Raja Oellinger-Guptara - The Midas Effect

The Midas Effect

Transforming dreams into reality

ISBN 978-3-9503713-2-1

2014 Copyright by Raja llinger-Guptara & serendii publishing

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This book is for those who dare to follow their dreams!

One reason that I have become interested in dreams and that moved me to write this book is that I have noticed that there are basically two types of character:

1. The realists: the people I know, for example, from the fitness center. People who live in the present with every breath they take, who build houses, start businesses, and know exactly how to make things real and just do it.
2. The dreamers: On the other hand there is the dreamer, creating visions, wanting to change the world and acting on a more visionary level. But here I have discovered that it is precisely these people who have problems in making their dreams and ideas a reality. With this book, I want to help those people who have, so far, never dared to turn their dreams into just that.

That is easier than it sounds, but only if you also know the right moves. As in sports and at the gym, dreamers need a coach to offer some of his know-how and information on the methods we need to use to achieve our goals. There are a number of character traits in dreamers which I have come across again and again. For example, many of them use their dream to isolate themselves from their environment and often keep the dream to themselves.

They often think that if they only had enough money, the right contacts or other things, then they could make their dream work. They forget the most important thing! They forget that they will still need the right advice and do not think to look for a coach!

When we think of the Australian Open or Wimbledon, whether it is Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams or Roger Federer, somewhere at courtside or in the stands sits the trainer, offering all kinds of guidance and support which can help to win the match and produce a player of world class. The job of a coach is to provide a little help, giving the player that edge which means crossing the fine line between success and failure. Trainers, even when they are not called such, can be found everywhere, in art, in business or in engineering. In all these disciplines, the trainer gives the instructions that enable his student to take the vital steps to cross this line.

For dream development and the realization of a dream, those steps are crucial!

If I tell someone that he should go to the first floor, but I do not show him where the stairs are, there is no way for him to get there. However, if I tell him where the stairs are, then its very easy. It is the same with dreams. He who does not know the right steps cannot realize his dream.

There are many dreamers who dream to themselves. This book should be a training manual for all those who want to realize their dreams and have not yet taken steps towards doing so. Often, only small hints are necessary in order to realize how much energy there is in each of us and to use our gift of transforming thoughts into reality, just as the legendary King Midas once turned everything that he touched into gold.

It is very important to fully engage in this training and understand the instructions properly. Dreamers are loners and think they can do it all on their own. They do not think that even stars such as Roger Federer have coaches and also replace these trainers from time to time. Dreamers must look for a coach.

When talking about dream resources, many think of money, contacts or premises, but no one thinks to look for a coach!

In my professional and personal life, I have achieved much. All of it started with a dream. It is a fact that everyone can do it!

With this book, I want to be your coach, to guide you through the first steps to realizing your dreams and to give plenty of important advice for dreamers.

A wise man needs only a hint.

Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

John 7:38

Everything we dream, do and want to createall comes from within ourselves. Each of us has the energy and the power to change our world at any time!

Dreams hold mysterious but very powerful dynamics and forces. For decades the theory of the butterfly effecti has existed in science. This states that the flapping of a butterflys wings in Japan is enough to trigger a hurricane on the other side of the world in South America.

This theory, which is supported by many scientists, not only shows that everything in our world is connected, but above all, that every little cause has a huge (and infinite!) effect.

Anyone who follows his dreams, even if he or she starts out with small steps or small changes in his or her life, will be surprised to see the positive results this may have for him or her in the future!

The butterfly effect is probably one of the most important truths by which our world works. This may begin to sound repetitive, but this principle really is found in every situation in our lives and therefore we will return to the butterfly effect several more times in this book. Once you understand that the butterfly effect exists everywhere, you can use this knowledge to achieve your goals.

The butterfly effect is not just present in weather phenomena. If you look closely, this principle exists in every situation and in every process in our world.

• A newborn child may have hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands and even billions of descendants.

• A single sneeze in an airplane can infect all the other passengers and make them sick.

• A single disease bacterium can be the trigger for a pandemic in an entire city or region (or the whole world: bird flu, foot and mouth disease)

• The spread of AIDS works on the same principle. A single infected person, who has sexual contact with just a few people, may infect half a town. Of course, it would not be easy to trace this epidemic back to this person, because the connection between him and the other infected people is lost with distance and the passing of time.

• A small movement with your foot on the brake pedal slows down a car from 300 km/h to 0.

• Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine a mere 100 years ago, yet this now supplies whole sectors of industry, drives the development of diesel-powered transport and modern shipping of freight and supports globalization.

• A half a centimeter change on the wheel of a 500 meter long tanker moves the huge, skyscraper-high rudder at the rear, and thus the whole tanker changes course and may arrive in Rio instead of New York.

• If I write an article and I press the mouse button to publish this article on the internet, in theory, the majority of mankind has access to it. No one can tell who reads the article or what impact this will have on him, others or society as a whole.

• At the flick of a single light switch, hundreds or thousands of lamps can be turned on and off in a factory, the workers can work under good lighting, the products of the factory are of high quality and therefore sell well and the electric company makes money.