You and I really do have the power to transform the world.

Right now, fear and darkness dominate many aspects of life on Earth, including within governments and corporations.

Fortunately, at its core, fear is nothing more than a cry for love.

You and I have the power to transform that fear by BE-ing love.

Being able to show up—fully present in the moment—requires a variety of skills, including forgiveness. Few people know more about forgiveness in the workplace than pioneering researcher Fred Luskin, Ph.D., director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Luskin a while back, and here are four gems from our conversation about why it’s good business to practice forgiveness.

Are you feeling all the powerful shifts happening in our world right now? We are in the midst of a huge transition for humanity and the planet: as we move from the old scarcity-based consciousness of fear, greed, manipulation and control into the new abundance consciousness of love, cooperation, collaboration and compassion.

For a few months now, I’ve been wondering why my weight has seemed stuck. In fact, I’ve felt some shame and despair around not being able to lose weight effortlessly, as I have in the past. And then, in speaking with a dear friend this morning, I had a couple of big breakthroughs around body and clothes.

Even the greatest violinist can always get better. There’s no limit to the amount we can learn nor the level of mastery we can attain. And yet, how many times do we wait until we feel like we’ve learned enough, making “enough” into an unachievable goal, a constantly moving destination that can never be reached?

One of the most powerful things we can do is change the story we tell ourselves about a situation. Take a friend of mine who’s going through a divorce. His 20-year-old daughter blames him and finds many ways to lash out in anger. My friend can tell the story of this difficult time in their relationship in a lot of different ways — and those ways feel very different.

Many years ago, I did a morning practice in which I spoke out loud to myself, describing what it was like to live each day as my best and highest self. At one point, I decided to add a new “way of being” into this practice, and I began telling myself, “I am unflappable.” I probably said those words each day for three, maybe four days in a row.

Empaths, sensitives and lightworkers: I HIGHLY recommend Anita Moorjani’s new book, which just went on sale today. It’s called Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World.

There is something that I hear a lot in “conscious leadership” circles: talk about needing to wake people up. The angels and I have been speaking with clients about this a lot lately. Here’s what the angels and I have been saying:

Can you feel the changes happening within you and all around you? We’re in the middle of some seismic shifts right now. Everything is changing, including us. The angels want to assure us that these changes are beneficial. We are being lovingly supported and guided through these turbulent, transitional times.

New wisdom about clearing the clutter of our mind: This simple practice turned out to be the miracle cure for my sleeplessness last night!

By pretty much anyone’s standards, Coach John Wooden was a huge success. Yet one of the core tenets of his teachings was the importance of creating your own definition of success. … For Coach Wooden, and for many of us, success has never been about winning.

During a conversation with several powerful lightworkers recently, I received a surprising new awareness: It’s time for lightworkers, healers, wayshowers, empaths and sensitives to stop worrying about whether or not their channel is clear.

I have long been aware that I perform best when I let go of my small self and its limited ideas. Instead, I open up to infinite possibilities and what’s been called “effortless knowing in the moment.”

I’m always looking for patterns, and a really big one came up recently for recognition and healing. In fact, it came up twice in a week, so I know it’s “up for me.”

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.” —Alan Alda, Actor

Do you feel like you need more patience? I have discussed this with many clients over the years. And I have come to believe that a desire for more patience is actually a symptom of something else.

I’ve been pondering what it means to “feel safe” for a long time now. I know that we can feel UNsafe — physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. I have plenty of experience with what unsafe feels like... But “being safe” and “feeling safe” may actually be two different things.