Hi everyone,
I'm Michael Perez and some of you may know me from my writings and forum moderation on NLP Connections or perhaps one of the various psychology, self-help or NLP mailing lists on which I write. If you've come to this place from one of those places, I'm glad you're here and you're welcome to sit back, kick your shoes off, wiggle your toes around and relax. Think of this as your home away from home.
For those of you who don't know me from those places but perhaps know me from other times in my life, it's great to have you here! I hope you'll stick around so that we can get reacquainted and pick up where we left off.
For those of you who don't know me from Adam and are here because the great g-d Google told you there was something here of interest, there is and will be. It's nice to meet you and I look forward to the wonderful conversations and feelings to come.
Whoever you are and however you got here, let me tell you a bit about who I am and about this place, Trancecendent, what it is and what it's meant to be.
Who I Am
Well now, figuring out a way to say who you are exactly is quite a tall order!
I could tell you my name, but that's not really me, it's just what I'm called.
I could tell you that I do life transformation seminars, life coaching or change work, but that's not really me either, that's what I do.
I could tell you that I am my mother's son or my sister's brother, but that's not who I am, those are just relationships that I have with others.
I could tell you that I've been passionate about Japanese culture and philosophy or that I love to draw and considered being an animator or that I love writing fiction and may one day publish a novel, but all of those are hobbies or interests and not who I am.
Who am I? This isn't really a satisfactory answer either, but here it goes. I'll tell you for now that I'm a person who helps other people find a real, deep meaning to this question. And once you find that answer to that question, you can answer every other real question in your whole life informed by that knowledge of who you really are. And those answers, in turn, can allow you to live, really live, in a deeply satisfying way that can allow you to experience real happiness.
So that's not really who I am and I guess it's close enough for the sake of argument and for this message. I think you'll see more of who I am revealed directly and indirectly in what is written here over the days and weeks to come.
What This Place Is
This place is meant to be a place for me to write and reflect on my learnings and experiences in a way that is useful to you and that will give you something really worthwhile to take away from this place and bring with you wherever you go.
You see, you gave me something very valuable when you came here and you're giving me something very valuable right now, something more valuable than anything else you own. You are giving me your time.
Now people are sometimes quite stingy with time. Sometimes they're trying to save time or make time. Others seem to be more free and waste time or lose track of time. And yet the moment that you're spending with me right now reading what I've written is a moment that you'll only have this once and will never have again. So, when you give me this precious, irreplaceable, utterly unique-in-the-history-of-the-universe moment, you're giving me something that you'll never have again and will never be able to give to anyone else.
In exchange for this precious gift of your time, I believe that I owe you something and it'd better be something pretty damn valuable considering what you're putting on the table! I guess I could have you give me your e-mail address so that I can PayPal you some cash, but I don't think that all the money I have would be enough to pay even one of you for this, let alone all of you that will ever read this over the course of time. In fact, I don't own anything that valuable even if were to stack all of my possessions up to weigh them against what you're giving me right now. I owe you and I owe you big.
The most valuable thing that I have and therefore the only currency that is commensurate with what you're giving me are my thoughts. Now you might be thinking, 'this guy seems to think his thoughts are pretty damn valuable!' and if you've already begun to think about your time about being that valuable by contras, maybe that thought will already be valuable enough to help pay you for the time we're spending together right now.
Pretty soon now, not in this post but in the ones to come, we'll begin to talk about more and more about how being who we are affects every aspect of our lives and how changing our ideas about who we are can make incredible transformations in our lives, either for the good or, hopefully, for the even better.
We'll talk about more specific things like how to control pain and feel wonderful, how to learn to take advantage of our mind-body connection to create great outcomes for our health and how to achieve all of our goals and dreams so that we can live the kind of really fantastic, happy life that we're meant to live.
And all of these things seem to come back to the same thing for me, which is what I believe about who I am and how that affects every part of my life and can mean and do the same for you.
I built this place so that I could have this discussion with you, so thank you for being here, for having the discussion and, in so doing, allowing this place to be what it's supposed to be. And I'll look forward to being here with you again, soon.
Be Well,
Michael Perez
I'm Michael Perez and some of you may know me from my writings and forum moderation on NLP Connections or perhaps one of the various psychology, self-help or NLP mailing lists on which I write. If you've come to this place from one of those places, I'm glad you're here and you're welcome to sit back, kick your shoes off, wiggle your toes around and relax. Think of this as your home away from home.
For those of you who don't know me from those places but perhaps know me from other times in my life, it's great to have you here! I hope you'll stick around so that we can get reacquainted and pick up where we left off.
For those of you who don't know me from Adam and are here because the great g-d Google told you there was something here of interest, there is and will be. It's nice to meet you and I look forward to the wonderful conversations and feelings to come.
Whoever you are and however you got here, let me tell you a bit about who I am and about this place, Trancecendent, what it is and what it's meant to be.
Who I Am
Well now, figuring out a way to say who you are exactly is quite a tall order!
I could tell you my name, but that's not really me, it's just what I'm called.
I could tell you that I do life transformation seminars, life coaching or change work, but that's not really me either, that's what I do.
I could tell you that I am my mother's son or my sister's brother, but that's not who I am, those are just relationships that I have with others.
I could tell you that I've been passionate about Japanese culture and philosophy or that I love to draw and considered being an animator or that I love writing fiction and may one day publish a novel, but all of those are hobbies or interests and not who I am.
Who am I? This isn't really a satisfactory answer either, but here it goes. I'll tell you for now that I'm a person who helps other people find a real, deep meaning to this question. And once you find that answer to that question, you can answer every other real question in your whole life informed by that knowledge of who you really are. And those answers, in turn, can allow you to live, really live, in a deeply satisfying way that can allow you to experience real happiness.
So that's not really who I am and I guess it's close enough for the sake of argument and for this message. I think you'll see more of who I am revealed directly and indirectly in what is written here over the days and weeks to come.
What This Place Is
This place is meant to be a place for me to write and reflect on my learnings and experiences in a way that is useful to you and that will give you something really worthwhile to take away from this place and bring with you wherever you go.
You see, you gave me something very valuable when you came here and you're giving me something very valuable right now, something more valuable than anything else you own. You are giving me your time.
Now people are sometimes quite stingy with time. Sometimes they're trying to save time or make time. Others seem to be more free and waste time or lose track of time. And yet the moment that you're spending with me right now reading what I've written is a moment that you'll only have this once and will never have again. So, when you give me this precious, irreplaceable, utterly unique-in-the-history-of-the-universe moment, you're giving me something that you'll never have again and will never be able to give to anyone else.
In exchange for this precious gift of your time, I believe that I owe you something and it'd better be something pretty damn valuable considering what you're putting on the table! I guess I could have you give me your e-mail address so that I can PayPal you some cash, but I don't think that all the money I have would be enough to pay even one of you for this, let alone all of you that will ever read this over the course of time. In fact, I don't own anything that valuable even if were to stack all of my possessions up to weigh them against what you're giving me right now. I owe you and I owe you big.
The most valuable thing that I have and therefore the only currency that is commensurate with what you're giving me are my thoughts. Now you might be thinking, 'this guy seems to think his thoughts are pretty damn valuable!' and if you've already begun to think about your time about being that valuable by contras, maybe that thought will already be valuable enough to help pay you for the time we're spending together right now.
Pretty soon now, not in this post but in the ones to come, we'll begin to talk about more and more about how being who we are affects every aspect of our lives and how changing our ideas about who we are can make incredible transformations in our lives, either for the good or, hopefully, for the even better.
We'll talk about more specific things like how to control pain and feel wonderful, how to learn to take advantage of our mind-body connection to create great outcomes for our health and how to achieve all of our goals and dreams so that we can live the kind of really fantastic, happy life that we're meant to live.
And all of these things seem to come back to the same thing for me, which is what I believe about who I am and how that affects every part of my life and can mean and do the same for you.
I built this place so that I could have this discussion with you, so thank you for being here, for having the discussion and, in so doing, allowing this place to be what it's supposed to be. And I'll look forward to being here with you again, soon.
Be Well,
Michael Perez
Labels: beginnings, beliefs, identity, thoughts, time, transformation, values, welcome
Nice one MP! Grand to be here at the start, I'm looking forward to the conversation.
Cheers
Carl