I’m not asking WHO are you, I am asking WHAT are You? Ask yourself what you are right now, what you are committed to doing and feeling, and what kinds of ways you are going to be today. I am asking you to ask yourself WHAT will I BE today, and HOW will I be in the world?

The world around you only sees what you do and how you are being. You don’t get points for pure intention, you only get credit (and cred) for what you actually do and for the ways you can be. Examples of ways of being are Happy, Focused, Friendly, Committed, Excited, Passionate, Relentless, etc. (I love etc. It’s the etc. in Life that always gets my juices flowing. Big Time.)

As always, you get to decide how you will be, who you will be, and what you are committed to. You are writing your biography every day. What people will say about you in years to come depends upon what you do and how you are being today and every day. Get committed, and follow through.

Just like Walt Whitman, you contain multitudes. Every human has enormous possibilities for good, bad, and mediocre. If you have ever been courageous, even for a second, you are courageous. If you have achieved anything, you are an achiever. And if you have confidence in any area of your Life, you are confident. You contain multitudes.

Mediocre is easy. Extreme good is difficult because it involves more sacrifice and more risk. I like to deal with outliers because extraordinary is more interesting. Look, you’re going to live this life anyway–why not make it a fabulous life? Why not go down in the history of your world as having been exceptional, great, and inspiring!

In my work with clients, I make it more possible for them to connect to their greatness. I help them gain access to their infinite Best Self and most Confident Courage. With practice, they more easily activate their personal power, and their success multiplies over time. When you get better in one area, you get better in every area of your daily experience. This has been proven thousands of times in client sessions and beyond. (Remember the etc. I mentioned earlier? The etc. is what happens after clients begin their Life’s work with me.)

Write a list of all the things you are. Write down all of your positive characteristics. Don’t leave anything out. Carry the list with you and add to it each and every time you realize new ones. Let this list remind you that You contain multitudes!

You are multi-faceted—own that. This can become a very long list of things that you know about yourself, and this exercise is one more step on your Path of Self-Awareness.

Here’s a sample list of Ways of Being:

Able
Blessed
Clever
Decent
Energetic
Fair
Generous
Hopeful
Improving
Joyful
Kind
Lustful
Motivated
Noble
Optimistic
Passionate
Quintessential
Recovering
Sensual
Tough
Unique
Vibrant
Wacky
Youthful
Zesty

And…

Just so you know…

I am doing this work, too. Every single day. I am committed to being in the game, playing Big all the time, taking it to the limit, pushing the envelope, increasing my capacities, and becoming limitless and containing multitudes. Here is what I am committed to being:

Abundant
Active
Actualized
Adaptable
Adventurous
Alert
Assertive
Attentive
Attractive
Aware
Awesome
Bangin’
Beautiful
Blessed
Brave
Calm
Caring
Cheerful
Clean
Clear
Clever
Colorful
Committed
Complete
Confident
Considerate
Consistent
Courageous
Courteous
Creative
Curious
Decent
Decisive
Developed
Developing
Different
Disciplined
Eager
Emotive
Ecological
Economical
Educated
Elegant
Eloquent
Eminent
Empowered
Energetic
Energized
Engaged
Enormous
Entrancing
Esteemed
Evolved
Excellent
Exceptional
Excited
Exciting
Experienced
Exquisite
Extraordinary
Fabulous
Fair
Fancy
Fascinating
Fit
Flamboyant
Flexible
Focused
Fortunate
Fresh
Friendly
Fun
Funny
Generous
Happy
Healthy
Helpful
Hopeful
Humorous
Hypnotic
Imaginative
Important
Impressive
Improved
Improving
Industrious
Infinite
Influential
Ingenious
Inquisitive
Inspirational
Inspired
Inspiring
Intellectual
Intelligent
Interested
Interesting
Inventive
Irrepressible
Joyful
Kind
Knowledgeable
Limitless
Lovable
Loved
Loving
Magnetic
Magnificent
Masterful
Mature
Memorable
Mesmerizing
Motivated
Muscular
Open
Original
Organized
Outrageous
Outstanding
Patient
Passionate
Playful
Positive
Powerful
Prepared
Present
Productive
Ready
Recovered
Recovering
Relaxed
Released
Remarkable
Resourceful
Rhythmic
Robust
Rockin’
Sanguine
Self-Assured
Sensible
Sensual
Serious
Sexy
Sharp
Showy
Significant
Smart
Smiley
Smooth
Snappy
Sober
Sparkly
Spiritual
Spontaneous
Strong
Studious
Stupendous
Sublime
Superior
Surprising
Stylish
Thoughtful
Tough
Unique
Unstoppable
Unusual
Upbeat
Uplifting
Vibrant
Wacky
Wide-eyed
Wise
Wonderful
Wondrous
Worldly
Zany

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Where do your ideas and inspiration come from? How do you connect the dots and create your desires? Are you aware that your desires are your creations? They don’t come out of nowhere! Do you recognize that your subconscious desires are at the heart of most of the decisions you make, and that your decisions are intentions? No need to ask why things happen in your Life. They happen because you allow them. All possibilities are occurring at all times. We simply allow some and filter others.

I recently came up with a new idea, one that excites me right down to my toenails. I am immersed in developing it with the intention that it will take me to every corner of the galaxy. I expect the development of this idea to create travel, excitement, adventure, learning, Love, friendship, and career success. This is one of the best ideas I’ve ever had.

This causes me to think about You, my friend. What are you thinking about? What do you want from Life? Where are you going, and what do you intend for yourself? How will you influence yourself to move forward, and what positive impact will that have on everyone around you? How are you going to get it all done?

Of course, I have a few ideas about that. That’s what I do. My entire career is about asking questions, finding some answers, sharing them, learning more, celebrating your many successes (large and small), being curious, asking new questions, and keeping it all going. And why not? Isn’t that way more interesting than just letting Life happen? Aren’t you more alive when you set an intention and then bring it into being?

All of your ideas come from the world around you, as well as from your internal world. Your internal world includes all of your past and current experiences; all of your knowledge and information, plus everything you’ve ever gone through and endured. You have saved, in the back of your mind, everything that your senses have encountered for a lifetime, and you have learned from every bit of it. (Your internal world may or may not also include past lives—the jury is still out on that, although reincarnation makes sense to me and I see what I think is evidence of it all the time, everywhere.)

The world around you is very noisy, and it’s been getting noisier every year since the dawn of intelligent humankind. Your external world consists of all communication outside of the communication you have with yourself: conversations, print media including books, magazines, and newspapers, movies, all internet activity, radio, TV, overheard interactions, all human contact and interactions with animals and Nature, all advertising in your sphere, work and career, and conversations with everyone including the most brief and non-verbal with strangers and everyone else. There’s a lot going on out there, and it all matters. All of it plays upon and influences your internal world.

Put the internal and external together, and there’s your source of new ideas, memories, inspiration, influence, motivation, ambition, impressions, learning, success, curiosity, passion, and personal power. You bring your subconscious mind to bear on everything you witness, even the subliminal messages.

As a professional Hypnotist, I know this to be true. I see my clients transform, and I witness my own transformation as I develop my new ideas.

Picture this… An exceptionally handsome master hypnotist is engaging a large audience with the mysterious subject of Hypnosis. He begins to play one or more musical instruments as he describes the hypnotic effect of music. Using various sounds and musical devices, he continues to deepen the trance using only the power of suggestion and the excitement of playing and listening, including the audience’s incredibly sensual ability for music to act upon the physical body in a most pleasant way. The trance concert continues, along with verbal hypnotic suggestions that awaken passion for living, learning, and loving. The audience becomes more receptive with each compounding suggestion, and everyone in the audience internalizes the wisdom and adopts it as their own, increasing their ability to enjoy Life to an even greater degree. Everyone finds their own brand of pleasure in the experience, and they carry it away with them, influencing the lives of everyone around them for the greater good.

Where did this idea come from? It’s been percolating for at least two years. It tried to come to the surface several times, many times. It finally got here with the help of a couple of conversations with some close friends who love and care about me. My sister, who has loved and nurtured me every year of my Life, finally brought it into being in a material way, and I am forever grateful to her for being who she is and allowing me to receive her magnificent way of being.

As I close this blog for now, I suggest that you listen to those thoughts that have been tugging at you for awhile. They are ideas that can help you. One or more of them might even change the course of your Life for the better. Would that be a good thing? Would it make a positive difference in the lives of everyone around you? Think about that for a moment. Become still and quiet.

And listen.

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