I sport around town in a late model Acura TL. It's nothing super exceptional—I'm not bragging on it—but it is a sports car. It's a four-door charcoal-silver color, and it has a 250-horsepower, automatic transmission.

Now, why I tell you this—a thing I never dreamed I'd be telling you—is because I've always wondered what Marshall Sylver means when he says, "Power is for use." I've never quite interpreted that until recently, while driving on the interstate.

You know me—I'm a very nice and polite guy. But when I get on the road in that sports car, man, I know all the different dimensions of driving! Driving fast, accelerating, braking—the brakes work as well as the accelerator does, and in that sports car all you have to do is think about where you'd like to be, and the car moves there by itself.

I mean, it's a phantom. It's something like I've never seen before!

Now, I get in the car and I'm on the interstate and I'm whipping around everybody else who exists. I'm getting to the front of the line. I'm moving in, I'm strategically slowing and speeding, and I can zap over to another lane in the flash of an eye! This is a good car.

And I just realized—that's not the way I drive when I'm driving my 1994 Ford Ranger pickup. When you've got to transport a set of beds, or a set of trunks, or whatever, you have to be real cautious. I leave a long distance in front, between my vehicle and the next.

And I realized that it's all about the difference in power, potentiality and ability that I have in those two vehicles.

I drive one dramatically differently, and I'm not saying recklessly—but it's much more fun, much more exciting, much more involved as a sport. And I drive one very carefully, cautiously; it's a truck.

Power is for use, I realized. So I extended the thought to me and to you. If you have the ability to speak, speak. If you have the ability to write, write.

If you have the ability to create an Internet business, to create a side income that may overtake your original income, if you have the ability to make presentations and be a stirring motivational speaker and make money from it by making and creating products and presentations, and you don't use that ability…well, power is for use.

You were intended to use it, and that's the whole point. Potential power is potential power, but it only becomes power when it's expressed.

So express it. Live in this moment. Do what you know you needs to be done. Do your dreams. Be an achiever—do not take any excuse for not moving on your dreams, on your goals, right now. Do it!

As Marshall Sylver says, "Power is for use!"

Hey, me and Hank Williams, Jr., we're from Dixie.

And speaking of Dixie—during a recent drive, I passed by Dixie Plywood and Lumber Company here in Nashville, and it looked almost like a ghost town instead of the busy, bustling center of activity it normally is. There were just about six cars in the lot, and it didn't even look like they had the lights on inside—at about 9:30 in the morning.

And then I passed by a big shipping plant—sorry, I don't know the name—and it looked like a travesty of its former days. There were just a few trucks moving and then, whoa! I was almost cut off by a cement truck, with its load churning. And then, as I was turning the corner, a UPS truck pulled out in front of me.

No big deal, just normal traffic. But I went from thinking, "Wow, things are definitely downsizing," to "Hey, things are still moving!"

I happened to be with a trucker friend recently at a conference, where I met him and his wife. They used to travel together, hauling for GM. GM's not sending very many autos out right now, so then they were hauling for Ford.

Well, what Ford used to do—what they used to call business as normal, what used to provide a lot of opportunity for a lot of people—isn't happening now.

But later, as I was pulling onto the interstate, I simultaneously saw at least 15-16 trucks—and I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. Dixie, right? Meaning I'd see more if I was somewhere else.

In other words, these are interesting times. There are contraries going on. The point is, somebody's using those trucks. They're moving and hauling freight. Somebody's paying for that; somebody's doing business. And those truck drivers, they are driving, they are working.

When I was recently telling my UPS man how bad the economy was—you know, you read a few headlines and leave the office, and you're not in a super-duper positive frame of mind, at least in what you're thinking and talking about—my UPS man said, "I guess people still have to ship."

Oh, yeah. And I guess people still have to have electricity, and water, and groceries, and everything else. The message is, be resourceful. Which side of the stream do you want to buy into? It's running on both sides. Both currents are strong, right now especially. You get to decide, you get to play the game.

Somebody's hiring those trucks. It can be you!

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Ted Ciuba, "living legend" and bestselling author of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, is one of the world's top human potential trainers. He helps people find, define, and actualize their passions to transmute their intangible desires into real money. To find out more about Ciuba, how he can help you, and to collect $297 worth of free gifts, visit www.HoloMagic.com

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"Without women, what good would money be?"

That's a quote from Aristotle Onassis. Of course, as a male, I would subscribe to that. I'm not expecting every woman to subscribe to it, though. And I'm not really talking sexist stuff here.

What I mean is that we don't work for the money, and that's what Onassis is saying. We don't work for the money—we work for the things that money brings, that money allows us to do, that money allows us to have, that money allows us to do for others.

We work to make a contribution. We work for our families—we work to go take them on vacations, to provide for their security. We work to make a difference. We work to provide for charities.

You’d really be surprised how many people I talk to who really have as their highest goal to benefit a specific a charity. Like mini Jerry Lewis’s. How many people do you know who say they want to do something worthy for a charity? But how many people do you know who are speakers, authors, experts and gurus, who are actually doing something for a charity?

You see, there's a big difference between not having the resources—that is, money—and having the resources. Like these rock groups that do a benefit concert. They have power. They're contributing. Now, if they were working only for the money, would they give all the money away to the charity?

No, of course they wouldn't. If they were working only for the money, it would be a narcissistic world. We don't work for money.

Especially fiat money, meaning paper money that could potentially have no value at some future point, as has happened with currency after currency after currency. All they do is change the laws and poof!, one government goes and poof! your money's gone.

No, you're working for the things that money can bring—you're not working for stacks of bills. You may feel secure with money in the bank…so you're working for security. You may feel secure knowing that you've got investments that you can count on, or a program that's compounding—that money will be there in your golden years. You're working for that security.

You may be very pleased that you can provide your family with the things that, maybe, you never had when you were growing up. You're working for your family.

I'll close this the way I opened it. We don't work for money, we work for a whole lot more than than. "Without women, what good would money be?"

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Ted Ciuba, "living legend" and bestselling author of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, is one of the world's top human potential trainers. He helps people find, define, and actualize their passions to transmute their intangible desires into real money. To find out more about Ciuba, how he can help you, and to collect $297 worth of free gifts, visit www.HoloMagic.com

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I want to tell you the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. And it's a whole lot simpler than you might think.

You know, there are so many excuses that have been bandied out there—depending on sex, race, religion, age, intelligence, resources, contacts, parents, the neighborhood you grew up in, the neighborhood you live in.

None of those are the reasons people succeed. I've seen too many commonalities, common traits, to believe that. Let me tell you, it all starts with a burning desire.

Those who fail generally don't even have a clearly defined desire. Certainly they don't have a burning desire or they wouldn't fail, with the exception of dying young, which can happen to anybody. You can't prevent an airplane that you're riding on from going down.

Another characteristic of successful people is purpose. Those who succeed on a big scale have a purpose, a reason why they're here. They have definiteness of purpose. And it defines everything else—the other characteristics I'm going to mention—that they're doing and deciding on. Now, the interesting thing is, they get to decide on their purpose, too.

Should you meditate, should you pray, should you do some due diligence, should you ask questions? Yes!

A purpose defines what it is you're going to do in the big scale. How are you going to contribute to this life as a method of paying back the gift you've been given of having a life?

People who succeed have a vision, which leads into big goals. They've got things they want to do, they've got people they want to help, they've got changes they want to make! They've got things they want to see have happen in this world that they can make a significant difference to.

And then, of course, you go from vision and goals to making plans. Talk to most people and you'll see that they don't have plans. They might say, "I want to make a million dollars." So ask them this question. "Okay, great. What's your plan?"

Well, of course they don't have plans, because they don't have a definite, burning desire for something specific. They don't have a vision…they don't know what they stand for. They don't know what they want, so how can they have a plan?

Those who succeed have persistence. See, those who just have a weak desire, they may get into motion. They may buy the same business opportunity, or the same copyrighting course that you do—and you get outrageous results, the millions that you dreamed about!

You did some heavy dreaming. You did some heavy planning. You created the plan. They were just wishful—just thinking. The majority of people bob around in the ocean just like corks floating, and they'll go whichever way the wind or the waves take them.

On the other hand, a ship that has a destination clearly in mind, with a plan to get to the destination, a captain at the helm who is flexible, who knows what to do and how to encounter any of the different circumstances that may come up—that is the mariner, that is the person who will get to where you want to go.

So I wish for you to recognize that these six simple traits, which mark the difference between those who succeed and those who fail, can take you to your deepest, most profound desires and the actualization that you would have in your life.

A burning desire. Purpose, Vision, Goals, Plans, and Persistence!

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Ted Ciuba, "living legend" and bestselling author of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, is one of the world's top human potential trainers. He helps people find, define, and actualize their passions to transmute their intangible desires into real money. To find out more about Ciuba, how he can help you, and to collect $297 worth of free gifts, visit www.HoloMagic.com

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