3rd to 5th February 2012

Know the Secrets of Powerful Men

In early February I will be guiding a select group of men on a journey like no other. They will be actively challenged to claim their authentic self. Furthermore they will come away from this weekend with a challenge to take what they have uncovered within themselves and make a difference in the world.

To talk to someone about what the Awakening Man Weekend could do for you click here now.

Women and the World respond to a man who:

• Knows who he is and where he is going.
• Is willing to fail and get right back to his purpose.
• Is decisive, bold and action oriented.
• Trusts himself.

Past graduates have made massive changes in their own lives and the world around them.

The results past participants have achieved include:

• Stepping beyond never being able to create a  relationship to forming a deep bond with a woman and creating a life together.
• Creating a company with almost no resources and making a massive difference to the lives of hundreds of families each and every week.
• Dramatic increases in income.
• Acquiring a job that was previously far beyond reach.
• Achieving public accolades and notoriety.
• Being trusted as a man of quality.
• and much more..

During this programme you will be continually challenged to ‘work your edge’ and breakthrough limitations that are otherwise impossible.

Be Challenged by other empowered men to raise your standards and your clarity and determination to bring your life to new heights of excellence. The masculine grows through challenge.

To talk to someone about what the Awakening Man Weekend could do for you click here now.

“Thank you for helping me find the initiative to align a majorly significant part of my life. Keep bringing your amazing talents to the people. The wake up call in your programs is a gift everyone deserves!”  -       Grant Campbell (The Raw Aussie Athlete, Ultra Marathon Runner)

The Awakening Warrior Weekend is carried out in 12 Stages. Stages 1-10 are carried out over a two day period and Stages 11-12 involve taking your lessons into your every day life.

Stage 1: Take Stock – Get honest with your strengths and weaknesses, success and failures.

Stage 2: Call to Action – Be challenged to declare what you have always known you wanted to achieve.

Stage 3: Reluctance and Resistance – Explore how you sabotage your own efforts and give into difficulties unnecessarily.

Stage 4: Hearing the Call – Reflective exercises to tune into what your heart and soul want for your life.

Stage 5: Committing to Your Truest Desire – Aid one another in tuning into what you deeply desire beyond all superficial distractions.

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Stage 6: Threshold Challenge – Undertake a seemingly impossible physical challenge to refine your deepest desire and prove you have what it takes to explore your authentic self.

Stage 7: Awakening Warrior – Confront your fears, learn to channel your power, free yourself from your past.

Stage 8: Supreme Ordeal – Undertake a unique and sacred challenge that will test you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and awaken you to such a degree that will prove you have been asleep your whole life.

Stage 9: Rest and Reflection – Recuperate after your Supreme Ordeal and enjoy the fruits of your labours.

Stage 10: Preparation for Entering the World – Settle on individual challenges to take into the world over the next 30 days. Become part of a system of accountability that will ensure you begin growing into the man you are meant to become.

Stage 11: Challenges and Setbacks – Apply what you have learned to your real life. This is where what you have learned makes a real difference to your real world.

Stage 12: Review and Forward Planning – Create structures and systems of feedback so that you can continue to grow as a man through out your life.

In the weekend we employ the use of:

• Meditation
• Sitting in Circle (Giving and Receiving Feedback from other Insightful Men)
• Physical Challenges – Going beyond your limits and working your edge. All physical challenges are tailored to the health and fitness levels of participants.
• Mental Challenges – Focussing Techniques and Presence Exercises
• Emotional Challenges – Expressing and managing your emotions in healing and powerful ways
• Spiritual Challenges – Tuning into your own personal truth

Do not choose to be one of the worlds many directionless and disempowered men. Over the last 50 years, we have slowly robbed boys of their opportunities to do what they need to in order to step into manhood.

• Awaken natural and effortless confidence.
• Face the tests of the world without flinching.
• Uncover your unique gift to the world.
• Conquer fear and hesitation.
• Honour both yourself and other men
• Honour women.
• Determine your true direction in life and undertake it.

To talk to someone about what the Awakening Man Weekend could do for you click here now.

During the weekend participants will undergo many challenges to connect them with their real power and put them in touch with the invisible power of the masculine that wants to:

• Make an authentic difference in the world.
• Inspire women.
• Produce real value and service to others.
• Uphold high standards of conduct and behaviour to serve our children.
• Refine and empower other men.
• Live honestly and with integrity.
• Be respected in life and honoured in death.

Many of the practices on this weekend are secret and reflect the deep nature of this work. They all work together to serve adult males into awakening and integrating the energy of the True Warrior.

The True Warrior uses his energy boldly and confidently to ensure that the welfare of future generations is assured through:

• Serving the world from deep within his core.
• Letting go of fears and doubts as his life continues to expand.
• Consistently conquering challenges that the world tests him with.
• Knowing his purpose and refining and testing it always.
• Service that creates wealth for himself and those he cares for.
• Standing up for standards of conduct from himself and from others.
• Keeping his life ordered and disciplined so that he may reap the rewards of such efforts and pass them onto future generations.

Date: 8pm Friday 3rd February to 5pm Sunday 5th February 2012

Place: Imago Forest Farm, 550 Mt Royal Rd, Carrowbrook, NSW

Click here to find out more about Imago Forest Farm

Provisions: All food provided. You may be responsible for bringing your own tent or a friend with a tent to share.

Please fill out the application form below to apply to join us on this journey.

A 2½ hour (men only) workshop to:

• Sharpen your Masculine Edge
• Cultivate that Secret Quality that Women and the World respond to
• Delve Deeper into your ‘Still Silent Power.’
• Eradicate Fears
• Foster and Nourish your Intimate Relationships
• Better embrace of the world with Powerful Penetrating Presence

The theme of this particular workshop is “Dissolving Fear”.

All men welcome but booking is essential. To book or inquire call Peter Hagerty on 0404854274 or fill in the form below.
Date: Wednesday 2^nd March & Tuesday 8^th March, 2011
Time: 7:00pm (for a prompt 7:15pm start), Finish approx 9:30pm
Place: Avro Rd Roundabout (off Avian Cres), Lane Cove North, NSW, Australia
What to Bring: Bottle of water, footwear for a 5-10 minute nature hike, weather suitable clothes. We will be working outdoors in nature, if it is raining we will be undercover but please bring a raincoat/umbrella.

To this end Peter has studied an eclectic range of sciences and disciplines. He has excelled at producing wealth from doing what he loves, beginning at age ten with a childhood business and culminating in financial freedom before age 30. Since that time he has created and instituted a programme for large numbers of chronically unemployed people, connecting them with their inspiration and guiding them out of desperation with simple tools and techniques that brings their hearts desire into reality, step by step.

Peter’s focus is on creating a steady shift in the way people live that enables them to live according to their heart in a world that offers more and more abundance brought about by the increasing choices available to us as individuals. His tools to help bring this about permit people to connect with their core desires and own them in a way that serves the greater whole, reducing and even eliminating guilt and fear that holds many people back and empowering their talents and gifts to bring about fulfillment through bold and soulful action. His main tool for awakening inspiration is having fun which opens hearts and calms minds, enabling our deepest wisdom to speak. He is quoted as saying, “if you learn to laugh at yourself, you’ll always have something to laugh at.” You can find him being sometimes silly and sometimes wise on facebook.

“Peter’s work is truly magnificent and will certainly impact the lives of millions throughout the world.” – Dr. John F. Demartini, Bestselling author of The Breakthrough Experience – A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation. Star of “The Secret.”

Teaching and speaking has always been a passion for Peter and from humble beginnings as a child, teaching adults how to play chess he has lectured to thousands both in Australia and overseas. A broad field of knowledge and an unquenchable curiosity and understanding of the pattern that underlies all things enables Peter to refine the wisdom and understanding of people from all walks of life. His teaching career encompasses teaching meditation, breathing techniques, hypnosis, quantum physics, accelerated learning, speed reading, macro economics, neurology, chess, vocational guidance, purpose coaching, sales, marketing, presentation skills and endurance techniques.

Peter coaches people in empowering themselves using their own lives as the catalyst to do so. He uses his vast knowledge of Universal Principles to awaken his clients to the pattern that their life reveals to them. Specifically Peter guides his clients to expose their deepest purpose in life and coaches them to undertake an ongoing Mission to fulfill that Purpose. His experience in mentoring and spiritual guidance permits the client to uncover deep and transformative meaning in their experience and to empower themselves to have an effect beyond the scope of their own life.

“Thank you for the instrumental role you played in helping me find the initiative to align a majorly significant part of my life. The wake up call in your programs is a gift everyone deserves!”
- Grant Campbell, “Raw Aussie Athlete” (Ultra marathon runner)

The commitment that Peter brings to his work brings about deep and lasting change in individuals through challenging them to connect to their own truth by humbling themselves to the real power that lies within them and using it to become who they really are by endeavoring to fulfill and make real their heart’s desire.

“Peter is a friend and mentor and someone that possesses great genius. Few are as dedicated to understanding what drives the universe and what part we play. From manifesting your dreams to understanding the essence of life, you will be hard pressed to find someone as dedicated and genuine with sharing his research and findings. There are no mistakes you have come across him, make use of the wisdom and tools he has.”                                          – Rowan Burn (Entrepreneur)

In the journey to awaken Purpose and Power there are clear levels that are progressed through and knowing these levels can be of great assistance in making the journey. The path from pain and ignorance to joy and bliss can be arduous and often assistance from well meaning guides who may have forgotten what the path is like can be useless, and the journey must be taken in our own unique way.

Many people think you are either on Purpose or not and that’s that, but it is not that simple, you can be more or less on Purpose and in various stages of realizing your Purpose. Of the eight levels of Purpose Realization I have identified, the first four levels tend to be the tough ones where you do all the work for little return and the last four levels tend to be the wonderful and amazing ones where you enter flow and things just seem to work for you, often with little effort at all.

We tend to get caught up in one level or another at various points of our lives yet when we are able to reach and maintain the 7th and 8th levels, life is truly wonderful.

Level 1: RESPONSIBILITY

At this level, people who may otherwise feel purposeless begin to get a sense of a deeper meaning to life and begin to assume greater power. They do this by assuming more and more responsbility for the situation they are in, whatever it may be and often no matter how tough it is to take such responsibility.  They move from making excuses to taking responsibility and eventually within this level they begin taking small but significant steps to makes changes in their own lives.

This level is often reached when people hit rock bottom in some area. Perhaps their relationships, vocation or finances are in disarray. When one’s life chronically lacks order a decision needs to be made as to whether or not something will be done. This decision point will result in the power that comes with responsibility or otherwise will result in the waste and degradation that comes with avoiding responsibility.

Level 2: ORDER

Once responsibility is taken to a certain degree a natural desire to bring order to one’s life beings to arise. Generally the most disordered or out of control area becomes the first target and it is often dealt with with ruthless efficiency. If rock bottom was recently hit, it quickly becomes clear that things have to change and these changes will generally reflect changes internal within the individual.

If health is a concern there may be major changes in diet that while they used to seem impossible to consider or undertake, are now easy and almost seem effortless. If finance has been a major problem action will be taken to get it sorted out, sometimes it may just be a case of becoming honest with oneself about the seriousness of the situation. Perhaps a circle of friends may change or a relationship may end or one may begin. If there is stress or tension in the family, changes may be undertaken to free the person of restraints and poor communication. Jobs may change, careers begun or let go of. Education may be undertaken and perhaps even a decision to connect with something larger than oneself on a spiritual level may take place.

This is a level of great activity and upheaval but although it may seem chaotic it is the beginning of getting ones life truly in order.

Level 3: RESILIENCE

At this level a new found strength is realized. It is often a strength that has been refined through ordering ones life but has not been felt until now because this strength was being spent regularly whilst getting life in order. At this level you come to rely upon your self more and more and not upon circumstances. You become more self sufficient and more aware that you have the power to change situations that do not suit your growth and development.

This is the level at which a more profound awareness of the inner self begins to develop. A sense begins to come about, or perhaps to reawaken, that the individual exists beyond the circumstances and conditions of their life. Setbacks no longer deter the person as they once would have and these setbacks instead become a tool with which to realize strength and determination. Setbacks can then also serve to clarify vision.

Level 4: CHALLENGES

At this level setbacks seem to convert into challenges. What this means is that ones personal perspective changes significantly, they are able to see beyond the face of problems that present themselves and pierce the illusion they present. Instead of judging situations or events as bad one becomes more capable of seeing them more clearly than before and can seize opportunities buried in otherwise trying circumstances.

At this level we have the chance to move from merely reacting to situations to taking purposeful action in situations. This is a significant turning point and leads to the wonderful experiences that follow in later levels.

Level 5: RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE

At level 5 the unusual and wonderful begins to occur. Once you have taken responsibility, created more order in your life and have endured setbacks long enough to be able to see them as challenges and then even as opportunities things begin to shift powerfully. At this stage people begin to experience otherwise unexplainable awarenesses. They may be doing anything at all and suddenly get an overwhelming sense that they are in the right place at the right time. It may be for no particular reason and in fact may seem to be triggered by nothing at all.

This pervasive sense of ‘rightness’ comes about from within and cannot be associated with very much at all that is going on outside of the person. This level is the beginning of being truly self directed, of being active rather than reactive. It is the basis of using authentic power rather than manipulative force. From this level we are able to move higher with much more ease and certainty. From here we will from time to time revisit the lower levels but it will always be with a greater sense of certainty and true and calm power that comes from within.

Level 6: TRANSPARENCY

When we reach level 6 there is less and less reluctance to hide anything from others. It becomes easier to make statements of fact about situations and about oneself without having to judge or fear being judged. This level will often lead us to dip into lower levels temporarily to ‘clean up’ situations that would otherwise hold us back. It becomes easier to be honest with oneself and with others that we deem worthy of our truth.

This level sees a firming of ones power due to a much greater self awareness and acceptance. There is often a leveling on the more extreme aspects of personality. Reactions are less dramatic and relationships become easier and more constant. This constancy comes from the relationship to oneself which becomes routinely calmer and more reliable. There is a deep connection within that comes from less hiding of the parts of oneself from oneself and from others.

Level 7: REALIZATION

At this level, the work done in the previous levels really bears fruit. Achieving order in ones life, trust in ones inner self and honesty with oneself enables an awareness to develop that is unavailable to the vast majority of people. Reaching this level can happen quite suddenly and when it does happen it is a singularly wonderful experience.

It is described as being able to see the vast tapestry of ones life and every trial and tribulation, every difficulty as an amazing blessing that brought you to this point of unparalleled awareness. It is an awakening that brings deep gratitude and inspiration that drives one forward to share the overwhelming gifts one has received. All manner of hurts can be dissolved in an instant and there are long periods of quiet in the mind coupled with spontaneous heart openings.

When it is first experienced it is often so powerful that many people feel they have completed their Purpose, yet this wonderful experience is only the beginning and it can be had many many times at deeper and deeper levels. Having reached this level we have the power and certainty to go into the lower levels and heal ourselves further and assist others. However the greatest benefit of reaching this level is that it is the doorway to the final stage…

Level 8: SURRENDER

At this stage words are often useless. Some idea of the experience can be understood by imagining having all your barriers to being loved gently peeled away in a caring and nurturing manner. Tears often come because there is no need to worry anymore. Fear of death is dissolved, sometimes permanently. Some experience a feeling of being underwater in a beautiful blue ocean made from tears of joy. Some feel that their chest is being opened and a warm current of joy and bliss is being poured through it like a massive waterfall cascading into ones normal life and transforming everything that it comes in contact with. Some feel fear but move forward anyway because they know it is time to allow their fear to be washed away. Forgiveness is something that comes without being asked for, it is simply there because it was never not there.

There are many ways to describe level 8 but the one thing that is constant is the feeling of surrendering to something greater than oneself, something that all at once loves you unconditionally and powerfully and gently. It is this surrender, this giving up of our control that enables us to direct real power because it is from the source of all true power. At this level our inner voice lets us know that it truly loves us because we are made of its love.

When we reach this level we can explore all of the other levels with a sense of adventure and excitement and though we may sometimes lose touch with the source of our true power we will always find it easier to return to our power. Every time we return to that which loves us endlessly it becomes even easier to return. Each time we descend into the lower levels from level 8 we are better able to take that loving power with us and use it to transform hardships with relative grace and ease. We become enrolled in a never ending journey of travelling into boundless love and spreading that love widely.

Final Words

Writing this article was profoundly moving for me. I realize that it gives the reader a good idea of why I do the work that I do. I am grateful to those who have read this far and my gratitude overflows for those who choose to take this journey to realize their Purpose by making their Purpose real.

If you would like to do a Purpose Profile you can get a complimentary Purpose Profile Assessment on our website and answer some basic questions that will help you reflect on where you are at right now and how on Purpose you really are. Your answers will come through to me if you wish to send them and I will respond and give you a brief assessment at the very least. If you would like to receive our articles by email click here to submit your email, you retain control over your own details, we don’t even see them.

I wish you a joyful journey into boundless love and the overflowing generosity that comes of it.

Peter Hagerty – Purpose Coach

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Who wants to have fun? I do. Try saying the word ‘fun’ while frowning. It is hard but if you really try and push yourself, you can do it. Now stop doing that and see what happens. You might be smiling right now. The still silent voice in you wants a few simple things for you, it wants you to do what fully engages you and makes your heart expand in such a way that you know you can never be tired of what you are doing.

The call that comes from deep within wants you to have joy and bliss and adventure and excitement. It wants you to let go of the drama you think you have to have and live the adventure you would love to have. It is all about attitude. So often we are told that we need to change our attitude and there are numerous disciplines for doing so.

Create an ‘anchor’, force yourself to smile to be happy. To be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. Fake it until you make it. Seriously people, what a crock. It is really tough to do this stuff. I want you to take the easy way. Don’t get me wrong, it can be a challenge to disengage from guilt tripping yourself into inflicting pain so that you can gain. If you don’t know what creating an ‘anchor’ is, no need to worry we won’t be learning about it here. In fact don’t create an anchor to trigger happy thoughts, don’t make yourself happy, don’t act enthusiastic and especially don’t fake it. Being authentic is blissful and it is much easier than most people think.

Getting to this state of authentic bliss starts with seeking what you love. The single greatest test of what you love is this, is it fun? Now, fun is a funny thing. It comes in all shapes and sizes and all sorts of varieties. Most people think there are only a few kinds of fun. There’s the happy, laughing, celebrating kind and then there’s the guilty pleasure kind and then there’s the bedroom kind and then there’s the kind where you win something or other. That’s pretty much it right? What about the others?

I want to ask you to broaden your definition of fun. Think of these as fun if you can… stretching in the morning, sleeping in, waking up with someone special or waking up and having the bed all to yourself, squeezing oranges for orange juice and seeing the juice drip into the glass, seeing the sunlight shine through the window, the satisfying feeling of tying your shoelaces nice and tight, having a choice of what to wear, the excellent feeling you get when you get paid, the feeling of spending money, the feeling of receiving a package in the mail, having a friend make fun of you, being there for a friend, seeing your family or successfully avoiding them, getting that job you wanted, taking on challenges in that job, learning something fascinating, accepting how little you really know, being part of something larger that expands you, solving a problem, getting carried away with telling a story, watching someone really lose it and be ok about it and the list goes on. Frankly, fun can be had with so much more than we think. One lady I know discovered that the most fun she had was when she was vacuuming the floor. This became a meditation and her whole life began to shift as her heart opened. Maybe I will tell you the full story of the vacuuming lady later, but know this, as I recall it I have tears in my eyes and I love it. It is bliss. It is fun.

What about the things that are not fun? Sometimes what we see as a drama today will be remembered as an adventure tomorrow. The sooner you are able to see your dramas as adventures the more enjoyable your life will be. This is the beginning of wisdom, we see life as an adventure to be lived and loved. It can be done. The secret is to step into the unknown, but not too far, to leave our old self behind but bring our wisdom with us. One of my mentors used to say, the only thing they cannot take away from you is your wisdom and your love, he seemed to bring it up whenever we had a conversation. I imagine that he saw what was going to happen in my life, I held onto those words as I lost a fortune and gained deeper experience of the depths of my heart.

We have wisdom in us, we all do. Sometimes we ignore it, sometimes we pay attention to it. Some would say that when we have ‘bad things’ happen that it means that we ignored our own wisdom. Everyone has their own criteria for what a ‘bad thing’ or a mistake actually is. Years later a bad thing or the most horrific mistake may seem like the best thing in the world. From my personal life, I always planned on having two children and I was very clear about it. To cut a long story short, I simply cannot imagine life without my third daughter. Among many things, she teaches me how to simply go for what you want. She shows me that I actually can handle more joy than the massive amounts that the first two girls have given me.

The wisdom we have in us, that still quiet knowing that whispers the truth despite our delusions seems to have understanding well beyond what we can imagine. It leads us down paths that may or may not seem the best or the safest or the most healthy at the time but which in the end often seem wondrous.

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet

One of the few things you can be certain of is that there is much beyond your understanding. To argue points of philosophy with people over what should or should not work in your life or their life or how they should live or not live does not seem to yield reliable outcomes. We can lament the sorry state of the world until the cows come home but there will always be different ways of looking at things. Those cows I mentioned will be gladly devoured by some and revered as sacred by others. So it is my intention to keep this all very simple.

My intention is to help guide you toward your own inner wisdom that seems to want you to engage inactivities that you think are meaningful and that you feel fulfilled by. The point is this, following only your head or only your heart just doesn’t seem to cut it. After years of working with hundreds of people on bringing their inspiration into the real world, after doing it myself, I have found that you need both. If this sounds incredibly basic to you, as though everyone knows that, fantastic! When the rubber hits the road this kind of clarity of understanding does not always come into the real world. If needing both your head and your heart does not seem like something you can accomplish, perhaps you would benefit from doing a Purpose Profile.

In my practice I coach people to delve into who they really are and what they really want. It’s the core principle of my work because frustrated desires cause innumerable difficulties in people’s lives. Invariably I end up dealing with the ways that people are lying to themselves about what they want.

All in all people are nowhere near as honest as they think they are. When they cannot make sense of their lives it is generally because they have gone unconscious about the true nature of their motivations.

There’s the woman who thinks she doesn’t love her husband anymore because the passion is gone, but when she identifies with her real desires she realizes that she too wants to run a business and provide service to people. When she lets go of the limitations she believed she had to accept and actively chooses to tone down being a housewife and go into business, suddenly the passion returns.

Then there’s the female executive who can’t respect her husband because he’s an artist who makes little money, she builds up resentment toward him because she is providing the lifestyle that he is so addicted to. When she let’s go of the belief that she has to provide that lifestyle and stops believing her fears that he is only with her for that lifestyle she can see that he would be happy just as long as he was with her.

The most destructive lies we tell ourselves are about how big a compromise we have to make in order to get what we really want. At the core of it we all have some basic desires that are universal, we fulfill them in different ways of course but ultimately we all want to be safe, secure and free to express who we are and be loved for it.

Do yourself a favour and stop lying about whether you can or can’t fulfill your desires. You can, otherwise you would not have them. You may not be able to fulfill them in the way you first concoct but there is always a way. Sometimes our impossible desires are there to make us grow. Perhaps it is impossible for us, as we are, to fulfill our desires but perhaps our real desire is to become more than we are.

Who will you have to become to have what your heart wants? The truth is you can be whatever you want. The lie is that you have to do it in a predictable and acceptable way. If you want to be a movie star, perhaps your real desire is to be welcomed by lots of people who really love you. If you want to be a successful business person, perhaps your real desire is to employ people and contribute to their lives by giving them direction.

There are a myriad of ways to get what you want once you connect to the real core and essence of what it is. This is because the form is often not what we first expect. I always thought I wanted to be a adventure novelist but what I really wanted was to inspire people to make their lives an adventure of self discovery. If I had tried to do this through being a novelist I would have been doomed to failure, but doing it as a coach is incredibly fulfilling.

Once these emotions are processed to a good enough degree, it is possible to simply surrender to what could be called a higher plane or higher vibration. This is done with the simplest of all methods. Dealing with emotions is complex and time consuming, different emotions require different strategies and different intensities require different degrees of focus and some require other people and some require solitude. The complexity is never ending. Once we process this to a certain degree though we can use the simplest method of all to connect to the core self.

The method is simply this… listen to yourself, rest in yourself and surrender to the greater version of you that is really you. This is simply vibrating at a higher frequency by choice. If you think this is too difficult or too complicated you are set to do some more of the work to deal with the so called lower emotions. You can contact me about this if you have questions. If it feels natural and easy to listen to yourself, go do it.

The dream world is so enticing and alluring, anything can happen there, the imagination is the only limit. I see you, I know you’ve been there. The star of your own adventure, loved and adored by all. Perhaps one day I’ll get to be your sidekick!

Fantasies and dreams are the beginning of creating meaning in our lives. Our latent desires begin to become real there, but it is only the beginning. What better way to drift off to sleep at night than to wonder at what might be, at what stimulating and fulfilling experiences we might have. Trusting that they could happen is so relaxing and reassuring. Some of the best affirmations I ever did involved actively dreaming about what I would love to happen as I surrendered to sleep. If I could really feel it in my body it often meant it was driven by my heart.

Dreaming about it and fantasizing is so much more rewarding if you take some action during the day. If you “dare to dream them into being,” your fantasies become so much more rewarding. Taking steps toward making them real makes them so much more real in your mind. Though the Law of Attraction is a little passe these days, of course it is a valid Law that has an effect. Though the idea that you can make things happen with simple thought is a little ludicrous, focussing on what you want and feeling in your body and heart makes a big difference, hopefully a difference big enough to bring about action.

“My heart holds the dream . . . . My mind holds the picture . . . . My body holds the action . . . . and inspiration is my fuel . . . ” – Faith Anderson

Consider your most heartfelt dreams could be dreamed into being if you dream them often enough to believe them and take action on them. Choose your favourite desire, the one that most engages your mind and opens your heart, the one that makes you feel both powerful and calm. Focus on it and choose to pursue it not for what you will get but who you will become. Imagine this greater self and take a hold of that and never let go. It’s who you are.

If this appeals to you, it probably indicates that you have an unquenched desire to do something significant. You may want to make a massive difference in your world so that you know you will have something to be proud of, even though you know it didn’t come from you, only through you.

I realize now that the last few years have been spent creating a system to guide latent Bold Souls through the kinds of challenges they might experience when they begin trying to make a massive difference in their world. Working with many people on refining their Purpose has shown me that embarking on a journey to your core can be arduous. It is so often idealized as a perfect journey of ease and grace but those who have been through it have often forgotten the experience. Like a woman who experiences childbirth and swears that she will never do that again, only to espouse a deep desire for more children perhaps less than a year later.

The journey I undertook was unexpected and adventurous. They say adventure is hard to distinguish from drama when you’re in the middle of it, but in hindsight you relish it. In fact I believe I may have said that just now. The end result is that I have adopted philosophies from all walks of life, spiritual traditions and texts, myths and legends and from my own direct unequivocal experience.

Subjecting myself to my own methods proved that they worked, not because I am so clever, they work because they are based in principles well beyond my power to change or influence. My learning came thick and fast when I surrendered to the process and this only happened when I realized that real soulful boldness gives you everything you want and the cost seems high but is incredibly low. You just have to let go of the things you think you want and embrace what you really want. When it comes to letting go of what you think you want, it seems that the universe is unfair and has a sick and twisted sense of humor. Once you let go, you wonder why you ever held on.

This may all sound like a load of codswallop but if you feel there is something you would like to bring to the world even though you don’t know what it is, and you know there will be trials and you feel it any way, you are probably a latent Bold Soul. If this is you, reply to this post.