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And Discover the “Nigerian Paradox” and The 9 Intense Experiences that Will Inevitably Improve Your Life
(NOTE: While it pays to skim-read much of what is on the Internet, for your own amazing benefit as you will see, you’ll definitely want to read the following more closely… and most definitely you’ll want to do the powerful little action in the end.)
The Nigerian Paradox
So what is the “Nigerian Paradox,” and why is it so important to your own success and happiness?
In a major study of 65 countries as reported on CNN, the BBC, and other major media throughout the world, the economically disadvantaged African country Nigeria ranked #1 for the happiest people in the world.
Mexico ranked #2, Venezuela #3, and El Salvador #4.
The U.S.? #16. Australia ranked #20, and Britain #24.
Furthermore, people in the Western world and Japan are no happier now than they were in the 1950s, despite a massive increase in income.
So why in the world would such a poor country, where food is scarce for a large segment of the population and even radios are a luxury, have the happiest people in the world?
In three words: “positive intense experiences.”
A lot has already been researched and written about this Nigerian Paradox.
It turns out that Nigerians are deeply committed to simple, enjoyable, profound and deeply transformative actions in their life that melt away the negative states like stress, angst and worry and instead lead to a powerful sense of happiness.
As I dug deeper into typical Nigerian life, in fact, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this: the experiences they tend to focus their time and energy on are the VERY SAME type of experiences that the remarkably successful people in the Western world who I have studied for years also focus on!
Furthermore, they are the very same experiences that those who have not achieved remarkable success – achievement of their biggest goals and dreams, and deep self-satisfaction –LACK in life! (And the more stressed-out, worried, unsettled, unfulfilled, or “empty inside” people feel, the more they tend to lack these experiences.)
How Have You Been Pulled Away from These Essentials to Remarkable Success & Happiness?
You’d like to experience deep happiness and achieve your biggest goals in your health, finances, career, relationships and beyond, right?
You’d like to achieve a strong sense of accomplishment in life and deep inner-peace?
Well before we get to an overview of what these nine intense experiences are that deliver precisely that for you, it is crucial to understand briefly how people have become so far removed from positive intense experiences.
BOTTOM LINE: throughout most of human history and throughout the world, routinely delving into these experiences WAS a central part of life. The real secret that remarkably successful people discovered – and that is central to the fabric of life in Nigeria and other “poor” but happy countries – is to keep having these intense experiences.
But here it comes again… “The Hamster Wheel Life” has pulled most Americans and Westerners far, far away from this well of happiness and success… far from these nine intense experiences.
In your own life:
- Do you feel like you’ve got an endless list of “to-do’s” … so much so that it sometimes stresses out and thwarts your ability to focus on what really matters in your life?
- Do you often feel like you go-go-go, but that you’re not getting anywhere … or at least not where you want to be (and not achieving what you know you are meant to achieve)?
- Does it often feel like you just don’t have enough time in the day, and do you feel ZAPPED of energy far more often than you wish you did?
These are truly major epidemics of our time. Who haven’t you heard personally complain about them?
They drag you far away from the remarkable success and deep happiness that should be yours.
And ironically, people drive themselves even further down, even further into stress and weariness, seeking mistaken ways out. For example:
- People work more and work harder, convincing themselves the potential of extra income will “save them” … but it only sucks their energy (and health) down more while pulling them farther away from the positive intense experiences that would make all the difference.
- People throw their money, time and energy at self-proclaimed pills, gadgets and fads that will “save them” … only to get more jaded, more demoralized, when those deceptive promises again don’t work.
To make matters worse, in whatever slim “free time” people have at the end of a day or on the weekend, they further grind down their own growth, happiness and energy by staying stuck in a rut of mediocre routine… TV, TV, TV, the shopping mall, and TV.
And strangely – because people have been trained to believe that everything has to be complicated and difficult – people believe the way out – the way off that hamster wheel – must be complex and mighty hard.
And yet as you will discover, it is anything but difficult… in fact it is simple, engaging and enjoyable!
The 9 Intense Experiences of Remarkably Successful People
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In the videos and more, I will reveal powerful insights you’ve NEVER heard before about each of the nine intense experiences that remarkably successful people (and Nigerians and others in the happiest countries in the world) remain focused on…
I can absolutely guarantee you these free insights alone will provide you many highly beneficial “self-revelations” and breakthrough insights in your own life, so it will be worth your time.
For starters, though, I’ll introduce you to what I call each of these nine experiences to lay the foundation of the important knowledge you’ll gain over the next several short but powerful communications.
The “titles” of each of these nine experiences may seem short and simple, but I actually poured a lot of effort into getting them “just right” (in the next several communications you will easily get exactly what I mean):
- Experience 1: The Journey Back to Neverland
- Experience 2: Dive Deeper Into Your Blood (and Enjoy a Glass of Wine While You’re At It)
- Experience 3: Wander Into the Forest, But Don’t Bump Into the Trees
- Experience 4: Let the Wise Owls Feed You
- Experience 5: Go On a Spiritual Quest. Pack Lightly.
- Experience 6: Reveal Yourself to a Dozen Strangers
- Experience 7: Swaddle Yourself in Beautiful Genius
- Experience 8: Give Till It Tickles
- Experience 9: Embrace Death. Dance the Night Away.
Now maybe you have a good guess at what some of these areas of experience pertain to… and what remarkably successful people (and Nigerians!) actually DO within them that enables them to avoid self-sabotaging emotions like stress, anger, worry, and fear and instead remain exceptionally focused, motivated, energetic and “clear” to achieve success and happiness.
OR maybe you haven’t a clue yet.
Either way, no worries!
In the brief (and free) videos I will be sending you (be sure to sign up with your email at the right – and forward this to your friends and family too), I will give you the very captivating essentials about each of the nine intense experiences … and again, I can guarantee you’ll not only say “Wow!” repeatedly at what you learn, but these insights genuinely will change your life.
But right now – and speaking of “Wow!” – here is the little action for you to take that will, in a BIGGER way than you may imagine at this point, set you on the path to the remarkable success and happiness that you desire, that you KNOW should be yours, that you deserve…
Take This Amazing Action Right Now My Friend … Because It Absolutely WILL Come Back to You a Hundred-Fold (at least) …
If you read the first communication from me, you may remember at the end I asked you to recall and ponder a positive intense experience from your own adult life.
But whether you did or did not read that communication, here is what you need to know… and will definitely want to do.
Positive intense experiences are often “small” but powerful things you experience in life that move you deeply, that open your eyes, heart and mind (and cut right through negative emotions) and help you grow in some way.
They transform you.
Childhood is full of positive intense experiences, but unfortunately because most adults are living “The Hamster Wheel Life,” the lion’s share of intense experiences in adulthood are NOT positive but tragic… the death of someone close, confronting a serious disease, experiencing a wide-scale tragedy like 9/11 or a natural disaster.
These tragic experiences typically transform people in powerful ways, but we clearly should NOT wait for them to occur in our lives to keep us focused on pursuing our biggest goals and dreams and staying committed to what really matters!
Unless you define yourself as remarkably successful and happy, you – like most adults – are not allowing nearly enough positive intense experiences into your life.
BUT again like every adult, you have most definitely had SOME positive intense experiences in your adulthood.
The problem, though, is this: people FORGET about their own positive intense experiences, and therefore they don’t allow the amazing lessons their own experiences taught them take a deep hold… NOR do they open the door to more positive intense experiences.
Maybe that makes perfect sense to you, maybe it sounds a bit hokey, but it’s absolutely true.
(Instead of acknowledging their positive intense experiences and “putting them out there,” most people frankly abuse themselves and sabotage their success and happiness by focusing on all the “bad” things happening in their life and all the “stuff” they don’t have!)
If you want to achieve remarkable success in your finances, health, career, relationships and happiness, it is time to say ENOUGH of the go-go-faster-faster-but-get-nowhere life.
And here’s the first and best step to take in doing that:
Put One of Your Favorite Positive Intense Experiences from Your Own Adulthood Out There for the World
The amazing power of personal testimonial cannot be stressed enough.
From expressing yourself through voting to autobiographies to having a voice and the constitutional right to use it, there is little that is more freeing or beneficial than “putting what matters to you out there.”
Well this is ESPECIALLY true for the positive and transformative “intense” experiences you have encountered in your adult life.
By writing even a single paragraph or creating a short video about that experience and sending it out to the world, YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR GRATITUDE FOR SUCH INTENSE EXPERIENCES AND INVITING THE BENEFIT OF THEM – AND MORE OF THEM – INTO YOUR WORLD.
In the same way you may vote for a political candidate in order to try to bring their viewpoints and positions versus their opponents’ into leadership – but actually far more powerfully than that – by “voicing” a positive intense experience that transformed you, you are taking a REMARKABLY POWERFUL step in bringing success and happiness into your life.
So take this simple action right now:
1) Think about a positive intense experience that happened to you recently, or at some point in your adult life. If you came up with one from my previous communication to you, you can of course use that. (ALSO SEE EXAMPLES BELOW.)
2) Submit your positive intense experience in writing in The 9 Intense Experiences blog. You can start out by writing, “One positive intense experience that made a difference in my life was…” and take it from there. (You can submit multiple ones if you want) Briefly tell what happened and how it helped you, changed you, transformed you… what it taught you. DON’T WORRY about the length or proper spelling or anything – a single paragraph or multiple paragraphs is a-ok. And there is no right or wrong with this. Just get it out there!
3) Alternately, if you know how to use YouTube, it is mighty powerful to make a video of yourself describing your positive intense experience. If you want you can start out by saying,“I heard about doing this on The 9 Intense Experiences website, and one positive intense experience that made a difference in my life was…” THEN post a link to your video in The 9 Intense Experiences blog so others can witness it.
EXAMPLES to Help You:
Maybe you’ve already got your positive intense experience in mind, but if you need a boost, here are a few questions to consider:
- In your adult life, has there been an unexpected conversation with a stranger or someone you didn’t know too well that in some way or another changed the course of your life?
- Has there been a positive encounter with a child, or even an animal or something out in nature, that made you see the world or your life in a different way? That helped you to grow or overcome some internal block?
- Have you ever received or given a gift… or a compliment or a kindly delivered suggestion … that positively changed you in some way?
- In your adult life have you heard some type of music, or read or book, or seen a movie or play, that transformed you in some manner?
- In your travels – whether down the street, into the woods, or halfway across the world – have you unexpectedly experienced something that helped you to greater self-realization and growth?
- Did some conversation or positive encounter with an elder or some family member unexpectedly “open doors” inside you and lead you down some positive path?
Now I’ve had many, many positive intense experiences in my adult life (because of course I deeply understand the value of actively bringing them into my life versus passively waiting for them…
I will show you HOW to do this in forthcoming communications so don’t miss signing up with your email at the right.)
I’ll conclude by giving you a somewhat longer one of mine from my younger adult years (and NOTE that yours doesn’t have to be nearly this long if you so choose):
One positive intense experience that made a difference in my adult life was when, while visiting the Black Hills of South Dakota, my friend and I simply decided to veer down a certain road into a Native American reservation.
We had a different destination in mind, but on what some people would call a whim – but I call intuition – we turned onto this small gravel road instead. And though for the longest time it was desolate country, we kept going, turning down various other roads out there in that very wide open place.
As the sun started to set, though, we did become concerned. And then concern turned to worry… “We’re lost and we need to find our way out of here,” we agreed.
Around a bend we finally came upon human life: a traditional Lakota Indian reservation, complete with teepees and other traditional structures.
-As it was the only sign of people we’d seen for many miles, we were a bit nervous but we decided to ask for directions. A group of about seven or eight Lakota were preparing to sit down under a giant tarp for their dinner._
I approached one of the men who seemed to be a leader and told him that we were lost.
“No you’re not,” he said. He was indeed one of their leaders. “You’re not lost at all. Why don’t you sit down and eat with us”
And we did. We talked… and talked… and talked. Finally, the man said, “Hold on, I want to introduce you to someone.”
About ten minutes later he slowly returned, accompanied by an ancient-looking man dressed halfway in traditional Lakota garb, half in jeans. This ancient man – their tribal elder, their medicine man, and a powerful presence – simply nodded a hello and then stared into my eyes. Then into my friends eyes.
Finally he smiled. Then he muttered something in Lakota to the man who had brought him there and slowly, nobly walked away
The man translated for us, and to this day it is still the most moving compliment I ever received: “He says you two are very powerful and kind white spirits. He has invited you to stay for our sweat lodge ceremony and to spend the night in our spare teepee.”
The sweat lodge ceremony was an intense experience unto itself, and spending the night in a very old teepee was as well. I discovered more than I can share here.
But the next morning I awoke before my friend and, feeling more alive than I’d felt since childhood, was compelled to take a walk. About twenty minutes into my walk I came upon the ancient-looking man, the tribal elder, who was collecting pebbles at the edge of a crystal-clear stream.
I said “Good morning.”
“Remember,” he responded in slow, broken English, “You were meant to come here.” That was all he said. He returned to his pebbles.
I smiled, thanked him, and walked away.
And I was meant to be there. In the years since that intense experience, it has remained clear as the water in that stream why I was meant to be there.
From that intense experience, I was reminded that we must follow our intuition, and that we are never lost. It may demand patience, courage and clarity to see, but there is always a reason we are where we are.
With that in mind, there is a reason you are here, reading these insights on the extreme importance of allowing positive intense experiences into YOUR life.
I again urge you to submit your own intense experiences in writing at The 9 Intense Experiences blog – or on video at YouTube and please post a link to it in the blog.
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