mundane life, I want to experience life to it’s fullest, I want to live, I want to dance, I want to do something, I want to love and feel totally alive’

The trick to life is finding your magic, finding the meaning that will drive you forward every single day of your life.  So many of us have given up.  I’ve heard countless stories of men and women who have retired after working for 45 years, only to die a few years after retirement, their fight had left them, they hadn’t found the magic inside of them.

You goal in life should be to find the magic inside of you, find it quick and keep driving toward it every single day of your life, you truly are magical, you might not realise it but the magic is there.

When you have found the magic, there’s only one thing you need to do with it……………. Share it with others.

1. Steve Pavlina – A scientific Method for exploring consciousness – One of the best personal development blogs on the net and Steve has certainly change my way of thinking on the topic of “subjective reality”. The posts go back as far as 2004, but starting with this one post could change the way you think about life forever.
2. Tim Ferris – Dr Stewart Friedman on “Time Bind” vs Psychological Interference and more – Another great blog, which I started reading after reading the ‘4 hour workweek’. I think this guy is a genius and someone who thinks outside the box on every aspect of life. This post really made me think about focusing on the task at hand instead of drifting off to another place in my head, you’ll understand when you read it.
3. Richard Dawkins – Imagine no Religion – Richard Dawkins is someone I admire greatly and after reading ‘The God Delusion’ I admired him even more for having the courage and conviction to stand and speak out about what he believed in. In this article he talks about the tribal mind of religions and what it is doing to the world.
4. Bruce Lipton – Biomagnetism and Energy Medicine – Another author who thinks outside the box and has the courage to stand by his convictions. Bruce believes that we can literally change our body and cells by the information we feed them from our thoughts. His book ‘Biology of belief’ is a life changer and a must read. His videos are amazing to watch also, he has so much energy and passion about the subject of biology.
5. Seth Godin – No Middleman, no insulation – Seth is a marketing genius and this one blog post is just one of many that shows his awareness and understanding of the marketing world. Even if you are not into marketing Seth can teach you a thing or two about life and interaction we have with each other and the businesses around us.
6. Yaro Starak – Engagement – The magic ingredient you need for success online today – Yaro is one of my blogging heroes and has some fantastic articles on the business of blogging. This article is all about engaging with your readers and the relationship you have with them, for me it is one of the articles that can change the way you blog for good.
7. Business Week – How top bloggers earn money – this article from Business week really put me onto the power of blogging and how it can change people’s lives. It is a great article and very inspirational for online business owner and bloggers.
8. Christian Thomas kohl – Buddhism and Quantum physics – What is reality? Kohl tries to explain here the differences between the western concept of reality and the Buddhism explanation of reality mixed in with quantum physics. This is a totally fascinating read and one which made me think seriously about life itself.
9. Jill Bolte Taylor – My stroke of insight – A TED lecture by Jill Bolte who suffered a stroke ane observed exactly how the brain started to shut down as it was happening. A thoroughly fascinating lecture.
10. Matthieu Ricard – The Monk in the lab – Matthieu has been studying happiness as an inner state for years and this article shows how inner peace can reflect our lives and how we can change through meditation.
11. Win Wenger – Two guaranteed ways to increase intelligence – I have been reading this website for years, on and off, and the writings always fascinate me and lead me to new ways of thinking about life, intelligence and creativity. In this article win talks about awareness of breath and how we can increase our lung capacity which inevitably affects our ability to communicate more effectively, this is a must read and take a look around the whole website you won’t be dissappointed.