y first step was to decide. In spite of my issue of money and time, with any solution, I decided to commit myself in the leadership program and I went to La Jolla in September 1998. It was my first time I was taking such a risk. No reason, no "because", just a choice but I was not yet aware of that.

My second step was to face the

issue of language. At the end of my first afternoon with the group, I realized I had not understood anything! I wondered what I was doing there and was willing to come back home with the flight available in order to stop to waste my time and my money. I struggled a part of the night and the day after I decided to assume my lack of competence in

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I am sitting here on the plane back to Dallas completely drained.  We have just finished a process that, while it is just a beginning, has moved each of us to a place where we can accomplish positive acts of change which in both large and small ways will transform the world.

Elements that comprise my being

are vibrating on a new frequency.  I have willed consciousness of my sovereignty.  I understand that I no longer need " a little more self confidence".  It is not an issue of more or less self-confidence - spoken as if God gave a little less than I needed and I had to find that

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