About once a year I like to introduce our web audience to extraordinary people who are making a difference in the world. Sometimes they are artists or visionaries, and sometimes just ordinary people who do extraordinary things. I am presently in South Africa, where the story of Thulani Ndebele came to my attention. Thulani is from Zimbabwe, and his story of heroism and courage in helping his village people deserves to be shared, as it acts as an inspiration to all of us and shows the power of the will, when backed with vision, to make a difference. Thulani, a former teacher, left his impoverished village early one morning in January 2006. He headed south, carrying with him only what he was wearing and a plastic bag. The bag would act as a raincoat, and carried one day’s food. He told himself he was following a vision, that he had a mission to complete. His mission was to make it to South Africa and earn money for his village. He had no idea if he would make it to South Africa, or what he would find there if he did. He knew only that there was a better chance of him finding food and basic necessities for his family and fellow villagers in South Africa than there was in Zimbabwe. “You will be killed,” he was told by the villagers before he left, as roaming bandits and criminals prey on vulnerable wayfarers, but he assured himself that if his ancestors could make the journey on foot, so could he. And besides, what other choice did he have?  In the early 1820s, Thulani’s forefathers had fled KwaZulu-Natal during the height of King Shaka’s power. They had traveled north to Zimbabwe and settled in an area that became known as Matabeleland. Now, almost two centuries later, their great-great grandson was also fleeing the regime of a tyrannical dictator called Robert Mugabe. Thulani walked every step of the way, surviving by digging up wild plants, and when he arrived at the border three weeks later, he was greatly weakened by the ordeal. Now a new challenge began. He had no passport. After three days of waiting in the searing sun, a kind border official relented and gave him fifty Rand (five dollars) and a pair of shoes to continue his journey. Within hours of crossing the border, knife wielding thieves took his shoes, money and even the shirt he was wearing. His bare feet blistered, the bare skin on his back burned, but his will was still strong and he knew that, as bad as he had it, his people in the village had it even worse. The next day a farmer gave him twenty Rand (two dollars) and another pair of old shoes to continue his journey. After several more weeks he finally made it to Johannesburg. Here everything frightened him, the traffic, the sounds, the people, and he was forced to sleep on the streets with discarded cardboard being his only [...]

This month marks the 30th anniversary of my teaching Mind Power. It was thirty years ago, April 1978, that I stood in front of an audience of about a hundred people at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada, and made my first public presentation of Mind Power. I had no previous public speaking experience and didn't know how it would be received, but I knew I had an important message to deliver. I remember clearly my nervousness and discomfort, but I made it through the evening. Fortunately my discomfort at being in front of an audience passed quickly, and these days I am as comfortable in front of a thousand people as I am in my living room with a few friends. The astounding discovery that I wanted passionately to share was: "Our Thoughts Create our Reality." Its funny to think about how revolutionary that concept was back in 1978. Now of course, thanks to the mass media, Oprah, The Secret, and numerous books on the subject, many people know that our thoughts do indeed have an effect in our life. However, even though many people understand the concept, there are still very few that have a working system which allows them to harness this power. That is why the Mind Power training system is so important and relevant, and why I never tire of spreading the word. But back in 1978, no one even knew of the concept, so there I was, an early pioneer sharing this revolutionary information. I spent three years in the woods, prior to teaching, developing this system. Everyone (friends, associates and family) thought I was crazy to waste my time in a pursuit that showed no hope or promise of success. But I was passionate about what I was doing. Now I want to share my first of three pieces of advice that I will give in this article: Always follow your passion. Let it lead you. It will always lead you to a successful and interesting life. In that first eighteen months of teaching, I taught numerous courses in both Victoria and Vancouver. I watched people cure themselves of illnesses, attract relationships, achieve goals and gain tremendous financial success. The system worked. It wasn't just motivation or positive thinking; I had tapped into something incredibly powerful and had put together a system that people could understand, follow and gain results with. You can imagine how that made me feel. In 1980, I did my first Canadian tour, traveling coast to coast, speaking in ten different cities. At that point I was attracting large audiences of around a thousand people per talk. The buzz was incredible both from media and the general public. I was getting a lot of attention. But not only was I helping to change lives, I was making more money than I ever dreamed of. It was pouring in faster than I knew what to do with it. I insisted on being successful and practicing what I preached. I was also very generous, and many individuals and charities saw [...]

As you are probably aware I have been writing my new book Quantum Warrior – The Future of the Mind for the past two and a half years. I am happy to say it is now complete and scheduled for release in October. The new methodology presented in this book takes the teachings of mind power to a different level, and there are many new and revolutionary techniques contained within this system. I will be sharing many of these methods with you over the coming months. I can’t think of a time I have been more excited or inspired. It reminds me of when I first began presenting the mind power course in 1978. The concept that our thoughts influence what happens to us, that they help to shape our reality; this was a foreign concept to most people back then. Now of course this is common knowledge, even if it’s not always practiced. We can now take the next step and begin living the quantum truths, which tell us we are one with everything and have unlimited potential to do or become anything. When you hear more of this new vision you will understand why I am so excited. I recently presented my first workshop on Quantum Warriorship and the response from those who attended was both gratifying and thrilling to witness. Each of us has the potential to live in an extraordinary way, and harnessing our own inner powers is the key to a successful and happy life. You are going to hear lots more about this next month. All the best, John

Discipline is a topic I refer back to again and again, both in my writing and in my talks, for a very simple reason. Without disciplining both your thoughts and actions, you are unlikely to achieve success, happiness or personal fulfillment.Many people think that Mind Power is a magic wand, an easy way to manifest your goals; that you just “think” something a few times and soon it happens. I wish it were so, but it takes more than that. Mind Power is an effective and powerful tool in creating your reality, but it will only happen if you have the ability to do your exercises regularly and consistently, week in and week out, and follow up these exercises with action. And this will only occur if you have discipline. Discipline to persist with your mental exercises beyond the initial euphoria and novelty of working with your mind in this new way, and discipline to set and achieve weekly goals. As this website advises, “Mind Power is a practice, not a philosophy.”Discipline is not a dirty word, and it is not something you should avoid or approach with trepidation. If you dislike the sound of discipline, change your attitude about it immediately and let discipline be your friend, your mentor, your teacher and your coach.The professional sports team that neglects discipline in either their preparation or on the sports field will always, in the end, be soundly beaten by the team that possesses discipline. An undisciplined team will not have the conditioning, the strategy or the execution necessary to win it all. They may have moments of brilliance, even dominance, but those moments will eventually give way to disorganization and ineptitude. So too in our life. A disciplined life will always be more successful and enjoyable than an undisciplined life.Now a couple of questions: Are you disciplined? Do you play to win in your life? What is your strategy for achieving your goals? How well are you executing that strategy? It’s amazing to me how many people want to be happy, successful and personally fulfilled in their lives, and yet they have no discipline or strategy to achieve it. They think it is going to happen if they just want it badly enough. Wanting something to happen in your life without having discipline or a strategy is like a sports team entering a game with no game plan, just hoping it will all work out. Don’t hope it will work out. Design a strategy and then execute it.If you know what you want in life but fail to set and achieve weekly goals, you are missing one of the surest ways to success. I have worked and been successful in many different fields and have a lot to share on this subject, and I do so in my books and CDs. But if I were limited to sharing only one piece of advice on what is most important to success, it would be, “Master the discipline of setting and achieving [...]

Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing. -Helen Keller The following is an excerpt from Money Success & You, a book by John Kehoe. I love sailing. I have a beautiful 32-foot wooden schooner that was hand-built by a friend of mine who is a master West Coast craftsman. I go out in it as often as possible. Sometimes I'll take the boat out in the afternoon and just sail around the harbor, back and forth, enjoying the sun and wind in my face. I don't end up going anywhere, but that's because I'm sailing just for the sake of sailing. Other times, I'll take off for a week or more. Occasionally, even for a month or two. At these times I have a clearly defined destination. Each day I study the charts carefully before I begin and set myself a course for the day. I navigate. I choose and trim the sails according to wind conditions, correct my bearing and make changes as necessary. I watch for and recognize signs along the way, a reef here, an island there; at each point of the journey I try to establish both where I am and where I'm going. I can't imagine doing it any other way. It can't be done any other way. Imagine sailing off with no charts or no course, just with hope and determination that you will arrive. How ridiculous, and yet that's what we do when we head off in life, hoping and wanting the best but setting no goals as to how to achieve it. Is it any wonder we don't arrive? "The reason most people don't achieve their goals in life," remarked author and lecturer Dennis Waitley, rather dryly, "is because they didn't have any in the first place." Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, successful and hundreds of other things, but not everyone has goals that map out how they will achieve these objectives. Are You Like Alice in Wonderland? In Lewis Carrol's classic Through the Looking Glass, one scene has Alice completely lost, not knowing which way to turn, so she asks the Cheshire cat, perched comfortably on a tree limb, for some help. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" asks Alice. "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," replies the cat. "I don't much care where," says Alice. Then it doesn't much matter which way you go," comes the reply. "So long as I get somewhere," Alice adds in explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," grins the cat. I love that. It's so absurd and yet all too similar to the way we often live our lives. We make a tragic error when we mistake working hard and being busy with achieving goals. We assume that if we're working hard we must be getting ahead. But working hard and trying to get ahead without specific, clearly defined goals on how to get there is living [...]

In our busy and complicated lives, our mind must deal with numerous details as we plan and orchestrate our lives. Our mind can shift effortlessly from present reality to past incidents or future possibilities within seconds. When considering our future, whether that future is one hour or ten years away, the mind can creatively project us into any situation it chooses, and often it does. If we are generally a positive person, most of these projections will be of a positive nature. Likewise if we are generally a negative person, most of our projections will be negative. Understanding how our mind works helps us understand ourselves and our present situation, which brings me to the topic of fear. How do we deal with fear when it happens to us? Fear is the result of our mind becoming fixated on images of an undesirable situation we “fear” will happen to us in the future. The effects of this fear are very real, and they have their consequences. It is not just an unpleasant experience to be ignored or accepted stoically. Fear is a very powerful force that those who are unaware of Mind Power often use against themselves. Even those of us who understand and practice Mind Power can fall within fear’s grasp if we are not diligent. Fear is the mind projecting within itself images of what it does not want to happen. If the fear is not recognized and dealt with early on, it can and will find root within our consciousness. When this happens fear then becomes a daily occurrence, and if these thoughts are allowed to repeat themselves over and over again, they will eventually take an imprint on a subconscious level. Once this happens the subconscious mind begins to attract the exact experiences we have been projecting. I want to say it is Mind Power in reverse, but it is not. It is yet another example of how Mind Power works so effectively even when we use it unwittingly against ourselves. A better analogy would be to say it is like driving a car in reverse when we want to go forward. There is no point complaining, “What is wrong with this car?” Instead ask yourself, “Why do I have the car in reverse?” Likewise when you are in the grips of fear ask yourself, “Why am I projecting images in my mind of events that I don’t want to happen?” This month’s topic was inspired by a newspaper article I read several days ago. The headline was. “Woman’s whale phobia comes true.” Let me quote you parts of the article. “A Labrador woman with a lifelong whale phobia was badly injured after an unidentified whale slapped her with its tail on the maiden voyage of her husband’s new boat. Brenda Hancock was struck in the head by the tail of a submerging whale in the Labrador Straits region of Forteau Bay on Sunday. “I guess I’m lucky to be alive,” Ms. Hancock said yesterday from [...]