Show host, Chris Miles, celebrates The Chris Miles Money Show’s 1-year anniversary by teaching you how to find your divine genius. When you tap into this genius, you create wealth faster and bless more lives. Learn how you can discover yours and live a richer life. Listen now!
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Chris Miles, the “Cash Flow Expert,” is a leading authority showing entrepreneurs and their spouses how to quickly free up and create cash flow and lasting wealth TODAY spending time doing what they love most! He has been featured in US News, CNN Money, Bankrate, interviewed internationally on TV and radio, and has a high reputation with his company, Money Ripples getting his clients fast, life-altering financial results.
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Find Your Divine Genius
This is our 53rd episode. I want to get going because I’ve got a great topic for you. I wanted to figure out what was going to be the great birthday topic. What would be a good way to celebrate the year? I figured I wanted to do it on a subject that’s near and dear to my heart, one that I believe is powerful and connects not just financially but it connects to an aspect of our life because I believe that wealth should be expressed in all areas, not just financially.
I started thinking, “What would be a great topic?” I was getting anal about it. I was mulling this over. It came to me. I said, “It should be on the very topic I’ve barely released up through not only my website but also through other means as well.” That’s find your divine genius. I truly believe that each of us are put on this planet to serve people. That’s the purpose of life for all of us. We’re here to serve people, to be able to help edify everybody else, help bring all of our lives up together so that we can make each other better and improve our lives so that when we leave this planet, we leave it in a better place than when we first came.
Our Life Purpose
I believe that’s a full expression of our purpose. The purpose in our life, that is individual. That is something that depends upon each of us because each of us have been given unique talents and gifts. Each of us has unique passions. We have unique experiences and education and things that have made us who we are and who we are divinely. That is truly what we have to bring to this world that we can serve people in a way that no one else on this planet can. That’s what find your divine genius is all about. It’s how do we find that divine genius within each of us? How do we find that way we can truly express the best of who we are and serve people with the best that we have to offer so we can make this world even better?
Could you imagine what this world would be like if everybody decided to express the best of who they are, with all their gifts and their talents, and we’re able to leverage each other? If we’re not great at something, we find somebody who is amazing at it and a genius in that area. Use that in a way that gives the maximum blessings possible in people’s lives.
By the way, this is what I believe people in business should be doing. If you’re in business, even if you’re an entrepreneur where you’re working inside some of these businesses, we all have something we could express. Even if you’re a mother, father, son, or daughter, brother, sister, whether you’re as a stranger on the street, somebody that’s in the community, someone that’s there to show up and to be a friend to somebody, whatever role you play in your life, you can express your divine genius no matter where you are.
That is the power of what we’re trying to teach now. I want to talk about a few of those points and some of those areas you should be looking for to be able to do that. There’s nothing better than feeling like you’re contributing to society and making a difference in people’s lives. Ultimately, I want to see the ripple effect I want to create from the show and for my business and everything that I’m doing that you guys go out and create this ripple effect.
Let’s talk about some of these basic components and ways you can do this. I’m only going to be covering a few basic points, a few nuggets for you guys to chew on and act upon because it’s not enough to hear it. You’ve got to do it. Obviously, if you guys want to take this more in-depth, you can go get Find Your Divine Genius through our website on MoneyRipples.com or you can go to MoneyRipples.StrongBrook.com.
There’s a way to get access to it even for less and possibly even free, along with several other people I’ve recommended, like Ann Webb, Leslie Householder and Amy Walker. People I’ve had as guests on this show are a part of that. Tons of people that have been guests on here are part of that same library of information. If you want access to that way, there’s a great three-part webinar series I did on the subject and a workbook to take you through this quickly.
Each of us is put on this planet to serve people, enlighten everybody else, and help bring our lives together. That's our purpose in life, for us to help. Click To TweetStrengths, Gifts, And Talents
Let’s talk about the first area that I focused on, which is strengths. Your gifts and your talents. I know this applies in all areas, but let’s focus on the business and the monetary side because that’s what many of you people are reading. You were in business of some sort. You’re an entrepreneur of sorts. If you look at it, people hire you for your strengths, not your weaknesses. Nobody wants to hire me to do paperwork for them. Trust me. It’s not a good investment of your money to hire me to have to fill out paperwork for you. You can ask me to teach. That’s a totally different story, especially if it’s a subject that I understand. I can do that well, but don’t ask me to do paperwork.
We’re not hired for our weaknesses. We’re hired for our strengths and our gifts. If we understand that fully, we have to realize that we get to stop spending so much time trying to make ourselves well-rounded. It’s almost like they’re trying to do for us in school. They tried to say, “You got to take all these general subjects to poke and feel.”
Even if you know what you’re grading, they’ll say, “Take all these subjects. It’s good for you.” I’m not saying they weren’t good subjects, but eventually, you got to hone in on who you are and what you have best offer, and then master that. If you’re good at something, make yourself great. In fact, make yourself amazing. The cool thing is that sometimes people get caught up on one strength they look at.
For example, this can happen to athletes, who might look at their athletic abilities and say, “This person’s more athletic than me. I’m guessing they’re better.” That’s not it. The thing that makes you divine and makes you a genius in your area and who you are and what makes you irreplaceable because no one else can quite be like you is the fact that you have a combination of strengths and gifts.
It’s not just one strength that you have. You have multiple amounts of strengths and abilities. That combination together makes you uniquely who you are, which means that you and you alone can serve people in a way that no one else can. Do you understand the power behind that? You can serve people that no one else can. There’s a great purpose in your life for the fact that only you can serve people the way that you can serve them.
Some people need that. In fact, it’s likely that a lot of people might need that. They might need you in their life to be able to help them. It could be in a moment and for a long period of time, but whatever it might be, you’re there to bless people and have a purpose. There is meaning in your life that way. When we stay with a combination of strengths together, this is what makes it great.
Some of you guys know this, but I used to be in ballroom dancing a lot. In fact, that’s how I met my wife. She was my competition partner. I used to compete nationally. I didn’t do the international competition so much. Although I was on the world championship team, I didn’t individually compete against people around the world.
I’m sure that I’d probably be in the top few hundred people of amateur dancers out there in the world. I was up there with the national people, one of the top national dancers. What I noticed was as I looked around, I did not have the most athletic ability. I only danced for a space of about four years. I even had a two-year break in between the 1st and 2nd year of dancing. I had interrupted breaks. The thing that made me progress quickly to get to move up the ranks a lot more was the fact that I was able to combine some other strengths with it. For example, I would teach everything I learned to other people.
I would teach a lot of people. I wasn’t the type of person to hold on to it and not teach it. I would share it like crazy. As I share it, I would illustrate it and demonstrate it. As I demonstrate it, I would practice it more and more and master the craft and the technique. In fact, the one thing that I did better than a lot of dancers is, technically speaking, from a technical standpoint, I did well. Performance. I had to let that catch up.
That was something that took more time because pretty soon, I got masterful at the techniques but not so much as the performance and the look and feel of it. That had to come along later as I started to progress. That happened because I was teaching it. I was also persistent. I like to master and break things.
I like to keep messing with it, making it better and improving and always improving upon it. I have this almost perfectionistic mentality that, when combined with my little bit of athletic ability, I was able to do something that I’d never thought I’d ever do in my life. The same is true in business. Business, I wasn’t a natural at.
However, over time, I was able to get that to be better and better and apply it. Some of the same things I did in dancing, I was also able to apply in business. I’m finding new talents all the time or I’m able to master talents more and more as I recognize that there’s a value that I’m able to create for other people. The focus is to find those strengths. There are lots of great ways to do this.
In all the activities I teach, there are lots of ways. I use personality tests and strength tests and things like that. I also have people pull people that one thing you could do. You can pull 10 to 15 friends, co-workers, associates, family members, a spouse, for sure. Pull people that are around you. They can be somebody who hasn’t known you for long.
It might be somebody in your church that maybe you’ve known for a few months. You got to talk to them a little bit, but you haven’t got to know them that well. Maybe you’re an acquaintance. You’ll find out though, that even those acquaintances might have some of the same exact responses that people have known you for decades. It seems to be true time and time again with hundreds of up people. I thought this, too, that they’re almost dumbfounded that people that didn’t know them that well would know them so well.
They would be shocked at how much they would know them and say, “They said the same thing as my parents said.” Yeah, because your genius is obvious to everybody else because it’s not their genius. They see things that are natural about you. It’s part of who you are. You don’t even have to try that hard. It’s awesome when you have intention, you do try to develop those skills and those abilities.
It’s amazing how it oozes out of you and people see it. Usually, the last person to ever see your strengths and abilities is you because you’re so focused on everybody else’s genius a lot of times. You’re looking at what they do well. You forget to look at yourself and that you have your own genius and abilities that can help so many people.
You have multiple amounts of strengths and abilities. That combination together makes you uniquely who you are, which means that you can serve people in a way no one else can. Click To TweetYou look at everybody else’s strengths. “I wish I had that strength.” There are other people looking at you saying the same exact thing. Why not make it work better by applying those strengths? Ask the 10 to 15 closest people. Most likely, you might get about 7 to 10 responses if you do that. Not everybody will respond. Some people will put on a shell or they’ll say, “I want to make sure I do this right.” They’ll wait years. I’m still waiting for my father-in-law to send me mine. That was back in 2007. It tells you how long I’ve been waiting. The thing is to find out what those strengths are because they’re important.
Passions
There’s an amplifier of strengths as well. This is passion, using your passions to serve others. Your passion will amplify your strengths. The reason I was able to do dancing before so much more quickly is because I not only played those strengths, but I was also passionate about it, even over people who have been dancing since they were four years old. I started when I was eighteen.
The thing is, I was passionate about doing it. Find those passions because they can amplify your gifts. What is it you’re passionate about now? I do get that people will say, “I’m not passionate about anything.” I bet that’s not true. I had a guy that told me that. He worked in a mine. He said, “Honestly, Chris, I’m not passionate about anything. I see people get excited. It’s dumb. I don’t see anything I’m passionate about that way. I want to be in some way, but I am not.”
I said, “Let’s look at the flip side of the passion coin. Is there anything that gets you fired up? Anything that gets you ticked off? Anything that gets your blood boiling?” He said, “When people threaten my family.” “Why is that?” “It’s because I want my family to be happy, well, and safe. I don’t like anybody insulting my family. Politics, I can’t stand politics. Even though I do this, this, and this.” He started telling me all the things about politics he enjoyed. We found probably a good half a dozen passions minimum by him talking about what ticks him off.
Even if you wonder if you’re passionate about anything, we’ll find out what fires you upand w Is there a certain topic or something that somebody does that gets your blood boiling? Maybe you’re passionate about being in integrity, which might be a value as well. Values are something we look at when we look at finding your divine genius.
There’s something behind that. It’s not just about being passionate about family, but what about the family? Is there something there? Is it the health of your family and their health and wellbeing? Is it the fact that you love bonds and emotional connections? Are you passionate about that? Are you passionate about health? Are you passionate about money, not just money for the sake of money, but you’re passionate about the topic of it.
Are you passionate about relationships? Are you passionate about spirituality and those kinds of things? What about that? Find those areas you’re passionate in because if you can tie a passion to your gifts, watch what will happen. Even if there are people with similar gifts, and of course, nobody has the same combination of gifts that you have, but if they had some similar ones, you would find that applying with a little passion would take a long way.
Look for those passions. I cannot emphasize that enough. If you want to truly have a fulfilling life, not just serving people but doing what you love, I say this is one thing is that, and this leads to the next bit, which is about solving problems for people and identifying those problems. It’s not just about doing what you love and the money will follow. Whoever came up with that, it was close. They were close, but it is incomplete because there are a lot of passionate people that are broke.
There are a lot of people that love what they do but don’t make any money. There are various reasons. I’ll say this, though, you can be passionate all you want, but if people aren’t passionate about what you’re passionate about, nobody will care. Passion goes a long way, but I’m telling you, it’s not about doing what you love and money will follow. It’s do what you love that others love what you’re doing. The money can follow if you have the right skills in place to back that up, too. This is why we talk about business and money skills because I see so many people who destroy their passion.
They destroy their ability to find their divine genius or even apply it in other people’s lives because they don’t know how to manage their business flow to make their money. They don’t know how to control that area of their life. It prevents them from serving at a greater and higher level. This is why you got to get clear on all these things, but it’s not just about having passion.
Problems
Passion is great. Harness it, use it, love it, but don’t let that stop you. Don’t let that be the only thing. It’s got to be more than that. People have to be passionate about what you do for them. Otherwise, they won’t want you to serve them. There’s got to be something that you can solve a problem for them. That’s that third point.
What problems are you able to solve with these strengths and these passions and everything that you have? What can you do? What’s that real purpose there? Looking for those problems, what are those problems? This is where passions tie in. Are there problems you’re passionate about right now? Are there things that you’ve been able to overcome in your life that you’ve been able to apply in people’s lives?
Personally, I’m passionate about people living to their potential. This is why I love the subject because personally, I feel like if we don’t live up to the fullest of our ability to the best of who we are, because I believe that if we don’t do that, we’re wasting our time. We’re losing. People are losing out. There are people we could be serving, and if we’re not aware of what’s going on, there are people going to miss out that might very well need it.
There might be some of those moments, too, as some of those people where it could be a life and death situation that they need you. We got to have that ability to truly express the best of who we are. What are those problems that are out there you say, “I’ve got an answer for that? I can serve you in this way. There are ways I can serve you and create great value for you. Here, let’s do this.”
That’s where there’s opportunity. Where you see problems, there’s always more opportunity. Lately, problems, although they might shift and change over time, some of the problems are still the same. Problems have evolved. There’s just so much opportunity now than there ever has been in the history of this planet.
The difference is now people are communicating it faster, meaning we can get access to problems faster, know what people need or want, and be able to give that to them. The fact we’re able to connect with people so much more easily now, those relationships and connecting to those relationships with people and letting them know how you can show up and serve them can do wonders on this planet. Not just locally around you, although that can be true too, but everywhere across the world.
If you want a fulfilling life, do not just serve people but do what you love. Click To TweetAsk yourself, “What are some problems I see in the world now that I want to have solved, or I have an answer to solve it?” Write those down because that right there, if you already have a business doing it great, awesome. If you don’t have a business or you’re looking for a business, this could be the business for you. If you have a business, but it’s not matching up, maybe you can ask yourself, “What can I do to align this with my business?” Look at my example. I could teach about finances all day long. I have events where I teach for about a day in the third. Even then, it was shortened down from a three-day event.
I could teach these things for days, but I also know too that if I talk about finances, I personally would not feel the fulfillment I feel when I teach you about how important it is to take that divinity within you and apply that to people’s lives. That’s huge. You’ve got to have that. I also agree too that we’ve got to have the ability to do so much more.
I love that there’s a personal development angle of what I teach. I love that there’s a spiritual element to what I teach. I believe in God. I believe that God is the author of all prosperity and that we’re here to be able to become like him in that way that we were essentially messengers to deliver on those prayers that people have. We are answering problems for them right now. That’s what’s awesome.
If there’s a ripple effect that I want to create, it’s not just financial prosperity, although that does follow a lot of times when you’re using gifts, but instead, it’s how you create a ripple effect through people’s lives as the ways you’re able to bless them more than just the money and in business, but in life. That ripple effect can extend so far beyond you. That prosperity, that ability to have many lives blessed, can change this world.
That’s the change I’m all about. That’s just my three-year vision, not even my long-term vision. Some people find it frees up or make an extra $1 billion in the next three years. It’s going to require tens of thousands of people, probably about 20,000 to 30,000 people to do that. The cool thing is that I’m not stopping there. I’m going to keep going. I hope you do, too. Your goal has to include tens of thousands of people. If you focus on a handful of people, the thing is, you can bless lives in a way that creates a ripple effect that does reach tens of thousands, if not millions or billions of people.
This is my desire for you, that you go out, truly become who you were meant to be, who you’re created to be, live up to that potential and find that divine genius. If you want to get in this more in-depth, you can either go to my website, MoneyRipples.com to check it out or you can check out MoneyRipples.StrongBrook.com and check out there and get it for a lot less than you’d get it from my own website. There are lots of ways to access the information, but let me serve you. Let me know how to create a ripple effect in your life, too. The best thing I asked is go and do it. That’s what I’m going to leave you with. Make it a prosperous week, not just process financially, but process by living your divine genius.
Important Links
- Find Your Divine Genius
- Ann Webb – Past Episode
- Leslie Householder – Past Episode