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John Patrick Morgan The purpose of my life is to champion the one person in front of me, right here and right now, to se
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20/11/2023

HOW TO FEEL COHERENT, WHOLE & EMPOWERED: INTEGRITY 101

What is the best way to show integrity most of the time?

Watch to learn. Loving you, JPM

19/11/2023

HOW TO ATTRACT YOUR DREAM PARTNER: BE AUTHENTIC & LIVE YOUR DREAMS!

What is the simple way of saying "live your dreams and the woman of your dreams will be attracted"?

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18/11/2023

HOW TO UNLOCK 10 YEARS OF SECRET DREAMS WITH IMPACT!

How many names are still on the list after 10 years?

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01/09/2023

HOW TO: CULTIVATE WITNESS CONSCIOUSNESS & CONCENTRATION

What is the hardest work in the world?

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31/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE WITH YOUR MOUTH & MIND:

What is the shift required to begin using your mouth to create instead of describe?

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30/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE AN IMAGINED EXPERIENCE INSTEAD OF DESCRIBED

Can you hold two seemingly opposite truths in your heart at the same time?

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FIND YOUR AUTHENTIC VOICEIf you've been around here for a while, you've likely heard me speak about my friend Stewart Pe...
30/08/2023

FIND YOUR AUTHENTIC VOICE

If you've been around here for a while, you've likely heard me speak about my friend Stewart Pearce and the extraordinary work he does with some of the world's most elite leaders and famous celebrities around the power of their voice.

Unlike most 'voice coaches', Stewart doesn't just help these people sound better. What he does is a deeper, and much more 'spiritual' kind of work.

In fact, when I asked him about the work he does with prime ministers, royalty, and leaders at the United Nations, he confided in me that the voice work he does is really just a doorway for his clients into deep and radical transformation of their leadership and being.

When you get close to Stewart, you realize that while he is indeed a man who has been helping actors and leaders with their voices for over 50 years, he is actually a profound spiritual guide, guru, and confidant to some of the most influential people on earth.

A doorway into this kind of power and influence for yourself is indeed available through your voice.

Since Stewart helped me to bring my 'signature sound' into awareness, I have found myself creating a powerful sense of vitality, well-being, love, and joy into your life — all through my conscious speaking.

As you likely also know, I have long since considered my speaking to be one of my primary means of creation. Until this work with Stewart, I credited that mostly to my choice of words.

Now though, I equate the sound I use to speak words as an equal source of my power to create.

Once you locate your unique authentic voice, you can discover and expand your personal sovereignty, resolve traumas, and enliven your divine blueprint.

By centering your note within the heart, your voice arises from the depth of your being — so you can use your voice to communicate with greater power, purpose, and gravitas.

On Tuesday, September 5th, Stewart will guide you through a sonic meditation to help you discover and open the unique signature note (or sound) of your voice.

In Stewart's words, at this empowering online event, you'll:

-Find your signature note during a guided sonic meditation, and experience how locating your signature note can ultimately transform the way you live — and heighten your awareness around every part of your personal communication, relationships, and work in the world

-Use your breath to notice your initial impulse to sound and express, which brings a new quality of flow to your speaking, moving, and sensing

-Discover how your voice holds the power to influence, magnetize, and empower your creative process into the beauty of manifestation
Center your signature note within your heart chakra so your voice can arise from the deeper part of your being and communicate the power, purpose, gravity, and authentic truth of your being

-Learn how, once you harmonize your voice, your internal organs, blood flow, and neural activity transform to create an inner peace that expands your capacity to navigate life

When we did this sonic meditation with Stewart at our event in London, everyone in the room was moved in ways that were quite transcendent of ordinary experiences. Despite the fact that nobody ingested anything, it had a psychedelic feel to it.

As you’ll discover during the sonic meditation, when this signature note is open, you can immediately perceive profound harmony moving throughout your whole body — and eventually, throughout your life.

Awakening your signature note helps you feel the powerful truth that your heart is the seat of the soul — empowering you to allow your true, authentic power to resonate in the world.

You can register for Discover Your Sacred Magnetic Voice: How to Access the Signature Note of Your Soul as a Force for Harmony, Love & Prosperity for free at the link in comments.

Loving you, JPM

P.S. - When you become aware of your signature sound and start speaking that way and experience the magnetic energy it creates, please let me know the impact you see it having in your relationships, work, and elsewhere. I love hearing about what you create.

Do your best to attend the event live. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available

29/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE A NEW PAST: FREE YOURSELF FROM FIXED EVIDENCE

How can we create a different past?

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28/08/2023

HOW TO LIE TO YOURSELF & OTHERS MORE EFFECTIVELY!

Have you ever experienced a conflict between believing something and having evidence to the contrary?

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27/08/2023

HOW TO FAKE IT WITH LOVE: THE COSTS & BENEFITS

What is the cost of "faking it"?

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26/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE BELIEF BY EMBODYING EXPERIENCE: A LAMBORGHINI STORY

What realization did my client come to as a result of our work together?

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25/08/2023

HOW TO BE THE STRONGEST PERSON IN THE WORLD

What did I say to my client that enabled her to become a world-champion powerlifter?

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24/08/2023

HOW TO AWAKEN YOUR AWARENESS: CITRINITAS!

How can one develop the capacity to distinguish truth from impulsive thoughts?

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23/08/2023

HOW TO: LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM A HOLDING PATTERN OF THOUGHT

What does it mean when "truth will set you free and truth is a prison"?

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LEADERSHIP IS ACTIONIt was last week that I had intended to tell you about this, but as you have likely heard by now, th...
23/08/2023

LEADERSHIP IS ACTION

It was last week that I had intended to tell you about this, but as you have likely heard by now, things got a little intense here on Maui.

I’ve seen tragedy in paradise that I never imagined I’d see.

That depth of pain - and the breadth of injustice that only the wild of Kali can inflict - called me into action in a way I hadn’t been called in many years.

There are a few responses to the hurt that the people in Maui have suffered, many of which are a tumbling into fear.

The freeze response to hurt has you doing nothing and saying nothing. This looks like a drop of your normal routine and a kind of aimlessness.

The flight response to hurt is invisible because it has you leaning even more into your routine. Running from the reality of it all by hiding in a kind of forced normalcy.

The fight response to hurt is big and loud and mostly made of air, be it the flavor of complaint, villainization, or myth-making. I’ve heard stories of space lasers and billionaire baddies being to blame for the fires here. A woman with millions of views said there was no wind that day, which I heard while looking at fallen trees in my yard. A scared mind makes monsters in the dark.

Personally, my first response was the freeze flavor. I found myself wandering around our property somewhat aimlessly. I couldn’t even bring myself to start clearing the branches from our driveway, which only became apparent once my wife was out there doing it. Her domain of care is typically within the four walls of our home, and mine without, so it startled me into awareness.

In waking up to the slow freeze that was occurring in my being, I started asking questions to break free.

“If I were to help, what would I do?”

“What could I do?”

“What might I love to do?”

“If I were being called to help, what might I be being called to do?”

It was then, a couple of days after the fires started, that I saw my friend live streaming from the west side of Maui using a satellite connection he’d come upon a neighbor sharing. He lived very close to where the Lahaina fire stopped and he had no clue what was happening around him compared with me. He’d been cut off from the world since the fire - no electricity, no water, no internet, and no mobile phone service. All he knew was what he heard from people he’d bumped into on the street - an area that had gone from a bustling cultural and tourist center to the grey and smoking streets of the apocalypse.

This friend was a 45-minute drive from me and cut off from the world. The unnecessity of it was like a siren call for me.

Instead of spinning out in aimlessness, hiding in hurriedness, or groaning in complaint, I asked myself one of the questions that I orient my life around:

“What would I love to create?”

Within 72 hours of asking this question, my friend and I had raised over $50K, I’d managed to convince an airline that was evacuating people to put supplies in the cargo bay of their planes on the way into West Maui. This led to me delivering food, water, and supplies to people who couldn’t otherwise be reached. I also secured the donation of a Starlink satellite internet device, got it flown in, from the mainland, and deployed it with a doctor in West Maui who’d been unable to call prescriptions in, limiting her ability to help people.

A few days later, we’d raised another $50K, I’d gotten a call from SpaceX and, because they saw what we were doing, they gifted us 6 more Starlinks, which we immediately deployed at community centers in West Maui.

Now, two weeks after the fire, we’ve raised nearly $200K and started a non-profit called MauiLFG, which is focused on finding and filling the gaps between actual needs and what’s being provided by the government and larger organizations.

What unfolded from that one question and my immediate action are not only these results I share but also a wave of energy that has magnetized hundreds of people into giving, action, and service.

My phone is blowing up with people here in Maui and from around the world offering help and asking me how they can help.

Allow me to remind you; my initial response to the shock of the fires was aimlessness. I felt disempowered and was fairly certain nothing I could do would make any difference.

Now today, I’ve become a conduit of support.

What changed?

My thinking.

Both in the questions I was asking myself and also how I responded to the answers I got -

With immediate action.

I’ve heard the phrase “leadership in action” before. It sounds exciting.

But I think it’s even simpler than this.

Leadership IS action.

When you take action in the direction of something that matters to you - and when you do so with fervor and commitment to the good of all - leadership simply IS.

At the heart, Creating is a dance of both leading and following.

Last week, in the midst of all this, I had the pleasure of being in a conversation with Heather Quick who leads The Book of Being Instagram channel.

We dove deep into the dance of leadership and followership; how it works and how to express more of it in our lives.

Click on the link below to watch the interview.

Loving you, JPM

PS - We have an exciting announcement coming soon. You may want to clear your calendar and save the dates of 9th -12th November this year!

22/08/2023

HOW TO DISSOLVE STRESS THROUGH OBSERVATION

How can observation be a means of liberation?

Watch to learn. Loving you, JPM

WHY MONEY MATTERS***Free Workshop***Money matters.By this, I don’t mean to me. I mean in general.And I mean it in two wa...
21/08/2023

WHY MONEY MATTERS
***Free Workshop***

Money matters.

By this, I don’t mean to me. I mean in general.

And I mean it in two ways.

First, the most obvious, I mean that money is important.

For some people this is obvious. It’s not an issue.

For others, because they struggle with creating money, they want to pretend it isn’t. They use spiritual paths as a way of avoiding or bypassing the reality of its importance in our society.

Money is important because it is one of the primary means of energy transfer that humanity uses to collaborate and create.

Unless you completely extract yourself from society, money is required to meet all of your needs - not to mention the beautiful and creative desires you have for much more than your base needs.

Tolerating the truth that money actually and genuinely matters very much is something that will open the door to freedom around money as well as a greater power to make more money.

Now, for the less obvious meaning of ‘Money matters’.

Earlier, I mentioned that money is one of our primary means of ‘energy transfer’. What I mean by this is that one person can expend energy in exchange for money, which can then be used to access the energy of another person or people. That energy may be stored in a service or product, but it is energy nonetheless.

So money is a way of getting energy from one location to another or from one form into another.

This means that money gives you the ability to move the world. In other words, money gives you power.

The more money you can move, the more of a difference you can make.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t make a difference without money being involved. Of course, you can.

But money is an abstraction from the kind of difference you can make. Making money gives you the ability to make all kinds of differences in the world that you would not be able to make without money.

As I learned recently in the West Maui fires, having a free, loving, and powerful relationship with money enables one not only to meet all their own needs and desires, but in times of great and urgent need, to meet those of others as well.

On 5th September, I’m going to be going deep into ‘Why Money Matters’ in a free workshop hosted by Yaron Engler at On Being Men.

We will begin with a dialogue between Yaron and myself and then open up for dialogue with all those who attend.

Learn more and reserve your place at the link in comments.

See you there!

Loving you, JPM

21/08/2023

HOW TO LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

What is an example of "tagging on" the end of a sentence to liberate yourself from something?

Watch to learn. Loving you, JPM

20/08/2023

HOW TO REALIZE "HOLY S**T, I WAS TALKING ABOUT MYSELF THE WHOLE TIME"!

How can I realize that I was talking about myself the whole time while doing an inventory of someone else's problems?

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19/08/2023

HOW TO DISSOLVE FEAR & JUDGMENT WITH MEDITATION

What is the effect of observing blackness, darkness, judgment, and fear when held in the light of awareness?

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18/08/2023

HOW TO TRANSFORM TRAUMATIC PATTERNS WITH NEUROSCIENCE.

What impact does the experience of being born to a cesarean section and never being breastfed have on the formation of neural patterns?

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Loving you, JPM

17/08/2023

HOW TO LIBERATE YOURSELF: CREATE DISTANCE & CHOOSE THE OPPOSITE

Could staying with the opposite of what you believe create the possibility of integration?

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16/08/2023

HOW TO AVOID ABDICATING YOUR POWER THROUGH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

What is the way that acknowledgement can be "bastardized and turned into the opposite"?

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15/08/2023

HOW TO FREE YOURSELF WITH THE POWER OF TRUTH

What can happen if we become too attached to something we think is true?

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14/08/2023

HOW TO EXPLORE YOUR EMOTIONAL RESPONSE PATTERNS

What are you feeling internally when you respond emotionally outward?

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13/08/2023

HOW TO CATCH A CREATIVE INSIGHT: JUNG'S DAWN OF AWARENESS

What does Elizabeth Gilbert describe in her TED Talk about how to capture creative inspiration?

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12/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE WITHOUT CERTAINTY: A FORCE OF GENERATION

What does it mean for you to rest in the not knowing when speaking about the future?

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11/08/2023

HOW TO: MAGIC YOUR WAY TO THE TOP!

What was one magician's approach to getting a one-hour series on NBC?

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10/08/2023

HOW TO GIVE FULLY: FORGIVING EXPLAINED

How does forgiving relate to giving?

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09/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE CERTAINTY IN THE UNKNOWABLE

What techniques do you use to create certainty in the face of not knowing?

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08/08/2023

HOW TO BE IN LOVE WITHOUT HURTING

What is the risk of allowing yourself to dream and live with passion?

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***What do you do when you don’t have to do anything?Fo...
08/08/2023

YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING
***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***

What do you do when you don’t have to do anything?

For me, what I need to feel whole, healthy and filled with energy depends on how much I’ve given myself. When I don’t have to do, this always comes first.

First I’ll typically, exercise, eat well and rest.

Once I’m feeling like my body and energy has been cared for, I’ll start to explore, learn and discover as my curiosity leads me towards new understandings.

As this occurs, my heart and mind fill and my creativity begins to ignite. From there, I’m almost always drawn into creating of some kind.

In earlier parts of my life, this may have been drawing me into making music, at other times making websites, and still, other times looking for land or a property to purchase and develop, later still it would lead me into creating magic tricks for my public performances, but in the last two decades, most often I am drawn into my creativity around the mind and human behavior and relating.

As I indulge my creativity, what always follows is a fullness of the heart that wants to burst from me. As I receive and become full, I want always to give what I have. Whether it was playing out with my band, publishing a website, advertising a house for sale, performing magic in the street or sharing writing or videos online, my being creative in the absence of having to do anything, has always led to this sharing with others.

This is a natural process that I see in all of unfettered life.

In the absence of any obstacle to the flow of life, creation unfolds beautifully, first in service of the wholeness of the entity itself and then outwardly. It is just like the flowering and fruiting of a plant. When we are free of constraint, well watered, well fed and well lit by the light of love, we seek and express beauty, which calls in more from the world, and with this, we make fruit which ultimately is good only in its sharing.

But for most of us, most of the time, we fear this isn’t the case.

We fear that if we had nothing to do, we might do nothing, wilt and die.

This is what we come to believe when for long enough we live under duress of the ideas of the common.

Ideas like responsibility and having to do certain things to be a good, respectable and valuable person.

It’s not that our contribution isn’t key to our well-functioning interdependence.

It’s that the ‘certain things’ and the ‘having to do them’ distracts us from the contributions we would make could we be free enough to know what they are.

The world we have is made of musts.

We do what we must and then live in the structures of this musterbation. It’s a self-perpetuating phallusy.

But there is another world always waiting in parallel to the one we inhabit. It takes a simple side-step into a possibility like “I don’t have to do anything” to visit it.

Even if for a day, an hour or just a moment, one can enter this world and they can see, with the eyes of a child, the space that occurs around them and the infinite time out ahead of them. You will find this time and space not filled with tasks and requirements, but with glimmering objects of possibility that stoke your curiosity and creativity.

An average Thursday afternoon can become like, with a golden ticket in hand, passing into Wonka’s factory or crawling through the small door, like Alice, into Wonderland.

All it takes is the adoption of some radical idea, the kind that a child might speak in defiance of the weighty world that is trying to crush them into a perfectly square form, which fits well like a Jenga block, in the structure of society.

A radical idea like, “I don’t have to do anything.”

Try it on. Look at the world through this lens, not only to see what you see but to see what you do.

Do you wither or do you wake?

Loving you, JPM

PS - On Thursday 10th August @ 9 am HST I will be giving my next FREE TALK.

This month I’ll be speaking about how ideas like ‘having nothing to lose’ and ‘not having to do anything’ liberate you to love in ways that paradoxically provide you with bountiful joy and immense power to create impact and value in business and personal relationships.

If you’d like to join us live OR watch the 24 hour replay, comment below requesting the link.

Thursday 10th August @ 9am Hawaii / 12pm LA / 3pm NY / 8pm London / 9pm Paris / 12:30am Mumbai (next day) / 5am Sydney (next day)

07/08/2023

HOW TO BECOME SOMEBODY BY SAYING SOMETHING!

What are you creating and standing for?

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06/08/2023

HOW TO ALLOW BOTH CULTURE & PATRIARCHY TO FULFILL A WOMAN'S LIFE

What allows a woman to find fulfillment in expressing her cultural habits while also honoring the fear that may limit her self-expression?

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05/08/2023

HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE COACHING RELATIONSHIP

Will you join me in speaking of our coaching relationship in the way that we would love it to be?

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YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE ***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***It was in a recent conversation with a friend that I stum...
04/08/2023

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE
***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***

It was in a recent conversation with a friend that I stumbled into the realization that throughout all of my life, I’d been unwittingly creating the freedom I have to take risks.

As the adage goes:

Risk equals reward.

Undoubtedly, my willingness to take risks has been instrumental in what I‘ve been able to create in my life.

Whilst I’ve known that I lived by the idea that one must take risks to bear rewards, I’ve often wondered why is it that I have been so able and willing to risk everything when others are often unwilling to risk even a little.

Some reasons I’ve explored are;

-I’ve lost and started over again and so I know it’s not that bad…
-I grew up in a home where taking professional and financial risks was the norm…
-I have more courage or faith in my resourcefulness than others…

While I’m sure there is some truth in all of these, what became apparent to me recently is that at the heart of my freedom to take risks was a single idea.

It was an idea I’d been living all of my life, but which I’d never noticed before.

When I was about twelve, I remember building a fort on an empty lot in the new development we’d moved into. I knew that soon the developers would come and knock it down as they cleared the land, but that didn’t matter because the wood was free scrap I’d taken from other construction sites and we didn’t own the land anyway. “I have nothing to lose”, I would think as I dragged long planks and sheets of plywood onto the lot.

When I was at University, booking the tour for my band at cities up and down the east coast, I remember thinking that if the venues didn’t deliver - or if our rent-a-wreck tour van didn’t make it to the venue - that it wouldn’t matter because otherwise, we’d just be hanging out in our hometown on Thayer Street anyway, wishing we’d were on tour. I just went for it because we had nothing to lose.

When I was flipping houses in the early 2000s, at around 23 years old with my name on the title for a handful of properties, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in mortgage debts tied to my name, I remember not worrying if it all fell apart, because I had nothing to lose. In fact, I remember driving in my mentor’s convertible to look at a multi-million dollar project and he remarked to me “I like the way you think” when I was explaining to him how “all the properties I own were paid for with money from partners and banks. I’ve only invested my time, so I have nothing to lose.”

This continued into my existing career in personal development. In my early years, when I wasn’t making enough to afford rent in London and living with my now-in-laws, I remember telling my now-wife that I was going to offer a CEO a coaching program at a fee far higher than I'd been paid before. “I’m already living with my girlfriend’s parents in her childhood bedroom, so I don’t really have anything to lose!” I said. Within a few days, the CEO had paid in full and we used the money to rent a flat in London.

These memories had come streaming back to me in that recent conversation I mentioned. With my friend, I was explaining how different my life had become now that I have a wife and two kids and a farm with 2 cats, 50 chickens, and fruit trees, and, on top of all that, a company with a team and payroll.

As I was speaking, I could hear an echo of my words, like a kind of deja-vu, where I remembered sharing them before. This is what happens on the inside when I become aware that a story I’ve been telling is something that may have started as an innocent and accurate description of circumstances but has moved from acknowledgment into a kind of activation and encouragement. There is an automaticness to the telling, a familiar tone, and the use of words. The repetitiveness squeals at me like a microphone feeding back through a speaker. The squealing stopped when I spoke the final words:

“What’s different is that, now, I have stuff to lose.”

In the wake of those words, I fell incredibly silent. My friend was saying something, but I couldn’t hear her. It was as if the volume of the outside world had gone low and muffled as, in a daze, I watched all the memories of times I’d spoken the opposite.

What slammed into my awareness as if a pan had hit me on the side of the head was that all throughout my life, in the countless times I’d spoken the words “I have nothing to lose”, while I thought I was describing the fact of my circumstances, I was actually generating a perspective from which I was experiencing my life.

That perspective I was generating was one in which I had nothing to lose.

But I didn't realize I had been creating this perspective.

As far as I was concerned, it was the fact that the wood and the empty lot weren’t mine that I had nothing to lose in building the fort there.

It was the fact that we’d otherwise be just hanging out on Thayer Street that I had nothing to lose by booking my broke and unknown band a tour up and down the east coast.

It was having not invested any of my own money in the real estate deals that I was sure gave me the chutzpah I had.

It was because I was already living with my girlfriend's parents that supposedly gave me the courage to offer drastically higher coaching fees which ended up turning our life around.

Or so I thought.

Putting my hands on my head and squeezing my hair in my fingers, I saw how all throughout my life, my simply speaking the words “I have nothing to lose” was never the description of fact that I thought it was.

Always, and every single time, my speaking had been the choosing of a perspective that was the literal source of my freedom.

Instantly, I saw how “having nothing to lose”, for me or for anyone, is never a fact of circumstance, but always a created reality.

From the turntable of my mind, I removed the record of the song of all the things I’ve acquired in recent years and I ended it skipping on that line “What’s different now is that I have things to lose”.

Onto the turntable, I replaced this newer record with an older one that skips too, but on a different, and shorter line, that points me in a very different direction.

“I have nothing to lose.”

The same farm I look out at from my office looks very different when this record is skipping.

When I think of my company, my car, my kid’s school, and even my wife and boys through the idea that ‘I have nothing to lose’, there is a sudden and pervasive lightness.

In fact, bringing the idea that ‘I have nothing to lose’ into my life again has felt like putting on old, well-worn, and comfortable clothes. I feel more at home with the idea that I have nothing to lose. It is a familiar freedom, in the space in which, love, creativity, joy, service, and power naturally emerge.

Some years ago, I wrote about how I had stopped missing people when I realized that I was missing my wife while hugging her goodbye at the airport, and then, for most of the time she was away, I wasn’t missing her at all. I chose to stop missing people when I realized that my ‘missing’ them wasn’t something caused by circumstances, but rather something that I was doing with my mind. I chose to use my mind to ‘be with’ people rather than to miss them.

It was a radical shift in experience, but what I am sharing here is even more radical.

When I can hold one of my boys in my arms, and at the same time, hold in my mind that ‘I have nothing to lose, including my son’, what arises is not some laissez-faire attitude.

No.

When I am with my boy and absent of any fear of losing him, my attention does not move on from him. Instead, it actually moves into presence with him. I see him more clearly for I am not distracted by imagined images of my loss of him.

The paradoxical power of having nothing to lose is that we actually deepen our presence with what we have. This presence provides a sense of abundance, gratitude, and love that moves us into action that is difference-making and productive.

The words I had habitually spoken and lived throughout my life were not a description of my circumstances.

They were a recurring declaration of having that I was activating, cultivating, and being.

Be still and know that you have nothing to lose.

Feel the freedom, feel the love, and feel the power this gives you.

Loving you, JPM

PS - On Thursday 10th August @ 9am HST I will be giving my next FREE TALK. This month I’ll be speaking about how ideas like ‘having nothing to lose’ and ‘not having to do anything’ liberate you to love in ways that paradoxically provide you with bountiful joy and immense power to create impact and value in business and personal relationships. If you’d like to join us live OR watch the 24 hour replay, comment below requesting the link.

Thursday 10th August @ 9am Hawaii / 12pm LA / 3pm NY / 8pm London / 9pm Paris / 12:30am Mumbai (next day) / 5am Sydney (next day)

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