Category: My Perspective

I was walking around my lake yesterday, enjoying the fresh Los Angeles air. In front of me, there was a young man with endless tattoos and long blond hair, kicking a soccer ball. I trailed behind him around the lake, until I decided to take a seat on a bench I had never sat in before. A few quiet moments passed. I savored each one. Until a soccer ball came whizzing by me and into the lake water. “Bummer!” was my…

I am an entrepreneur. I run a successful marketing company that I started one year ago. Hence, my agenda has been super glued to my side- 50 million things to do written across the week’s outline- filled to maximum capacity- dozen’s of people counting on me for dozens of important matters. Event deadlines, project due dates, product releases, and other time sensitive information spread across my desk that no one else is responsible for, but me. There is never a…

The world in 2014 is loud. Almost everyone in America can share their ideas, their innermost desires, their engagements, and their gossip for the entire virtual solar-system to see in an instant. As it becomes easier to communicate, life as a free citizen is being steeped in non-stop noise. Hence, one of the greatest challenges facing America, is the rediscovery of our listening power. We all have a story. And we tell our story through language. To quote Heidegger, “language…

Resistance is the refusal to accept something as it is. It doesn’t matter what that something is- the circumstances of your life are actually irrelevant. Any interruption to your peace is worth examining. I am currently resisting several areas of my life; New plates on my vehicle (9 months expired) Raising my company pricing  Yoga and exercise  Circumstances like these are like mental rock faces that must be climbed. Resistance is like adding emotional bricks to your backpack. Life is…

The simplest way to live an extraordinary life, is to decide that your life is extraordinary. By choosing to experience your life this way, your life becomes as you interpret it to be. When you let go of chasing the perfect life, it becomes obvious your life has been perfect from day one. That every moment has led you to this moment. Every conversation was necessary to the development of your person and your wisdom. Every red light, every flat…

One of the principle teachings of A Course in Miracles is that you are the Light of the World. You alone can transform the world, because you created the world. And you are powerful enough to have created the world, because you are an extension of God.  Some people get really worked up when I share this perception. The ego- especially the religious ego- immediately calls blasphemy. That’s because the ego believes you are small and worthless and a sinner and…

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