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Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within Review
Are you considering attending the UPW event and looking for an honest Unleash the Power Within review? In this article, I review my experience at Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within, or as the cool kids say, UPW or #upw. This 3 ½ day event is designed to help participants unlock and unleash their inner strength and power. Unleash the Power Within emphasizes (un)conditioning oneself to achieve a peak state and explores key areas such as overcoming fears and self-limiting beliefs. The seminar aims to transform lives by encouraging individuals to try new things like fire-walking, meeting people, and actively engaging in personal growth and development. Tony UPW: Life Happens…
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Eye of Whale
Eye of Whale | 2018 | Oil | 5′ X 6′ | © Derek Dodds
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Past Reading Lists
I like to keep these reading lists to refer back to what I was reading and thinking about during the specific time. It helps me map out my journey. I rarely re-read books, but I do deep dive into authors that I resonate with and enjoy reading the back catalog of their writing. 2023 Reading List 2022 Reading List 2021 2020 Fiction: Non Fiction: 2019 Non-Fiction 2018 Reading List 2017 Reading List
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El Mar
El Mar 2017 | Oil + Acrylic | 5′ X 6′ | © Derek Doods
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Surrounded By Light
Surrounded By Light | Canon 6D | Sayulita, Mexico 2016 | © Derek Dodds
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The Valley of Weathered Hearts
I left myself at the shores of frustration. In search of my true salvation. Driven by the love of elation. Shadowed by my fear and consternation. No time left for mental masturbation. Full throttled vibration. Understated, unrated, undercooked maturation. Destiny is my creation. Done with—someones else’s verbalization. Enriched by inspiration. Taking it down with perspiration. Pillars of spiritualization. Dripping from the tears of experimentation. Rhythm-less rhymes of orchestration. The conductor has left the podium—the hum of yesteryear echoes in the valley of weathered hearts and vagabond dreams . . . A small note shows itself,alone and nakedin ‘self’ immolation. D. Paris 10/2015 tribute to my Mother’s death in 2015
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A Sinaloan Road Trip: Why Surfers Risk Everything for Waves
Everyone said I shouldn’t go. “It’s dangerous down there right now,” my friends and family told me. In fact, just a few kilometers from where we stay, two Australian surfers disappeared and lost their lives in a horrific story of injustice and brutality. According to reports, they were pulled over by assassins dressed in police uniforms and shot. The assailants lit the Ozzy van on fire and the bodies were burned—hopefully not still alive. The authorities had to do a DNA analysis of the remains to identify the surfers. This happened at the end of 2015, just as I was sending my deposit in for my first surf trip to…
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Pulsating Pensivity
broken raindrops of existence kindled by flames of eternity grasped by the throat of time dripping memories from my glass of wine bloodstained youth of– dreamless dreams running in circles of– meanless means twisting away on the cosmic vine
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Are You Leading A Secondhand Life?
I was living a secondhand life for many years, like an old worn-out t-shirt hanging on the thrift store rack, waiting for someone to take me home so that I could live in their dream world and not mine. The umbilical cord of life is longer than ever before, and in many cases, it is connected to an empty bag of broken dreams and someone else’s goals. Life is too short to live a secondhand life. It’s such an honor to be born, to be healthy, and to live in a country where you can be anything you want to be. One of my favorite books was written by Victor…
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Ode To Life
ode to emotion and desireblinded by my oceanic dream-like imagination reborn to myself, in myselfre-birthing my energetic ability to march, dance, and sing ode to standing up to a new way of living yes—an ode to myself to the lion’s roarmy roar to the heartfelt understanding that life in not overthat life has just begunand is always re-beginning ode to the fire insideto the sound of silence ode to becoming meode to me ode to the peeling of my soulto the layers of illusion that are falling away ode to the soft, gentle naturethat is my corethat is the core of all beings ode to the council of beingthat guide…
