The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

This is the 301st posting on this blog.

As a result of coming into a greater realization of my own true purpose - providing an opportunity for people to rediscover their innate potential - which is only possible by consciously surrendering to a power greater than themselves - has caused me to recognize that I can directly affect many more individuals with a very different mechanism than this blog and weekly newsletter.

Therefore, this is the last blog posting in the “Best Years of Your Life” series… These articles and postings will continue to be available on this web site.

My time and effort will now be focused on helping individuals - who are ready - to discover their true life purpose utilizing the “mechanism” I believe most fully exemplifies the ideals, aspirations and principles I have always believed in and espoused.

With this in mind I am going to make available - free of charge - access to the Intentional Prosperity™ System 24 lesson online program - to those who join with me in this step I am taking into the future…

It is my intention to assemble a group of individuals who are ready for profound change in their lives - and want to positively affect the world around them.

It is time to us live a life of real significance

Touching others in a manner which opens hearts and minds to a power greater than themselves - a power which transforms, uplifts and brings true joy and fulfillment - and real prosperity- is the most significant thing any of us can do in the time we have left with our lives.

Please join with me - the world has never been darker - more confused - or in more need of illumination. In this physical world that illumination can only be expressed through your heart into the hearts and minds of others.

Because first and foremost - you are a conduit of light from the source of all love - God.

Together we can change the world - one person at a time.

Please call me at 406-475-3458 if you would like to talk about participating with me in this exciting new adventure.

Warmest Regards,

-Bob Baran

Back at the very beginning of this blog, Bob wrote this post about Warren Miller:

I happened to hear a radio interview yesterday with a man named Warren Miller. I guess anybody who ski’s or snowboards is going to recognize that name. He became famous creating movies which captured the excitement and the thrill of the experience…

When he started doing this there were only 6 ski lifts in the United States! He used to get the ski school instructors to do the actual skiing by telling them how famous they were going to become…

Often times he had to live in his car sleeping in parking lots…When he was able to finally show his movies…He narrated them live and played back his own music soundtracks…And this was the early 1950’s!

Many credit Warren with creating a grass-roots ferver about the joy of skiing in the snow back in those early days…

By the way his son took over the business about twenty years ago and it was recently sold as part of a package for a cool 300 million.

To paraphrase a couple of things Warren said in the interview that resonated with me:

1. Most people are tied down psychologically to their current financial situation…Instead of doing what they love they tell themselves that they can’t…When the radio interviewer expressed his own interest in snowboarding Warren said he should quit his job and go work for a small radio station so he could follow his joy…(the interviewer’s reaction was to change the subject)

2. Nobody plans the first half of their lives…and few plan the second half! Although Warren left behind film making about 18 years ago he has taught himself to become a writer…Essentially launching a new career…He started by writing a articles for the local paper at $10 a pop…Soon he was writing for 22 newspapers!

Probably the most impressive thing about Warren Miller was his mannerism on the radio…He had that no-nonsense energetic confidence and vitality of a successful man in his late forties or early fifties. He went on to say that he figured he still had another 25 productive years ahead of him and was excited about the future.

Then the radio announcer mentioned that Warren Miller was 83…

One of the basic assumptions of The Intentional Prosperity™ System is that you can find your passion and follow your dreams…Doing it is a lifestyle that unlocks your prosperity and abundance. Warren Miller is an example of someone who found his joy and fulfillment by following his passion…And continues to follow his passion!

Thank you Warren, you made my day!

-Bob Baran

Since this week I shared my skiing story with you, I thought you might enjoy reading the above post about how Warren Miller follows his passion.

Don’t let the news you hear keep you from finding and following your passion.

Gwen Baran

I recently heard a speaker say, “I can make you rich, famous and live forever!” I thought, “That’s a pretty bold statement.” I had heard that we all want to be rich, live forever and “get laid”. I hadn’t heard the famous part before.

It got me to thinking. It’s true… We all want to be recognized. You want recognition, don’t you? Think back, when you were a baby you cried, not just because your diapers needed to be changed and you were hungry, you needed and wanted attention!

Then you did your first finger painting and your mom put it up on the front of the fridge where everyone could see it. She gave you recognition, you were famous in her eyes.

And it goes on… As adults we have a number of ways of attracting attention to ourselves. Have you noticed the guy who drives the bright red sports car? Of course you have! As you read this, I bet you can think of ways you’ve attracted attention. Maybe doing an extraordinary job at work. Choosing to excel, to be a success, at something.

Hey, we all have a need to be recognized. If not to be famous, to be validated that we’re special. It’s almost as important as breathing for some. (Those who seek the limelight.) I’m not saying the only way to be special is to be famous. That’s a common misconception.

Look… you aren’t just special, you’re a miracle! The fact you were conceived, made it though birth and childhood as well as your unique trials, tribulations and various challenges is incredible. Do you know how fantastic the odds are of all that happening? I don’t know the exact percentage, but it is high enough to make every person on the planet, alive today, a miracle.

Even if you’re not rich, famous and going to live forever, you’re unique and wonderful.

So, your bank account isn’t what you’d like it to be and the media hasn’t been talking and writing about you… AND no one lives forever. Even so… You’re a special person and I’m glad you’re here.

Have you done anything lately that could change your current reality? Are you working on becoming rich, famous and extending your life as long as you can? Do you want some help, some insight? Check out the revolutionary Intentional Prosperity System…

Take care and recognize your own greatness today,

Gwen Baran

cuil the new search engine is dead on arrival…

Boasting 120 million indexed pages cuil falls apart with a simple search query–like my name: Bob Baran.

Eager for a deeper more substantial search of their claimed 67,000 plus references to my name, I was sadly disappointed with the results–and I’m not the only one disappointed with their search results.

All kinds of mp3 sites (including itunes) featuring my music. A lot of it with free downloads of my songs which is a part of my record label’s marketing–yeah it’s legal but it’s all so 2006!

The problem is nothing showed up on cuil, from the last two years, within the first few pages– relevent to what I’m involved with now: Intentional Prosperity. Not even bobbaran.com which is the number one search listing in all the other search engines.

Oh, I appreciate all the publicity it gives my music.

Thank goodness google, yahoo and msn and all the others get it right. I’m not interested the hundreds of online stores carrying my music around the world. I get a full report on that stuff every time my royalty check arrives in the mail.

My main focus is Intentional Prosperity and cuil failed miserably to pull up what was really important (to me) on the web.

By the way if you haven’t yet, take advantage of getting my music free online–but don’t waste your time with cuil (believe it or not it’s supposed to be pronounced “cool”–you’re only going to get part of the story.

cuil–another promise undelivered.

-Bob Baran

Why Delay the inevitable?

Everything has its own time. Whatever your dream or desire may be, it will arrive at your doorstep only once in an ideal form. What I’m talking about is the combination of things, situations and relationships that align themselves in a “perfect storm”. In this case we’re talking about the elements necessary for you to make whatever it is you desire become a reality.

This perfect alignment only happens once.

Quite frankly, the majority of us never prepare ourselves to recognize the “perfect storm”. The time comes, the opportunity presents itself and then passes us by. Over time our dream or desire turns into a fantasy. An interesting story we tell others over tea and coffee…

Do you ever get a second chance?

Yes. But once you’ve turned your back knowingly or unknowingly on the ideal set of circumstances, you have short-circuited the process you initially set into motion. Keep trying from this perspective and you will end up with a second or third rate version of what you desired. It will be full of compromises, much more difficult, have many more unintended consequences and require an enormous amount of time and energy. It won’t be easy and the outcome won’t be the same.

This is how you grow.

It’s ironic that your inability to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate, actually triggers the inner-growth process. That is, as long as you don’t give up on your dream or desire. Now begins the inner growth which will one day allow you to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate! This time you’ll trust yourself and take action.

What I’m saying here is, sometimes you choose (consciously or unconsciously) to do things the hard way. You want something in life but your ego keeps getting in the way. “It’s my way or the highway!” happens to be the first rule of the ego. It’s the “my way” part that causes you to be blind to the obvious and then follow the path of the “hard way”.

Just remember: If you let yourself learn from your “hard way” experiences, it gets easier. You stop making the same mistakes over and over again. You begin to “see” more and you trust yourself to a greater degree.

You’ll never get the same “perfect storm” of an opportunity twice in your life for a given dream or desire. That’s impossible ..but you may be able to recognize a second chance that will still get you to where you want to be. With more time, effort and expense on your part. Yes, a second chance is always possible. It will be different than the original “perfect storm”.

It will appear to you in direct relation to the degree in which you allow yourself to recognize and act upon your truth. Getting yourself to the point to where you’ve evolved to where you can recognize the second chance is what’s going to be the challenge.

Your ability to see the truth of any situation, relationship or thing always mirrors the quality of your intent.

-Bob Baran