"But what do I DO if I let go?" is question I get most. "If I let go, don't I just sit there?"

What I didn't fully explain in book is that you usually still have to do something to achieve your dreams. That something might be as little as answering phone. Or making a call. Or buying a book. Or joining an association. Or answering an email. I have no idea what that action will be for you regarding achieving your dream. But you usually have to do something, however small or large a step.

But magic answer to question of what action to do next is this:

You want to take what I call "Inspired Action."

Inspired Action is any action you take based on an inside nudge.

In other words, an Inspired Action is when you suddenly get a desire to drive to store. You may have no idea why you need to go to store right now. But something within you is urging you out door. Follow that hunch. It may lead you to your goal. At store, you may meet right person. Or find right product. Or pick up right magazine that will lead you to completing your dream.

For example, in "Spiritual Marketing" I talk about how I managed to get into Nightingale-Conant with my own tapeset, called "The Power of Outrageous Marketing." I had tried to get Nightingale-Conant to pay attention to me for over ten years. (Ten years!) Nothing I did would ever work out. Yet I was doing all "right things" people said I should do---make calls, send letters, follow a plan of action, etc.

Nope. None of that ever worked.

So I stopped all that planned action. I didn't stop wanting my goal of being in famous Nightingale-Conant catalog, of course, but I did stop struggling to make it happen. I, in short, let go. I waited for divine inspiration to tell me what to do next.

Not only did this man struggle for 20 years to write definitive guide to success, but he experienced poverty, his life was threatened, his backers were murdered, he suffered from bouts of hopelessness, and his family suffered beyond all understanding.

His was not an overnight success.

One thing that stood out in Hill's life story was his ability to turn negative into positive. He always looked for what some people call that silver lining in dark cloud. As I thought about Hill's life, I realized I've been noticing this ability to see good in bad practiced by others, too.

I was at a meeting with my friend Mark Joyner, Internet pioneer and bestselling author. I overheard Mark talking to a man who had just gone through hell due to FTC. Mark listened to man's sad story and then said, "Turn it into something good."

This was remarkable advice. It's kind of thing Napoleon Hill would have said. It goes against what most people ever even attempt to try. The whole idea of taking whatever happens to you and turning it into something good seems, at first glance, preposterous.

But this also seems to be a key to success. I remember P.T. Barnum offering a to buy a rival's elephant. He sent a telegram stating his offer. His competitors took Barnum's telegram and ran it as an ad, saying, "Here's what Barnum thinks of our elephant."

Instead of being upset, Barnum decided to join with those competitors. That gave birth to famous Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum took experience and turned it into something good.