Tim Levy's / The Life Summit

A Moment of Fiction / Dreams

2011-05-19T05:59:00.000-07:00

I found this today in an old writing archive and I thought you might like to read it.

Dreams

I take a deep breath, sitting on the floor with my back against the pale white wall of my living room. The sun dapples me through the branches of our elm, the floorboards cold my feet even through my trendy yoga mat, the breath falls out of me completely. Leaving nothing.

A second breath and the room starts to leave me alone too. My eyes, closed, roll back and up; my stomach fills and recedes and calms. The energy flows through my body, aligning, quieting.

Birds, crickets, the whisper of breeze, the hum of my fridge and of physicality around me dwindle and eventually disappear, leaving my mind emptier, emptier and finally empty.

I see nothing, hear nothing, a final breath leaves me; then that too is gone, leaving nothing but the gap between thoughts.

And if I was a yoga, a diva, an enlightened one – that is where I would stay. Dwelling in infinity infinitely – a soul, a life-force, an energy among energy, a vibration of love and completeness, melting completely into the field of everything and nothing.

Enlightened? Me? Not even close.

Or let’s say that I’m on the journey, traveling the path – just not there yet.

I can hear my kids in the back seat ‘Are we there yet, mum?’

‘No, darlings, just a few minutes until we reach enlightenment. Do you need a bathroom stop or can we just keep going?’

I’m granted only glimpses of enlightenment. I get a kind of tickly perception of what it will be like, knowing enough to know that I know nothing, need everything and want everything that I do not need. In short, I’m still overwhelmingly human.

Still an average Joe mother, kids, husband, family, mortgage, car (needs gas), 3 meals a day (what am I making for dinner?), picking up the kids in less than an hour so don’t space for too long or you’ll be late, kids sitting on the curb, or maybe hit by a bus so what am I doing sitting with my back against a fucking wall?

Breathe. Calm. Centred? Yes - OK.

I read this once ‘Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.’ Go you Richard Bach, whence came your wisdom? Or are you, as we all are, simply a channel to a higher consciousness, plucking wisdom from the void and calling it your own?

Where do our thoughts come from? Are they dolled out, like candy, from a higher person or place?

Where do our thoughts come from? Well, if this is the question then meditation is the answer, looking for the sponsor of our thoughts in the space between thoughts. The creator, the originator, the beginning – or am I that? Either way, the answer lies in the void, in the quiet, in the space between my thoughts where their creator (be it me or another) lies hidden. Crouched, smiling knowingly for the joy of life unfolding perfectly, concealed cunningly in the noise that is my life.

Meditation is my daily quest in search of this answer, to experience the sponsor be it God or simply my true self – the level of me that sponsors my thoughts, answers my questions, originates my feelings, my thoughts, my fears – and in that role, can bring inner peace beyond knowing – enlightenment, my life’s true goal.

Of course, the coffee doesn’t help. Nor the chocolate, the endless conversations about kids, parenting, my job – well let’s be honest, my jobs – my fears, my friends, their anxieties (a problem shared is a problem halved), my anxieties, my fears (again), my frailties and, on the odd occasion, my actual truth.

I’m surrounded by a world of distraction. My body, for a start – always complaining, always lusting after this or that – food, sex, exercise, salt, eggs – or are they to be avoided?

A cornucopia, an infinity of fruitless thought, of my very own grand cocktail of a red herring – what can be summarized as my day to day life who’s only function, at least it should be, is to get my ass back on the matt, back against the wall every day to leave my thoughts behind and get on with the search, the quest, to do the meditation (as stated before) ad infinitum, ad infinitum until I die and, if you agree with Deepak Chopra, a whole bunch of times after that.

Between the thoughts. That’s where the answer lies. If I could only find, then stay connected to the sponsor of my thoughts, my very own spirit and soul, then life would be candy. Easy! No fears, just calm. No attachment – just an ever-whimsical smile observing life unfold in its own flowing perfection. Amused instead of terrified by the never ending struggle. Just like that smug bastard Bhudda in his millions of statues - ever calm, ever knowing, ever enlightened. Ever me.

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

The Life Summit hits Austin and Houston!

2011-04-05T15:23:00.000-07:00

This is a super quick newsletter just to let you know that there are two events going on in April - one in Austin, one in Houston. Please, by all means come along! The details:

1 - I'm speaking at Pure Women Connect, April 13th, 7:30pm at the Beets Cafe. For more information, please go to http://purewoman2.eventbrite.com/. Here's the event promo information from Heather Anne -

The Life Summit! A Perfect Life

Find Clarity | Remove your Blocks | Your Life Changes
A Perfect Life - I want one, do you? It’s a very big claim, but entrepreneur Tim Levy developed his business strategy + metaphysical approach for achieving your perfect life in the boardrooms of companies like Sony, IBM, Acer and 3Com. This man is no airy fairy! He wants tangible results with every soul he touches … and that includes you.

Tim Levy is the best selling author of The Life Summit as well as four books for Random House. Tim Levy is also a CEO, a television producer, a TV show host and an entrepreneur newly moved to Austin, TX.

2- I'm speaking at the RICH Club in Houston on April the 18th, 7pm. For more information, please go to http://www.richclub.org/cde.cfm?event=339674

I hope to see you there.

Yours,

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Snowing in Austin / Booking March

2011-02-04T08:49:00.000-08:00

Well you can imagine our surprise and delighted when we saw snow outside our windows this morning! The children, upon finding out there was no school, ran out to make snow angels and snowballs and snow ... everything. It was the first time they'd been in snow!

Austin, in the mean time, is turning out amazingly well. The community has been overwhelmingly warm, welcoming and supportive. There's a certain something about Austin that just ... resonates .. with us, even the lovely Southern accent.

In the mean time I've started doing Life Summit sessions and am currently booking sessions in March. I have six sessions left open in March right now - with a trip tentatively booked for Toronto / San Francisco to work with folk and do some speaking appointments there.

Here's a bit of local feedback from first sessions;

I wanted to thank you for the amazing, insightful day spent with you yesterday. You are so adapt at removing blocks that have frustrated me for years, we might have to get you a backhoe. I am delighted with my new plans and focus on my businesses and personal life. I really feel l have stepped through giant doors of opportunity and peace of mind with your guidance and am eagerly looking forward to what tomorrow brings. Thank you for your wisdom, humor and thoughtful ways of helping me address obstacles. I highly recommend any person desiring to make improvements to experience working with you one on one.

Barbara, Executive and consultant
Austin, TX

"I was praying (pleading) for clarity in my life.... the universe sent me Tim Levy and The Life Summit!!!

Dreams that were buried were uncovered. Dreams I never knew existed were illuminated.

Dreams that were shattered were re-built, now with clarity and definition.

Not only did the Life Summit resolve the glaring conflicts within myself and light the path, it also provided tools for application today and every day for the rest of my life.

So now I am at the life summit overlooking the meadow and streams below; DREAMS CLEAR, focus aligned, results surrendered.... I am at the starting line for the LIVING fulfillment of my Highest Potential as a conduit for Divine Will!

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, READY, GO...."

Virginia, Events Guru
Austin, TX

So there you have it - the news from Austin, Texas, our new dream home and snow central.

Yours,

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Secret Friday in Austin

2011-01-20T08:32:00.000-08:00

Something very interesting is happening tomorrow night; a Secret Night Session following my talk at the Texas Women in Business. I'm working in partnership with the illusive David Favor, local Austin business elder and wizard. We'll be revealing the next layer of Life Summit technology as well as exploring David's own Business Magic tech.

There's a little caveat here - although the event is free, you have to get in - by means of an online application process.

So! I'll say no more - here's the email that David just sent out for those who might like to come along.

TRIBECALL

TribeCall released to the wild in 2008.

Walking people through how Radical Health Tribe started and expands globally, with magickal grace and ease.

Past versions were 'sanitized'. Key ritual + sacrament removed. This time the entire technology will release.

Tim Levy (of http://TimLevy.net fame) will join me.

Tim contributes Life Design tech ala "Life Summit" process:

http://RadicalHealth.com/amazon/life/summit

I'll supply the local Tribal structuring technology riding atop Social Media - practical implementation of Life Design into TribeCall + Tribal economies/businesses.

Tim and I will review applications, choosing attendees with high cohesion of activity/project/business which will expand into long term joint venture projects between attendees.

Entry for TribeCall is here:

http://TribeCall.com

Take a 60 second read through the site and if anyone comes to mind who might enjoy integrating this technology, pass along the link.

As always, format will combine physical + virtual gatherings with physical gatherings rotating through various cities/countries.

Enjoy!

David Favor

Very mysterious, eh?! I'm looking forward to it; it's quite the privelege to be working with David like this - and did I mention lots of fun?!

Yours,

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

2011 / The First Bit meets TWIB

2011-01-17T19:34:00.000-08:00

Now there's an acronym - the Texas Women in Business! I'm speaking this Friday for TWIB in what I hope to be a packed room in downtown Austin. Yes - we made the move and are settling into our new life. Even the kids are having a blast - although we did kinda bribe them with a few days at Disneyland on arrival .. is that bad?!

And just when I was already feeling like my dreams had come true (again?!) I got a lovely reference from the lovely PG + Kelley (thanks guys) -

Through an unusual series of events (which I now know is ‘just the way these things work’), I discovered the inimitable Tim Levy. Whilst his book, ‘The Life Summit’, maps out a method of attracting the life you dream of, the actual one-on-one session with Tim can go anywhere – wherever you need to go! I learnt quickly to just trust the process with Tim guiding me.

I’m in the process of moving from being a lawyer to a Makeup Entrepreneur. The fact that this is going to happen has never been in doubt. But the how I was going to get there was in doubt. A lot. Until Tim took me through the Life Summit process. After working his special brand of Tim Magic, my blinkers were removed, and the vision of my business went from the initial one segment I’d envisaged, to multiple segments, options, brands, service deliveries and priorities in a few short hours! It literally felt like my opportunities for growth were endless!

Tim has an amazing knack for managing and balancing my left-brain sensibilities (and the HOW) with my right-brain creative visions (the WHAT). For the first time, the path between my life as a lawyer now, to launching as an Entrepreneur seemed shorter. I know the way and what I have to do to get there.

I’m so grateful for Tim and his Magic. The flow, the synchronicity, and the pure inspiration that he gave me is beyond words. His work is extraordinary.

Go 2011!

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

The New Year / 2010 Dreams

2010-11-22T11:20:00.000-08:00

Firstly - an extra thanks to everyone who has been sending in such lovely feedback recently - my warm thanks there. And secondly - for all those who have been asking - here are our current intentions (and early appearances) moving into 2010. Mark your calendars, baby!

Right now my family and I are holding our breath as we wait for the US Government to process our VISA application. In a week or two we'll know the outcome as our plans to move to Austin, Texas unfold.All goes well, we'll be there at the turn of the new year.

I'm already booked to speak at the Design your Destiny conference in Orlanda, Florida on January the 7th and 8th. I'm also set to appear for the Texas Women in Business in Austin, Texas on January 21st - to a packed house, it seems! For those in Canada, I'm finalising details of an appearance in Toronto for mid-march at a Women's only summit there.

In the mean time, I'm off to Nepal for two weeks to shoot a documentary - I'm exec producing and appearing front of camera for READ Global - it's a charity that I'd love you guys to become more involved in if it strikes a chord. These guys have won consecutive grants from Bill Gate's foundation for their work in villages across Nepal, India and Bhutan over the last few decades - they're amazing.

In the mean time, I'm in midst of various writing projects as well as conducting several of my 1-on-1 'GameChanger' day sessions each week - here's some feedback I got yesterday that might give you a sense of what happens there.

'I am an accomplished athlete, a successful business man with a slight difference. I am legally blind, as I lost 95% of my vision at the age of five. The doctors and the “experts” say that due to my vision it is not possible for me to do some of the things I do, such as surfing, rugby and cycling. I have done all of these things at competitive levels against people with full sight (no disabilities.) My friends have been saying for years that I need to share the way I do things with people so they can benefit from my learnings. I decided a while ago I wanted to do this and to make this my full time career and passion. One problem, I had no idea how.

I saw Tim speak at a dinner I attended on a blind date, no pun intended. As soon as I saw him speak and had a chat with him, I decided to spend a day with him. I went and spent my day with Tim doing the life summit and in no time we worked out exactly what I had to offer, how I could present my learnings and, most importantly for me, how I could help people. That is where I really find happiness, helping others and through working with Tim I have now got a very specific action plan of how, what, when and options of where I will start my new business.

Tim’s experience in the business world and his open approach to helping others find their happiest state is awesome. I would strongly recommend to anyone who is looking for change in their life or just looking to improve their quality of life to spend some time with Tim. His reach for the stars whilst being realistic approach has put me right on the track I couldn’t find alone.'

That's from Matt, an executive at Optus, one of Australia's largest telecommunications companies. I must say Matt - it's been a pleasure to work with you!

Finally, a little bit of recent feedback on the speaking events - from the recent Empowerment Summit in Toronto, Canada. I thought this might help anyone who is thinking about coming along to 'Design Your Destiny' or any of my other appearances ...

' I was totally blown away by your talk/presentation at the Empowerment Summit. WOW! I really connected with what and how you presented your "stuff". I bought your book, got you to autograph it, and signed up to hear from you about all of this. I LOVE the book. I read "The Secret" over a year ago, read it again this summer and watch the dvd every few months. Your book is the next step that I have been looking for. I can't wait to do my mind mapping, even if it is by myself! I'm looking forward to getting that phone call from you. Take care, and thanks for sharing your insight with us.'

That's from Karen in Canada - we're now booked to do the GameChanger 1-on-1 together in March.

So there you have it - our unfolding plans - with fingers crossed for an easy and positive resolution of our paperwork to move to the USA!

Yours,

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

The Empowerment Summit / Toronto

2010-10-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

Now that was a whirlwind! I went from Sydney to Toronto and back in five days or so - including travel time - to speak at the Empowerment Summit in Canada (www.empowermentsummit.com) - what a blast!

It was an amazing event - I got to meet some wonderful, motivated and inspired people who are a little more wonderful, motivated and inspired after hearing from ten world class speakers. I was in some truly awesome company in the green room, I can tell you!

Les Brown, Savannah Ross, Richard Cohn, Steve Miller, LuAn Mitchell, me and Greg Reid

I ask your forgiveness here for shamelessly passing on some of the positive feedback - forgive me -

‘I feel blessed to have met you in person, I am grateful for your inspirational story, your positive attitude and your big heart to help other people to live their dream. You are an awesome example for us to learn from to build a perfect dream life. Now, I use what I learned form your workshop, creating my perfect dream each day',

from Lai Ping and from Jason -

'It was a real pleasure to meet you this weekend. I greatly enjoyed your speech and even more so enjoyed getting to know you and who you are. I must say out of the motivational speakers that where there this weekend it is your system that I feel would bring the greatest clarity to my life and assist me in achieving all my goals. I will be starting to read your book this week and looking forward to the exercises you have created. Thank you for sharing your way of looking at life with the world.'

Speaking at the Empowerment Summit

All in all it was an amazing event. I got to spend time with people like Richard Cohn (and his lovely wife Michelle) who published the book 'The Secret' through his company Beyond Words. I met Nik Halik, Greg Reid, LuAn Mitchaell and Les Brown the world's #1 motivational speaker! I spent time with Savannah Ross who is just a sweatheart - and the organisers Chris and Winston, Olga and Tina from the Wealth Creation Network.

It was an exhausting thing, crossing the world from Sydney to Toronto to speak for an hour and a quarter and come home - but well worth the effort.

My thanks again to everyone involved.

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site - http://www.timlevy.net/
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

For further information or to schedule interviews,please contact
Doug Collins at DM Productions on 775 825 1727
or via email on doug@dmproductionsllc.com

Unexpected in San Bruno / Broken

2010-09-20T12:21:00.000-07:00

As you might know by now, I’m currently touring the USA to promote my book the Life Summit. Every day I’m appearing at book stores, in the media and even in lovely houses by Lake Tahoe! Everywhere I go I get to laugh and play and help people as they focus on transforming their lives towards perfection.

Last week,, quite unexpectedly, something amazing happened at a Barnes and Noble bookshop in San Bruno, CA.

When I got to the store, there were a few people waiting - which isn't entirely unusual. We started to chat, catching up on life and gossip and talking gently about the book. When there aren't too many people at a signing I like to see if I can help in a more specific way, using the Life Summit process right then and there. It's a powerful thing and people are getting transformational results just working one on one in a bookshop - which is very satisfying.

This one gentleman had actually been waiting for a while. Since lunchtime, in fact, causing the store's staff to wonder if they should step in and ask him to move along. This person, and I'm calling him Steve just for this blog, lives on the streets in San Francisco. He's currently serving parole for some offence we didn't speak about and is being challenged through a rehab program to get off drugs. And just to be clear, we're not talking about something easy here; he's trying to get off a long-term addiction to heroin. This addicition has left him with nothing. No home, few friends, no connection to his family, no money, no job - as Steve told me his story it became clear that he was quite broken.

Now let's be quite clear here that I have no experience with this aspect of life. I'm quite boring in fact - I don't do drugs, nor do I smoke, drink or even take coffee. I was, until recently, a vegetarian too. So I didn't have any personal experience from which to relate to Steve as the tears fell from his eyes in front of me. His tale was very sad and you could just feel his despair.

Steve's Story
Steve's story went like this. He'd been in rehab for four months going quite well until the last few days. For whatever reason he'd relapsed and now, having come down from that high, was extremely upset with himself and his life. He quite clearly felt powerless and helpless in the face of all of his problems. That at least I can understand - it sounded just awful.

That morning, when he woke up, he felt something new. He felt, for no reason he could relate, that he just had to leave the city. He made his way quite randomly to the BART station and headed south. He got off randomly and found himself wandering around a random mall, then into the bookstore. He saw a book, propped up near the entrance, which he picked up and turned over. When he saw it, something told him to stay; the author of that very book was coming to the store that night. He spent the rest of the day waiting - for me, as it turned out.

What I helped him focus on was Steve's Perfect Life. He had been spending a lot of his time focusing on the opposite; an endlessly repeating script called Steve's Broken Life or maybe Steve's Impossible Problems. I'm not saying he doesn't have problems; clearly he does. I'm saying that as part of the rehab program, Steve was surrounded by (according to him) 90 other men constantly focusing on their lack of heroin. Everywhere he looked people were talking about what not to do; don't do heroin. It's all you could hear about for months and months in the rehab centre. He was focusing on the very thing he wished to avoid - can you relate?

It's no wonder he wanted to get away.

We spoke at length about what his perfect life could be - and it was compelling. All he wanted really was a place to live, someone to love and be loved by - and to generally stay out of trouble. I'm not sure he'd even thought about such a thing for a long time let alone shared his insight in conversation. It was wonderful to watch him drift off into his daydreams of something called an EarthShip - which is a house made almost entirely from recycled materials.

We also spoke at some length about his family. He hadn't connected with them for over ten years, concerned that they would judge him by his addicition. As a father of three I encouraged him to think again about that in as much as I know that no matter what my children do, I will always love and help them. Always. Unconditionally. And maybe his parents felt the same!

Amazingly, the person sitting next to him then related a story from his own family where, and I'm not making this up, his own brother had been resuced from addiction by his father. It was an amazing serendipity - or then again, maybe not. After all, this is very much what the Life Summit is all about.

Anyway - enough of the long story. I really hope I helped Steve - he certainly communciated that he felt better and different and even inspired from our conversation. I hope he stays in touch through the site - and he knows who he is.

Finally, I must say I was entirely humbled by the experience - it was an honour and a blessing to help someone in such a difficult and extreme situation.

Yours from the road,

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

For further information or to schedule interviews,please contact
Doug Collins at DM Productions on 775 825 1727
or via email on doug@dmproductionsllc.com

The Aussies Are Coming!

2010-09-03T16:21:00.000-07:00

Tim Levy: The Game-Changer National Book Tour Dates

Australian Author Takes His Own Advice – The Life Summit Comes to America with stops in San Francisco, Sacramento, Reno, Lake Tahoe, Phoenix, Prescott, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, St. George, and Austin.

I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you all in person to join me as I tour across the States over the next month. Here are the dates for the various events:

WEEK 1
September 13     Benefit for READ. Incline Village, Lake Tahoe.
September 14
September 15     Book Signing at Borders in Alameda, CA
September 16
September 17     Radio Show / Bonnie Coleen’s Seeing Beyond / San Francisco, CA
    Book Signing at Borders / Folsom, CA (Sacramento, CA) 5:30– 7 PM
September 18     Radio Show / The Shift Economy / Austin, TX
    Book Signing at Borders, Reno 5:30 PM – 7 PM

WEEK 2
September 20     Book Signing at Changing Hands Bookstore, #1 bookstore in Phoenix, AZ
September 21     Featured TV Appearance at 9:30 AM on AM Arizona,
    Book signing at Hastings Bookstore / Prescott, AZ – 2pm
September 22    Book Signing at Borders, Scottsdale, AZ – Lunch time
September 22     Radio Show / The Attitude Shift - 7pm PT/ 10pm ET
September 23     University of CA Riverside event at Palm Desert, CA
September 24     Book Signing at Borders, Las Vegas book store
September 25     Life Coach mini-seminar at The Red Mountain Spa in St. George, Utah

WEEK 3
September 27     Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce Luncheon / Featured speaker
September 28     E-women’s Network Workshop / Austin, TX
    The Positive Energy Summit / Austin TX

*As details come available, we will link them in here on the blog and also on Facebook.

Here’s the rest of the press release –

(Scottsdale, AZ) – Are you living your perfect life? The perfect family? The perfect career? If not, you need to meet best-selling author Tim Levy from Sydney, Australia because he is talking the talk and walking that perfect walk. He is living his dreams! The Life Summit process for Levy was a game changer. It is the exact system Tim has used himself to ‘bring into reality’ everything he’s ever dreamed of: a loving relationship, a happy family life, financial abundance, a string of children’s books, five albums/CDs...and even his nationally broadcast television show!

Tim Levy wrote his book, “The Life Summit,” only after the constant urging of his clients. Tim came from the corporate world working with IBM, Acer, Lucent, Sony and 3COM. He quickly understood that you needed to add structure and strategy to positive thinking in order to achieve your perfect life. And with his six step plan, The Life Summit incorporates mind, body, spirit and business strategy.

Following that strategy, one of Levy’s newest dreams is to come to America to live with his family and he is working on the visa process to move to Austin, TX.   So begins the book tour, “The Game-Changer” … Levy is about to change his world and in the process change those who he meets along the way. Tour details can be found at www.TheLifeSummit.com.

“The Life Summit” process was honed in personal lives and multinational corporations over the past decade.
Tim’s clients have gone on to start profitable new businesses bringing their business dreams into reality.

“The bit that gets me out of bed in the morning is the process of making a significant positive difference in the lives of my clients,” stated Levy.

Levy’s book is often favorably compared with Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” and there are several “unique” connections between the two authors. Both Levy and Byrne are Australian … both worked for the SAME television network in Australia and … both are authors about how using the Principles of Attraction and how you can make your dreams come true with those guidelines.

Levy was already practicing his strategies formulated in “The Life Summit” when Byrne’s first book was released. Currently, completing the second book of what will be the trilogy of “The Life Summit,” taking the reader to the next level with each book.

But as Levy says when asked about the similarity …

“I loved “The Secret” and all of the Principles of Attraction discussed in the movie. We had in fact we’d been living and working with that material in “The Secret” for some time. I had taken it one step further, or come up with a new flavor, a new combination. My background is in big business. When I combined that business strategy, how to map things out to get absolute clarity with the Principles of Attraction in “The Secret,” so beautifully brought to the world by Rhonda Byrne, that the magic really started to happen,” said Levy.

“ My own dreams projects started to come true and when I started teaching that strategy to others, and getting the same kind of outrageous results for them. So, “The Life Summit” is very much of the same alignment as “The Secret” and maybe, just maybe taking it one step further.”

About Tim Levy:
Tim Levy is an experienced writer, producer, director with deep roots extending into the diverse worlds of business, environmentalism, comedy, spirituality, television and the world of children....areas that he finds can overlap in unexpected ways. The Life Summit is a culmination of his experience and his enlightenment, linking soaring spirit with grounded business strategies.

Tim has had quite an amazing life, including:
- consultant / CEO in Australia and America,
- releasing children’s ‘Carkids’ albums with the ABC,
- writing and publishing children’s books with Random House,
- creating, producing and hosting Groovedelicious TV

Contact:
For further information or to schedule interviews,
please contact Doug Collins at DM Productions on 775 825 1727 or 775 825 1727
or via email on doug@dmproductionsllc.com

An Insight on Being vs. Doing

2010-08-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

Man, have you noticed just how much there is to do?

I mean, I only just woke up and I’m swamped! Firstly, let’s talk about my day. I’ve got to get up, get ready, help with the kids and make breakfast happen. Then I’m out into my office (I have a home office right by my house) and I’m working. I have books to write, web sites to maintain, people to call and clients to help.

Don’t get me wrong – I love helping my clients so I’m not sure if you can call that work. Nevertheless, it’s on my list. That list just keeps on growing and I haven’t every finished yesterday’s!

Then, when the kids get home, it’s all about exercise. Get that Mojo going, baby! Then sneak in some more work, inside for dinner before chilling out with my wife. That’s on the list, too!

That’s just today.

And let’s not ignore the other lists I pay attention to – my wife’s list and my children’s lists. My wife, for example, needs a hand with her tax right now – no problem. Love to help. My eldest has a speech at school this week which is important! The teacher actually sent home a note about it which means research, speech writing and rehearsals. And that’s just this week and just the eldest! The others need a look in, too!

It’s exhausting!

The Thinking of Doing
The thinking here is that if I can get everything onto the list then I’ll be able to get it all done. And when I have it all done – I’ll have it all. I’ll have wealth, health, a happy family – whatever. Build the right list and the rest follows, right?

Well - I hate to be the one to burst your bubble there, Tiger – but it simply isn’t so. Instead, the list continues to grow forever.

Let’s take a new turn and go back to where this being vs. doing thing all started; a few weeks back in Thailand.

Two Weeks Ago
I was recently fortunate enough to spend a week at a resort on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. One of my clients actually paid for me to go with the intention of working together on creative material in this most enlightened of places. The resort was beautiful, perched on the side of a beach with white sand and endless views across the ocean. There wasn’t even a boardroom – it was heaven!

When I got there, I had my To Do List all ready to go. I was there to work, right?! I planned a certain number of sessions, each of a certain length. We were going to achieve in one week what we’d normally handle in months just by removing all of our normal distractions. It was going to be perfect.

There was, however, a minor complication.

Before I even found my client I had a chance to meditate for just fifteen minutes or so. I found a little hammock between trees on the beach and swung gently above the sand. I sank into meditation, which I do routinely, and let the nothingness flow over me. It was my way, I guess, of getting into the flow of this Thai health resort. They’d say I was getting onto island time.

Either way during the meditation I got the strongest sense that I was to ‘release all outcomes’. Read that as ‘You ain’t going to get nothing done so don’t even try!’

Huh? Say what now?

No, no, I must be mistaken. This is a work trip, right? I’m here to work undisturbed. My client has flown me across the planet to do this. Then again, I often get counter-intuitive instructions via meditation so I just sat with it trying not to judge.

Meeting the Client
Shortly after, my client and I found each other. He was already a week into island time, where there’s no list, no rush and no stress. It was a clash between two worlds; city time (which I was still on) and island time (which he was on).

Then again, I was almost prepared from my intuition during meditation when he said something like ‘Tim, thanks for coming all this way. I know you have a list of stuff we’re going to get done but actually, I don’t think we’re really going to do anything here. This is more about just being’. What a client, right?!

It took me some time to get used to this. Would you believe I actually resisted this brief? I spoke to my wife, sharing my concerns. I was actually fighting to get my work list back on the agenda! What was I going to do, sit around all week looking at the ocean?

My wife, a more enlightened human than me in many ways simply advised me to ‘Breathe, relax and then just go with it.’

What I Missed
Have you ever noticed that there are times when no amount of ‘doing’ will actually get you where you want to be?

Have you ever run into a circumstance where simply being is called for? Where doing is no longer the appropriate way forward?

It’s counter-intuitive to think that you might be able to achieve something without adhering to a set of instructions burned into your cortex via a never-ending To Do List. Nevertheless, it’s true.

I came to a new mantra, in fact, which I feel should be emblazoned on t-shirts the world over and here it is:

‘Act less, be more’

Cute, right? What it means is that there are some things that cannot be achieved by action alone. It’s important to remember that there’s an energetic or spiritual world underpinning our own. One must consider both worlds to fully understand and exist in this reality.

Some Examples of Being
So there I was stuck on an island with a client who didn’t want me to work. That was my first thought.

Upon second thought, what I had here was an amazing opportunity to just be instead of paying sole attention to the physical world and to just do. To be honest, I wasn’t very good at it at first. I’m simply not used to it! I’ve been trained over a long period of time that doing is the answer. It’s my automatic, go-to way of thinking; that the only way to precipitate any kind of result is to take some kind of action. It was a tough habit to get out of.

Here are some of the ways I spent my time just being.
·   I spent lots of time walking along the beach without thinking about too much. I got better and better at staying out of my head.
·   I spent time swishing around in the pool just enjoying the freedom of being in the water
·   I spent time writing down my insights on my lovely iPad then letting those insights go
·   I spent time being really present in conversation and interaction with people, rather than thinking all about what I’d just done or was going to be doing shortly while SMSing, skyping and generally not paying full attention
·   I spent time in meditation

When I got back home I decided to spend more time just being
·   I spend more time saying ‘Yes!’ to whatever stuff my kids wanted me to do without saying ‘No, I have to work’
·   I spend more time getting out of my head and into my body doing fun exercise like walking to the park and going for bike rides with the small ones
·   I spend more time helping little Isabella learn to walk
·   I spend more time cooking for the family, especially cakes
·   I spend more time actually connecting with my wife and extended family
·   I spend more time meditating when I’m feeling too ‘action oriented’ to being myself back to a more connected perspective. I’m now meditating more like twice a day to assist in that process of presence.

All in all, I spend more time being.

The Last Word
So there you are - my new insight for the month; that in the end, there’s only so much action you can take. Maybe that should be on the t-shirt. There are only so many hours in the day. There’s only so much training you can take, so much work you can do and so much effort you can apply.

What if your next step wasn’t about working harder, adding more to your to do list, getting smarter, getting more efficient or more insightful? What if there was an end to what physical action could achieve and you’d actually already hit that plateau? What if you are simply repeating replica years, decade after decade, stuck at the same level, limited by your insistent focus on doing?

What if the next thing you really have to do is to just be?!

Written by Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Site – www.timlevy.net
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/

(~1,500 words)

Behind the Scenes

2010-07-15T18:44:00.000-07:00

There has been lots going lately - but most of it behind the scenes. I spoke for a group of executives at a TEC (http://www.tec.com.au/) day this week, which was all kinds of fun. I just love working 1-on-1 with people, helping them reconnect to their hopes, dreams and clear picture of their perfect life.

I also love hearing the stories afterward - as these things start to show up in their own merry way. This from Justine -

'I have been to so many personal development courses over the last few years and never have I found anyone that has had a strong as impact or even matched the skills of Tim Levy. He gets to the very core of your being and although tough at times it was exactly what I needed to make the shift towards my dreams and where I want my life to head. I walked out inspired, taking action and now have the world as my oyster. I am so grateful to have done the Life Summit and I feel like the "penny dropped" so to speak. I can't wait to let Tim know where I will be in 6 months from now. I could not recommend more highly the expertise, guidance and intuition of Tim if you are feeling stuck in life.'

We are also deep in midst of the preparations and bookings for the September 'GameChanger Tour'. I'll be visiting a bunch of west coast cities - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Los Vegas, Palm Springs, San Jose, Phoenix and Austin. We've also booked a gig at the Red Mountain Spa in Utah.

And to top it off, the online store has come online - which is the best place in the world to buy a copy of the book (you get a free CD with it if you buy it direct).

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

An Austin Catchup

2010-06-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

For those who don't know, I've spent the last week or so in Austin, Texas with my wife Angela and littlest one, Isabella. We came here to check out the place - as well as to address the Positive Energy Summit - which went well. Oh - and it was Texas big - we had a great turnout and an enthusiastic audience.

It might sound odd to those who have not spent time in Austin, but we've been on a bit of a shopping spree. We started downtown at the Whole Foods, visited Anthropologie (for me wife), the REI, Books Inc - and then started in on the Malls. What a town! Lovely and sunny and such a warm welcome.

I must sent a shout out to my new friends Ricci, Kate, Adeline - and our continuing amazement and gratitude to our host family, the Siegwalts. We've been invited to a different event every night of the week we've been here - and sometimes two.

I've also been invited to speak in Austin in not one but three seperate occasions - which I will do on my return here in September.

So there you have it - a quick Austin update before I return to Sydney in a few days to reunite the family.

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

The Life Summit // Working 1-on-1

2010-05-17T18:43:00.000-07:00

Life moves pretty quick; already I have a 7 day visit to the States in June to speak at two different events, then a second tour underway for September - to say nothing of finally sorting out an Australian publisher for the book. Phew!

In the mean time, I'm enjoying to make a magnitude difference in individual lives by working with people in person. This takes the form of a one day, 1-on-1 session at my premises in Sydney. In the course of one packed out day, we run through the Life Summit session, bringing amazing clarity to your perfect life and wokring with the spiritual principles that bring that into being. And did I mention it's great fun?!

I can't believe that I haven't been telling people that I actually do this!

Here's some recent feedback from a corporate session I did in northern California, focusing on a new business -

'The Life Summit Process is is so much more than I imagined, and has taken me to a level of success I've only dreamt of! Tim is the kind of person that infects the soul with it's original understanding of greatness. I can say from the moment we began doing The Life Summit in our session together, I knew my life would change drastically. I just never expected it to do so instantaneously!'

And from a more personal session in Sydney a few months back -

'What was it like working with Tim? Amazing, fun and enlightening and at the same time terrifying, soul wrenching and exhausting! There it was... my life as it is and my life as I dream it could be - all up on his 'Wall'.

The funniest thing about the whole process is that once Tim helps you to identify what you want, the Law of Attraction just seems to take over and the only thing you have to do then is try to keep up with it!

Tim definitely has a very special gift for this. He has helped to change my life and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. I'm so grateful.'

Right now I'm taking bookings for June and July - I have 3 spots available in June and 4 in July. Sound interesting?! I hope so. I just love doing these sessions - it's a real buzz to help people make that magnitude change in their lives, to experience the breakthrough as it unfolds by working the Life Summit process together. I'm based on Sydney's northern beaches, although people seem to be flying in from across Australia pretty often - and I'm visiting Perth to do a session late this week. It seems like flying is a casual thing for people these days!

For more information and testimonials and so on - you can visit the site here.
To book directly or to talk about pricing, you can send an email to inquiries@thelifesummit.com.

If you'd like to repost this on Facebook etc - feel free to do so!

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Sunny in Sydney

2010-05-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

'Ultimately, as with any urban trek, the trekker must return home. After a brief sojourn in the wilds of New York City, I've taken transport back to my homeland. There's something sweet about hugging the young ones, kissing the wife and generally finding oneself on the best mattress in the world - your own!

Chatwin - out'

Well now! That was simply an amazing trip. Five cities in three and a bit weeks - San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin, Chicago and New York. I must send out a major thank you to everyone who participated in the journey - from the book store managers, live event crews, my own management team, publishers, journalists and of course - those who came along to be part of the adventure. It was an amazing thing to have the opportunity to connect with so many people about their life dreams and plans.

New York City, the last leg of my tour, was amazing. Not only did I get a chance to wander around in Central Park, spend time in line at the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle but I also spent time with my publishers and editors. Thanks for brekkie, Deb!

The lovely folk at Morgan James Publishing, David and Rick, were kind enough to progress our plans for the next two books 'The Life Summit for Business' and 'The Secret Business of Writing' into a concrete form. So please - keep an eye out for those!

Also, the internet marketing gurus based in Austin and Sydney have been kind enough to progress our online plans - so keep an eye out for e-books and i-books and audio-books and all manner of interesting and unusual content. It's going to hit the web soon!

Also, my thanks to my various new partners or 'my people' as they like to call themselves across the States and in Australia. We've managed to build quite a team and are in process of establishing a core business in America. There will be more about that soon, too.

All in all, I couldn't have imagined a more amazing trip. There was serendity and outrageous dreams manifesting at every turn. It was, frankly, a bit overwhelming at times. Now I'm back in Sydney and taking a moment to breathe, sleep and generally integrate everything.

Looking forward to the next tour in September (along with a quick return trip in June),

Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Chilly in Chicago

2010-04-21T06:39:00.000-07:00

'It is amazing to me that it can be both chilly and sunny at the same time - but that is Ch'icago. The natives are quite different to the A'ustin ones, a little less social and immediately welcoming. Then again, that's to be expected with such a large grouping - it feels like several million of them are gathered in the same area. So not everyone can know everyone.

The local arts and crafts rare very beautiful, the food is varied - I even sampled a luncheon of roasted local livestock called the T'urkey. Unsurprisingly, it tasted like chicken.

chatwin - out'

Chicago is just lovely - and cold! After the whirlwind of activity that was Austin, it's nice to have a relaxing day in front of me. Our Austin events were amazing, with lots of pele turning up and a very passionate response to the material in the book. There's no doubt I'll be back there, mostboikely with family in tow!

We spent a fair amount of time taking corporate meetings also, taking the time to meet with potential tour partners for the September return. A few new key team members also came on board, with plans hatching for the next year or two. Lots of exciting things are to come!

Tonight we head to the Chicago Improv Festival, just finding tickets now and hoping tom laugh intil sides split.

more soon,

A slightly exhausted Tim.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Adopted in Austin

2010-04-17T06:12:00.000-07:00

I have been broght into the warm embrace, adopted if you will, into a family of S'iegwalts. It is the most amazing thing as I experience all their traditions, their rituals and habits from the inside out, as it were.

Last night, for example, they actually cut up, then charred a series of portions of the local livestock. We ate (of course I partook) until we could eat no more and still there was more food! We then spent hours around the campfire, talking deep into the night of philosophy, religion and metaphysics. It was a night I shall never forget.

Chatwin - out

I must say I got a good feeling about Austin from the moment I arrived. There was live music in the airport as well as a sign saying something like 'Relax - you're in Austin!'

My gracious hosts, the Siegwalt family (creators of the Positive Energy Summit) are beyond welcoming. We've been taking a series of executive style meetings with like minded individuals to talk about a National sponsor for my September tour and beyond. It's all unfolding very quickly. Life moves pretty quick when you have such clarity. Did I read that in a book somewhere?

Anyway, let me express my profound thanks here to Steve in particular for the warm Austin embrace.

I also had a chance to inject bit of Life Summit magic into our evening when my friend Sheila came by. By the time she left she was wearing that 'hit by a bus' look, so we must've done something right! She'll be attending the Positive Energy Summit, as well as my appearances at Barnes and Noble Westlake and Borders at the Domain - so you can all meet the amazing Sheila there.

Next event - Barnes and Noble Westlake in only a few hours - see you all there at 1pm today!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Bent in Phoenix

2010-04-15T06:45:00.000-07:00

'The natives here, after taking the time to integrate me into their tribe, took me to a sacred place, a mystical place known only as ... B'ent C'over. Here, the scrolls and records of yesteryear are collected, corrected and sent out once more into the world, bringing the A'merican tradition to a new generation.

We gathered by the sacred Wa Ta Coo La to drink cider, more of the ever-present K'offee and tell stories. It went on for several hours (although it was so exciting it only felt like minutes). At length I've had to move on from this tribe, heading for the fabled heights of A'ustin. The trip will be arduous but worth it, I think.

Chatwin - out'

The live event last night was amazing. No, let me ammend that - this ongoing American tour has been amazing. Everywhere I go I am met by such generousity of spirit, such integrity and such enthusiasm! I don't think I really knew what having fans was about - until I started meeting with them in person at various signings, talks and live events. They're so passionate, so excited about this!

I spent a few hours with a crowd at Bent Cover books in Phoenix last night and my life is a better place for it. A little shout out here for Marge and Sharon, Doug and DM and Bonnie - and everyone who attended. I think we had fun, right? I must admit I reverted to my stand-up days a little - there was certainly a lot of laughter - which is such a treat. I did what turned out to be around a two hour talk - although it felt like a lot less - and everyone had a chance to have a go at the first step in The Life Summit process.

And talking of generosity, a little shout out to the folk of at Sky Yoga - I'm coming soon - looking forward to meeting you all in person. And thanks for setting this article on meditation online - I'll repost it here - http://skyyogastudio.com/2010/04/06/experience-the-life-summit-live/. As I said - such generosity.

So I'm about to head for the airport, zipping over to Austin, but not without saying such a fond thank you to everyone in Phoenix, especially my host family Rob, Angela and all the kids. It's been a delight staying with you.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Blown Away At Borders

2010-04-11T08:15:00.000-07:00

'The natives of S'an Francisco were kind enough to organize a kind of tribal gathering for me at one of their local watering holes. They called it B'orders which roughly translates as 'the place of wisdom'. There are many scrolls and bound collections of papyrus there. Better yet, the elders and storytellers of the tribe sit there drinking a mildly narcotic beverage called K'offee for hours on end. It makes for very interesting conversation as the knowledge is passed down from generation to generation.'

Excerpt from the Chatwin Dispatches

I wasn't quite sure what to expect at my first major Borders store. While I usually do a talk, a kind of interactive one hour seminar/workshop thing, Borders was different. They set me up behind a table right near the front, signing books for three hours.

And boy did it work well! Kudos to Jon, the manager, for knowing what he was doing. The whole staff were delightful, very supportive and gave me the run of the cafe, too!

What happened was that I encountered people very directly who had already read some or all of the book - and were already having a significant experience from it. They had some questions to ask to clarify how it applies to them, to their story - which were very heartfelt. It was a delight to work with these people one at a time to help them with their specifics. It would be appropriate here'd to send a little shout out to Glen - you, especially, made my day!

We also spoke about my 'Life Summit Days' where I work one on one with an individual, running them through the process directly. I am booking people in to do this when i return in September. It's a very powerful thing - genially considered life changing, in fact. I've already had the chance to do this herein San Francisco on one of my non-PR days - who needs to shop, eh?! It's something I love to do.

It was also gratifying that people aren't buying just one copy of the book - they're buying two or three or even (one lovely person) ten at a time. Their intention is to both read the book and give it immediately to friends and family. It makes for a lot of signing!

All in all it was a thoroughly enjoyable way to connect with my readers in an especially strong way. It was a great pleasure at that - and I'm looking forward to my appearances in Phoenix, which start later today at Borders in Chandler, 6pm. Don't be Late!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Sunny San Francisco

2010-04-08T09:37:00.000-07:00

'Have arrived in San Francisco amid sun, rain, fog and cold - all at the same time. The natives are ... colourful, loud-spoken and generally a pleasure to be around. They've been able to create a thriving capital of commerce where even the portions of food appear to be double normal size. There's enthusiasm, passions run high and there's a heightened sense of politics in the air.

One particular tribe has taken me into their tent, in the city of Mountain View, right near a Googleplex, whatever that is. All in all, the trip is going wonderfully well - with plenty of opportunities to preach my message to the hordes around me.

I've also managed to secure some of the latest native technology (ho, ho) called an i-pad, which appears to be a flat black slate for writing on although it did not come with chalk or any visible means to do so. Will investigate.'

An excerpt from the diaries of Chatwin, 2010

So here I am in San Francisco on the first leg of my April 2010 PR tour of the US. So far we've had an amazing response with different interviews and live appearances every day. We're also doing pre-interviews for the next legs in Phoenix and Austin - mostly radio and newspapers with some TV stuff in our sights. I have a lovely brew of friends, media-escorts and crazy fans to meet with as I go.

Here, for example, is an example of the kindness I'm encountering - whether in bookstores like Books Inc in Mountain View or from celebrity Matt Welsh, who posted an article of mine kindly on his blog here - http://www.spiritualmediablog.com/2010/04/07/inspirational-movies-and-television/

I've also been approached by some new clients, so I'm sneaking in some actual Life Summits when I can, around the edges of everything else. Busy! I almost didn't have time to whip into SEES candy to secure a box of chocolates. Whew - that was close!
Having said that, I'm off to a live event at the Alexander Book Co, which is just South of Market in the financial district. Fun! More soon,

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'

Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

T Minus 7 days and Counting - An Extra Kind Event

2010-03-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

I just love watching the serendipity unfold. As you know, I'm doing a series of free events during my tour to San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Chicago and New York in April. Recently, a lovely man Steve got in touch from Austin, Texas. Short story - we have a new event on the calendar - details / book yourself here.

The long story is worth a little telling. Steve got in touch with me via Meetup.com - a site that helps like-minded groups of people get together. He started something called the Positive Energy Summit (details here - http://www.meetup.com/positiveenergysummit/). Here's the thinking;

This Summit connects the energy of the individual, and the energy of the group, for individual success. It's an experiential format where there is plenty of time for all those that want to get in front of the group. We can promote ourselves, focus our energies, and go with others in similar journeys who want to harness the best for themselves and those around them.

Steve has, out of the great goodness of his own heart, simply decided to help, to get involved. He's created this event for us, is promoting and supporting it without thought of personal benefit. And for that I'm truly greatful.

So I just wanted to say thanks to Steve and his team, for this amazing contribution and delicious serendipity.

For me, this is what it's all about.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

T-minus 12 days and counting

2010-03-22T14:55:00.001-07:00

So it's 12 days before my trip to the States and counting. I've decided to turn this blog, which until today only help deep and meaningful (my attempt at humour, there) articles related somehow, no-matter how distantly, to my book 'The Life Summit'. Now that's completely out the window! It's all about adventure, about dreaming - about a month long tour around America to launch and promote my book, my one-on-one day sessions and new mini-seminars in September. It's the author's life for me!

In the mean time I'm into final preparations. I've got a load of events booked already and more coming in every day. Here's a little summary for those of you who would like to come along to any / all of the free events associated with this tour. Please jump onto Facebook by all means and add yourself to the guest list - I'm keen to meet as many of you as possible as we go. This is going to be fun!

Tour Schedule as of Today
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
12:30-1:30PM PT                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Alexander Book Co.
50 2nd Street
San Francisco, CA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=288339457555&index=1

SATURDAY, APRIL 10
1:00PM PT                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Borders at Westfield San Francisco Centre
865 Market St.
San Francisco, CA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=318842936301&index=1

SUNDAY, APRIL 11
6:00PM                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Borders
Chandler Pavillions
870 N. 54th St.
Chandler, AZ
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104044059628035&index=1

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
6:00PM                EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Bent Cover Books
12428 N. 28th Dr.
Phoenix, AZ 85029
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106750449349379&index=1

SATURDAY, APRIL 17
1-4PM CT                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Barnes & Noble Westlake
701 S. Capital of Texas Hwy.
Austin, TX
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263589707281&index=1

SATURDAY, APRIL 17
6-9PM CT                   EVENT with MeetUp.com

SUNDAY, APRIL 18
1-4PM CT                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Borders @ The Domain
3309 Esperanza Crossing
Austin, TX
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=290526171676&index=1

THURSDAY, APRIL 22
7:00PM CT                   EVENT – Tim Levy / LIVE
Book Cellar
4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108131822539658&index=1

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Excel Spreadsheets for Audio Book

2010-03-22T14:54:00.000-07:00

Today, as a part of recording the audio book version of The Life Summit, I've decided to release some pictures of the Excel spreadsheets used in the later chapters of the books. These are from Step 3 of the 6 step Life Summit process - and will likely only make sense if you've read the book!

Here's one topic of the one year plan in Excel.

Next, the entire one year plan by topic

Now, the one year plan by topic, adding in the months

Now, using excel to arrange it by month instead of by topic

OK - now onto the section on timing. Here we map start to out your perfect day

Now add the actual times

Finally, here's a chart of the perfect week, using that timing and varying for certain days and the weekend.

Done! That's all the charts you'll need to refer to in the audio book.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

T-minus 12 days and counting

2010-03-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

On Working with Tim

2010-02-25T14:05:00.000-08:00

Every once in a while a lovely review comes in - this one from Justine. I've worked with her in person, taking her through the Life Summit process in the course of a pretty intense day.

'What was it like working with Tim? Amazing, fun and enlightening and at the same time terrifying, soul wrenching and exhausting! There it was... my life as it is and my life as I dream it could be - all up on his 'Wall'. I felt so overwhelmed at first, kind of like I'd been hit by a fleet of army tanks, but over the next week or so turned more into a feeling of a caravan of hippies offering me a lift!

The funniest thing about the whole process is that once Tim helps you to identify what you want, the Law of Attraction just seems to take over and the only thing you have to do then is try to keep up with it! Tim definitely has a very special gift for this. He has helped to change my life and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. I'm so grateful.'

Justine, Reconnective Healer in Sydney, Australia

I've also put a new section up on the site entitled 'Working with Tim' with details of doing just that. Please feel free to check it out and get in touch if you'd like to make a booking (details are all there). It's fun!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

On Detachment // Finding a New Lover!

2010-02-22T15:43:00.000-08:00

Detachment has been coming up a lot recently in my own life as well as in private sessions, talks and interviews. It seems like everyone has detachment confused for ‘giving up’, ‘giving in’ or ‘surrender’. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Detachment is an acknowledgement that, simply put, you don’t know everything. Let me explain by means of an example, and let’s make it interesting!

Step One – Clear, Consistent and Unambiguous
Let’s say that you want a new lover. Hmm, sounds, good, right? You start to dream up this partner in vivid detail. This person is gorgeous, great butt, fit and trim. They love to wine and dine, love romance and walking by the lake. They can cook (bonus!) and the have a bunch of cash. On and on you go – filling in the details as you daydream the topic over and over again.

You daydream at work, at home, on the way to work and on the way home! You start to chat with your friends about this potential new person in your life over coffee, on the phone and on facebook.

And so you should! The spiritual principles of attraction respond beautifully to clear desire, expressed consistently and unambiguously. So if you have any doubts, concerns and fears, you conscientiously let them go. You defer, instead, to a dwelling on the desire itself; to have a new lover.

Well done, you.

Step Two – Figuring Out the ‘How’
Then you start, as is our habit as humans, to run scenarios in your head about how this person is going to show up in your life. Will you meet this person at a café? At the movies? Via some kind of online dating service? This becomes the hot topic between you and your friends as each offers their sage advice on the matter.

You get loads of excellent suggestions and, if you kept a list, you’d have your book full. You have dozens of ways in which this might happen, which run over and over in your head. The scenarios even start to show up in your dreams.

‘How will this happen?’ you ask yourself over and over again.

Eventually, you start to feel like you can make this happen. You pick a few of the most likely, most do-able scenarios and start to act on them. When they show promise, you’re elated. When they fail to connect, you’re miserable. There’s a blind-date incident that doesn’t turn up well when the other party fails to show entirely. Did they see you and leave? What’s going on?!

Step Two (Again) – Still Thinking Of How
Let’s get back to detachment. It’s so easy to lose sight of it! And let me remind you, when I talk about detachment, I’m definitely not talking about ‘pre-emptive giving up’. I’m not suggesting that, for even one second, you should say to yourself ‘I’m going to be detached from this. I’m cool with what happens, either way. Do I get my new lover? Do I not get my lover? Either is cool’

The fact of the matter is that it isn’t cool! You want that new lover, that new car, the bills paid and a cool million sitting in the bank.

And you have so many ways that these things can happen, right? You can run those scenarios over and over again in your head. And this is where my definition of detachment comes in.

I do not suggest becoming detached from your desire. I suggest that you become detached from all those scenarios. Feel free to come up with as many ideas as you like and once they’ve run through your head once, you’re done. Move on.

Detachment is an acknowledgement that you don’t know everything. Simply put, for every scenario that you run through your head there are several million (in fact an infinite amount) that can be arranged on your behalf by spirit / God / the universe / whatever you want to call it.

How dare you think that your few simple scenarios are the only ones? Or even that they’re the best ones! How dare you became attached to any one of them? How conceited are you, thinking that you’re more well informed than God?

So don’t do it. Detachment is the acknowledgement that you don’t know everything. Or, more specifically, that while you do know what your desire are, you don’t know how they will come to pass. Come to think of it, that’s not even your job.

Wrapping It Up
So – here they are again. The 3-steps.
i.    Express your desires in a clear, consistent and unambiguous way.
ii.    Get out of the way while this is setup for you in amazing, unpredictable ways by spirit / God / the universe / insert your term here.
iii.    Watch and enjoy as these things show up in your life.

Step 2 – that’s where the detachment comes in. Easy, right?

New lover, here I come.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Free Audio Book / On Practical, Results Oriented Meditation

2010-02-10T15:06:00.000-08:00

Over the last few weeks it's become clear that there's quite a bit of interest in my Life Summit meditation. So I've made it into a free 18 minute audio book. Well, I should say free if you've bought the book and you therefore have access to all the free extras that come with it through the site.

So please, by all means, go to the free extras part of the site www.thelifesummit.com, login and download the new MP3's (there are three tracks) entitled 'On Meditation'. It runs through a practical, results oriented 5 steps process in 6 steps (you'll have to listen to it to make sense of that) that covers

- location
- breathing
- thoughts
- focus, and
- desire

Sounds, good, right? And if, by chance, you don't have a copy of the book and therefore don't have the passwords just yet, well you can write to me on facebook and we'll work something out.

p.s. That's not a picture of me up there, just in case you were wondering!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

2010-02-06T11:44:00.000-08:00

Every once in a while I get an outstanding review that I'd like to share; here's one from feelow MJP author, Joseph Gandolfo.

"The Life Summit is a wonderful book which should be put at the top on one's reading list! Tim Levy is and artist and magician who shares with the reader the power of the Law of Attraction which is continuously at operation in all of our lives. The magic is in his artistic ability to educate the reader about this Law in the simplist of words. Anyone can understand and immediatly implement the principles and stratagies in this book, thus leveraging this Law to create and maifest one's desires and dreams."

Joe Gandolfo - Teen Life & Parenting Expert, Professional Speaker and Author

Firstly, may I say 'Thanks, Joseph!'.

Secondly, may I recommend his book and his heartfelt passion for helping families engage with their teenage kids in return. He has written an easy to read yet extremely powerful book called 'The Great Teenage Myth'. It is a must read for parents with teenage children everywhere. These teenagers are often misunderstood and therefore disconnected from their families - Joseph has the answer. Please, by all means check out his site, his book and his amazing work at http://www.thegreatestteenagemythintheworld.com/.

My Life Summit by Carol Warner // Book rated 5/5

2010-01-31T15:54:00.000-08:00

Tim’s book ‘The Life Summit’ is my new companion. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you take the time to do so. It’s not only a great read but a fabulous, mind blowing experience.

This is an excerpt from Carol Warner's lovely blog 'The Write Life'. It's a lovely blog about a clearly sweet, gentle and genuine soul. Please take the time to check out Carol's blog and by all means - subscribe.

Today, when I looked in the mirror, a fifty-year-old woman stared back at me and for a moment I had to wonder who she was. How did I get to this age? Where did the years go? Well, life happened . . . that I’m sure. It revolved around the demands of being a wife, raising a family and working. Although, I know life has its challenges and rewards, but from time to time, I seem to find myself standing at the same crossroad…..not sure which way to go. Waiting . . . for what, I’m still not sure.

Just last week, I had a conversation with myself about whether I could give up work and write full-time, or travel while I am still able bodied. These and many more unresolved issues in my life, leave my emotional state of mind on a constant roller-coaster ride.

I was at the point of calculating my options, when Tim Levy entered my life. His book ‘The Life Summit’ had come to me at such an opportune time. And, I knew from the moment I ordered my advanced, autographed copy, that it was everything I needed to get my life back on track. This book was written for people who want to get more clarity on what they desire and to attract those things into their lives. It’s for anyone who feels dissatisfied with where they are now and want to take conscious steps to improve their lot in life.

What is ‘The Life Summit?’

The Life Summit is a process of thinking and doing that is designed to bring constant, unambiguous focus to your desires, thus leveraging the Law of Attraction into your everyday life in a practical way; using tools such as facilitating, brainstorming and mind mapping, to bring an abundant, happy and enlightened life that everyone wants to live.

If you’re searching for a tool, a key, or a master plan that will reveal to you the brilliance of your life…’The Life Summit’ can help you. It is a life-changing, practical, grounded, everyday action plan for living the Law of Attraction.

The ‘Six Step Plan’ is a step by step guide with written examples. From Step 1: Mapping your perfect life in ten years. Step 2: Mapping your five year plan. Step 3: Mapping your one year plan. Step 4: Month to month mapping. Step 5: A map of your perfect day. Step 6: Turning days into a week.

My whole being is now committed to creating visions of my perfect life. And with my newly prepared Life Map in hand, the time has come to live what I’ve created and I must choose my thoughts and actions so that they align with the Law of Attraction.

I will begin concentrating on my smaller goals, which in turn will lead me to my major goals; to travel, write and have a novel published. I plan to take short breaks away; to soak up different places; kick my brain into overdrive and take my writing to the next level. I will now turn my dedication to the craft, into the book I know I can write.

******

Tim’s book ‘The Life Summit’ is my new companion. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you take the time to do so. It’s not only a great read but a fabulous, mind blowing experience.

This Book is Rated 5/5

On the GFC

2010-01-27T13:11:00.000-08:00

This is another excerpt from the same recent interview - this time, on the GFC.

In this economy and job market how do you maintain your optimistic spirit, and what advice do you have for your readers?

The Law of Attraction is an amazing thing. Simply put, you experience that which you focus on consistently and unambiguously. That’s why in the Levy household, we don’t watch the nightly news or read the paper since that tends to focus you on the negative, the sensational; the unfiltered ‘this-just-in’ of the media.

As a result, we pretty much skipped the hysteria over the Global Financial Crisis. Somehow we seemed to be where the GFC was not. In my life and the lives of my family, we strive to focus on our desires no matter what is happening out there in the world. We discipline our minds to dwell on the things we want, rather than the things we don’t want.

Please understand that I don’t wish to trivialize the dramatic and deeply troubling financial circumstances that millions of people are enduring. I’m simply talking about my personal experience with it from an ‘optimistic spirit’ perspective. We certainly went through dramatic financial changes during the GFC. It’s just that we experienced those changes as a positive and exciting thing, a catalyst for new and amazing events rather than seeing them as deep and unsolvable problems. As a result we’re in a better position now by far than we were before the GFC.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

On Meditation

2010-01-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

This is an excerpt from a recent interview. It came up on the Facebook Fan page when we were talking about a daily meditation.

Describe the 5-step meditation for us.

Step One - Every morning I head down to the nearby lake to sit and meditate for fifteen minutes or so. Location is important – go somewhere that you feel calm, rather than sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by screaming children.

Step Two – If you, like me, can’t just drop into a trance like a yogi, then you can just focus on your breath for a bit. In and out – you know the drill – just breathe.

Step Three – It’s said that meditation is simply dwelling in the place between your thoughts. That means quieting your mind and letting all your thoughts vanish. You can’t force it – take the time to let your thoughts play out on the internal movie screen of your mind, then, when you run out, simply let the screen go blank.

Step Four – Now focus on your desires. This is as simple as it sounds. Just think about the things you want! Perfect partner, perfect wealth, perfect house, perfect car, perfect job – now’s the time to dwell on those things with loving attention.

Step Five – Experience those desires as if you’re living them right now. If it feels weird, acknowledge that you’re pretending. It doesn’t really matter! Imagine that your desires are already present in your life in a kind of extended daydream.

And when you’re done, come back slowly, sweetly and gently before opening your eyes, stretching and maybe even having a bit of a yawn. Done!

Living Now / A Solution Will Present Itself

2010-01-11T15:43:00.000-08:00

This article was originally written for Living Now Holisitc Magazine, which can be found at www.livingnow.com.au.

The Perfect Day
I recently took a weekend day-trip with my family to the beach.

We live on a beautiful peninsula up on the northern beaches in Sydney. Now I’m going to admit to a certain bias here before saying that it’s some of the most beautiful land on the planet. And I’m not in pay of the local tourist board. The area is basically a relaxed, comfortable stretch of coast leading up to a headland topped by the Barrenjoey lighthouse.

That alone would be worth the twenty minute drive from our place to Palm Beach.

My friend Margot, however, knew even better. She’s aware, as we now are, that the world’s best fish and chips live up there too. So we all arranged to meet up at around 11am for a brunchy kind of thing. The sky was blue, the traffic was light and we had the whole day to ourselves. What could possibly go wrong?

Enter the Children
Now if you have young children you know they’re up at 5am running around as if they’re made entirely of kinetic energy. Honestly, if you look hard enough, you can see where they give off a bit of an electric glow as they spin, bounce and run where walking would plainly do.

My wife and I buried our heads under the pillow, hoping against hope for a few moments more of precious sleep. It was not to be. Our boy’s little feet were pounding our hardwood floors and banishing all chance of slumber behind them.

So we were up and out and on the road early, finding ourselves a spot in a park by the beach to wait until Margot and friend joined us a little later.

‘What shall we do?’ I asked the boys, knowing the answer already. The answer is to get as messy, sandy and wet as possible in the shortest possible time. And what’s the best way to do that? Sand Castles.

We have our own special variety of sand castle which involves moats and tunnels and walls and construction and sticks and all kinds of holes, pools and obstructions. The joy is to fill the whole thing with water, then let it out bit by bit by tunneling holes through the walls and so on and so forth.

Within short order the first hole had been constructed, surrounded by sturdy walls and the whole thing was ready for water.

There was, however, a snag.

Fresh out of Water
‘Dad, how are we going to get the water?’ asked my youngest, Finn.

And he had a point. The sand-castle-moat-thing was fully forty feet up the beach, well away from the ocean.

I scratched my head. I mean, the water was plainly in sight, the question was how to move it from one place to the other.

And did we have buckets? Not a chance. What we had was some hungry ready to be filled by fish and chips but Margot was still a while away. Actually, we hadn’t brought anything useful with us. Everything bucket-y or beach-y was sitting in a cupboard back at home.

And that’s when it came to me in a flash.

A Taste of Enlightenment
‘A solution,’ I said to my squinting son, ‘will present itself’

Aaah. I sounded incredibly wise, even to myself. Awesome parenting there, twenty points to Tim.

Of course, Finn had no idea what I was talking about. After all, he’s only four years old. He just looked at me funny. I guess he’s used to me saying weird things like that by now.

‘A solution will present itself’

OK. At this point I must freely admit that this is a line stolen from a recent Star Wars epic called ‘The Phantom Menace’. In it, Qui Gon, Obi-wan’s Jedi Master is out of options on a remote planet, stalled in his attempts to get his spaceship fixed. He’s got no concrete leads, no clever tricks, and no answers at all.

And does he stress? Does he worry, even for a moment? Does he spend eons imaging terrible scenarios in which he’s stranded on the planet forever, starving, dehydrating and left to die? Not likely – after all, he’s a Jedi!

He just says ‘A solution will present itself’ and wanders off to find a cup of Tatooine Tea or something. He’s the picture of ‘letting it go’, of detachment and calm.

Notice that Qui Gon didn’t say something like ‘Let’s all sit down and brainstorm a dozen ideas, then we can try to make the best one happen.’ He didn’t say something like ‘Actually, I’m totally in control of the situation, just leave it to me.’

He said ‘A solution will present itself.’ Then he just went on his merry way; patient and wise. What a mongrel. He makes it look so easy. Life’s not like that – or is it?

Let’s get back to the beach.

‘A solution will present itself’, I’d said as if I knew what I was talking about. Actually, it felt quite good. There was a sense of delicious surrender as I spoke what is actually a fundamental truth.

I had no idea, of course, about what that solution might be or where it would come from. Sounds a lot like life, doesn’t it? And therein lies the joy of the thing.

A Sudden Urge
While I didn’t have a bucket or anything resembling a useful solution to the problem at hand, what I did have was a sudden urge to go for a beach walk. I took Finn’s hand, checked the other child was under my wife’s careful eye and set out across the sand.

It was a lovely sunny day and I didn’t try to think too much. I didn’t run potential solutions through my mind; rather I did my best to ignore them as my left brain handily pitched them to me one by one. After all that’s what my left brain has been trained to do during my dozen or so years at school. This is the same school system, mind you, that spectacularly failed to mention what I now consider life’s essentials like … say … the search for meaning or happiness. Anyway, that’s a soap box for another time.

Finn was working on the problem, too.

‘Can we get a bucket from the shop?’ asked Finn, spotting a nearby line of shops. His left brain was already in top gear.

I looked at them briefly.

‘No bucket shops’ I said, with relief ‘and if there were, they wouldn’t be open this early’. Also, my left brain informed me, we already had enough buckets at home, thank you. And anyway, all my money was all reserved for life’s best fish and chips.

Besides, I didn’t want a solution. I was going with ‘A solution will present itself’. It worked for Qui Gon and it was going to work for me! The trick is to absent yourself from trying to control exactly how things are going to happen, focusing instead on your desires in a clear and consistent way.

‘I just want to fill the hole with water’ I said to myself, walking ‘and I’m open to ideas’

Empty Your Mind
And what a walk. The sun glistened off the water, leading my eyes to the ferry wharf we were approaching. It’s a lovely old timber wharf that creaks and moans in the wind. There are plenty of splinters in the grey timber planks along with old fish-hooks and bit of bait. And right where the wharf meets the sand, there’s a beautiful sandstone wall.

And there, glistening in the sun at the base of the wall was an enormous empty Coke bottle. It took my attention immediately.

Eureka!

It turns out that empty Coke bottles are the vehicles of choice for transporting water from ocean to hole. They’re even bigger and therefore better than your average kid’s bucket – and they’re free! And we were doing the beach a favour by picking up some garbage, too.

We grabbed the bottle and headed back to our beckoning hole, ready to fill it up. As I recall, Finn even uttered a few joyous yelps. Everything was sorted, we had our answer and Qui Gon would’ve been proud.

Alas, we were too late. The hole had now been filled in and another game was afoot. I’m not sure what it was but it had something to do with battles on the sand, chasing, tackling and running around in circles. Either way someone was going to track mud and sand into the car on the way home so the day was going pretty well.

The Sweet Surrender
Anyway you look at it, the day was a total success. Margot and company turned up eventually (they were perfectly on time, we were just early). We all ate fish and chips until we could eat no more. And yes, they were the best fish and chips in the world.

And the best part of the day? The sweet feeling of surrender as I allowed the world to present its own solution.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Urban Enlightenment // On Soring

2009-12-09T21:57:00.000-08:00

This article was originally published in the December 2009 issue of Living Now Holisitc Magazine, which can be found at www.livingnow.com.au.

So late last night, around 1a.m., I finally finish up working and make my way back home to go to bed.

Now I should explain my little home office is actually adjacent to our house, so I have to brave the cool, dark evening to get back inside. My feet crunch gently on gravel, I close the office door, a few steps to the house and I’m back inside. I creep in quietly, trying to avoid creaky floorboards and clicking door-handles. Do I sound like a burglar? Just as well I actually live here, right!

Finally I’m lying down in bed next to my wife who, almost four months pregnant, is snoring gently. How sweet – except that I just cannot go to sleep when she’s making that noise! It’s not actually that loud, it’s just completely distracting.

Wouldn’t it be good to have some kind of inner ‘let it go’ manual over-ride button? You know, something in bright red located at the back of the neck just below the hairline. It would be perfect for situations like this when my own mental discipline is lacking. The thing is, I know that this distraction is just that – a distraction. And I really want to let it go and get some sleep – but somehow I can’t. My wife’s sweet snore is like a dentist’s drill in my brain.

Anyway, at this point I’m very tired, keen to get to sleep and as such, not thinking especially clearly. It’s definitely not my finest hour. I start to feel agitated, listening to that tickling snore as she breathes in and out, just wishing it would stop. I start to picture her turning over to face the wall side of the bed, rather than facing me and broadcasting the sweet wheeze in my direction. Of course by this time I’m not calling it a sweet wheeze.

Luckily, as I lie there fuming, getting more and more awake in every snoring second, I have a little ‘Aha!’ moment. Would you believe I actually realize that I’m being an idiot, that I’m actively working to bring this on myself? It’s amazing but true.

ATTRACTING THE SNORE

I realize that according to the Law of Attraction, that which I focus on, think about and dwell upon is drawn to into my life like a magnet. And here I am, night-time doofus, dwelling on my wife’s amiable snoring. And, as such, I’m drawing it steadily towards me! Idiot, me!

And let’s be clear, here, evening though I’m focusing on the snore in a ‘go away!’ kind of way, the Law of Attraction doesn’t play favourites. It hears ‘snore’, it brings ‘snore’. It doesn’t differentiate between ‘I want to be kept awake by my wife’s snore’ and ‘I don’t want to be kept awake by my wife’s snore’. I just brings the snore.

What I need to do is focus on what I do want rather than on what I don’t want.

OK – good. Here I go. What do I want right now? I want my wife to turn over and face the other way. That would be great! I’d barely hear the snoring and slip off into blessed sleep. What joy! And what a fun experiment, even late at night. OK – it’s fun to me - I’m weird that way.

So there I lie, in the dappling moonlight, focusing on my desire that my wife should turn over. Suddenly she rustles and twists – will this be it? Will she turn over and solve my problem, unconscious darling that she is?

ATTRACTING MORE SNORE

No. Not actually. Instead, she manages to angle herself comfortably around in such a way that the snoring actually increases in volume. Eureka. Is this life unfolding perfectly? I don’t think so.

How have I managed to draw this to myself? Which is when I have my second ‘Aha!’ moment.

I realize that I’ve made a rookie mistake. Instead of focusing on what I desire, I’ve actually focused on what we so cutely term ‘the how’. My actual desire is to go to sleep. It doesn’t actually matter how I get to sleep as long as I wind up blissfully unconscious dreaming of dolphins or whatever.

By trying to somehow magic my wife into turning over, I’ve been focusing on how I want to get to sleep. In short, I’ve examined the problem ‘I want to go to sleep’ and come up with an answer ‘I will go to sleep when my wife turns over, facing the wall, thus reducing the snoring type sounds to silence’

Frankly, focusing on ‘the how’ is just not my job. By doing that I’m actually limiting the Law of Attraction, which works by bringing all kinds of answers to my desire, not just the ones I can see. For example, in order to help me sleep, the Law of Attraction could organize

1. That I drop off to sleep even with her snoring – unusual but not impossible!

2. That my wife turns over, reducing the snoring noise (the one I thought of),

3. That it starts to rain, the sound of the raindrops soothing my mind and drowning out the snores

4. That my wife suddenly and with no explanation just stops snoring,

5. A sudden inspiration to put in ear plugs, fixing the problem from my end instead of projecting it onto my poor, innocent, sweet unconscious wife

And on they go, these alternative answers, slipping through my mind one at a time, waking me up even more and taking me further from sleep. Until I realize that option number 5 is a pretty good one and I should just do that!

I roll over, trying to be nice and quiet, scrabbling in my bedside table for some earplugs kept there against just such a contingency. Why didn’t I think of this before?! They’ve even been used before so they’re nice and icky as I shove them into my ears, rejoicing in the sudden snore-free zone.

Aah, the sound of my own heartbeat. It’s actually louder than my wife’s sweet little whistle but somehow that doesn’t matter. The thunderous boom-boom-boom of my own internal organs actually brings me closer to sleep rather than further away. Go figure.

So I lie back into my pillow, a contented smile stretching across my face. Aah, enlightenment, you rock my world – even when I only get a little taste. I slip ever so gently towards sleep, let go of all my thoughts including those that had been trying to coerce my wife into rolling over. Hello the sweet release of dreams and fading consciousness.

A SIP OF ENLIGHTENMENT

At this point, I’m inspired to give you a little quite from one of my favourite books ever – ‘Illusions’ by Richard Bach.

In this book there is a “Messiah’s Handbook” designed to teach the layperson how to become a genuine, miracle working messiah. I love this book – it’s very tongue in cheek.

Anyway, onto the quote

‘Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.

Then be sure of one thing:

The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.’

Of course, you can use your own word here to replace ‘The Is’ if you need to. You know – throw ‘God’ or ‘The Universe’ or ‘The Almighty Chocolate Crackle’ in there if it makes you feel comfy.

The point is that you’re kidding yourself if you think you have all the answers, let alone the power to force things to happen in your certain way when you do. Of course, Richard Bach said it a whole lot better.

THE FINAL WHEEZE

So there I am. Situation fixed, baby. The world has been sorted out in my favour, Law of Attraction style. I focused on what I wanted, lay back and waited for inspiration and, when that inspiration arrived, squished the earplugs into my ears.

Score one point Tim, no points snoring wife.

So just when I have it all together, smile on my face, mind sinking blissfully into sweet oblivion … my wife stirs, twitches and rolls over. Huh?

Now she’s facing away from me I can’t hear the snoring if indeed it’s happening at all. I suspect it isn’t.

Say what, huh? What just happened? Didn’t we talk about that solution already? Didn’t we move past that, inspired style, until we found the earplug idea? Is someone having a joke at my expense?

And then, in the darkness, she stirs, scratches and gets up out of bed entirely. She tiptoes quietly out into living room for a midnight snack and a bit of late night TV. The bedroom door closes and I am left there 100% snore-free. Ok – I hadn’t even imagined that one.

Score one point Higher Power, no points Tim.

The silence was profound … only I didn’t hear it. I was already asleep.

And if you believe my wife when I told the story next morning, I was snoring like a steam train.

By Tim Levy / For the ‘Urban Enlightenment’ Column

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Dymocks Staff Reviewer Gives 5 Stars!

2009-11-23T17:14:00.000-08:00

I finished your book this morning..... I loved it. I actually just felt like I was chatting with you the whole time I was reading it, and I could feel your excitement about the whole process and the little details that you had identified that will help people finally be able to begin to see results from the Law of Attraction. I love the breakdown of it all into left and right brain, and embracing them both and using them both to their best potential. LOVE IT!

Also, during most of the book, as I always do, I constantly thought of the people for whom this process would be perfect, but I would not want to facilitate for them until I had done it at least once for myself. Again, I don't think the process is too challenging for people to do it with their friends, but for me personally, I feel that I have had a history of trying to help my friends in certain ways and I might try to add a little too much input just yet! I have a feeling that after I go through the Life Summit, I will better be able to facilitate people to help themselves, rather than me actually providing the answer. Does that make sense? But... oh my goodness...this really is just what some of my friends have been waiting for! Awesome.

Also, just wanted to let you know about a fundraiser we are having next Monday (poster attached). I am raising the last few dollars of my fundraising target of $2000 to Cure Cancer Australia. I am having fun using some of your ideas to get the event arranged and tickets sold. It is sooooooooooooooo much more fun than stressing and doubting and worrying.

The Formal Review
With a long time interest in yoga, meditation, life, health and happiness, you could say I was pretty excited to get my hands on Tim’s book. Add to that equation the fact that I have been involved in a large family-run bookstore for the past 23 years, and have seen and read anything I could get my hands on about all of the above, and you could say I wasn’t just excited to read Tim’s book, but also very intrigued. With quite a few books around on the Law of Attraction and how to use it, I was interested to see how Tim’s approach would differ, and I particularly hoped that it might finally give me a few of the more practical details on how to leverage the Law that seemed to be missing from some of the other volumes around. And because the Law of Attraction works, The Life Summit seems to do just that!

Tim’s book is definitely different. It’s so easy to read it feels like you are just sitting around having a cup of tea (or a beer – whatever floats your boat) and brainstorming ideas with him. Rather than some of the drier, less accessible material that’s available on the Law of Attraction, Tim’s work lightens the load, bringing creativity and humour back into the process, getting you right into that all important feeling of joyful alignment. And most importantly, it addresses and embraces the two sides of our human nature- the organised, linear, analytical left brain and the creative, expressive, free flowing right brain. By acknowledging these aspects of our thought processes, Tim shows us how to harness both our spontaneous, creative power and our structured organisational skills to begin to develop and bring to fruition everything we have dreamed of, and more. I can’t wait to get started. (Will keep you posted……!)

By Justine Ruszczyk, BVSc, Dymocks Books Staff Reviewer

5 stars out of 5 stars

Dymocks, Warringah Mall

Urban Enlightenment // On Fighting With The Wife

2009-11-15T12:51:00.000-08:00

Now there’s nothing I love more than a good fight with my wife. How do I know that this is true? Because it shows up in my life so often, so I must love it, right?

Wrong. I hate it. I really hate it. My life would certainly be better without fighting with my wife EVER. I believe that everything can be sorted out with good communication, an open heart and a distinct lack of screaming. Nevertheless, after almost ten years together, we’ve managed to develop an awe-inspiring talent for plucking a fight out of thin air. Honestly, we can build a fight out nothing.

We have a special talent for fights over irrelevant trivial nonsense. We’ve even managed to manufacture a fight over ‘What you do with a match after it has been lit?’

Do you
a.    Put the match back in the match box, with the burnt head positioned carefully at the opposite end to the un-lit red heads for later ease of retrieval, or
b.    Put the match in the bin?

Unfortunately, the answer for me although I really know better, is still
c.    Who cares?

Ah, I still remember the countless hours of screaming fun we spent on that one. It brings a tear to the eye, it really does. Lovely.

Admittedly that happened early in our relationship, perhaps before we were even married. Now we’ve moved onto bigger things. Now we only fight over items of clear importance and undeniable national significance. Recently, we fought over the age old classic, ‘Where does one put the dirty tea cups?’

In this fight, which we entertained only recently (what am I-six years old?), the choreography went something like this.

i.    I’d had this great recent breakthrough on one of my book projects, which I was keen to share with my wife. It was a good time, so I started to tell her the story. She was going to just love this!

ii.    She was happy to let me rabbit on, as I do, with the occasional nod or grunt as she went about the business of her day. Picking up stuff after the kids, working on her jewellery business, whatever. This behaviour was no problem, it is a habit born of years of married life.

iii.    I followed her around as she tinkered, still talking, leading up to the climactic breakthrough ‘Aha!’ moment in my story, getting more and more excited as I went. She was going to love this, or did I already mention that?

iv.    Then, just before the big moment, in the precise moment before the absolute climactic moment of glory, she shoehorned in a comment about my failure to put a dirty teacup on the correct side of the sink. What?! My brain went from excitement to confusion to an utter screeching halt as it was torn from climactic story moment to a sudden immersion in mundane teacup reality. Is there such a thing as brain pain? Can you get a pill or, better yet, some kind of injection to protect yourself from such moments?

v.    There was a prolonged moment of ouch.

vi.    In a neat recovery move, my brain managed to clamber out of dirty teacup territory to find … anger. It also found anger’s close friends; blame, anger and righteous indignation.

And there you have it; conditions perfect for a fight!

And fight we did. It started out gently, as these things do. We circled each other like American pro-wrestlers, looking for the opening. A little jab here, an inappropriate personal observation there and hey presto! We were into it like boxers.

It’s at this point that something quite interesting happens. The hotter the argument gets the stupider I get. It’s like there’s a mysterious force that makes you dumber and dumber as the fight gets more passionate. I find myself saying things I’m certainly going to regret later, knowing that it’s the wrong thing to do even as I say them and saying them anyway! It’s almost as if the negative thoughts, the mad yelling and screaming attract more of the same. Creative new arguments swim into my mind only to be fired off at my partner without adequate editing or contemplation. Man, I’m going to pay for this later!

At some point the argument becomes self-perpetuating. It’s almost impossible to get out, so strong is the mysterious force. It’s like a worm-hole in space, sucking you in. You can feel yourself spinning and swirling and approaching the event horizon. If I was on the bridge crew of the starship Enterprise, I’d be asking for a complete scan of this peculiar phenomenon. Or is this force so mysterious after all? Could it be … the Law of Attraction working implacably, bringing me more of what I’m focusing on, yelling about and acting on in this very moment?

Could my lack of conscious consideration, my lack of self-discipline mean that I’m focusing on what I don’t want (i.e. to continue the fight) instead of what I do want? Could it be working against me, pulling me deeper and deeper into the fight I now so desperately wish to bring to an end? I don’t even care who’s right any more. It’s not worth it! Please just make it stop!

Fortunately my wife and I manage to find our way out of fights more quickly these days and no permanent damage was done to my brain or our marriage.

What, however, would the Law of Attraction, that august path to certain happiness and enlightenment, have me do in this moment? How can I make it work for me instead of against me?

OK. My first thought is to simply focus on my desire. What do I want? How about a quick meditation entitled, ‘I want my wife to be perfect, to stop yelling at me and fighting over irrelevant rubbish’?

Aah, sometimes enlightenment is so profound, yes? Clearly I’m just a few steps away from my awakening.

Maybe not. In fact the Law of Attraction, implacable non-judgmental force of nature as it is, cannot distinguish between ‘I want’ and ‘I don’t want’. So what I’m actually saying there is, ‘I want my wife to be perfect, I want her to yell at me and I want her to fight over irrelevant rubbish’. And that’s clearly not what I wanted after all.

Also, I have this notion that it’s not really my job to change my wife, any more than I enjoy her efforts to change me. I’m perfect as I am, right?

Instead, what I need to do is focus on the bits of my wife that I love. The little loving glances. The casual touch as we travel through our day. The hug out of nowhere. All the amazing things she does for our kids while I glide through my day in a kind of a light daze. Once you get started, the list actually writes itself.

Now that I think of it, did I mention the coolest thing my wife does? She’s an unconditional supporter. She always has been, ever since I spotted her shaking her groove thing at a friend’s party all those years ago. She’s one of those people who is constantly nurturing my crazy ideas and inclinations despite their innate insanity. Can we quit our jobs to focus solely on our passions for a year, giving them a red hot go? Sure. Can I spend most of our savings on a trip to Cannes to pitch a TV show idea? No problem. Can we move our entire family to Europe for three months every summer just to connect with my creative muse who might happen to live there in a castle by lake? OK, that sounds good, when do we leave? Did I mention we have a house, a mortgage, two young children and one on the way? I’m sure I’d get more freaked out in her shoes.

Actually, I’ve traveled completely off the point here. Did you notice? That’s the sneaky signature of the Law of Attraction, right there. As soon as I start thinking about the parts of my relationship that I love, those thoughts attract others like them. All of a sudden I’m off daydreaming about how cool it all is. And then, of course, I start attracting those experiences into my life instead of the arguments.

And that’s the magic here. As soon I focus on these things, consistently and unambiguously, the Law of Attraction brings similar things to me. Sure, I would guess that my wife still yells and picks her nose and hoovers up condensed milk straight from the tin. Yech. I, however, don’t see these things when they happen. The Law of Attraction brings me only the things I focus so I’m simply not there when these things are going on. Instead, I’m there for more loving glances, casual hugs and fantastic moments.

And there you have it; perfection. The enlightened practical answer to fighting with my wife, Law of Attraction style. For on what you want rather than what you don’t want. Focus on the behaviours that you love and you’ll find more of them show up for you both.

And for the record, it’s me who hoovers up condensed milk, straight from the can. Yum!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Sitting still and Curing Cancer at the Same Time

2009-11-14T00:16:00.000-08:00

Well, it happens to the best of us - after a minor surgery, I'm bound to a couch for a few days to recover. It turns out I'm not great with watching endless hours of TV although a good book doesn't go astray!

And I wouldn't even be posteing except as a favour to my lovely friend Justine. While I'm sitting nobly on my bottom, she's out saving the world, raising money to cure cancer. So I thought I'd post her ad here in the hopes that some of you might resonate with her journey and participate in some way. If you're in Sydney, you can pop into her fund raiser, if not, you can jump onto www.cantoo.org.au THEN 'sponsor a participant' THEN 'online sponsorship' THEN pop in 'Ruszczyk' and help her out. Which is to say help out cancer research which seems pretty reasonable!

Here's her sweet invitation -

So thankyou, Justine, for helping me do nothing, and something, all at the same time.

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

Stress Less, Be More

2009-11-07T13:13:00.000-08:00

I had an inspired meditation this morning.

Actually, it didn't start out looking that way. My son Zak had a friend for a sleepover last night which meant a super-early start, kids running and screaming everywhere. Well, not quite that loud, but almost.

Anyway, I thought I'd sneak out for my customary Sunday morning walk. Not so fast! Once the shoes were on, the cap pulled down and the hand on the doorhandle, the kids were in on the secret and determined to come along. So - ten minutes and four shoelaces later we were on our way.

Now as you know, kids don't walk, they bounce / run / play / flitter / surge / scream their way to the park. Nevertheless we got there soon enough, scattering the kids to the play area and I went to sit.

It was a lovely patch of green grass right by the lake, looking out over Narabeen lakes.

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Maybe it was something about the lake or the weather or just the moment but I found myself sinking deep into meditation.

Of course, my mind was filled with the usual chatter. What time was it? Would we be back in time? I'm hungry. What's happening today? And bigger picture, how are the finances? Are we set for the mortgage payment this month and if so, how's next month and for that matter next year looking? And on and on until a little phrase swam up from who knows where.

'Stress Less, Be More'

Oooh, enlightenment. It tastes delicious even when it sounds funny.

'Stress Less, Be More'

Somehow the words shot a whole-body unclench through me. I could feel myself unpucker.

The truth is that all of my fears and concerns are just that - fears and concerns. They're not reality. They're not even close to acknowledging that I'm actually spirit in human form, undamagable, undimishable, unlimited. When you pop that into your perspective and chew it, everything changes. I'm no longer under threat because there's nothing to threaten. Spirit isn't effected by interest rates, the traffic on the Harbour Bridge nor even what's happening in my wife's head right now. Although it's fun to imagine that I'd know.

'Stress Less, Be More'

It seems to me that if I could spend more time just be-ing then the rest would sort itself out. Hey, it does anyway, right? I mean how much of your life, of the nitty gritty details are actually under your absolute control? None. I mean sure, you've got some influence, but that's about all.

So - anyway, this is probably way too deep for a blog and certainly for Sunday morning.

Just thought you might like to share thoughts this morning. Anything to report from your end?

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

On Obsessive Focus

2009-11-02T13:41:00.000-08:00

This morning I have just one thing to do.

That makes it an unusual morning because most times my brain is split between the dozens of things on my virtual list. My mind becomes fractured between everything from 'have I eaten enough protein for breakfast' to 'does the car have a full tank?'

What happens when I have just one thing on my mind is somewhat miraculous. With that kind of obsessive focus, the task at hand starts to ... well ... sort of do itself. Ideas about that one thing start to pop into my head. Emails show up with added little extras. Even the time estimated to do this one thing tends to shrink. Amazing.

Of course there is a small price - I forget everything else. Including filling the tank. Hang on - gotta take a call - it's my wife - stuck somewhere on the side of the road, maybe ...

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

On Clarity

2009-10-29T14:26:00.001-07:00

So last week I noticed my brain was getting all foggy.

Sure, it was probably something to do with the detox I was/am apparently going through. I was inspired to change my diet, adding some great things that have me feeling much more energetic and alive. I love it! And a quick thanks there to Jon Gabriel, nice work, Jon.

Anyway, what I noticed was that I was lacking clarity. You know - a feeling of certainty that you'd doing exactly the right things at the right time. I struggled with it for a bit because you know, I'm human. I didn't even really notice that I had automatically decided to fight the fog - I just sort of did it. It was a reflex.

Then finally, once that hadn't worked at all, I decided to take a little time to actually find clarity. You know, to do something deliberate in pursuit of my desire. For me that involves long walks, getting out into nature and a bit of a quiet sit. OK - so some people would call that meditation - which sounds a little too New Age for what I actually do.

Anyway, what was lovely was that despite the detox headaches, despite feeling light headed and a little disconnected from reality, the inspired answers started coming back right away. Like a flood bursting forth from a dam, actually - too many to capture and I had to go home to try and write them all down.

For me, this time, the issue was balance. Simply put I was working too hard, too obsessively and missing out on my family, my friends, my practice - and my little baby girl Isabella who is yet two months old.

So - with my newfound clarity, I'm fixing all that. Today's a day off just to be with the kids - and it's a Friday!

I feel better already ...

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer

The Life Summit Site Online

2009-10-26T16:49:00.000-07:00

So! It's a big day in the world of 'The Life Summit'. For those who don't know, 'The Life Summit' is my new book, coming out in the Spring of 2010.

I'm setting up this blog to cover everything in the journey of publishing this book as well as a bunch of optional extras. For example, I'm already getting great stories from people who are using the Life Summit process and having it work miraculous changes in their lives - and this from the people who are just ready the galleys (the pre-press version of the book for reviewers and journalists and so on). Amazing! I'll be sharing all that and more.

Today our web site goes live at www.thelifesummit.com. So please, take a moment to check it out - I'd love to know what you think!

And of course there's something free and interesting there - a newsletter. Please feel free to subscribe. You can also join me on Facebook and Twitter, the links are on the site.

Enjoy!

By Tim Levy, Author of 'The Life Summit'
Blog - http://thelifesummit.blogspot.com/
Site - http://www.thelifesummit.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tim.levy.writer