Expand Your Horizons...

     There are amazing days in everyone's life.

     Days we look back upon years later. Days that shock us, stun us, surprise us. Days so special we relive them in our memories over and over again, replay like a favorite movie, return to in moments of nostalgia.

     Like the day I first saw my newborn baby girl.

     Or the day I was chosen for admission to medical school.

     Or the day of Paul Myers' announcement about my heart kids blogathon last year to his list.

     All were defining moments in my life. They made a change. Shifted a paradigm. Focused my energy. Enlarged my plans and expanded my dreams.

Today is one such day.

     Today is the day John Reese cracked the ceiling of my imagination, and proved something I'd never have believed without this proof -

It's Possible To Make A Million Bucks In A Day - Entirely ONLINE

     I've had 4 super-profitable days in the past year.

     Each brought in over $10,000 in under 24 hours.

     One was from selling my product. The other 2 were fundraisers for my heart kids through a marathon 24-hour day-and-night blogging session. The fourth came today - and is unique.

Because I Did Nothing!

     John Reese did it all -

Made a Million Bucks
& Donated $10,000 To Help Heart Kids

     That alone would have been enough. No, more than enough.

     But it wasn't enough for John.

     He had to go further. Push the envelope. Expand the horizons.

     So he did.

     He wrote a special report detailing how he managed his first $1 Million Day. And in it, he made a touching appeal to all readers to contribute to help my "Heart Kids".

     And floodgates crashed open again.

     As I write this note just an hour after John announced his report, the Dr.Mani Children's Heart Foundation has already received $876 more.

     It isn't over yet.

     Children are special. Sometimes, Nature plays a cruel trick on them. Their hearts develop with defects. Some aren't critical - others are. They are life-threatening. And need surgery to fix - often very early in life.

     Heart surgery is expensive.

     'Expensive' is a relative term. Some think John's Traffic Secrets course is expensive. Others think what they get in return is well worth the price.

     What my patients get in return for 'expensive' surgery is very precious. They get a new lease on life. Sometimes, their only chance at living.

     And there's the irony.

     People who frantically want, desperately NEED, the 'expensive' thing - be it John Reese's "Traffic Secrets" or a heart operation - are often not in a position to afford it.

     They need help. Your help.

     Imagine... if someone you knew and cared for faced such a mind-numbing choice. What would you do? Would you care enough to try and help out? Or would you simply turn away?

     How often we make up excuses!

     "Oh, I can't ease the world's problems all by myself!"

     "Well, everyone's got problems. I have my own, too!"

     "If only I had more money (or time, or energy, or ....), I'd surely help"

     Or something along those lines. And then, after quieting that uncomfortable, insistent voice inside, move along with life.

     But something inside us dies in the process. Or at least, it grows numb. Lifeless. Paralyzed.

     Revive the spark again. Do something that will warm you inside, make you feel GREAT, enrich and nurture you, give your self-respect a boost, and make a completely new, better person of you.

     Help someone.

     Anyone.

Without expecting ANYTHING in return.

     It doesn't have to be remarkable or outrageous. You don't have to donate $10,000 for heart kids - like John Reese just did. You don't have to stay awake all night updating a website - like I did.

     It could be small things. Seemingly insignificant things. Even trivial things.

But powerful things - for the one receiving them.

     Like helping an old lady cross the street. Or carrying an elderly gentleman's groceries upstairs. Or holding open the door for a lady struggling with an armload of packages.

     It is what boy scouts and girl guides are taught to do. For a reason.

     Generosity is a habit.

     Abundance is a mindset.

     Giving is an art.

Practice makes them perfect. Frequent practice. Regular, continued practice.

     I do it every day. It has made me a new person.

     A better person, I think. A nicer person, I hope.

A happier person - I KNOW.

     You can do it too.

     It's easy.

     Dr.Mani

     P.S. - How much is enough? The answer's hidden in the quote:

     "Ah, but one's grasp should exceed his reach, or what's Heaven for?"

     P.P.S. - If you haven't already, read these books:

• Ken Blanchard's "The Generosity Factor"
  
  
• Mark Victor Hansen's "One Minute Millionaire".

     They'll help you internalize what you've just read.