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Christopher Howard is a lifestyle and wealth strategist who has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses achieve breakthrough results. Christopher Howard Training is a multi-million dollar international enterprise.

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What does it really take to be wealthy? What must you know? What must you do? And what must you not do if you really want to live the life of your dreams? In Instant Wealth&;Wake Up Rich!, Christopher Howard proves that gaining great wealth doesn't depend on advanced education, or being born into the right family, or even finding yourself in the right place at the right time. Instead, wealth is simply a matter of waking up to a few crucially important realities:

• Your passion in life, no matter what it might be, is the fundamental engine of your success
• Wealth inevitably results when yourwork and your passion are first linked, then unified
• Creating unity between work andpassion requires certain powerful tools&;physical, mental, and spiritual
• As soon as you start using those tools&;at that very instant!&;your financial situation will rapidly and radically improve
• Now, just one final element remains. As you give back to the world, passion and purpose are infused with new meaning&;and you literally wake up to a fundamentally changed reality. Your soul's purpose shines through your work, your work creates a better world, and you build a lasting legacy of wealth in the truest sense of the word

For mega-entrepreneurs like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, and

Christopher Howard himself, bettering the world is inseparable from the wealth-building journey. Waking up to instant wealth means everybody benefits. Chris puts it this way:

"The instant you commit to a sharing intention, you embrace an even larger purpose than riches for yourself. Your desire to give back energizes you to achieve much greater levels of wealth. This makes your passion and purpose far more meaningful. It clears the way not just for prosperity, but for ultimate success."

For you as an individual and for all who will benefit from your prosperity, Instant Wealth&;Wake Up Rich! is simply the fastest way from where you are to where you want to be. And as Christopher Howard shows, you're a lot closer than you think!

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Instant Wealth Wake Up Rich!

John Wiley & Sons

Chapter One

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson

What are your dreams? What are your big dreams? What are the huge dreams that you want to bring to life?

I know you have dreams like that. We all have them-so right now I want you to think very clearly about those dreams of yours. Because in the pages that follow I tell you exactly what tools you'll need to realize your dreams, and then I'm going to give you those tools.

Are you ready to receive them? Please prepare yourself.

Even more important, prepare to use those dream-building tools, starting right away. Be prepared to put them into action-for yourself, for those you love, and ultimately for the world as a whole.

I think you're ready. I know you are.

Let's get started ...

How to Make All Your Dreams a Reality

At the foundation of every dream lies a desire. Something you want to do. Or create. Or accomplish. But to achieve it, you've first got to believe it-and for many people that gets to be the hard part.

Dreams can appear so implausible. So impossible.

But how dreams appear and what they are can be two different things. In this book I show you how to wake up-not from your dreams, but to your dreams, and to the Instant Wealth that waking up brings. Dreams (and remember: within every dream is a desire) really can become realities. But true inspiration and deep commitment have to come into the mix-and that's up to you. With an inspiring dream and an extraordinary level of commitment, you can create even those things that most people would consider impossible.

You can turn visions and intentions into real world results. Many people have done it. Martin Luther King Jr. had a vision of the future that lived beyond his abbreviated time on the earth. His unwavering commitment brought his vision to America and forever transformed the nation.

So what's holding you back? What's keeping you asleep? What's separating you from the realization of your deepest desires? What's keeping you from being fully present and engaged in every moment?

This is a very important question, and there's more than one answer. Finding those answers requires insight, and facing them head on can take courage. If you're like most people, part of you doesn't want to achieve your dreams. Whether it's guilt or fear, or a profound inertia that builds up over the years, you may feel that you shouldn't really get what you want from life-that in some basic way your desires are wrong.

This self-restricting impulse is a huge barrier, so let's get it out of the way before it sabotages everything you're about to learn.

Think about the word desire.

De-sire: to me, it means "of the father." Sire is a term of fatherly respect. This is how we address a parent. This is how we speak to God.

Your heart's desire and God's will are one and the same. Follow your heart's desire, and you are following a divine inner intention. The moment you make a commitment to follow your inner voice, your life becomes the expression of the real purpose of your soul. You become the person you were meant to be. Every moment of every day becomes a moment spent in the embrace of God. There's nothing selfish or guilt-worthy about that.

The moment you make the decision to follow your heart and you cut yourself off from any other possibility, your experience of life becomes emotionally textured and rich, and this is the first key to Instant Wealth; this is the first key to living a truly rich life. A rich life can be yours in a matter of seconds. Financial prosperity will come second; wealth is something you experience right now. You can gain in the chapters that follow the power to achieve both a truly rich life right now as well as financial abundance beyond most people's wildest dreams.

So go for it! Picture this:

You have all the wealth in the world. You have the ability to create any experience of life you want. What will you do? What will your life be like? You can create any dream. What is it going to be?

Can you really believe what you've just read? Is it as real to you as the book you're holding in your hands? Be honest!

If you're not quite ready to believe it yet, let's see what's behind that hesitation.

The Only Thing Stopping You from Realizing All Your Dreams

What stops most people from following their heart, living their dreams, and creating a truly rich life is fear.

Answer these questions:

Has fear led you to have a comfortable life-but at the price of your soul's true purpose?

You may have lived this long by just playing it safe and you prefer to stay there, because it's comfortable. Do you play it safe? Do you play it safe by not pursuing your dreams?

Do you play it safe in your career, by staying in a job that's going nowhere fast?

Do you compromise in your relationships, by not really going after what you really want or by not realizing your true worth?

At a level of consciousness that you often choose to ignore, are you afraid of actualizing your dreams?

Please hear this loud and clear. Every time you have an opportunity to broaden your life mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or financially, and you don't do it because of fear, you strengthen that fear and keep yourself trapped in mediocrity. You keep yourself in a comatose sleep, oblivious to your true potential, and oblivious to the rich and expansive life that you really could live.

Personal and professional growth starts to happen when you extend yourself to your personal edge every single day-and then go beyond that edge. You must lean just over your edge every day to live your dreams, and you also must lean just beyond your edge every day to really live your life full out.

Sustaining that "edge mentality" is a major component of creating ever-expanding wealth, financially and otherwise. You need the courage to push yourself beyond your own fears. You need to embrace your fears in order to make your life everything it was meant to be.

How I Conquered My Own Fear (And Why You Can, Too)

By the way, are you curious about my qualifications to speak so confidently about dreams, fears, and other immensely important life issues? Well, my qualifications are the same as everyone else's. I know fear from the inside out. I still confront fear every day of my life. On that score, the only difference between you and me might be what evokes our fears, not how strongly we feel them.

In other words, what frightens you might not frighten me, and vice versa. Which reminds me of a story....

Not long ago I was in Europe finishing up my Wealth Propulsion Intensive seminar on a stage in front of thousands of people. I've led these kinds of events throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Hong Kong, South Africa, and many other countries. I've experienced the phenomenal pleasure of helping human beings wake up to their potential and live their greatest dreams. I've trained thousands upon thousands of entrepreneurs, executives, celebrities, public figures, psychologists, psychiatrists, artists, educators, and parents-and I've loved every minute of it. It has been my greatest passion to deliver the profound levels of transformation that people receive in the Wealth Propulsion Intensive weekends. This is what I've always wanted to do, and I was doing it!

As I approached the microphone standing on stage looking out across a sea of thousands of faces in the audience, I was ecstatic as I was about to live my greatest childhood dream. But I was also about to confront my all-time greatest fear.

What was that fear? I'll tell you a little further on.

That day my thoughts were focused on these people who were learning how to turn their grandest visions and intentions into real-world results. I said to myself, "They have obstacles preventing them from achieving their full potential, just like I've had. They have to confront those obstacles-just like I have to confront one of my own right now!"

Of one thing I was absolutely certain. I knew within myself that if I helped others wake up to their dreams, I could live my dreams as well. If I made my entire life's focus unleashing the potential in others, my potential would also be unleashed.

I thought of all the people who had told me of the extreme transformations they had experienced since getting involved with Christopher Howard Training, in which we teach the concepts that you may be discovering for the first time in Instant Wealth-Wake Up Rich!

I thought of the man who had stood up in the audience at one of our live events and emotionally shared the fact that he had already been a multimillionaire, but a year and a half after learning the information you will be presented within this book, he was able to increase his net worth to 57 million British pounds....

I thought of Phil Anderson, from Australia, who when we first met had been stuck managing a health club, with no real prospect of freeing himself from the day-to-day operations. Phil diligently applied the secrets you can learn here and then expanded his mind so much so that he bought 20 health clubs, retired at age 38, started a television show, and was now buying up to 200 houses a year. He was truly living his dreams....

I thought of the woman who had turned her struggling company into a dream business with $10,000,000 in sales, within just one year after she began to implement what you can learn in Instant Wealth-Wake Up Rich!

I thought of the man who had built a $200-million company who came up and hugged me. With tears streaming down his face, he said that although he had made a lot of money, he had never lived a rich life. He had always been gripped by fear and constant anger, but after studying with us, he at last felt wealthy beyond belief. He said we had helped him find the secret to genuine riches....

I thought of the young woman in South Africa who, during one of our programs, had finally realized that she could let go of the emotional baggage she had carried for years after losing her parents to HIV and AIDS. She could be free to live a rich life and to make a divinely inspired difference in the lives of others....

All these transformations were truly awe-inspiring, and over the years there had been many, many more.

As I stood looking at all the smiling, supportive men and women in front of me, they began to cheer. They rose to their feet, shouting and whistling and applauding. It was an incredible feeling to know that I had succeeded in my mission. I had developed a training team with the unquestionable abilities, tools, and strategies to help every one of those people wake up to Instant Wealth.

All this was true, and it was wonderful. Yet, it was not easy to bring myself to the microphone that day. However, I knew in my heart and soul that there was no other choice. For years, I had taught the concept that as entrepreneurs, our true business should be the expression of our soul's purpose-and to do that, it's necessary to live beyond your edge.

Now I had put myself in a position to practice what I preached. Although I was always too afraid to even admit it, my greatest dream had always been to sing on stage for a huge crowd of people.

Well, it was now or never ...

When I was young, I was very much a social phobic. In school, I used to hide at recess and lunch, just to avoid having to interact with other people. Now, within just a few years, I had gone from being $70,000 in debt to making more than $22,000,000 in global sales in a single year. I had traveled the world (which is one of my greatest passions), staying in the magical overwater bungalows of Bora Bora, swimming in the pale, crystal blue waters of the Maldives, riding horseback through the rolling green hills of Mongolia, zipping through the vibrant streets of Cambodia in motorcycle-driven carriages, training in Brazilian jujitsu in the captivating city of Rio De Janeiro, trekking in safari Jeeps through spectacular reserves throughout South Africa, hiking the incredible waterfalls in Hawaii, and adventuring in many other places. I also had the opportunity to train with the best teachers in the world in martial arts and other activities that I loved. I often did all this and more in a single year!

I was truly living my dreams. But I knew that I had one more dream to go. One more fear to conquer. One thing I didn't really believe I could do. But if I avoided the things that I didn't believe I could do, I wouldn't be walking my talk. I wouldn't be practicing what I preach in my trainings. How could I look at a crowd of people and assure them they could do anything if I wasn't living at my own entrepreneurial edge and stepping up and going for it?

A little background. In 1968, music producer Steve Binder challenged the songwriter W. Earl Brown to compose "the greatest song he would ever write." This was in response to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. On a tight deadline, Brown created "If I Can Dream," which was indeed his greatest work. The song contained direct quotes from Dr. King's awe-inspiring I Have a Dream speech given in 1963. When Elvis Presley first heard the song, he was so moved that he said, "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in."

As the music began and I gripped the microphone, I thought of the people in the audience who didn't really believe that they could wake up to riches in their lives. I was totally determined, through living example, to reach into those people's very souls and give them my very best. My goal was to help awaken the inspiration for them to step up and live their edge, so that they would actually take the steps they were afraid to take.

I couldn't make any excuses. I had to do it.

As the crowd stood cheering wildly in front of me, I was terrified and exhilarated by what I was about to do. These people had experienced so many breakthroughs during the weekend. They had demolished so many of their previous limitations. They screamed their support as I got ready to break through limits of my own.

From there on, it was spectacular. All I remember is prowling the stage and belting "If I Can Dream," which I had chosen for the profound impact of its message and the inspiration that it stirred within me. Singing live in front of all those people was definitely facing my biggest fear head on. Yet the thought that I was able to truly express myself through the business I had built-while at the same time making a positive difference in people's lives-was beyond exhilarating.

Throughout the song, the crowd gave me their wild support and ecstatic cheers. How I was performing didn't really matter. They were supporting a fellow human being in the accomplishment of a lifelong dream. I was living a rich life in the truest sense, and my newfound friends and family in the crowd were there with me.

As I drew to a close, cheers and screams engulfed me as I was whisked off the stage. People were grabbing at me for autographs. Autographs? Mine? I was completely astonished by what was happening.

(Continues...)

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