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Manifesto, News, Visionaries | 31 Comments | August 11th, 2006

1 – You are one of the few who can’t turn your back on the opportunity you have to do something great in this lifetime. You’re committed to doing something great–something born of your own vision (your vision for your life, your family, your company, your community or humanity).

2 – You’re frustrated in a world that rewards conformity and tolerates mediocrity. You’re compassionate to the situations of others, yet you’re unsettled by the way conformity and mediocrity has human beings staying small.

3 – You know that what stands between you and the better world you envision is really but one thing: your own limits. And you know those limits are but an illusion. Thus, you are committed to transcending your limits to be the change you seek in the world. Deeply committed.

4 – Thus, human development is not something new to you. You eat it up. You don’t just have an intellectual fancy for human development ideas, you do the work, you take the action.

5 – Having been someone who takes action to transcend your limitations, you see how much more is possible–not just for yourself, but for the world at large. The more you see your own evolution, the more you see for all of humanity.

6 – This vision, you know, is more than a dream. People in your life may see you as an idealist, a dreamer, a rebel or maybe even a nut. But their opinions of you are based on their own fears to live from their own vision–and you know that. So you don’t give much credence to their doubts and fears.

7 – Yet it bothers you. You give so much in life, you sacrifice, you work, you commit at such a high level that you may often find yourself alone, disheartened or even in despair. For you have no comfort zone to retreat to. You can’t pretend you don’t see a greater vision. You won’t pretend. You won’t turn around and live a “normal” life.

8 – Until your dying day, you will keep standing for the vision you see–for what you know to be possible. You are a visionary–a revolutionary. The world is born by those with your courage, your will, your love. There you stand, you can do no other.

9 – You know that if more people could but see even a little more of your vision, it would change their life. It would change the world. You sense something is deeply missing from traditional self-improvement methods. You don’t want to just succeed inside the prevailing system–you want to change the system or give birth to a new one. And you know that takes an entirely different set of tools for thinking, being and communicating.

10 – Words like “change,” “revolution,” and “transformation” don’t scare you. “Bring it on,” you say. You welcome the new, the different, the complex.

11 – You likely have little company. You have few you can talk to who really relate.

12 – The idea of arriving at a final truth or solution annoys you or humours you. You know it’s a fallacy that the fearful cling to. To be human, you’re sure, is to be alive with the quest and the question, learning and evolving continually. The thought of pretending you have the answer repulses you.

13. So you don’t try to sell people on your worldview. You don’t have a need to change their beliefs. You are comfortable in the question, in the unknown. That is your home. It’s where you live every day.

14. You know fear. You seldom ignore your feelings. Rather, you face them. You feel them. And yet you don’t define yourself as them. You define yourself by your actions.

15. You are someone I wish to get to know. Together, we can change the world. We can create a future where every human being naturally develops a healthy, free, independent mind. Where children are honored as the visionaries they have the innate potential to be. A world where human beings live at the edge of their potential as conscious creators in peace and prosperity.

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News, Visionaries, Visionary Mind | 1 Comment | August 7th, 2006

You gotta check this young man out.Clovis - Young Ugandan Visionary

I gave him the Vision Force 101 200 Mb download about 2 weeks ago (the precursor to Visionary Mind), and he’s already changing the world. Check out his blog today, and all the comments he’s getting.

News, Visionary Mind | No Comments | August 7th, 2006

Want to make it in on the first printing of our powerful new home study program: Visionary Mind? Hurry! I’m having a blast making the final edits. Soon, visionaries from around the world will be downloading their Visionary Minds… and getting them shipped to them in a box! How cool is that? .

News, Visionaries | No Comments | August 7th, 2006

I came across this letter in a post to the Power To Stand pod on Zaadz that I thought you’s appreciate. It’s a letter to you from Erika Harris of www.wordfire.net. Erika’s a spoken word artist in Chicago with something to say…

An Open Letter to Visionaries

“Today’s oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” (Author unkown)

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of importance – especially to the benefit of others – has had to endure being misunderstood by those who just couldn’t get it.

There are some people who are actually driven by something much greater than self-absorption. These people have an Urge on the inside of them that haunts and compels them to make their Urge a reality. If you live with that incessant inner-pull, then this letter is for you. And if you’re someone who feels utterly pleased, or bored, with your life, and you have no idea of the Urge and Pull that I’m talking about… well, maybe you know a person like this. In which case, this letter will help you better understand and support the Visionary who is in your life.

So, at superficial glance, Dear Visionary, people may mistake you for a malcontent; as you’re always tinkering, exploring, creating and insisting upon the improvement of things. But that’s only because you so clearly see what can be. And you’ve accepted your participatory role in ushering in that possibility. You’ve taken responsibility for bringing it forth. And that really is the most important thing. Bringing it forth.

Whether you are an activist, artist, dreamer, entrepreneur, idealist, inventor, progressive parent, scholar, scientist, social reformer or some other wonderful label not mentioned (in which case, Name Yourself!), you owe it to the world to manifest your Urge. That Urge is not in you merely to disturb your sleep, take your mind captive, or make you appear preoccupied and restless most of the time. That Urge is in you to be developed and brought forth. A segment of the world’s population is in dire need of the Thing(s) you are meant to bring forth. And there is a degree of suffering that segment will endure unless and until you finish your Task.

Don’t let delays, criticism or alienation discourage you. Accept them as part of the course, and go on. Persist. Relentlessly. If you don’t do this, then you and the segment you were born to serve will remain unchanged. The Future, its History, and our Present, will all be a bit handicapped because of your withholding.

If you’ve been looking or waiting for a Decided Marker – a Sign – to legitimize your commitment to your Urge, receive this letter as that Sign. Receive these words as a big kick from the Universe telling you that NOW is your time. Now is your time to give yourself over to that Inner Task you’ve been carrying around for years.

Giving yourself over to your Inner Task is not a grand and dramatic gesture. It is, instead, precise and subtle. It is listening like you’ve never listened before. It is, maybe for the first time in your life, allowing yourself to be guided, taught and ignited by something only you can see. And because only you can see it, only you can validate it. You have to leave the safe shores of external affirmation, and go into the deep waters of self assurance. The only way you can convert your Inner Task into an Outer Contribution is to absolutely believe in its value and worth – perhaps years before anyone else will or can. You have to be confident in a journey that has no map. But you need no map, because your confidence doesn’t come from the paths blazed by others. It comes from a New Land only seen by you. And you have within you all that you need to take us to that New Land with you. We are ready and waiting. Waiting for you to bring forth your vision.

News, Visionary Mind | No Comments | August 6th, 2006

I took a break from working on this yesterday to float the river in New Braunfels… aaah… being on the water in the sun is one of the most relaxing, refreshing things ever!

Now, it’s back to work for you. I can see it now… thousands of visionaries and new revolutionaries driving down the road, arming their brains and filling their hearts with the kind of power that comes from deeply connecting with their own vision. This physical package with audio CDs lets you take me with you… so where will we be going?

(not too late to get in on the first printing at a discount!)

-Michael Skye

News, Visionary Mind | 1 Comment | August 4th, 2006

As I am finishing up the Visionary Mind package for our first printing, I’m reviewing the Vision Force 101 program, which is a fully recorded live $397 program that comes as a free bonus.  Here’s a fun little audio clip from the beginning of VF101 as I have people reflect on what keeps us from living as visionaries.

Listen and see if you’re a dreamer or a doer.  It’s an oversimplification, but it’s a good way of getting present to how you keep yourself stuck.  On this audio clip I’m sharing how I was stuck as a dreamer for years. 

The program includes our proprietary Inner Conflict Diagram, which accelerates a person’s ability to be conscious or self-aware, and to transcend their limiting mindset.  It goes to the core problem of consciousness.  I’ll post an audio clip about that tomorrow.

News, Visionary Mind | No Comments | August 3rd, 2006

Because the world can’t wait… and you know it.  And because you can’t wait… and you know it.  You know you won’t be fulfilled unless you’re living at the edge of human and societal evolution.  You’re just not willing to sit by and wait for some great visionary leader to save us from ourselves… You’re an agent of change.  You’re a visionary, a revolutionary.  You know that changing the world starts with you.

We’re rushing to complete our first ever physical training program.  It’s a revolution in a box.  We call it Visionary Mind.  And as an agent of change, you should be holding it in your hands.  It’s a simplified version of our iStand Technology (TM) that is designed to get you so deeply connected to your innermost values that there’s nothing to do but STAND.  So deeply aligned with what’s most important to you that a vision emerges, a vision–not a dream, a wish or a fantasy.

This is where it starts.  The world you envision–it starts with your visinary mind. Get in on the first printing of this powerful program here.