I was on a call recently on which someone has been procrastinating for a couple months getting her message and her book out of her and into the world. I could hear the fear in her voice as she said, “I’m not really a writer.”

I cannot count the times I have seen people who yearn to write a book and share their message. What separates the average person with a message and someone like Oprah? Probably many things, but in my opinion, the biggest barrier that the budding messenger has comes down to one trait alone.

I did not have the opportunity to express to her what I share here with you now.

Now.

If you feel fear and let it stop your message, then you let just a little more darkness enter the world. Your message is not about you. Your message is ready to burst forth from you so that it can raise the consciousness vibration of one person at a time to make the world a wonderful home.

If you cannot trust yourself or your skill, then trust the message. Because the message is from the Source. You are the messenger, not the message. Trust your message.

The desire within you that caused you to be a messenger is there because you are truly meant, even designed, to bring forth the teachings and wisdom given for you to plant into the world.

Trust in your message and trust that you have enough.

You ARE enough.

Open yourself and let the message flow through you.

Be a Messenger of Change

How would you like some help as you craft your message in the most powerful way? How would you like to be a published author of your own 32–page mini-book within a short time?

I am an Ambassador of Change, and the same materials I’ve been using to create The Peace Seed (which comes out in about a month) are the same ones you will use as a Messenger of Change. I will even give you an email consultation when you are almost finished writing your minibook so I can help you get the best possible leverage out of your book.

Why do I want you to be part of this program? Because Robert Evans has put together excellent resources that guide you through the writing process. When you meet the deadline for writing your book, you then get more guidance through the publishing process and then through marketing your book.

Discover how to be a Messenger Author here.

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Mountain climbing devotee Greg Mortenson made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of K2. He staggered down the mountain, and a wrong turn brought him to the people of a small and poor town. They nursed him back to health, though they mad little to spare, and he found his ultimate purpose in life.

He vowed that he would come back and build a school for their children, including the girls. Yet when he came back to his home in the USA, he found the task of

fundraising daunting. Not knowing how to use a computer at first, he individually typed letters to influential people, hoping for donations.

It would only take $12,000 USD to build and supply a school. Yet the wealthy and influential did not flock to his aid. Would you like to guess who gave him the most in donations at first?

Watch this video…

Greg talked to children at the school where his mother worked. He told them about children in Korphe, Pakistan, who drew letters in the sand with sticks and only had a teacher some of the time. Plus, the girls had no way to be educated. They wanted to do something. Realizing everyone has a penny, they collected over 6,000 pennies.

Three Cups of Tea is a real life adventure in bringing education and peace to Pakistan and Afghanistan. You can read the original version of Three Cups of Tea, and there is also a young reader’s version.

This book excites me on many levels. For one, it is a brilliant collection of personal narrative example’s that walk you through Mortenson’s life-changing climb and his passionate dedication to building schools. One of the women I know who read this book thinks Mortenson is a “wack job” (her words. I say his passion drove him to sacrifice what most people consider a normal life in order to make his dream a reality.

Imagine this. He cared so deeply about having enough money for a school in Pakistan that he lived in his car and used a storage space to keep a few items. That’s because he did not want the expense of rent to rob the children of their education. He used money sparingly in order to power his dream.

That’s an impassioned servant willing to give up so much, including what we in America would consider “the basics” such as a place to live, because that was the only way he felt he could get things started. Later, he garnered other resources, but at first, he was willing even to give up a place to live. Now he has a modest house and a family.

I truly admire his passionate devotion.

I really love the story about how he met his wife. The video below is his first daughter singing the song, “Three Cups of Tea.”

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Did you ever stop to realize how much peace is linked to education? So often I’ve heard people complain that America will send money everywhere else for schools and medicine. Yet stop to think about it. Sure, children are our future, but it’s more than that cliche.

When you have the opportunity of education, you realize you have choices. Education turns boys and girls with little guidance into empowered young men and women who understand that they can choose their own destiny.

This book will help you know the people of Pakistan. When you know how people live and stop to ask them what is important to them, it is easier to bring about peaceful relations.

One thing that popped out for me as I read the book is the power of relationships. Several times, Greg had intended to build a school in a certain place, however, the wisdom of someone who knew the specific people involved urged him to leverage the relationships first. And this is so true everywhere.

Relationships are the key to building any dream. Greg started out as a lone wolf and spent so much time and energy trying to get things moving. But through the power of people who knew the situation and people who had the financial ability to provide funding, his dream got legs.

Three Cups of Tea is a powerful peace symbol. It is about spending enough time with people to get to know them and share their lives. By the time you have had 3 cups of tea, you have received not only gracious hospitality, but trust.

Please read this powerful book and bring a little more peace into the world in so doing.

order Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

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Peace is not some huge, nebulous thing that is out of your control. The truth is, peace is in your hands. You get to choose.

You choose whether or not to be a living peace sign by treating people with respect.

Every thought of bringing understanding, getting to know someone whose ways are very different, learning about a culture that seems alien to your way of understanding, listening to people tell their story, and spreading peace through simple actions using the power of the internet are all ways to be a peace seed – a bringer of peace.

Storytelling is a powerful path to peace. How can you feel hatred when you discover the power and beauty in someone else’s faith or culture?

The Dalai Lama has said that technology gets i the way of peace, but in fact, technology, like any other tool, can be used to unite people and bring understanding.

Ten Million CLicks for Peace is an organization which empowers you to use the power of technology to bring about peace.

It’s about taking small, simple, measurable  actions such as tweeting, posting a peace tag in your email and/or on your website, passing peace cards around or making a donation that feeds and shelters refugees as they rebuild a new life.

Join 10 Million Clicks for Peace and you will see a Peace Impact Meter, which shows you a visual representation of the actions you take on the Peace Impaact Meter, which you see below.

using the Peace Impact meter, you can easily take even a few moments per day and be a living peace sign.

One of the things you will soon be able to do that shows up on your peace imapct meter is to buy one of the Ambassador of Change movement books. Mine, The Peace Seed, is one of them.

The Peace Seed will soon be ready for publication. This is a quick video about your personal power to impact peace.

You’ll discover how storytelling is a potent tool of peace in this little mini-book and the online reflection and journal questions that come with it.

You’ll discover:

• How storytelling bridges the h uman divide
• The one story every human responds to automatically
• How to keep your family legacy alive forever.
• How to honor your cultural heritage as you live your own story

Be the first to get The Peace Seed and discover how to bring peace into your life, your family, your community and the world. Register below now.

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