The Awaken Academy

Some time ago I did a radio show on envy, where I quoted Emerson’s essay on self reliance. Emerson wrote that envy was ignorance. He followed that up by saying imitation was suicide. He was correct – our various patterns of thought cause us to differ one from another. To try to be like someone [...]

I have been reading a book on Creative Thinking by Charles S. Whiting that I have had in my library for the past twenty-five years. It is excellent. In his book, Whiting shares a definition of the term “creative process”, written by Professor John Arnold of Stanford University. Arnold explains the creative process is “that [...]

Your own beliefs and behaviors are great predictors of your success than any fluctuation in the marketplace. Even when the newspapers splash the word recession across the front page, you can write your own success story. Master the Art of “Inverse Paranoia” Start by becoming an “Inverse Paranoid”. What I mean by this is, believe [...]

Do you ever give much consideration to your own thoughts? What are thoughts? How do they affect the various aspects of your life? Although this should be one of our most serious considerations, unfortunately, for many people it is not. If the truth were known, there are a very small select few who make any [...]

A nation’s greatest assets are its men and women of vision. They did not close their mind when they closed their books, upon completing their formal education. They had reached a new frontier beyond which they could not explore, without the aid of their imagination. Imagination is the creative part of your personality. Most people [...]

How many times in a single day do you suppose you say , “I have to”. Count them … five will get you ten you say or hear I have to at least a hundred times between the time you get up in the morning and you lay down at night. I have to get [...]

Have you ever wondered why so many honest people work hard and achieve so little, while others never seem to work hard and get everything they want? They seem to have that magic touch – everything they touch turns to gold. People who fail have a tendency to continue to fail, while those who succeed [...]

In Mark Victor Hansen’s book Dare To Win he suggests that you: Earn as much as you can, save as much as you can, invest as much as you can, give as much as you can.” You can have all that you want financially, and more. All it takes to achieve this is the proper [...]

If you happen to be looking for a new position or possibly being interviewed for a better position where you are presently employed, don’t make the common error of quibbling over your starting salary. This foolish error has lost many people the big opportunity of a lifetime. If the position you seek is one that [...]

Today I want you to imagine that a couple has arrived here from another planet. It is your responsibility to explain the rules of life to these hypothetical aliens. Like you, they are facing a new year. Would you tell them to let the news broadcasters, newspaper columnists and the economists determine what kind of [...]