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  Honor Your Greatness
  
  A simple idea that’s too often neglected. To appreciate you. For all you’ve gone through and all you’ve become. For all the fears you’ve faced and found freedom from. For the dreams you not only dreamed but had the bravery to make real. For all the people you’ve helped and for all the good you have done. You matter more than you know. So please do not measure your worthiness by what the majority tells you that you should be, do and have.
  
  You being here with me is no accident, at all. Something in you—in a culture where too many fine people are sleepwalking through their most precious hours in a digital slumber—seeks something higher. I sense that although life can be hard at times, you have not lost your hope. You’ve protected your optimism for your brighter future and trusted that call within your soul to fully realize your ethical ambitions for all the time you get to live.
  
  This—to my getting-sort-of-old eyes—makes you a hero. You’ve been through a lot. You could have given up. And become jaded, cynical, critical, and closed-hearted.
  
  Yet, instead, here you are. Ready to rise, passionate to advance and dedicated to grow through the guidance you are receiving through me, as your mentor. It’s an act of high courage to be willing to let go of who you were yesterday to become someone even better, wiser, healthier, and happier tomorrow, you know?
  
  Oh, and I really should reinforce that personal development work is the best work you could ever do. A lot of people snicker or roll their eyes (or both) when they hear the term “self-improvement.” Yet what is more courageous and sensible than steadily and incrementally doing the deep training to turn everyday human insecurity into rare-air confidence, personal limitation into uncommon prowess, and an average mode of rolling through life into a breathtakingly exceptional journey that honors the promise you have been born into? “The most important investment you can make is in yourself,” noted renowned financier Warren Buffett. And the finest strategy to make the world better is to make yourself better, right?
  
  As you rework, elevate and calibrate your inner universe, your relationship with what I call in my mentoring methodology your Heroic Self (which is the opposite of your Egoic Self, the false, faulty, restricted, and scared part of you that has been formed by the negative beliefs and human hurts that you’ve endured in your past) will definitely increase. And when your primary relationship with your greatest self increases, every other relationship in your life increases too.
  
  Build stronger knowledge and intimacy with your Heroic Self (through the philosophies and tools I’ll walk you through) and your relationship with your family, vitality, work, prosperity, community, adventure, and service to others will fly with it.
  
  By the way, you should know right now that I come from humble beginnings. No silver spoon in my mouth. Born in Africa. Came from immigrant parents. Two years ago, I took my life partner, Elle, to see the house I grew up in. The current owner was watering the lawn when we walked up to the place. I told him that I used to live in his home, over fifty years ago. So he invited us in. Nice man. Smiled a lot.
  
  After we left, Elle said, “That’s the smallest house I’ve ever seen.” I felt the same way.
  
  And I grew up with a ton of flaws—as all humans do. Filled with thoughts of scarcity, emotions of timidity, sensations of insecurity and methods of operating that chained my...

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