Walking into a bookstore and finding copies of your book sitting on the shelf.

My wife used her Blackberry to snap these shots as she browsed our local Chapters Indigo store.

I like the “Local Author” sticker too. It’s a nice, personal kind of touch.

You know what?

This happy discovery just made my day (doesn’t take much to satisfy an author, uh?)

I think that, maybe, I’m walking a wee bit taller today.

Hey, if you see the book in your local bookstore, would you mind snapping a shot and sending it to me?

I’ll be happy to buy you a coffee,

Or send you a bookmark,

Or something.

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In a prior post, I introduced a series of videos, by Dr. Bruce Lipton, which set out to prove the almost limitless capacity we have for controlling our lives.

Now please understand.

My primary intent (in this blog, in my book, in my workshops) isn’t to discuss physiology and health.

No, my interest, in fact, lies in understanding and redefining success, careers, business, money and retirement.

Having said that, the work of Dr. Lipton (and others like him) fascinates me in that it helps me illustrate the importance of belief and perception—two of the most crucial (and yet underrated) principles of success, happiness and fulfilment.

What astounds me—and it may astound you too—is the heretofore unknown role  that perception plays in our everyday lives.

It’s weird, I tell you. It’s really weird.

You can see for yourself by watching the video below, and taking note of these pivotal intervals;

• 1:00 We adjust our genes to fit the environment that we think we live in. This means it’s perception—it’s belief that changes our genes.
• 2:50 We have a lot of control over our life, but it’s mediated by our perception of the environment
• 3:10 Are we genetically controlled? Are we at the behest of your heredity? Are we a victim?
• 3:30 95% of us got here with very appropriate genes to survive and have a great life. Almost always, when we rewrite our genes, we perform a negative process.
• 3:45 95% of cancer has no hereditary linkage. 95% of cancer is actively produced by an indvidual’s perception, rewriting their normal genes and making cancer genes
• 4:30 We have the ability to change anything in our body
• 5:43 Our body has two classes of programs. One class is for growth and the other, protection
• 7:50 Therefore humans are either in some degree of growth or some degree of protection, based on signals (perception)
• 7:59 The most important growth-promoting signal is love.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib57yeRJ9cU

Now imagine this.

If we have the power to change our genes—our bodies.

How powerful are we in changing other areas of our lives?

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Paraphrases, in 15 minutes, many of the principles,

In my book of 262 pages…

Trust your heart; your gut-feeling; your instincts.

March to your unique drumbeat.

Believe in yourself.

Remember; there is no failure, there’s only feedback.

And, above all,

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

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Especially newly-minted information that runs contrary to your existing beliefs?

Do you dismiss it? Laugh it off? Or dig in a little—see what it’s about?

You know the expression right?

“It is what it is.”

Though I used it myself, and forgetting, for now, the ring of acquiescent finality associated with the expression, it’s not really new news to hear that the self-creationists—the quantum mechanics gurus—don’t particularly buy into that statement.

But the other day, I came upon a series of youtube episodes that kinda blew me away.

And I thought they’d blow you away too.

The videos, by Dr. Bruce Lipton, depict a scene—of cells and genes—that, frankly, fascinates me.

Regular readers know of my interest in perception, especially as it relates to careers, success, money and retirement—and yet, here’s Dr. Lipton (who has a Ph.D. in cellular biology) telling us that perception invokes more than that—way more. So much more.

All of which means that maybe, just maybe, it’s a fallacy to believe that It is what it is.

Or put another way, maybe we should admit that there is no “is”, there’s only the “is” that we perceive and create.

I intend to come back to the these youtube posts about perception and biology—point out the astonishing stuff.

But for now, take a peek at the one posted here, and take note of these intervals—see what Dr. Lipton has to offer…

• 1:44 “A belief switches on a gene…”
• 2:50  “Genes control aspects of our live….. Victim of heredity…”
• 3:29 “I can’t do anything about it, so why should I even try…”
• 3:38 “This belief about genes is totally disempowering to every one of us…”
• 7:51 Assumptions (that were never proven) on how genes control biology. Assumptions only recently disproved.

Bob Dylan said it more than 40 years ago, the times they are a-changin’

(And yes, I’m aware this is the second consecutive post that kicks off with a Dylan reference. What can I say? I’m in a Dylan kinda mood).

But it seems Dylan was wrong. Or optimistic.

Overly prophetic, perhaps.

Because, maybe then, when Dylan sang those words, he wasn’t singing for members of his generation.

But members of today’s.

Your generation…

We’ve just come through an epoch of uncurbed, unparalleled greed.

Unhindered hubris ironically cultivated by none other than representatives of Dylan’s generation (of which I lag behind by fifteen-odd years).

And, believing we had no voice—no choice

We let it happen.

And maybe, like Network’s Howard Beale, we were “As mad as hell.”

But maybe, at the same time, we didn’t know what to do about it.

But maybe now—maybe finally—there is a way.

Maybe, now, as Dave Carroll so evocatively illustrated, the times they are–indeed–a-changin’

And..

Maybe, now, the practice and habits of unmonitored business greed, unchecked CEO ego, and indifferent corporate insularity, can finally be exorcised.

With the power of social media, with tools like Twitter and Youtube,

There exists, today, that ability—that puissance—to say “Enough.”

To speak out against what’s wrong.

And for what is right.

To rally the cyber-troops.

To start a trend.

To tell big business, big government and big banking; we ain’t happy and we expect better.

You can effect change

With one catchy tweet.

One viral youtube post.

Maybe, now, thanks to social media, the times they are a-changin’

Use your power wisely.