After reading the title of this week’s wealth secret, I’m sure you are wondering what the heck I am talking about – connect with your body and find your fortune.  How can connecting with your body lead you to your fortune?  Perfect, that’s exactly what I want you to start asking.

In fact, at this moment right now, close your eyes for 30 seconds and scan your body.  What do you feel? If you are like most of us, the overriding feeling is nothing.  Numbness.  No feeling at all.

Most of us live nearly totally in our heads. Our thoughts govern our actions.  We pay very little attention to the signals our bodies are giving us because we no longer know how to listen.

As a human race, we are shut down.  Can you relate?

If you can, there is something you can do about this.  Before we talk about what you can do about it though, let me explain how doing something about it will bring you the family wealth you are seeking.

Every single day, you make a myriad of decisions. Some big, some small, some ginormous, some miniscule.  No matter how successful you get, how much money you have or what stage of life you are at, you will always have decisions to make.

How you make these decisions has a huge impact on how much wealth you attract into your life.  The fewer miss-takes you make in your life, the quicker you will achieve your dreams and the much more quickly you’ll get there.  There’s also a whole lot less risk that you’ll just give up, which is what most people do when they experience many miss-takes.

When you connect with your body, you will have the perfect capacity to make the best decisions for your life, your business, your family and yourself.  If you’ve ever gone to an astrologer, had your palm read, used a pendulum or even asked someone else to help you make a decision, this is the only answer you’ll ever need.

So, how do you connect with your body?

Start with an intention to do so. Make the commitment to yourself to connect with your body everyday.

Once you have the intention, put some time on your calendar and commit to making that time inviolate.  Let your assistant know never to schedule anything over this time.

I’d recommend you begin by setting aside 5 minutes per day and a 30-minute session at least once per week.

Now, what should you do during this time?

For now, just breathe and while you are breathing pay attention to how your body feels inside and out.

Notice your legs touching the chair you are sitting in. Notice your back leaning against the cushion.  Notice the temperature of the air on your skin.

There’s nothing else for now.  Just notice.

And as your mind tells you that this is a waste of your time, that it’s not necessary, or that this is silly, thank it for letting you know and do it anyway.  When you don’t want to do it, do it anyway.

Before you have to make a decision, tap into yourself and know without a shadow of a doubt that your decision is the right one for you.

Try it for a week and see what happens. Let me know either way on my blog or on twitter. I can’t wait to hear.

If you are like most of us, there’s something you are hiding.  A piece of you wants something different than you have right now.

But, you are denying it.

You are denying it because it’s too scary to contemplate.

It would mean huge changes in your comfortable life. It might mean making less money. It might shock everyone.

And yet, it’s the thing that if you don’t do it before you die, you will always wonder about.

This thing is so big, so amazing, so incredible and seems so out of reach for you that you’ve stuffed it away.

At least if you are like most of us.

For me, that thing was TV.

In my heart of heart’s,I always knew it was what I wanted, but it was too big, too scary to contemplate.

A few years ago, I appeared on O’Reilly Factor as a mom’s nights/breastfeeding advocate and I was so not TV ready, that I convinced myself I didn’t really want it.

That it was no big deal.

But, in my heart, it was a big deal. And, I did really want.

I stuffed it away for a few years.

Why did I stuff it away? Because as things were in my life at that point, it didn’t seem possible. And because I didn’t believe it was possible, it wasn’t possible.

And it felt too painful to admit I wanted something that was so out of reach.

What if I said I wanted it and then didn’t get it I’d be so disappointed.

It felt safer to just pretend I didn’t want it.

Safer, maybe. Is that really the life you want to live? A safe life?

At the end of your life, will you say to yourself” well, at least I kept things safe and didn’t try and fail.”

Now is the time to step into your hidden heart’s desire, no matter what it is. There’s nothing wrong with you for wanting it, whatever it is.

You deserve it!

And what I can tell you is that when you start to talk about it, believe in it and let it out, you will attract all the wealth, prosperity, health and happiness you’ve ever wanted.

You cant stop investing just because the real estate and stock markets are declining. If you do, you are actually placing yourself at greater risk due to the forces of inflation.

So, while your dollars are staying the same, apparently safe in your FDIC-insured savings account, prices will be going up. That means a loss of spending power for you and your family. At the same time, real estate and stocks may feel a little too risky for you right now. I understand.

Fortunately, there are some great investments still available to you.

You can never lose by investing in yourself. Whether its by investing in your business or in personal development courses or coaching, an investment in yourself will always pay the highest returns across the board. The investment in your own growth will pay returns not only for yourself, but for your family as well and for multiple generations.

There’s one thing you’ll want to look for before making any investments, whether it be in home improvements, your business, personal development or anything else.

Will the investment you are making improve the state of the world, whether its your world or the greater global world around you? How do you know if it will? I recently read an article on my Kindle that gave me a great litmus test for determining whether to make an investment or not.

I’m sharing it with you here so you can evaluate investments for yourself.

Side note: If you don’t know about the Kindle, this is a MUST HAVE item in my book. It absolutely meets the criteria for a great investment for me. Now, I don’t have to lug around the 3-5 books I’m reading at any given time. I can load up to 200 on my Kindle! And, they just came out with version 2.0, which Ive heard is far superior!

One of the things I love about my Kindle is the Daily Post, which is put together by the Amazon.com editors and often shares exclusive interviews with really smart people. Last week, Amazon interviewed one of the most widely read financial and economic writers today, senior editor at Newsweek and the author of the e-book Dumb Money, Daniel Gross.

In his interview, Gross was asked what do you think Americans can invest in during this period. His answer: In a word: efficiency. That’s something we can invest in monetarily, culturally, and socially. The Dumb Money period was one in which we could afford to be dumb about the use of assets credit, cash, energy. Now we’ve entered an era in which we have to make smarter use of everything.

So, before you make your next investment of time, money or anything else, ask yourself whether the investment is a good idea from this perspective first and foremost.

A few examples:

Investing in a big screen TVs is a dumb money purchase. A big screen TV wont make you more efficient at anything, nor will it improve the world in some way. In contrast, investing in an energy-efficient heating system or new windows that reduce energy consumption would be a great investment.

Buying an on-site computer network for your small business, probably not the best investment. Multiple computers, a server that needs to be configured, on-site maintenance. All of that is a drag. Today, itd be a lot more efficient for you to invest in the services of an outsourced centralized server system that you can lease and is maintained for you remotely by an expert systems administrator.

Creating your own estate planning documents, which requires you to invest time and energy in learning the law, not a good investment. Engaging the services of a Personal Family Lawyer who can guide you through a lifetime of great legal and financial decisions, far more efficient!

Reinventing the wheel and figuring it out yourself, never the best use of your time and money. Finding someone who has done what you want to do in the way you want to do it and learning from them, a much smarter investment.