This is an area of thought about which I have a tremendous personal passion. Turning one's passion into profit is just one part of living what I call "the integrated life" a life in which not just your passion and income strategy, but your health as well as your relationships are integrated, or incorporated, into the design of your life.

Allen reminds us that thoughts are also an integral part of maintaining health.

If you are presently wallowing in corporate confinement, in a job you hate, doing work that is unfulfilling, toiling in an environment of fear, contention, backstabbing, glass ceilings and office politics, such an environment, and the thoughts it cultivates will take a toll on your health.

As I suggest in Ducks in a Row (another course text) about the many reasons you need to quit your job, you need to quit your job because of "the slow death:"[Excerpt] When you allow yourself to live without passion, work without fulfillment, and dream without action, you have condemned yourself to a slow death. You only believe it is survival because you are receiving a paycheck, and somehow you believe this justifies the torture, ameliorates the pain, assuages the frustration, rationalizes the insanity and obscures the reality of your demise. For those who can see clearly, it does not. [End]

Similarly, if you are already in business, you cannot think thoughts that are based on an "I win, you lose" business model, or spend all day thinking and acting on how to crush your competitors, swindle your customers, underpay your employees, deceive your suppliers and then return home with the expectation that your personal health and relationships will be immune to the effects of fostering and festering in such thoughts! There will be a negative effect on your health.TABLE OF CONTENTSPassionpreneur University(tm) Mission & PhilosophyProfessor's Foreword Study Rules Author's Foreword Thought and Character and Professor's Notes Effect of Thought On Circumstances and Notes Effect of Thought On Health & The Body and Notes Thought and Purpose and Notes The Thought-Factor In Achievement Visions and Ideals Serenity Applying the Concepts About James Allen The Public Domain Reissue Series About Passionpreneur University(tm) A Message From the Publisher The Integrated Life(tm) series Something New!