Being a lover of books and reading all my life, I was touched and moved to tears many times while reading the story of John Wood and how he discovered his life purpose and walked away from a corporate job with Microsoft to follow his heart bringing education and books to kids worldwide.
Listening to him retell the story in the video below is powerful.
Makes you think – am I living my highest dreams and life purpose? What is my life really about – making money – or expanding love in self and others?
It began when he was an executive with Microsoft about 10 years ago. He went trekking for 10 days in Nepal, visited a school which was bare of books in the library. He promised to get books and one year later delivered 1000s of books bundled on the back of a yak.
Seeing the kids leap on the brightly colored books with delight and wonder, ignited Wood’s passion to help more schools in Nepal where the illiteracy rate is 75% – and later expand his vision globally.
SHOCKING
Shocking to know that of the estimated 850 million people who are illiterate in the world – two-thirds are women.
And inspiring to know that Wood has target giving scholarships to girls – especially in third-world countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam. He refers to the saying:”When you educate a boy you educate a boy. But when you educate a girl you educate a family and the generation to come”.
Yet it is often the girl children who end up having to give up school to work or look after their younger siblings. Unfair but also perpetuating the cycle of poverty, low self-worth and/or abuse which can result from a poor education.
Did you know that for as little as $250 a year you can support a child with a scholarship that keeps her in school? And it is wonderful to know that more than 3 million children have been touched by Room to Read’s outreach with books, libraries and/or scholarships such as this.
“Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” is not a new book – but it is highly relevant to all of us who value books – and care for our global children.
Let John Wood tell the story. I love it because it shows how he got on track with his life purpose …
As I see it, if you have doubts, fears or dilemmas about a way forward in your life then here’s a fail-safe way to throw light on the subject. This will lead to clarity as an intuitive nudge that lights up the way forward.
I thought about this last night as I was listening to a close friend sharing his concerns and options with regard to work and life. In the past I would have tried to “give advice” and steer him in a particular direction or ease his inner conflict.
Life and my own experience going from what I call “mess to success” has taught me differently.
Everything I write and teach now starts by clearing the blocks to reconnecting with Source, Soul or Divine Life Plan or Purpose. I have proven for myself and others that once you get clean and clear – miracles follow. And I know that each of us has a unique soul journey of growth and happiness. As long as we feel good in our own skin and aligned with Source, then the challenges merely become a way of triggering what Abraham-Hicks calls “rockets of desire” to expand our life and bring our highest good.
Let me share with you a prayer or declaration which has been a compass in my own life when the way forward seemed dark and murky. It comes from 1940s metaphysical teacher and author Florence Scovel-Shinn from her classic book: “The Game of Life and How to Play it”.
“Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan.”
You could also say this to Source, the Universe, your Higher Power – all names for something bigger than your personality or ego Self.
Once you “say the word” or make the declaration” follow up by giving thanks that it is “already so”. After that, simply expect and await a nudge or insight for the right action or next best action step. It can come from a chance remark, a passage you open randomly in a book or an intuitive flash.
The important thing says Shinn is to “speak the word and then don’t do anything until you get a definite lead”.
Oprah tells Larry King Live about her take on how the Law of Attraction works. Years back, fired by an obesssion about the book “The Color Purple,” she had a burning desire to be in the movie and was eventually called to audition.
But then she heard nothing and took herself off to a “fat farm” thinking she was too fat. Oprah says she was was in tears on the track, singing, “I surrender all, I surrender all.”
Then she got the call from Stephen Spielberg.
Oprah you are amazing. I love you.
I just love how you inspired my own life from before I had my own wake-up call and transformation. In fact I believe your show contributed to me never losing faith and hanging in there believing that eventually I would be shown my Divine Life Purpose.
Today I live, breathe and apply the Law of Attraction in my own life – and today declare out loud my own passionate intention for Oprah to read and review my book You Can Break-Free Fast – and find it inspiring!
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