Set the stage for your own transformation and create the success and happiness you deserve.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.

What Does Your Rock Bottom Look Like?

When we persevere in our lives with the help of a gentle discipline, we slowly come to hear the still, small voice and to feel the delicate breeze of a dream, and so to come to know the presence of our life's intentions, and this is a moment when people say - ah yes…I understand now. It is the roadmap to your own heart.

What a magical moment when you wake up to where it is you are really heading, and you have the map and the compass to go with it.

Remember... where people turn back or give up on a dream is the birth place of regret.

If you really want to change in any fundamental way, discovering your life's intentions is a critical component because it keeps you moving forward when you get into the tight spots, the narrow cracks where we all get stuck.

Sometimes it's like being in quicksand, we flail around, often for years but we just get deeper into our "stuckness" and dysfunction, because it's the wrong strategy.

You don't always need to TRY HARDER, sometimes the best strategy is to take a step back, take a breath and figure out some fundamentals again.

Mindfulness is a way of entering into a relationship with the moment you are in without numbing yourself.

It's an invitation to identify with what is timeless.

It is a choice to live in a simple way without make believe and covering up the moment with concepts of how it should be.

It's waking, working, walking, breathing, bleeding, going to the bathroom, succeeding, failing, being heartbroken, falling in love, gain and loss.

It’s all of it.

Being mindful doesn’t mean that everything is “ perfect.” It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

The search: In pursuit of knowledge every day something is added. In the practice of wisdom, every day something is dropped. he initial stage of dissatisfaction

This stage represents the man or woman who still doesn't know their true nature, but one way or another, has started the search. They wish to find it, though they are not even sure what it is, or how to recognize it when it does appear. Sometimes the search is used as an escape from present circumstances that are not pleasant or ideal. Life may be a heavy load and so the seeker asks the most basic question - surely, there must be a better way of living. Most of those that have started the "search" are at this stage.

An master carpenter was ready to retire. He told his boss of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a leisurely life with his wife.

His boss was sorry to see him go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but put no effort into it, and used cheap materials, and did not take good care as he built it. The house was poorly built.

When the master carpenter finished, his boss came to inspect the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter and said, “This is your house… my gift to you.”

When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares about us in a deep way.

The interesting thing about people becoming dissatisfied with their lives is that we don’t arrive at it overnight; it’s often a very gradual process but within it, there is one universal ingredient that will always be present.

We ignore our true selves, the voice of our hearts, one little inconsequential moment at a time, but we soon learn that there are no inconsequential moments.

They add up like drops of water slowly filling a barrel.

A truth ignored will always eventually lead to a crisis, which means, within every crisis is a hidden truth that has been suppressed.

“If I dare to hear you

I will feel you like the sun

And grow in your direction.”

― Mark Nepo

The word manifesto has it’s origins from the Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous. A manifesto is defined as a declaration of one’s beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions.

It is at it’s heart a living document that a person or an organization creates to declare the guiding principals in which they wish the live inside of.

Destiny is not created in the victory lap. Breakthroughs don't happen at the ribbon cutting ceremony or at the bottom of a champagne glass.

Destiny

When I think of some of the moments in my life where a breakthrough happened for me, I realize they were often forged in the fires of doubt, shaped by the heartbreak of temporary failure or unplanned setbacks.

We create our destiny the moments we arrive at the place we have spent our whole life trying to avoid.

The place where insurmountable puzzles lay sphinx like in front of us, asking to be solved.

Luminous …emitting or reflecting light startling bright, inspiring radiant resplendent stunning splendid.

That sounds kind of nice… doesn’t it?

Luminosity, as I'll use the term, is about both an inner state of being which involves shining your light in a self-directed way with awareness and it’s also a way of choosing how to experience the world in a fully engaged way so that the actions you take and the doing you do are done with grace, in a relaxed yet focused way which gives you access to clarity.

The border you fear to cross holds the treasure that you seek to find

I've often thought that in a strange way, most of us are living with two identities

The safe identity, the mask we wear in daily life, and the secret identity inside of us, the mask we are dying to rip off, the life we yearn to set free, but feel somehow we can't for whatever reason.

Between the two stands what I call the gap.

People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel. The information age is presenting complex, challenging issues, and forcing us to look with new eyes at our world, and more importantly, at ourselves. The information age is the penultimate consumer, and what it consumes is not always obvious to people.

It consumes YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION. But if we don't keep our hearts and minds on the big picture vision for our lives, we can get lost down the rabbit hole of details and swept away by the minutia of a life of speed, endless choices and infinite distractions.

Walking along the coast on a night as dark as black ink, a man lost his footing, slipped down a cliff face, managed to grab hold of a branch and dangled there, desperately hanging on as the branch slowly began to give way.