Many of us fail to recognize the dormant hero that lies in each one of us. We are taught to believe that in order to be a hero we must perform some truly noble act or possess supernatural abilities. Only then, we feel, will our lives be validated and some higher duty fulfilled. The greatest heroes in our world from a historical perspective, however, have at first been the greatest thinkers. Their abilities had very little to do with their physical prowess and everything to do with their beliefs in their own capabilities. Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Martin Luther King- all three had faith that they could change the world for the better. They bought into the fact that one idea acted upon with great intensity and relentless commitment can change the world. None of these heroes had x-ray vision or the ability to become invisible. Yet, they all had the secret to heroism- faith in themselves.

Just out of reach there lies a moving target of happiness. You know where you want to end up, yet you don’t know how to get there. Happiness is the bulls-eye, and you throw darts at random without awareness of the rules ad regulations of how the target moves. You haphazardly aim and shoot wishing for the best. You aim with your thoughts and your feelings reveal your successes and failures.

People are in love with the effect of a life that feels good, but aren’t in love with the cause of getting there. Successful people realize that success in life is created from positive-thinking thought patterns repeated over and over again. These people realize that the key to life feeling good lies beyond the other side of fear. Taking risks is essential to examining self-perceptions.

You are subconsciously aware of a discrepancy between where you are and where you want to be. Instead of confronting the cause, you mask it, usually with extremely attainable goals for yourself: money, cars, a spouse, losing five pounds. Instead of confronting wisdom and truth, you hide back in the shadows. You can choose to close the gap by baby-stepping out of your comfort zone evaluating your perceptions.

This manuscript asserts that the ability to recognize and embrace your current situation is the ultimate wisdom. Whatever you’re experiencing right now is precisely where you need to be in order to bring you to your next moment. All you’ve got is this moment in time, the future is an illusion, your future only provides thoughts which create feelings about what may happen. Your life is characterized by patterns of stress, anxiety, excitement and ambition.

In an easy-to-read format, this manuscript holds people accountable for their situations. It examines the perception that most people think they’re successful only when they’re working in perfect external conditions. They surround themselves with external rewards and blame their success as well as their failures on their external circumstances.  What they don’t realize is where they are has much more to do with their internal happenings and less to do with their external circumstances. As Warren Buffet teaches us, “You ca never tell whose swimming naked until the tide goes down.” Positive thought patterns create a life that feels good even with the changing tide.

The goals of this manuscript include: self-awareness of the creation of reality, an increase in successful thought patterns, a decrease in ineffective thought patterns which sabotage life circumstances, realization of the power of the mind, an awareness of the power of the universe, an awareness that all thoughts and feelings needed for success already exist inside each individual, self-responsibility, and an increased discipline of individual thoughts and actions.

Human history provides us with evidence of bad choices based upon unexamined perceptions. These start in the mind and are carried out in the body. Unexamined perceptions lead to illogical and immoral tendencies such as the Holocaust, the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials and the Chinese occupation of Tibet. This manuscript is a catalyst for an awakening of the responsibility for creating realities based on truth and wisdom.