I am a human, born on the Earth realm, into a body with a penis and an absolute lack of uterus. This birthing happened in the latter part of the 20th century (CE) and it wasn’t particularly fantastical. There could certainly have been a lot more fanfare and confetti. No gods nor fairies whack their wands upon my bottom, bestowing me with magical abilities or blessings that would be revealed when I came of age. All I got for my troubles materialising in this corporeal form was bad eyesight, a skinny body, and a questioning mind that believed it was special.

Oh yes. Still am. It did take me some time to realize it. I was always waiting for that mystical fairy to come magick me with her fancy wand.

But my life path took me down many rabbit holes into several very wonderful lands. I began writing at a young age, and programming at a less young age, moving into massage, and acting, and healing therapies, and jumping around between all those skills, while engaging in some adventures under seas and over mountains and across deserts. I’ve spent a lot of time in introspection, fighting demons inside my head, and learning about myself, steadily growing from a quiet, self-contained nerd into a more boisterous, outgoing socialite, and eventually evolving into an amalgamation of both those not-at-all contradictory personalities.

And through all of these adventures, dark and light, I got to know myself as an extremely special human, capable of connecting and communicating with people in a sincere and inspiring manner. My various experiences tempered me into what the cool kids are calling a Light Worker.

Which is just something I’ve taken to mean I have the ability to help you see and intensify your own inner light. It really is quite magically. And it turned out that I never needed the whacking of a wand, after all.

That’s a question I could take hours answering. But, in a nutshell, you could say I am an actor, author, and adventurer.

Bleh. “Real jobs”. I have rendered myself completely unemployable and will most likely never have a “real job” again ?

I am here to serve you regardless, and to help you deliberately reconnect with your inner joy, which will in turn guide your life journey through brilliant and fulfilling work and play.

And I realise these pursuits through my writing, performance, guided adventures, and public speaking. See my Holistic Homie page for more details.

I should hope so. You will be purposefully creating a life of joy in all aspects. That means enjoying the majority of what you do, engaging with your work, and with your colleagues and team members in a more real, more pleasant, and, hence, more productive way.

You will find yourself more present and centred, making better decisions that serve you and your clients, and ultimately your business. The distinction between work life and play life will become less obvious as you seamlessly flow through your days, more fulfilled, more energised, and more empowered.

Gladly.

It makes no sense that you spend over 40 hours of a 168 hour week doing something you don’t enjoy with people you don’t necessarily connect with. Especially when you consider that 40 to 56 hours of that week is also spent sleeping. Leaving roughly only 72 hours to, what, enjoy life? That’s only a third of your time available! And that’s assuming you aren’t spending 2 to 6 hours cursing traffic every day either.

Life is meant to be completely joyful. And the more you are able to connect with your inner joy, the more you will bring that into your outer world. When you approach your day inspired and empowered and connected, you will experience what you were born into this world for; You will be enjoying your life, even if nothing else changes.

To be clear, I will assist you to be in this space with what you’re already doing. This isn’t about completely reinventing your life. This is about connecting more purposefully and meaningfully with yourself and with the people and situations that are already in your environment. And if changes do happen, they will happen from an empowered flowing space instead of being forced.

A person who is brimming with joy, and by extension with life energy, has the world at their fingertips.

Before I answer that, let’s first simplify the question.

Oh yes, very much. I am filled with a general state of joy and peace most of the time.

The two things are unrelated. I am happy. I have a life. Neither impacts the other.

Well, this is the foundation for what I teach. Happiness is an inside job. It doesn’t depend on what is happening around you, nor the people who are in your world. So I encourage mastering your emotional state of being, regardless of what’s right now happening in your life.

The irony is that the unenlightened often take this to mean “be happy no matter how shit life is” when it actually means “being happy is what leads us to better and better”. Happiness is simply the true north of our feeling compass. It’s more of a guide pointed towards what we prefer. As we accept this and use this information to determine our choices, we will certainly life more of our preferred life but we won’t be relying on life to make us happy. For that, we rely on ourselves.

On the other hand, when you try to control your situations, cutting out or trying to manipulate the things you think are causing you to be miserable, you are actually dis-empowering yourself. Embracing your life with wonder and excitement and unabashed happiness will empower and energise you, and ensure a more fruitful existence.

Well, yes, but also no. I’m saying do what you can to find within your shit life more to be happy about than to complain about. I’m saying, yes, commit to being happier, but not in spite of your shitty life. I’m saying don’t use your shitty life as an excuse to not commit to a better life. A shit life and being happy are not mutually exclusive.

You can take ownership of your feelings. You have within you the power to feel good, to connect to happiness and joy, to develop a genuinely positive outlook that exists independent of what is happening outside of you. You can be a master of your inner world regardless of your outer experience.

And that when you achieve this, as you notice how much your happier state is helping you positively adjust more of your life, you will never again be able to label or judge any part of your life as shit. Because you will come to know that the better you feel, no matter what the circumstance, the better the outcome.

That’s okay. Most of the world thinks it’s not possible.

This concept of “going within first” is what most religions are based on, this is what spirituality generally teaches, this is what many motivators and personal coaches preach. And many of them don’t get it either.

In addition, we’ve been conditioned to change our circumstances instead of ourselves. We’ve been taught that the answers are outside of us. We’ve been programmed to find joy and freedom through circumstance and other people.  These are conditions that have set themselves up in our subconsciousness and control our lives.

And even when we do our best to be positive and to be happy and to look for the good in everything, we still experience wobbles when situations slap us in the face.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

So I encourage you to throw away your superficial positive attitude and not look for the good in everything. And instead remember the good in you. Connect with the positivity and the innate power that is already in you. This is not about self development so much as self remembering.

My writing is about guiding you back to the place where you believe in yourself more than in your programming, and more in that power within you than in anybody or anything outside of you.

Your everyday life, including your career and your relationships, will benefit immensely from this “woo-woo”.

When you have redeveloped the utmost faith in yourself, you will confidently improve the quality of your life. When you believe in yourself, you will find it easier to believe in others. You will find it easier to connect with others, too. You will be able to know who and what you can trust, and who and what doesn’t need to be in your world any more. You will allow situations and people to play out exactly as they need to. And, perhaps more importantly, you won’t tolerate anything that isn’t in your interest! The more you honour yourself, the more you will consciously choose the environments, the situations, and the people who uplift and complement your journey.

You will be like a Zen warrior, actively engaging in your life, shaping it, while also being independent of it, not getting sucked into other people’s dramas, taking care of situations with calm and clarity. Whatever comes your way will not disrupt your ability to handle yourself. That’s a fair level of self-empowerment right there.

Let me tell you that the real world that I live in has a significant amount of amazing people in it. I choose who I want to work with and who I want to interact with. And the people who don’t connect with me, happily go on their merry way.

That’s a real world you can live in too. You will bring a radiance to everybody you interact with, and you will help them remember their own light. And when people feel good in themselves, they will feel better about interacting with you. And those very real assholes will either avoid you or treat you a lot better.

And, yes, this will not be an overnight fix. This is going to take effort and a bit of time. But in the same way that you don’t go straight from couch potato to doing 100 push-ups in one go, you will have to do some work to shift through your habitual mindset and behaviours. It is a process but, trust me, it is a gentle one. You start with doing one push up a day, everyday, and, before you know it, you will be doing a hundred without breaking a sweat.

Oh yes. Well, much of who I am is about my upliftment of others. I believe in freedom and in living a life of joy. And I probably repeat those words far too much. It’s something that I’ve spent long decades struggling to realise fully in my own life. I’ve been intelligent enough and stubborn enough to consistently rebuke the norm and find my own way to where we are now, where I’m confidently in my power and ready to assist you rediscover your own power too.

That’s bullshit and you know it. We are all magnificently powerful beings. We are the children of the Universe, playful creatures in all we do. And yes we momentarily forget that as we get indoctrinated into the poop of humanity. The fact that you’re here and have read this far down, however, is a good indication that poop didn’t sit well on you.

You know that you are powerful and that you can create a life of magnificence, of immense joy, filled with incredible love. You know it in your heart. You may need to remind your brain now and again.

Yes. And no. My life is a work in progress. It’s not what one would call a perfect life by any stretch of the imagination. But then what is perfect? My life has been a journey laden with what I’ve perceived to be hardships and very “poor” life choices.

I’ve quoted “poor” because every one of these choices did bring me more in line with who I am and the gifts I have to offer. While I was generally chasing my own dreams, I was also making choices that weren’t in line with my intuition. For the longest time, I kept seeking answers outside of myself. I was not in a mental place where I could trust my own judgment and, even during good times, I created a lot of misery for myself.

Right now, as I sit chatting to you, however, my life is mostly fantastic. I have amazing friends, I get to travel more often than not (pandemic issues not withstanding), I get to help people, I’m happy in my relationships, with my career trajectories, and I have found my personal freedom. I usually wake up joyful and go to sleep the same. I’m mostly happy with my life, yes.

At some point in your life, and I pray it is sooner rather than later, you will come to realise that for as long as you draw breath, you will crave expansion and simultaneously be met with the challenges that you’d need to overcome en route to that next expansion. It’s not all honey drops and rose petals, life will never be that. It’s the challenges that grow us, it’s the hard times that inspire us to seek the good times, it’s the unwanted situations that we develop into wanted ones.

I’ve made peace with that. And, really, what more could one want than to be at peace from sunrise to sunset, and all the time in slumber too 😉

No. As the saying goes, I can show you the door but you have to walk through it. If you want to be happy, yes, I can help you realise that. But words don’t teach. This is a journey that you take experientially. Your happiness is your responsibility. And the life you create always and evermore begins with you. I’m merely here to inspire that journey.

You already have. You’ve read through this entire page and you’re still here. This means your mind has, at the very least, accepted that my words aren’t complete hogwash and may be entertaining the idea that you are in charge of your own emotions.

You can let that idea permeate and grow. Preview the first chapter of the Creation begins or get it on Amazon. Take a squiz at both books here.

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