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Mark Shepard

What’s The Point?

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What is the POINT?

SERIOUSLY. Why are we here?

Our parents had sex and we were conceived and born… that’s a fact. But it doesn’t answer the age old human question of

“Why am I here?”

Closely followed by…

“Now that I AM here, What’s the point of being here?”

Were we just the result of some random genetic matching and meeting on the cellular level?

Are we here to simply pass our genetic code on to another hapless generation of “accidental tourists?”

Or are we here for a purpose…

  • Are we here to experience the full pleasure attainable through our five senses?
  • Touch and sexual ecstasy?
  • The sound of a soft rain falling through spring leaves? The sound of the ocean, the sound of a symphony, a rave, a lullaby? Birdsong? The wind in the pines?
  • Are we here to see? To drink in the visual wonder all around us? The sight of snow capped mountains rising majestically above a pristine alpine lake? The sight of millions of brightly colored tulips in full bloom on a perfect May morning? Sunlight bouncing blindingly off of newly fallen snow?
  • The sight, sound and scent of flaming autumn leaves falling around us and crunching underfoot?
  • The taste of a perfectly ripe piece of fruit in season?

The pride of accomplishment? Creating or doing something that has yet to be created or done?

Are we here to gather to ourselves honor among others?

Are we here to rise to the “top” of our field, or the top of our local government or sport or academic or professional discipline or national or international leadership?

Are we here to make money? Lots and lots of money?

Are we here to make history?

Are we here to be the best parents, lovers, partners, caretakers, teachers that we can be?

SERIOUSLY!  I WANT TO KNOW!!! What the hell is the point of being here NOW?

We are here for such a short moment in the vastness of Eternity. IS THERE A POINT? OR IS IT ALL A COSMIC ROLL OF THE DICE?

And while we ask these questions we also have to ask, what’s the big deal about MONEY?

They say Money can’t buy love or happiness? But it is universally coveted. Why are we all so enamored of money? Why is money such a big deal? And why do we get pretty much ZERO training about how to create and manage wealth in our educational system?

Because ultimately money allows us to fulfill our potential… and it can serve as a self perpetuating positive reinforcement loop. And if EVERYBODY knew about money and how to create and sustain it, it might not allow the powers that run this world to have such a free rein…

Personally, I get a little bit screwed up around all of this because money doesn’t really motivate me. What motivates me is what I can do with money and what value I can contribute to other people… The challenge is that one of the things I do best, write and perform songs has an extremely nebulous “value”. What does a song really do? What’s a song actually worth? For that matter how do you come up with a value or price for Hypnosis or NLP?

How do you exchange the value in a song or in a process of transformation with the value that someone else with a different set of skills and value added abilities has?

And what’s the point of writing songs that no one hears? For me the point HAS to be more than “entertainment”.  The music HAS to be able to do more than distract a person for a few moments from their problems. I want to write songs that cause people to measurably improve their lives as a result of listening to them… but theres more to it even than that…

I keep coming back to the idea that I was born to touch the lives of millions of people with my music, my message and my methods.

But is that what I really want? Or is that what I think I’m supposed to want just because my music seems to be good enough to be paid attention to??

Here are my thoughts about this for me. What your mission and/or purpose is, is up to you. Please use my story for one example then apply this to your life ok?

My MISSION: To positively influence the lives of millions of men and women with my music, message and methods of personal transformation that allow them to improve their lives… and everything in their lives: their minds, bodies, careers, bank accounts, relationships etc.,  into something that they recognize as improvement and to facilitate an exchange of value around all of that… in a win/win/win way.

Is my mission then, my purpose? Or is my purpose something greater than that?

My purpose is to live up to my potential in every area of my life.

My purpose is to do life as well as I can possibly do life. Because it is a rare gift. Awareness is a gift. Perception is a gift. This is what has been bestowed upon us all.

This gift of awareness and perception and the ability to make choices and take action.

Whatever we get is whatever we are willing to go for.

All the old cliches pour in:

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t make.”
“Success leaves behind clues.”
“There’s room at the top.”
“Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.”

But are the shots you’re taking the ones you want to be making?
Are you on the path that will ultimately serve your greatest good and the greatest good of others?

No one can answer those questions for us.

What we CAN do is imagine our last days on this planet and reflecting back on all the things we didn’t actually give ourselves permission to totally and completely “go for”.

What is that for you?

And somewhere in there you might find your life’s purpose. And it may simply be watching your children grow up, start families of their own and seeing your grand children thrive and grow in turn…

It might be expanding some area of scientific endeavor that forever changes the world.

It might be contributing in some small or large way in solving one of the many challenges facing the human race.

It could be as simple as growing a beautiful garden.

Knitting a sweater.

Writing a poem.

Exploring the world.

Building a business.

Building a house, a sustainable farm, making the best raw milk cheddar cheese on the planet…

Whatever it is that YOU desire to have, do or be is fine. My job, perhaps my purpose, my mission, whatever, is to support YOU in your quest for YOUR purpose with my music, my message and my methods. So that you can experience what you desire, faster, easier and better, than if you didn’t have my assistance.

That is, IF you want it. If not that’s fair and fine as well. Not everybody even thinks about this stuff. But for me, personally, as well as for the clients and NLP students I’ve taught since 2003, thinking about this stuff is EXHILERATING. And YOU are who I’m writing for today. People like YOU who are willing to ask these big questions and willing to do the work to actually put these ideas into practice in your life.

My message today is this: Whatever you think your purpose for being here on this planet is, you are right. Because your purpose is what YOU DECIDE it is. No one else can dictate that for you. And your purpose can be developed over time. And it can change. And you can have more than one. But the bottom line is that with a clear purpose you can make daily decisions that take you closer to the place where you are increasingly and then consistently living “ON PURPOSE”.

Why? Because it FEELS really, really good. And we get what we focus on. So have a little faith my eager Padawans… You ARE here for a reason…

Your assignment today, should you choose to accept it, is to DECIDE what that reason is. It doesn’t have to be a final decision. But just give this a try for today.

Live the entire rest of your day AS IF, you are “on purpose.”
Live today as if you were born for something special.
Live this entire day as if all of your thoughts, intentions and actions were for something worth the investment of your time, energy and attention.

And see how it feels. Let me know ok?

What if you were truly born for a purpose greater than taking up space and watching certain TV shows?

What if you were here for a reason and you get to decide the reason?

The cool thing is no one gets to tell you otherwise. This is YOUR ride. You decide what it means and where it’s headed.

My “Method” today is to suggest to you that you take a few moments to breathe, ground yourself and imagine today unfolding magically in ways that confirm your purpose. Create a vivid mental movie of what it is that you most desire to have, do or be. Then go all IMAX with it! Make it huge and compelling. Turn up the volume! Tune up the colors! Sharpen up the focus! Play with slow motion and fast motion. Play with your imaginary ZOOM lenses… pull back the camera so you can see the big picture, zoom in to see the inspiring details… pull back the camera so you can see yourself in the picture… then step back in and look through your own eyes… make if vivid and compelling. Repeat as necessary.

If doubt creeps in simply shrink the doubt pics down and move them off your mental movie screen and pull up the DESIRED image/movie again and again and again… all day. Just keep holding your vision in your mind’s eye. Turn down the volume of the “doubt voices” and the internalized “dream thieves”.

And to support you musically,

Here’s a transformation tune (the final encore, and the last raw live recording from the “Last Concert of Mark Shepard and the Rogue Mystics” on November 19th.

Enjoy!

Peace and groovyness!

– Mark

p.s. Tomorrow? I just may have the first video from the Concert… I just got to see a rough edit and I literally got chills as the Rogue Mystics filled all the nooks and crannies around my vocal and guitar with stunning musical brilliance… and my son Andrew, who is doing the editing reports that the song is causing some very positive, inspirational things to happen inside HIM as he’s gotten it deeply embedded in his psyche…

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Perfectionism Is A Self Induced Hypnotic Trance

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Today’s mind mastery message is about “Perfectionism” and why “Rough Around The Edges” is Better than “Perfect”…

You may think it bold of me to claim that Perfectionism is basically “self hypnosis.”  People bitch and moan about the curse of their perfectionism as if it’s something they have no control over… And as your Honest Hypnotist, it is my duty to inform you that it’s your own self hypnosis that is holding that pattern of behavior, thought and perception in place…

For example, today’s transformation tune is “We Shall Live In Light” which was one of our encores at “The Last Concert of Mark Shepard and the Rogue Mystics” on November 19th…

We hadn’t rehearsed it and you can hear where we were a little rough around the edges.

And I say AWESOME! Because we did it anyway. Even tho it wasn’t perfect, or perfectly prepared. We just went ahead and kept singing in spite of our mis-takes.

And in music, particularly recording of music, we often do several “takes”. Then we can take the best one. That’s nice to have that ability. But in a live setting? It’s all or nuthin’… And I LIKE that. It keeps things real and healthy. It wasn’t a Mistake as in “failure” it was just a “take” that wasn’t as good as another take in a specific spot or spots…

A lot of people think their “perfectionism” causes them to constantly improve their efforts and that if they didn’t have this torturous tendency, they would just be lazy slackers sloppily slapping stuff together and calling it great…

This post is not about being slack or accepting less than high quality output in our efforts. We definitely want to continue to always improve, always strive for something better…

HOWEVER the perfectionist MONSTER must be tamed. The solution? Do your best and let it be good enough for today.

Tomorrow your best just might be better.

And that’s your Mind Mastery Message for today.

Do Your Best! Give it everything you’ve got! And enjoy that.
No regrets. No “do-overs”. Boom. Take action and learn from the action. Take the first step and then the next one, with a lightness of touch that is profound and urgent, yet gentle and forgiving.

That’s what seems to be working in my life these days and hearing back from my clients and friends who have explored this notion seems to confirm this… And it’s a relief because I used to sweat and fret about ALL the stuff that I couldn’t fix…

In fact I’m fond of telling my “perfectionist” clients that they aren’t actually “Perfectionists” at all. They’re “IMPERFECTIONISTS”. They continuously focus on what isn’t perfect as if somehow that will “fix” things and make them “acceptable” to whoever parent or teacher or boss they have yelling at them in their head…

It’s no fluke that the universal “problem” beneath every other problem in my 20 years of practicing NLP and Hypnosis is the belief, “I’m Not Good Enough” and as little kids, we often weren’t. And it drove us crazy.

But it doesn’t have to drive you crazy any more. Your best is good enough. And you will continue to get better as you take more action in your life. And you will have “learning opportunities” and you won’t like them at first… But when you begin to trust them, you will start looking forward to them and enjoying the fact that you don’t have to be perfect right out of the box.

And that’s actually… PERFECT! :o)

So give it a shot today in Your life and let me know what you think.

Here’s the “Rough Around The Edges” Transformation Tune for the day:
Song #253 “We Shall Live In Light” (Live with the Rogue Mystics)

– Mark

p.s. Tomorrow will be the last song from my concert on November 19th. I’m hoping to share with you some of the first video that the crew captured as soon as Saturday or Sunday so check your emails! (that is if you’re one of the cool cats on the Mind Mastery Daily email list… If you’re not yet, then go right ahead and use the handy form on pretty much every page of this site. No purchase necessary. No Obligation. Unsubscribe at any time. But don’t miss out on your daily dose of mind mastery magic and music ok?)

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Your Headline Here

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[Your Headline Goes Here…]

I never really know what the subject line or the headline should be until after I write the post… So why do I keep attempting to come up with them FIRST?

Because MailChimp, the email system I use, ASKS for subject lines and headlines FIRST. And I usually start typing THERE before I paste it all HERE… I do that because I know a lot about the people who are on my email list…

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…And it helps to have an audience in mind when communicating ideas…

And I COMPLY with friendly, helpful MailChimp by attempting to fit into THEIR agenda. It’s just easier. They make it easier by gently putting a deadline on an action. Do it now! Here! Just fill in this little blank right now… right now. right now… do this now…

It works. AND it’s a form of every day “hypnosis”.

Do you see how “hypnosis” is all pervasive? We are constantly being “guided” by other people’s “agendas” or “programs” for us.

And for the most part we LIKE it. It’s not some “evil plan”. It’s helpful. [Yes… my email list is helpful and free]

We like it because deciding what to do all the time is EXHAUSTING. But this is one key clue to what’s constantly going on beneath the surface of “us”.

Your conscious mind thinks it’s in control but it is always TRUMPED by your unconscious mind’s constantly seeking direction for what to do next… It either comes from your conscious mind or it’s going to come from somewhere else… the media, your family, your friends, your neighbors, (not that any of that is bad, it’s not “bad” its just constantly slipping through your “filters” and affecting you without your conscious awareness and my whole deal is that I help people to be Modern Jedi Mind Masters by teaching them how to see the actual “Matrix” of the world we live in so compliently).

So today, don’t do anything that I tell you to do.
Don’t do anything that I merely suggest you do.
In fact don’t do anything that anyone else wants you to do…

Until YOU decide you want to do it.

That’s what I’m working on today. It all started when the cashier at the store told me to “have a nice holiday”. And I told her, “I will if I want to!” And it’s only the first week of December so can’t we wait at least another week to start with all the Xmas stuff? Sheesh…

end of short rant.
Oh! Where was I? Oh yes!

Attempting to be clear about what I really want to do today… Because there’s a ton of stuff that HAS to happen today… But what I really feel like doing is just lazing around the house… So I figured I’d write some of these thoughts down in the process of checking one thing off the to do list and possibly getting a couple others done at the same time… and it just irked me for some reason that before I have any idea what I’m gonna write about these darn “Mail Chimps” want to know what my dang subject line and headline is…

And I do NOT have a clue… And you know what else? The hardest part of writing or of starting ANY project is actually STARTING… but Once you take a deep breath and start something, it begins to line up priorities  for you.. in the same way… So hey, whatever gets you started…

And if just riffing about something totally inane and un related to anything gets the creative juices going then you might want to give that a try sometime… but only if you want to…

And all that brings me to today’s “HEADLINE” (remember the whole thing about the “headline” up there at the top?)

And if your process requires that you shake things up every once in a while that may mean challenging the existing order, questioning authority and stepping back out of the “matrix” of everyday life for a few moments… for me, that means today I’m putting the headline LAST.

And I’m skipping the “subject” line until I’m damn well ready to put something INTRIGUING in it…

For YOU it may mean turning off the TV for the rest of the day, or your cell phone (gasp!) or ignoring your constant texts and emails for an hour or two… or until YOU are ready to have clear thoughts and a centered approach to your day… Hell don’t even bother listening to the awesome song I’m sharing with you below. Unless you have the desire to tune your inner world more with my help.

then go right ahead…

and did you see what I just did?

I told you what to do by telling you to feel free NOT to do anything I suggest…

Whatever you do, Don’t have a fabulous day… unless you simply insist on having a fabulous day.

Oh Yes! here’s the headline:

ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!

Compulsive Singer/Songwriter/Storyteller/Hypnotist Returns with This Message…

“Begin to Practice Considering the Possibility of

THINKing FOR YOURSELF This Holiday Season”

or how about this one?

Kardasian SUCCESS SECRET! The TRUTH REVEALED.

How the Kardasians (and Donald Trump AND Oprah) Have Been Completely Honest About Who They Are So That They Turn Some People Into Raving Fans (and safely ignore others who despise them but who they will never win over and who they don’t even worry about winning over because they don’t need to)…

and How YOU Can Too!

or how about this one?

HUH? Ummm… Hey!

Well. Whatever. Here’s a song. I’m not suggesting it’s a good song. But it sure makes me happy when I sing it or listen to it so maybe it IS a good song… Joy Adler says it’s a great song… Joe Mennonna believes it’s a fabulous song… But YOU can decide… if you want to… Whenever you’re ready to be ready…
Song # 499 “Honest Rock” (Live with the Rogue Mystics)

– Mark

p.s. BTW whatever you do DON’T listen to the song…

p.p.s. … Unless you want to…

p.p.p.s. But Thank you for wanting to… It helps a lot…… on Wednesdays… in December…

Inspirational Picture

p.p.p.p.p.p.s. Here’s an inspirational picture I would normally put up at the top of the post, of someone doing something really intense and cool that you and I will probably never do but that we think we could do if we wanted but the truth is we don’t want to climb rocks because we know we could really, really, really get hurt and that would be dumb.

But then we stop ourselves from doing other things that we THINK could hurt us but that would be GOOD for us if only we would take a deep breath and be honest with ourselves you know?

About why we’re really here. I mean, really.

Why are YOU here? What’s this life thing all about?

and it felt really good to put the picture last because I hope you remember the visual and metaphorically imagine yourself successfully climb ing to the next level of mastery in our next 90 day Challenge… so if  you want to work on your “stuff” with other people who are also working on their stuff click this Contact Link and reach out to me ok? Let me know you want to be on the VIP list of “interesteds”. Ok? cool.

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The Monday “Trance”

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506-oh-my-beloved-origThe Hypnosis of Monday

Now that you made it through that exhausting, arduous weekend of fun and frivolity, what is “Monday” for? Let’s Transform Mondays ok?

I mean really? Do you ever get much done on a Monday? Ever try calling anyone on a Monday morning? Chances are it goes right to voicemail :o)

I call it the “Monday Trance”…

Monday has become a “transition” day for a lot of folks between the weekend and the week. Notice the root of “Transition” has the word “Trance” built right in :o)

A little over ten years ago I started meeting every Monday with my friend Michael Guerin. We were both struggling with our businesses at the time. Mostly because we were “solo entrepreneurs”. I was trying to build my NLP and Hypnosis practice, workshops and trainings and he was building his as a financial planner and merchant account advisor.

And while we both enjoyed the freedom and flexibility of being “one man shops,” in the long term, solitary businesses don’t last.

After all, business is all about people. People working together to serve other people with our ideas, products and services…

Interesting dilemma for a couple of introverts.

so we chose to change our Monday Trance… Instead of being boring old “Monday” that everybody dreads, we made Mondays into…

MASTERMIND MONDAYS…

And what we focused on is still what we focus on every week: Helping each other to Market, Manage, Motivate, Merchandise and Man-Up…

These days we usually talk on Saturday because by Monday we are already putting into action what we agreed with each other to do… But for me, Monday’s are just the best day of the week. It’s quiet. It’s usually the time I have to seriously consider and map out what my action steps for the week are.

And when I’ve been traveling and working on weekends, Monday is the day I catch my breath and recharge my batteries.

If Monday is a day you’ve been dreading lately… Let’s see if there is any way you can “reframe” it or shift it into something that automatically lights a fire in your heart to take your adventure to the next level.

If Monday messes with your mood… take a moment to ask what’s really going on?

  • Are you unhappy in your work?
  • Are you using work to escape something that happens on the weekends?
  • Are you on your path with heart?
  • How’s your body doing?
  • Is this going to be another week of not moving it?
  • or not feeding it the proper fuel for it to thrive and be strong?

Some folks like to check in with themselves and their goals for the week on Sunday evening.
I prefer Monday Mornings…

Either way, you might want to consider giving a little bit of conscious, creative reflection to today. Imagine totally CRUSHING IT this week as you look ahead and imagine where you would like to be by Friday…

Of course that is ONLY if you CHOOSE to accept the assignment.

Maybe you just want to chill out with a cool song that supports the assignment without actually doing the assignment. That’s fine too. Totally up to you.

Here’s your song for the day:

Now have an amazingly wonderful rest of your Masterful Monday! Or your “restful” Monday. Or your kick ass Monday… Or whatever kind of Monday you decide to have…

– Mark

p.s. So if YOU would like to be less alone in your pursuit of your big dream, your path with heart and would like to explore what it’s like to be in a “MasterMind” that is all about serving you and helping get you to where you want to be in your life and work, please contact me and let me know that you’re interested. There is no obligation, I’m just checking to see if we have enough interest for me to make the next 90 day challenge something that benefits more than just myself and my team… so let me know ok? cool. Use this link: Contact Me! 

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Going All In Before Your’e All Out

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crows-in-a-tree-1400Fresh Insights, Excites, and Recites…

Hey Kids, I just got off this awesome podcast/Youtube interview with “Resilience Champion”, Zaheen Nanji.

She asked me a ton of awesome questions about CRUSHING anxiety and helping people to make Rapid, Real, Relevant Changes and Improvements in their lives with NLP and Honest Hypnosis Tools…

As usual when I get to be the center of attention and talk about something that matters this much to me, I was my funny, entertaining and educating self… ;o)

We both went into trance and the 40 minutes whizzzed by like greased lightening, lightening and lightening, releasing and resourcefully responding… that’s right… mmm hmm…

LOL…. I should have a link for you by tomorrow… so you can hear for yourself… and enjoy my conversational hypnosis… about hypnosis… and NLP… and YOU changing stuff and liking having the power to change whatever you want, whenever you want to change stuff…

Today tho, For your Mind Mastery Message, I have a fresh new video I made for you where I wax eloquent about one of my most-est favorite-est topics: Going “All In” Before You Go “Out”.

And in support of my Daily Mind Mastery Message I have this Transformation Tune, aka, “song” Recorded live Nov. 19th with the Rogue Mystics…

Your “assignment” today (should you choose to accept it) is to CLICK THIS LINK and let me know what you want to work on for YOUR next 90 day challenge.

I’ve heard from a few of you SERIOUS action takers like Linda, Paula, Mike, Mike, Leslie, Lewis, Andrew & Starsky Scherherazade (not their real names).

Now about about the rest of you? Seriously. I want to know what you would improve in your life if you COULD improve it significantly, noticeably, measurably? And would you be interested in get some support or a lot of support or a medium amount of support to actually GO FOR IT and Git R Done?

Of course if you just want to keep doing what you’ve been doing because it’s working pretty well that’s fine too. The biggest lesson I’m taking away from my own work with mentors and coaches is that mentors, “guides” and coaches help to cut the time between dream and reality significantly. So I want to share some of the processes that are working really well for me and my team… with YOU. That is, if you want it. If not that’s fine and I’ll just keep doing it by myself and my team and you can keep doing what you normally due…

HOWEVER, if you are even slightly interested in improving and area or every area of your life, faster, easier better, we will be starting January 2, 2017… and running through the end of March. I’m still kicking around ideas for how to best support YOU to ROCK the first 1/4… But there WILL be an application process and more information about the program coming soon…

You’ve got nothing to lose by simply “raising your hand” and beginning to consider what you want for yourself in 2017…

Got it?

Good!

Peace out,

– Mark

p.s. definitely listen to today’s transformation tune in a decent pair of headphones before you go to bed tonight…

You WILL feel better in the morning… even if you feel fine right now… and who am I to tell you “don’t change now!” or “change now”. You should be able to change whatever you want to change, whenever you want to change it.

Now… where was I? Oh yeah Planet Earth. December 2, 2016
Did you watch the video and listen to the song? Seriously. It’s for your own good. LOL… sweet dweams.

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What’s The Point of Personal Mastery?

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Night RoadIn Richard Bach’s classic book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” we are introduced to a “rogue mystic” young seagull named Jonathan who is obsessed with exploring and pushing the edges of what it is to be a master of flight.

Where the rest of the “flock” is content to fly well enough to get to the next garbage dump to find food, Jonathan is constantly pushing the limits of what is possible.

Eventually he gets kicked out of the “flock” and ends up living in solitude where he can continue to push his limits and expand his comfort zone…

Eventually other Seagulls begin to seek him out…

And the questions that always comes up are these:

  • What are we here for?
  • What’s the purpose of my life?
  • How can I find a way to support myself doing what my heart yearns for?
  • How can I create the kind of health I want?
  • How can I create the kind of lifestyle that supports my greater vision?
  • What about my longing for deep intimacy and connection?

And ultimately it comes down to purpose. What’s the point of being here? What’s the purpose of you showing up here in the space vehicle of your body?

And BTW this is one of the key reframes I find helpful with pretty much all my one on one clients whether they want to work on weight loss or habit control, clearing fears and phobias for full out going for their big dream, going for the Olympic Gold or the equivalent in their own lives…

Your body is really a space ship. It’s a vehicle, filled with sensors, diagnostics, and a full array of “on board” default programming which is basically designed to keep you alive long enough for you to figure out how to function in this material “plane”….

But have you ever been in a vehicle that came with a full array of YEARNING? You are living in your body but you are NOT your body. Your body is designed to move away from pain and towards pleasure. “Yearning” is the “moving towards” piece. “Settling” for a small life because it’s “safe” is the moving away from piece.

  • What is it that you are yearning for?
  • What is is that you are yearning to have?
  • What is it that you are yearning to do?
  • Who are you ultimately YEARNING to BE?

I’ve got GREAT news for you. If you think all you came here to do, have and be is to fill up your little cubicle at work with your body so that you can pay your cable TV bill on time you just might want to think a wee bit BIGGER. And you can start thinking bigger right now.

You are gifted with perception and awareness. And both of those things are EXPANDABLE.

In my not so humble opinion, we are here to learn, grow and stretch ourselves beyond what we have been told is possible by “the media”, by our schools, by our friends and relatives.

We are here to expand beyond the limited thinking patterns of the general population. We are here to discover and fulfill our “special purpose”. Not because it’s “spiritual” or “good” or whatever, but because it’s a hell of a lot of fun!

It’s always been that way. Every generation is marked by people who dared to dream and who dared to go for their dreams. The only thing is that now with the support of the internet and all this communication technology we can actually make a serious RIPPLE in the world in any way that suits our spirits and serves people, projects, and “the world out there.”

To get back to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, it’s one of the truest analogies of what it’s like to long for personal mastery and a higher purpose. Going against the tide of “conventional wisdom” and the cultural overlay by yourself is harder than it needs to be. Hopefully you are getting that being here in this “tribe” is  all about YOU getting connected to YOUR higher self, your higher purpose and other people who are working on themselves right alongside YOU.

Speaking of working on YOU…

Your Mind Mastery Assignment today (should you choose to accept it), is to either re-read Jonathan Livingston Seagull or remember it in detail and apply it to yourself. If you haven’t read it yet, fear not! It only takes about 10 minutes. (the link above goes to Amazon.com and is NOT an affiliate link. I just include it to make your life a little easier :o)

  • How are you always looking for improvements in your life?
  • How are you always looking to step up your “game” in your relationships and career?
  • How are you willing to do whatever it takes to invest in yourself so that you actually can notice and measure your progress?

And if you are actually reading this and my other daily mind mastery messages regularly and listening to my transformation tunes, have you started to notice a difference in your life? Are you “getting” that I’m out here walking my talk? Are you seeing how much fun I’m having? I simply want this for you as well. It’s a blast.

Are you paying attention? Are you keeping track of your progress?

Cuz I’m ready to support you in YOUR mission whether it’s to finally get a handle on your health and fitness, or to get started in the right direction towards work that fulfills you and supports your truest, deepest dreams… or to step it up in your relating, dating and communicating with the people you love…

or maybe like me you have some kind of “song” that you want to sing out loud before you die.

It’s not for everybody. And that’s cool. Feel free to just listen to the daily Transformation Tune which I usually have right at the top of every email. Or feel free to unsubscribe and stay the way you are (no hard feelings). It’s all perfect.

But MY purpose is to use my music, my message and my Modern Jedi Mind Mastery Methods to support people who are serious about transforming their lives into sparkling, magical, heart, mind and body aligned ADVENTURES.

And the adventure of YOUR life requires no passport, no plane tickets, no special equipment other than curiosity and a willingness to put into practice what you learn. The adventure of your life requires the ability to envision a future that is compelling, hopeful and big enough to inspire you even when it’s not totally easy and going exactly the way you think it should go…

January 2nd begins my next 90 day personal mastery challenge. This practice has totally supercharged my life and the lives of my “inner circle”.  This time I would like to SERIOUSLY invite you to join me.

  • Some of you may want to work 1 on 1 with me. If so, I only have a few available spots so use the contact link at the bottom of this page to reach out and let me know ASAP if you would like to know what the investment is and that you would like to be considered.
  • Some of you may want to be a part of a coaching group or “master mind” of other Transformation Nation Members in good standing. There’s still room in this group for about 15 people but I’m going to keep it small so that I can give as much personal attention as possible.
  • And some of you are fine just watching from the sidelines of this “Daily Mind Mastery Message and Transformation Tune”. Feel free to continue to take in whatever works for you.

AND… If you are serious about taking yourself to the next level, If you’re willing and ready to go “all in”, use the contact link below and let me know briefly what is it that you most want to change, improve or transform in your life.

We will be working on 4 basic areas or themes,

  1. Health, Fitness, Body
  2. Money, Career, Work
  3. Relating, Relationships, Dating, Communicating with self and significant “others”.
  4. Your song. Your Art. Your Passion. Your Purpose. Your overall Joy and Big Dream”. The things you want health, wealth and connection to serve. The things you want to do before your time here on this planet is up.

Got it? Cool.

Transformation Tune for Today:
To support this message, I would like to share with you the next “Raw Mix” from my Last Concert With The Rogue Mystics… (which BTW was one of my main goals from THIS current 90 day challenge. We should have some video to show you soon.).

Peace, love and groovyness!

– Mark

p.s. Seriously! Are you in? Click this Link: Contact Mark Shepard and let me know what you want to work on. There is no obligation and no weird, high pressure sales shenanigans. I will get back to you ASAP with answers to your questions.

If you are ready and would like to go deeper with me… here’s how

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