67. Play the circle game

If you use my four-minute, four-circle, goal-setting system described earlier, you can be the creator of your universe.

“You know, that’s blasphemous,” a seminar student once told me during a break. “Only God can create the universe.”

“But if you believe that,” I said, “you must also believe as it is written, that we were all created in God’s image. And if you believe in God as the Creator, and that He created us in His image, then what are we doing when we don’t create? Whose image are we living in when we deliberately do not create?”

Try this: After you wake up in the morning, wipe the sleep from your eyes, sit down with a pad of paper, and draw four circles. These are your own “planets.” Label the first circle, “Lifelong ...

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