Notes

Dream ON!

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Author Note: This story is a confession for those who were there, perhaps a lesson for those who might dare to challenge themselves, and a bit of a boast that I regret even as I hit enter to post it. Read at your own risk. -------------------------- I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place everyday. -Albert Camus

"Patrick, Patrick - You don't NEED to come up with a NEW show for BreakThrough. You can just go with what you know brother."

"Patrick - Seriously, you're way too busy to come up with a NEW show for BreakThrough. You simply DON'T have the TIME friend. Let it go."

"Patrick - The ideas for a NEW show just aren't there. Let it go. You can't force the creative. It's too late now. The event is just 2 weeks away so you're going to have to take a pass this time. There's always next November."

"Patrick, Patrick, PATRICK - If you go forward with this NEW show - which is FAR from ready - you're going to bomb hard. Let it go, you didn't have enough time and that's not an excuse, that's REALITY."

My naysayers were persistent. And negative. And LOUD - especially since they ALL lived inside my own head. The above is the soundtrack in my mind that I had to keep turning off for the past month while the pressure intensified. Let me start over and give you the backstory.

I challenged myself a year ago to write and perform a NEW show for each of the four BreakThrough events my company, LifePath Unlimited, would be hosting between June 2008 and November 2009. Four new shows. No falling back on a speech I've had success with prior.

I'm not speaking a lot these days because of the full-time demands of my role in LifePath, so I gave myself the challenge so that I would still grow as a performer, which is my True North.

Trust me, it would be SO much easier to just give keynote speeches at LifePath events that I'd already performed successfully many times over. But there would be no growth in that. I want growth more than I want ensured success. I see speaking/performing as one of those hallowed professions where the work really matters, and the work is in the growth.

I blogged about my previous new show, new show #2, which I presented last November ("Free to Move About the Cabin, 11/23/08). It was as close to an Everest climb as I may ever come and a personal triumph in my growth as a performer. I felt I broke out of the box called "Motivational Speaking." I felt I broke ground into a new world I've named "Inspirational Shows," where my speaking skills are combined with my theatre knowlege.

As I set out to write this new show, (new show #3), I wasn't too worried about it. I had six months to do it. At first. But then, just like that, I was looking at only 40 days to go before show time. Time flew because, again, I'm like every other entrepreneur launching a new company - wall to wall slammed.

40 days remaining to create a new show is somewhat daunting when you can't seem to find the topic that feels right.

And then it came to me, in a flash. And I wrote it all out - in a day. And I felt safe.

And then a week later the whole idea collapsed in on itself. As often "good ideas" do. Easy come. Easy go.

30 days and counting till show time. And there's NO time to work on my show because I'm working full time on creating the very event where I've scheduled myself to perform it.

And at about 30 days is when the voices - the naysayers in my head - began "rational-lying" to me.

"Patrick, Patrick..."

I was very conscious of these voices because I wanted to believe them. I wanted an out. The pressure wasn't fun.

Maybe it was during my long distance running days that I learned to tell my own voices to shut the F up. And so I did and they would, at least temporarily. And I'd use the respite to keep focusing on what I wanted: Ideas for a NEW show.

At about 25 days and counting down, I was pushing a new idea for my show uphill. Trying to make it work. I felt there was something to this idea, but there wasn't that magical feeling behind it that tells you the idea is right for prime time. Creativity that's right creates magical pictures in your mind that are in hiDef and Dolby Sound. When an idea is right, it tells you in no uncertain terms, as clear as a woman taking your hand and leading you to bed. Creativity that's close but not quite, is like a dance where you keep tripping over your own feet and kicking your partner.

This idea that I was trying for two weeks to make work kept getting kicked in the shins. Although I couldn't dance well with this idea, I still worked on it loads. It prompted me to rush around for several days and evening gathering and preparing old footage of myself performing.

And time flew with many To Do items and tour dates.

Quickly, it was 4 days to go (FOUR) and I still didn't have a show.

"Patrick, Patrick - You don't NEED to come up with a NEW show for BreakThrough. You can just go with what you know brother."

Four days to create a new show terrifies me at several levels. Especially when you subtract out the day before my show when I will be otherwise occupied from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., the time my family will require of me, and hours upon hours that will be gone to meeting, greeting and producing the event itself.

When the pressure is this high, the time frames this compressed, it is SUPREMELY tempting to buy into your own excuses. Seriously, I AM too busy. And I don't NEED to create a new show. And you can't FORCE creativity.

"Patrick! Let it go! Know one will know and no one will care." (Both of which are extremely true statements).

Four days before show time, with an idea that stood up worse than the Leaning Tower of Pisa and an army of naysayers in my head being loosely held at bay behind a wall of determined thinking. Then, without warning, creativity finally cried uncle and gave up the solution! In a flash of inspiration, she took my hand and said "Come with me" in a silky voice.

The solution was a prop, a device. Ten chairs. These ten chairs would represent 10 obstacles that I overcome in my personal story. This was the immaculate device on which to hang all the stories I desired to tell. I must also comment that the 10 chairs idea tied together my original idea that collapsed in on itself a month before with the idea that I had been trying to push up hill for the last two weeks. So inspiration gave me an idea that brought my month of efforts all together seamlessly.

I'm not sure that I can properly explain the salvation of the chairs idea. But in my experience, every show needs an organization principle, a creative through line - something that acts like a magnet that pulls all your ideas into alignment. The chairs acted as the show's backbone. Hell, they even looked like a backbone when placed on stage. And I must add, I've never seen chairs used like this before, so for me, it was an original idea - the most satisfying kind of ideas of all.

Now, with four time compressed days left, all I had to do now was build the show. I finally had a blueprint.

I won't bore you with the details of the next 36 hours. It's enough to know that when others were partying by the pool, I was working fast and furious. When others were enjoying drinks and laughs in the bar till late, I was up even later working script and visuals. Day and night. With EVERY available second, between my job as event producer.

And I am clearly a glutton for challenge because with excitement in my heart for the "chairs" show, I also decided to seize the opportunity to implement an idea I've had for years - TWO PowerPoint presentations instead of one. One for the left screen. Another for the right screen. And so I built two. And then, I made use of a third middle screen by scripting a couple videos for that one. And I felt the show must have 10 music cues. Someone should just whack me like fish because when it comes to a show, I lose all reason.

The night before the show, I kept the lights and sound crew up until 2 a.m.

The hour before the show was madness. The three screen approach I'd devised was a technical nightmare and NOT WORKING. It FAILED the first four times we rehearsed it.

The next day - SHOW DAY - with 30 minutes to go. Someone get me a diaper. Reality is setting in. New show. Never before spoken. All new visuals (two sets!). Four failed rehearsals of the shows complex 3 screen beginning. 200 people clammering at the door. Opportunities to blow it at least every 60 seconds when I walk out on the stage. NO safety net. And for what - growth??

In my 16 years of stage time I have learned this clearly: It's supremely easy to make an ass out of yourself on stage. All it takes is a new show.

Behind the curtain, waiting for my cue to take the stage, I am thinking of the line Adam Duritz, the Counting Crow's lead singer wrote, "I hope that everybody can find a little flame. Me, I say my prayers, Then I just light myself on fire, And I walk out on the wire once again."

I crossed myself, lit the match, and stepped out onto the wire in front of 200 people. 65 minutes later I was done. The result of my show that day isn't important. Maybe it was good. Maybe it had moments of great. Or maybe it just sucked. It doesn't matter. (For one thing, it was just a FIRST DRAFT so by that standard it could only be a beginning of a show I will certainly refine down the line). But what does matter - and what felt GREAT afterwards - was the sense of accomplishment. I felt so accomplished. I had challenged myself, climbed at peril, and reached the peak. And, And -- I had grown as a result of the ascent.

In my book of experience, you better be pursuing your dreams for your own good reasons. You better not be doing it to impress other people or you will be hurting. Impressing other people is a rusty, double-edged sword. Some will love your work. Some will hate it. Many will not care. And even if you get a lot praise, the amount of work you put in to your craft will almost always exceed the amount of praise you may be earn. So you better love the work.

I love the work. And when you do the work you are rewarded with a deep sense of satisfaction for having exceeded yourself.

New show #3 (Officially titled DREAM ON) is now under my belt, and through it, I exceeded myself. And I have won over the voices in my head. They are now cheering, "Patrick, good job! I always knew you could do it."

Journey Well

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0400

I don't assume you follow my story, so I short update on a passion you haven't heard me speak much about: LifePath Unlimited.

Two years ago, I received the phone call of my life. The two co-founders of LifePath Unlimited, asking me if I would like to assist them in the creation of a half-a million dollar home-study personal development course. (I told you it was the call of my life).

To make a long story short, I not only headed up that project, but I also became the third co-founder. A role I've been passionately and purposefully involved in for exactly 751 days now.

I'm 42 years of age and it feels like my entire life has been training for this opportunity (or rather this role) in life. LifePath Unlimited is far more than an opportunity to me - it is a role and a responsibility. Let me explain the difference.

LifePath is a personal development company at its core. Our products are purely and solely to assist people in making dramatic transformations in their life. We create transformational movies, CD's, live calls, and live seminars and conferences. To market our products, we put a home-based business, direct sales opportunity in place. In other words, we have several thousand associates in 22 countries (already!) sharing our products and events with people everyday - these associates make up our tremendous community of great people and they do our marketing.

So the "opportunity" for myself is the passionate employment of my skills and talents. And the financial rewards of work and service. But as I said earlier, the "role" and "responsibility" is of greater value to me this time than the opportunity. The responsibility derives from the enormous promise many others and myself feel LifePath Unlimited has and holds.

The promise of the positive impact this company does and can have on countless many is what wakes me up early everyday and drives me in my highest gear. I do not day dream about monies to be made. I dream awake all day long about anything and everything that can be done to help the company fulfill its promise.

Being a founder gives me a great sense of responsibility for keeping this promise alive. I feel like life has entrusted me with a role that carries great responsibility - and it is a great fulfillment to live each moment of the day doing my best to live up to that entrusted position.

Being a co-founder of this exploding company is not a walk in the park, (Unless perhaps that park is the Grand Canyon). There have been ENORMOUS obstacles to overcome. Some of the obstacles have been external. Circumstances that have truly looked like the end of LifePath Unlimited. People that would do the company harm for their own inability to take responsibility in their lives. And there have also been large internal obstacles. Everyday my role challenges me to grow and play my game better, stronger, truer.

Everyday there is a wall to scale. A sail to raise. A hill to face. So it ain't no marsh mellow roast.

But more significantly, everyday there is a yard gained, a corner-turned, a hill crested. And most of all, a promise further fulfilled for a somebody you haven't even met yet.

Here's a take away of mine from my involvement at year 2 of building what we envision as a 100 year company... One of the greatest strengths you can possess for leadership is bottom line clarity about what the ultimate responsibility of your role is. At LifePath Unlimited, I am "responsible for the development of our transformational products and events". That's what it says in my job description. But as a person with a seat at the leadership table, I am clear on the real responsibility of my position: To wake up everyday and do whatever it takes to make our company better for those we serve, for that one person at a time who is trusting us to assist them in bettering their life.

Who do you serve? What is your real responsibility - the one that's greater than the opportunity to enjoy your job or make bank? And what is the great role life has entrusted you with, the one that's bigger than even your own dreams?

I've been rolling around a new phrase that for me sums up what LifePath Unlimited is truly about:

"Journey Well"

Patrick

Do you have something to say?

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0400

You are receiving this missive today from me. Perhaps you figure its arrived in your email box because I have something to say. That would be a wrong assumption.

You're reading what I write AFTER the creative process. You're reading the finished product and it was finished perhaps minutes ago, perhaps hours ago and perhaps even days ago (I know some of you don't open my newsletter until you're COMPLETELY bored). Nonethless, when you open this, you are reading a FINISHED product, AFTER the fact.

The "fact" is that I am writing it in real time. So what?

In real time I don't have anything to say. I didn't crack open my computer today because I had something to say. I cracked open my computer today because I WANTED to have something to say. Because I DESIRED to have something express. Because I felt I NEEDED to experience the creative-force today. But right NOW I'm excited to find out what I have to say.

See, as I was sitting around 'doing business' a oh-so-human URGE arose. The urge to have a voice. The urge to create. The urge to participate in life's rich pageant, as Inspector Clouseau and then REM first said.

Time has taught me that life becomes living when we participate at a creative level and when we use our voice, our creative to add to the mix of humanity.

And experience has taught me that if you want to participate in this rich pageant, act first. Don't sit around and wait to have something to say. Get up, grab your computer and start typing. Your muses will show up.

To be or not to be?

If you wait to have something to say, if you wait to be able to jump into your dreams, if you wait for some great idea to create, if you wait for the perfect line or perfect opening - you will be sidelines at best. You will not be.

Life has so much to love about it - especially when you've added your spark, your input, your creativity into its rich mix. Then you can love life for all it has to offer INCLUDING the part of you that you've added to it.

As I said up top - I started this with nothing to say. Only the urge to add my voice into the mix of life today, and the foolishness to do it. To just start typing. You can be so foolish too because life wants that of you. It wants your contribution, but it doesn't demand perfection or genius. It just requires willingness.

To be or not to be?

I choose to be in life, actually living. And I love it. You?

Cheers from a coffee house, Patrick

Rich rich rich

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Come to terms with how wildly abundant and rich you already are. This is so important. To really try and wrap your mind around all the material, emotional, spiritual, mental and physical abundance you currently enjoy (and have access to). Take inventory, and as you do you will notice that you enjoy SO MUCH abundance that it can never be inventoried completely, because it's endless.

I am rich. Rich rich rich rich rich. And you are too. Have you noticed? Have you celebrated your wealth?

To receive more love you must be more love. To receive more abundance you must be more abundance. To be more abundance, think, feel and be grateful for you current massive abundance now.

Cheers to your massive wealth (and mine), Patrick

Free to move about the cabin

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0400

I think one of the most significant moments of my professional life just occurred ...

At least I think so.

Last month I set forth to write and create a new keynote for a company event I had scheduled this month down in Cancun.

As a speaker/artist, and for a while now, I have found myself interested in massive creation, continual invention and originality. What I haven't wanted to do is the same old keynote over and over. So lately I've created....

A keynote on spirituality, "Human Amazings"

A keynote on purpose and commitment, "Formulas for Miraculous Results"

A keynote on the journey of my one man show, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"

A keynote on personal power, "Awakening"

Nonetheless, I still wanted to create something brand new for the event in Cancun... so I set forth to do so.

The mysterious process of creation is one of my most beloved experiences in life. I won't bore you with the actual details, but I'll share with you a super short somewhat accurate description of the process:

The process of creating this latest keynote started off with the idea of a talk about the power of seeds, after I stepped on an acorn in Georgia. But once I wrote what I had to say about seeds, it led to a desire to write about my early life as an entrepreneur, which then prompted the thought of playing one of the inspirational songs of the band that I used to manage way back in college. And all the writing about entrepreneuring also made me want to rant about the myths that so many entrepreneurs suffer from lately, in their desire to have microwave results. Which somehow made me think of my most memorable day as a long distance runner, perhaps because long distance running, like entrepreneuring is a worker's sport. And then finally, this all left me with the desire to talk about risk. Good old fashioned risk. Because their is risk in everything worth doing. And the desire to speak about risk one day morphed into an intimate script of myself talking to God, confiding my deepest fears.

And with all this stuff together on paper... I saw not a keynote.... there was NO WAY it was a keynote. It was a mess of a speech. It was disaster of a keynote. It was speech writer's worst nightmare.

But it was a performer's dream.

Because it was a "show."

It was a show with five different scenes. Five different characters. Five different moods. And one through line... a relatable personal story of one person's struggle and triumph.

When I stepped onto the stage in Cancun, for me, it was like stepping onto a wire rigged between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

There were so many places to fall a long long way.

I suppose the biggest risk of all was the format of the show itself. It was unexpected, original, and completely out of keeping with people's expectations of a keynote speech. (Risk factor: 75%)

I suppose the other great precipice involved was my relationship to the audience. To this particular audience I wasn't just a speaker who would come and then go. For this audience of more than a hundred, I am one of the company founders. So my "founders" reputation was also on the line. (Risk factor: 95%)

There were a several other cliff-hanging risks involved also...

* I would be playing my guitar and singing for the first time ever from a stage. (Probability of success: 20% / Fear Factor: 90%)

* I would be delivering an 8 minute true story entirely memorized in rhyme. (Probability of success: 5%. Fear Factor: 88%)

* I would be ranting as an angry, angry man directly chastising my audience in character. (Probability of success: 40%)

* I would be cueing my own pre-recorded back and forth conversation with God, where one slip of the script screws the next line. (Probability of Success: 25%)

* I would be cueing a set of 60 slides, needing to memorize their order and timing perfectly. (Probability of success: 15%)

And these are all above and beyond the challenges of performing a next keynote, with 100% new lines, and 100% new stories, and 100% new points. That alone used to give me nightmares for a week less than 5 years ago. (And yes, getting ready for this one while having just had my second child and while designing an three day, personal development event, complete with two stages, 9 speakers, and 38 hours of "show").

Nonetheless, I walked out on this wire in front of the audience in Cancun four short days ago.

And 75 minutes later I made it to the other side without falling!

As a matter of record, I was greeted on the other side by one of the longest standing ovations of my life. And when I came off the wire I was greeted by people with tears in their eyes and astonishing words of praise. When I see this kind of reaction in people, I find myself pretty sure that I'll never have any way of really knowing what it's like to watch my work. I only know what it feels like to create it, and to risk it, and to perform it. (The greatest job in the world, by the way).

But here's the thing. One of my very earliest memories of my desire to become of a speaker were actually a blurry vision of doing a show someday that wasn't a keynote, but rather a show. A show that mixed many media and that played heavily to humanity and wonder and inspiration. And even way back in my early twenties, I had the notion that it might take me well into my 50's to realize such a show, as I still do. I feel like my entire career I've been seeking this vision in a thick fog.

But this new show I did four days ago... it was a leap forward toward that vision. A leap 20 years in the making. A leap I couldn't have accomplished without my "detour" into my comedic theater show nor without my 15 years as an inspirational speaker, nor without my 20 years of piddling around truly demolishing other people's songs with my guitar.

I think it's likely the greatest accomplishment yet for myself as an artist because I have such a deep value for being original, for doing things in ways that haven't been done before. And this latest show, was something unlike I've ever seen before - it was the breaking out of a major box. It felt like my Jackson Pollack moment of dripping paint instead of brushing it. I hope what I did defyied convention and broke new ground, because I think it did.

Nonetheless, I am now free to move about the cabin in newer, bigger and bolder ways!

Live Brave, Patrick

So True

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

To get what we've never had before, we must do what we've never done.

Beauty and the Beast

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

There can lie a beast within that wants to be beautiful. That wants to look in the mirror and see a sexy, attractive, young God or Goddess. You know what I'm say - many among us want to look hot for the rest of our lives.

I learned something having Bells Palsy and having half a face that looked like a dripping wax candle for many months. This is what I learned:

We ought not want to be be attractive and hot based on our looks. We ought instead to strive to be beautiful people based on our spirit. Attractive based on our joy. Hot based on our essence being fully expressed.

Although men certainly aren't immune, women in particular stress about aging and wrinkles. But wrinkle-free skin isn't what makes a woman hot. A woman is beautiful, attractive and hot when she's living from her heart, feeling connected to source, and fully expressing her creative and giving talents.

If you want to really be attractive - no matter what your age - then stop looking in the mirror and start looking into your soul. Within your soul there is an essence of true you - make your life and each day an expression of your true essence and I assure you that you will be more attractive and beautiful and handsome than you've ever been, no matter what your age, no matter what your physical condition.

See it's not about reflecting beauty - it's about shining beauty.

When you're living from your heart, your purpose, your giving loving joyful self - you shine beauty.

Perhaps someone said it much better when they said, "Handsome is as handsome does."

Love, Patrick

Co-Creating

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

There are a lot of messages around these days about how "You create your own reality." Certainly that is the message in the hit-movie The Secret. And certainly that is a popular message in the personal development community.

But in all fairness to my own life experience, a more accurate statement is: "You are co-creating your reality."

This is my life experience. For two reasons:

(1) There are results I set out to create and I possessed complete alignment in my thoughts, feelings and actions to get the outcome. Nonetheless, in multiple cases I could not create the result, seemingly no matter how easy a slam dunk the outcome "should" have been.

On the other hand:

There are results I've received in my where I had zero, zippo, zilch intention to create, YET, an immaculate outcome came my way.

Look at your life. Does it look like a creation entirely your own, are there times when it looks like there's a guiding hand also at work, sometimes?

Of course we are creating our own reality moment by moment based on our thoughts, feelings and actions. Of course we are.

But what of those times when you know you "should" have gotten the result but it seemed it "wasn't meant to be"? And what of those times when you were on the receiving end of an incredible happening, without any doing on your part?

My life experience tells me that there is also a guiding hand in on my affairs. Honestly, this is not what I ever set out to believe, or even desired to believe. Yet, when I embrace a rational assessment of how and why my life has unfolded, I see unmistakable fingerprints on my path - at times here and there - of a guiding hand.

I've created many positive outcomes in my life through the power of intention, and good old elbow grease. For these things, seemingly I deserve considerable credit.

But more importantly, I'm benefitted from many positive outcomes in my life for which it would be a real stretch to give myself any credit for. Sometimes life has just handed me remarkable breaks and good guidance on a silver platter.

I don't know what or whom is co-creating with me. I truly don't. But awareness that my life is a co-creation with something of a mystical nature gives me great revererance for being open, and open to suggestion.

Perhaps I have guides.

Perhaps some elements of my destiny are pre-determined. Perhaps I predetermined some of my own destiny in advance.

Perhaps all my dreams are can be real, but the ways in which they must be unfolded are less straightforward than I can comprehend.

And I feel comfortable adding this to the conversation: I have had strangers approach me multiple times and give me messages that speak directly to my deepest and most private thoughts. You can tell messengers from whacko's and casual commentators. Messengers speak to your soul and say things that feel like a message from God.

Secondly, I've had opportunities present themselves in my life out of the blue that are best described as assignments. Assigments are things that I just know I'm supposed to do. I just know. You can know when you're being assigned to help on something. It becomes pretty obvious. The assignment has a great need for you.

You are not doing your life alone. You are doing your life with a mystical support. Something that wants to help. And something that knows how you can best help. Something that is capable of giving you a leg up when you need it, before you even knew you wanted it. Something that is capable of getting messages to you.

Are you co-creating with God, with angels, with guides, with your own super-conscious? Again, I don't know. But we're dancing with something and when you notice your dance partners influence and help, it's pretty damn cool!

Sharing Success during my trip to Dallas Patrick

Damn the Torpedos

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

It's so easy to dick around with your life. To waste all the staggering potential that's available in each of your years, months and days.

Because if you don't grab life by the horns, the steering wheel - and really direct it toward something that captures your imagination, that stirs your insides, that sets you on fire ... well, if you don't then your time is wasted. Your time is wasted doing what ends up looking like a bunch of nuthin.... paying bills, getting by, being entertained, sitting on the sidelines, watching the parade and dicking around.

If you're going to have a life that matters you got bloody go for it. You gotta get snappin. You gotta get on a mission. You gotta say screw all the stupid stuff that occupies your time but never amounts to nothing special. You gotta throw gasoline and a match on your passions.

A life without a real passionate mission, without a real creative aim, without a reason to stretch and sacrifice and burn and grab and pull and grasp and dance and shout and roll the dice is hardly a life at all.

Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Passion. Choose it, chase it down, wrangle it, live it, breathe it, eat it, sleep it, sacrifice for it, let lesser things be damned for it. Because THIS IS YOUR LIFE and it ain't no joke.

Don't dick around with your amazing opportunity to be the creator of an continuous array of amazing miracles. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!

In all sincerity, Patrick Combs

Your Independence Play

patrick@goodthink.com (Patrick Combs) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

A small truth about you...

When you open yourself to all YOUR possibilities, you naturally overflow with ideas, projects, visions, creative endeavors, adventures to be had.

You have books in you. You have inventions in you. You have actions that will make headlines in you. You have businesses in you. You have award winning performances in you. You have million dollar ideas in you. You have songs, poems, plays, paintings, movies in you.

Bursting... you can feel like you're bursting from all the dreams you have inside. Like you're going to explode. An explosion of fireworks. An explosion of crescendo. And explosion of creation.

And hear this:

The ideas you feel wanting to burst forth are REAL things already, just not yet realized. They are REAL things just one thin veil away from materialization.

You feel all this creativity inside sometimes don't you? I know you do. You are pregnant with a multitude of exciting potentialities that are materializing inside you, and nearing their due date.

You are a hillside pregnant with seeds of thousands of flowers pushing up steadily, just about to burst through the surface and unfold the magnificence and miracle of their bloom.

Live so that your life bursts as a magnificent firework. As a SuperNova.

I'm mixing metaphors here faster than a high speed blender, but none-the-less...

Make choices and take actions to give life to your ideas.

Light the fuse of your big dreams.

Work on what matters TO YOU.

Then your dreams and ideas will explode into a million creations that color the world in hues that make the world a better place to live.

This is your independence play,

Sharing Success,

Patrick In San Diego