Howard Falco has been an inspiration to me over the last couple of years and I'm thrilled his book "I AM: The power of discovering who you really are" goes on sale on Sept 2, 2010. 

When I spoke with Howard recently on the show (Listen Here), we talked in depth about the way in which we create - how each of us moves all the pieces into place that assemble all the elements of our lives in each moment.  Just as you have assembled everything to be right here, right now, reading this.

In my experience, creation is a process of intention, feedback, understanding and action and Howard has summed up this process so nicely I wanted to share that with you.

This is from page 314 of I AM

"The journey of consciously creating life is a repeating cycle of the following five steps

1. ASK your question
2. ACCEPT the truth of your answers
3. CHOOSE who you are (I AM)
4. ACT on this belief in yourself
5. EXPERIENCE the perfection of the results

The universe can only respond to the identity you truly believe you embody."

Thanks Howard.

If you are experiencing a serious crisis or loss, I highly recommend you read Daphne Rose Kingma's Ten Things To Do When Life Falls Apart.

You will be inspired, comforted and for each of the Ten Things there are exercises for reflection, meditation and journaling that will assist you:

1.    CRY YOUR HEART OUT

2.    FACE YOUR DEFAULTS  (four steps to face them)

3.    DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT  (No, it doesn’t feel like expansion…it feels like loss but you can change your relationship to the problem)

4.    LET GO  (hanging on is fear, letting go is hope)

5.    REMEMBER WHO YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN

6.    PERSIST  (hope is born of persistence)

7.    INTEGRATE YOUR LOSS  (you Are big enough if you remember who you really are)

8.    LIVE SIMPLY (a surprising chapter!)

9.    GO WHERE THE LOVE IS 

10.    LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE SPIRIT

And remember: There is more to you than what you ordinarily think of as yourself