The Law of Reciprocity simply states, “What you give out to the world comes right back to you.” That applies for both the positive and negative. When you give out bad energy, bad energy comes back. When you give out good energy, good energy comes back.

In other words, if you’re someone who gives away lots of love, you can expect lots of love to come back.

If you’re quite frankly an asshole…then you’re going to find a lot of people being assholes and jerks right back at you.

Straight up.

The Paper Boy

When I moved into a new home in San Diego in January of 2008, I began (more…)

If you read my last blog post, you understand that it is critically important to determine ‘what’ you want before even considering ‘how’ to achieve it.  Once you’ve done that and you’ve committed to achieving your ‘what,’ then you must learn how to ‘allow!’

What really got me thinking about this topic was a few weeks ago when I was attending a Jack Canfield seminar. I was speaking to a lady I met named Aurora who was telling me that she’s got some lofty goals, some of which include working with thought leaders, but she doesn’t ‘expect’ to necessarily get them on board.

‘WHAT?! Aurora!’

The passion within me about the topic exploded like a volcano when she told me she wasn’t expecting!

Suddenly I got into a somewhat passionate preachy mode about having high expectations even when the dream (more…)

A very important lesson I learned while under John Assaraf’s wing was that…

The “what” comes before the “how.”

What does that mean?

Consider this: We all have ‘wants’ in our life: material, spiritual, relationship, and contribution (as well as others).  That is our ‘what.’

What most people do however is as soon as they think of ‘what’ they want, they immediately begin to list out all the reasons why they can’t have it! They think, “well ‘how’ in the world could I possibly achieve that?”

And when they’re asking that question, they are asking with a belief that it can’t happen, and thus attracting into their life all the reasons why they can’t achieve that dream.

That’s all they see: the reasons why not!

If you’ve had a dream in the past 10 years in which you (more…)

I mentioned in my first post about sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth the negative power of having an entitlement attitude. You know what demonstrates entitlement? The attitude of HAVE-DO-BE.

What does that mean? It means you believe that you must have a lot of money before you can do the things you want, which will then allow you to be the person you wish to be (that’s just one example of many).

The very important concept I learned from my mentor Scott deMoulin is to BE-DO HAVE!

That is, you BE before you can DO, and you DO before you can HAVE.

You don’t need to HAVE certain things to BE happy!

If that were the case then why (more…)

Last week Thursday I discussed the concept of sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth (which I learned from Alex Mandossian), and how it applies to your financial life. The big ‘a-ha’ I mentioned in that post referred to when I realized the concept applies to spirituality as well. I’ll discuss that in a moment, but first…

Here are a few more thoughts on the financial issue.

Over the last year and a half, every now and then I would get frustrated in my work place thinking, “I deserve to be earning way more money than this…” And honestly, I really did deserve more! For the value and skillsets I brought to the table, I deserved a heck of a lot more. And many of my co-workers felt the same thing and thought, ‘you’re getting paid what?! Sean, the value you bring to this company is worth far more!’

My lesson to learn though was…
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Tonight I had an a-ha moment!

I was thinking about the last year and a half in which I’ve been working at a job with a minimal salary, why I was willing to do that, and why I’m willing to continue doing that.

It’s the concept of ‘sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth,’ I learned from my mentor Alex Mandossian.

While I’ve been primarily correlating that term with the concepts of financial wealth, this evening I connected it to my own life in a completely different way.

I’ll first explain it in the most common way though, which is financial wealth.

I believe that there are many people in this world that (more…)

This post refers to my first series of blog posts. Be sure to read those if you’d like to understand the full context.

Before I came to my apprenticeship, I had absolutely no reason to believe that John would take me under his wing. How could I? I had absolutely NO ties to the personal growth industry. Logic would clearly say in a run on sentence, “Sean! You have ONE more year to get your college degree and you’re thinking of joining a program by this dude you don’t even know for a couple thousand dollars and giving up everything you’ve been doing in school the last 4 years for the hope that he’ll take you under his wing?! Don’t be foolish!”

That logical idea reflects the thoughts that were going through the minds of friends and family when I made my choices to not go back to school and to join the Having It All Challenge. And it’s easy to understand where they were coming from with the perspective of me being foolish. But what about now looking in hindsight?

The fact is that whenever you take risks in life, logic will most always (more…)

If you haven’t read ‘Taken Under the Wing of John Assaraf from the Secret (Part 2)’, I suggest you do so now before reading on…

After moving out of my parents home in September of 2007, I quickly found myself running out of money since I wasn’t working. About a month and a half into the Having It All Challenge I realized I wasn’t going to be able to pay for my next month of rent and had to figure something out fast!

I began thinking through my options and realized a great choice was to find someone that would let me move in with them free of rent for a couple months. I asked one person and was turned down, but in my mind I simply said, “NEXT!”

(Be sure to say ‘NEXT’ whenever you (more…)