Inspiration Archives

Although I've had some amazing opportunities and successes in my life, I find it a bit presumptuous to say what wisdom I want to pass on to humanity. After all, I am a part of humanity and I am learning to do anything I suggest. However, a few lesson/challenges that guide me in my efforts include: Live in the now and be yourself. That is probably the most difficult thing in the world one can do. I have heard it said that it is easier to die for your country than to live authentically and genuinely for the truth and…

Wouldn't it be fantastical if the words below were the most amazing words you would ever read and as soon as you read them, BAM! like magic - your life was changed forever? You would begin to attract abundant unconditional love, outrageous career success, incredible health and fitness, financial well-being, and the ability to accomplish your mission to help the world! You could create the best damn life you want and fulfill all your dreams! Well actually, I have the words that will do just that! After 29 years of astonishing work, research, and experience in the metaphysical, psychological, and…

I had dreams, expectations and plans. But all ended when a black curtain covered my world. At 31 years old, a retinal disease brought complete blindness. And hope for happiness faded into the fog of fear. I looked through the window of life and glanced at the only thing left: the ability to make choices. And how sweet. The freedom to make choices was the gift wrapped in promises for a new tomorrow. For the good choices brought a colorful glimmer into my darkness. And in that physical darkness, I chose to see the best of life. I discovered these…

What if you knew you could change anything in your life? And if you knew that change could come easily, would your life look different than it does now? So many of us go around believing that we are "stuck" with the lives we have, not realizing that there is a completely different possibility available—yes, even for YOU. You really can change almost anything. I'm living proof. 12 years ago, I was going to kill myself—literally—because I was tired of struggling and suffering. And I changed it. Now, I travel the world sharing with people tools that will allow them…

As a teenager, I traveled overseas with nothing but an over-packed suitcase and a dream of leaving the remote Colorado horse ranch of my childhood for the big city. No sooner did I land in France than a man with a big, very nice-looking camera around his neck approached me. He said he could make me a model. He promised me an exciting life of big-city living and a future that sounded too good to pass up, so I went with him and his friend. They drugged me, took me to an abandoned construction site, beat me and raped me…

You, and your spiritual practice, are perfect just as they are. If you read that and rolled your eyes, you've got some work to do. We live in a culture of criticism. Our moms told us to stop sucking our thumbs; our teachers circled (in red!) every mistake we made; our friends and the media constantly remind us that few people are sufficiently thin or attractive; and every time we leave a movie, the first question we're asked is, "What did you think?" So it isn't surprising that we fall into the habit of judging ourselves. What's more, we constantly…

Inspiration! The word itself sounds, for a lack of a better word, inspirational, doesn't it? (As Gordon Gekko, a character played by Michael Douglas, in Wall Street, would say if he were writing this piece.) It has this aura about itself; this uplifting feeling to it! You may or may not have heard the meaning and source of this wonderful word - In-Spirit. Meaning, one becomes connected to their spiritual source; i.e., one is "in" spirit. However, I would say that it is actually us getting to a place of knowing that we are already connected to, and part and parcel…

I am an American who is fortunate to have had jobs that allowed me to travel to different countries. Over the past 30 years I've been in more than 35 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. During many of those trips I was able to talk with hundreds if not thousands of people in those countries who represented different parts of the culture, community and workforce, such as company CEO's, and other executives, managers, engineers, production workers, hotel employees, taxi drivers, waiters and waitresses and others. Many of them were also parents. From all of those conversations, I…

Sometimes it seems like life flies by too fast. Sure, there are days where boredom stretches the hours or circumstances make a week feel like a year, but regular day-to-day living seems to have a tendency to accelerate over time. The opportunities, ideas, and dreams we start off with as teenagers slip through our fingers as we push through college and stumble into adulthood trying to make heads or tails of what we're supposed to do in life. We try and prioritize responsibly, putting first things like school, making money, and/or paying off debt. Often this cascade of to-dos never…