The 3 Principles of Choice

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1 The 3 Principles of Choice ~ Harry Massey ~

2 The Choice Point Movement opens your eyes to a whole new world.

3 3 Choice Point Align Your Purpose Many of us are at a life-changing point in our lives wondering what is my purpose, what is happening in my world, what can I do to make a difference. It seems there is an increasing unrest and turbulence in the world. We are bombarded every day by shocking images on the TV, terrible stories in the paper and for many of us there is a growing sense of shift and change occurring in the world. Personally too, we feel that there must be something more. Change begins with us; every choice we make is creating the future for better or for worse but where do we begin to make an improvement in our lives and start to see a happier healthier world? How do we make the right choices? Wouldn t it be amazing if you had access to the kind of information that until now has been the reserve of the world s most far-thinking scientists, business leaders and change-makers?

4 Wouldn t it be useful for you to know how to apply this powerful knowledge to your own life in an easy stepby-step way? Wouldn t it be wonderful if you had a social network that allowed you to connect with others and combine forces to help create the world at its highest potential? If you answered a resounding YES! to these threequestions, then read on because over the course of this book, we ll be undertaking a fascinating journey, which guarantees to alter how you see life forever Very shortly, you ll be one of the first to have the tools you need to create positive change in both your own life and in the lives of those around you, on a scale that s never been possible until now

5 5 Choice Point is a hands-on movement that provides us all with the information and tools to realize both our individual and collective potential. It does that through putting together the collective wisdom of some of the leading change- makers on our planet in a film, books and a socially-interactive learning platform but also enables you to find people of similar interests and ideas to enable collaboration on a global scale really empowering you to co-create the world that you want to live in. A social network for a positive social purpose. This book gives you some tips on how to make better choices and how you can use these amazing resources to improve both your life and the lives of others too.

6 What is a Choice Point? The term Choice Point is borrowed from physics. It is a place of branching or forking. It is a point of possibility. Our lives are constantly throwing up choice points - seemingly negative life events and crises are actually windows of opportunity for change, enabling us to drastically improve the quality of our lives by making different choices. Crises can either be devastating or transformational depending on what you re able to learn from them and the psychological tools available to you. On another level, it can also be seen that our planet is at choice point decisions and choices made by this generation and the next will have a huge impact on whether or not this planet will flourish or be devastated. Learn how Mother Nature is in a constant cycle of endings and beginnings, or in other words - choice points, and how you can tune into this cycle to maximize your growth potential.

7 7 Learn how to identify the choice points in your life, and how to use this information to make the best choices for you at exactly the right time in your life to have the optimum effect by following these 3 simple principles: Principle 1 - Understand Your World Principle 2 -Align Your Purpose Principle 3- Be The Change

8 The Choice Point Movement The main principles of the Choice Point philosophy The unexamined life is not worth living Socrates

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11 11 The first Choice Point principle is to Understand Your World... Nature, society and your life all have patterns to them. Through learning to ask questions, conducting research, having empathy with people and reading the signs it s possible to build up a picture of what patterns are present in nature, in society and world events. You must know who you are and you must embrace who you are in order to then go beyond it. Alison Pothier Choice Point movie The second principle is to Align Your Purpose. Once you have understood your world, you will be able to align your purpose with the patterns that nature and your social surroundings are able to support. It s like sailing with the wind behind you instead of frantically paddling upstream - you will be guided to achieve success that you never thought possible. Simply through thoroughly understanding your world and then aligning with the patterns already present in the world, you will achieve great success using less energy and a great deal less effort because of the knowledge you ve gained.

12 What scientists are beginning to understand is that the universe is actually made up of very few patterns that propagate and repeat themselves on many, many different scales throughout the universe. Gregg Braden - Choice Point movie Thirdly once you have gathered all the information you need and discovered your true purpose, the last principle is to Be The Change. Understanding Your World and Aligning Your Purpose will get you a long way in obtaining a happier more fulfilled life. It is a failure to get to grips with these simple principles that often leads to disappointment for people on a personal development journey who have been taught the think it, believe it and it will happen philosophy that has been popular in the self-help industry. However to fully align your purpose, you have to be it that is you must really live it and feel it in all aspects of your life. There can be a lot of blocks that can prevent this happening perhaps trust, conditioning, fear or simply not taking action in the direction of your purpose. As Gandhi simply said be the change you want to see in the world.

13 13 We change the world by changing ourselves. Robert E Quinn Choice Point movie Before we have a closer look at the three principles and how they can actually be applied in your life, it s worth explaining how Choice Point came about.

14 How It All Started Harry Massey - the Founder of Choice Point To properly explain the term Choice Point and to explain how a choice point can truly change your life, I m going to tell my own Choice Point story, which will demonstrate to you that however disadvantaged you think you are - you can do it too. This is the story of how my own personal Choice Point led me to have the most incredible life journey, resulting in the making of the Choice Point movie and the social network platform that allows me to share the wisdom I have gained from many of life s great visionaries. In the first part of my adult life I screwed up, and I screwed up big time. For seven years my life seemed over as I spent a significant portion of it staring up at the ceiling not being able to move beyond a few hours a day. I had as a result of many years of a self-destructive hedonistic lifestyle with all the negative beliefs and poor self-worth that lifestyle often entails.

15 15 Did I purposefully choose those years in bed? No. Did I create it? Well Yes in a way. Was it part of my destiny? Was it part of some greater cycle leading on to the future events that followed? Looking back now with the knowledge of how that crisis defined my purpose in life and led me to create a successful health business, destiny does seem to have played a part too. Would I be where I am now without that crisis? I m pretty sure I wouldn t. I had a very significant turning point in my journey from illness and misery to being able to build a global company. I simply decided that the way to get myself better was to try to understand what was really behind health; how the body really worked and to make a home wellness system that would enable people to be able to work out what was wrong with them from home, and more importantly, to give them a way of getting themselves better again. I figured if I could do that, I would get better along the way. I had no idea how that could be done, how I would get the money or who would help me, but because I had literally nothing to lose (I had no life really to speak of) I thought I might as well try. That journey was an extremely tough one, compounded by only having very limited time per day for thinking and even then that thinking was extremely foggy as any sufferer of chronic fatigue syndrome will understand.

16 Against all the odds with no business experience - not even any work experience, heavily compromised health, unable to drive and with almost zero social skills after having been holed up in my room for seven years incredible things happened, seemingly coincidently. I met an amazing scientist - Peter Fraser - and together we set about creating our first health system. NES Health was formed, and as it started to succeed, my own health started changing dramatically for the better. It wasn t all plain sailing though. Although I was able to rapidly grow a successful practitioner-based health company, it has taken 10 years to develop the technology and expertise to be able to help people directly in their own homes as was my original dream. During the first few months it was the familiar Silicon Valley garage story except we were in a British seaside town, in an upstairs flat, buying buttons from shirt shops and gluing them on to bits of plastic to make devices and labelling our remedy bottles with a laser printer. After 6 months the weight of the storage of bottles in my spare room started causing cracks in the ceiling downstairs and it was time to move the business out - at this time into a larger but cheaper property that was going to be condemned - what does this mean?

17 17 The problem was who would invest in someone who was still pretty ill, hadn t had a job in 6 years and was pursuing an extremely revolutionary idea that wasn t accepted in mainstream science? I had to build from the ground up and do whatever it took to see it happen. In those early years, I also had another related vision, which at the time I called the World Consciousness Project, to help people transform themselves and the globe via the internet. However, 10 years ago it was too early for that type of idea and I absolutely didn t know nearly enough to pass on the knowledge needed to make this project successful. I hadn t understood my world. What was really incredible looking back is when I started the Choice Point project, I had totally forgotten that I d had the original idea 10 years ago. So I had had a vision of a health system first and then 2 years later started on the World Consciousness Project. And then, 10 years after that, I launched the home wellness system I call the NES mihealth and my latest venture Choice Point is launching in years later. Where did this pattern come from?

18 What was really at the centre of this success? What allowed destiny to work for me? I believe it was something incredibly simple at that choice point in my life, I decided to align with a purpose that was bigger than my selfish desire to get myself well, by instead putting myself as a passionate servant to make a home wellness system to help others. Simply aligning with a purpose that was harmonious to the greater good, enabled patterns that are inherent in nature and people s behavior to support that journey and in turn I got healthy too. In short I had Aligned My Purpose. Could I have set up my company earlier and avoided those years of suffering? Unlikely - without the intense suffering I wouldn t have had the drive to learn and do what I needed to do. Could I have made that change later? Again unlikely, as it was at that particular time that I had the opportunity to radically change my life and move to America, where I discovered the information I needed to put my vision into action. If I hadn t, I m fairly certain that my health would have carried on deteriorating beyond the point of being able to do anything. Sometime after moving to America, I had another interesting chain of events that would turn out to be part of bigger pattern much later.

19 19 I lost my visa waiver to the States and was forced to move to the UK, I had the last little bit of my money stolen, lost my boyfriend, and my father died. Simultaneously Peter Fraser came over to England and convinced me to ditch the World Consciousness Project and concentrate on NES Health and this all in the space of 3 weeks! Destiny definitely placed me firmly where I needed to be! Ten years on in a reversal of the pattern, my US Visa has been granted, I m engaged to be married, Choice Point is being launched, and I have a supportive team behind me. In both my professional and personal life I am constantly endeavoring to Be the Change and live my life in a state of flow with the patterns inherent in my environment.

20 It seems to me that life has patterns that unfold and that some points in our life are more significant, where the choices we make can have a much more significant effect on our life than others. That s my story though it s only a story by itself the question I wanted to know was did it also apply to other people? Is there a common theme that could be made into a philosophy of how to master one s life and make a difference in the world? What could be gleaned from the life stories of the most significant leaders, scientists and thinkers of our day? Did they have choice points and then go on to Align their Purpose in able to succeed in life and play a positive role in the society they lived in? In order to find this out I set about making the movie Choice Point. I also had a further motivation for researching the choice points of contemporary visionaries. I d spent the last 10 years preparing to launch a home wellness system while instead building a practitioner business. I knew I didn t know enough to make it scale after all we d only built a relatively small practitioner business not the multi-billion dollar one that it would really take to empower millions of people to take care of their health from home. I thought the knowledge I d gain and people we d meet from trying to work out some of the deeper questions of how life really works and how leaders really apply that to succeed, would also help me in my quest to realise my dreams and ambitions.

21 21 I hope that you enjoy exploring our findings as they ve certainly worked for me and for many of the visionaries that I ve met along the way. As our knowledge base grows, we will continue to evolve and refine the Choice Point philosophy as we gain collective experience from others, delving into it. All the people I interviewed for Choice Point spent time thoroughly researching and understanding their world so that they were able to align with their purpose and take the actions they needed to succeed rather than just following a mindset where anything is possible. I now understand that not everything is possible, but through recognizing and aligning with patterns, that the incredible is possible when we get it right. The Choice Point philosophy is about those windows of opportunity where you have the choice to do something different so that you are supported, rather than fighting against the patterns unfolding in society and nature. It s about how in those moments, if you can recognize the patterns and align with your purpose you will be able to move forward with your life in amazing ways, and really make a difference in the world. So now we have some background on the reasons why Choice Point came into being, let s look at the Choice Point Philosophy in a little more detail.

22 How Are Choice Points Created?

23 23 The only thing that s permanent in life is change ~ HH Dalai Lama Everything is changing, everything always has changed, and everything always will change, in one way or another. Nature flows and changes and we are part of it, so our lives also change. When we get comfortable with the idea of change, that what we re doing and experiencing is impermanent, then we don t waste so much mental and emotional effort trying to keep things as they are. We can let things change and flow with them as they do so. Think of change as evolution. With every new piece of knowledge, every new experience, we become more than we were before. We evolve and gain wisdom in the process. Reality is filled with cycles, as we know. A cycle, by its nature, must come to an end to allow a new one to begin. From the very small (behavior of subatomic particles) to the very large (planets and galaxies), life operates in cycles. The heart beats, we breathe in and out, the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy. This is nature, and you are part of it. You cannot be separate from nature. You could think of nature s cycles like waves on the surface water and life as being a boat on the water continually being lifted and dropped by the waves. In this way, you too are carried on the waves of life.

24 Just as nature s cycles end and new ones begin, so many aspects of your life follow cyclical patterns. With this realization you can become more comfortable with the idea of impermanence. Cycles present us with opportunities, especially as a cycle ends and a new one begins. As creators of our own destiny, we can make choices in our lives to let go of old aspects of ourselves that don t serve who or what we want to become in our lives like a cycle we choose to leave behind. We may find ourselves in situations that are similar to ones we have been in before maybe many years before maybe it s a pattern we have noticed throughout our lives but with knowledge and awareness we can choose how we react and behave in that situation in order to move forwards in our lives in the most productive way. Many people are fearful of change because change represents the end of something that we might have become comfortable or felt safe with. We sometimes even face resistance from others (friends, family, colleagues) as we go through a process of change (change for us can impact them too). Our ideas, and even our sanity, can be questioned. And if we re not committed to our change we might resonate with their doubts, not making the changes we want, and find ourselves repeating the same patterns of the past.

25 25 So as we prepare to change, it can be useful to expect resistance, we can mentally equip ourselves with empathy for the concerns of others and also develop the determination to strive forwards. Are you ready to let go of some aspects of your life to begin the next exciting phase of your journey? A choice point is that window of opportunity where you can make a choice between repeating the same kind of thinking and behaviors of the past, or to think and be something different, something bigger and better than you ve been before. A choice point is a window of opportunity where you have the chance to align yourself with harmonious patterns in the world, those that serve your needs and the needs and desires of humanity. We can choose a new future, a new destiny so to speak, a new path whose destiny-ation was not available to us before. How do you then align yourself with patterns that are good for you so you can make better choices for your future?

26 PRINCIPLE 1 Understand Your World There s patterns and seasons in nature, there s patterns of the lunar cycles that affect people, different possibilities, that are more lined-up. And as we understand these patterns, and co-operate with these patterns, then it s like you get to dance through life, rather than to be dragged through life. Jack Canfield Choice Point Movie

27 27 Everything that we interact with can be thought of in terms of information processing. We process information that comes from our environment via our senses and then use that information to make our decisions. The ability to see the world for what it truly is, what the spiritual traditions have described as enlightenment that is the ability to form a cohesive and accurate picture of the world while having a deeper insight into the meaning and purpose of all things. Of course, that concept is relative to a situation - if you took an Indian sage and placed him in a New York business meeting - would he have a cohesive and accurate picture of his environment? Unlikely. Enlightenment, at most, is relative and temporary to the situation, and often those that claim to be enlightened are deluded at best. In order to have a more cohesive and accurate picture of reality from which to base our decisions, we need to seek out knowledge, become interested in our world and really think about the information available to us in other words we need to become wise. True wisdom can only come from Understanding Our World. Without seeking wisdom, it is very difficult to improve and grow in your life. It is often taught in self-help circles that if you can identify and change limiting belief systems, you can pretty much transform your life without doing much else.

28 However, although working on your belief systems is part of the process, it is not the whole picture. Changing a limiting belief is one thing, but in order to see true and lasting change in your life you also need to gain knowledge of your environment and the other factors in your life, which may be having an influence on your situation. You need to be able to understand the cyclical nature of life events and be ready to use that knowledge to match up to situations that are in harmony with your environment. The Universe is structured and ordered according to natural laws and we can see these structures and patterns reflected in nature and world events. When we gain a deeper knowledge of the underlying patterns in life we can start to make the choices that the Universe supports and so we live more harmoniously. Making decisions based on the patterns present in nature and the Universe will cause your belief systems to naturally shift as you put your new knowledge to test in the real world. That's the basis of learning - you apply new knowledge to a situation, and if the unexpected happens, you re-evaluate your worldview to work out a more accurate picture for the future. The process of gaining new knowledge and testing it out is a lifelong process of learning, understanding, and adapting.

29 29 Let us explore just a few of the ways the Choice Point membership helps us to understand our world: Become the Enquirer Things can look disordered, they can look random, but there should be a hidden order to them. And if we want to understand them our job is to find that hidden order Ian Stewart Choice Point movie Enquiry encourages us to look at the world and to look at ourselves. When we look outward, we observe the repetitive cycles of nature, we can notice that the same pattern repeats itself on both larger and smaller scales. But since we are part of nature it is no surprise that we can see many of nature s patterns also inside our own bodies: the cyclical beat of the heart compares with the cyclical rotation of the Earth, which is responsible for the cycle of night and day; the spiral nature of DNA is comparable with the spiral motion of galaxies and even the spiral movements of water currents; blood vessels resemble river deltas; and neural networks in the brain resemble super clusters of galaxies in the cosmos.

30 But as well as finding repeating patterns inside our bodies, we also find that many of our life experiences follow patterns. This is because we are subject to nature s cyclical influence. To take one example, body chemistry is affected by the cycle of night and day, which is a consequence of the Earth s rotation. This gives us periodic changes in the hormone melatonin, for instance, which regulates our sleep. And so as nature runs its patterns, we can expect similar kinds of patterns in our lives. This is a factor, on both a personal and a global scale, in why events repeat themselves. The beauty of understanding patterns is that it gives us a base to make our choices from Harry Massey Choice Point movie So through being an enquirer we can learn to appreciate how the outside world is linked to our inner world. In even more fundamental ways, the entire universe is interconnected. We are in constant interaction with the world. Every choice we make therefore has consequences. This is the law of cause and effect. Enquiry also shines a light on the contents of our minds. It has been said that one of the wisest things a person can ever do is to, Know Thyself. Through inquiry, we can become more aware of how we feel about certain things, how we behave in certain situations, and even why we think the way we do.

31 31 We might also enquire into why we think, feel, believe, and act the way we do. We can learn more about our skills, our inner motivations, our loves and fears, and even our deepest hopes and dreams. Honest inquiry requires an openness with ourselves but we can be motivated by knowing that it will helps us to make our lives more fulfilling. It s through Inquiry that we can work out what part of our environment we should be focusing on and trying to understand in order to take advantage of patterns that could support us best. When you are open to learning about the world around you, you put yourself in the best position to use the Choice Point tools of Understanding Your World, such as conducting research, asking questions, embracing endings, reading the signs and developing intuition. Asking questions can unlock the world for us. Asking questions through research and of others - helps us to get the answers we need in our lives.

32 In our changing world, researching and asking questions helps us to gain a wider perspective of the world, helping us to spot trends that we might not have been aware of. It can help us to identify the direction of currents of change in the world, giving us the opportunity to paddle with the currents rather than against them, staying ahead of change instead of reacting to it. We also learn that rather than trying to create everything we want, that some currents of change and growth in the world are more favored than others more supported by nature - so researching and asking questions helps us to select those that are the most supported. There is skill to be learned in asking the right questions. In time, we become an expert on knowing which questions to ask and therefore the information we gain becomes even more impactful. Ask Questions We might ask questions through researching in books, media, or the Internet, and we can also ask questions of other people. A natural side-effect of the latter is that it can help us connect with each other, which is healthy in and of itself. Scientific research, for instance, shows that we are genetically wired to connect with each other. It is natural for us. Some research now even shows that it helps us to live longer.

33 33 And with these connections we forge, we become parts of social networks through which information flows, thereby opening up a broader avenue to receive further answers to our questions. It s like we become part of an electrically conducting circuit where information passes along the wires. There is no shame in asking questions of people. Some people see this as a form of failure, that they can t find the answers by themselves. But asking questions is a wise and intelligent act. With all the benefits of researching and asking questions, it would be wise to put aside any pride. Not only is there a skill in asking the right questions, but there is also a skill to be learned in listening to the answers we receive. We need to be open and receptive to answers, without bias. And, of course we needn t accept everything that we learn. We can also learn to separate fact from opinion. Intuition The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Einstein Intuition is natural to us. It draws upon many of the cues around us that are out of our conscious awareness or focus.

34 We draw upon information from our environment, from people around us, from their behavior patterns, from articles we ve read or things we ve seen on TV, and even from things we ve learned in the past. Even though information might be out of your present conscious awareness, your mind draws upon it when you are looking for an answer or when you are focused upon a goal. The result is a feeling an intuition. It can be a source of positive information about life, guiding us to possible choices we can make. And just as anything improves with practice, so in time intuition becomes a reliable source of guidance in life. It can even help us see patterns where none seem to exist. Intuition can also help us achieve our goals by keeping us on the right path. If we have a strong sense of purpose and are pursuing a goal, then we will frequently absorb information in relation to it through reading, watching TV, and conversations with other people. Much of this information is forgotten, or at least not at the surface of our minds, but our intuition draws upon it and we get a feeling regarding which action to take or which path to pursue. So intuition can help us along our path to make the decisions that are best for us.

35 35 Not all feelings are intuitions though. Some feelings are based on fears or false beliefs. So we also need to be discerning. We need to learn the difference between intuition and wishful thinking, or even intuition and fear, for instance. It can take confidence to trust intuition but by understanding that it is natural and is the brain making sense of the information around us. When we focus on the answers we seek, we can learn to be more confident with our gut feeling.

36 PRINCIPLE 2 Align Your Purpose There comes a point where our purpose and our alignment with our purpose becomes vividly clear and it s that point of taking that deep breathe and saying, this just feels absolutely right. Jodi Orton Choice Point Movie

37 37 Let s explore some of the ways the Choice Point membership helps us to align to our true purpose: Define Your Purpose Once you ve understood the patterns in your world, and how you create your life through the patterns that you align with, you ll want to engage with your new understanding. This is the time to define your purpose. In Understanding Your World you will be guided to research your world based on your passions, interests and skills. Once you ve understood your world and know where patterns are going, you can begin to more clearly define your purpose so that when you take action it will be aligned with the patterns that are most likely to happen. It would make sense, for instance, if you chose to apply your passions in a direction that supported the needs and desires of the world or parts of it a harmonious purpose since these needs and desires will form the patterns in the future. Define your purpose is about clearly setting a direction for your life applying your skills towards a goal.

38 Wisdom Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it Einstein You will gain wisdom as you continue to understand your world and as you reflect on and learn from your experiences of aligning your purpose. This will enable you to make even better choices in the future as you grow to have a greater perspective on the world and how you can create your reality. Wisdom is gained through experience so just following one path and neglecting others doesn t result in Wisdom. It s a continual process of researching, taking action, and reflecting on what happened before refining your new path of action. It s a continual, life-long, process. When we choose paths that challenge us and really engage with passion, we gain the experiences to discern in the future, as it creates know ledge from which we may sit and make better decisions for the future. Wisdom is also in knowing how to communicate effectively with people.

39 39 Wisdom helps us to see that having enemies is futile and that we should always seek the solutions that serve everyone. Wisdom recognizes that you gain most when everyone gains and that self-serving only ever produces short term results. Wisdom broadens our vision and understanding. How can I live my life in order to see my inner dreams come true and my outer world be more congruent with my desires?

40 PRINCIPLE 3 Be The Change I change the world I see by first changing it in me Alison Pothier Choice Point Movie

41 41 Once you have a definition of your purpose, which is in harmony with the greater patterns of the universe, you are able to move on to Being The Change. We may know where we want to get to (defined our purpose) - yet we don't end up getting there, simply because of our strong attachments to things and people that keep us where we are in the present. A key part to making your purpose or desire happen (Aligning Your Purpose) is the ability to un-attach from past memories or present circumstances that are holding you back in life. The Universe is in a state of flux, change is inevitable. If we are too attached to our current situation, we lose the ability to be flexible and align to our optimal future. So that future is never delivered. Instead old patterns get repeated as we become unable to adapt fast enough to the start of a new, more productive cycle. The concept of non-attachment is common to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The art of non-attachment is about recognizing that all things change and nothing is truly ours. It encourages an awareness of thoughts and belief systems regarding the people and possessions in your life. However, becoming unattached is not about being unattached in all circumstances.

42 To have passion and commitment and faith is in itself an attachment and necessary if we want to see our goals manifested. When you desire to move towards a better future, you must to let go and unattach from whatever is in your present circumstances that prevents you from getting there. The Universe is ruthless in that - it can't deliver the new future until you have let go of the present and that can mean being the change-maker yourself. It s about taking charge of your own destiny and sorting through which relationships and circumstances work for you and which ones you need to let go of. Just as you have to clear your mind in order to allow images of your best future to appear, you also have to clean up your life to allow those possibilities to manifest. It can be incredibly hard to let go of something or someone in your life that you have become attached to, however it is often very necessary for you to move on with your life journey. One of the biggest problems of letting go is the fear of not knowing what will come next and whether change will lead to an improvement. It is incredibly brave to let go of something that is working a bit, to allow in something that may work even better. Yet when you do let the part go that you feel has been holding you back, something new will take its place. For example new people may come into your life who demonstrate all the positive aspects of your previous relationship

43 43 but without the limiting elements that were present before. If you do the work and stay aligned to your true purpose you can trust that when you let go of a limiting situation another situation will present itself that is a better match for your life at that particular time. Being The Change means that you try to match every action and thought to the way you want to live your life. The way we act on a daily basis is the most obvious way to tell if you are truly Being the Change. However, as actions stem from thought, it is important to be very vigilant of your thought processes. We cannot always control our emotions, and we must recognize that it is not possible to always have positive thoughts about where you want to go. However, we can try to base our actions on our positive thoughts as much as possible. Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. - HH Dalai Lama

44 There are many ways to live your truth you can be the change you want to see in your own life and in the world at large. Choice Point membership guides you through the many ways you can truly match up to your purpose and become a shining light for others to follow. We can look at a couple of these concepts here: Courage Every time I do the thing I m afraid of then the thing I m afraid of isn t that scary anymore because I survived. Jack Canfield, Choice Point movie Being the change will require some courage. It requires courage to be something different from how we ve been before, or it might require courage to make deep changes in our lives. For some, this might even involve moving to a new place, taking a new job or moving on from relationships that are not helping us to grow. Fear can be a barometer of change. It can tell us that there is something exciting up ahead, where we are going to be stretched out of our comfort zones and have to apply courage. This, then, helps us to step into whom, or what, we know we need to be to bring about a change.

45 45 Looking within will help you to identify and overcome some of our fears. Courage invites us to step forward and fully Be The Change. It helps us to maintain focus on where we want to go in our lives, even amid the storms that sometimes surround us. With courage, we become unstoppable, unfazed by any obstacles that appear in our path. It helps us to look for solutions instead of fearing the obstacles. It sees obstacles as opportunities, in fact. It invites us to look at the things that we re afraid of as opportunities to change our life. Courage, in this sense, can be a barometer of forthcoming change. Courage can also be about conquering the inner voice of self-doubt, that nagging critic that holds us back in life. It helps us to not be restrained by fear-based emotion that paralyses us and keeps us from acting on opportunities in life. Courage listens to the inner voice, even when it is fearful, accepting what it has to say, but then takes the leap of faith anyway.

46 In order to truly transform, from the depths of drug addiction and a life of crime, I had to look deep within myself and face my own darkness. And I had to love myself for what I was, and this helped me to turn that darkness into light. Brett Moran Choice Point movie Brett Moran, Choice Point Visionary

47 Philanthropy 47 Success unshared is failure John Paul DeJoria, Choice Point movie As you become more involved with the Choice Point Movement and become more aware of yourself, your patterns, and as you align your purpose with harmonious patterns that serve the needs and wishes of others, your personal wealth and influence will very likely increase. What is success if it merely serves your own needs and desires? We live in an interconnected world. Independence is an illusion. Interdependence is the way of life. Each choice that we make affects much more than we can imagine. With wealth and influence comes the opportunity to use our resources to make a difference in the lives of other people. If a great many people make this choice we could transform the world for the better much faster. Sir Richard Branson tells us that the people who can help solve many of the problems in the world are not those in government, but those in business, who turn their entrepreneurial skills towards finding solutions to these problems.

48 When you reach a point in our life where you have achieved many things, or when you feel fulfilled or your finances improve, your outlook often changes. It is deeply satisfying to then give something back to society, and this brings a great sense of wellbeing. Some believe that the need to give comes from a selfish perspective, but kindness and compassion are genetically wired in us. A mother cares for her young because it is in her. You will always benefit from showing kindness, but that needn t be the reason for showing it. Kindness, philanthropy, looking out for the best for all of us, is our natural state. Aligning with that pattern can be one of the most empowering things we ever do. Even when we don t have large resources to use, all of us can do philanthropic work. Volunteering a few hours a week of your time, for instance, is a philanthropic act and makes more of a difference than you can imagine. With each altruistic act we do, in our interconnected world, we make a tremendous difference, not only as a direct consequence our actions, but because of the inevitable ripple effect created, which strengthens the pattern of positive change in the world. Kindness is contagious.

49 49 Peter Buffett, Choice Point Visionary Together, with kindness and compassion for all, you really can and will change the world. I think small gestures are critical. Philanthropy means the love of people. It does not mean you have a big foundation and are giving a bunch of money. So philanthropy can work every single day. When I go to my local coffee store nearby I acknowledge the person behind the counter, I ask them how their day is or just recognize them as a human being Peter Buffett Choice Point movie

50 Choice Points for Personal Transformation and Worldwide Change Today, we re facing a global choice point and the choices we make now have a far greater impact on the world than ever before. We can choose a different path to realise a different future. Each of us holds a piece of the puzzle and in order to create the change we want to see in the world, we need to contribute our unique puzzle piece to the overall global picture. Through our individual contributions, we can create the change together. And collectively, we can create the world in which we all want to live. Whether you can see it now or not, you are a radiant, powerful being... and you possess untold gifts, as well as the courage it requires to give them. The world needs you. Your community needs you. Humanity needs you. You need You. If you re reading this message, it s because you re ready to make a different kind of choice than perhaps you ve made in the past. You re ready to align with a different way of being: the way of the true visionaries, leaders and transformational masters.

51 Welcome to Limitless Possibilities 51 What would it mean for your life right this minute if you could... Accurately predict ideal conditions for your business, idea or financial goals to succeed... even if you ve missed the boat or miscalculated in the past. Maintain confidence, calm and clarity for important decisions... even when you re in the chaos of crisis or a whirlwind of emotions. Genuinely identify your core purpose and understand how to begin living it immediately... regardless whether you now know what your purpose is or think you know! Experience a renewed vitality and zest for life because you re doing what you love on a daily basis... even if right now you don t know what that love or passion is. Serendipitously create new income, resources and opportunities at the snap of your fingers... without sacrificing your heart s yearnings and passions.

52 Dramatically alter the course of your life, like jumping from one track to another and boarding a supersonic bullet train to the life of your desires? Spark change and inspire others so that the ripples you create can affect greater and greater amounts of people... whether you consider yourself a leader right now or not. Join the ranks of visionary greats like Sir Richard Branson, Jack Canfield, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and so many others... who have all chosen to impart their wisdom now to YOU. As a term borrowed from physics, a Choice Point is defined as a place of branching or forking. It is a point of possibility. We can also think of it as a fork in a road that creates another road. The idea behind Choice Point is that we can choose which of those roads to travel down with informed intention, rather than random luck.

53 53 The key is to choose another road, one that can lead you into a new and different life... and into a better world a world of peace, of fairness, of education, of harmony. And to do so at the greatest Choice Point moments-of-opportunity. This requires a specific set of skills and knowledge that myself and our entire family of Visionaries and the Choice Point team will teach you in our 18-Step Align Your Purpose Program. These 18 steps move you through two key phases of alignment and transformation that nearly everyone misses and yet all the visionaries figured out... What if we joined together you, me, each visionary and global leader, along with thousands and hundreds of thousand of others to tap into one particular world pattern that is just now about to emerge? YOU Can Join the Align Your Purpose Program ~ and Align With The Single Emerging World Pattern That Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, and Billionaires, Leaders and Visionaries Everywhere Have Already Identified and Joined!

54 That pattern is being birthed out of the new cycle and World Age that we are entering as a planet. This pattern allows for social transformation, awakening and global healing at rapid paces and immense degrees never before possible. This cycle and its patterns favor collaboration, community and the power of social networks. Where in the past, one had to struggle alone toward personal transformation, enlightenment or success, now we can socially collaborate to both achieve our own personal goals and also to achieve worldwide change. And so imagine what you could accomplish now when you join the new generation of aspiring visionaries, leaders and entrepreneurs and learn to harness the same wisdom, knowledge and opportunities that the generations before us did. And imagine learning this wisdom direct from the giants of industry, success, spirituality and world transformation... And most importantly, imagine the life you could create for yourself and others when you stand handin-hand with these visionaries and the thousands and tens of thousands of other evolving visionaries who are also joining this pivotal movement...

55 55 It can all begin today with a simple choice that creates a BIG difference. Here s what you receive when you join us: 9-Webinar Training Course We ll immerse you in the previously-recorded LIVE Webinar Course. In each session you ll join us and a few visionaries for focused teachings on each of the 18 Steps for Understanding Your World and then Aligning Your Purpose. These teachings give you the nuts and bolts understandings, practices and wisdom needed to not only make the most of your opportunities within our transformative community... but also to flip the switch on your own life s manifestations as you learn how to harness choice points and direct your path toward your desired future.

56 18 Spiritual Nourishment Films When you re ready to give your gifts to the world, as well as create powerful change in your own life, often the primary missing link lies in the ways you need to nourish, fill and heal yourself. With these 18 powerful High Definition films each beautifully crafted and featuring the same visionaries featured in our documentary film Choice Point: Align Your Purpose you receive inspiration, wisdom and deep spiritual nourishment. Released weekly, each film focuses on each of the 18 steps of the Align Your Purpose Program. 18 Step-By-Step Companion Lessons Because much of what we re helping you activate and step into at Choice Point is transformative, we support you to shift from the inside rather than just overloading your brain with intellectual concepts and teachings. However, that being said, we also know that it helps the transformative process to give your brain something to chew on. So for each of the 18 Steps that you ll be moving through in our Live Webinar Course and Spiritual Nourishment Films...

57 57 We ve also created more concise step-by-step companion lessons for easy review and understanding. These will also be released weekly, as companion lessons to our Spiritual Nourishment films. All of this is a part of the Align Your Purpose Program you ll receive when you join us. Yet, we haven t even gotten to the TRULY magnificent stuff yet! When you join us, you also gain 6 months of FREE access to our one-ofa-kind evolutionary community...

58 The Choice Point Community & Socially Interactive Transformation Game! The backbone of our community and what makes it truly unique is that your social interaction and learning journey become steps along our interactive Transformation Game. Because we see every person s journey through life as a unique and powerful representation of the archetypal Hero s Journey, this Transformative Game (created around the 18 Step-By-Step Lessons) help you evolve along your own Hero s Path, and activate or awaken archetypal parts of yourself and the unique powers those parts of you hold. Additionally, from the moment you join us, your every social action whether it s sharing ideas with other visionaries in our Idea Bank... collaborating or providing comments on anothers ideas... completing the 18 Steps through watching our Spiritual Nourishment Films or completing their companion lessons earns you Love Points. No longer must we keep our inner work private. If you so choose, you can live your transformation out loud in our community, with full support and the benefit of many minds and hearts versus only one.

59 59 Your personal Love Points are your currency in this new world that we are birthing together, and at this crucial Choice Point we face globally. Rather than use them to purchase something or earn rewards, we ve created this points system to demonstrate the LOVE we give and receive as collaborators toward our personal and shared transformation. The entire value of our Align Your Purpose Program and 6 months access to our Choice Point Transformative Community is well over $900. And that s not even considering the tens of thousands of dollars one would actually need to invest to receive the same level of training, insight and wisdom from just one or two of the world-renowned leaders and billionaires we feature in our program and community. However we re not interested in selling you transformation. Rather, we want to support you in accessing the very best transformative content available not just in information, but in actual connection and the birth of new ideas, new conscious businesses, and new innovations... the precise businesses and innovations we know it will take to save our planet and heal our people.

60 Before you decide, you may want to hear directly from the founder of Choice Point himself, Harry Massey, his co-author of Choice Point: Align Your Purpose, David R. Hamilton, PH.D., and other world leaders and visionaries like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Sir Richard Branson, JP Dejoria and more. This free webinar contains the wisdom to teach us how to Create Personal & Global Transformation and it is available to you to support you in this Choice Point moment.

61 61 The groundbreaking Align Your Purpose Program and community is available to you right now. The one-time fee includes: Unlimited lifetime access to the entire digital library of the Align Your Purpose Program, including our 9-Webinar Course, 18 Spiritual Nourishment Films and 18 Step-By-Step Companion Lessons, all teaching you how to understand your world, discover your purpose, and align it for maximum transformation and limitless success. 6 month s membership in our Choice Point Community (normally $27/month) where you can collaborate with other visionaries, provide and receive support, and explore the power of a new currency based on ideas and LOVE. When you register, you ll also receive some fun bonus gifts, as tokens of our genuine gratitude for you and these steps you re making toward this new future together.

62 What Will You Find At the Other End Of Your Choice Point? As always, you now sit within a moment of immense power for change and purpose. You are now at a Choice Point. And you are the sole decision-maker. However your Choice Point coincides with a Choice Point so many of us are facing, and also the global Choice Point we face as a tribe. Because all of our visionaries and leaders showing up right now to participate in our community... we are all here to change the world. We can only do that together. And we d like to do it together with you. Understand your world. Align your purpose. Be the change. See you on the inside of the Choice Point Movement. For full details on the Align Your Purpose Program, visit: ChoicePointMovement.com/AlignYourPurpose

63 63 Choice Point: Align Your Purpose by Harry Massey, David R. Hamilton, PH.D. At this moment in history, we're faced with one of the biggest choice points we have ever encountered. Individuals are making choices to change their nations; nature is giving us a wake-up call; economies are struggling; and for many of us, the future looks uncertain. Yet people are also rallying to have a voice, awakening from their apathy of previous decades. Collectively and individually, we are being given the opportunity to make evolutionary choices that positively impact and dramatically shift our direction. Based on the extraordinary film Choice Point, which features insights from the world's leading change-makers including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, Arielle Ford, Tony Benn, James Caan, Gregg Braden, Dr. Larry Dossey, and His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, this inspiring book reveals exclusive material not seen in the film, and explores its exciting discoveries in greater depth. It shows you how to understand your world like never before, how to align your own true purpose with the patterns of the universe, and finally, how to be the change that you want to see in the world around you.

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65 65 Keep the conversation going! Want to help spread the message of Choice Point around the world? Now you can. We ve made it easy to share with friends, family and your community. Hosting an event propels the Choice Point Movement and because of the richness and depth of its content, the movie benefits everyone involved: It s FREE - There is no cost for hosting a screening of Choice Point Free Marketing Resources - We ll provide you with templates to download for invitations and posters that you can print or to your guests Revenue Opportunity - You can charge an entrance fee, which can be used to cover the costs of your event such as room or equipment hire Merchandise Offers - Your guests can purchase merchandise and copies of the movie post-event, of which you will receive a commission Profit - Any profit is retained by you or given to an organization of your choice. If you are interested in hosting a screening of the Choice Point movie, please go to: ChoicePointMovement.com/HostaScreening

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67 67 Together, we re capable of creating positive change for ourselves and the whole of humanity - on a scale that s never been witnessed before at any time in our history. Play your part by getting active at: Thank you and see you soon Harry Massey Discover Choice Point Understand Your World Potential Watch the Choice Point movie to see how others have discovered their Choice Point and how they have aligned their purpose with the world. Education Find out what type of Choice Point jigsaw piece you are. Ask questions, learn and discover via Choice Point s 36 Steps. Share Share your personal progression and gain support from others around the world. Add personal goals or ideas for change to our online social community. Be The Change Action Discover where your piece fits in the jigsaw. Align your purpose, keep track of your transformation via our unique online diary. Align Your Purpose

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