I started this Breakfast with Bob call maybe about seven years ago, mostly because I decided I wanted to communicate regularly with my book readers, my Enlightened Wealth Institute participants, and ultimately with everyone else out there.  The call is designed for me to share something which might make a difference in your life, in some inspiring way.  I spend every week wondering what I will talk about with you on Wednesday morning.  I’ve had a little site, www.breakfastwithbob.com, which has had some helpful related postings, but now I also have www.robertallen.com, which we are re-purposing to take shape as a blog of summaries from these calls.  For now, some of those calls will still be full transcripts, but you are welcome to take a look.

We are all innate artists or creators.  As children of our Creator, we all have an impulse to create.  This magnificent world has so many ways people have created in it.  Everywhere you look is a sliver of life that certain people made their desire to create.  You may create something as a wood crafter, a people manager/organizer, an engineer, a chef, a graphics designer, an architect, a gardener, a veterinarian, a scrap-booker, a banker, or a politician.  Almost every niche we choose allows us to fulfill our desire to create something.  The creation part of your specialty is the fun part. 

Therefore, the second phase of making that difference is to market what you’ve created.  You want to get the word out that you did it!  Share the gift, so people can reap the benefit of what you’ve created.  Ever had your life blessed by a master of some creation?  You may have only connected with that person because their marketing got your attention.  Now it’s your turn to share your mastery with the world.  You never know who will be touched by your message.  People out there are looking for just your kind of expertise, and your marketing message is how they find you.  As an author, I have been honored to receive testimonials from people all over the world, claiming my books changed their lives for the better.  The money cannot quite compare to this kind of reward for getting my message out there. 

Those two bonuses alone should make people say, “I gotta get that book!”  But then we’re also giving away some live webinars (value about $395 each), and some $500 coupons applied flexibly toward various seminars that Mark and I do separately.  We’ll give away a podcast of Mark and me talking about the Cash in a Flash principles.  This will be over six hours of content, to follow along with a Powerpoint.  We’ll give away many songs of inspirational music, including those by my daughter.  We’ll give away twenty-one Success & Money ebooks, written or compiled brilliantly by Mark.  These are short booklets of insightful ideas on various subjects.  We will give away as audio or PDF my Start Your Day with Power, which I wrote a while back.  It’s an eleven-minute mental preparation for each day.  We’ll give away a Cash in a Flash blueprint for what to do in ninety days to generate fast cash.  We’ll give away a downloadable Cash in a Flash certificate for those people who take delight in this kind of recognition.  It will basically commend them for getting the book and committing themselves toward success.  We will also enter people in a Cash in a Flash contest of success stories.  If they follow our principles and directions, and achieve success within ninety days, we will be tabulating their story submissions and awarding free cruises and other wonderful benefits.

Incidentally, I am so fascinated by quotes and inspirational writing that I have been gathering all the sources of great scripture written throughout history.  I have collected copies of sacred religious resources such as the Koran, Tao Te Ching, Book of Mormon, New Testament, and Upanishads.  We are all children of the same God but we have ‘multiple streams’ of spiritual perspective.  There is great wisdom in each.  Their words are poetic, brilliant and magnificent no matter what your own religion or belief system.  The writings in these sacred books are spectacular.

So every morning I work on this. …. Heavenly Father, You know people who can take this to the next level.  I hope the message in my book is enough of a gift that Your children will benefit from it.  I hope there’s nothing in it that will take them away from You, but toward You.  It’s Your game, and I’m playing a little game here - a little project about a little tiny book I’m writing that will probably soon disappear in the flood of books published this year.  I may have worked really hard to write and market it, but it will be a little dandelion ultimately blowing away in the wind, compared to Your magnificent purpose of life. ….. Sometimes, we go to our Heavenly Father like He’s Santa Claus, and present our list of insignificant things we want.  But the harder thing to do is to thank Him for the incredible creation of life in all its forms that we are already surrounded with.  These creations are far grander than anything we as individuals could ever do.

But still….    My little book project is my little creation, and I’m here on this earth to exercise my creation muscles.  This is just the sandbox, where we get to create sand castles in our own unique ways, you and I.  Although insignificant in the grander scheme of things, Heavenly Father has a reason for that.  He wants us to have this opportunity to become better creators.  For one day, we may ultimately be tutored on how to bring our creation skill to an unimaginable level, millions of years from now.  On this earth, we are learning how to contribute to the greater purpose of life, even on our minute scale.  And that’s what I’ve been doing, with my little project called Cash in a Flash.  I am sharing it with this world, spreading the message, just as you will about your own creation.  It’s what we do as artists here on this earth.