I stopped you and asked if you trusted me?…You said you did.  Looking you in the eye and giving you all my attention, I said; Please remember that you are not alone, unless you make yourself alone. Reach out, there’s no shame in being in a difficult situation. The shame is to think we need to hide.

Until you begin making a shift to thinking, feeling and behaving in ways that are independent of the need to please others, you will never truly embrace following your heart and soul’s passion.  Furthermore, if you do not develop the kind of independence I’m referring to, you can be pretty certain that true wealth will also evade you.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not suggesting that you become some heartless ‘a-hole’ who doesn’t care about anyone. No, this is about understanding that when you begin to follow your path, recognize your unique value, and make decisions based on that, money and wealth will flow to you. Once this begins to happen you can also be fairly certain that you will, plain and simple begin to piss some folks off.

You are not alone, we, the hearts,  souls and minds dedicated to raising the consciousness of the planet are here for you and with you.

I look forward to your comments and feedback.

Until next time, live with courage, Dov…

Imagine for a moment that you grew up in some village that is cut off from almost everyone outside the village and in your village everyone tells you and everyone else in the village that 4+4 = 7 .

Somewhere inside you there is a deep knowing that this is incorrect. However, everyone who surrounds you tells you 4+4=7. The village newspaper says 4+4=7; the village radio station says 4+4=7, your mother, father, sister, brother and everyone you know all agree 4+4=7.  The truth is that everyone in the village is going to be willing to fight to hold onto their collective reality and…

it will take courage to stand up and say “no” and do what is right for you, your heart and soul.

Do you now begin to understand how hard it can be to stand in your truth when you are confronted with this ‘truth’ at every turn? Do you see how easy it would be to just go along with what they are saying? In fact you may even begin to think you are a little crazy for thinking differently than they do. That 4+4=7 could be about money, however it could just as easily be a message about health, finding an excellent life partner or anything else you desire.

Here’s the news: You don’t have to fight to achieve abundance ; the ‘Truth’ is that it naturally flows to you and all of us . What you must be willing to fight against is the limited, restrictive mindset that bombards you. Because if you cannot fight beyond the conditioning your ego-mind will never see beyond your own conditioning and the messages you are being fed every single day.

We’ve talked about how important it is to understand that money, wealth and abundance doesn’t have to be hard to achieve, even in an economic downturn. However, as I’ve said many times that doesn’t mean you get to sit around nurturing some false idea of entitlement, some false concept that the world owes you something.

Yes you are unique in your expression in the world, but unique doesn’t make you ‘special’ or ‘better than’, that’s just ego shit.

To achieve the kind of abundance you may dream of, you must express your unique value in the world, and that my friends will take effort. In simple terms you will have to get off your bum, go out into the world, face the possible rejection and peddle your wares.

Now even though you don’t actually have to fight to get abundance and all you have to do is let it in , that is, much easier said than done. Here’s why: You don’t need to fight for the wealth but the irony is that you very well may need to fight to break out of the personal and collective conditioning that says you do and the ego-mind says is true.

It’s an interesting irony isn’t it?  Just think about it for a moment or two . You live, (as do we all) inside a system that tells you at every turn that money, wealth and real abundance is hard to come by , and even though you may know at some deeper level, that’s just not true , you (we) are bombarded with information that says it is true.  We are conditioned to want more, more, more, but what do we really need? What is it that’s really important to us? And what if it’s free?

Once again I remind you this is the time to turn fear into power! To stand up and follow your heart, to grab a hold of the opportunities that are knocking at your door.

Our modes of thinking and the way we have operated in the world are coming to a close; we must embrace change and opportunity at every turn.

Those who choose to quickly embrace change will flourish.

Again: It is time to invest in you! What does that mean? Invest emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and despite the economic scare tactics, FINANCIALLY too.

Invest in your most valuable asset, your development . It’s time to invest in your hopes, your dreams, your heart and your soul. Invest in what takes you out of the limited mindset . Remember that fear is perpetrated to keep us ignorant and only those who are willing to know shall be truly free.

Personally I’d rather play with the ego instead of fighting it. I did that recently:  Click here to see a great, (and FUN) video for you that show what the ego wants verses want is at the center for the Self.

Feel free to comment on the video here and on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3eXdHhC9oc

And send it to your friends to view.

As always, I look forward to your feedback.

Until next time, live with courage, Dov…

Those who attack are simply scared!

Nowadays it’s often very easy to walk away from someone you’re not getting along with, but what do you do when the person you’re not getting along with is your primary relationship?

Stop for a moment and consider that I’m not talking about your wife, husband or significant other…

Your primary relationship is… The one you have with yourself!

On the 29 May 1953 the later to be knighted Edmund Hillary was the first man to conquer the seemingly unconquerable Mount Everest…

Can you imagine the ongoing relationship squabbles taking place inside that guy’s head? “It’s too high, no one’s ever climbed it, it’s impossible. You’re crazy to even try, you’re going to fail.”

In all likelihood all these might have been the things he heard out in the world and maybe also in the inner world of his mind. Half way up when the weather got treacherous and on his third attempt his mind and in all likelihood and his body would have been screaming for him to; give up this ridiculous dream.

However, Sir Edmund Hillary had a relationship with himself that forgave the past and held strict boundaries and as a result after three failed attempts he finally did it, he conquered Everest.

In an interview the media said, “You’ve conquered the mountain,” and Hillary said:

“No, I’ve conquered myself.”

What mountain lays before you that in order to conquer it, you must develop a healthy relationship with yourself ?

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Live with courage, Dov…

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…