Alan Cohen - Spirit Means Business: The Way to Prosper Wildly without Selling Your Soul

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SPIRIT MEANS BUSINESS

Spirit Means Business is as fun to read as it is enlighteningessential reading for anyone committed to success in their personal and financial lives. Alan reminds us that we can both achieve the things that we want and be our authentic selves. The wisdom he has gathered from his own life experiences is the real deal.

Ken Honda, Japans all-time best-selling business author

Spirit Means Business teaches us that our desire for spiritual evolution and business success are not in conflict with one another. As Alan Cohen beautifully reminds us, theyre linked in a powerful way.

Mike Robbins, author of Bring Your Whole Self to Work

I love this book! Alan Cohen has gotten inside our heads, exposing that the illusions weve learned to relate to as truth about money, sacrifice, and success arent rooted in reality at all! Spirit Means Business is a powerful and practical guide through the maze of these myths, providing a path to prosperity with integrity at the core.

Nancy Levin, author of Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth

Alan Cohen is one of my favorite teachers. He somehow manages to be both super mellow and super no-nonsense intense. In Spirit Means Business he helps us achieve what we all really want: how to prosper wildly (!) without selling our souls. I loved the book and highly recommend itespecially if youve wondered how to integrate your spirituality and your ambition. I believe the world needs more of us spiritually minded people to become much more economically empowered so we can change the world together. I think this book is a great resource for the movement.

Brian Johnson, CEO of Optimize and creator of Philosophers Notes

In Spirit Means Business, Alan Cohen dispels the myths of hardship commonly associated with professional advancement and awakens the reader to an alternate reality where the air is fresher, the colors more brilliant, and the money flows. As an entrepreneur and business coach, who transformed from working very hard to succeeding with ease, I highly recommend this insightful book. It is a blessing for any entrepreneur or professional who feels the call for greater joy, passion, and profitability in their business. Listen to his immense wisdom, self-examine with his lessons, and watch your life become lighter and more joyful and for you to prosper with greater ease.

Roberta Ross, president of www.SixFigureRealEstateCoach.com and host of Free Yourself to Success Podcast

ALSO BY ALAN COHEN

Are You as Happy as Your Dog?

A Course in Miracles Made Easy

Dare to Be Yourself

A Deep Breath of Life

A Daily Dose of Sanity

Dont Get Lucky, Get Smart

The Dragon Doesnt Live Here Anymore

Enough Already

The Grace Factor

Handle with Prayer

Happily Even After

Have You Hugged a Monster Today?

I Had It All the Time

How Good Can It Get?

Joy Is My Compass

Lifestyles of the Rich in Spirit

Lindens Last Life

Looking In for Number One

My Fathers Voice

The Peace That You Seek

Relax into Wealth

Rising in Love

Setting the Seen

The Tao Made Easy

Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do about It

Wisdom of the Heart

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Copyright 2019 by Alan Cohen

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Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-5336-2

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To Ken Honda, whose generosity of spirit
has taught me that kindness
is the heart of success

THE GREAT ENEMY OF THE TRUTH IS VERY OFTEN NOT THE LIE

DELIBERATE, CONTRIVED, AND DISHONEST

BUT THE MYTH

PERSISTENT, PERSUASIVE, AND UNREALISTIC.

John F. Kennedy

Not very long ago, people believed all kinds of things that seem unbelievable, even ridiculous, now. Until the end of the 19th century, doctors attempted to cure illnesses by draining nearly all the blood from a patients body. Half of the United States fought for the right to own slaves. Into the early 20th century, heroin was sold over the counter in corner drugstores as a perfect guardian of health, and Bayer marketed the substance as an aspirin for children. Womens magazines urged the reader to wake up an hour before her husband and apply makeup so she would look beautiful when he opened his eyes. As recently as the 1950s, some doctors performed lobotomies by jamming an ice pick into the eye sockets of mentally ill patients. The vice president of Planned Parenthood advised pregnant women to smoke as a treatment for constipation. To this day, the Flat Earth Society argues vehemently that the earth is a disk and if you cruise over its edge, you will fall into the abyss. Only recently have we begun to emerge from the Dark Ages, and in many ways we have yet to do so. Yet there are people who are more committed to advancing their lives than remaining asleep. Irish writer Stopford Brooke urged, If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth, we must still march on.

One of the areas begging sorely for our awakening is the arena of business and money. As advanced as we are in commerce, many of us still subscribe to limiting fear-based ideas and attitudes that keep us from thriving. Over many years coaching and training thousands of clients to forge new paths to success in business, I have found three groups of people who struggle with their money and their jobs.