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Sep 25, 2017

Living in the Moment

To understand how to live in the moment, we need to have an understanding of time. Let’s look at time in a very simple but practical way: If you could divide time into three parts, you could say there was the past, the present and the future. At any given point, awareness can be functioning in one of these parts. Awareness can be in the “past” part of time and it can be absorbed in a conversation ...

Sep 18, 2017
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Awareness, the Dog

Treat your awareness like a dog. I remember a few years ago I went on holidays to the Caribbean, and while I was there, I stayed with a friend of mine. He works for the FBI and is in the Canine Unit, so he has a German Shepherd. A big, beautiful dog. This dog is so well trained,
Sep 10, 2017
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The Need to Learn

I meet so many people that are obsessed about learning, that are perpetually taking one course after another. Learning is good, but more important than the ebullient need to consume knowledge should be the need to apply the knowledge learned in daily life. This is where most peop
Jun 18, 2017
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The Power of Thought

Everything begins in the mental plane first before it manifests in the physical plane. You think to yourself first, “I would like some ice cream,” then you get up and get yourself some ice cream. But it began in your mind with a thought. Each thought has a picture, sound and colo
Nov 29, 2016
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The Way Forward is Inward and Upward

The way forward is inward and upward. Truly. In this confusing time (post election in the US), and it is very confusing for a lot of people, our first step is to take a higher perspective on all of it. If you are functioning in a lower state of mind like fear or anger for exampl
Oct 23, 2016
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Conscious Accounting

I was invited by Xero, a cloud-based accounting software company, to be their global keynote speaker for their annual Xerocon event. Subsequently, I gave keynotes in San Francisco and Brisbane, Australia, titled "Conscious Accounting". The keynote was based on the premise that w
Aug 3, 2016
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Fear of the Future

You have fear when you are not confident in your own personal powers of creation. You are not confident you can manifest the future that you want by using your willpower. And because of this you hang on to the past. It’s a reality you know and have experienced and this makes the