Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Mike Arend here, founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.
Are you feeling stuck? Just can't seem to get the traction you need to break through to the next level? Many times we get that feeling because, in truth, we feel we're not worthy. We're not worthy of all the attention or accolades we've received thus far, or of all the challenges and hardships we've had to endure along the way.
The reason for this is because we've based our sense of worthiness on the past. The only place we should base or worthiness on is the future. That's where our life is. That's where our truth is, not the past. What we have done is unimportant compared to what we are about to do and the mistakes of the past are insignificant compared to what we are about to create.
We've all come a long way in the last number of years and the problem is not that we've changed or that our values have changed, the problem arises when so many of us insist on thinking that the values we now have (since we started awakening) are the right and perfect ones, and that everyone else should agree with, or adhere to them. This sometimes makes us feel a bit self-justified or self-righteous.
Don't get me wrong here, it's great to have adopted new beliefs that serve you, in fact, hold on to them, for those ideas about "right" and "wrong" are your definitions of who you are. But don't require that others define themselves according to your terms, and don't stay so "stuck" in your present beliefs and customs that you halt the very process of your own evolution.
For example: If I believed something to be true on Monday but was presented with incontrovertible evidence on Tuesday that my belief was no longer valid, yet I continued to steadfastly believe in my previous belief on Wednesday, then I would become stuck and bring my evolutionary process to a screeching halt.
Actually you could never really do this because life goes on with, or without you. Nothing ever remains the same or stays unchanged. For something to be unchanged it means it has not moved, and to not move is to die.
All life is motion, even rocks are filled with motion at the microscopic level. Everything moves. Everything. There's nothing that's not in motion and therefore, by the very act of motion, nothing is the same from one moment to the next. Nothing.
Remaining the same then, or wanting to, causes "stuckness" and moves against the laws of the Universe, the laws of life itself. And in this struggle, life will always win.
You know what to do, so do it.
You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!

Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Mike Arend here, founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.
Awaken to the power of "You."
Have you ever given thought to just how powerful you really are? How easy you make this whole "living on earth thing" look? First of all you need to make sure you understand this one concept: You are a Soul in a body, not a body with a Soul. You are part of an infinite energy field and can never die because energy can never be destroyed only transformed.
Many things have happened throughout history to bring us to this very moment in time. A moment where the time has come for those of us that are "awake" to awaken the rest. "But what is this awakening thing people talk about and how do I get it?" you may ask. Therein lies the rub, you can't "get" it. It's something that you just start to intuitively feel. A feeling that makes you wonder "What's all the fuss about?"
While others are busily trying to solve problems and figure everything out, you're not. While everyone else is striving to arrive, you're not. While others are running from their life, in this very moment, to try to get there, you're not. You start to move with the flow of life itself instead of trying to resist it or carve your niche into it. You realize, in the truth of your being, that you are the totality of the Universe in human form.
Now this may sound very "out there" to some of you, but the ones who understand this know who they are and it's for them that I write this. It's not that there's a "special club" that you need to join (if you thought that you're still asleep!) it's the exact opposite, you just need to "be." Be you, down to your very core. Not, this fake, false self we have created and identify with in order to satisfy society.
Now the real reason you need to awaken is so you can awaken others. Awakening others will not happen by chance, but as an intended effect of all those who embrace their personal evolution. The way you will do this is by allowing your personal growth and your struggles to be on display, to be modeled publicly.
By allowing your personal evolutionary process to be observed by others, it can become a means by which the evolutionary process of all humanity is advanced. But let's be perfectly clear, this is not about walking around declaring yourself to be the model of perfection or evolutionary excellence. This is about simply not hiding your personal choices, and presenting yourself authentically to the world with regard to both your struggles and your progress as you continually seek to fully awaken.
"Why do we even need to awaken?" you ask. Because the time we have left on this planet is perilously short if we don't start to evolve. I'm not talking about switching to electric cars or using solar power here, I'm talking about the evolution of our species. To become higher evolved beings where we treat everyone with love and compassion and expect nothing in return for doing that.
This will lead to fundamental changes in our society and technological advances that will help, not hinder us. Once we are free to evolve and concentrate on loving others instead of competing, the world will be changed forever. Or not. It's your choice, you see.
Are you ready to join me and awaken others? I hope you are because once one of us is awake, we can awaken another, and then we can awaken our brother. And soon together we can cause such a fuss, we will awaken the rest of us.
You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!

Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Mike Arend here, founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.
The power of positive thinking. I was standing in my driveway yesterday talking with a neighbour when a friend of mine drove by on the way to show the home next door that's for sale. My friend is a Realtor and since I spent numerous years as a Realtor too, it was a pleasure to see him bring clients by to show the home next door. I quickly walked over to warn his clients about their choice of Realtors and we all had a good laugh. You see, it would be extremely hard to find a genuinely nicer, more humble man than my friend James (I'll call him James here). James promised to stop by my home when the showing was over, and so he did.
The last time I had talked with James, over a year ago - man how time flies - he was in the middle of a wonderful relationship. Apparently, things had not gone well since the last time we spoke and his relationship had disintegrated. James, after experiencing terrible lows, was now bursting with joy! He mentioned he was following me on Facebook and loved all the messages I was sending out and had decided to adopt a positive outlook to erase all the doom and gloom he had been feeling. He continued to think positive thoughts and focused on himself to remember who he was, and just when he wasn't paying attention, someone new came into his life.
James went on to tell me about so many coincidences, serendipities, and unexplained phenomena that kept happening in his life. I reminded him that there is no such thing as coincidence and that all that was happening because he had adopted such a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA).
You may not feel positive thinking alone can have that much affect, in fact you may even dismiss some of these folks as Pollyannas and little more. But many things are happening to you when you decide to adopt a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA). In many cases you've stopped watching the nightly news, you have little time for, or give little thought to, the Negative Mental Attitude (NMA) thinking of co-workers, family members, or friends, not that you ignore them - you just don't allow their NMA to affect your PMA.
Once you adopt a PMA and also the belief that good things will happen to you because you have adopted this new attitude, changes begin to appear. Your perception of others and therefore how we perceive the whole world is altered, and if we change our perception, everything else changes. This leads to thoughts of love and harmony, that leads to love and harmony returning to you. Thoughts become things remember.
But its more than that. Its a "feeling." A feeling that rings true inside you that lets you know that you're on the right track. It's all about the feeling folks. We're emotional beings and all our time in physical form is spent trying to attain an acceptable feeling. It's the pleasure vs pain syndrome that cause so much devastation, but also creation in our lives. You see, our brains are wired to detect negativity, since that is an important function for basic survival, so we easily take in and adopt this never ending cycle of negativity that we're exposed to every day. The media, of course, is of no help because it knows this too and continues to bombard us with all the "bad" stuff thats happening around us everyday just to sell advertising. Truth be told, statistics tell us that this is the safest time ever to be a human being on this planet.
The way we think is the way we feel, the way we feel is the way we act, and the way we act gives us the results we get in our lives. So one can plainly see that if we start thinking differently, we will feel differently, which will allow us to act and receive differently. Simple eh? It's not rocket science folks.
This also opens up the idea of service. What happens when we are of service to others from a place of love, is that we are actually serving ourselves as well. Many of us think of service as great feats, sacrifices, or large philanthropic donations, and while it is those things, it can also be much more accessible in our daily lives. Being of service to others is simply realizing what you do best in any given moment and offering that as a gift to someone else. For instance, today it could be as simple as a warm smile to brighten someone's day. Giving can be just that simple. I'm reminded of a wonderful quote from Martin Luther King Jr.:
"Anyone can be great, because anyone can serve."
A life of love, happiness, and abundance then, can be started with something as simple as positive thought that made us "feel" better.
Your mission this weekend, should you decide to accept it, is to displace some of that NMA with a PMA. Do this all weekend and by Monday you'll already start to "feel" the difference.
You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!

Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Mike Arend here, founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.

In last weeks blog post I talked about the Soul's desire and that it's ok to desire earthly items that brings joy as well.
Enter the new love in my life. Her name is Merlot. I purchased her on June 10th and this is the first public pictures of her. She is a 2003 BMW Z4 roadster. She's not perfect, but what is? I love her just the way she is.

You see, I've always been a car guy and have owned everything from Pontiacs to Porsches (I am a Mechanic after all!). But I've never owned a convertible, much less a two seat roadster version. The minute I drove her I knew she and I had a connection.

So why would I spend time and money on a material object when I preach that you have all you need within you and all you need to do is just be? Because I asked myself, asked my soul really, "What do you want?" Of course a two seat convertible sports car was the first thing that popped into my mind. I realized though that was my mind talking, not my Soul so I put my hand over my heart, breathed deeply and asked again, "What do you want?" "To love and serve others. To help them awaken and remember who and what they truly are," came forth from the depths of my Soul. I knew this time it was my Soul talking. "OK, so is it reasonable to want a sports car?" I asked. "What ever brings the joy within you out into the world," is the message I received back.

You may find it strange to have a conversation with your Soul, but you should try it some time. You just need to ask, be still and wait for an answer. You'll know when it rings true to you who's doing the talking. So then I asked my mind why on earth would I want a sports car again, because I've had a few before. The answer that came back to me was "To feel the freedom." But I felt this answer more in my chest so I knew it was my Soul talking again.

To feel the freedom. Of course! That's why I desire this car. To be able to put the top down and drive on a twisty back road, to me, is almost like meditation, and it frees me from all earthly responsibility for and hour or two at a time.
You see, "Desire" exists in the Soul. In fact, a great one word definition of the Soul would be "Desire."

Desire is the creator of "Intention" and Intention is the creator of "Thought," Thought is the creator of "Action," and Action gives us the results we get in our lives. Without "Desire" the very Universe could not exist.

So, if the human part of me "Desires" freedom and I get a sense of that when I drive Merlot, then this will turn into more creative thought patterns that will in turn help me with the creative action I need to help others.

Does this sound like justification for buying Merlot? You bet it is! But I truly do get a profound sense of freedom when I drive her, and the joy within is released, which is definitely a good thing. Now, this is not a prescription to go out and buy a convertible sports car just because I did, but if you do, just make sure it rings true with your Soul.
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You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!