Look at nature. We see the life-cycle of many things around us, yet often don’t realize that we are part of this cycle, living a cycle of our own. We dwell too much on the beginning and end of things, which often boils down to our fear or disappointment of having "all this end" some time, or even "When will this end?".

It doesn’t end folks, it doesn’t begin, it just goes round and round. I would like to talk about an aspect of the loop we exist in and how it is there for us to liberate or imprison ourselves in our lives. It’s our choice.

A common obstacle to doing something you want to do is the fear of what others will think. For some reason it is difficult for many people to admit to their friends that they want to inspire people or do something that will impact the world around them. This is tragic. We are all actually here to do that because there is one simple word that joins all the dots of life and clears the fog of "What’s it all for?".

Purpose

Purpose is the very thing that separates a mundane life from a fulfilling one and something which is constantly evolving. It is very rare that we all have one purpose that lasts a lifetime. Purpose comes and goes, but is the very foundation on which our happiness can be built on in any given moment.

So, with regard to wanting to contribute to others. There is a potential fear of standing out, that maybe one or more of our own flaws may be exposed in doing so and the all-too-often remark made by people that "He’s not interested in helping others, just making a buck" or "She only helps others to feel good about herself".

I’ve got a response to comments like that. "Shut up and find a purpose!". Yes I used to have those kinds of thoughts about people who were successful and contributed their time and or money to helping others. I would sometimes cynically mention that they were just exercising some good PR to grow their self image and therefore bank balance, but I think on the whole that is incorrect.

The result is what’s important. Also this:
If you want to help people because it makes you feel good then that is actually a good enough reason to do so. The holy grail of life in my opinion is to be happy. Is that fair to say? Nothing else is of much use if we don’t feel happy enough to appreciate, value and enjoy it.

So by helping people in your own way and making yourself feel good, you are flowing with the loop, you are dancing in time with the music of life and therefore fulfilling a purpose. Do you know one of the end results of fulfilling a useful purpose to the world around you? It is being taken care of, which at the point our world has evolved is usually in the form of being able to pay our bills and sustain ourselves financially.

This is the main reason I left the office in the first place. Yes I wanted to seek my fortune, become financially independent and live the life of my dreams, but if you have a dream for your life, it had better have some clarity about the purpose you have living it, or it won’t actually be much of a life, let alone sustainable.

This is not about being a "Do gooder", but it is about doing right by yourself, which means being true to who you are, which you can only be if you know "who" you are. My idea of purpose is changing all the time as I get to know myself more and since I left the office my dream and my intentions have changed, or rather they have evolved. I still want to do many of the things I set out to do. Some of them I have achieved, but I am aware that they will only ever be achieved with purpose behind them.

So what of this loop? Well let’s say you have a purpose to inspire people (I feel this is a purpose of mine. It is certainly an intention). You wish to inspire somebody by being yourself, maybe you write a book, write a song or simply help others see how they can improve their own life. You succeed in doing so and this makes you feel good. In fact it does more than that, it feeds you with energy, which makes you feel alive and incredible. This in turn inspires you to create an even more powerful expression with which you can inspire others and the result is that you inspire more people and so it goes.

If you help others in order to feel better yourself then you are actually building on your ability and effectiveness to help others even more, so anyone that says it is wrong to help others out of a desire to help yourself is wrong. They are simply assuming that your desire is to make money from appearing to help others. You can’t do that, at least not for long. People see through that S***T, even if it seems to go on for a long time.

I always go back to someone like Bill Gates because he always seems to be on the receiving end of criticism. No surprise, look at how many know who he is. Microsoft transformed the world and made it a much easier place to do business, make money, turn new ideas into reality and communicate with loved ones around the world, relatively cheaply. It has transformed the world. The result is that Microsoft made loads of money. Now I am the first to curse Windows for hogging too much memory and crashing at inopportune moments, but the point is that whether Bill Gates started Microsoft to become rich or because he wanted to do something good is irrelevant. Look at the result and I’m not even talking about his philanthropic work.

Making money helping people is perfectly OK as long as you are actually helping people. If you receive feedback that suggests what people are paying you for is not helping them then it is time to refine your purpose or how you implement your purpose.

What all of this boils down to is that leaving the office is not an answer to life’s problems. If you simply want to stop putting money in your bosses pocket and live life on you own terms, that is great, but make sure you know why you want to do that because it needs to serve a purpose, not only to work for you, but to make life fun.

• March 28, 2009 — The Boundless Living Challenge 2009
• March 19, 2009 — Power of Letting Go: How to Manifest an Elephant

So back to this article – linked here for you to agree or disagree with. It appears that research has concluded that ’self help’ can actually be bad for you because people with low self esteem feel worse after making positive affirmations to themselves.

Hey sorry folks with low self esteem.
It seems the experts have spoken.
You can’t be happy and your life won’t get better!

That is the problem with fixed viewpoints. They contain too many assumptions, which are narrow-minded and hold back our progress. The assumption in this case is that people with low self esteem are beyond helping themselves.

Think about it. First of all, those who try any self development technique with the attitude that they are broken and need fixing are not going to get results very quickly and in fact may feel worse in the beginning, but that’s got nothing to do with the ’self help’ techniques: As described here. That has everything to do with their attitude. Any process of change, growth or improvement has to get messy and painful before it gets better.

Just think at how everyone of us came into this world. It wasn’t pretty! (but it is beautiful of course).

The fact is that it takes more than trying to affirm positive statements to yourself for a few days to change your life. In fact it takes longer than most people have the stamina for because you have to maintain the discipline to change your view of life and your view of yourself. You have to force yourself to think about things in a more desirable way before those thoughts become habits and that can take a while, by which time most people have given up. Some might even be heard saying "Well that didn’t work it just made me feel worse", so the way I see that article, all it did was conclude that we are stuck with our situation and if our situation is a poor one, then bad news, there’s no point trying to do anything about it.

I do have an issue with much of the media though. I don’t read the newspapers or watch the news. It’s mostly full of what certain groups of people want you to see and is rarely the whole truth, but I’m glad I saw this article because these days I am very clear about wanting to inspire people to find improvement in their life and I try and expose to people as much information as I can that will allow them the awareness that they have a choice.

In a nutshell, I don’t listen to any so-called experts. Not for long anyway. The best teachers in my mind are the ones who openly admit they are still learning and who are not above learning from their students either because teaching is a 2-way street, not dictation. Sounds like inspiration for another article!

The icing on the cake of that BBC article for me was this statement:

"A UK psychologist said people based their feelings about themselves on real evidence from their lives".

Did you get a degree to come up with that? Of course they do, it’s how most of us are conditioned since birth, which means that people have been creating a habit of whatever their attitude is for years. Try changing the root cause of the way you feel and then see what happens in the future.

I’d like to make a suggestion to the psychologists. Take a step out of your own boundaries and text books and conduct some research starting now with people who apply techniques to change the way they think and feel about themselves, whether they have low self esteem or not, then after several years, publish the results. You might learn something.

SELF HELP is just that. There is nothing in this universe that can "Self Help" you. In case anyone’s forgotten, "yourself" is you… or rather the character you have built over years in your own story of life.

There is always the option to change the story and actually some sequels are even better than the first story too!

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I can be quite a procrastinator and a very clever one too. It used to take me months or years to notice that I was putting something off or getting distracted, it really was that chronic. My intricate schemes to procrastinate without me noticing are still there and are in fact getting more sophisticated, but I notice it more every day and even if I don’t succeed in overcoming it I at least accept it and don’t beat myself, anyone or anything else up about it.

More recently though I have come to the conclusion that I have all the information I need to create the most incredibly successful life. Even better than the one I have desired for years. I am at a very interesting point right now too and frankly, it is a bit scary. Hopefully what I write in this article will help anyone else who is in a similar position or who is worrying about their current life situation in any way. I believe that at times when I feel a bit helpless or powerless that the real truth could be that I am in the perfect position to exercise great power by leaving my worries alone and helping others to dispel their own, so here goes.

Not that it has anything to do with this article, but whenever I ask the question "What is it that you want to do" I think of the song "Loaded" by Primal Scream, which begins with those words. In fact it has a lot to do with this article come to think of it because I just realized that thinking of that song, which is nearly 20 years old now (Wow is it that long already?) I am taken back to certain feelings of what my life was like back then. I have some really great memories of the years that I was listening to that song and others of the time – the early Nineties. Funnily enough in the UK at the time we were experiencing a recession then too and music was a big healer for me and, it seemed everybody due to the fact that some of the best music I had heard for years was coming out around that time from the end of the 80’s.

Well what is so powerful about music, like "Loaded" is that over time my mind had made an association with that song and a particular feeling and music has this power. Other senses do too like smell and images obviously, but being a musical sort and very sensitive to things of a sonic nature, music is involved in some very strong associations made by my mind to how I was feeling at the time and in some cases, reminds me of people from the time too.

So as I asked the question "What is it that you want to do?", which always gets me focused I hit upon the significance of this realization and found the missing piece to a puzzle I have been trying to solve for a while now. How can I channel my musical passions and talents in a direction that will keep me interested, inspired and constantly creative, whilst inspiring other people and keeping them interested. I have felt for a quite a while that simply trying to sell CDs or MP3s, trying to get on internet radio, getting the most hits on Myspace and all the other social networks, "Going viral" and being picked up on the front pages of various traffic-heavy web pages, just like everyone else didn’t really inspire me very much. I wanted to know how I could actually make a difference, not just by trying to entertain people with my music, but actually having it serve a useful purpose and be entertaining in its own right too.

With the marriage of LTO and BAH I think I have found the answer and if not I am pretty close to it. This is what is currently behind my work and it has given me such a boost in my levels of love for what I am doing that I am even starting to surprise myself with the insight and the ideas I am now putting down on paper. The premise of what I am doing on my current project is based on the approach to living life by design, encompassing the power of associations made by the mind between music, feelings and emotions.

So I am excited. Not only am I pleased with what I am writing musically, but I am also pleased with what I am writing literally and I cannot wait to see what other people think of it and what I love about it is that I am not making "Meditation music" or "New-Age music". I am making accessible music: Rock, Pop, Country, folk and contemporary music. This means that it will stand by itself simply as good music; Well not for everyone, but that goes for anything anyway doesn’t it?

So just ask yourself the question every day. "What is it that you want to do?" and be prepared for a revelation!

What is it that you want to do? Share it here and give it some power, even if you don’t know how you will achieve it yet.

You still have until 31st May 2009 to sign up to The Leave the Office mailing list to get a free copy of my forthcoming book/music package, based on what I have described in this article. It should be released in June and I am very excited about it.

I would love to hear your feedback too.

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Do Only What You Love. Is This Just Possible?
I’m going to be really imaginative now and write an article about the current economic crisis! Wow, what can be said that hasn’t been said already? Well actually I don’t know if what I’ve got to say has been said already or not. Probably most of it has, but I still want to get something across that I thought about today, which is something I think is crucial to consider for our future from this moment onwards.

I am feeling particularly good. My wife is pregnant, it is our first child and we discovered today at the hospital checkup that there is already a tiny little heart beating, which just blew my mind. I’ve not really given child development any conscious thought before, but that really does impress me that after just 11 weeks, there is a heart already pumping away, full of life and gusto, just itching to experience the life it chose to come here for…

And that was what got me thinking and excited for the rest of the day. You see, as I continue on my journey ever creating the life of my dreams, facing personal obstacles, overcoming them, becoming conscious of limiting beliefs I never knew I had and breaking them down, my wife is always very supportive and often says to me that I have her power to rely on whenever I need any. That’s a lovely sentiment I think and I can’t think of a better way to express support for somebody. Well since we have another little being in our household, my wife often reminds me that our little baby is here to share his or her power with us to help us fulfil all of our dreams. Again a lovely sentiment, another reason I love being married to somebody from a totally different culture to my own.

So eventually I start to get to the point of this article. Thank you for staying with me on this one…

The Point of This Article!
Let us say that when a baby is developing it knows what it is here for and when it is born into the physical world that knowledge fades and the rest of its life as a human being is for it to rediscover its personal expression of life, its own particular strength, uniqueness and contribution. Its value. It’s what we’re all here for, to deliver the value of whatever natural, unique expression we were gifted with.

But what happens often, not always, but often is that we find ourselves steered onto a path that is not best suited to what we are naturally gifted with. More often than not we are conditioned into following a path that is considered to be the most safe, sensible and secure, which is nothing more than a perpetuation of the last generation’s experience, determined by the generation before that. What shapes our future much of the time is our past or more importantly the past of our parents, school teachers and other influences on us as we grew up. Of course this is all done with the best of intentions behind it, but it was all based on an illusion.

Think about this:

"You must focus on following this proven model of life, which includes a job you don’t like, a belief in a reality that is only a reality because of the amount of perpetual belief in it in the past, a reality that states ‘Life is hard, dreams don’t come true, so you have to settle for the best you can get’ which if all turns out well, you will reap the benefits of life in the form of a retirement and a pension that will cover your costs and pay your bills, maybe allow you a few nice vacations and maybe, at last, a new car before you die".

Now if it was worded like that then do you think it would be a convincing argument to go that route?

The fact is – and it was always fact before the current downturn in the world economy that having a salaried job is not guaranteed as being more secure than creating your own income. As soon as you are made redundant your income stops and you have to start all over again. At least if your business suffers setbacks, you can rethink your approach or even diversify and see an improvement far quicker than having a single source of income cut off and you having to find a new one, at least as good to replace it. Pensions are a gamble nowadays. You pay an organization your money for your whole working life, so they can play with it and enjoy it. If it is worth anything when you retire, you will be able to live off that money. If it’s not worth anything then sorry and good luck! There is no predictability in any economy, therefore there is no more risk living life one way than there is any other, at least financially speaking, which has become the benchmark of whether something is worthwhile or not.

Be Grateful For This Economic Meltdown
All of these facts are becoming more easy to see now for more people. The collapse in the economy in that respect is a very good thing. It is an opportunity for awakening. It could just be possible that we as parents will, because of the realization that all paths in life have unpredictable elements that we do not so easily fall into the trap of discouraging our children from pursuing the things they love to do because "There’s no money or security in it". Instead it will be far more natural to embrace our children’s uniqueness and talents and help them grow it in such a way that they grow the belief in themselves to know that is their path in life and create their own careers based on what they do best, without having to fight between what is in their heart and what is in their head.

Let’s be attentive to our children, encourage them and plant the seeds of belief in their head, so there is no conflict. In fact if we allow that then I believe we will become more aware of what it is that we love to do in our hearts and will gain the courage to follow it with a new belief in what is possible for our own lives. The other bonus is that your kids will not even think to blame you for their own "Messed up lives" because they will be far more certain and empowered creating the lives they desire.

I’ve said it before You Are Success. It doesn’t depend on the economy or outside forces, even when you were young taking on the beliefs of your parents, it wasn’t them planting the seeds in your head, it was you making a decision about what they meant after you interpreted it a certain way..

So to conclude I believe this current recession, depression or whatever else people are sensationally calling it, is most likely the exact thing this world needs because if there has been a recession in anything in the past it has been in awareness. It’s time to wake up. Our life purpose is to write our own life story, not to take out pensions, so we can afford to pay our health care bills for the final chapter in a story that we just found ourselves playing a bit-part in.

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So I will be putting up a page to gather feedback, although I will still be writing it anyway and perhaps fine-tuning or editing it depending on what feedback I receive.

Briefly then let be describe the nature of what I am creating. Being a passionate songwriter and recording artist with an album for sale no less (hint hint!) I have started to think that just trying to sell MP3s or CDs from my website is not very imaginative. I mean, everyone’s doing that aren’t they? Well seeing as I have other interests like writing about the stuff I do here and on my other websites I thought I’d put it all together and fulfil an intention that I have had in one form or another for the last 6 years or so, but never felt I had really achieved. Call it a life purpose if you will!

What is my intention? I have a Desire to Inspire! The feelings I get imagining my work having the effect of inspiring people to motivate themselves in creating their dream life by design are just great. The way thinking about that makes me feel is enough to make me certain that is what I should be devoting my time to. I love creating music because it is my best expression of who I am, my most profound voice and just engaging in it makes me feel better. In fact just last night I had a really bad headache, which I eliminated in less than an hour by simply picking up my guitar and singing a few songs. Now there is a demonstration of how good for you doing what you love is!

I came up with an idea for a product integrating my music and writing that is so big I am going to need some expert assistance and it will most likely have to be a joint venture to give it the push it will need to be successful, so I decided to start out by myself by creating a book and music packaged together. The music and the content of the book being related in subject matter. The book will be there to get you inspired and the music is a reminder of the message in the book every time you listen to it. I also decided that as far as the book goes, concise and to the point is good, so it won’t be a big, long read. In fact I may even try and calibrate it so that it can be read in the time it takes to play the music from beginning to end.

So before I unleash this product to the world I would like to find out what, if anything people are interested in reading. I have a pretty good idea of what I will be writing about, but the specific focus of the book is where feedback will help me because there will most likely be more of them all on specifics and over time this will all develop into my big "Life’s Work" type project.

Please look out for the page, which will be created in the next day or so (once I have had some sleep) and I would be very grateful for your feedback. For now, comments here are very welcome and once I have set out the feedback page properly I will be making a special offer to anyone who signs up to my mailing list and leaves me some feedback.

Everyone who does so by midnight, that’s 00:00 on 14th April will get the package free with another very special bonus!

So comments please and don’t forget to sign up to that mailing list and reserve your free inspiring package!

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Is there something you want to achieve? Maybe its a desire to play a musical instrument, start a new business, improve your relationships or increase your income. It may just be that you want to feel more connected with life. Whatever it is, here is a great opportunity to get started right now with a whole group of people all wanted to achieve something themselves.

Isn’t it fair to say that all the while you are trying to achieve something, especially if it is important to you or a big goal that you could use some encouragement, support and just have a community of people who all understand exactly what you’re going through because they are engaging in something just as big for themselves?

Well you can have all of that because Bob Doyle is taking registrations for this year’s Boundless Living Challenge: 45 days of engaging with the accomplishment of your chosen goal with a whole social network of other people all on your side and all full of encouragement and support. It is a great community and last years challenge was a huge success and breakthrough for many people.

The challenge is shaping up to be even bigger this year and is the perfect opportunity to set out a system for yourself to actually accomplish that goal that you may have set in the new year only to lose momentum with. If you have been looking for a way to stay focused and enthusiastic about your goal then this could be just the challenge you need. It is a safe environment, although challenging and will provide a whole wealth of inspiration form others who are on their own path and from those who have set a new goal for their challenge after being super-successful last year. Those people will be great to get to know as they will have first hand experience and will be full of great advice and support.

Oh did I mention. This is a totally FREE program. There is absolutely no charge to participate fully with The Boundless Living Challenge, so what is there to lose? Bob Doyle intends to reach 15,000 participants in this year’s challenge, so out of my respect for his work I want to help him reach that target by recommending that you participate.

Good Luck!

• July 11, 2009 — Life is a Loop. Are You Living with Purpose?

Well I have nothing against this, but it has reminded me of something that I went through a while back when I first started to purposefully and consciously take steps towards the life I wanted and what I went through was information overload. I tried to soak up so much information and didn’t want to miss out on what could be the best program, course or book that I bought so many I couldn’t really apply enough of my attention on all of them. I’ll be honest and say that there are still a number of books I paid for that I have not yet read after a year or two.

Lessons Learned
I learned a great lesson from this and I want to pass on what I learned with the intention of helping anyone else who has the desire to improve their life situation. It could save you some time and money!

First of all I want to explain my position. I myself recommend different products of a "self improvement" nature, so I am not complaining about those who are sending me emails recommending such things, as I do. However it highlights something to me that I feel is important because there is only so much information that one can assimilate effectively.

Have you purchased a self improvement program, Law of attraction course or Ebook in the last month? If you have, my recommendation to you is to focus on that until you have integrated the lessons contained in it. After all you are aware this is an investment in your life aren’t you, seeing as you paid money for it. Make sure you get your money’s worth!

There are other programs that may have a different slant on the same thing that may even do a better job of helping you integrate their teachings, depending on your preferred teaching and presentation style, but look; These things cost a lot of money and if you want to get your money’s worth then stick with one at a time. If you buy a course, program or membership with a teacher or facilitator then ignore any follow up emails from them about somebody else’s program that they also recommend. Don’t get distracted or lured into the doubting voice that says that maybe the program you have just bought is not quite enough by itself. It will be if you stay focused and apply what you learn.

There are currently about half a dozen programs that I am really interested in getting, mostly for research purposes so I can write honest reviews of them from experience, but even from a research point of view there needs to be focus and I am studying already. I also have a policy of only spending money on such things that I receive from my writing, so I need to make more of that before I invest any more!

Maintaining Focus is Key
Its common sense really. If you have a load of books all waiting to be read then your focus on one will not be as strong all the while you are itching to get to the next one. Why would you be so eager to move onto the next one? Well maybe because you paid good money for it and want to get on and start getting what you paid for. I am saying this from experience. I only ever benefited from any of these programs when I focused on one specific one for a period of time without the distraction of thinking about any other method or program, instead of trying to go through them all concurrently.

So that’s my view on it. Why would somebody (like I did) buy one product before finishing the last one? Well the main reason is that very clever marketing technique of scarcity. "Act now before the price goes back up", "Don’t miss this one time offer, only until midnight tonight", "There are only 1,000 copies of this course, so make sure you don’t miss out"

You know what. I have learned that if I am fully engaged with a program at the time of receiving one of those offers then it is just not the right time for me to take that offer, unless I am totally happy to spend my money and leave it sitting on my shelf for the next couple of months, by which time I may have missed the "Money back guarantee" period by the way!

What most of these self improvement programs , especially law of attraction based ones teach you is to work on becoming more connected to your intuition, something I think is essential and valid. I believe I have become much more connected with my intuition since starting this kind of study and direction in life. This has given me the confidence to trust that I am not going to miss out on that crucial piece of information that will change everything in my life if I don’t "BUY IT NOW" and if I never have a chance to study it then, hey that’s just not what I need.

Only When You Are Ready
It is said that you get what you need when you are ready for it and if you miss one opportunity, you will be presented again and again with another until you are ready enough to see it and act on it, which to my understanding means that if you are fully engaged and enjoying the process of " product A" right now then you do not need the distraction of "product B". This is the reason why programs fail for many people because they never get to fully complete the one they were doing when the next one showed up.

In short you have to trust yourself from the inside and be strong. You don’t need to buy lots of different programs. If you do your research before hand and find one which you feel is most in line with the way you like to study and learn then go with it. You may find it is the only program you will ever need.

I hope my lesson in information overload has helped you because I sincerely want you to start living your dream as soon as possible and I don’t want to see you stalled by doing program after program, waiting to be "Ready enough" to change your life. It slowed me down, so the positive learning I can take from that is to pass on the lesson and forewarn you.

Choose wisely and stay on top of the information available to you. You will grow much quicker because the truth is, what the many programs and products out there are doing is awakening you to resources, knowledge, strength, power, energy and ability you already have inside you just ready and waiting to be accessed. All of the programs I have used have essentially pointed to the same thing and the only thing that really made the difference for me was me, once I had got it deeper than just my mind. With the discipline to stick with one process and not get sidetracked I believe that you can accomplish whatever it is that you want when embarking on a self-development program because the only one who really knows how to change your life is you.

What’s your experience of information overload? I’d love to hear your comments and what you learned from the experience.

Letting Go is Not Giving Up
One of the most frustratingly difficult things to get your head around is the principle of letting go of attachment. Letting go is often misinterpreted as "Going with the flow" when in fact going with the flow is actually akin to resignation and giving up in my opinion, whilst trying and doing without any inspiration is just pushing your intention further away. Rather than going with the flow it is more a case of being the flow. Confused? Frustrated? "SO WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THEN!"

Yes I understand the frustration. Before I continue with this article I would like to share a story that one of my readers sent me in an email the other day which I think helps explain what letting go actually refers to and I found the account she told me to be very inspiring and enlightening in the ways of detachment to how things you want to happen, bringing your intentions closer with tremendous force.

And From Nowhere, an Elephant!
Here is the account, as it was written in the email I received:

‘I’m really making loa [Law of Attraction] a part of my life and I was telling a skeptical friend about it on a journey last week. She said "okay then manifest an elephant if it’s so good" I said that I wouldn’t really believe an elephant would appear so it therefore wouldn’t work. However feeling ridiculed and down-hearted about it I asked that I would see an elephant on the journey…..Well within 5 minutes we spied a lorry in a lay by with a huge pink elephant painted on the side! I was blown away and so was my friend.’

This is a very simple example demonstrating what can happen when you have an intention and you trust that it will manifest. By having no attachment to how it will come about you are keeping open all possible channels for the realization of your intention. If for example you were focused on your goal being achieved in a certain manner, all your actions will be placed on the dependence of one possible outcome, which greatly restricts the universe to deliver your intention in the most effective way – Case in point, the above account did not stress that the outcome must be a real, live elephant, so there already is the openness to the outcome by expected or unexpected means. Oh and by the universe I mean You. Your awareness and connection; your subconscious that never sleeps and continues to carry out your orders to it – Forever at your service, responding in exact accordance with what you give it to work on.

Get Out Of The Way
In truth I do not know exactly how this all works, but that’s ok because I think if I were to rationalize it I would just be getting in the way of the process. I used to spend great energy trying to get my head around all this stuff and the more I thought I knew intellectually, the more I just confused myself and created doubt about whether I doing things the right way or not, which is a clever trick of the conscious mind to get you back into the habit of attachment and interfering with the process.

There is nothing to say you won’t be successful in the above example, but it could take so long that you may have given up before it is realized. If you wanted to be a millionaire, but believed the only way you could achieve it was by playing the lottery and just spent all your time buying lotto tickets and dreaming about winning the lottery then think of all the other possible opportunities you could have not even noticed that would have given you the chance to become a millionaire. You could eventually win the lottery at the age of 99 after buying a ticket every week for your whole life and then die the next day after having achieved your goal. What was the goal, winning the lottery or experiencing all the things that the money you won could help you experience? Go create your millions, don’t wait for lady luck to give it to you.

The whole energy of attachment is like hope. Hope is a word viewed as a positive for most people, but it is really a way of suspending your creativity and activity, handing the responsibility for the creation of your life over to people and circumstances out of your control and I believe that relying on hope actually keeps you standing still because hope is not a strategy or a plan and it certainly doesn’t contain any intent.

To reference another article at The Neural Recon Report "You Are Success", once you know yourself and by that I mean know what you want, what it is that naturally makes you the flow then you don’t need attachment to how things will happen because every waking moment you are doing "your thang" you will be feeling what it is to have achieved your goal anyway, negating the need to wish it here sooner, in a certain manner or holding it forever in the future and hey presto, before you can say "Manifest me an elephant" you will see the manifestation of your intention in stark reality because it is always created in you first, right now before it appears in your physical reality.

Sound like nonsense? Stop trying to be rational. Do you really think that us humans know everything about our universe? If so we might as well stop everything right now then!

Lose Your Head, but Don’t Lose Heart
All the while you try to get this with your head, you are slowing it all down. It really is about trust and faith – faith in your own ability to create your life (I’m not talking about religion) – Because once you know yourself, know that you have everything you require to make it all happen, by LETTING GO then there is no choice but to trust the process. You don’t even need to question the validity of what you are doing. By looking inside yourself and finding the fire there is all the energy you need to do what it takes, to know what to do and when to do it; what to learn, who you are and that it is not going to happen, but is happening all the time. You will be able to achieve any goal you desire with this method because you will be starting from the only point that will guarantee success: What is a desire in your heart and not your head.

I agree that it would be so much easier to have faith in this process once you have a very real experience of a success that shows you in certain terms the unfolding. You’ve probably had an experience like that, whether it was big or small, but you felt a great achievement although it felt like you did nothing. That’s the process and it is available for you to create at all times.

And what if this is all wrong and none of this means anything? Well I can tell you that whatever the reality of this universe and how ever things really work I know that living a life of suffering is a crap deal and all the while we hold onto certain beliefs, wanting to be right, even if being wrong provides a chance to be happier, holding onto how things must happen in our lives for us to be happy etc. then we are creating our own suffering and I choose to live in a manner that creates joy and fulfillment, so even if I reach my last day on Earth without having made my millions I will know that I lived the life of a rich man because I felt the feelings of living an enriched and fulfilled life.

How did I do that? By following my heart, my dreams and doing what I love for as much of the time as I could. I only wish I’d started living like that sooner, but hey I’m doing it now and it works for me. I recommend it!

I would love to hear other inspiring stories about success when letting go of the attachment to the outcome. In fact leave a comment and I’ll create an article based on the accounts you give me and I’ll credit you with a link to your homepage (if you have one)

• July 11, 2009 — Life is a Loop. Are You Living with Purpose?

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• February 5, 2009 — Wealth Beyond Reason 2.0

So far I have faced a few obstacles to moving on this. Namely, procrastination, indecision, distraction and confusion about what I should be focusing on as a priority project (yet more forms of procrastination I suppose).

Recently I have had an interesting idea that I think could fulfill my desire to inspire and integrate my writing and music creation all in one offering. I see it as a unique way to package my creative output, all in one product. It’s quite a big deal because it will require me to step out of my comfort zone, which is a sign that it is a worthwhile project to undertake. It will also require me to move further into an area of authority and accountability, which I suppose is how I will be out of my comfort zone.

It is time I connected my music creating with my writing whole-heartedly as I do tend to say similar things with my songs as I do with my articles. My Weekly Songcast Blog/podcast has been going over a year and to be honest, by now I was expecting it to be more popular than it is. This is a sign for me that I need to focus it in a specific direction. It has become apparent to me that my music has not found its ideal listener yet. The natural direction seems to be in line with what I write about in The Leave The Office Network.

So what is my audience? Well I leave that question to you in the hope that you can provide me with some vital information. Are Leave The Office readers interested in music of an inspiring nature? I’m talking really good music that rocks, has soul, has meaning and would stand alone simply as good music, regardless of the message.

I’m starting to think that selling albums is a bit boring. There’s not much excitement in a music download really is there? Buying a record from a store and waiting until you got home to play it was exciting. Even buying a CD online and having it arrive in the post is more exciting than downloading a track from iTunes. There’s no anticipation. Of course I have no objection to people buying my music from iTunes, but I want to feel like I am providing something a bit more unique and fitting with what I want to fulfil, which is as I have said The Desire to Inspire!

The way making music makes me feel is the the feeling I want to pass on to those who listen to it. For me there has to be a purpose to my music, something more than simply playing a song for the sake of you listening to me. In fact, since letting go of the desire to be a famous rock star, I believe my music has improved immensely, I have become far more prolific and I enjoy creating it more as it feels more authentic. Seeing as I have continued to make music and never given up on it and seeing as I have written about 100 songs in a year I take that as a sign that I am certainly following the right path. Now I must discover the way in which it will sustain me, so I am able to continue fulfilling my purpose with music and words.

So I have an idea that will not only excite the anticipation, but also provide something more: An experience and if my intentions are realized, will also provide the listener with a chance for personal growth and increased self-awareness throughout that experience. What kind of person looks for that when listening to music? I think the answer to that question would make all the difference to me as I would have a target to aim at.

Survey
I will compile a survey in the near future to see if I can get some idea if there is a market for what I want to produce, but in the meantime feel free to comment on what you feel would inject some excitement back into experiencing recorded music and even if it would be of interest to you to come included with a whole lot more, which would put you on a transformational path. Who knows if this is the idea that I have been looking for. I suppose that will be reflected in what I discover people want.

At your service.

The Boy at Heart

• January 17, 2008 — Been Writing…