• Imagine

    Allow your dream to lead you

  • Commit

    Begin the adventure, start your revolution

  • Catalyze

    Create with help from the WR and its members

  • Manifest

    Integrate your creation into your success

  • Share

    Apply your wisdom to changing your world

Commit

Begin the adventure, start your revolution of change

Now that you have a sense of what you want – just begin. This can be the hardest stage. You may find opportunities to do something else. There is always another crisis that needs your attention or another person.

What are your reasons not to start? What are your saboteurs? What takes you out of backing up your commitment with action? How bad does it have to get to move?

Life does a funny thing to us. If we don’t move, it moves us. How many times have you procrastinated only to act out of necessity? You may tell yourself that you don’t know what to do. You don’t want to mess up so you do more research. You want to get it right.

As you analyze the situation, the situation changes and you lose the opportunity and you are forced to respond in a way you rather not.

Get it wrong. Commit. Trust that even a wrong decision can lead to the right place.

How many times in your life has magic shown up because you didn’t do your normal thing? When you are moving, your life comes at you. The particular energy and movement of going for your dream is powerful. It might be scary for you. It is real – you are alive.

From the category archives:

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In my last post, I wrote about utilizing the power of your feelings to be smarter. I want to build on that to encourage you to make another distinction with your thoughts and feelings. Seth Godin speaks in this interview with Merlin Mann of 43 Folders (the video is good too) about how our lizard [...]

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Being to doing
How do you make it easy? How do you find your flow? After you healed your need to survive – then what?

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In the previous post, we learned about how therapy clears out your limiting past. It isn’t necessary to clear out the past and heal to work with being; [...]

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Why can existing be so hard? Why does it feel like you are fighting the inertia of the entire universe to have the life you want?
I doubt you are using your innate capacity to fully live. In previous posts, I’ve written about the Whole Adventure or Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey as being an unconscious movement [...]

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The Tension of Relating

by Owen Marcus on January 19, 2010

I couldn’t agree more about what Andrew Cohen is call Creative Fiction in his recent post. So often I see people attempting to be politically correct, new age or just safe in their conversations. I love it when someone is willing to risk it and possibly mess it up to speak her truth. Speaking it [...]

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Are you lonely? If you are, you’re a part of a growing percentage of Americans according to a recent Pfizer Journal study. The fact that Zoloft®, one of the most prescribed antidepressants is manufactured by Pfizer, and Pfizer just settled a $2.3 billion case with with the Department of Justice does make one [...]

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What makes you powerful? I propose it isn’t your biceps; it’s your emotions. Your power derives from you expressing your emotions. I’m not talking about the rants we can go on, I am talking about those feelings that are difficult to express. In the expression of your vulnerability, you are powerful.
When you reveal [...]

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What Makes Women Happy?

by Owen Marcus on September 30, 2009

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It’s not you, men. For women, happiness comes from how they experience life. Marcus Buckingham and his team polled thousands of women to discover what made them happy. He found that women’s happiness comes from focusing on the moments rather than the goals, plans or dreams. Focusing on the moments means being present. [...]

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Moving through a Block

by Owen Marcus on September 3, 2009

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Amber Riviere wrote an excellent post on how to cut through what blocks you from achieving your goals and your vision. In reviewing, Wayne Dryer’s new book Excuses Begone! she mentions that Dryer says just ignore what is taking you out. I would agree don’t give it energy. Yet [...]

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Know Fear to Succeed

by Owen Marcus on August 14, 2009

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Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek fame discusses how to succeed by using your fears. His short video shares how listing your worst-case fears prepare you for what most likely won’t happen. What it does do, is bring out in the open the distractions that are rolling around in your head and taking [...]

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