"As well as being an actor and author, I also teach and lecture in Communications all over the world - particularly about Releasing the Power of Creative Vision," said Hatch. "I teach at colleges, universities, and business organisations. It's a professional hobby of mine and I've been speaking for the last 30 years.
"I love inspiring people and you always share what you learned the hard way. I don't believe in blowing smoke up people's… I do believe that we have unlimited potential. The problem is that most people don't have enough faith and trust in our own abilities to do anything about it. People are so full of fear that we can't even begin to tap or touch our true abilities.
"Generally speaking the direction where our greatest passion lies also brings up our greatest fears and insecurities which is why most people avoid the very road that will lead them where they want to go.
"You can't do anything until you get gut-level honest with yourself - stop blaming the world, stop blaming everybody and anything else. Look in the mirror and take responsibility for the decisions you have made in life, both consciously and unconsciously, that have led you to where you and realise that you created your own situation through your own choices. Unfortunately most of them were unconscious and most of them you didn't take responsibility for, but once you take responsibility you can choose to create again. New choices that will lead you in a direction that'll bring you greater happiness. As opposed to more pain, trauma and failure.
"The whole process is to stop working against something and start embracing, because that's the same as loving it. If you take a child who is angry, and crying and frustrated - which is like that inner voice of yours that keeps yelling out - the key is to stop pushing it away and to listen and embrace it. And the voice will slowly subside and become calm. The thing we most need is love and attention. When you finally give love to the part of your being that's crying out, that part starts to feel a sense of I'm ok, I'm valued, I'm loved."
"Everybody is gifted in one way or another, the key is finding out what those abilities are and learning how to deal with fear, learning how to build self-worth and then learning how to take small steps towards doing what you really want to do in life rather than wasting a lot of energy doing what you don't want to do.
More details about Richard Hatch's lectures at
RichardHatch.com.
