The Bulging Right Pocket

It was one of the worst periods of time in my life.

Recently separated, I had just lost custody of my two daughters and was forced to vacate my newly-renovated home (with three days notice) that contained the well-equipped recording studio I had spent two years building prior to selling my drycleaning business (in order to build a long-desired music production company).

Divorce - Canadian style!

Two years before, I discovered that a *friend,* a music contact I had worked with and even spent time with in Hollywood a decade prior, had stolen a song that I and my music partner had written and presented to this budding writer/producer at that time. He had since become a major player in the music business and had ‘borrowed’ much of our song, placing it on the album of a multi-million selling female artist. Read more

The Perception of Different as Dangerous

Developed a long time ago, and still buried deep in the human psyche, a safety system was added to our make-up. It was a necessary survival mechanism that ensured the success of the human species. It was the mental processing component that warned us to be on alert, that anything that we are not familiar with could be dangerous.

This is certainly understandable. A snake we have never seen before could be poisonous, or not. “Watch out” , we scream! People we are not familiar with could be malicious…so, “don’t talk to strangers” rolls off most mother’s tongues. Clearly, this mechanism is highly valuable in keeping us safe, but the natural assumption that inevitably permeates our psyche as a result is that everything we are not familiar with is likely, rather than possible, to be dangerous.

This characteristic is fairly well understood by people whose personal agendas are less than admirable, and they use this natural fear against us. Read more

How to Change the World in 7 Days

I’d like to inspire you to think carefully about your personal sense of happiness. This is about how the discovery and pursuit of a higher purpose can be a major turning point in creating greater personal meaning while simultaneously helping build a better world.

It is well-known that high-powered executives who do volunteer work say that they get much more personal satisfaction from their volunteer work than from their jobs. I’m sure that goes for the vast majority of us regular folks too. We find much greater meaning in those moments that we help others from heart-inspired work than from simply doing a job.

Now if you’ve felt that there just has to be more to the life you are living now, I’d like to take you on a little guided journey of exploration that can reveal an important new path for you. Your only expense will be a little introspection time, and it could lead you to a means of creating positive world change while helping you make your living in a higher way. Read more

Neale Donald Walsch and the Movement of Change

A message from 10 Million Clicks For Peace from founder, Julian Kalmar:

I am delighted to announce that “Conversations With God” author, Neale Donald Walsch, has joined Robert Evans, Rick Beneteau and me in the Movement of Change.

So, what does this mean for you?

I’ll let Neale tell you in his own words in this copy of the email he just wrote to his large list of loyal subscribers…

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Haiti Needs Your Help!

I’m writing about the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday just before sunset. The capitol, Port au Prince, where about one-third of Haiti’s 9 million residents live, has been mostly destroyed. According to CNN, “Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported that ‘most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed’.”

Many, many, many people are trapped under rubble screaming, begging, and praying for help. The people there are helping as best they can, but without a flood of proper equipment for lifting and cutting concrete, it is clear that the death rate will be enormous.

There is no country in the world that has the resources to deal with the scope of devastation in Haiti (as a percentage of the country destroyed). For one thing, Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere and its building standards are nothing like what we have here in California. Many (maybe most) concrete block buildings have no reinforcing steel resulting in the massive–truly unbelievable–devastation. Read more

The Passing of a Legend

Jim Rohn was a mentor to millions. He was a mentor to me.

On December 5, 2009, “America’s Business Philosopher” passed after a brave, 18-month battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis.

I could write pages about how this man of wisdom impacted my life but instead I want to share an exclusive interview that I, and a business partner, Audrey Lanford, had the privilege of conducting with Jim from his home, in 2002, on the subject of spirituality in business.  Click the Play button at the end of this post. Read more

A special gift for you this season

Dear Friend of Peace,

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Throughout the world, this and any other day can be a day of peaceful reflection, joy and gratitude.

We have prepared a special gift for you for this season. Click here and you’ll be taken to a site where you can pick up a beautiful MovieCard, an inspiring and uplifting movie with lush graphics, relaxing music and an important message for you and yours on this day of gratitude.

May you find peace within and may you be empowered to spread that peace to those around you. For it is one person of inner peace at a time that world peace will ultimately be realized. Read more

Last Opportunity to Become an Ambassador of Change

The cut-off date is Monday, November 30th, and the 100 Ambassadors of Change remaining seats are filling up fast.

This is the last opportunity for you to apply to join this elite team of world-changers.

If you’ve ever wished you could devote yourself to your passion and have the support and help of a family of inspired synergistic people to help bring your vision to reality, this is your chance to make it happen.

Not only will you impact thousands and thousands of people in the most profound ways, but you’ll leave a legacy of hope and light as your contribution to the world. I encourage you to click the link below, because… Read more

“Love, Joan” - a Tribute

She told Julian and I that she arrived at the total of her generous donation based on a certain amount she pledged on behalf of each of her five children, in the name of it making a more peaceful world for them.

That donation to 10 Million Clicks For Peace was from the woman I came to affectionately call, “Love, Joan”. See, over the years, Joan Bramsch signed every email that way.

Thing is, long before she donated to feed the world’s forgotten war refugees in her children’s names, Joan donated to, and helped promote, my Internet Toy Drive, which has helped the U.S. Marines and their Toys for Tots program to purchase toys for needy families at Christmas for nine years.

The connection Joan and I shared ran much deeper than just donating to my causes. She naturally did those things because she believed she could help change the world, and she certainly did that, in many ways. Just one of them was the precious information she freely provided to parents, teens and children. Joan’s Empowered Parent newsletter was one of my all-time favorites because every issue was filled with information that families could readily apply to make their homes happy, safe and nourishing environments. Read more

My Big Fat Greek Encounter

Late again! My new doctor, who I met last year in the emergency ward after suffering a rather nasty concussion while curling.

If you’re not familiar with this winter sport, curling is akin to shuffleboard but you play it on a “sheet”. A sheet of ice that is, directing 44 pound “rocks” toward the opposing “house”. When not sliding them down the ice to knock out the opponents’ rocks, you are sweeping in front of the rotating objects like a madman at the behest of a screaming “Skip” (the captain of the four-member team) who determines if your manic, frantic action will help guide the rock to its desired destination. This was my first attempt at playing the game, one that had always looked to me on television as rather docile, and I soon came to realize that wearing the wrong kind of shoes on the pebbled ice can cause you to go caboose-over-tea-kettle, landing on your head prior to landing in the back of an ambulance just before landing in the hospital.

Now that you’ve received your first curling tip, back to my new doctor. Read more

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