Here’s a video I did sharing my perspective on successful entrepreneurship.

I’ve been working for months on a new product: Inside the Trader’s Mind.

I have to admit, when my partner, Brian Latta, first came to me with the idea of a mindset video specific for traders, I wasn’t sure it was a good fit for me. But I listened to him, and I did some research. Brian is a brilliant guy with a firm understanding about how to make money. His expertise in the area of neuroeconomics is well established.

Neuroeconomics is a burgeoning field. It is the study and understanding of how people make decisions and how that drives economic factors. It sounds very scientific and technical, and it is. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn from it, learn about it, and capitalize on the understandings that have come from its study.

You might think that you’ve got nothing to learn from neuroeconomics or traders. But if you’re interested in making good decisions about money, projects, and investments, these incredibly fascinating fields of study can help you.

Inside the Trader’s Mind can help you.

This may be a product that could change your life, even if you’re not a trader. I’ve blended the scientific research, knowledge and understanding from some of the smartest people in the field of neuroplasticity and neuroeconomics. In this two-DVD set, you’ll gain insights from Dr. John Burton, John Overdurf, Brian Latta, and myself.

If you ARE a trader… you’ll quickly see the power of Inside the Trader’s Mind.

We had a few active traders take a sneak peek at the product. Here’s what one said:

“The progress that I’m seeing with my challenges of high anxiety, self doubt, and victimization in regards to FOREX trading are absolutely remarkable in the space of one week.

I have used both the necker cube video and the inductive space video assiduously, multiple times, many times each day. The “layers of the onion” are peeling … wow! in a way that I did not expect. I know that what is happening is the removal of all obstacles to my success in trading.

These obstacles are not only about only trading or learning the trade plan or concepts of FOREX. They are cutting to heart of the deep problems I have been facing for many years in my whole life as a human being.

I really appreciate your consideration of me as a whole person, not just as a student learning FOREX. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Mark Justin

You can do all the manifestation work you want… but if you’re operating from a place of stress, fear, doubt, or greed… you’re going to make bad decisions.

If you’re making decisions about money from a place of those primal motivators of stress, greed, doubt, or fear, you trigger a part of your mind that works off of adrenaline. That part of your mind is meant to make life-and-death decisions, not rational decisions about money.

Decisions made from this vantage point end up being less than optimal. How much money have you lost by making decisions from a place of stress or anxiety? This fight or flight part of your brain is only interested in what is going on right NOW to save your life. This part of your brain has no access to the higher thinking parts of your mind that deal with the future: your dreams, hopes, and long term success.

Imagine working with these processes to make optimal decisions about your money, your investments, your goals, or even what is the best course for action?

• Can you imagine how much money you might save from this place of mind and body?
• Can you imagine how much more money you might make?
• How much more secure would you feel know you were making decisions from the optimal place in the mind?

Take a look at Inside the Trader’s Mind. The scientific research taking place in the field of neuroeconomics, neuroplasticity, and neuromarketing is fascinating. It will change your life, whether you know it now or not.

This DVD is cutting edge. There will be imitators. But no one will have the depth and breadth of expertise, knowledge, and technology that this DVD brings together.

Giving has been on my mind a lot lately. Actually, it’s been an entirely important part of my life. I have always been an incredibly generous person, giving my money, my time, my energy, and my gifts wherever I am called to serve. It is an important part of my faith to give. And in times of tribulation, I often turn towards asking the Divine to make the road of service more clear to me.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve learned an important lesson, and I wanted to share it with you. The intent with which you give is more important than the gift itself.

Why is it that sometimes we give and our gifts don’t make a difference? Why is it that sometimes we give and give and give until we feel completely depleted, and then we realize that the experience felt more like “being taken from” instead of giving from the heart?

When Giving Doesn’t Work
There was a point in time during my life when I was homeless. I don’t talk much about this experience; I don’t feel like I need to use it to justify anything or use it to make people think my life is anything that it is not. When I was living without a home, I was sitting eating a can of beans. A man, who appeared to be homeless as well, came up to me and asked me for money. I told him that I didn’t have any money, but that I would share my beans with him.

He said, “No, man, sorry. I don’t want your beans.” He proceeded to tell me how he made a good living from asking people for money. It was his “job,” so to speak, to ask people for money and prey upon their pity of him. This was how he earned his living.

Kathy had a similar experience. While working in downtown Chicago, she saw a man begging for money who was visibly mentally afflicted. A few weeks later, she saw him up in her neighborhood, far away from the touristy areas downtown, buying food at the grocery store. He was not acting afflicted as he paid for his food. He even had a credit card to pay for his food, and he acted perfectly normal.

We’ve all had the experience of being asked for money by someone we just knew was going to use the money to buy alcohol or drugs. And we’ve all had experiences where friends or family ask us for favors, our money, our time, our energy, and we’ve not have the favors repaid. Or we feel sorry for someone down on their luck, we give to them to help them, and they end up taking advantage of our kindness.

I’ve even had experiences where I’ve been promised payment for my work, given freely above and beyond what was required, and then denied payment for my time, service, and above-and-beyond gift of energy.

And then sometimes people will give a gift and constantly remind you that they gave the gift, making it not feel much like a gift at all. It can often feel like you’re paying for the “gift” over and over again when you’re reminded of it!

Sometimes giving doesn’t always work out very well.

Yet, my faith tells me that I must give and care for my brother. But I don’t feel that it is appropriate to “cast my pearl before swine” and have my time, energy, money, or kindness wasted… or even worse, taken advantage of.

When Giving Keeps Giving
And then there are the stories and experiences that tell me that giving is completely magical.

There have been situations when I’ve given, and it has been magnified. A woman I know gave her last $20 to someone, and it was returned to her the next day through another source.

I’ve given money to people and had it come back to me in other ways. I’ve bought meals for people who were begging, I’ve bought gas for people, I’ve paid tolls for the car behind me. Those experiences change my world and my perspective in ways I cannot fully explain.

Giving is a huge part of who I am.

So where is the distinction? Why does giving sometimes work out wonderfully and other times create disasters of epic proportions?

Reasons for Giving
I have a theory that the reasons behind our gift are more important than the gift itself. The physical manifestation of the gift – food, money, time – doesn’t matter as much as the spiritual intention behind the gift. When you give, the belief and intention that you hold in your heart is what you are creating.

Think about this.

• Are you giving a gift because you need it returned 10-fold?
• Are you giving a gift because you need attention for it?
• Are you giving a gift because you need glorification?
• Are you giving because you feel like you have to?
• Are you giving a gift because you feel sorry for someone?

Or are you giving because you feel inspired? Are you giving freely from a willing heart? Are you giving with faith?

Giving because you feel sorry or pity is the worst. When you give from this place, you are giving a reinforcement of the situation that makes you feel sorry for that person. The experience of feeling sorry for that person will come back to you tenfold. You do no good giving because you feel sorry for someone.

Jesus did not heal because he felt sorry for people. Jesus healed because he could see the Divine within that person, he could see that person fully well, and he held true to his faith. He did not heal because He had to or needed to. He did not heal because He wanted glorification or attention.

The intent and belief behind your gift is more important than the gift itself.

If you are giving from a place of need, you create more need. If you are giving because you want attention, you’ll get attention all right… but not necessarily the attention you were looking for.

If you give freely, lovingly, with no attachment to outcome, then you are giving with the intent of healing, growth, and love. If you give with the intent of bringing Spirit, inspiration, and love into this world, you will have that magnified. And this energy is what will come back to you. If you give knowing and intending to help someone into a better situation, this comes back to you.

If you choose to give, see your physical gift as a manifestation of your truest intent. Set your intention in the right place, that the highest good will come from your gift, that the will of the Divine is at play, and that healing, growth, and love can and will occur.

Think about the woman who gave away her last $20. Her gift came back to her in the exact amount the next day. But think about what was behind that gift. She gave it with faith that it would come back, and it did. But the gift… it keeps giving. It is giving to you today as a gift of a story of inspiration. The intent behind the gift itself was — and is to this day — more important than the gift of the money.

The Real Power of Giving
When you are in the place where you are giving from your willing heart, when you are giving free of attachment to outcome, with no thought of how it makes you look to others, you know. There is a feeling that comes through giving, a feeling where you begin to allow miracles happen for yourself and for others. When giving comes from that place, it bridges the place between Spirit and physical.

When Kathy was in downtown Chicago, she saw many people begging on the streets. Her desire and need to give was being triggered, but her cynicism was high. Instead of giving money, she began giving energy. She would select individuals and “give” them something other than money. She would imagine them happy, joyful, laughing, and then imagine a ball of light coming from her to that person. It wasn’t always homeless people that she would give this to, it was entirely random and based entirely on the in-the-moment inspiration she felt. Whether or not the “gift” she gave made a difference, we’ll never know. But it made an impression on her.

Think about the gift of prayer, the gift of reiki, the gift of goodwill, the gift of intent, belief, faith. There is no way that you can know where it goes, what it does when it gets there, or what it will do when it is returned to you tenfold.

Giving in the Now
When you are presented with a situation that would allow you to give, inspiration is your guide. It takes some experimenting to play with your resistance. There may be opportunities to give and provide miracles for others that right now might look like some of those tell-tale signs of bad giving. But when are these situations really your patterns resisting wonderful opportunities?

The key to out-witting these patterns is experimentation. Sometimes giving a dollar to someone who is going to spend it on alcohol is a dollar lost; sometimes it is a miracle.

Give from the intent of a miracle.

Then, let go. Let go of what you think should happen, what you want to happen, all of your patterns of hope, past experiences, etc. Let go completely. Let go, Let God. Let it be.

Just give in the miraculous now with an intention, and let it be whatever it needs to be.

The power of change is in the now, and change happens when you let go in the now.

It’s summer in Mount Shasta. Mark and I are working on new projects, but we’re also acutely aware that we’ve earned some time outside. We didn’t get much of a spring here. It snowed incessantly throughout March — totaling about 8 feet of accumulation — and rained and snowed most of April and May.

Yesterday, we spent time at Lake Siskiyou. The sky was as blue as you’d ever see it and the temperatures topped 90 degrees. We played with the kids and soaked up the sun.

As I sat on the banks of the lake listening to the motorboats going by, I closed my eyes and watched the light sparkles flash through my eyelids. It felt surreal. I joked to Mark that it was nature’s hypnotic subliminal video. I felt a quickening of connection and an opening of awareness. Those types of things happen when you’re in Shasta… not something I can really explain. You just have to come here and feel it.

My son has been studying the indigenous Indian populations, and I wondered if they had these feelings (without the motorboats) along the water ways here before modern toys came into play. Those cultures lived much more closely with nature and much more like how our ancestral selves lived.

I know that the experience of being in an enclosed space – even a stunningly beautiful home like I currently have – insulates us from the extraordinary beauty and inspiration of our world. It often leads us to feel cut off from nature, from abundance, and from our real selves.

We’re supposed to feel that beautiful inspired feeling more often than we do. It is our natural state.

That got me thinking about what other natural states of pure abundance we’re supposed to be feeling that we often do not in our modern world.

We’re supposed to feel immense love. Excitement. Happiness. Joy. Abundance of it all. We’re supposed to feel that most of the time. Sure, life has its stresses. We need stress in order to grow and expand our awareness. But your life is not supposed to be a trial of epic proportions. It’s just not. If it ever feels like it is, you’ve veered far away from your core self.

Mark’s meditations, especially the advanced ho’oponopono inner child meditation, are an excellent place to start reconnecting with that core self.

I have a personal goal of financial abundance that I’d like to see happen in the next few months. I don’t need it to happen, but I’d like to see it happen.

And as I sat meditating on that financial goal and ways to make that goal happen in this reality, I got a very strong inspired feeling. I’m sure you know that feeling, that feeling of knowingness that brings a physical feeling of openness and clarity. That feeling told me that I already have the goal, it has already happened. It exists in the here and now, I just see, hear, and feel it differently.

For example, you’ve heard of people who start to renovate their house and find something amazingly valuable behind the plaster in their living room, a discovery that grandma’s piece of furniture is worth thousands.

That energy is transmuted from a physical manifestation – such as a piece of furniture – into a symbolic manifestation. Sometimes you transmute your talent and expressive energy (e.g., songwriting) into symbolic manifestation of wealth.

All money is, all money will ever be, is a symbolic manifestation of what you believe you have and deserve.

If you don’t believe you have any money, you could sit on grandma’s coffee table for years and not transmute it into wealth. You could have the best songwriting skills on the planet and nothing every comes of it because you don’t believe you have what it takes.

There are myriad reasons why you may not transmute your wealth into its symbolic representation. There is no one right way to do it, no wrong way. Just tune into what you believe, clear limiting beliefs using any tool you can find, and begin to consciously tune yourself to a higher frequency of deservingness. Then, transmute what you’ve got into its natural symbolic representation of your beliefs.

I, of course, excitedly relayed my intuitions to Mark who thanked me for sharing what he already knew. He’s far down his own path of transmutation, and you’ll be excited to see the product he’s currently working on.

And now, I’m going to do some prep work for another trip down to the lake. I hear there are more messages waiting in the waves.

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This weekend, I took the kids and the dog up the mountain to cool off some. It’s been hot here in Mount Shasta, but it’s cooler on the mountain. We drove up as far as we could go, to a place called Bunny Flat, which is at 7,000 feet.

You can see the kids and the dog, with the top of Mount Shasta in the picture here. As we were walking, my son said, “But I want to go ON THE MOUNTAIN.”

I said, “We ARE on the mountain. Remember how you could look down at the town back there?”

I had to laugh. How many times do we all think that we’re not on the mountain… because we can see “the mountain” up there. But in comparison to where we were, we’re definitely on the mountain. I guess it depends on where you think the mountain starts, or what you think the mountain is.

What is your mountain?
Compare that to your goals. You might think that “wealth” or “happiness” is that mountain you see up there. The measure of being on the mountain is dependent on looking only one direction. But if you look the other way, maybe it looks like you’re already there.

Another thing I asked my son to think about… where does the mountain begin versus the surrounding territory?

Where does “wealth” begin? Where does “happiness” begin?

The answer is the same – just like being “up on the mountain” is a relative and progressive thing, so are many other life experiences. It’s not an either/or, on/off, 0/1, type of measurement.

The Source of Your Discontent
The idea that either you’re wealthy or you’re not or that you’re happy or you’re not is something that has been programmed into us by marketers. They want you to look one way, to keep focusing on the fact that the mountain appears to be someplace that you are not. They don’t want you to look at the entire 360-degree panorama. They don’t want you to see the ground under your feet.

This limited vantage point keeps you focused on a feeling of lack, a feeling of not being or having enough. That void, that feeling of lack is where you are convinced and persuaded, maybe even brainwashed or hypnotized, into an emotion where you decided to trade something you have (money) in the hopes of having the illusion of being on top of the mountain (having wealth, health, thinness, or whatever you think you don’t have but need in order to be happy).

This is one of the reasons I developed the Subliminal Clearing: Z Plus Advanced Ho’oponopono product. In it, I talk about these types of limited worldviews and how it feeds into a belief system where we are not clear, not connected to the Divine. Advanced ho’oponopono leads you to deeper understanding of how your consciousness works.

When you’re clear and connected, you’re seeing through a wider lens, and inspiration comes from places you’d never be able to see otherwise. Subliminal Clearing: Advanced Ho’oponopono gives you a greater depth of understanding your own mind, how belief systems work, and how you may be only seeing one vantage point.

Imagine how much freer you would feel if you could see yourself as already on top of the mountain, already wealthy, already happy. If you could turn around and look at where you were before as opposed to where are you haven’t been, and still look up at the beautiful mountain and appreciate it for what it is?

Do it Now
You don’t need the DVD program in order to do this with something today. You can relax and take a wider look around yourself. What do you think you want that seems like an either/or situation? Think about where you hear, “If only…” in your head, a situation where you might envy someone else’s possessions or life experiences.

Can you look around and see a situation where you might already be on the mountain?

We all have different summits. For some people, climbing to the summit of Mount Shasta is a goal. They want to reach the top for a variety of reasons. Some people want to reach it to say they got there, for the experience, in order to see the world from atop one of our highest peaks.

But no one STAYS at the summit of Mount Shasta. You can go there, you can experience it, you can take a picture to remind you. But we’re all on our way somewhere else.

Even if you have a goal of having $30 million dollars and that’s your own personal mountain summit, and you work hard and stay focused, and climb that mountain, you may achieve it. But you can’t stay there.

The journey never ends.

Remember that perspective when you set a new goal for yourself. You might think that reaching a particular summit will solve all of your problems, and that that’s the end-goal where you will finally allow yourself to be happy. What you might not realize is that reaching the summit may create other goals, other problems, other situations that you cannot fathom from where you are.

It doesn’t mean you give up the goal. It does mean, however, that if you find yourself idealizing a goal as solving all of your problems, you’re not seeing the full panorama of experience. You’re looking, perhaps under influence, at only one slice of the view.

Keep expanding your perspective and learning more about how you perceive your world. It will allow you to select experiences that will maximize your happiness, refine your goals, actualize your true goals. The bigger the goal, the higher the mountain, the greater the effort to achieve its summit. You’ll want to understand what makes you choose your goals and how to work towards them so you can maximize your effort and enjoy the journey.

One of the coolest things about living in Mount Shasta is the city park just north of town. There you can find the headwaters of the Sacramento River… a spring from which extremely cold, pure, delicious water gushes from the ground, thus beginning a rather substantial river.

People come from all over to see the spring, to dip their water bottles into the frigid water and taste the cool water right from the ground. The first time I drank the water from the spring, I felt a lightness and cleanness of energy that I haven’t felt any other way. I guess you could liken it to a runner’s high, but without exertion and with a lightness and cleanness that.

We bring our 5-gallon water bottles to the spring and fill up on the water and enjoy it at home. It’s not quite the same once it’s been sitting in a water bottle for a while, but it’s still better than anything else I’ve tasted elsewhere. I recommend if you’re ever in Shasta, to go up to the spring and taste the water yourself… and test how it makes you feel.

Here’s a video someone else posted to YouTube of a girl filling up a water bottle at the spring.

Meditating in front of the springs is also a joyous and opening experience. The sound of rushing water and birds chirping in the trees, children playing in the park and along the creek… there is a peaceful playfulness that happens here. I imagine it is the same type of peaceful playfulness that happens as the water dances over the rocks.

Oddly, Interstate 5 runs directly to the west, and a train line to the north, so that peaceful playfulness can be interrupted by the sounds of the machines of industry turning away. But the peaceful playfulness is overpowering here… and you can’t help but be reminded of Spirit as the overwhelming source of All That Is. That feeling comes through and overwhelms the energies that may normally disrupt your peacefulness in any other setting.

Is it any wonder why we love to call this place home? The natural abundance surrounds us here. There is no lack in our experience here… and if there seems to be a challenge, it ends up being for our own Highest Good.

One day, a man with about 20 5-gallon bottles came and started to fill them at the spring. I imagined that he was filling them to take them and sell them somewhere, and I wondered about that. It brought up a feeling of impropriety, a feeling that was clearly representative of data I had about people taking things that are free for us all to enjoy and selling them.

I laughed pretty quickly after that. I imagined this man taking 1,000 5-gallon bottles and selling them to people, people who couldn’t perhaps get to the spring themselves to fill up their own bottles.

I laughed because… no matter how many bottles of water he took from the spring, the spring kept giving, and giving and giving… the water kept coming. It came at a rate that wasn’t even affected by the spring water bottling plant that was about a mile away. Of course, there is probably a point if there were 1,000 bottling plants that the spring wouldn’t give any more, but as it stands right now, that spring keeps providing the best tasting, energized water no matter how many people take from it.

I wondered where else I experienced this amazing abundance… and the wheels began to spin in my mind about other ways that Spirit shows me how I live an abundant world.

Somewhere in your life, there is a spring of energy that is available to you. It might not be Mount Shasta water, but perhaps it is something else. Maybe you live in a city surrounded by an abundance of like-minded people. Maybe you live near the ocean and its abundant calming waves.

What in your life makes you feel the universal abundance available to us all? What feelings come up for you when you allow yourself to take in the experience of that abundance? When you have feelings of lack, or maybe a wondering about there being “enough,” be thankful for finding a space that allows those feelings to come up… and begin focusing on the areas where you have more than enough.

Your consciousness expands where you put your attention. Attention is all there is. Where can you put your attention today to change your experience for tomorrow?

Please share what comes up for you personally… those who read your comment may need the very inspiration Spirit shares with you.

P.S. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Group Ho’oponopono Experiment on the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. It’s amazing what your activity inspired in others. We’ll be doing more Group Ho’oponopono Experiments going forward… look for an announcement of topic #2 later this week. (email your suggestions for future topics to kathy at hypnotici dot com)

Wealth is a lot more than just having a bank account with a large balance. In fact, wealth cannot have once specific meaning. I think wealth has to have a multitude of meanings. It is the idea of what we have on the external, yes. But what does it represent WITHIN you? What we have internally and how we label and define it lead to our wealth.

I have a beautiful daughter, Claire. She is an amazing little girl who brings abundance, love, and laughter into my life on a daily basis. From the time I see her in the morning until the moment I kiss her goodnight, my life is filled with love I never knew before.

When Kathy was pregnant with Claire, I knew my life was going to change in a big way. Kathy said that she felt I wasn’t really on board with her during the pregnancy, and that did cause some stress for her. I tried to explain how my being on board was working hard and ensuring that we had finances to allow me to spend more time with the baby after she was born. I know a lot of fathers who probably understand what I was feeling – that shift in responsibility looming overhead.

But there was another thing looming, too, and it was something more critical. It was more than securing our future financially by working hard. And what I found out by pursuing this wealth secured my future in other ways.

I knew that being a father was going to give me a wealth of emotion. And when it gets right down to it, that’s what weath really is. Joy, love, peace, happiness, understanding – all that we consider wealth to be comes from an emotional viewpoint.

When you get a new car that you have been dreaming of for years and you sit in it for the first time, you experience an emotion.

But this little girl, my daughter Claire, was going to change my experience. I knew before she was born that if I wanted to experience the wealth of emotion she afforded me, I had to do something to open up, expand my emotional playing field. I knew I had to do this, and I wanted to. I wanted to give my child more than what I had, but in order to do so, I had to give myself more than I was allowing myself.

I started looking for places in my life where I had wealth to mine. One area was my voice. People had told me for years that I had a great voice. One of my primary areas of generating wealth and giving to others was with my voice. I loved to sing, but often wouldn’t do it. When I sang, I would become very emotional. It got to the point where I wouldn’t sing because the emotions that came through me were more than I could handle.

It was WEALTH that I couldn’t handle. When Kathy became pregnant, I started taking singing lessons. First, I wanted to improve my singing voice. But more importantly, I wanted to open myself up to allow myself to feel the emotions coming through me. I knew if I was blocking the emotions coming through my voice, I was blocking myself in other areas as well. And with Claire on the way, I couldn’t afford to live with those blocks any longer.

I know that when I feel that opening in my chest that is more love, it is extraordinarily beautiful. Something flows through there. From this vantage point, I can’t believe I blocked that for myself for so long. But from here, I am grateful I took the risk to do something uncomfortable because I now have more love to give my daughter.

And I have more love to give my wife.

And myself.

Now, when I sit and play with my daughter, I often sing to her. She loves it. She lights up and even sings along with me.

Now that I have opened that part of myself and allowed what was there to flow, I can share it without having to sing to connect with that wealth within me.

Could you put a price tag on that? Could you sell it?

You can’t.

But that’s what wealth is.

What area of your life do you block wealth? Where is your biggest gift, the place where you feel emotion? Is there something you can do today to begin the sometimes uncomfortable task of allowing that wealth to come forward?

How will your life change by taking that step?

Many people have asked me how the Rolls Royce Mastermind with Joe Vitale came to be, and if I had any part in it.

They are surprised when I tell them the story. Maybe you will be, too.

It all started at Miracles Weekend Seminar in San Diego, California. This event almost didn’t happen until my wife, Kathy, Joe’s assistant Suzanne, and I stepped in to rescue it.

We had turned lemon into lemonade and had a successful seminar. Joe was feeling good, relaxed, and relieved.

He had gone to dinner the night before with John Assaraf. On the way to dinner, he saw a car dealership with two Bugatti Veyron sports cars. They were valued at $1.8 million (at the time ). When Joe told me about the cars, he was more excited about them than the dinner and meeting with John Assaraf, and he wanted to go see the cars again.

Joe and Nerissa had hired a limo and invited me to go sightseeing around San Diego, and back to the car dealership. So we drove along the coast to the Symbolic Car dealership.

When we arrived, we immediately went to look at the Bugattis, but they weren’t ready for viewing. So, we looked at other cars including many rare race cars in their private museum. These cars were amazing and worth millions. If you’re ever in San Diego, I recommend a trip to their dealership.

They also had Rolls Royce cars. Joe got into the new convertible Rolls Royce. When he got in, both Nerissa and I said he looked fantastic in the car, but we agreed that he looked too much like a mafia guy with his sunglasses in the it. So he got out of that car and into the sedan.

That was it. You could tell it was Joe’s car.

We took the car for a ride, it was amazingly smooth. Joe asked how I liked it, and I said it was like sitting on my couch driving down the highway.

Even Nerissa who is very green and earth conscious was initially concerned with the low gas mileage. But when she got into the back seat, a nice happy smile came over her face. She said she thought she could live with the low gas mileage. It was nice to see Nerissa so happy.

Joe was unsure. So we went back to the dealership to see the 1.8 million dollar Bugattis. We pulled the Rolls up next to the Bugatti building and went in to start one of the cars.

Joe started the Bugatti and sat in the driver’s seat. He was shaking like a leaf when he got out. The pistons sounded like a sledgehammer hitting a railroad tie. It was too much power for Joe to handle. We had a good laugh at how nervous he was. I on the other hand got excited as I had worked on and around Nascar engines. I was ready to drive!

We were excited about the Rolls Royce, but Joe wasn’t convinced.

We went back to the hotel and walked to a nice restaurant on the beach. We ate and then walked off some food along the beach while talking about the Rolls Royce.

Joe called me in the morning and said that Bill was coming to get us in the Rolls Royce. We were going to ride and shop for the day to get Joe used to the car. When Bill came to pick us up, we were smiling seeing such a beautiful car coming to get us. We drove around, shopped, and went back to the dealership.

At one point, we were looking into the back of the car. Joe was nervous about spending so much money on this car, even though he loved it. As he looked into the back seat from the door, he said, “It is almost big enough to hold a table and meeting.”

Like a bolt out of the blue, it hit me. I said, “Joe, how about a mastermind meeting?”

Joe eyes widened.

Then I said, “How about a rolling Mastermind?” I had told Joe in the past and on his testimonial page that I always wanted to do a car mastermind. So I said, “How about a Rolls Royce mastermind?”

He lit up, but still was not convinced.

Our salesman, Bill, had some things to do and told us to go for another spin in the car, so we did. Then it came to me. I remember Joe telling me something about how he had recruited for Rajneesh Majaraj (Osho) in Houston for 7 years and had ran a center for him there as well. While this guru was not popular in the United States because of his tactics, I remembered the reverence Joe had for Rajneesh. I appealed to that side of Joe, because I knew if he listened to me he would have a much needed source of income for both him and myself.

I asked him to remember how many Rolls Royces Rajneesh had (over 90). I said, “And here is one of his disciples now driving one, and it could be his.”

I reassured Joe that i would be there for him to start the masterminds and get it going.

Joe has some issues about talking to folks he doesn’t know. I reassured him that I was good at this and could teach him how to coach people.

I have flashbacks to 2004 when I first told Joe about ho’oponopono (he rejected the idea at the time; it later became Zero Limits). That weekend, I helped him set up his booth at the National Guild of Hypnotists. Thanks to my 15 years of experience doing trade shows, we completely sell out of products. At one point during the weekend, Joe had to speak. He asked me to help set up his Power Point presentation and make sure the stage was OK.

Attendees were filing into the room, and I noticed Joe was sweating bullets on top of his head. I got him a towel, and I noticed he was shaking nervously. I asked if he was alright. He said, “No.” He hated public speaking. I asked him if I could do a few exercises to help him calm down. I did the exercises, and he calmed enough, but not completely. I talked to him some more and he asked me if I would introduce him. I told him I would and that I would sit right up front and smile and support him.

He did great and he thanked me and said he had to speak again tomorrow and would I do it all again then. The whole weekend went so well, he asked if I would come again next year and help him again. I agreed, and it went even better. Sales were great, we did more coaching, and that is when he did finally listen to me about ho’oponopono. It wasn’t long before Zero Limits came to be.

Joe and I became good friends after that. I helped coach Joe to the point of where he can get up in front of a group and speak for two hours without notes. Joe always had the information, but he was afraid to speak the information with authority. This is what I am good at doing.

Back at the dealership, Joe asked me if it would be okay to have others ride along on the rolling masterminds. I said, “Joe, it’s your car.”

We went in, and Joe leased the Rolls Royce… leased it so he could have a better write off.

Over a year later, I’ve done 12 masterminds with Joe. It is now his thriving business.

I knew Joe was ready to take it over by himself. When I was driving, he would proudly explain to others how he came up with the idea all by himself. At first I was a bit upset, but I knew that is Joe’s way of reclaiming his power.

I knew he was telling me he was ready to try doing masterminds more by himself with others riding along. And I guess I don’t blame him. He was paying me half of the profits, and I am sure he could pay others less. After all, it is business, right?

So off goes Joe in the Rolls Royce, masterminding on his own with some new folks! While I am not sure of the quality of what others bring to the mastermind, they seem to be working out. I do know that Joe is now capable enough to do it all by himself. Joe learns well… and, as he puts it, humorously… just sitting with him in the Rolls Royce and for dinner is worth more even if he doesn’t coach or give product ideas.

And I am moving into doing my own brand of coaching, which is different. Joe wanted to do more product development coaching, as he got pretty good at it. I wanted to do the deeper work with clearing others of what stopped them from attaining their goals.

So maybe we will work together again. He has told me that, several times, he was wishing I would have shown up when he had brought others instead of me. When I wasn’t there, he had to work harder. He didn’t realize how easy I made it until another tried to fill my shoes. But hey, that is part of how you grow. And I thank him for the compliment.

Go look at the website and see the testimonials with me in them. There are less of them since I have left, but there is enough still there to give you an idea of my contribution. (Go here to see a video testimonial from Nancy Philpott after her experience with me.)

There it is! The Rolls Royce Mastermind story! And there is a lot more coming.

In the future, I will talk more about other successful products I helped Joe develop. I will also talk about the Russia trip, and many more interesting things. Stay tuned!

One of the reasons I am doing this is because Joe said I didn’t toot my own horn enough. He said I should do it more. Now that I am, let’s hope he contributes some of his positive insights!

Thanks, Joe, for a wonderful time on the Rolls Royce Masterminds! Good luck in the future.

If you are interested in a very productive and life changing Mastermind with me, let me know. It won’t be a fancy meal or a drive in a Rolls Royce, but you will walk away with much more than I could have given before. My focus will be completely on you, your issues – whether business, personal, financial, or spiritual. I also charge a lot less because you don’t have to pay for the glitz… but you get the same results.

First off there is a big difference between real victims and victims who you might say have attracted their ill will.

The person who gets blown up in a mosque or church while praying… they did not attract that. I’m sorry.

A buddy of mine was a crack head many years ago. He decided to go to the wrong side of town looking for a fix with a pocket full of cash. He got his head smashed in with a brick and nearly died. He surely didn’t DESERVE that, but he is certainly more responsible for what happened to him than the woman praying who was blown to smithereens.

I am not “playing God” passing judgment here. Look, at one level, we are all One and part of All That Is or God, the Universe, whatever label fits for you. But at another level, we are all separate, too. I leave the judgment to God, I leave the knowingness to God, but here at this level of separateness, where I am me and you are you, there are things that are apparent.

And if you refuse to believe that I am me and you are you, maybe I could just come live in your house for a while and eat your food and use your belongings however I want? It’s okay, right? Because I am you, and you are me, so it doesn’t really matter, right?

Look. We as humans can only handle about 7 bits of information at one time. Our surroundings, however, have MILLIONS of bits of information. Our universe? Infinite. How can you say with that minuscule awareness that we are All One? How can you really KNOW that? You would have to sift through all of the data in the UNIVERSE to know for sure. That is impossible from our limited human perspective. So we learn to trust based on the data we do have.

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with an expert in how the human mind works. He said how he recently did some mind expansion exercises with someone. That person got as close to enlightenment as this expert has ever seen. The person got extremely sensitive… all of their senses were working at high power to the point of extreme sensitivity. A funny thing happened. this person felt so good about the experience they were having, they fully believed that if they jumped from a building, they would be able to fly or at least glide safely to the ground.

My friend said that if he had agreed or encouraged him, the person would have tried doing so.

Maybe that situation WOULD have ended up miraculously. But as you and I know, the evidence we can see in this shared reality says otherwise. My friend wisely became his conscience and convinced him otherwise.

Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate of the people. He was right in a sense. Now, I am about as far from a communist as a person can be, but the man had a point. What does an opiate do? It makes you feel no pain. And when we feel no pain, we believe we can fly. Because without the teacher of pain, we believe in our mind that we can do things we cannot and we are subject to get hurt.

Kathy had been teaching Claire the concept of “hot” by explaining what things in the house were “hot,” like a cup of coffee, the stove, a pot of steaming pasta, the hot water faucet. Claire understood that certain things were “hot.” She could even point to those things and say, “Ha!” But it wasn’t until she felt the pain of putting her hand in Kathy’s cup of coffee that she really understood what hot meant. She needed to viscerally feel the pain in her body in order to fully understand what the concept of “hot” meant.

Without the consequence of pain, we try to bring into physical experience what works in our imagination. Sometimes the human body cannot handle the consequences.

I think of this lady, who was a little high on the “we are all one” cloud. She thought she could feed the cuddly looking sleeping bear that didn’t look harmful at all. She felt that, but it wasn’t long before she was overridden by the reality of severe pain.

My point is that we don’t really know the truth. Without experience, our pea-sized awareness or even an expanded awareness doesn’t know much at all. I am not saying that there cannot be miracles from higher states of consciousness. What I am saying is it might be safer to take the stairs than glide down to the ground, leave the bear alone, keep your hand out of the hot cup of coffee!

The idea that I want you to understand, the point that was so important in my last post: the guru makes you feel so good in that awareness of ‘all is one’, what are you doing or buying that you might not when you don’t feel so good?

We can play in the realm and have adventures in consciousness. We can experiment and grow in the spiritual realm. But for God’s sake, please don’t leave your conscious mind behind. Or at least bring others in who will care about you.

Go get the tests done on the lump in your chest instead of believing some magic pill cured it. Maybe it did, but double check and use the knowledge of science and measurement in physical reality to be sure.

As far as the limits of attraction, let me say one word: “Hitler.” Yes. Sorry I am invoking Godwin’s law here.

Now use your critical thinking here. Answer me these questions honestly, please.

Do you really think the poor little 7 year old girl attracted a rapist and killer? That her attraction was so powerful that this poor guy was pulled into her vortex and was made to commit this heinous crime against her? Come on, now. If you really believe it is a law of attraction, if you really believe and she attracted it and created her own reality, then the victim must be the poor guy who did that. (Really?!)

Do you really believe the German people in the 1930′s fell prey to those terrible Jews who, through the “Law of Attraction,” attracted the poor Germans to elect Hitler, give him free rein of power, and put to death between 11-17 million people, 6 million of whom were Jews?

Or maybe it was a “mutual pact of attraction?”

Be careful now. This is an incredibly slippery slope… answer these questions honestly.

If you really believe this, I am going to tell you something you will not want to hear.

In fact, I’ll bet money you cannot hear.

But that is only for those that believe… and hopefully I don’t get any of those responses. I hope we are all on the same page as this point.

Yeah right. LOL