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Rik Schnabel
That's a great question and coincidentally one that I recently asked myself that has led me to my next book (I just love how the Universe works). It will be my first book of fiction and it will start with a real account from my life from back in the year 2000.
I used to play golf with strangers because I believed I was socially inept. I thought playing with people I didn't know would improve my socialisation skills.
One day, a strange gentleman joined my group. It consisted of two real straight up, practical Aussie tradies who were friends and myself. I cannot recall his name, but he was the strangest of us all. He spoke about a world that none of us were familiar. By the time we reached the fourth hole the other two guys were staying as far away from him as possible. Though I couldn't get enough of him. He spoke about how our thoughts create things and that the worlds that we had created in our minds were fabricated by our biases. I somehow knew it was truth, but had no way of confirming it. You know those moments when you are in the presence of something truly profound?
This one event led me on a path to a great deal of study. I studied metaphysics, religions, psychology and eventually learned the tools to change my mind which was found in neuro linguistic programming (NLP). My metaphysical friend on the golf course was right. Our worlds are an illusion, just as my world in 2000 incarcerated me until I changed my mind and changed my life.
Because of that one event: I now live where I want to live; do what I want to do; and create what I want to create; and I so want the world to experience it too - and this has become my quest.
So thank you for your question :)
I used to play golf with strangers because I believed I was socially inept. I thought playing with people I didn't know would improve my socialisation skills.
One day, a strange gentleman joined my group. It consisted of two real straight up, practical Aussie tradies who were friends and myself. I cannot recall his name, but he was the strangest of us all. He spoke about a world that none of us were familiar. By the time we reached the fourth hole the other two guys were staying as far away from him as possible. Though I couldn't get enough of him. He spoke about how our thoughts create things and that the worlds that we had created in our minds were fabricated by our biases. I somehow knew it was truth, but had no way of confirming it. You know those moments when you are in the presence of something truly profound?
This one event led me on a path to a great deal of study. I studied metaphysics, religions, psychology and eventually learned the tools to change my mind which was found in neuro linguistic programming (NLP). My metaphysical friend on the golf course was right. Our worlds are an illusion, just as my world in 2000 incarcerated me until I changed my mind and changed my life.
Because of that one event: I now live where I want to live; do what I want to do; and create what I want to create; and I so want the world to experience it too - and this has become my quest.
So thank you for your question :)
Rik Schnabel
I don't get writer's block. If anything I suffer from the opposite!
I currently have 16 books that I haven't finished, sitting on my desktop.
Okay, okay... what if I did have writer's block? We'll if you read my second book, "The Power of Beliefs - 7 Beliefs that change your life" you will know that everything we do is state-dependant.
So the first thing I would do is get into what I would deem to be the best writer's state. If that's excited, creative or calm for you - then get yourself into that state first. Then the thinking that needs to come will come.
Does that make sense to you?
I currently have 16 books that I haven't finished, sitting on my desktop.
Okay, okay... what if I did have writer's block? We'll if you read my second book, "The Power of Beliefs - 7 Beliefs that change your life" you will know that everything we do is state-dependant.
So the first thing I would do is get into what I would deem to be the best writer's state. If that's excited, creative or calm for you - then get yourself into that state first. Then the thinking that needs to come will come.
Does that make sense to you?
Rik Schnabel
I love helping people to massively improve their lives. When you do that and a reader emails you - it becomes another amazing day and it inspires you to write more.
It feels like you're really connecting with someone, often at a real soul level.
It feels like you're really connecting with someone, often at a real soul level.
Rik Schnabel
Write what you really, really, really care about and it will be easy.
Writing can be a very lonely process with multiple ways to get distracted. If you write about what you care about, that will be your greatest distraction...
Writing can be a very lonely process with multiple ways to get distracted. If you write about what you care about, that will be your greatest distraction...
Rik Schnabel
Hmmm... now that's a big secret that I will reveal in a few months...
Rik Schnabel
I really don't need to be inspired to write. It just comes out of my heart, into my head and fingers. I do however create time to write every day. That is hugely helpful.
Rik Schnabel
My current book is ROAR! Courage and I got the idea from teaching my life coach training students. I realised that they had everything they needed to start coaching skill-wise, they just needed the courage to take that initial leap.
So I wanted to find out what was missing in order to not have the courage and I found it! The moment I did, was the moment I wanted to write this book.
So I wanted to find out what was missing in order to not have the courage and I found it! The moment I did, was the moment I wanted to write this book.
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