Endless Horizon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781493699735)

I have always been a misfit, a maverick, a man making his way in the world without the proper credentials. My graduate degree in Rehabilitation Administration is considered a non-traditional degree in the rest of the academic world. I have spent most of my career teaching NLP and Hypnotherapy. I offered coaching services without being certified as a coach and trained in NLP long before being certified as a trainer. So it should come as no surprise that I now declare myself a poet without the literary degrees to back it up, without having any formal training in poetry, and without having any poems published in formal poetry publications. I've read my poems at workshops in China, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, and across the United States. These readings have been well received. Even though reading poetry became my signature, a unique quality in my training, I still did not think of myself as a poet. Poetry was always the added piece in a training, but it was the place I poured my heart and soul, the place where I felt most aligned with my mission and most clear in my message. In January, 2012, I stood before a small mastermind group and announced that I am a poet. After courting the muse of poetry for years, this public declaration marked a deeper engagement and a new level of commitment on my part. I bridged the gap between an inner reality and an outer condition embracing poetry as something more than an action I performed or a skill I used. I went on to say that poetry is the language of the soul, a language that touches people at the core, and that transforms lives. That mastermind group gave birth to the Transformational Poet! It has been a long journey to the full realization that poetry, to me, is not just the language of the soul, it is the language of my soul. I have since published a book of poetry, Heaven In Our Hearts, available both in physical and digital forms, along with an audio companion with readings of selected poems from that collection. Endless Horizons is my second book of poetry. If you like this work, you will also like my website: www.transformationalpoet.com, and you can find my work on www.facebook.com/transformationalpoet