Energy is Priceless

Energy Is Priceless
by Stuart Wilde
To make money, you have to deliver your energy in some form, to satisfy a
demand that is out there. And if what you are selling is energy, charisma,
and enthusiasm, there is no competition because most others are selling
things that are lifeless, loveless, and dull.
So your stuff -- your service, your creativity, whatever will always be
different, unique, and desirable. Why? Because you will imbue it with
energy, the God Force, love, and caring.

I know a young man who opened a shop. It was minute -- just two little
rooms; the whole thing wasn't much bigger than the average kitchen. The shop
sold candles, incense, aromatherapies, and so forth. Heaps of other places
in the town did the same thing, but he was a bit different so he wasn't in
competition with the others.

The young man was soft and kind and loving. People would come in, and he'd
be right there for them. He'd talk to them, make them feel better, and
they'd go out of his shop with a bottle of ylang-ylang extract or something.
I'm sure many didn't know the difference between ylang-ylang and ding-aling,
but it didn't matter -- because it felt safe and correct and nurturing.

He had a little fountain in the doorway and that felt nice; and the shop was
spotless. The few shelves he had were always fully stocked and neat; little
signs explained things, and he explained things; and you could pop in for a
remedy for your granny's arthritis. He couldn't fix it necessarily, but
you'd wind up with a candle or a book or something that was imbued with tons
and tons of love. That would cheer your granny up, her immune system would
kick in a bit stronger, and she'd get a bit better.

He sold love 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. He was humble and kind and
soft-spoken; and if he had an ego, it certainly wasn't around during working
hours. People loved him; they flocked to his shop.

After several years of selling love in little packages, he sold the shop for
over $500,000 -- an astounding price for a few hundred square feet of shop.
He used the cash to make another investment and did the same love-love thing
there. Now, eight years later, he's worth three or four million, and his
company will soon go public. When it does, he'll receive an enormous
refund -- with a note from the God Force saying, "Here's 20 million bucks,
dude. Thanks for dishing out all that love and sweetness in a dull gray
world."

Action
Get a piece of paper, and write down the services, knowledge, or products
you are familiar with -- the things you're already doing. Then write another
list of things you might be interested in delivering to people.

Having honed down your lists, look at your products, services, and packaged
information, then analyze what other people have done in these fields. Ask
yourself, Is this other product exciting? Does it challenge? Does it inform?
Does it teach people something? Does it enthuse them and make their lives
more comfortable? Does it help them to be sexier or more beautiful? What is
in this product that has value, and how could it be improved?

Perhaps you could take a very ordinary product that everybody is familiar
with and add a little something that makes it absolutely irresistible.

Look at your commercial life so far. What have you sold? Let's say you've
always sold your labor, and you're working for somebody at present. What can
you do to put more energy into the labor you provide? You might say, "I get
paid the same amount of money whether I put more energy in or not," but this
is not the point.

If you energize yourself in your work, you will find that: (1) the job
becomes more fun to do, (2) you'll be more likely to be promoted or given a
raise, and (3) you'll lift your energy so high that you'll go beyond the
job, and hop perhaps to another corporation that pays you twice as much. And
you do this by arriving a little earlier, staying a little later, improving
your efficiency, and making an effort to relate emotionally to the people
around you.

It is good to practice putting energy in right now, no matter how dull the
current situation. Later in life, that energy will become cash in the bank
or abundance or wonderfulness of one kind or another.

Under the metaphysical law of supply and demand, you should not limit how
much you're going to put out. You don't have to let the world use you, but
you have to give because you want to receive. So start by giving. Give of
your attention and concentration, give of your love, and give of your
energy. Don't destroy yourself with negative feelings toward other people;
if you can't love them, be neutral. Be enthusiastic, be open, and be up
there for it, for in limiting yourself, you get stuck in one place in one
salary for the rest of your life.

As you agree to give as part of your action plan, and as you begin to look
at how you can improve your service, knowledge, or product, it will take you
to the next step. It carries you to a higher energy, a greater velocity, a
larger salary, and bigger opportunities. It opens you to easy money. You'll
find some money, or win some, or a great dollop of moolah suddenly will drop
into your lap. Expect a payoff!

Supply and Demand
Once you imbue your life, your products, and so on, with energy, you will
see that the law of supply and demand no longer applies. It only relates to
the tick-tock world we see around us. It does not apply once you understand
the trick of projecting energy into your moneymaking activities.

To properly comprehend the idea, you first have to make a subtle ego-shift
in your mind. You have to switch from focusing on yourself -- "What do I
need? Who will supply my demands? What will I eat? Who will give me the
things I want?" -- to concentrating instead on the needs of others.

This doesn't mean you have to become a charity worker, or disempower
yourself financially. It's more a way of saying that your needs will be met
once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's
need. That is self-empowerment. Hoping someone will fix it for you is
disempowering, because a satisfactory outcome always lies beyond your
control, subject to the whims of others.

So switch your focus to: "How will I fulfill somebody else's needs today,
and get paid in the process?" There is no way of making money on this planet
other than by fulfilling people's needs. It's just an ego-shift. First, you
concentrate on serving others, and in that way you serve yourself.

By concentrating on what people need, you become abundant. When we look at
the marketplace of life, isn't it true that so many products don't work? How
many restaurants have you eaten in that are not clean or customer oriented?
How many businesses exist just to screw people rather than to love them and
satisfy their needs? There are so many shoddy products and rip-off merchants
who haven't clicked into "How will I fulfill my customers' needs?" Often a
customer's need may just be an emotional need to talk to you about their
life while you're selling them something.

If selling products is what appeals to you, think of products you believe
in, products that are worth the money. Ask yourself, Can I put my heart and
soul into the product? Can I be enthusiastic and really love this gizmo,
really serve my customers?

So the game is to provide people with something they need, imparting helpful
information and exuding a loving energy as you make the sale. You have to
join humanity at the level of emotions, needs, and desires. You have to
nurture them and be there for people. You have to empathize and put out
energy.

If you are there for people on a human level, it helps you sell products.
It's love in action. Love in action is a form of compassion. Wouldn't it be
great if you could sell a million refrigerators and rack up a whole heap of
compassion at the same time? Now that would be a lovely memory to look back
on at the end of your life, would it not?

Once you have the God Force in what you do, there is no more competition,
and you are no longer a victim of the vagaries of the market, the ups and
downs of supply and demand. You're out on your own, miles ahead of the rest.

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This article is excerpted from:
The Little Money Bible
by Stuart Wilde.

Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Hay House, Inc. © Stuart Wilde.
www.hayhouse.com

Shared with Love and Light, Rosalie xo