The document discusses how gifts and emotions can be used in versatile ways beyond their typical or intended uses. It notes that a mug the author received was originally meant as a safe gift but ended up being perfect for scrambling eggs. Emotions like sexual drive and fear are similarly versatile and can be "transmuted" toward more productive goals like art, music, or confronting procrastination rather than avoiding opportunities. The author advocates accepting and using all feelings, energy, and gifts to help achieve one's goals instead of letting them be obstacles.

1. Do You Appreciate Your Gifts?

2. Once I got an unexpected present
from a woman I barely knew.

3. A coffee cup.

4. One of those cheap, safe gifts that's
pretty easy.

5. However, it's been a while since I
drank coffee.

6. Now I use that same mug to scramble
eggs. It's the perfect size.

7. Now, when she bought it for me, she
probably didn't think I'd use it as my
go-to egg scrambling tool.

8. But as an egg tool, it's perfect.

9. Most gifts are pretty narrow in how
you can use them.

10. Like if somebody gave you a watch,
you wouldn't use it as a door stop or a
piece of decoration on your wall.

11. On the other hand, some gifts are
pretty versatile.

12. You can use them however you feel
like it.

13. Sometimes you can go too far, though.

14. Like that old joke about the person
who thought the DVD drive in their
computer was a coffee cup holder.

15. All of your emotions and drives are the
same way.

16. Sure, your sexual drive makes you
want to have sex.

17. Which makes more people. Which is
kind of the reason Mother Nature
made it hard to ignore.

18. Same with eating.

19. Or running away from tigers and flying
things that want to eat us.

20. Of course, you don't HAVE to use them
like that.

21. Napoleon Hill speaks about "Sex
Transmutation," where you take that
ever present powerful drive and
TRANSFORM it into something else.

22. Art. Music. An invention that will save
the world.

23. This takes a little thinking, and some
mental practice.

24. Another raw emotion that's hard to
ignore is fear.

25. But since you know fear is usually false
anyway, why not train yourself to be
afraid of something useful?

26. Like being afraid of procrastination.

27. Or being afraid of not getting enough
sleep, or not eating healthy.

28. After all, the whole purpose of fear is
to keep you from doing things that are
bad for you.

29. NOT things that are GOOD for you, like
talking to strangers, or starting a
business, or beginning an exercise
program.

30. After all, your emotions, feelings,
thoughts and instincts belong to you.

31. Why not use them to help you get
what you want, instead of allowing
them to be obstacles?

32. Accept ALL your feelings.

33. All your energy.

34. All your gifts.

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