I am taking a lot of courses with Peak Potentials, aka T Harv Ecker, aka the Millionaire Mind people. I got exposed to it when my ex-girlfriend (who is still a best friend) suggested I attend a course.

My first few minutes in the introductory evening were like, “Oh my god, this is the cheesiest sales pitch I have ever seen.” At the same time I was like, “Oh my god, people are buying in droves. How do they do that!?”

People were literally running to sign up for courses. Anyway, I like to expose myself to things that my mind absolutely distains. And my mind can’t stand watered down cheese ball spirituality for the masses.

My mind is quite a snob. I am well educated and NY has made me very suspicious of anything that is happy or doesn’t dress in fancy black clothes.

So I signed up. And sure enough my mind, uh, changed its mind. And in the process my body has benefited tremendously from the Peak Potentials courses. The activities are a little cheesy (like I’ve said), including lots of high fives and chanting things like, “I have a millionaire mind,” or “I am the master of my destiny.”

But hey, we all make up our own story in life. And what I once considered cheesy I now consider beautifully simple and clean. Life is very simple if you let it be. And hey, what is wrong with having a millionaire mind or being the master of my destiny. It might sound like a character out of a comic book, but who cares.

If it works don’t knock it. And this stuff has opened up my heart tremendously. I have learned to dream again. I have learned to enjoy the GAME of life. A game where play is the activity and seriousness is a drag.

We are all probably going to die. That has pretty much been established. And it really is the only thing that is certain. Ok, I got it. I’m going to die.

Now that I have established that there are about 70 years left in my life where I can do whatever the hell I want. The only rule is that I have to die at the end of it. So I realize now that I might as well enjoy the fucking process.

And when I am on my death bed do you really think I will give a shit about what I did? No!! The only thing I will care about is my current state of happiness and comfort.

Ask any person lying in their deathbed what they regret and they will more often than not change the subject and ask you for a new bed pan so they can take a piss and be more comfortable. They are focused on their current happiness. To a person looking death in the face anything but happiness in the now is useless theory.

That is the way we are. We often don’t realize it until it is too late though. We spend our life trying to get things done for some future or past goal. When in fact the only thing that is really important is our current happiness.

So I invite you to check in with yourself and eliminate anything that takes away from simple, wholesome happiness. I invite you to do more of the things that increase your happiness.

Warning Note: Don’t let your current distortions influence you into false happiness. If you are a heroin addict it might be easy to think happiness is another shot of heroin. Uh, no. That is not happiness. That is your current distortion.

So happiness is not easy to find, but it is worth getting. So start slow, realize it is a lifelong process. Realize it is the only important thing. Realize that it is what allows you to become a loving, compassionate, giving person to others. And realize that in the end is where true happiness lies.

So be kind to yourself, start where you can start. And again, the trick is to enjoy as much as you can the process. What I mean by this is to focus on the joy more than the pain, since life usually dishes out fair quantities of both.

Does this make sense? Makes sense to me.

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