If You Could Only Read 7 Spiritually Uplifting Books In 2012 These Should Be The Ones

I get asked this question a lot.

“Dax, what are your favourite spiritual/self development books of all time?”

It’s a kind of difficult one to answer as I’ve read so many books that have had such a huge impact upon my life over the years but if I REALLY had to narrow them down then this would be the top 6 that I feel have had the largest impact.

1. Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch

When I first heard aboutConversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue I was sceptical to say the least. In fact, I was downright cynical, after all, the idea of someone having a direct conversation with God was, to me at least, absurd.

Little did I know that this book was to have such a profound impact on my life… seriously!

This one book (and the series that follow it) have completely revolutionised my outlook on life and led to more spiritual growth than the entire combined spiritual readings I have had the pleasure of experiencing and, when you consider that I’ve read the Bible, the Book of Mormon, The Bhagavad Gita, The Torah, the Talmud, the Koran and pretty much any other spiritual/religious text you’ve ever heard of, this is saying a lot.

Now, just for clarity’s sake, I’d like to confess that I’m not religious at all. I respect people’s right to follow a religious path but I’m not one of those people as I see spirituality as an individual remembrance of who we are (a thought that I held before reading CWG) and a path that we get to choose ourselves rather than having doctrine enforced upon on.

Regardless of whether you believe Walsch spoke to God or even if they’re just his own mad ramblings, the thoughts shared are profound and, for me at least, has helped me to clarify my thinking on who I want to be in life and why.

Be aware though, if you’re a fundamentalist of any kind and are not open to having your beliefs challenged, some of this book will strike you as more profane than profound. Indeed, Walsch has been accused of blasphemy and apostasy  by numerous religions as a result of his message. You’ve been warned

Still, as long as you’re open to having your thinking challenged, you’ll love this as much as I do.

2. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Another absolutely fantastic read, The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream is a short read in terms of time taken to read through it but is long lasting in the message about how to go about finding out what’s important in life and how to go about bringing it into your life.

Told in fable form, the story follows the adventures and accidents of a young shepherd who is called to follow his dreams and led on a quest that sees him experiences huge rises and falls in his fortunes. He experiences massive happiness at times and then has to deal with disaster and tragedy shortly after, yet all are there as part of a greater plan, teaching him something he needed to know all along.

A great parable, this amazing story about what REALLY matters in life will touch your heart as it has mine, I’m sure.

3. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

Though I’m not religious at all, I have a very strong affinity for Buddhism and the messages it share, possibly because it’s more of a philosophy rather than a true religion due to its humanistic perspective and lack of deity worship.

I also love the fact that it’s the only ‘religion’ that actively tells you to question what you’ve been taught and to only believe that which you can reproduce in your own experience of life. This is a VERY powerful indicator of wisdom as far as I’m concerned.

Anyway, Siddharta is a very simple yet very moving story that parallells the path and the lessons of the Buddha through the main character Siddartha (Siddartha Gautama was the buddha) who starts his life in wealth and status, leaves home in search of wisdom and spiritual growth, learns from the various spiritual masters yet still finds something to be lacking despite their asceticism.

He then becomes a wealthy trader and indulges his physical senses through food, wine and sex and yet STILL fails to find the enlightenment he seeks.

The conclusion is both expected and unexpected so I won’t ruin it, but the end result is one that is simply uplifting to the soul and deserves to be read again and again.

4. Awakening the Buddha Within -Lama Surya Das

Again, showing my affinity toward Buddhism, this book Awakening The Buddha Within has been a MAJOR influence in my life in recent times due to the author’s very simple and pragmatic approach to sharing Buddhist principles that can be applied to our lives easily.

Everyone I’ve recommended this to has loved it

Free Think and Grow Rich Chapter For MAGIC Hundred Readers

Well, most of you seemed to guess right, despite my red herring on the date : )

The book that started the whole chain reaction of all of my subsequent success was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

I can’t tell you more strongly how influential the book was at putting on the journey toward developing the mindset of an action-taker and subsequently for putting me on the path to reading, studying and taking action on the many goals that I’ve gone on to achieve over the last 8 years.

It’s a truly amazing read.

Which is why I want to give a copy of the book as a gift. Well, the first chapter at least as this sets the stage for developing the mindset of a winner. The mindset you’ll need to develop if YOU want to achieve the goals and dreams you’ve been thinking about for ages but, well, never gotten around to.

All you have to do is pop on over to my think and grow rich download page and grab it now. Don’t worry, you won’t have to opt in to any lists or anything, just grab the first chapter of this amazing success classic with my compliments by way of thanks for being reader of my blog and putting up with my mad ramblings : )

Just promise me one thing ok?

Promise me you’ll actually READ IT!

You see, it’s no accident that practically every seriously successful person you’ve ever heard of has a copy of this book on their bookshelf. But they didn’t get successful from owning the book alone. The had to read it and then ACT upon what they read.

It’s only the action that brings these timeless principles to life, but we’ll be talking more about that in the days ahead, but for now just pop on over, grab the book, read it and pay attention.

Remember, this might be one of those critical moments in your life, just like it was for me. You never know, which is why you have to pay attention, right? : )

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy
www.themagichundred.com
The Fastest Goal Achievement Program On The Planet!

P.S – Tomorrow I’ll tell you about a few things Napoleon Hill forgot to mention in his masterpiece ; )

I Never Knew This Would Happen… And It Could Happen To You Too!

I’ve been re-writing a few sections of The MAGIC Hundred today in order to update a few of the chapters with things I’ve learned since I originally launched the program in January 2007.

As I was writing away, it dawned on me how much my life has changed in the 2 short years since the program was released and how a simple decision at one moment in time can DRASTICALLY alter the hundreds, thousands and even MILLIONS of moments that follow.

You probably know what I’m talking about as it’s happened to all of us, but I’ve got to tell you, when I started out with my ‘little idea’ all those years ago (even before I wrote the program) I had no idea where it would eventually lead me. No idea at all!

I mean, when I left the regular army about 8 or 9 years ago I had nothing.

No qualifications (I’d left school at 16 without taking my exams), no money (I was completely broke) and no obvious means to get either. To make matters worse, I had a young wife, 3 young kids and another one on the way, and nothing remotely approaching the slightest hint of how I was going to support them, let alone give them the things that every father and husband wants to provide for their family.

We were living in high crime council accommodation on a housing estate in North London (in what in the U.S would be known as ‘projects’) and claiming social security benefits in order to pay the bills and get by and dreaming of ways to improve upon our situation so that we could give our kids some of the better things in life.

I took many temporary jobs including bodyguarding, roadsweeping and even working in sewers in order to get the little bit of extra cash we needed and supplemented my income with my Reserve Forces pay from my territorial army unit weekends, camps and courses, but as fast as I was able to earn a little money it seemed to be eaten up on bills of every conceivable type so that, no matter how hard I worked, we were never able to get ahead.

It was frustrating to say the least but, like most people, it was a frustration i just had to learn to tolerate. After all, my bills had to be paid, right?

Then one day after an army weekend, I noticed one of the other guys in my patrol was reading a book in the back of the truck on the way home. He was coming to the end of it and as he finally turned the last page he glanced up and noticed me looking in his direction. Seeing I was bored he offered me the book, which I gratefully took and in that moment… started a chain reaction of events that would totally transform my life!

I’m not exaggerating.

I read that book all the way home, persuaded my patrol-mate to lend it to me until later in the week and took it home and read, and read and read.

Now, what was surprising to me was that this wasn’t a new book. It was old. REALLY old, like 1920′s, yet as I read through it I felt as though it had been written specifically with me in mind as it described many of the very things that I had been going through and, more importantly, why.

It told me to hold a major definite purpose uppermost in my mind, pursue it with all vigor and not to quit on it until I accomplished what I’d set out to accomplish.

So I did!

I’d always had an interest in fitness and having boxed, done martial arts and been a soldier, knew that I was naturally gifted in this area as well as passionate. I’d seen ads posted for gym instructor jobs but when I enquired they told me to go get a civilian qualification and they’d consider employing me. Trouble is, I didn’t even have the £325 I needed for the YMCA gym instructor course, but the book said that I shouldn’t let that put me off, so I set about getting a bunch of temporary jobs to raise the cash.

Eventually I did the course, got qualified and went back to the gym where they told me they only had work for me for 2 hours a week in the shifts that no-one else wanted and that the pay was a measly £5 an hour. I took the job and again, changed the course of my life.

In short, that job led to me becoming a personal trainer, becoming a trainer led me to owning my own studios, owing my own studios led to me working directly with people like Bob Proctor and Joe Vitale from The Secret and working with those guys led to me writing the MAGIC Hundred Goal Achievement Program which sold over $107,000 in the first 7 days of launch and that has led to me traveling the world, speaking at international events and teaching my own rapid goal achievement philosophy to thousands and thousands of people.

Since making that first teeny-tiny decision to read that book instead of going to sleep like my patrol-mates, literally EVERYTHING about my life has changed and I find myself in the weird and rather unlikely position of being some kind of ‘goals guru’ to people from all around the world who I’ve never even met and earning more money than I ever thought I’d earn whilst traveling the world and having all kinds of adventures.

It’s very strange indeed!

Nice, but strange : )

I now live the kind of life that I’d only dreamed about before with travel all over the world to jungles, deserts and arctic wastelands as well as luxury hotels, secluded islands and all manner of other places that I’d only ever seen in books before I started on this amazing journey that my life has become.

But looking back at how I got to this point in my life and the opportunities I now have before me, I can honestly say it all started with reading that one book. It’s as though that one decision was like setting a compass bearing just slightly off course to the original path I’d been on at the time, yet which over the weeks, months and years has moved far off the original course to deliver me to the place I’m at now.

I guess you’re wondering ‘What’s this got to do with me?’ right?

Well, nothing I guess…

…and EVERYTHING!

You see, just as my own life has been created by each of the decisions I’ve made along the way, so has yours.

Everything you’ve experienced so far is the result of the decisions you’ve made (or failed to make) up to this point.

That’s a fact.

The good news is that that means you can also decide where you want to go, what you want to do and who you want to be just by the simple and straightforward act of making a decision right now. I mean LITERALLY right now!

Just choose to act on something you’ve been putting off, something you’ve been ‘thinking about’ or something that’s been tickling away at the edge of your mind and you too could find yourself living the life of your dreams in some not-too-distant future.

I mean it.

It happened to me so why not you?

Make a decision TODAY my friend.

Set a new course!

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy
www.themagichundred.com

P.S – I almost forgot, I bet you want to know what that book was that started off my magnificent adventure, right?

Put your best guess below and I’ll tell you tomorrow : )

(I know, nasty huh?) : )