About Me

I’ve been called a modern day Thoreau. I used to be a financial consultant for Shearson-Lehman Brothers in Milwaukee. Although I had the highest sales numbers in my department, I couldn’t stay. I moved to the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in North Georgia and have since had a view of our culture from the outside. Each day in my mountain retreat is an endless exploration of existence, consciousness, and feeling what it is to be a human being. Being present and mapping the terrain back to who we really are is my current occupation. My thirty-two acre farm creates an atmosphere conducive to introspection, opening, and playing, which are often lacking in our fast-paced world.

You can have a house in Malibu, one on the French Riviera and one in Belize, unlimited funds, a private jet and pilot but if you aren’t there, if you aren’t self aware, there is nobody there to really enjoy your success. Without self awareness it doesn’t matter how much money you have.

With self awareness it doesn’t matter how much money you have either. Self awareness takes the sting out of suffering and it puts pleasure even in mundane moments. It makes each moment both rewarding and worth living.

Being here, being self aware, that is the trick and without it the lights may well be on but nobody is home.

The path of self awareness leads to enlightenment. It is the personal path, getting to know your unique self, loving yourself and awakening. You are uniquely you. What you see, hear and feel each moment is a complex/perfect matrix called self. Awareness of self is the fun, fearless use of attention, exploring who you really are.

I assist people in flowing through their resistance and limitations. Guaranteeing peace and prosperity

You have places you get stuck, forgetting who you are, and denying what you are capable of. These blockages are of two kinds: vertical and horizontal.

Most life coaches deal with horizontal growth. In doing so they assist you in changing things. Horizontal growth is all about more, better and different. Examples of horizontal growth include:

1. making more money
2. losing weight
3. finding just the right job
4. getting ahead in life
5. getting what you want when you want it

Horizontal growth is about being all that you can be, accomplishing things and getting ahead.

Vertical growth is fundamentally different and is the work of a few really good therapists and spiritual teachers. Vertical movement is about getting to know yourself more fully and growing up. Vertical growth isn’t about changing anything, it is about discovering what is.

Maximizing your possibilities requires that you integrate horizontal and vertical growth. Mixing these two results in a life that flows freely, peacefully and effortlessly. Integration ensures ecological growth while maintaining your mental and physical health.

Focussing only on horizontal growth can lead to explosive success while being haunted by self sabotage and self defeating behavior. It can result in having worldly success without any real pleasure.

Vertical growth alone may result in your being happy but will likely rob you of the comforts and luxuries in life and may result in your being both wise and alone.

Horizontal growth is about having more good stuff and less bad stuff. Being richer, thinner, smarter, superficially happier, respected and popular.

Vertical growth is about mixing highs and lows equally to experience a deep seated well being and balance that horizontal growth cannot deliver. Vertical growth provides grounding in life as it is while horizontal growth is all about change.

You need integrated growth because there is always “what is” and also always the possibility of positive change. You deserve both.

You get to explore, not complain about your personal experience. To make the most of your experience you need have received a very special gift. Attention is your gift. You are the only creature on Earth able to be aware of yourself.

I have been studying attention for thirty years. I have learned a lot about what it is and what it isn’t. I would like to share what I have learned with you so that you can learn to master attention and in that process awaken and discover that you are enlightened. Our journey to self awareness will be fun and rewarding. It will result in your integrating peace (vertical) with prosperity (horizontal).

You don’t have to meditate for hours move to India or find a guru, you also don’t have to forgo that private plane, mundane success or an incredible marriage. You can have it all and I will show you how.