For as long as I can remember I have struggled with questions such as these. For the longest time, I did not think I knew the purpose of my life. I wondered about it as if it wasn’t already permanently imprinted upon the very core of my being.

Even now I occasionally choose not to remember why I’m really here. I’m guessing that most of the people reading this are choosing to forget the simple fundamental truth that forms the foundation of every life on this planet. Even I succumb to the seductions of lies like: “Making money is the most important thing.” Or “Creating things is the most important thing.” “ Or “Controlling perceptions is the most important thing.” The world is as screwed up as it is, not because people don’t know the truth, but because we persistently choose to ignore what we know to be true in the depths of our being.

We exist to make manifest the fullness of love in our receiving of all of the love we can possibly receive and in the giving of our love to the fullest possible extent.

This may sound soft, shallow, naïve, or foolish to some of you reading this. I don’t care. I have struggled through my own bullsh*t for way too long to uncover this truth in my own life to try to dress up something simple, good, beautiful, and true so that others will be impressed by it.

And in case anyone thinks that living a life of reckless unconditional love is too soft a target, I know instantly that those people haven’t actually given it a shot. There is no more challenging goal in this world-apparently and temporarily ruled by fear and its many ugly stepchildren.

Love isn’t about being nice. Love isn’t about being a doormat for bullies. Love isn’t about looking the other way when fearful people do their business all over each other.

Love is about speaking the truth, even when it isn’t what people want to hear. Love is about standing up for others and for what is good and true and beautiful, especially when it is not popular. Love is about staring bullies down and taking their blows, even to the point of death if that is what it takes to help people wake up from their walking comas. Love is about helping people who are acting out of fear to see what seeds they are planting and what crops they will be harvesting if they do not change their habitual patterns. We’ve seen, heard about, and read examples of people doing these very things. We are being called to do the same in the name of True Love-Love that never, ever gives up.

To love with reckless abandon is to risk losing everything while hoping and trusting that all will end up winning in the end. And the winning in the end is not a some kind of hollow victory over others. It is not the raising of a shiny trophy. The victories that matter are the daily triumphs over our fears. We are to seek victory over living lives of commiseration and mediocrity. Greatness is available to each and everyone one of us, not necessarily in the ways that  most people would recognize, and yet those of us who are now waking up to the repercussions of choosing to focus on our fears instead of our loves need to start playing a much bigger game in the cosmic arena if we are to help ourselves and others to risk everything they think they have in order to experience everything worth living for.

Let us play all-out at life. Let us play for lasting victory over our lesser selves. It is these kinds victories that bring true and lasting rewards-our true and permanent ownership of absolute and infinite worth.

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How can you give to others what you are unwilling to give yourself? If you think you are actually able to give what you do not have (which you are not, I guarantee it.), how much longer do you think you can continue to help others when you will not do yourself the same kindness? Another way to put this question is: “How far will a car go without gas in the tank?”

How did you come to the conclusion that you are not worthy of receiving what you need and desire? What circumstances in your life did you interpret to mean that your life was worth-less than someone else’s? And how do you think that treating yourself like garbage is going to do anyone else a lick of good?

Why is it not right to decline most of the opportunites for service that come your way? A life of holistic success is not built on obligation, guilt, fear, or so-called “responsibility.” Success is a fruit of love embodied and lived out. Just say no. It was good enough for Nancy Reagan. It’s good enough for you. Say it often. Say, “Gosh, I’d be interested in doing that; the thing is I have other commitments to attend to.” If they ask what those are, you can say, “Well, my first one is to myself, to give myself the time, space, love, and attention I need to be able to serve in the ways that I have been gifted.” I’d like to see someone argue with that one.

Perhaps you are afraid of what others will think of you if you take care of yourself before taking care of others. It is possible to let others think what they will and do what you want regardless of their potential or actual opinions. If people criticize you for being kind to yourself, know that they are fearful that you may be right and they may be wrong and jealous that you are doing what they wish they could do. Let them eat their hearts out! 

Giving yourself what you need and desire is also much easier when you are clear on the unique work you are talented and gifted to do right now. Admitting that you know this and living as if you know it will go a long way toward giving you the strength to say no to everything that is not as strongly connected to your life purpose as you would like. The work you have been given is enough. Let others do their part so that you can do yours.

So at the risk of repeating myself, “How can you give what you don’t have?” Get what you need so that you can give to others out of your abundance, instead of your poverty. This is a much more fun and fulfilling way to live. Stop trying to drive on empty. Fill your tank and soar to your dreams! It will do us all a world of good!

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Anyway, through developing that program and seeing it’s power, I have come to appreciate even more the power of our spoken and unspoken words in attracting, creating, co-creating our worlds (however you like to think about it).

We are creators. We are made in the image of the creative Cource of Being. Everything about us is designed to create reality. Science is showing this to be true.

So, how about we speak and think with a bit more awareness?

Here’s one to get us started. How often do we hear people say, “No problem!” When someone thanks them for something they did? I hear it all of the time. Listen and see if it’s true for you as well. Chances are you say it yourself.

This would be fine except for the fact that repeating this phrase over and over again, actually creates more problems. I’m not going to go into all of the science that backs me up on this. Let’s just be open to the possibility that when you say a word your mind is focused on it. When you say the word “problem” your subconscious mind says, ‘OK, lets look for and create as many problems as we can.” You may be saying, “But I said, “No.” 

That’s great except for one thing, your subconscoius doesn’t do anything with “no.” It can’t form an image of it in such a way as to negate the images of problems that the second word creates. Even if you could visualize a “no” within your mind the second word is still spoken for your subconscious to manifest.

Whenever you find your self speaking of anything you don’t want, remember, you can make a new choice. You can say, “You’re welcome.” (There’s a revolutionary idea!) The possibilities are infinite. “My pleasure” is nice to use too. Go easy onyourself if you actually seek to change this particular habit. Enjoy the process. Find a buddy to play along with in changing this unconscious pattern. I know that you will discover some unanticipated positive changes if you take me up on this particular challenge.

Think and speak about what you want (instead of what you don’t want), and you will greatly increase your chances of experiencing it.

Go forth and create the world you desire! Your words have much more power than you realize!

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Today I’m going to embrace the metaphor and take it to the next level. I’m going to leave how we get the cards we get out of this equation and start this story at the hand that is in front of our faces.

Whatever cards you are holding, however you feel about them right now, they are not the determining factor of your life. What determines your life is the Love you choose to accept and the love you choose to share. Maybe you have interpreted that you have a really crappy hand. Maybe you have that hand so your partner can “go alone.” Maybe you have the hand so that other people can have the perceptions that they need to have to discover the truth for themselves. Maybe you have that hand so that you can discover that Love Trumps Everything. It is the ultimate power in the game of life. It is that which puts all things in their proper perspective.

It is that which has the power to transform the appearance of a crappy hand into a gift for everyone sitting around the table.

Play! Have fun! Enjoy the ride! How can we do these things? Because we can trust that Love is running the show, despite all of the appearances to the contrary? Love makes us all winners, all teammates, all players, all lovers, all members of the same club.

Let’s enjoy each other!

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The easiest way for people to experience certainty is to focus on the past. People tend to think of the past as being more certain that the future. While this appears to make logical sense, this approach will not produce the kinds of results that we actually desire.

Truly successful and powerful leaders are much more certain about the future than they are about the past. Those of us who are living the lives of our dreams and creating the world we desire are absolutely certain that the future is being created based upon what we intend, think, feel, and do right now.

This doesn’t mean that we are concerned with every detail of how we will create the future we desire. We know and trust (have faith) that we are creating our desired future right here and right now by following our intuitions, taking our inspired actions, being who we really are, and experiencing very powerfully the feelings that we anticipate feeling when our intentions are manifested on all levels of reality (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually).

I know that most people do not know how to do this. Yet most people are unconsciously doing something very similar without realizing it. Most people are so focused upon what they fear with such strong feelings of aversion that they are intending a future that will make them even more fearful than they were in the past. Because of the powerful energies that are currently flooding the earth, humanity’s ability to create what it fears is increasing at an incredible rate of speed with even more amazing consequences that we can experience through the media each and every day.

Everything that is perceived as a problem that is happening right now is a direct result of the persistent and powerful focus of the vast majority of human beings on what they are afraid of and what they do not want. That kind of “certainty” will create a future super-charged with fear and fear-inducing circumstances from the most-microscopic levels to the most macroscopic levels of reality.

When we release our fears, we get to experience certainty that the world will be transformed into a place that increases and enhances life instead of decreasing and diminishing it. Those of us who know what we are doing are using the very same energies that accelerating the forces bent upon fear and destruction for the purposes of creating the world we desire. Those who are living out of fear, no matter how powerful they may appear, are powerless when compared to those of us who are consciously creating the world from a foundation of Love.

I look forward to more and more of you joining those of us in creating a world of unbounded possibilities and unlimited life! It’s a whole lot more fun than the alternative!

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I don’t feel this way anymore. Honestly, I would love to see the word “nice” disappear from use by all people for all time. It’s time for us to let this word go forever.

Nice is not who we are called be. We are called to be who we really are, and I guarantee that nice is not one of those things.

Here’s how I see nice people. If you either see yourself as a nice person or want others to see you as a nice person, you may not like what follows. So in case you are wondering, I’m definitely not going to be nice to nice people and those who like nice people here!

1. Nice people are pushovers.
2. Nice people are doormats.
3. Nice people do not ask for what they want.
4. Nice people do not negotiate for what they want.
5. Nice people do not tell the truth out of a fear.
6. Nice people care way too much about what others think of them.
7. Nice people have way too much patience with the status quo.
8. Nice people sacrifice themselves and their own truth upon the altar of social conformity with the creed of “I’m not good enough” playing like a looped recording in their brains.
9. Nice people don’t rock the boat.
10. Nice people don’t do interventions.
11. Nice people let bullies knock people down grind them into the dust.
12. Nice people would rather allow themselves to be ground into the dust than stand up for what is good, right, and true.
13. Nice people are afraid of their own power.
14. Nice people avoid the necessary conflict that occurs between compassion and injustice.

You may think I’m not being nice in being so tough on niceness and nice people. That’s very perceptive of you. Having suffered from an addiction to niceness for way too long, I’m a little passionate about setting people free from this particular prison.

So if you are a parent, stop telling your kids to be nice! Encourage them to be who they really are and do what they really want to do! Give them the freedom to say “No!” even as you continue to be the boss. Teach your kids to negotiate by negotiating for what you want!  

Stop playing the tape in your brain that says certain things are not nice. The world doesn’t need nice right now. The world needs the truth expressed with as much love and compassion as possible. And the truth cannot be expressed from a place of niceness. It can only be expressed from a solid foundation of spiritual empowerment.

We have the problems we are currently having as a species for two fundamental reasons:

1. Most people are afraid to tell the truth.

2. Most people are afraid to hear the truth.

This is why it is so critical that we banish niceness from the face of the earth as soon as possible. We need to be bold in speaking the truth from our perspective. We need to be desirous of listening to the truth from all of the sources of truth in our lives. When we have released these fears around speaking and listening to the truth, we will have the world that the prophets and sages have spoken of for millennia.

Go forth and release your fear! Speak your truth with bold compassion, and listen for the truth in everyone and everything you encounter!

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This makes me think about how so many people think about faith. They think that faith is blindly following  a person, a guru, a savior, a church, a teaching, a teacher, a faith, a tradition, political party, country, or dogma. I guarantee if this is how you are living your faith, you are going to eventually run into a lot of door frames too.

Here’s my take on faith. faith to me is living my life with my eyes wide open, being as aware of everything going on within and around me as I possibly can. And while living in this way, I trust that God and others and my spiritual self will help me become aware of everything else I need to become aware of to step more fully into who I really am and who God really is and who others rewally are. I trust that evertything I need to perceive and become aware of will be revealed to me with perfect timing and in the absolutely perfect ways for me to do what I need to do to fulfill my destiny.

By questioning everything that doesn’t make sense or doesn’t support what we truly and deeply desire, we are creating the space to become even more faithful. While this may not have been what you have been taught. It is absolutely true, especially when it comes to the most hallowed and cherished beliefs, creeds, dogmas, and traditions that we have chosen to accept “on faith.”

Mental assent and agreement doesn’t compare with the wonders and joys of a constantly-expanding awareness of infinite possibilities! This is what true faith is. Anything else is only a cheap imitation!

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Here’s how most people are living their lives right now. We are the producers, directors, playwrights, stars, technical directors, and set designers of our own plays. We call these plays our “lives.” This is great except for one thing-we forget that we created all of these things in the first place. We start buying into them as being real and outside of our control.

And yet, working behind the scenes, the crew and technical staff are doing their best to help us remember that we are in charge. They are doing everything they can (without violating our free will) to help us remember that we can make the show as fun as possible. They are loving us as we struggle through the challenging roles we have created with all of the drama. They are waiting for us to turn the tragedies we have created into comedies. They are cheering us on when we improvise instead of following the script.

Just knowing this makes me feel better. I hope it does for you as well.

Go forth and make your life a fabulously inspiring spectacle that takes your audience’s breath away.

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Everybody has one (or more) whether they know it or not. What are yours?

When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a super hero with cool superpowers. Little did I realize that I had them and didn’t know it! The same is true for you too!

So what are  yours?

Super-speed?

Super-stealth?

Inspiration?

Intelligence?

Compassion?

Empathy?

Storytelling?

Humor?

Healing?

Speech?

Writing?

Design?

Love?

Peace?

Joy?

Wisdom?

The ability to bend space-time?

Drawing?

Music?

Marketing?

Finance?

Business?

Creativity?

Craftiness?

You get the picture. Everyone has a unique combination of characteristics that combine in a singular unreplicated package-you!

Who you really are is your gift to the world. Allow your passions to guide you in applying your super powers for the betterment of the world, and you will find that there is nothing that will be able to stop you from making a huge difference for a whole bunch of people.

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In those times I have usually chosen to experience disappointment. Those times were actually opportunities to let go of unpleasant feelings that were not necessary to hold onto anymore. I usually didn’t see things that way. I do now.

And while I still really want lots of things, and find that I do not receive them, I have become empowered to look at those experiences differently. Now, I can use them to become even more excited and certain of experiencing something even better than I had originally hopes for.

Here are a few things that allow me to do this. Perhaps they will serve you as well.

I choose to believe that I am protected from anything that is not for my higher good and the higher good of all. So if something that I truly and deeply desire does not manifest as I am certain it will, then I trust that it is all for the best, even if that makes no sense to me or anyone else.

I follow this belief up with choosing to believe that not receiving what I desired actually leaves me open to experiencing even better opportunities that are in even greater harmony with my life purpose.

I actively seek even better opportunities, recognizing that they can often come in the smallest and most unseemly of packages.

This is where trusting our guidance and intuition is critical. External appearances can deceive our brains and minds. Using our inner perceptions allows us to see the diamonds and gold glittering beneath the dirt and mud.

Should you experience disappointments, experience them fully. Allow all of the not-so-good thoughts and feelings to flow through you and into the earth. Let them go and then focus on the beliefs above.

Disappointment is a choice. I highly recommend transforming it into gratitude for the even better opportunities that are all around you, hidden in plain sight, and ready to be seized and maximized. Go after what you want! There are good reasons you want those things. As you do, you’ll either get them or receive lessons of even greater value. I guarantee it!

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