"I"

My Journey to Ground Zero

2005-12-14T17:16:00.000-08:00

9/11 was over 4 years ago now... wow.

Just last week, I was in Manhattan - for the first time in my life. It was quite surreal being on the top deck of a double decker tour bus that carried me through times square. I snapped the photo below as the bus was taking off.

By the time the bus made it to the Ground Zero stop it had grown dark outside. I stepped off and suddenly I was overcome by the strangest feeling...

There was an incredible sense of loss... I don't know that I can put words on it. I found myself walking toward the plot of land where the twin towers had once stood.

So much of my mission in life has been shaped around the events that happened on that fateful day in 2001. The absence of these buildings and the people who once occupied them were like an invisible monument marking at once the greatness of the human spirit and the great threat now posed to the human spirit.

Had that event not occured 4 years ago, I would have been standing with my head tilted back, paying homage to what was perhaps the greatest symbol of mankind's heroic spirit... yet, instead I was standing there looking at nothing...

The begining of the end? Or the begining of a new generation where human beings discover what it is to live true to our heroic nature?

The future I envision is one where an event like 9/11 is beyond comprehension... not because America is a great military force, but because human beings all over the world have transformed the very idea of what it means to be human...

Ground Zero... the end? or the beginning?

They told me "No"

2005-11-01T09:34:00.000-08:00

The voice mail on my phone was his personal assistant...

She said, "You are not invited.do not come. We have NO seats for you."

But she was too late...I could not turn back now.

The day was December 7th, 1995. It was my 25th birthday, and the pressure was on.
You see, I had made a promise to my two brothers and a few other people in my life...

"I will meet Dr. Goldratt in person and show him my vision by my 25th birthday."
For those who don't know Dr. G., he is a revolutionary thinker and visionary who had developed breakthrough methods of thinking.

I won't "bore" you with the fascinating thinking tools I learned from him and how I applied them to understand human consciousness (and how those insights led to the powerful Vision Force Boot Camp methods)...

Bottom line is this guy was my hero. (In fact, I remember wishing, at the time that Ayn Rand, another hero of mine, had met him in her lifetime. Here were 2 radical thinkers and visionary geniuses who used the power of logic to "go where no man had gone before." They both had unstoppable egos, and incredible charisma... they would have been PERFECT together! ... lol, ok, onto the story!)

So, Dr. Goldratt didn't know me at all. I was simply a fan of his work... a kid with a bigvision and some big ideas...

I had written two letters telling him of my intentions to meet him in Dallas. He was holding a 1-day $800 seminar for manufacturing executives, and I had asked if he had any "excess capacity (one of his terms)."
I asked if I could attend for free.

The answer had come back... "NO." Again, "NO." And, a third time, "NO!"

But when I received his personal assistant's final voice mail, "No" that morning, it was already waaaay too late. I was going. I would make them turn me away to my face.

I was young. I was idealistic. I saw a vision!

YET I "SAW" MYSELF MEETING HIM, SPEAKING TO HIM AND SHOWING HIM MY VISION

That was all I needed. Vision was enough. Forget that I was a shy kid who couldn't speak up wortha darn... I had the force of my own vision to carry me over my fears, doubts and weaknesses.

I'll never forget the look on her face...

I walked up to the reception table and told her who I was... Her jaw just dropped. She paused, not knowing what to say. First she tried to be stern... "I told you we don't have any free seats. I told you not to come."

I smiled, and just explained how Dr. Goldratt had influenced my life and my thinking, how he was my hero.
I told her how I had made a commitment to myself to come and meet him.

After a while, she softened. "OK, well, if you promise not to participate, not to interrupt and not to talk to him, then I'll let you in... but you've GOT to promise."

(Apparently this guy had a big fan club and had reached a kind of Rock Star status. " I thought about it...
A chance to see this hero who had changed my life... to see him in action, presenting his ideas and teaching them live... "OK," I finally said.

I knew it was a sort of compromise, and that bothered me. My commitment had been to talk to him and show him my vision, not to just see him and listen to him.

But when she led me into the room, I was all smiles.

I'll tell you... I had expected to see this skinny, little, old Jewish professor type with maybe the squeeky, nasaly voice that you'd expect from someone who read too many books, and didn'tinteract with people in the real world much.

I WAS STUNNED

Here was a huge man, standing tall, and proud. His deep voice booming across the room, ashe paced with his pipe, carefully selecting his words. You could tell his brain was in high gear.

But then I saw something I'd never seen before.

Dr. Goldratt proceeded to confront these executives. When they gave dumb answers or lame excuses, he'd grill them on it. Not in a humiliating way, but in a way that seemed to say...

THIS IS EVERYTHING! THIS IS YOUR LIFE! TAKE IT SERIOUSLY!

He never said those words, but he just gave you this sense that business, and thinking and making good choices was very very important.

The effect was intriguing... people didn't approach this seminar as if itwas just some interesting theories. They were on the edge of their seats, as if their lives were at stake.

But perhaps more striking than his delivery style was the way he taught. He has methods of teaching that were not really teaching... rather his methods resulted in the students arriving at their own insights and understandings.

I learned a lot about the way he taught, and from then on began creating ways to teach people such that they created their own insights. I didn't want to be the guru smoking the pipe, but I did want to be the kind of teacher who provokes people to think.

(btw, if you're wondering if I march around my boot camps confronting people like an Israeli General, I don't. My boot camps are confronting because of the way they are structured so that people naturally come face to face with what they've not been facing in their lives.)

I could go on and on about what I learned that day, or the exciting things that happened, but what I want to leave you with is this:

If you come across someone who has cutting edge ideas and tools that you can benefit from, look and see if you are putting them on a pedastal.

Look and see what is holding you back from taking bold action, and going to meet these people. Sometimes we want to wait until we have achieved more status or made a name for ourselves, before we go and introduce yourself.

Yet these same people could help you to get from here to there faster than you could do on your own. Those people who seem larger than life are real people. You might be surprised at how easily you can become friends with and join forces with them.

Life is too short to play small, too short to try to figure everything out yourself or do it all yourself. Seek out those who are the best at what the do, and learn from them.

Oh... one more thing. If they tell you "no," remember they are not god. You have a say in the matter. A little vision and some bold action goes a long way.

Well, those are my thoughts for today. Until tomorrow, tomorrow's tomorrow, and as long as I live, I remain...

Your ally in life,

Michael Ivan Skye
VISION FORCE ACADEMY

Humphrey's Peak

2005-09-26T21:50:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday morning after having awakened before the dawn and driven from my father's ranch to Flagstaff Arizona, I found myself running along the crest of what is rumoured to be Arizona's tallest mountain.

Bam! The running shoes I was wearing (not your ideal hiking shoes, as they have little side support or ankle support) landed on a rounded rock, and down I went. My hands caught me and I surveyed the damage... my ankle was hurt and I was sure it was badly twisted.

I pushed myself up... it was OK enough to go on... and on I went, determined to catch up to my father, who was now nearing the final climb called Humphrey's peak.

As I neared him the winds grew stronger. 60 miles and hour? 80 miles an hour? I couldn't stand up straight without being blown from the mountain. The wind was that powerful... and at over 12,000 feet the view was what you expect to see from an airplane...

I did my best to hold my position... to keep from being blown off the mountain. I fought the wind and made my way to the top.

Yesterday, on the Vision Revolution Radio show we talked about taking a stand instead of taking a position.

Climbing the mountain, fighting the wind and gravity, I was doing my best to hold myself upright. I was trying to defend or maintain my position. But... what would it be like to be the mountain... simply standing. Firmly planted on the ground, while reaching far into the heavens... an inspiration to all who look in my direction?

What if we as human beings knew how to take a stand in life? What if we could be an inspiring stand in this world of changing winds? What if we could unyieldingly stand tall and strong in this world where others try to pull us down.

These are the skills practiced and learned at the Wealth Warrior Boot Camp, high level training for visionaries.

There's Vision In Them There Hills!

2005-09-20T16:28:00.000-07:00

Wow...

When I saw the smoke rising from
the distant mountains, my head was
still spinning.

I was driving north from Phoenix Arizona
to visit my dad in Northern Arizona.

For the last 3 days I'd been at an internet
marketing conference in Phoenix Arizona.

I went there to brush
up on the skills and techniques
it is going to take to use the internet
to fulfill on our vision of creating
a world of visionaries by 2020.

Imagine...

A world where children grow up respected
and honored as young visionaries, so
that there natural visionary talents
blossom, and we all live heroic lives
guided by our own vision.

This weekend I learned some key skills and
met some key visionaries who will help us
to reach this future.

Anyway, back to my drive and the smoke.

Apparently here in Arizona they do
"controlled burns," in order to prevent
unplanned and out-of-control forest
fires.

In other words they literally "fight
fire with fire."

Got me to thinking...

So many people in ous modern society still
think that we need to prevent individuals
from becoming visionaries.

As if visionaries are destructive forces
to fear like forest fires.

Visionaries can't be tamed.

Visionaries can't be controlled.

Visionaries are unpredictable.

So, they reason, we better keep people from
becoming self-guided visionaries.

We better keep those fires from starting.

We better train people to obey and follow.

We better condition people to think that
being a good person and responsible person
means fitting neatly and quietly into
"the system."

And they put out the fire in our children's
hearts and minds before it gets out of hand.

Our children then either become obedient products
of the system, willing and eager to follow whoever
the leader is.

Or they become self-destructive rebels who are
pissed off at all the world, and only concerned
about short-term needs and desires.

Or our children become resigned, lethargic, cynical
or depressed.

Bottom line? Our children are deprived of their
natural vision.

The vision that would give them life.

They are deprived of the vision what would have
given birth to their passion, their sense of
purpose and real inner peace and power.

Our children become BURNT OUT on life even
before it begins.

Then we give them drugs to ease their pain
or their depression.

Or they find drugs on their own.

Then our children have children and it
starts again.

BUT WHAT IF...

What if instead of putting out the fire
in our children's hearts, we fanned the
flames?

What if we knew how to feed the natural
visionary within our children?

What if we could re-ignite the vision within
ourselves?

WHAT IF?

But we fear that kind of world... a world
where individuals freely follow their own
hearts, their own vision.

And perhaps we should.

A world of free thinking, free acting
visinaries is unpredictable.

But would such visionaries be a force of
destruction, or a force of creation?

You know, fire is part of mother nature's
cycle of self-renewal.

A fire cleans the forest and allows for
a new beginning a new birth.

And, no doubt, a world of visionaries
following their visoin would cause great
change and upheaval...

But only to give birth to a new world,
a better future for our children...

LET'S START THE FIRE!

The fire of vision!

Let's start it within ourselves and
within our children.

If that fire is gone, let's reignite
it in our hearts, and in the hearts
of those around us.

I leave it to you, Michael,
to spread the vision of a world
where each of us are visionaries, real
everyday heroes guided by our own vision.

Turn your friend onto the Vision Revolution
here: http://www.visionrevolution.org

Or to the Vision Force Academy here:
http://www.visionforce.com

Those of you who have joined us in
the Vision Force 101 program, welcome!
Let's get this fire started!

If you've not yet taken Vision Force 101,
the details are here:
http://www.visionforce101.com

Note: there are only 24 hours left before
final registration ends.

Onwards and upwards!

Your ally in vision,

Michael Skye
Vision Force Academy

P.S. When you see smoke, think of the
fire being created within the hearts and
minds of the rising visionaries! We shall
give birth to a world where children are
raised with the kind of vision that naturally
calls them to greatness.
VISION REVOLUTION
http://www.visionrevolution.org
VISION FORCE ACADEMY
http://www.visionforce.com
VISION FORCE 101
http://www.visionforce101.com

Who Am I...?

2005-08-25T19:56:00.000-07:00

Who I say I am... as I head into Autumn 2005...?

I stand for being the stallion who no man can conquer or tame,

I stand for being unleashed, wild and free, even when I feel the leash or the whip of old masters...

I stand for being ALIVE and a ferocious seeker of fun and adventure, and I stand for being one who runs triumphantly alongside, with and behind the other stallions...

I stand for being an inspiration to all who seek to be free, or who even think of it for a passing moment...

I stand for being the one that makes the wind follow in my wake as I run... the same wind that will whisper in the ears of lone horses in the quiet of nite...

I stand for being the wind that calls to each stallion to RUN! RUN! RUN!

...Run with the wind, run into the wind, and run up the mountains of challenge.... Run into life, into new lands...

I stand for being the one who tells all stallions... your legs, your lungs and your mind are enough... you can fly!

Yes, you can fly like the wind... there's nothing you need to believe... there's no one you need to follow... your legs, your lungs and your mind are more than enough... you can fly!

I stand for being a stallion of spirit, the spirit to run, the spirit to fly... a stallion who never stops running, flying or soaring... the beautiful winged beast in the sky...

It Has Begun...

2005-05-06T11:30:00.000-07:00

It was just before sunrise...

All was quiet except for the occasional
whisper of the wind through the trees...

All was still except the pale blue mist of
early morning, slowly rising from the earth

And then one by one...

Into the clearing they stepped.

They have come from LA, New York,
Hong Kong and London...

Melbourne, Singapore, Berlin...

Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia.

There they stood that morning.

The hope of the world...

The torchbearers for mankind.

There were mothers, fathers and
teachers...

There were artists, writers, philosophers...
Entrepreneurs, marketers, self-starters.

These were the leaders, the creators,
hope of tomorrow.

It has begun.

The next class of visionaries has stepped
forward to be trained in the art of self-guidance,
and there is still room for you.

http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

HAVE YOU NOTICED?

All our lives we've been trained to follow,
to fit in, to succeed in the fulfillment of other
people's visions.

And we wonder why we now often lack the inner
drive, motivation and discipline to follow through
on our own dreams.

As children we learned that obedience (doing
what we are told to do) was more important
than integrity (doing what honors our own
vision).

And we wonder why we often lack meaning,
purpose and a deep sense of inner peace.

We've been taugh that we should be selfless
(to give no regard to our own values) and
that it is wrong to be "selfish" (to honor our
own values).

And we wonder why we're often not satsified,
happy or deeply fulfilled.

We've been trained to feel guilty when we
break the rules or venture out on our own.

We've been punished many times for getting
the "wrong" answer or going in the "wrong"
direction--great training IF SUCCESS MEANS
FOLLOWING THE BEATEN PATH!

(Heard enough? Go here to get started:
http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

We are so well-trained to
compromise our own values and dreams
that is it ANY wonder why we lack the
commitment and clarity to walk our own
path all the way to the end?

I emplore you, I beseach
you now to listen to my words here.

Take another few minutes, close the door,
turn off the phone, and go within...

YOU are the future of the world.

In these times of great change, the world
needs Visionaries who can powerfully venture
into the unknown--NOT followers who
wait for someone to tell them where to
go.

THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR VISION.
Success in the 21st century will DEMAND
that you possess the power and the skill
to SEE AND RELENTLESSLY FOLLOW YOUR
OWN VISION.

The world is changing. More and more
people are venturing out on their own
as entrepreneurs, authors, artists, educators
and INDEPENDENT workers.

The gurus in the "SELF-HELP" movement
would have you believe they have the answers.
Just buy more of their books, their tapes,
their seminars and programs.

You don't need their "answers,"
their "secrets" or their "guidance."

All you need is the NATURAL inner drive, inner
power, clarity and deep sense of purpose that
happens when you've learned to follow your
own vision and trust your own inner guidance.

(Trust yourself. Start here:
http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

Please listen closely.

I am not talking about anything hokey or New
Age or religious. I am not talking about so-called
neuro-science or "sub-conscious programming."

Have you ever known someone who had something
happen to them which "woke them up" and then
there whole life changed FOREVER?

Maybe they had a run-in with death, or some kind
of spiritual awakening or whatever...

THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED?

They now KNEW THEIR PATH--maybe not intellectually,
but deep inside they just knew what path was
right for them?

They shock everyone in their lives and start
acting without regard to doubt or fear.

>>They just quit their job and start the business
they've been dreaming of for years?

>>They either passionately rekindle the LOVE
in their romantic relationship, or they find a new
love that fufills their childhood dreams?

>>They travel the world as if they have only
one month to live?

THEY NOW RUTHLESSLY FOLLOW THEIR OWN
INNER GUIDANCE...

>>NOT what others tell them they "should" do,

>>NOT what is "comfortable,"

>>NOT what is "safe."

THEY HAVE COME ALIVE---ITS AS IF THEY HAVE
BEEN REBORN AS A PASSIONATE VISIONARY.

Can you relate?

(THE VISION FORCE 101 PROGRAM COULD BE
THAT SOMETHING! It has been designed to be
and proven to be that something for so many
people. http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

PLEASE STAY WITH ME HERE...

Something like this MIGHT happen to you if you
wait long enough.

MAYBE, just maybe, you'll have a run-in with
death that scares the daylights out of you, and
then you start living as if EVERY DAY IS YOUR LAST.

BUT...

You don't have to wait.

There is a program starting THIS WEEK, that can
give YOU that inner knowing, that clarity, that
natural drive.

And it's NOT like anything else.

>>It's NOT self-help tricks or gimmicks.
>>It's NOT affirmations, visualizations,
NLP, hypnosis, self-talk, etc.

THIS IS A SIMPLE, POWERFUL TRAINING
PROGRAM FOR VISIONARIES:
http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

"Miraculous" things happen
during this program.

>>Alcoholics have stopped drinking,

>>Marriages have been saved and the passion
re-ignited,

>>Scattered dreamers have found the inner
focus and inner drive that shifts their business
into over drive,

>>Life-long employees have found the sound
clarity and unexplainable confidence to just
leave their jobs and follow their passion,

I could go on and on.

Don't take my word for it. Go here to see what
others are saying:
http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

Then register and see for yourself.

The time is now. Are you ready?

Today is the day. Can you hear me?

Was it chance that we met? Or was it
destiny?

http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

It's not to late.

The orientation call was on Wednesday. You
missed it, but you can listen to the recording
online.

Previous participants of this program have
returned this time to assist YOU on your journey
for this program, and they have asked me to
keep the doors open a few more days.

So, we'll keep the doors open for a little bit longer.

I am reaching out to you here,
because I HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED the
incredible life-transformations that happen inside
this program.

Ultimately, the choice lies with you.

What more can I do? What more can I say?
I trust that you'll go within now and choose
the path that is right for you.

We've even taken away all the risk.

http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

If you deeply care about your future,
if you deeply care about your children's future,
don't wait this time.

FIND A WAY TO GET INTO THIS PROGRAM.

It is changing lives and it will **mark my words**
it WILL change the future of the world.

Go register now.

http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

Your ally in life, your partner in success,

Michael Skye
Founder, Wealth Warior Academy

P.S. I would like to hear your thoughts
on my email here. Reply to me personally.
skye@wealthwarrior.com.

Thanks

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Wealth Warrior Academy
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Dieing to know the answer to the question, "Who Am I?"

2005-03-29T11:37:00.000-08:00

This is a Call to Action.

I just read in the news a story about an officer who rushed to call at 3am Easter morning... found his 20-year-old son, stabbed to death. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/nj.officer.ap/index.html

The article said his son had success in track and football while in highschool, but had dropped out and "drifted."

It's not every day that an officer finds his son dead.

But kids are dying every day.

Being killed by others, taking their own lives, taking the lives of other kids.

It doesn't even seem to be a tragedy anymore. It seems common place.

It is old news.

That is the real tragedy.

It is almost as if we have come to accept that human beings are by nature irresponsible, self-destructive, sinners and criminals.

Animals or lower. Animals don't wage war, commit murder or suicide, etc.

Well, if our pet animals had a problem, what would be the solution?

1) Punishment. Punish the bad behavior (and threaten punishment, e.g., hold up a whip).
2) Reward. Reward the good behavior (and promise reward, e.g., dangle the doggie treat).
3) Drugs. Put in the right chemical to eliminate the bad behavior.

The lines of thought most often taken in our society include,

1) he should have stayed in school and out of trouble
2) his parents are to blame for not keeping him in school or raising him well
3) the school system is to blame
4) we need more laws, more controls
5) bring more religion into the school system
6) reduce violence on TV, movies, music, etc.
7) some kids are too hyperactive, treat them for ADD
8) some kids are too depressed, give them anti-depressants

So we add more punishment, more rewards and we put our kids on Ridilin and Prozac.

Some people take sides and strongly preach corporal punishment over the drugs.
http://www.christianpatriot.com/12_08_2003.htm

Others preach on behalf of these "miracle drugs."

The effect is the same.

OUR CHILDREN ARE GROWING UP WITHOUT STRONG INNER GUIDANCE BY CONSCIENCE, WITHOUT A DEEP INNER SENSE OF HONOR, WITHOUT TRUST IN THEIR OWN MINDS, WITHOUT PERSONAL VISION.

They are guided by fears, desires and drugs.

They have no real answer to the question, "Who am I?"

They search aimlessly for meaning and purpose.

Should we force them to coform them or dope them so they follow queitly with a smile? Should we beat them or threaten with guilt and punishment so that their actions look responsible?

Such people would make for a nice docile society willing to follow any leader's vision.

Our children are our future!

They are not animals. And no amount of beating, bribing or doping will create the visionary leaders that our future depends upon.

And lets be clear. We NEED visionaries. As we head into a future of more and more change, uncertainty and chaos, WE ALL MUST BECOME VISIONARIES. Visionaries for our own lives, visionaries for our families, visionaries for our communities.

(If you subscribe to my list you know about the powerful Vision Force 101 program, a great step for all who would be visionaries:
http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml )

Mostly our "solutions" for making our children more responsible are the cause of the irresponsibility in the first place.

The Catholic Church of the Dark Ages succeded in getting people to obey. It even kept most people from thinking for themselves. Such crimes were punished with death via the Inquisitions and Crusades. The human spirit was all but mass murdered. And gone from the Earth was rationality, science, individual thought, joy, longevity, happiness.

The human spirit and the human mind demand freedom. Intellectual freedom, psychological freedom, political freedom, economic freedom. The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment brought more of such freedoms and we enjoy them today.

There are many who think that those freedoms are now the cause of our problems, because human beings are fundamentally irrational, self-destructive animals... undeserving of and unfit for freedom.

I would suggest the problem lies NOT in our levels of freedoms... there ought to be much more freedom on all levels. The problem lies in the ways we've been conditioned to guide ourselves and each other. It is time we revisit our methods of parenting, schooling, governing, etc., with an eye to raising our children as visionaries, not blindly obedient followers.

You can't force children to be inner guided by their own sense of honor and their own vision. You can't drug a child into becoming a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the name of your future, your children's future, your grandchildren's future, I beseach you...

Join the next class of visionaries TODAY in the Vision Force program:

http://www.visionforce.com/academy.shtml

Don't delay.

Wealth Warriors Unite!

2005-03-20T10:50:00.000-08:00

Everyone has been talking about making money on-line...

Is it a pipe dream? Is the internet "Gold Rush" over?

It has just begun.

Really. Many people have no clue how EASY it is to make money on-line--lots of money.

I must say, I had no idea how easy it could be until just 12 months ago.

In March 2004 I attended my first internet marketing conference.

It was Armand Morin's Big Seminar.

Sure there were a lot of really cool strategies for making money on-line, but the best thing about the event wasn't the speakers or what they had to say.

The most valuable part of the event were the other people in the audience.

I met people from all over the world who were making money in all kinds of ways on-line.

There were teenagers making millions with one little web site.

There were work-at-home single moms working part-time and providing well for their children.

These were every day people doing simple things to become rich.

Entrepreneurship, dreams and vision was in the air.

I can only imagine what it must have been like in America's early days... famous for being the "land of opportunity," where anyone could achieve their dreams.

Some people think the internet is old news--that the real financial opportunities died with the dot com bust a few years ago.

Not so.

Some people are led to believe making money on-line will take no effort and when they find out it takes work, they give up.

What I am about to say could change your life.

If you are simply willing to work, you can make a TON of money on-line following SIMPLE strategies.

It doesn't take genius, it doesn't require a college degree, it doesn't matter how much money you have.

It doesn't even matter if you don't know squat about the internet.

The internet gold rush has JUST begun!

You can stake your claim to your share of internet gold.

Just go to Armand's Big Seminar.

It's like stepping into an old west gold mining town, where people are discovering gold right and left.

Only the new frontier is the Internet.

You really have to see it to believe it.

Next month internet gold miners are convening in Atlanta.

Million-dollar deals will be made over lunch. Businesses will be created on napkins. Empires will begin with a handshake.

I'll be there.

What if you joined me?

What if this was your one chance? Your one big opportunity?

I may regret doing this, but here goes...

I've decided to give away $2,000 of Wealth Warrior programs and tools to 7 lucky Wealth Warriors.

But you MUST be willing to join me in Atlanta.

Want to open the treasure chest with your name on it?

Go here:

http://www.wealthwarrior.com/atlanta

I hope to see you in Atlanta!

Michael Skye

P.S. It's in only a few short weeks, so HURRY! It is worth mortgaging the farm to get there! You'll see!

On Being A Warrior...

2005-02-26T10:54:00.000-08:00

Some thoughts on being a warrior...

Rebel-->One who fights against
Warrior-->One who fights for

Rebels react to and fight against opposition. Warriors are focussed on the opposition and are not reacting to it. Warriors take a stand and fight for the principles, values and vision that call to them. This leads to another aspect of warriorship.

Soldier-->fights outside opposition with an aim to destroy itWarrior-->fights inner opposition with an aim to unify oneself or obtain mastery

Consider that there is already inner conflict happening within you. You can react to it or go with it, or you can take a stand in the face of it. You can fight the good fight. You can be a warrior.

The term warrior also brings with it the connotation of martial artist, or one focussed on self-mastery, the inner game.

Carlos Castenada wrote about warriorship. A warrior has such an internal focus on self-mastery, that he can manifest what he wants in reality.

Karl Malone, the basketball star who just retired, was though of as a warrior... people were not referring to any kind of violence (although, he did punish Isiah Thomas pretty bad), but instead were referring to his relentless work ethic, and how he demanded the most of himself every single day, never succumbing to pain or fear or pressure. He fought on through it all. He was a warrior.

Cry Freedom!

2005-02-22T18:26:00.000-08:00

I got a phone call last Friday and an email this morning...

Both were cries of freedom, that have me thinking of that final scene of the movie, Braveheart, where William Wallace played by Mel Gibson is being publicly tortured and about to die...

Wallace has risked his life to stand up for the freedom and dignity of the people of Scottland, and he is aobut to die for the stand he took.

He opens his mouth to speak and the torturer loosens his grip, assuming Wallace is going to back down compromise everything he stands for in order to save his own life...

Just then Wallace lets out a single word cry that echoes through the kingdom...

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!

Then they behead him.

The phone call on Friday was from a young man who attended the Wealth Warrior Boot Camp a little over a year ago.

At the time he had no vision or expectation of being an entrepreneur or starting his own business.

He was quite content at his $67,000 per year job.

He was calling to say he'd just given his two week notice.

Two weeks from last Friday, he'll be out on his unknown.

This past year he has profited immensely from the alliances he formed with other boot camp graduates.

He has been creating his vision in reality.

And now he is free.

I got a similar email this morning.

A woman who graduated from the boot camp less than a year ago emailed me her commitment to give her two weeks notice March 1st.

And she is making upwards of $150,000 per year at the job.

Another new entrepreneur.

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!

The next class of visionaries and entrepreneurs will be gathering Thursday evening, March 10th, 2005, to begin their journey to the top of the metaphorical mountain they climb in the boot camp.

There are a few seats left.

Will you be the next to cry...

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!

http://www.wealthwarrior.com/bootcamp/

How Can You Become A Real Life "Neo"?

2005-02-19T06:47:00.000-08:00

Did you see The Matrix?

NEO was "the one" for the future of the world.

What if YOU were the one for the future of your community? Your family? Your business?

What if there were an event you could attend that would be give you the training you'd need to be "the one"?

What if it was an event unlike any other?

What if this event awakened you to your destiny?

It is right here, right now.

http://www.wealthwarrior.com/bootcamp/

You ARE the one.

A Boot Camp for Visionaries!

2005-02-09T13:32:00.000-08:00

What if there were such a thing?

A boot camp for visionaries?

What if almost everything we "knew" about human beings was wrong?

Or at least a bit twisted?

Really, think about it.

What if it were discovered that humans are born visionaries?

Born to bring something new into the world?

What if there were a training event that awakened you, in a very practical sense, to your natural powers as a visionary?

What would that mean?

Here's what it would mean:

-->No more confusion about whether or not you should leave the safety of your job to pursue your passion, your life's purpose
-->No more doubt or guilt from not knowing whether honoring your self is the right thing to do
-->No more being stopped by a fear of the unknown
-->No more being stopped by a fear of failure
-->No more being stopped by a fear of success
-->No more being stopped by a fear of rejection
-->No more being stopped by unexpected obstacles and problems

Just imagine...

-->Having an insane amount of inner peace, confidence and certainty about walking your own path in life
-->Boldly stepping out of relationships or jobs that do not honor you
-->Being heard and really listened to by everyone
-->Being able to see farther than most people
-->Being able to make the impossible happen!
-->Knowing with certainty your life's purpose, your destiny!

What if it were possible for you?

What if being an unstoppable visionary creator was within your reach?

What if?

What fears might you have to face, if you were to become a visionary?
What sacrifices might you have to make?
What might you have to give up?
Who might you have to stand up to?
What kind of money and time might you have to give up for such training?

What would be worth standing for to face all of that?
Would it be worth facing all the fear and the discomfort, if you were standing for your marriage? Your family? Perhaps just for your children? Your grandchildren?
Or what about you? Would it be worth standing for your self, your life, your happiness, your future?
Would it be worth standing for being powerful in life?

Just imagine walking that path in your life...
Imagine standing for your self, your family, your happiness your future...
And standing in the face of all fear, all uncertainty, all adversity.
The more you see yourself walking that path, the more you see what?
And the more you see that, the more you see what?

Last question: How Can I?
How can you make it happen?
How could you create a way to get that training?
How could you blast through all barriers that might keep you from having that life, that future?

There is a boot camp for visionaries.

It is the result of my life's work.

I created it for people just like you.

I may not know you, but...

What if this was the moment you've been waiting for all your life?

What if everything in your life was about to come together with incredible synergy?

What if today were your day?

Go check out this boot camp for visionaries, your boot camp. There are only a few spots left.

See if one of those seats was meant for you.

http://www.wealthwarrior.com/bootcamp/register.htm

Let Honor Be Your Guide...?

2005-01-28T13:03:00.000-08:00

I was lost... I'd had enough of others guiding my life... I wanted to be true to myself... but I didn't know how... I was a rebel without a cause... adrift and alone on the ocean of life. .. I had taken down my sails, so as not to be guided by the winds of the world... Still, I was without my own direction, without a vision, without a mission. How could I guide myself by my own values and vision? ... Was it even possible to be my own hero in this world? ... a warrior, fighting for my life, my loves, my values...?

Michael Skye, here today, calling to the warrior in you.

Do you recognize this world? A world with circling winds, blowing in every direction?

What are the winds that fill you sails and guide your boat?

Where are you going?

And why?

Take a look around...

Ads, telemarketers, salesletters...

Everyone wants to sell you something.

Teachers, preachers, politicians...

Everyone wants to believe you something.

Employers, investors, customers...

Everyone wants you to do what they want.

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?

WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT?

WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR VALUES, YOUR VISION?

Holy books, self-help books, law books...

Everyone's got "the answer" for you.

Bonuses, freebies, extra credit, tax breaks...

Everyone's got ways to seduce you to do what they want.

Jail time, spankings, withholding sex, eternal damnation...

Everyone's got ways to punish you for not obeying their wishes.

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?

WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT?

WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR VALUES, YOUR VISION?

Doctors, psychiatrists, school counselors, judges...

Everyone's got authorities they can turn to for guidance.

Ridalin, Prozac, alcohol, Aspirin, nicotine, caffeine, marijuana...

Everyone's got chemicals they can turn to for help.

Gambling, television, sex, news, religion, politics...

Everyone's got a way to escape looking inward for guidnace.

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?

WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT?

WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR VALUES, YOUR VISION?

Fear, doubt, confusion, overwhelm, anxiety, stress...

Everyone's got a good excuse not to turn inward for guidance.

Addictions, sins, crimes, mistakes, failures...

Everyone's got good reasons not to trust themselves.

Too old, too inexperienced, too uneducated, too afraid...

Everyone's got a good reason not to take bold action now.

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?

WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT?

WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR VALUES, YOUR VISION?

What would it feel like to turn inward, to the warrior within for guidance?

What would it feel like to know that regardless of all other influences, you are walking your own path, following your heart, honoring your self?

The feeling is HONOR.

Honor is the feeling that guides the warrior... the one who fights for his own cause... his life, his family, his future, his values, his loves.

Honor can be your guide, from moment to moment and day to day.

Honor can have you knowing your path, and lighting the way.

But living by honor in a world that pulls and pushes us in so many different directions requires living as a warrior.

A warrior is someone who stands for and honors his or her values, especially in the face of challenge and conflict.

Our world trains you and conditions you to follow and obey, not to honor your own values.

And whether you ended up obeying or rebelling, you tend not to be walking a path that deeply honors you and your values.

Living life in this world for years and years and years can weaken the warrior within you... and silence his voice... his call to action.

The warrior within is waiting to be awakened.

The warrior within is you.

Your desires, your beliefs, your weaknesses, your habits are not you.

How can you awaken your warrior within?

Where can one go for training as a warrior?

A powerful boot camp for warriors has been designed for this purpose...

For you.

For more information, call 1-800-882-2483. Leave your name and number.

We are not going to sell you this boot camp. It is not for everyone. It may not be for you.

There's a way to find out. Call us and have a conversation.

Today could be the day... you've been waiting for forever.

The day you breathe new life into your inner warrior.

The choice is yours. Click away...? Or pick up the phone?

1-800-882-2483. There is a small window of opportunity to attend the next boot camp.

Seize the day!

Announcing the Grand Opening for the Wealth Warrior Academy on-line!

2004-11-07T20:46:00.000-08:00

January 1, 2005 will mark not only the first day of the new year, but the official grand opening of the Wealth Warrior Academy on-line. To preview it or become a member in advance, go to: http://www.wealthwarrior.org

Becoming A Visionary

2004-11-07T20:32:00.000-08:00

Gandhi, Gates... we look at visionaries and assume there is something inherently different or special about them.

What if it were possible for everyone to become visionaries? What if hundreds and thousands of people became skilled at the art of vision... the kind that gives one the power to move mountains in life? What if people turned within first to be guided by their own values and vision, rather than turning to others for vision?

How would that change the nature of human interaction? How would that change the world?

These sorts of questions have resulted in several exciting new projects, including the Vision Party, the Vision Tour (links coming soon). Perhaps the most exciting project is Vision Force 101.

Vision is being taught like never before at www.visionforce.com inside a program called Vision Force 101. Check it out!

Awakening the Wealth Warriors

2004-07-14T14:35:00.000-07:00

Is anyone doing anything about the fact that our weapon technology is outpacing our ethics technology?

Will we destroy ourselves and each other, or will we mature as human beings in time to save ourselves?

Is there such a thing as ethics technology? What is it?

This ebook has the answers:

http//www.awakening-the-wealth-warriors.com

Enjoy!

Michael Skye

Live Free or Die!

2004-07-12T19:28:00.000-07:00

Tis the motto of the state of New Hampshire, the designated location for the Free State Project.

What is possible when the citizens of a state loosen the chains of the federal government? What is possible when citizens sharply reduce the size and power of government, free the citizens and put the power back in their hands?

These questions shall be answered in the coming years as the Free State Project takes hold in the beautiful state of New Hampshire.

I am a committed member of the Free State Project and encourage all freedom loving people to investigate it.

But... it's not enough to be free from external controls.

If the Free State Project interests you, or if you are a fellow Free Stater, then you won't want to miss the September weekend workshop I am holding in neighboring Portland, Maine.

In the workshop we work on the inner freedom and power that free people need to really be free.

For details and questions, send an email to me at skye@wealthwarrior.com.

Michael

An Idea Whose Time Has Come!

2004-07-10T06:09:00.000-07:00

My upcoming book introduces Honor as a feeling, and as "The Force of Creation." I intend to spark the "Creator Revolution" with this book, and in so doing begin to bring about the "Age of Creation."

Below is an excerpt from a rough draft of my book proposal, which positions my upcoming book as an idea whose time has come. I welcome your thoughts. (Note: references to The Force are references to my book with that as a working title. It may be that my book proposal has no room for the info below, yet I think it speaks volumes for the potential sales volume of this book.)

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The Market for “An Idea Whose Time Has Come”

What is the size of the market for an idea whose time has come?

America was born from such an idea. The best-selling authors of that time sold the idea to the American people, and birthed a nation greater than the world has ever seen. Who can forget the writings of 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence?

These writings were the spark that ignited a powder keg market that was ripe for revolution. 230 years later there is another powder keg market about ready to explode. We are once again on the brink of revolution. This time it’s an inner revolution. The market for inner freedom today rivals the market for political freedom in 1776.

The Age of Enlightenment of the 1700s had set the stage with a new vision of the future, a future of lasting happiness and continual progress through political freedom. This vision was based on the revolutionary idea that man was basically good, and that if man were freed from external controls, he would naturally use reason to act in accordance with his values and achieve happiness.

In 1776 America’s increasing conflicts with Britain created a market for Thomas Paine’s and Adam Smith’s best-sellers, which paved the way for political freedom and peace through revolution.

Today we find ourselves at the dawn of a New Age of Enlightenment. Increasing change is bringing more and more external and internal conflicts. While most of us continue to search for political solutions, more and more people are seeking happiness and progress through inner freedom.

Few today would argue that in order for man to naturally act in his best interest and achieve happiness it is not enough that he be free from external controls. The world is finally ripe for the idea that man must be free from the bonds of his inner conflicts as well. The more he is free from the limits of his inner conflicts, the more he can naturally access Honor, the Force of Creation—and the more he naturally becomes a powerful, conscious creator.

Just as Paine’s, Smith’s and Jefferson’s works inspired and gave courage to the cause of political independence and freedom, Skye’s work inspires and gives courage to the cause of psychological independence and freedom. The effect of Skye’s monumental work on the spirit of the great inner revolution—the “Creator Revolution”—may be immeasurable.

The idea of man as a free creator is an idea whose time has come.

The Secret of Revolutionary Bestsellers

It is no secret that fear and guilt control human behavior. In fact it is easy to see how institutions of each culture and time period build walls of fear and guilt in order to maintain their control and stay in power. Such walls are built with ideas. And such walls are torn down with revolutionary ideas.

Herein lies the secret of revolutionary bestsellers. Such bestsellers blast through the existing walls of fear and guilt and leave a pathway to a promised land.

It was not enough that many people yearned to be free in the late 18th century; most of the world believed that freedom was both dangerous and wrong. So dangerous and so wrong was the idea of freedom and revolution that most people were willing to suffer great injustices, rather than face the fear and guilt that freedom implied.

The walls against the dream of freedom and prosperity for all were massive, seemingly impenetrable walls. Predominant thought in the West during the Dark Ages held that man was a lowly sinner, his desires for things of the world were temptations of the Devil, and money was essentially “the root of all evil.” Living in the shadow of the medieval Church, people in the Dark Ages frowned upon reason, science, progress and wealth. Thus, although the Age of Enlightenment had brought man out of the Dark Ages with a bright dream of life with reason, science and progress; the walls keeping him from the promised land stood strong.

The books of the time that paved clear pathways through these mountainous walls of guilt and fear to the promised land of freedom became overnight bestsellers. Adam Smith’s revolutionary bestseller, Wealth of Nations, for example, freed man’s conscience and his fears about the dangers of freedom and capitalism.

Smith said that a free economy would be guided as if by the Invisible Hand of God.
In his book, Smith passionately extolled the simple yet enlightened idea that individuals are fully capable of setting prices for their goods, and thus guiding themselves to achieve wealth and happiness. His Wealth of Nations revolutionized the way governments and individuals view man and life.

Until new paradigms and ideas about rights, self-government and freedom were powerfully presented; there was no pathway to a revolution for political and economic freedom.

Without the paradigm of god-given natural rights of man, people would have felt too much guilt for acting contrary to the widely accepted Divine Rights of Kings dogma of the day. And without the moral and practical defenses of Capitalism and a principle-based, representative democracy, people would have not had the courage to trust in a new system for political and economic freedom.

The bestsellers of 1776 removed the 2 fundamental roadblocks to the success of the outer revolution. When these two roadblocks were removed, the rest was history. America, “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” went on to become the beacon of progress, freedom and success.

The Competition: Bestsellers Paving The Way for The Creator Revolution

Every trend feeds a counter trend. And while freedom, capitalism and self-governance have essentially become “the way of the world,” there is a rising mountain of opposition to political and economic freedom. More and more people are blaming economic and political freedom for the ills of the world. More and more people are buying into the notion that we as humans are naturally irrational, greedy, self-destructive animals, who need to be controlled. Some say we must control an individual’s economic choices, while others say we must control an individual’s personal life choices. The underlying premise is the same—man is too free and must be controlled.

The author, however, sees the problem not as too much outer freedom, but as a lack of inner freedom. The author sees all men fundamentally as powerful creators. The ills of the world, he contends, will not be solved with more outer controls, but with more inner freedom to naturally create. What is the market for such an idea?

The more the counter trend against outer freedom grows, the more guilt and fear limits people from taking advantage of their outer freedom. Becoming wealthy and financially successful, for example, means being judged by many as a greedy capitalist. Thus, the more the walls against outer freedom grow, the more there is a market for a pathway through the mountains of fear and guilt, a pathway to the promised land of achievement, happiness and success.

In fact, every time there is an original new pathway through the mountains, there is another mega-bestseller. Examples include,
1. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People –real success comes from character, conscience and creating win-win solutions.
2. Robert Allen’s Nothing Down –strategies for real estate wealth where everyone wins and no one loses
3. Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad book series –being wealthy is a choice and the more wealth you have the bigger difference you can make for yourself and others
4. Dr. Eli Goldratt’s business bestsellers, The Goal and It’s Not Luck—Creating win-win solutions in life and business via logic.
5. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged—A fiction novel as an argument that man should live for his own happiness, and those who do are the ones who provide values for mankind and move the world forward.
6. Richard Bach’s novel, Jonathan Livingston Seagull—A compelling story of a seagull who followed his own mind and by doing so was one of the few who advanced and brought happiness to all “seagull-kind.”
7. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra—Presents the notion that there is no separation between inner and outer success.
8. The Road to Wealth by Suze Orman—A tool to uncover and transform your hidden beliefs about money, such as “Money is the root of all evil.”
9. A recent bestseller is Robert Allen’s The One Minute Millionaire, The Enlightened Way to Wealth –Promotes strategies in which everyone wins and wealth is used for good.

These books are synergistically paving the way for the Creator Revolution. Beyond best-selling books, however, evidence of an existing market for pathways to guiltless success is ubiquitous. Major trends in thinking, in life and in business are breaking down the barriers to free creation. Examples include,

1. Network Marketing A business model and a context for living life in which everyone can become wealthy (the determining factor is often said to be one’s level of faith, and one’s level of service to others). This industry is advancing with a religious revival type of fervor.
2. “New Age” Religions or Organizations –An example is Science of Mind, which teaches that there is no scarcity except in our minds, and we can create whatever we want in the world.
3. Modern, “American” Religions –Mormonism holds that we can grow to become gods and create our own worlds.
4. Modern, “American” Philosophies Ayn Rand’s Objectivism provides a non-religious system of ethics for capitalism, freedom and success.
5. Modern “American” Political Parties The Libertarian Party becomes more and more popular as more and more wealth creators feel unjustly limited and controlled by government.

All of these growing trends are building momentum for the coming Creator Revolution by breaking through the guilt barrier that inhibits wealth creation and worldly success.

However, just as there is an undeniable and growing need to deal with the guilt that many feel in creating wealth, there is a need to deal with the fear that many feel in facing and creating the future. As we grow nearer to what seems to be Armageddon via technology, we are also growing nearer to promises of a “heaven on earth” via technology.

A revival of religious fundamentalists and terrorists battling over Holy Lands together with rapidly advancing weapons technology is just one of the clouds that darkens our future. Yet the light through the clouds is coming from countertrends, such as the rise of more progressive and free-thinking people who are using technology to save lives by curing disease, feeding the hungry, creating wealth and resolving international conflicts.

More and more bestsellers are being written, which help people deal with their fear of the future. Such bestsellers include,

1. Sovereign Individual
2. Rich Dad’s Prophecy
3. Toffler’s Trilogy in the 80s, Third Wave, Future Shock and Power Shift
4. Naisbitt’s MegaTrends

As we head into a future of progress and wealth, more and more people are choosing to face it and welcome it, rather than fight it. More and more people are looking for ethical models to free them to go forth in the world and create. The FORCE provides such an ethical model.

The FORCE will complement all of the above-mentioned books by providing an ethical system of self-guidance to support an economic system of free enterprise. The FORCE will provide a context for inner and outer freedom.

In order to glimpse the potential impact The FORCE will have on the world, let’s look at how one concept can change the course of history, and how the history shall be forever changed with The FORCE’s concepts of man as Creator, and the feeling of Honor as a force of creation.
The Secret Power of A Single Concept

While society tends not to accept revolutionary new ideas without either logical proof or an appeal to mystical faith, there are incredible exceptions. It is these exceptions that tend to turn the tide in a revolution.

There is a certain category of concepts that have the power to change the course of history forever. Such concepts do not depend on either logical proof or mystical faith for their power. Their power lies in their lack of a need for proof and faith, and especially in their usefulness.

Just as revolutionary technologies such as the printing press, the automobile and the personal computer have changed the course of history forever due to their usefulness, certain concepts have affected an even larger change due only to their usefulness.

Civilization was born of a new concept, the concept of money. Money as a concept is revolutionary technology, so useful that it has changed the course of history forever. Cultures slow to adopt the concept of money are being left behind and out competed.

America and “the free world” were born of a new concept that, by virtue of its usefulness and simplicity, became “self-evident”—the concept of man’s natural rights. Speaking of the natural, unalienable rights of man in the birthing document of the United States of America, the Founding Fathers declare to the world that, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident.”

To the extent that such revolutionary concepts are not only useful but also understood to be “self-evident,” they become invaluable to the revolution. Such concepts are powerful in that they change the world regardless of logical proof and regardless of faith. Even countries that do no accept, agree or believe in the concepts of individual rights and freedom are being transformed by these concepts; in fact they are being left behind and out competed.

The revolutionary concept of money spawned civilization.

The revolutionary concept of rights spawned America and the free world.

The revolutionary concept of Honor as a feeling and as a force for creation, as introduced in The Force, will begin to spawn the author’s vision—a future of free creators. The concept of Honor as a feeling is 1) so useful for creating wealth and achieving success regardless of fear and guilt, and 2) so easily self-evident, that it will spread on its own like a virus and transform the world we live in—whether or not people accept it scientifically or mystically as “truth.”

Just as the concept of money generated a flood of technologies for wealth creation such as compound interest rates, mutual funds, ATMs, credit cards, etc., the concept of Honor as a feeling will generate a flood of technologies for creation. Several such technologies and tools which produce powerful results previously unattainable, inaccessible or unexplainable are presented in The FORCE.

How the Author’s Concept Will Launch the Creator Revolution

Many authors, while introducing potentially revolutionary concepts, make the mistake of arguing or proving the truth of their concept with evidence or arguments from the past. Thus, their new concept becomes just another position, just another argument in an old conversation. These authors fail to employ strategies that could change the underlying fabric of our conversation, namely by showing the concept’s usefulness and self-evident nature. Instead, they present their concept in a way that implies that the concept’s validity is dependent on the logic or emotional appeal of the author’s explanation. A major problem with this approach is that most people, when introduced to a new concept, look for flaws or inconsistencies by comparing it to existing knowledge or explanations.

There are several little understood methods for introducing revolutionary concepts in a way that has them naturally become a fundamental part of the conversation for revolution. One such approach that can be much more effective is to present the new concept as technology—as a tool. Show how the concept works in the world, and show the world in a new light, as colored by the new concept. This is one of the methods employed by the author in The FORCE.

The author is not concerned with arguing or proving the “truth” of his concept, nor is he concerned with “converting non-believers.” Rather, the author employs the method of showing the power, usability and validity of his two revolutionary concepts,

1) Humans as Creators (in a very practical sense, yet far beyond how we see ourselves today), and
2) Honor as a feeling and force of creation.

Like new technology, Honor is presented to the public as an appeal to RESULTS. As if to say,

Here is what this technology does. And you need not believe any particular theory as to why it works. You can use it to achieve what you want in life, and even if you don’t others will… and perhaps they’ll out-compete you, just as governments based on the concept of rights are out-competing communist governments and dictatorships.

“You can’t argue with success,” and you can’t argue with results. The concepts of man as creator, and Honor as a feeling, will create undeniable results for those who read The FORCE of Creation—results that “non-believers” will not be able to deny.

Responsible Citizens Don't Vote!

2004-07-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

Say what?

Responsible citizens actively take full responsiblity for creating their lives, their communities and the world around them.

Voting can be a responsible action, but for far too many of us, voting is a way to escape responsibility. Too often we feel that because we vote and pay our taxes, we have done our part. What have we really done?

By voting, have we created any real value? Or have we simply gotten ourselves off the hook from our responsibility to create real value for ourselves?

We engage in lively debates with friends, we donate money to political campaigns and maybe we even take action to influence the vote. Meanwhile, we could have been taking action to create real value in our lives and communities.

Rather than getting all whirled up in a political frenzy, watching the latest political news as if it were a sporting event, we could have been "on the field," playing--creating, making a difference!

Rather than lobbying for a new tax law that gives us a personal advantage of one sort or another, we could have been building businesses or organizations which create wealth, jobs and opportunities.

Rather than complaining about the president's health care policies, we could have been at the gym working out and building our health.

Rather than listening to the debates, we could have been creating inspiring art, teaching values to our youth or educating others in a way that empowers them to be creators.

Is there anything wrong with voting?

Voting can be a responsible action, but for most of us, the whole political process and all the time we spend engaged in it, tends to take the focus off ourselves as creators. Instead, we are focused on what some government official is going to do for us.

By voting, we are reinforcing a system that destroys more values than it creates, a system based on compromise, rather than creation (more on this in a future blog).

We have reinforced a system designed to promote IRRESPONSIBILITY. That's right, the system we live in promotes irresponsibility. How?

Our system encourages us to look to government, to others outside of ourselves, for the answers to our problems. And what it means to be responsible in our present system is to follow the system. In other words, it is "responsible" to follow and obey the answers of people outside of ourselves, because they are the system controllers--they were elected by a majority of voters.

Responsibility, in my eyes, means I am the creator of my life, I am the solver of my problems--not some person or group of people outside of myself. The more we believe that "responsible" means obedience to the whim of the majority, the more irresponsible we become.

From an early age, most of us in today's world were taught obedience as a higher value than integrity. Obedience is following someone else and his/her values. Integrity is following one's own mind, conscience and values.

Should you vote? Sure, vote. But as you find yourself getting wrapped up in all the election drama and the whole game of who's right and who's wrong, and who will lead us best...

Remember this...

Like Neo in The Matrix, YOU are THE One. You are the Creator of your life.

Real change will come, not from the government, but from individuals who assume full responsibility for creating their lives, their future, their world. Vote for yourself as a Creator.

Responsible citizens, create first. Voting and participating in the election game in a system that promotes irresponsibility is something that truly responsible citizens often make little time for.

What is Responsible Voting?

I would suggest that rather than voting for Me (what can this politician do for me?), vote for I (what freedom to create for myself and the world will this politician return to me and to other individuals?).

We are approaching the dawn of a new age... the Age of Creation, where human beings recognize their natural power to create for themselves, where we as individuals take complete responsibility for our lives.

Care to begin to "feel" the future I speak of? Here are 2 poems I wrote, Dawn of My Day and Dawn of Our Day.