Welcome Alan,

It seems to me that you are enjoying your life -- works for me! I'm sure right now there are those who are thinking, "This kid is excited about life and NLP now, but wait." Well to them I would easily use a rather profound set of expletives!

In other words, being excited about life is about attitude. I have trained so many different people how to do things. But the best part wasn't about the things themselves, it was the attitude overhaul. Personally, if you can't enjoy it -- why bother, really!

I go through life making anything feel any way I want. I can be sitting in the worst traffic, drop into a state of time distortion, and turn up some of the most enjoyable feelings I can imagine.

You see, there is so much more to learn, to experience, to do, but I don't even begin to suspect what those things might be. And if I keep my senses open while looking for what is not there, I might just discover what some of those things might be.

A long time ago I read my first NLP book. It was barely off of the presses when I did read it. I can remember - I got so excited, finding anybody who would put up with me so that I could try on everything in that book -- 100 times over! And I am still excited -- twenty years later!

I thought to myself, "This stuff has got to be too cool, I want to master it." I have since done everything I wanted to do to this point. I have learned everything I set out to learn. The rate at which I was, and am, able to learn would boggle most people's minds. And when I tell people I can do this or I can do that, I often hear, "No you can't."

I guess what they are telling is what they can't yet do. But that is OK with me. I always figure, since we do not have a clue as to what the territory really is, and what we are responding to is only a map, then I will make my map any way I want it to be. So what if I go through life with this smile painted onto my face, having enough fun for ten people, I'll get over it.

Shit, I use my skill every chance I get, period. There is an entire world out there awaiting exploration. I think that you are very fortunate - no, let me restate that - I think that you have made some good decisions that have opened up your eyes. The world is in the palms of your hands now, what a future you have coming!! Of course I will be watching you, as I am curious as to how you will continue to build on the skills you have now, and how you will use your unique understandings, skills and abilities to carve out your own niche in this fabulous world.

Be well Alan,

Carmine