Your mind is your main tool of success. When your mind isn't clear, you can't see situations well and make good decisions; you can't act effectively. But when your mind's sharp and you use it well, you can get your best results.

But what if even when your mind is sharp and you use it well, you still don't get the good results you want?

Aside from all the reasons things can go wrong having nothing to do with you, could it be that even when you think your mind is working well, it's really not ... that there's a hidden something actually determining how well your mind works? Well, there is! And that hidden something is your subconscious mind.

Your thinking awareness is only the activity taking place on the surface of your consciousness ... which you experience in your head. But hidden beneath this surface activity, like the main body of an iceberg, lies a vast subconscious mental existence and a subconscious mind. And it's from this hidden place, deep within you, that your thoughts, feelings and reactions often come.

So, no matter how well your mind appears to be working on the surface, it's often just reflecting what's hidden at your depths ... and often, this is where things have gotten poorly set, leading us astray.

To truly live successfully, one's consciousness setting needs to be taken into account.

This is true even for those who appear to be society's most intelligent people. Even when they appear to be thinking and acting at their best, it may not be so at all. Very intelligent people often make a mess of their lives (as much as anyone else). Unless one's consciousness is well informed and highly attuned, high levels of intelligence won't help very much -- they can even work against one.

The key issue is not how intelligent we are or how well our mind works, but how well our consciousness can allow our mind to work.

For our best results, consciousness must be well formed and focused at PEAK.

When this optimum condition exists, we can operate at a super-consciousness level -- and successfully create a life we love.

This is the level I call Creative Consciousness -- at this level of consciousness we operate with our Higher Creative Mind. For just as we have a conscious thinking mind and a hidden subconscious mind, we also have a HIGHER CREATIVE MIND. And this higher mind can't fully operate until we learn to steadily focus it. And the more we focus it, the higher our state of consciousness becomes, and better thoughts, feelings, decisions and actions emerge -- all necessary for creating a wonderful life we love!

Our state of consciousness is the actual key to our ability to have a wonderful life. And this is the great equalizing factor, for as long as we have at least an average intelligence, once our consciousness is reformed and we can freely focus at peak, we have as great a power to live successfully as anyone.

BRINGING CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS PEAK

Do you know how your consciousness got to be as it is?

For the most part, your consciousness was formed and informed unintentionally, in response to random events, mainly during your early years.

This is true for each of us; we all entered the world innocent, vulnerable and malleable, ready to be shaped by others and the forces we encountered in our surroundings. So however our consciousness has become formed and informed, rightly or wrongly, it happened without our conscious intention. So, for the most part, your consciousness state developed accidentally, without your even realizing it was happening.

Later, as an adult, you may have deliberately begun to reshape your consciousness. The more thoughtful you've been ... the more you may have examined some of your beliefs and their manifestations, objectively (perhaps with the help of a guiding master), the more likely you've already been able to bring your consciousness to a higher state.

If you've been in therapy, you may have already done a great deal to free your consciousness from mindsets that were leading you astray and causing problems. And if you've worked with a life master or a spiritual teacher, you may already be practicing higher consciousness-focusing techniques that are moving your consciousness to its peak.

As these processes developed, you may have noticed a great improvement in your life, and you may even have reached the level of Creative Consciousness -- the level where you're able to focus your HIGHER CONSCIOUS MIND often and consistently and create the better outcomes you want.

And here lies the great difference between those who can create a great life and those who can't. Those who do, come to realize the importance of deliberately improving consciousness and bringing it to its peak.

At a peak consciousness state, our mind is free to function at its best; then we may live masterfully and create our best life.

This is truly the key to having a wonderful life. And once this is understood we may then ask -- "How may I best do this for myself?"

I've spent most of my life finding answers to this question, and what I've found I offer in my writings and in my LIFE MASTERY TRAINING workshops. The key is utilizing an integrated set of tools and processes that help one become a Fully Functioning Self with a Higher Conscious Creative Mind.

A HIGHER CONSCIOUS CREATIVE MIND

As this process proceeds, we find our relationship to life changes from being at the effect of, to being the cause of, what happens.

This is to say that we develop a higher creative will and a more loving energized spirit with the capacity to consciously create better outcomes ... and a life we love.

At this level, we come to know the elusive domain of spirit and its higher energies as a tangible presence within -- a presence with which we may commune, and by doing so elicit a constant flow of inspirational impulses, intuitive insights and perfect guidance by which to live.

At this level we clearly understand the process of how we produce experiences and outcomes and take much more responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions. We're more lovingly focused on the creative possibilities of each moment, and more able to act successfully and create fulfillment from the most ordinary of our daily experiences.

At this level we also know deep in our heart THAT WE'RE ALL ONE and CONNECTED, and that our true interests always lie in focusing on helping others and healing our planet.

This new consciousness condition provides us with a level of functioning that is more productive, effective, benevolent and altruistic. At this level we know ourselves and our world reality in a completely new, fuller and more joyful way. Then happiness and fulfillment become our normal daily life experience and we know for a fact how a wonderful life becomes possible -- that it's a matter of taking the special path in life that leads to life mastery.

ON THE PATH TO LIFE MASTERY

Many people today are already on this special path. For an avant-garde group of humans, a new consciousness shift is already taking place. It's happening now as you read this ... spirit-centered beings are evolving into Life Masters. They understand that this is the only way to have a life and world as good as they'd like it to be. And that it can only happen by first evolving a new, higher creatively conscious mind and then bringing that higher consciousness to bear on all the roles they play in life ... as parents, workers, friends, professionals, lovers, educators and as leaders of every kind.

We each have a role to play in building a new world, but unless we begin by raising our own consciousness and improving our own state of being, nothing better can be brought forth.

The first step is moving toward life mastery. Then the effect we bring forth will really improve the state of the world.

DESIGNING BETTER TOOLS

When we reach this point of understanding -- of what it really takes to create a wonderful life and a better world -- then we may set upon a new path in life. And instead of seeking the dream of great wealth and leisure, we may seek the best methods for transforming our consciousness and move toward life mastery and creating a better world.

The following are the key areas in the work ahead for making the leap to a new, creatively conscious mind and life mastery.

Self-discovery: Discovery of all that we already are and can be.

As we expand awareness of who we really are, we become better attuned to our spiritual self and more able to act from a divine and creative level of being. Thus we may come to bring our lives to serve a higher purpose.

Self-management: Management of our internal states and external behaviors.

As we become more aware of our internal states and external behaviors, and more aligned with our higher true Will, we become more able to intentionally choose and deliberately articulate our responses to life's situations. Thus we increase self-control and become more able to drop negative and wasteful habits and increase the good we produce in our lives.

Energetic self-expansion: Exploration of our energetic reality and potential for utilizing higher energetic states.

As we become aware of the energetic level of being and our capacity for raising and drawing upon higher energy states, we become more able to heal ourselves and others, and experience higher and more creative states of being.

NEW AWARENESS IS AN ESSENTIAL KEY

These three areas of Self-development depend on the production of a steady flow of NEW AWARENESS. Raising new awareness levels is the key to gaining and maintaining a new consciousness. And having an integrated set of awareness-raising tools is the key to accelerating this process. Any training method that does not provide this is insufficient.

For instance, you may use meditation techniques to gain a sense of a higher spiritual Self during meditation, but unless you're also coordinating other techniques that increase Self-awareness, Self-management and Energetic self-expansion during daily life, an adequate result will not be achieved. One may gain a strong sense of a higher spiritual Self and still not achieve true self-awareness or self-control, or be able to raise their energy to higher levels during actual daily living.

One needs a complete and integrated set of tools. And that's what LIFE MASTERY TRAINING offers -- it gives you all you need to take you to a level of new consciousness and life mastery.

LIFE MASTERY TRAINING aims at producing Life Masters. For the world to move forward, many masters of higher consciousness are needed to lead the way and help others make great consciousness breakthroughs too.

Now here's a final great life secret:

Just as a great sculpture already exists within a block of stone, a life master already exists within you. All that needs to be done is to chip away all the useless material that keeps it well hidden.