I met a gentleman at a conference in Sydney, Australia where I was speaking—he came as an attendee, and he liked my message. He said, "Listen. I'm Australia's top sound engineer. I've helped develop the neurosynergist technology." He shared with me a CD and it dropped me into hypnosis, into a state of meditation and elevation like I'd never seen before!

I said, "Let's work together," and we put together a joint venture.

I'm teaching these NEW Think and Grow Rich principles now, and it's comprised basically of a thirteen-point formula. I'm teaching them, and I'm still running into a little bit of what I experience teaching Internet Marketing…

I'm having trouble communicating to people in an hour or in a weekend how to radically change your life, permanently, right now! I mean, right now! What I knew for sure to be true, because it has been in my own experience, because I had wanted wealth all my life, is that unless and until we get it at the deep subconscious level, we'll never have any outstanding success.

We hear so often people say, "I never seem to get ahead." Interestingly enough, they never seem to get that much further behind, either. They just tend to barely get by, forever and ever. What we're talking about is a phenomenon that's kind of like a wealth thermostat.

It's kind of like in a big office building. If the temperature goes down, in other words if things start getting worse, the air kicks on and the temperature rises again. They do something to get back there to their homeostasis.

And also if the temperature goes up, and now they're getting prosperous and things are rolling good, they do something to foil themselves—because they have that mental picture of themselves at a certain level.

So I said, "Let's create this incredible hypnosis program based on and connected with The NEW Think and Grow Rich principles, using holosynergist, neurosynergist sound technology. Let's give it to people because we know they will get it, especially with repeated listening, at the deep subconscious level.

"And actually, it will be the easiest change they ever made in their life—because after they listen to a few tracks, they'll really be a different person. They've been rewired, reprogrammed. They're going to be thinking differently!"     

I've been a writer since the age of seven years old, and no kidding, I did start turning out product at the age of 20 and 21—though I knew at seven that that's what I wanted to be. I've had this passion for 50 years. I'm 57 now.

And so I've basically always had this passion, this knowledge that, whatever it is that you're going to do, whatever it is that you want to feel, or to express, or to explain—again, I'm coming at it as a writer—you gotta do it now.

Because now you have the energy, now you have the feeling. Guaranteed—I've lived through this thing in generation after generation, decade after decade, because later you won't have the same feeling. Not the same way. Not with the same animation.

For instance, here's one little thing. I just met a guy who's 18 years old and he's talking about how he's going to go out with his girlfriend tonight. Well, now, I still go out with my girlfriend. And I'm still getting excited, but it's not the most important thing in the entire world that could ever happen, like it was when I was 18, right?

Times have passed…we don't get a chance to repeat. Whatever the themes of today are, today is the time to embrace them.

Hey, there are so many things where everybody says, "Well, if I had known when I was 21 what I know now, I would have done things differently…. Well, if I only had the chance to do it all over again…"

And what's that old German saying, "Too quick old, too late smart?"

There are a lot of very angry people in this country right now. And when you talk about how far we've gone, and how we've strayed from the way the Founding Fathers set up the United States of America, you can understand why.

Earlier this year, I caught the tail-end of a radio program talking about Tax Freedom Day. That's the day when you've finally worked enough to pay all the taxes that are imposed upon the subjects here in this country.

And they were talking about 109 days—109 days out of a year. That's pretty doggone close to a third of your productive life that's robbed from you, using their language—stolen from you. One hundred and nine days.

And by the way, income taxes were imposed as a temporary measure in, I believe, 1913–1918. And now we're in the middle of a depression or a recession, and government spending is outrageous! They're adding more and more employees and departments that'll never go away. Things aren't getting any better—they're getting worse.

They had demonstrations here on April 15^th, the day we pay our income taxes, at Legislative Plaza. I could go on and on and on, but you catch the drift of the radio program. My opinion on it all is yeah, it's a rip-off.

And thank God we don't get all the government we pay for!

You've heard the phrase, "Failure is not an option." Well, many times that's very, very true, such as if you're flying across the Pacific Ocean to Sydney, Australia. Failure is not an option.

However, in life and in the economy, we all encounter setbacks. Well, failure, remember, is not a destination, it's a stopping point. I call them an adventure or an instructional events.

Hey, if we have to get flexible, if we have to get adaptable, if we have to reconsider, if we have to hold something in reserve here so that we can deploy it there, strategize about what we're going to do—hey, these are the things that life is made out of. This is nothing new.

I like what Bill Clinton says about failure. He says, "Man, it's not a time to give up; it's a time to get up." Don't give up, get up.

Use setbacks as instructional events. Use them as motivational events. They will come to you; they will come to everybody who's doing anything of any substance. And in the marketing profession, well, we even avoid the negative charge that could come from what others like to label, sometimes, as a failure.

And so many people's failure comes before they even get up on the stage to sing! They're just certain that nobody would like them, whereas the person who gets up on the stage to sing is going to get some feedback. They can then move forward on their dreams and give it another shot.

No matter how ignominiously, it can happen. Take it in the spirit that it will make you better. Failure is not a destination, it's a stopping point. It's an instructional event.