Thank you for all your comments about the Inauguration, From a personal position this event was about what happened when I was a boy of 10 years old, as a man I’d never seen before touched my heart and soul.

April 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s immortal speech known as the: “I have a dream” speech awakened a dream within my heart and soul. Nothing magically happened as a result, in fact what happened was the opposite of magic, I became focused, committed and began a life long journey to bring that dream to fruition.

When Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech echoed out across the world it touched the hearts and minds of millions, not just in his nation, his time and his generation but those words have rippled out across time. That speech became the resonance of the butterfly effect that has in 2009 awakened a generation, a nation and potentially this planet.

Only through an opening of the mind can we enter into the vast expanse that is the open heart. Dov Baron

Within his speech Dr King shared the details of his dream and finished by saying:

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

At the time of that speech there were those who said things like:

When pigs fly, that’s when a black man will be president.

Well my friends I have a few choice words for those people… Better take your umbrella because that ain’t no fat eagle and those flying pigs can be messy.

Dr. King said all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands…

On January 20th 2009 the United States of America made Barack Obama the 44th President of the US and that event took place because black men and women, white men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, gays and straights, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, the very old and the just old enough came out to vote.

Yes, it’s true that not everyone voted for Obama and not everyone is delighted at him becoming president. However, let us consider this: Those who did vote for Obama did not just vote for Barack Obama the charismatic man, they did not just vote for a black man, they voted for a dream, a dream they feel in their hearts and souls that this country, this world can be and will be a better place, a place of equality!

Whether you voted for the man or not, on January 20th, you and I were the witnesses to history. That history is in my eyes the fulfillment of My hero Dr. King’s dream.

I have to admit that I am still politically cynical, there are those within Obama’s cabinet that I do not trust, as the evidence is they are not trust worthy. However, that does not get in the way of my belief in Dr.King’s and for that matter, Gandhi’s dream.

Having said that let us remember that dreams only become real when we wake up and go to work on making them real. To make any dream real there is a need to take personal responsibility. We all need to stop looking for someone else to fix “it”, (whatever it is) because…

inevitably those we place high on the pedestal are the same ones we tear off that pedestal screaming “false messiah”.

Please be clear, if you want someone to save you, your finances, your marriage, or anything else for that matter you better be always willing to do way more than they will.

Two words in action will change this world…

Personal Responsibility!

I pray through the work of Barack Obama, the change he ushers in and the personal responsibility of every human being that with our shoulder to the wheel we will be able to say we are: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

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Hopeful tears rolled down my British and my wife’s Fijian cheeks like streams that suddenly appears across a dried up desert after an unexpected rain fall.

I know our tears were merely drops in the ocean of the collective joyous tears shed not just in the US but around the world on January 20th 2009.

I don’t know if you’ve ever visited the desert in the springtime; where no sign of life was evident, suddenly becomes filled with breathing spectrum of existence. Within a very short time shoots sprout, flowers bloom and animals graze. What was once lifeless suddenly flourishes.

Today as I watched the Inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44th President of USA, I saw the shoots of faith burst through in what has been a desert of desperation. Even though it will take a while for flowers to bloom in the global political climate and the economy of the US, make no mistake, Barack Obama has inspired a stream that has awakened a spirit of greatness that had laid dormant for far too long.

Barack Obama is not and does not claim to be a wizard who can wave a magic wand and fix everything. In his Inaugural speech he made it clear that for dreams to come true there is work needed and that part of that work is about being inclusive rather than exclusive.

Barack Obama is, as he hinted at in his speech, the manifestation of Martin Luther King Jr’s civil rights dream.

America may have been, and may still be the leader of the free world but today we pray it truly becomes once again the example of what freedom means.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be American. In America I saw a country where it was truly possible to become more than the stature of your birth place. Now as a man in his 50’s, having traveled to many places around the world, gotten some level of understanding that “our way” is not “the way“.

I have seen many political leaders from many different nations say one thing and do another. My belief in the inherent beauty in people has grown and sadly so has my cynical view about the words of politicians.

However, today as Barack Obama was sworn in, I heard the whisper of my boyhood dream awaken. The dream that made me want to be a ‘yank’, because America can become the land of the free and the brave…again. As strange as it might have seemed to some, I always seemed and felt more American than British. Today is a day where I can embrace with pride the American part of my heart.

Like this nation of the United States of America, I personally know what it feels like to be beaten down, I know what it feels like to feel defeated, I also know how much in those times I needed something to believe in.

Watching the crowd of millions cheer, I pray that Barack Obama can steer the faith of the American people to once again believe in…

a government of the people for the people”.

I wish you, Americans and by that I do not just mean people born in the US, I mean those who believe in real freedom, the courage to hold true to what it means to live a life where your heart, your mind, your words, and your actions are integral to the spirit of who you really are.

I believe that today was not only the inauguration of a new president but possibly the inauguration of the American people themselves…The reconciliation of the marriage between the American people and its president. Today, I witnessed the kind of history I can feel proud to embrace, and for this I’m filled with gratitude.

Live with courage, Dov…

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It’s very positive and inspiring to know these writings are impacting you, your consciousness, your personal growth and your willingness to take risks. So with that let me start off by saying a big “thank you” for all your wonderful comments, feedback and appreciation, I am filled with gratitude.

As we begin this new year I have a very interesting question for you to ponder….

What will it take to become the person you “really” are underneath your conditioned limitations?

I ask you that question because it was a question I have needed to ask myself at different points in my life, points  where I was feeling stuck and the voice in my head was saying not to take a risk because: “I couldn’t make it, ask for it, afford it, etc.

There comes a point where we have to decide if we will give into the voice that is so often echoes the voices of family, “friends“, the media and even the government. I had to decide if I would do what it took, because like my inspiration Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream that is bigger than the conditioning I received.

To become the man, teacher, human being I aspired to be I realized I would have to not only dream but I would have to learn how to turn the dreams into reality. For that to happen, I have had to learn to become what my friend and vocal coach Arthur Joseph calls a “practical dreamer”.

I realized I must be the example of someone who didn’t merely dream or fantasize about what I want in my life, but strive to make ‘the dream’ come true and in doing so, show others how to fulfill their dreams and to make them “real.”

In order to do this the next question is:

What are you ‘committed’ to learn in order to fulfill your dream, to make it real?

That leads us to ask:

What opportunities can ‘they’ not see that you know you must follow NOW?

You can be certain of this: To get to your dreams you must be willing to do what others will not do, be what others dare not be and take risks that the fearful will call foolish.

Remember in the free video Resonating Riches Course I gave you: The fourth foundation was: The Resonance of Confidence.

On your journey I wish you the courage to manage your risk to do what ‘you MUST do’, and the courage to take the risks to “Dream the Possible Dream,” that ‘they’ say is impossible.

I challenge you to risk more than Others believe is Safe, Care more than Others think is Wise,

Dream more than Others think is Practical.  Expect more than Others think is Possible!

I look forward to your feedback. With Gratitude I say: Manage your fears by becoming a practical dreamer.  Dov…

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