PUTTING MY LATEST NEWSLETTER IN HERE for those of you who aren't on my mailing list (and who will miss all the low cost teleclasses i do on Resistance and that kind of thing, but oh well I always say :-) )

But future blogs will be posted much more often than my infrequent newsletters, so if you are on the mailing list and you like hearing about this kind of thing, head over to Twitter and follow me and I'll tweet each time I post here.

October 9, 2009

I'm back in the old USA after a month traveling through Europe speaking at workshops and running retreats, little dog under my arm, lugging stuff. Did you ever wonder what life on the road is like for a famous (I still laugh when I use that word) author and speaker?

Well, no one lifts your bag at check-in or security. (Because, as an author, people don't usually know you. Maybe I should have been a movie star.) Then they refuse to bend the rules about extra baggage. (Didn't anyone tell them I am famous and have to carry my fame around in an extra bag??) I have learned to search for people with upper-body mass to help me with the lifting, and in Europe I really did have help.

But then you have to cram yourself in a tiny seat in coach. (Yes, coach is where many of us famous authors must sit and the seats seem to be getting smaller every year, and no, I didn't gain weight, wiseguy.) If the person in front leans back you can't read or eat.

I can't describe the food -- I won't describe the food (once was enough), and don't get me started about the taxis who wouldn't pick us and our luggage up at the train station in Frankfurt (because the hotel was too nearby and my Yorkie troubled them) but suffice it to say that, while I love being in places like Toulouse, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Zurich and Corfu, I do not love getting there.
So why do I bother writing books and getting out there to speak in front of audiences who have read them?

Because when I see people's faces light up with the realization that there's nothing wrong with them -- when I can make them laugh by making fun of Positive Thinking, when someone in the front row smiles at me with tears in her eyes because she sees that help is on the way, and when I get a letter like the one at the bottom of this newsletter -- then all those other hassles disappear out of my mind, and I know exactly why I've chosen this life.
What about you? Is there something you've learned, something that could help people, something you ache to tell the world? Would you like to find your life's mission and have that kind of energy and purpose and be able to pay your bills, too? (In coach, at least :-)) Then I really think you ought to take a look at the WriteSpeak program.

The Teleworkshop, Part I of the Write Your Own Success Story program, is where you will find your message. By the end of the day that message will call to you loud and clear. You'll also have a team of buddies who want to see you succeed, and they'll keep you going. You'll have learned all the technology and unusual systems I've developed that you'll need to launch your career as a well-paid speaker/author; and you'll have a program for how to proceed if you choose to stop with Part I.

The good news is that you'll love it. The bad news is that the scheduled WriteSpeak Part I Teleworkshop on October 24 is full, and you can't get into the Part II 5-Day Retreat unless you've taken it.

So I thought I'd ask how many of you wish you could be in the prerequisite Teleworkshop, and if there are enough signups, (each part of the program is limited to 15 people), I'll open up one more Part I Teleworkshop on November 1.
Go read about it at WriteYourOwnSuccessStory and if you're feeling the urge to do what I do, that is, to take what you've learned in your life and try to help others with it, then you should be at Part I, maybe Part II as well. Just let me know asap because spaces will go on a first-come, first-served basis. If you send in your fee and the Nov. 1 workshop doesn't fill up and is cancelled, you'll get a refund right away, of course. And then we'll sit down together and try to come up with Plan B before the retreat begins.

You know this, but let me say it again anyway: If there is something you can give the world, then you have to give it. We weren't put on this planet to use up natural resources. You owe your gifts to the rest of us in return for the gift of life itself. If you know something we could benefit from knowing, you have to do something about it. If I can help you do that, just let me know.

Here's that letter I mentioned above. I've been getting at least one of these letters (often more) every day for many years. Read it and you'll never again wonder why someone would want to do what I do.

Below the letter is a new video we just put up on YouTube of me speaking to a packed house in Frankfurt. Please note that, in spite of my pathetic complaints about travel trouble, that I'm obviously having a very good time. That's the part of being a speaker I forgot to mention. :-)
Dear Barbara,

I have been studying self-improvement for most of my life, attended seminars, listened to audio books and read hundreds of hardcopies. It wasn't until I read Chapter Thirteen "A rage against the ordinary" in your book "I Could Do Anything If I Knew What It Was" that I realized who I was for the first time. I cried when I thought back to my childhood and realized that this child was still holding me back. I am forever in your debt for helping me find myself and begin truly living my life. I hope that someday I can help another as you have helped me. Thank you so much.

Sincerely, MK