Earlier today, you may have read about an invention called Gorilla Glass and how they’re thinking about using it for HDTVs. Phillip Wong over at CNET.com joked in a blog post about his list of wants in a theater setup, wondering if Gorilla Glass was really necessary.

What is Gorilla Glass?

According to Wong’s blog post, it’s an ultra durable bulletproof-like glass that would go on the front of an HDTV if the deal goes through. Maybe for all those people who accidentally throw the Wii controller through the screen after getting excited about winning that virtual tennis match. Hah, or like that TV commercial where they were playing baseball and the guy’s friend says “pretend you’re really in the game” and the guy throws the control baseball pitch style right through the television.

The purpose Gorilla Glass seems to solve is much like insurance, whether it be car insurance or health insurance: a promise of reimbursement in case of damage or loss.

It’s kinda like how in life when you step out of your comfort zone how having a Gorilla Glass like attitude really comes in handy. When the “what if” questions surface, doubts start creeping in, the unbreakable glass serves to keep your mindset in check so you can keep moving forward.

Recently, you may have seen a project I put together where I stepped way out of my comfort zone. The action happened when it became more important to get out there in a big way to reach the people I am here to reach than to succumb to the uncomfortable feelings. The page I put up was a fundraising campaign to go towards me getting my hypnosis certification.

Here’s that page: http://www.BeWhoYouIs.com

Some of the thoughts that went through my head: “what will people thing” “wow this is really humbling” “what if people don’t get that it’s not about me, about how that certification represents the people who I can reach, the lives I can facilitate change in”

A wise man once said how it can be humbling, but it doesn’t have to be humiliating.

So, your personal transformation can occur just beyond the comfort zone you may hold so dear right now.

A quote from a gentleman called Bill Walsh read, “the success you want happens just outside of your comfort zone”

So, today, tomorrow, and the next day, allow yourself to do the uncomfortable things so you can allow in those things you want in your life.

Philip Wong was right, you really don’t need Gorilla Glass, all that’s required of you is to live the art of allowing it in. If the TV breaks, get a new one – if the money’s not there for a new one right now, ask for it, let go, and then find ways to have fun – to allow joy to still come into your life without the TV, and act on whatever feels inspiring to you.

Thank you, dear reader, for investing your time to see what it takes for your own personal transformation – be well.

Reference: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20012365-1.html

What a beautiful and glorious day it is… thank you for blessing me with today.

And thank you, dear reader, for sharing this time with me to open your heart and mind and receive. For as you know, time is precious and for that I am grateful you chose to share your time here, now. I, my friend, appreciate you.

Now, you may have heard of Jerry & Esther Hicks and their channeling of the non physical entity – Abraham. If you have not yet heard of or are not yet familiar with their work, I highly suggest you check out Abraham-Hicks as they are a wealth of wisdom.

So, lately, I’ve studied their work relentlessly, which helps to put everything you have ever studied about the Law of Attraction and self development for that matter, into action. You, like me, may have studied everything under the sun with self growth, tried personal development plans, and worked on your inner game until the cows came home. You may even get this stuff intuitively but not quite figured out how to use it consistently to create results in your life.

Sound anything like your experience?

It has definitely been my experience to have a huge bookcase filled with personal development books all promising to contain “the secret” to success.

And, why aren’t you a multimillionaire, with a beautiful family, driving that car you’ve always wanted, taking those vacations whenever, wherever you want?

To start with, if you have yet to read this book, check out Sara, Book 1, which will turn you on to the accelerating process of appreciation.

Anyways, this post is not one all about the Abraham Hicks series, though they are an integral part of discovering the powerful processes they teach to grow from the inside out.

One of the biggest lessons and blessings you can give yourself is to start from where you are on your path.

Everything any self development author has to give you works. The reason it may not work for you, work as fast as you’d like, etc. is because you may be trying to use the technology from a place other than where you’re starting out.

Make sense?

Positive expectancy works though you have to have a reason to positively expect. If it’s money you want and you have any feelings of desperation anywhere in your many layers, the experience you will most likely receive is more situations to be desperate about.

It’s your story, after all, and you can create whatever you want.

Yes, even things like cancer, amongst other things people commonly find “bad” or “wrong” are experiences that person created to learn a lesson of one feeling or another.

Just the other day a woman with a big heart at Holistic Happenings graciously shared with me how she used to have fibromyalgia and how she had to learn how to allow it in order to grow. In her initial resisting, the fibromyalgia initially got worse – more intense, to the point she had to use a cane to walk around. It was not until she learned to allow it and became OK with the thought of living with it the rest of her life that she healed the fibromyalgia.

She had what you might call an explosive blessing because when I saw her the other day, she now is a practicing hypnotist and she walks around freely without a cane.

Funny that I mention this to you in this post because the same day I spoke with the lady at Holistic Happenings, my brother yelled at me for what he felt were my shortcomings. Normally, I’d yell back and do what I could to bring light to all of his shortcomings in an effort to show him how it didn’t make sense to cast stones when he himself had many things to cast stones at…

Hah, how hilarious was that and no wonder it used to turn out the way it did.

The other day, I smiled and said thank you to my brother. One of the things he called me was “Mr Philosophy” to which I offered the notion he might be able to use much of what I have studied.

After he was finished going on about his perspective on my shortcomings, I thanked him for reminding me what I had to appreciate in my life experience.

That, dear reader, is one giant leap for mankind for as each one of you decides to be the change you want to see, you reclaim your energy as you grow into who you are becoming.

The most interesting part about that experience was how I had written out a list of things I appreciate about my family and offered it to them to read, which they did, and how the rest of it played out about to the “T” of an experience I read about in the Sara Books.

What I mean by that is after appreciating something, I was challenged to see how I would create the situation.

… so, appreciate and be open to all the wonderful experiences you create in your life.

Share in the comments below your experiences with using these principles in your life.

Here is part 2 of your Ultimate Success Camp story on how you, too, can achieve personal transformation.

Nearing the end of day 1 after Les Brown spoke about living your brilliance, Bill Walsh tells us that it’s about time for a stage hypnosis show.

Now, having heard about stage hypnosis shows, but never having experienced one in person before, you bet it was intriguing. Supposedly after a few suggestions, people had clucked like chickens and done other things they would not normally do when their everyday defenses are up.

So, imagine sitting in a hotel conference room as the hypnotist Will “Millionaire Maker” Duquette is introduced. Will immediately informs you and the rest of the attendees that he almost did not do the show because he was a bit freaked out but had used self hypnosis to instantly overcome what otherwise would have been a debilitating fear for many people.

Pretty amazing, right? (and by the way, that’s the first suggestion that hypnosis works – you think “wow, if hypnosis can work like THAT for him, maybe it can work for me, too”)

After a bit of an introduction, Will asks for 10 people to come up and sit in the 10 chairs, and 10 people to stand behind those 10 people because he had a limited amount of time so he couldn’t work in depth with the people who were more resistant to hypnosis.

If anyone has ever tried to hypnotize you and failed, chances are you had an expectation somewhere in your consciousness that hypnosis did not work for you.

A mad rush to the chairs ensued and I secured a spot standing behind one of the chairs.

Now, I want you to imagine that you are deeply relaxed, like you are walking down a staircase and each step down you take, takes you deeper into relaxation. As you look at the staircase, it comes into your awareness that 10 steps remain and sub-vocally you will count from 10 down to 1 as you continue to move deeper into relaxation as you walk down the stairs. 10, smiling now because you are deeply relaxed as you take the next step down, 9, becoming even more relaxed as you get into a rhythm of going deeper, 8, going even deeper now and smiling as you become aware of how deeply you are relaxed as you count, 7, lightly floating down in your rhythmic state of deep relaxation as you now come to 6, going even deeper now as you continue your steps into 5, feeling comfortable and completely safe as you continue to move into an even deeper state of relaxation by stepping into 4, floating even deeper now in your rhythmic state of deep relaxation in 3, going deeper into comfortable relaxation, 2, comfortably relaxing in your safe state of rhythm, now, 1 so deeply comfortable in your rhythmic state of relaxation.

Wow, if you find yourself in trance right now, let me know in the comments down below about your shared experience.

So, after going through a similar induction (the one above was created by me completely spur of the moment as I was writing this post) I was chosen as one of the 10 to be hypnotized live on stage.

A few of the things we did while under hypnotic suggestion:

- 1 person thought she was a safety belt and jumped in the lap of the person sitting next to her

- We all acted like we were in grade school again and every time the “teacher” (Will) turned his back, we made faces

- Every time we saw napkins, we thought they were hundred dollar bills and hid them in places people wouldn’t look

- I thought my name was Oscar Meyer Weiner even when taking out my ID, seeing my picture, and thinking someone had stolen my identity because it wasn’t the same name on the id

Now, if we did all these things under hypnotic suggestion (by the way – if you were asked to do something under hypnosis that was against your ethics/morals/religion/etc. – you wouldn’t do it while under hypnosis) imagine what you could do simply by replacing all negative/unsupportive beliefs with empowering beliefs.

What would you do when you let go of limiting beliefs and conditioning?

Stay tuned because soon I will attend Will Duquette’s The Shift 3 day Bootcamp

***Update: To further confirm that hypnosis is in fact powerful – when I went home that night, I actually ate a hot dog at like midnight, and it’s been a long time since i’ve done that.***

You are cordially invited to comment down below on any experiences you have had with hypnosis.

In a word – WOW – Ultimate Success Camp from Bill Walsh and team was simply amazing.

Powerteam International facilitated the creation of a space so genuine, it was truly unique. So many open, authentic, abundant people with an open heart to play a bigger game from love.

Here is part 1 of a symphony of 4 parts because there were at least 4 distinct experiences to share with you.

It was funny today when I was at another networking event this morning when I shared my vision. Most of the people in attendance knew me as specializing in using the internet as a tool to drive more clients, customers, prospects to grow their business. When I stood up to speak towards the end of the meeting, even the people talking at the far end of the table stopped in their tracks as I owned my power. When I shared my vision to be who you is, to be a transformational leader and facilitate the transformation of 1,000,000 by April 23, 2016 to be who they is – the smiles and giggles arising from their inner knowingness was awesome.

And I share that with you not to impress you but to impress upon you how truly transformational it is to let go into your heart’s authentic love. One gentleman even shared good luck with me to whom I will be forever grateful.

That’s what happens when you be who you is…

… the curtain of ego leaps into satori and thus begins the journey into the infinite joy.

Ultimate Success Camp was another facilitation of me being who I is and what’s possible for you.

My mission to facilitate the transformation of 1,000,000 people by April 23, 2016 is a mission that I felt inside of me as far back as I can remember. Of course, I may not have known it as that way back when though I always have had that inner knowingness that the mission that arose defined by those precise words is what I am called here to this life to do.

To this I share my gratitude with Karen Hoyos, a transformational leader who shared her work with us at the Ultimate Success Camp. At one point in her presentation, she asked us to write down our vision.

Here’s what I wrote down:

“I wake up early each day in abundant gratitude knowing I get to own my power of being a transformational leader because I am being of service to massive numbers of people facilitating their transformation to be who they is, now.”

My hand was the first one up when Karen asked for volunteers to share their vision. At first I grasped the paper pad on which I wrote my vision, to which Karen emphasized I let go and speak from my heart. So I tossed the paper pad back on the table, grasped the mike, informing everyone I was now Matthew, Oscar was yesterday (look for videos of a hypnotism stage show surfacing on the internet on a computer near you soon).

As I connected with who I is sharing from my heart, power rose up within me as it felt like the room shook when I shared my vision, to which I received thunderous applause and the entire room pointing at me expressing their belief in me. At that point I became immensely humbled in gratitude as I shared thank yous with the entire room.

Next, Karen asked us to write down our what/why and here’s what came from my heart:

Freedom, a planet of open people, giving back to my family

Somewhere in the midst of writing both parts, I let go and cried in the middle of about 100 people, most of whom I had never met before. Here’s the kicker: I was OK with it and actually smiled and embraced a woman with gratitude who shared my releasing experience with me.

Hah, depending on what mindset you’re in right now, you could totally take that a completely different way.

What was a profound realization was that Oscar (thank you Will Duquette) is an analogy for the me I had not met yet, the greatness residing in me Les Brown had talked about in his presentation.

Boy, am I ever looking forward with abundance to the future at both Will’s seminar for The Shift here in Chicago and Les Brown’s speaker training here in Chicago with appreciation for what I have right now.

Thank you, dear reader, for being open to share an experience from the heart.

May your week be blessed.

David Morelli of www.Enwaken.com recently offered a free course on developing your intuition via his Enwaken course.

What drew me to David’s course was the fact that my intuition is usually right on but I ignored it or suppressed it in the past. The words “life had gotten to a point for me” almost came out a moment ago and yet if I used those words, I would place responsibility for creating my reality outside of myself. What actually happened is that I had enough with following things/paths/whatever you want to call it, other than my passion, which is working with energy and facilitating peak performance both in other people and in myself. Well, if you realize that we all are each other – then there really is no you or me as separate beings though that is a conversation for a different time.

Any time I have let go and stepped into my personal power, the time when I am most “on fire” are when I am doing the things I just mentioned – working with energy and/or facilitating peak performance. I thought internet marketing was what I was supposed to do until I revisited my initial intention of exposing myself to the industry – to create value so I could receive the money to do what I really am committed/called to do.

… and I even fulfilled my make money on the internet intentions though I reinvested a lot of what I received in an attempt to raise more money because I got caught up in the “raise money now so I can do what I want now” vortex without stopping the buying cycle long enough to raise any real money to invest in following my passion path. That finally did stop and right now I actually do dig working as a project manager on a team of some pretty remarkable people.

Now, this is not all about me because I am positive other people out there can relate to this even if they do not want to admit it to themselves right now. Things even got to the point where, in my head, I was successful even though it was clearly apparent that I was stuck in a vicious circle. We humans are funny like that – we tell ourselves a story and sometimes it is not exactly in alignment with what is really going on in the reality we create for ourselves.

The key here is that I was out of alignment with who I really am.

I am energy, I am intuitive, I am change, I am action, I am me, I am you, I am everywhere, I am everywhen with no place to go, no place to be, and no hidden agendas.

So, at the end of the third call with David, he offered the opportunity to go deeper with him in the form of a year long training.

All signs point to yes – yes when I first heard David speak about it, yes when I read the sales letter, yes when I asked a friend about it the other day, even a resounding yes as I was listening to T Harv Eker speak at the Chicago Health Expo where I was volunteering for Peak Potentials Training.

Dude, what’s the problem, you ask?

A super beast limiting belief is rearing its head saying – “how the heck do you expect to invest $7,997 right now, you sure you deserve that”?

And if you’re saying right now – “Matt, $7,997 IS a lot of money…”

I am here to tell ya it is not about the money – my passion is more important than that, my why is bigger than that, money is absolutely important – I am simply not sure about the how.

I do not have $7,997 to invest though I do have the first investment of $897 and yet another limiting belief jumps up and yells “how ya gunna pay for your monthly bills”?

To which I realize 1. the bills are not big, 2. I am going to want to reach back in time if I do not make the decision to go for it and say “dude, are you kidding me, you let THAT stop you from taking action on your passion and dreams”?!

By the way, if you ever feel a little crazy for the mental process you go through before making a big decision in your life, now you know unequivocally that you are not alone.

Here is what David plans to facilitate in his year long training Enwaken training @ www.Enwaken.com/leap:

• Laser-Coaching Clients for Miraculous Results
• Getting Instant Insight in Relationships, Money, Career, Purpose, Health, etc.
• Freeing Yourself (from your Deepest Blocks) while Liberating Others
• Experiencing a Deep, Profound Connection with Life & Source
• Building a Business by creating Miracle Change
• Holding and Guiding a Group in Life-Changing Transformation
• Using Healing Energy to Get Instant Breakthroughs (for Yourself & Others)
• Seeing the Energetic Fabric of Life, While Weaving Your Future
• Learning to Clear Any Block, Anytime, Anywhere (without effort)
• Using the Golden Keys of the Universe to Unlock Your Greatest Gifts
• Fulfilling Your Purpose while Helping Others Now
• And So Much More!

And THAT’s what’s up for me… we’re in the state of the world we’re in because people have done the opposite of the above – and it’s hilarious if you stop your little voice long enough to watch your thoughts. No limiting belief makes sense; it’s like a midget evil clown (no offense to actual “little people” btw) is ruling your life.

You know we’re not here to play life small, right?

By playing big, living life without limits, being happy from the inside out, by change STARTING with the man (or woman) in the mirror…

… you unconsciously give other people the power to do the same.

And when you realize everything is energy, imagine what your life would be like by living your own life on fire!

What is it costing you to go to a job you do not like, to give your energy to small things, to feel like you are stuck in a swirling vortex of nothingness just to have to get up and do it again tomorrow?

What is it costing your family and friends?

THAT’s my why drawing me to David’s Enwaken training – leading powerful change in the hearts and minds of people to stop the role playing story, finally being who they is…

I have the $8,000 figure posted in 6 prominent places in my environment – now to determine the HOW.

… will you help, do you have any insight, in what ways might we work together…