8:47 AM

I woke up today with a deep deep sense of peace, I was up all night filled with an almost limitless energy. I'm not sure of it's source but I know now that it’s there, it is wide and it is deep. I feel like its a well that was always there, I’ve just never tapped into it before. I could feel the words that my instructor imparted to me come up through my gut and out of my mouth “Your dreams are not what you see while you’re sleeping, Dreams are what keep you up at night", I truly felt those words.

I was surfing on a high from all of the positive feedback I was getting from my latest post on my new blog, a blog that was 2 years in the making. I have tried and failed to start my website many times, I even had one completely done on another web builder, but I never let it see the light of day. As most people like to say, I just didn't feel right, but this, right now, feels right.

While I sit here in my favorite tea shop in India, the only things open are it and the fruit and vegetable vendors on the streets of the market, I'm still trying to figure out why I'm up right now since I did not go to sleep until 4 am and it’s now 8:47, but I feel full of life as if I got a full nights rest.

I'm thankful for this feeling, I woke up and told myself I was going to have some "me" time, I woke up and said my prayers, I woke up and thanked God, I woke up.

Just being alive and in this place and space both mentally and physically is a beautiful gift from God. I know now more than ever that I have a purpose, that I have a calling, and that I have found a passion.

I'm currently reading a book called The Daily Stoic, and it gifted me with some words that feel so aligned with my path that I must rewrite them just to make sure they are ingrained in my being and consciousness, "Be in control of your passions, rather than being controlled by them". I asked God countless times to help me to find mine, and have been presented with them many many times, but it feels like it hasn't been until now, right now, that I truly understand what I must do.

I finally feel like I am in the right frame of mind to write like a used to years ago, I am filled with words, they pour out of me like water out of a fountain, words that I know will fill others up with life's water.

These words are my water and the people whom come to my page are vessels, I feel it is my duty to fill them with something positive, because that is my gift. I wake up almost every single morning happy, but not happy because of what I have or what Ive done, but because of who I am, I am me, and that has been and always will be enough.

I am me when things are going good, I am me when things are going bad, and through every magnitude of measurement in and between those two states of being I am thankful.

Gratitude is a powerful word, and as I wrote yesterday, words are powerful. I spent an entire year focused on my understanding of this one word gratitude, I meditated on it, I wrote about it and now I have gathered the information, studied the knowledge, and attained the wisdom to truly understand its meaning.

The very wise GZA wrote in his book The Tao of Wu "knowledge is knowing, but wisdom is doing" and that’s what I plan to manifest.

The mantra on my page before yesterday was "I am not my thoughts, I am what I do", but I was wrong, this revelation was given to me by my cousin not by blood, but my cousin all the same. If I may, I would like to think of him more like a big brother, in the two weeks I spent in Nairobi, Kenya he poured so much knowledge into me. We stayed up almost every night talking about the origins of man, stoicism, philosophy, manifestation, and what wisdom truly means, we talked of religion, spirituality, and science. We talked of business, family and friends, we talked of life and we talked of love.

God will give you a the same message countless times, he will put you through things over and over again, and bring you around the same type of person or situation until you finally get "it". The message I received from all our talks is the same message my father has always given to me , the same message I see in the friends I admire and look up to, the same message I will leave you with here.

"BE INTENTIONAL"

If you are intentional with your words and your actions, there is nothing that you cannot manifest. Time is just a construct, it will move whether you do a lot or a little, but the purpose and vigor with which you do things is what gives time its true value. Be intentional, and watch how "fast" things change.

Your Words Have Power

My development as a person is a never-ending journey, a journey that leads me to new destinations each day. On this day I have come down the path of word choice. Your words have power. I know the preceding sentence may seem incomplete, but it’s not. I chose to put it there because my understanding of its meaning has deepened. Those four words should be the preamble to every conversation that you have, they are the foundation of good communication even, and especially with your self.

It was not until I gained the confidence and maturity to open up enough to share the words within me with others, that I stumbled upon this revelation. Though some may not believe in its existence, words are magical, they have the ability to move people, to change emotions, to fill with strength or strip of power. They are the alchemy that was reated by our distant ancestors, and an algorithm that can be easily misunderstood or misused. 

As a writer I am constantly searching for new and innovative ways to connect and impart messages. Like cooking a meal, the way in which a message is prepared, can greatly change the flavor, just like the way a sentence is structured leaves a different taste in one’s mouth.

Think twice and speak once, wise words indeed, a wisdom that I think I finally have a greater understanding of. Language is a medium that is used to create a connection between two or more beings. Its a form of energy that can be static or kinetic, you can write it in a book or pass it on to someone else in conversation, either way its impact can be immense.

Your words have power, and that power comes from within you. Lying in each and every one of us is a pool of energy that we must learn to tap into and use wisely. Use your power for good, uplift both friends and strangers, and more importantly use your power to uplift your self.

Speak into existence your triumphs, Speak into existence your growth, Speak into existence your peace, and you will one day speak into existence your purpose. Your words have power.