Have you ever had an idea that you didn't do anything about, only to later discover that someone else had used your idea to make a fortune (even though you never shared your idea with anyone?). How did you feel?

Happened to me once. One of my hobbies is music: I write songs, sing and play the piano.

One day many years ago, a tune occured to me. Normally when this happens I record the tune and polish it up afterwards. For some reason though, I didn't do so at this time. I didn't do anything with that idea. A few months down the line, I heard 'my' song on the radio! Someone had written the music that occured to me, taken it to a studio, got it recorded and made a hit out of it!

Coincidence? Actually, no. There are no coincidences - every thing that happens, happens with precision according to set rules and laws that govern the world we live in (The Universal Laws).

So how do we explain such phenomena?

Quite simply: God is in you. God is around you. His very breath is in you right now. You live, move and have your being in Him. He is the so-called Energy field or ether that you've read about. He is a Spirit.

He desires to express Himself through you. That is what metaphysicists mean when they say there is one Mind from which all thoughts and ideas flow.

God desires to express Himself, and continues to seek a willing vessel to use for that purpose because you see, God WILL express Himself one way or another. When you get desires or ideas that are good (or great even), when you get brilliant thoughts or possible solutions to problems occur to you, during those times of inspiration, it is God in you seeking expression.

If you don't act on those ideas, He will find someone willing to let Him express Himself through them. When that happens and that person prospers as a result (when you allow God to express Himself through you, the result reflects Him - abundance, prosperity, beauty, holiness, health - perfection), you regret not taking action when it occured to you.

Why do we not act on some brilliant ideas we have?

Because we tend to look down on our thoughts, simply because they are ours. But let someone else express the same thing and you marvel at how brilliant they are. Sometimes the gravity of the idea seems daunting and we get discouraged or scared to act on them. Because we sometimes feel our ideas are not worth leaving our minds, as we fear ridicule.

Do you know what a genius is? A genius is someone who has listened to that inner prompting and *acted on it*, regardless on what society thinks or says. The genius doesn't like to be ridiculed but he doesn't let that stop him from acting on his idea. Handel wrote the entire 'Messiah' in 3 days. If you are familiar with any of the pieces in Handel's Messiah, you know that this was a work of pure genius.

Yet I tell you today that you too, have genius within you.

Do not be afraid to unleash your inner genius. When you receive great thoughts and ideas, don't despise them because they're from 'little old you'. Do not belittle your ideas, for in truth they are not yours - you're simply a vessel for God to express Himself through. If He gives you an idea, recognize the source of the idea and let that awareness give you the boldness you need to step out and take action.

If you desire a financial breakthrough, for instance, rather than looking outside for your solution, act on the ideas that occur to you. Don't think you have any ideas? Then ask yourself good questions like 'How can I attract $....today in ways that greatly benefit everyone concerned?', and write down all the answers that occur to you. Look through your list and act on the ones you feel drawn to the most.

Because you are part of the Universal Mind, great ideas are all around you and within you. There is no shortage of ideas or thoughts in the universe. That's why sometimes, things 'occur to you.'

From now on, *act* on those ideas. Every great invention started as an idea. Someone got bold and acted on their idea, no matter how radical or unconventional it seemed at the time. They were probably ridiculed at the beginning by those who didn't know any better, but those same people sang their praises when the results of the idea-in-action became clear. People can be quite fickle, so why let their opinions determine what you do?

So I encourage you today: act on your ideas. Do not be afraid to make mistakes - learn from them and move on. Be the one through whom God expresses an aspect of Himself. In doing so, your needs will be met in abundance, for that's God's purpose for you - to give you life, and that more abundantly.

Don't despise your great ideas. You are every bit as important as Shakespeare, Handel, Da Vinci and any other 'genius' you can think of, who let God express an aspect of Himself through them. You've got the same access to God as they did.

Do not belittle yourself, for you are a child of God, made in His image. Act like who you are. Act on your ideas with all you've got, for He who put the ideas in you has also equipped you with all you need to carry them out.

Don't make the mistake of rejecting your own 'original' idea, only for the 'job' to be given to someone more willing. Note that ability has nothing to do with it - willingness and boldness do.

Write that book. Make that proposal. Start that business. Strike up that conversation. Say those words to that someone. Whatever it is, act on it at once. Your breakthrough could be in that idea, but you'd never know unless you step out in faith and act on it.

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" --Emerson, from the essay 'Self Reliance',