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Hitting the Wall

At some point in everyone’s life, we hit a wall. Some call it a mid-life crisis others refer to it as their wake up call. Sometimes it shows up in the form of a sudden shock—the death of a loved one, life threatening illness or accident, losing your job or home, or the breakup of a long-term relationship. For others, it slowly sneaks up and one day when you least expect it, when you stop long enough to think about it, you feel it. There is a nagging feeling inside but you cannot figure it out. You're supposed to be happy, but for some reason, your not.

Next Come The Questions  However this crisis appears, it causes us to ask ourselves some very simple, but yet challenging questions. Ultimately we reach what I call the quintessential questions: who am I, what am I supposed to do, and for some—where did I come from and where do I go after I die?

Mine Came With A Vengeance Mine didn’t sneak up on me, it whacked me, and it hit me so hard it broke my neck…and I left my body, watching it collapse from a distance from some part of me that didn’t have any form. I never told anyone this story for almost a decade. At first, I ignored it, but then I couldn’t. One day, about three weeks after the surgery when I was off the morphine drip and all the tubes and hoses were removed, I had returned to my home and was recuperating in a makeshift hospital room. I couldn’t feel my neck or my arms, I couldn’t walk and I couldn’t talk too well. My neck and shoulders were wrapped in a brace and to say the least, I was very depressed. I was so depressed that I shouted a silent prayer to God, “Why did you do this to me?”  In less than 3 minutes, the door handle jiggled and in walked my three-year old son, Grant, who said, “Daddy, you work to hard,” and then he left. Three days in a row, with three silent but agitated questions to God, Grant came in the room and answered those prayers. This was the beginning of my wake up call and it lasted a very long time, over a decade in fact. I never told anyone about this for fear of being ridiculed or losing my position of power and esteem in the public world of Big Five consulting. I was after all, the CEO of Ernst & Young  Consulting in Singapore at the time.  If that was all that happened, I might have been fine, but this was just the beginning of a series of events that rattled my life and caused me to question my very existence.---One day I watched my hand write, not knowing what was coming out.---Over the years, no less than ten strangers told me that an angel saved me.---Sometimes I wondered if there was a sign stuck on my back. Last May, in 2012, a book came out of me and I wrote it in eleven days. Hence the title, "11 Days in May: The Conversation That Will Change Your Life". It's 36 short parables that help explain the essence of life and living, pain and suffering, thoughts and intentions and of course, science and religion. So here is the funny part—I had no idea what I wrote. In September of 2012, 11 Days in May was published and set 6 best selling records on Amazon, including #2 in Religion and Spirituality, #8 in Self-Help and #89 in the top 100 books. In January of 2013, it won the 2012 Digital Book World Publishing Innovation of the Year Award. See press release here.

Why Am I Telling You This?So why am I telling you all of this? Because my name, coincidence or not, is Messinger, and I have a message: we don’t have a soul, we are a soul and we have a unique purpose in life. That purpose is not to retire and stop at 401k and we are not consumers.  What I discovered is that understanding our soul purpose is the most important question we can answer in life, and once we do, it will change everything, resulting in greater peace, purpose and fulfillment.

Discover Your Purpose, Restore Meaning To Your Life.

*My story has been shared on 580+ radio stations in the U.   Here are two shows where I share my story: New Consciousness Review, one hour interview with host Miriam Knight Two hour interview on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory (hours 3 and 4 of the four hour show)  I’m still hoping for a television interview so if anyone out there can help me in that regard, I would be most grateful. :) If you're interested in participating in a 2 hour webinar or teleseminar, you can sign up here for more information.  With gratitude for all that you have done, and all that you will yet do. Together, we are one. God bless …(She is real)! JD

"I Am Responsible for the World", Addy in Ghana

"You cannot change anybody-what you are changing is inside them, negatively or positively. If you want to do something, you do it  positively." - Addy

Today I had a wonderful conversation with a young man by the name of Adeniyi Akinomoboriowo Adeoye, Addy for short. Addy is a 26 year-old man in Ghana who contacted me on Facebook a dozen times, telling me he had to talk to me. His words are an inspiration to everyone. As you will read, this young man believes that the situation in the world is his responsibility and that the youth of the world snub responsibility and don't understand the wisdom and guidance from our elders and fathers. God bless the Addy’s of the world.

Here is what Addy said to me.

"Help me help others. I am a young fellow trying to make a better place. I feel the world is my responsibility. I am a science person, trying to reason or think through everything that is happening and I am trying to focus. When I get inspired I write articles, poems, and messages that can touch someone positively with a lesson. This is what I do most of the time. I just want to wake up the youth. They are slipping, dead but alive. They snub responsibility. They do not put themselves in positions like our elders and fathers and set good examples.

Does this happen in the US? Do they feel challenged? The majority are not challenged and don’t care.  I feel a need to send them a message and wake them up and inspire them.  It is hard, but giving up is the last option, I cannot give up. It is my universal responsibility. When your neighbor’s drainage is blocked, if you pretend you don’t see it, it will affect you directly or indirectly.

What we need is change, positive change. You cannot change anybody. What you are changing is inside them, negatively or positively. If you want to do something, you do it positively.

I want to punch the world with inspiration. Most people don’t want to listen. I try to speak but most don’t want to hear. The biggest challenge lies in the person you want to inspire, being inspired. I think that life is an adventure, a search for knowledge.

It drives me inside; God is the pilot inside me. I just need the light. When I get light, I know what to do. I just need exposure. When you are in the light, it means the soul inside you is in charge. We need to stand up and fight to win. Talking to you is an inspiration. You made my day. You are an inspiration and a great man."

God Bless all the
Addy's of the world. 

Thank YOU Addy,
you made MY day!

Blessings, 
JD

A Meteor and an Asteroid on The Same Day: An Accident, or Coincidence? I Don't Think So.

The passing of an asteroid and the planet getting struck by a meteor, all on the same day, is no accident. Allow me to explain my theory.

I am referring to the article posted on CNN.com:
A meteor and asteroid: 1 in 100 million odds

Lets assume that the professor's math and reasoning are sound, and therefore the probability of these two events occurring at the same time is highly improbable, what we might call accidental. However, in a universe that is comprised of laws, I don't believe there are any accidents. What we perceive as an accident is merely a phenomenon that we do not yet fully understand because we are not seeing the full picture of cause and effect. Applying Occams Razor, the most simplistic explanation is most likely the most accurate, what could be the common cause of two particles being attracted to the planet on the same day?

Consider for a moment, another series of events. In 2011, we had:

• 1 in a 100 year earthquakes
• 1 in a 100 year fires, floods, tsunamis, droughts and tornadoes. 

At least 5 events, all of which had not happened in 100 years.

So 100 x 100 five times (or 1 x 10 to the 10th), which if we excuse the details...
Is over 1 in 1,000,000,000 chances of all these events happening in the same year.
 
These events happened. We can debate the fact that the floods in the northeast weren't connected to the fires in Texas, or the earthquake in Virginia, or Japan. We can debate that the tsunami was directly related to the earthquake, true, but the magnitude of damage is another story. We can debate that the tornadoes were not related to any of them.
 
My point is this--the physical particles are unrelated--be they the separate meteor and asteroid--or air, fire, wind and water, however it is not what is seen that is causing the simultaneous events, it is the unseen.
 
The simplest explanation is that there is an unseen, common force that caused these natural disasters and perhaps it's that same unseen force that caused the extraterrestrial attraction. As our planet is one giant magnet and our sun is undergoing massive changes, it is my humble opinion that these events--both asteroids and natural disasters--are related by cosmological forces that we, as of yet, do not fully understand.
 
Now if we combine these events with other phenomenon--the earths polar shift, the Yellowstone Super Caldera rising, and the galactic progression--a bigger picture comes to light. We have evidence that is quite clear, that the planet has shifted on it's axis and that we're experiencing a rapid shift in the north pole. We also know that a polar shift occurs once every 700,000 years (+/-) and Yellowstone erupts every 700,000 years (+/-). 
 

In the big view of phenomenon, there are great electro-magnetic phenomenon that appear to occur over long cycles, and we are in the midst of one. There is no question these occur. How bad it gets, or how fast it happens are the unanswered questions.

JD

The Most Important Question You Must Answer: And Everything Depends On It

It's been said by many military leaders, sports figures, spiritual gurus and life coaches, that the most important hurdle we must accomplish in life is to answer a very important question:

WHO ARE YOU?

I listend to coach Dale Brown two weeks ago and he said this was the fourth and most challenging hurdle in life. But why? Why is this such an important question? Let me put it to you this way:

If you're a soldier and you don't know who you are, or why you're here, might that affect your actions? What if you're a corporate leader, or a crisis leader, and you're facing difficult regulatory, environmental, political or social issues? If you don't know who you are and why you're here, do you think it would affect your decisions?

This question has been asked or stated in many ways--

• why are you here
• what is your purpose 
• where did you come from
• know thyself --and the answer is your most important mission in life. 

The answers to these questions define everything.
They define why you do what you do.
The answers define your behavior, beliefs and life philosophy.

Let me put it this way: if you don't know who you are, how do you know where you're going? If you don't know who you are and why you're here, how do you know what you believe in? Stand for? Love for? Or live for?

In short, the answer to this series of questions defines your level of success, happiness, health, fulfillment, love and abundance.

This is why 11 Days in May was written, to help answer these questions. The main premise: 

You don't have a soul, you are a soul. 

Once you achieve this realization you will begin to see a pattern to everything.You will begin to ask yourself one question before you do anything--how does this event, person, business or activity help me fulfill my soul purpose?

Since August 2012, when 11 Days In May was first published,
I've received over a 100,000+ emails and the #1 comment from readers has been--

    "This book changed my life in three days.
     Thank you so much!"

It is my sincerest hope that you discover your purpose and that 11 Days in May helps you live a happier, healthier, more meaningful and abundant life.

God bless,

JD

Publishing Innovation Awards: 11 Days in May

We did it! A collection of people who are publishers (Waterfront Digital Press), a writer (me), an ebook technology platform developer (VOOK), and a software developer (Democrasoft), who had never met face to face, created an ebook that won the 2012 Publishing Industry Innovation of the Year Award for the best non-fiction enhanced eBook! How exactly does that work? It's as easy as 1 2 3.

Step 1: You do what you love and love what you do.

None of us intended to, or were aiming for, an innovation of the year.
Instead, we were all passionate about what we were doing and we used our essence to do what we loved, not for fame, forture or glory, but just because we loved doing it. What that means is, it was an accident. Most great innovations are just that. Something that is stumbled upon and not even recognized until someone points it out.

Step 2: We used the magic formula for innovating

Having been involved in many innovations over the years, I long ago recognized the secret recipe that makes an innovation come to life. It involves 1/3 inspiration and 2/3 perspiration, or 1/3 creativity from the heart and 2/3 ingenuity from the head.

Step 3: We added new value in a new way

This was a linear innovation, the combination of things that existed separately before but when combined, created new value in a new way. What did we combine? We took a book (11 Days in May) and added art from Barry Mack, music from Stephen Lyons, my CNN radio shows and the two-way interactive collaboration tool called WeJIT. All the elements supported the message and story and created a total immersion experience--words, music, art, audio and interactivity--which allows the reader to not only read the words, but hear, feel and share the experience.

To see some screen shots of how this looks on an iPhone, click here: 11 Days In May: multi-media integration of Audio, Art and Music

I highly recommend an iPad as the best device...
Click here for iTunes Preview: 11 Days In May (Enhanced Edition)

Dare to dream, dreams do come true.

Peace
JD

*Press Release: 

First Time Author Wins Publishing Industry Innovation of the Year Award

The Essence of Courage | JDMessinger

Courage is an act of doing, not thinking. It is necessitated by a fear and acted upon from desire. This is the essence of courage.

Being brave does not mean we have no fear. By definition it means there is fear, but we do it anyway because our desire overcomes the fear.

Fear comes from the head - fear of being embarrassed or losing an attachment for example - but the desire which pulls us forward and drives us toward action in the face of fear is a powerful force that comes from our heart. This heartfelt desire is ultimately a form of love - for family or friends, a creative passion, or a virtue like justice, truth, or freedom.

When your spiritual right, a God given right that is a unique part of your DNA--to be free, fight for justice, have a home, family, job or equality--whatever you're craving--comes calling, resistance is futile. If you ignore this calling you are literally fighting an innermost need. When this need is suppressed it will manifest itself in your throat, chest, head or stomach. You will then fill that need with whatever you can put your hands on, including drugs, sex, smoking, drinking, or a pill prescribed by the doctor. This provides you instant gratification.

But your soul is craving satisfaction, not gratification. Satisfaction lasts a lifetime and fills a need from your heart. Gratification lasts a short time and fills a need from your head. What the doctors don't tell you, because they either don't know or don't care, is that they are only treating the symptom. If it continues for too long, the elixir will become a habit and the emptiness you feel inside for not exercising this deep spiritual right to act will become a habit. And before you know it, you are hooked on gratification. The longer the addiction, the more you will need. This is the essence of courage. 

The fear is a precursor, alerting you to a higher calling. Once you recognize this, you can see it. When you act on it, say to yourself, "I feel the fear and you are in my head. But my heart is telling me I need to do this and although I love you ego and brain, I don't need you right now. I'm going to face the fear and follow my heart." In closing, if you pray to God asking for courage, be prepared to face your greatest fears. He doesn't give you courage, you have to earn that. He helps you face your fears so you can become courageous. You can do it. As you read this, you feel it. You know it to be true. God bless you along The Way. This is part of the way.