Unique Path To Prosperity

Your Unique Personal Differential

This is a concept I came up with back in the early 1990s, inspired by marketing guru Harry Pickens, who said that the secret of marketing success was to find the one thing that sets you apart..and then let people know about it.

I was reminded of this by Rupa Cousins, one of the most unique women I know, with whom I am now brainstorming about where she takes her important and transformational work as an Alexander Teacher and practitioner of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method (you can find out more at
www.rupacousins.com). This is also impacted by her deep involvement in Peace Dances, and sacred dance practices, as demonstrated in her highly regarded workshop When Dance Becomes Prayer.

Rupa and I have separately come to the conclusion that this unique synergy of mind-body-spirit work, rather than needing to be a difficult challenge to explain, can be celebrated for its unique difference from anything else anyone else is doing.

So How Are You and Your Work Different?

Which brings us to you, and what you can take from this exploration. Rupa talks about uncovering your uniqueness, and suggests two important questions that we can all ask ourselves as we want to take our lives to the next level:

What is in the way of being your unique self, of living your unique vision?
What am I that is just me, not anyone else?

I wrote back in 1991:

You can do yourself a great service by exploring and exploiting your own uniqueness. What about you is unique, special, unusual, remarkable? When I ask myself that question the answer isn’t that I am successful or prosperous, but rather that I seem to have a lot more fun than a lot of other people have.

One of my all time favorite quotes is from Christopher Morley:

There Is Only One Success:
To Be Able To Spend Your Life In Your Own Way

And isn’t a new year in a new decade, in what I like to think of as a new start to The New Millennium, the perfect time to uncover and discover your own unique personal differential?
Jerry

And by the way, though not always focused on prosperity, you might also enjoy my more personal blog at www.JerryGillies.net