I remember some time during the pursuit of my goals, having become an interviewer and having helped lots of people though already, I was getting a bit fed up with being asked to do shows all the time on information that I thought just wasn’t substantive enough.
I just said to the universe out loud, “I’m sick of doing this! How can we make it different? How can we start giving people the information that they really need to have?”
And suddenly I had this complete download. I’m not somebody who gets downloads frequently. So on the very odd occasions that I’ve had them, I pay attention. And it was as if somebody unfurled a poster in front of me and there was the complete vision for what later became the know As the No BS Spiritual Book Club. And I instantly got what it was all about.
And I thought, “What a great idea, but I’m not doing that. That’s far too much hard work.” And I put it to one side. But the idea would not go away and I kept kind of looking at it out of the corner of my eye for about a year before I finally said, “You know what? I’m in a good position to do that because I love books.”
My whole life has been about words. I’ve been a book judge. I know books, I know what’s good. And I help people publish. I have radio shows, and I talk about books. So I decided that I would create this book club, but it was going to be different from all other book clubs in the sense that it’s not something where you come along and you all read a book together.
It is asking the teachers and the authors and the spiritual speakers that we all admire who are doing great work in the world, “What was it that influenced you? Which books were the ones that shifted your perceptions, moved you along your paths?”.
Because I felt that if people could get recommendations from the people they admired and they followed and they knew the information would be authentic, they would be more inclined to read those books.
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