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This is day 6 of my 33 open journal experiment. I’ve been wanting to write publicly about this topic for awhile, so a blog post is a better fit than Facebook for this one.

The highest version of yourself is at the intersection of Power, Love, and Wisdom.

Love

Love is the source and the point. It’s what creates life and bonds life together. If you disregard the Power and Wisdom components, and just live with Love, you’ll be okay.

Love should be the motivation for your life, for how you build your career/business, for how you cultivate your relationships, for how you show up in the world. It’s the greatest form of energy there is. I can write more about Love here, but so much has already been written, and it ultimately just sounds cliche to write more words for it here – you’ve either found this truth for yourself, or you haven’t (yet).

Grow your ability to Love, and you’ll live a better life. Love yourself, Love others, Love your work, Love the world, Love Love.

There was a time in my life where I believed Love and your “Inner God” or your ‘highest self’ were synonymous, but that model has evolved for me to instead be the intersection of Power, Love, and Wisdom… or your greatest expression of Love.

Power

Power amplifies whatever it’s attached to. Power is influence, the ability to create change, the force that makes things happen.

On a more “practical” level, you grow your Power by growing your ability to influence and create change in the world. Learning copywriting is increasing your Power, because you can influence people’s decisions. Growing your audience is Power, because you can reach more people with your message. Gaining and direction wealth is a great form of Power, because the market forces dictate so much of what each individual and society as a whole does, and because it expands your own freedom and ability to influence.

Power is your ability to change minds, change behavior, change the way the world works.

So if you start with Love as your base motivation for creation, as the energy source for your life, then Power amplifies that Love. Amplifies your expression of Love. Empowers you to influence more people with your Love.

In my drawing, the overlap of Power and Love is Love expressed, amplified, and expanded.

Wisdom

Wisdom is the human expression of Truth.

The highest form of Wisdom is the closest we can get to understanding and expressing Truth. It’s seeing as far forward as we can into our future, based on understanding the cyclical nature of our past. It’s understanding how the world works, it’s understanding the chain of action-reaction as far as the human mind can see.

On a more practical level, Wisdom is knowing what to do to get a desired result.

You go to a mentor with Wisdom because they can see farther and deeper than you, and can help you make the right decision when you’re lost, expand your perspective, or see a greater truth in your current reality.

The overlap of Wisdom and Love is consciousness.

If you take Wisdom and overlap it with Power, you’ll know how to best use your Power. Grow both your Wisdom and your Power, and you multiply your influence. Your decisions will be wiser, based on a greater understanding of Truth, and you’ll be able to do a lot more with your growing Power.

The highest version of yourself is at the intersection of Power, Love, and Wisdom.

Bring yourself to the center of these three energies… you start with Love as your Source, you amplify its experience and expression with Power, and you multiply by directing it with Wisdom.

Knowing this isn’t enough.

How do you apply it?

It’s simple, but it’s a life long journey. Grow each energy. Commit to growing your Love. Commit to expanding your Power. Commit to gaining greater Wisdom. Let this become your model for personal growth, using these circles as broad categories for the skills, concepts, and lessons you create for yourself.

As you commit to this journey, you also become a force in building a humanity that can sustain a deep understanding of Love.

PS – Massive gratitude to Vivian Hanai who planted this seed in my head when she taught me the mantra “I am Power, Love, and Wisdom” before speaking at Eben Pagan’s Accelerate last year. That mantra has now taken on a greater meaning for me, as it means I am my highest self, an expression of God, my greatest expression of Love.

Here’s what I believe we’re doing in the world, what my generation is responsible for:

Building A Humanity That Can Sustain A Deep Understanding Of Love

I can go on in essays about how Love Is The Answer, but there’s already plenty written on that, and you either agree or you don’t (some would say, you either Remember, or you don’t).

But just knowing the answer isn’t enough to create a world that Lives the answer.

And I believe that’s just what we’re doing now, creating a world that can live that answer sustainably.

What do I mean by sustainably?

The 70’s got really close to this (referring to America), in that so much of the population had a deep understanding of Love. The culture, the music, the people, the spirit… but it wasn’t sustainable, so it didn’t last. I could even argue that we spent the next two decades take huge steps back from it, largely because it wasn’t sustainable.

It wasn’t sustainable because while much of the culture understood this, we just didn’t build the economic, political, and technological structures and environments to sustain it. So what you had was Woodstock… Love and Beauty and Rebellion and Drugs and Music, until you ran out of food, shelter, and money… and structure.

So what’s different now?

If you look around, the culture has been waking up to Love. More and more people are awakening and remembering the Power of Love.

But it’s not just in a rebellious, hippy way (nothing against hippies – again, they were pretty damn close to getting it right).

It’s all coming together synergistically… the entrepreneurial revolution, the technological evolution, and the mass cultural awakening.

In the 70’s, Love and Business/Capitalism were on opposite sides of the spectrum. Now, Entrepreneurial Creation is actually one of the Greatest Expressions of Love.

In the 70’s, Love and Technology were on opposite sides of the spectrum (well, except for in the minds of great entrepreneurs and thinkers like Steve Jobs, who recognized the convergence of the two way before the rest of the world). Now, most technological progress improves not only the quality of human life, but also the environment (think Tesla, or more broadly almost anything with a microchip), and people actually strive to create technology that improves the planet, not to mention human freedom and global equal opportunity.

The political landscape, well… I don’t follow enough politics to claim any expertise here, but I do believe we’re seeing the evolution of conscious capitalism, and a political environment supporting that evolution.

As the political, economic, and technological atmospheres converge with the cultural, artistic, and spiritual awakening to Love, we’ll live in a world where people’s lives and careers will experience, express, and embody Love… sustainably.

And a society is just a collection of people and the relationships (political, economic, familial, spiritual, cultural, sexual, emotional, intellectual relationships) between them, so we’ll have a world that will experience, express, and embody Love.

More than any generation before us, this can really last.

So what does this all mean, and what do you do with it?

I believe it will progress exponentially and happen with or without you. With or without me. But I invite you to participate… better yet, to lead this revolution. To accelerate it. To be on the right side of history. To create meaning in your life, by helping to build a humanity that can sustain a deep understanding of Love.

Having this goal, this commitment, and this belief alone will start to transform your thinking, your decisions, and your actions to those of a solutionary.

Thoughts? Comment below. I would love a discussion about this.

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