A. Dream Realized Today
I’m a social entrepreneur and I’m finally ready to show America our way out of this political crisis we are ALL in right now... in the lead-up to America’s 250th Birthday Celebration... by getting everyone in America to believe in The American Dream again or for the first time with a tech startup called The Dream Feeder and a philosophical solution called Strategic Equality.
And an incredible vision for turning every local library in America into a hub for aspiring entrepreneurs funded by a 174 Billion Dollar startup fund.
These 4 websites are a gateway into how WE Save The American Dream:
***ORIGIN***
I went fishing the day after September 11th to get away from the TV, so I could clear my head and try to make sense of the darkness heading Our Way.
I was a month away from my 35th birthday and for the first time since high school I considered joining The Military.
America was going to War and I thought about all the death and destruction and about those who would sacrifice to keep US safe.
Standing on The Rocks I could see my reflection in the water and I didn't like what 9/11 had forced me to see.
As a young man I "wanted the ball" and all the responsibility that came with it. As an adult, I willingly let others carry the ball and the burden so I could have my fun in the Cape Cod sun.
As fate would have it, I celebrated July 4th 2000 by leaving a "job" to pursue an American Dream. But on 9/12 it seemed more likely than not, that my Dream was over. My business was already on shaky ground and I was losing faith.
It was clear My American Dream was about to fall to the terrorists.
So, I decided my personal response to 9/11 would be a 'First Promise to God' to see my American Dream through to the end...
no matter what the cost.
IT'S TRUE. On September 1, 2001... my struggling business went online with a first of a kind Behavioral Health Program for college students. Having learned many lessons from the dot-com bubble, the business model included a subscription fee paid by colleges.
Trying hard not to rush into things, the previous 6 months were spent convincing eleven colleges to test the idea.
But "my plan" didn't include 9/11.
Imagine for a moment being an entrepreneur, having burned through all your savings and original investments just to get to the day that "the test" could begin... and to be in possession of a one-of-a-kind product (sparse as it was at the time) dedicated to the issues of stress, depression, anger and grief.
Well, what would you do in the immediate days after 9/11?
Most of you would do what I did... give the program to as many colleges as you could, free of charge.
After all, men and women were heading to war and some of them were about to literally give all they had to give. In my mind, the absolute very least that I could do... was the very best that I could do at the time.
The choice to offer the Outreach Program free to colleges was a fateful decision. The original business proposition proposed a test to determine if a branded website could reach "at risk" students ahead of risky, violent or otherwise dangerous behavior. Including suicide.
It's not hard to see the value to the schools...
if it worked.
Reaching just one student could be very valuable.
I didn't know it at the time but giving the program away free meant that instead of needing to reach a troubled student, two or three... any successful new business model required that I reach millions... maybe stressed... but otherwise very healthy young people with commercial health messages that they didn't need.
Over time I came to believe that a healthy person not only doesn't need to hear about the symptoms of depression... but that general mental health education that distributed vague and sometimes misleading "symptoms of depression" could possibly plant the seeds of depression or at the very least- feed it.
In the Fall of 2007 just as I was preparing a HUGE business launch... I woke-up from a dream to the idea that my work, no matter how well intended...
Well, if it all worked as intended... my business could do a great deal more harm than good. And I could NOT live with that.
Face to face with that DARK reality... I eventually pulled the plug and flushed all of my hard work down the cyber drain.
To make this long story short...
Somehow, I lost the ability to give-up on my dream.
Each day that passed I learned a little more about what it takes to make a dream come true... so I stayed true to my dream, believing that one way OR another it was only a matter of time before my dream finally came true.
I started sharing what I was learning about The American Dream in April of 2003 when the earliest version of W.A.Y. was posted free online.
The simple act of 'sharing' fed the part of me that wanted to become a part of 'the solution' in any way that I could.
I didn't know what to expect at the time... but I certainly didn't expect to receive so many emails from people who said the book helped them to regain their Faith in God or that because of the book they found reason to hope again and how grateful they were that I had posted the book free online.
It was because of the readers' words and emails that I began to develop a deep sense of responsibility to make sure the words... weren't empty words.
So, I decided to live by the words.
That was easier said than done, but over time I found that some of the original words were wrong and caused by faulty beliefs.
I worked very hard to find and change the beliefs that needed to be changed.
The more change and pain… I… was willing to embrace... the deeper and better the words became and W.A.Y. became a much different book as it became part of a much bigger plan.
And that's the true story behind how I became the guy who self-sacrificed everything and learned how to harness...
THE POWER OF REDEMPTION...
so, that today I could share with The World this MASSIVE strategic plan to Save The American Union and The American Dream.
***DREAM WRITER***
On New Year’s Day 2023… I watched Fareed Zakaria’s interview with Billy Joel on CNN.
Why does this matter?
BECAUSE…
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT…
Billy Joel and I are both ‘dream-writers’.
In his interview with Fareed Zakaria, Billy Joel shines a very bright light on the idea that a lot of his music comes to him in his nighttime dreams.
To him it’s just a matter of fact and not something to hide or be ashamed of. And he clearly isn’t worried about what some people might think or say about the origins of his music.
He just writes the songs that float in his head.
He says he doesn’t really understand how it works.
Wait until you see for yourself how Fareed Zakaria responds to it all.
I don’t write music.
I share… THE POWER OF IDEAS… that come to me in my nighttime dreams and that makes me, not any different than the countless writers, scientists, world leaders and of course musicians that came before me.
I just write about different things.
Remember, just because some people choose to keep the origins of their best ideas a mystery… it doesn’t change the fact that humanity’s best ideas all come from the same place.
A place with infinite possibilities.
A place available to ALL who grow strong enough to harness their SHARE of the possibilities.
TODAY… I am very grateful to have found Billy Joel’s interview with Fareed Zakaria. Because I’m finally sharing the contents of my most amazing dreams and ALL the powerful ideas that came directly from my dreams… and knowing that I responded to my dreams in much the same way Billy Joel responded to his…
Well, you should really listen to Billy Joel explain the power of ‘dream-writing’ for yourself. It will help you better understand the very real dynamic of dream-writing... and who knows, it might even open your mind to all the possibilities… that have been trying to make their way into your conscious mind, through… your nighttime dreams too:
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***MY MATCH***
I’m ready to meet someone special. And I can’t even begin to tell how excited I am to be able to say that.
It’s a long story, but I’ve been consumed by a project that is going to do a lot of good in the world.
Fortunately, the part of the project that required all of my attention for a really long time is complete.
Now, I’m looking for someone to share the best part of my life with.
I’m not looking for perfect. Just perfect for me.
The thing is I’m pretty sure that I only have a small window to meet someone special before this new venture of mine is going to make life for… us (I hope)… really crazy and really exciting.
I’m trying to ‘thread the needle’ I guess.
But I’m a believer in destiny & fate.
That’s why I’m here.
Let me explain…
I'm a 59-year-old single guy who hasn't been on a date in 20 years and now I'm finally ready meet...
'the woman of my dreams'.
On the day after 9.11... I took a leap of Faith and woke-up the next day in a 'Rabbit Hole'... not unlike the place Bill Murray 'found' himself in... in the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day".
I was a flawed man back then when I entered my Rabbit Hole, not unlike Bill Murray's character in the movie. But instead of a relative handful of 'Groundhog Days' to do over and over again until he emerged a much better man... my story not only required that I become a much better man…
I also needed to produce a MASSIVE transformational idea called 'Strategic Equality'. And to do that...
Well, doing all that took me 25 years.
For Bill Murray... by the time he got out of his Rabbit Hole, a relative handful of 'Groundhog Days' cost him very little in The Real World.
For me... the whole world had passed me by.
The Pursuit of Strategic Equality took from me just about everything I once cherished about my life... including the dream of finding a great woman to spend the rest of my life with and having a family of my own.
I woke-up today, a very different man, with a truly priceless tech start-up called Freice Media… grounded in…
The Idea of Strategic Equality.
It’s time to find out if I was right to bet my life on the importance of an idea.
TODAY… MY NEW VENTURE...
FREICE MEDIA...
IS... NOW, AFTER ALL THIS TIME...
COMPLETELY LIVE.
Have you ever wondered what YOU could do if you possessed the single-mindedness of an Olympic athlete or an Inspired scientist who took ownership of a disease until a cure was at hand?
I ask this of you, because to understand me and what it really took to craft Strategic Equality…
Well, you are really going to have to think deep.
MEANING:
It's finally time for me to start all over again, with a new set of beliefs about what ‘good things & people’ will come my way.
…because there is NO WAY for me to do what comes next alone.
What type of woman am I looking for?
I'm looking for a woman who is Strong, Smart & Kind with A Very Big Heart and An Open Mind and the ability to think and dream big...
VERY BIG.
I am sharing all this with The World...
because today, right now...
I am ready for ***A TRUE PARTNER*** in all that comes next in my life.
So, if you know someone like this or even better YOU are the woman, I have spent my whole life searching for... please let me know.
WISH ME LUCK!!!
P.S. How I created The Bandwidth to train my attention for so long on 'Strategic Equality'... is a beautiful, excruciatingly painful story that I will share soon enough.
Until then, you should know... when it comes to growing old and all the difficulties that can come with it... you can trust me to handle my part with grace and dignity.
***Voluntarily CelibatE***
YES. Two decades.
That’s how long it has been since my last date and after last night’s dream… it’s clearly time to tell you the story behind that.
It was the end of August 2006. Mid-morning. 7 or 8 weeks since my last date. I was in The Mashpee Massachusetts Starbucks near The Rotary.
That store was always busy and often times, because the tables were so close together… I would have conversations with the people sitting next to me.
On that day it was no different. Except it was everything different.
The man next to me said he “was a Missionary” just back from doing Good Work in Africa and how he was “lucky that God had given him a wife to travel through life with”…
So, they could do The Good Work they both felt ‘called’ to do.
August 2006. I was deep into this Spiritual journey of mine and I liked the idea of that very much.
By then I was relying on God’s Inspiration for just about everything… but it never crossed my mind to rely on God for that too.
I literally felt stupid. It was as if a light had just gone on in my head.
When I got back to where I was living at the time, I promised God that I would leave the task of finding the woman I was looking for… to God. Which was no small thing because I was about to turn 40 and nothing was more important to me at the time than to be in a relationship that would…
Well, I very much wanted to have a family of my own.
It’s funny how God works. A week or so after that came ‘my test’. A very pretty. Very nice woman who was 16 years younger than me decided to make it clear to me that she didn’t think it was an accident that we kept ‘running into each other’ and that she thought it was time for us to get to know each other better.
She was great. But I knew she wasn’t My Soulmate. And I had just made this new promise to God and to the best of my knowledge, for the first time… I said no.
She was shocked. Because we both thought she was ‘Hot’.
7 months later I received The Divine Invitation.
I wasn’t always as single-minded as I am today… but I am VERY single-minded today. This is what I do. This is what I am--- because it’s all I think about now.
How do I give Humanity what God needs Humanity to know… in order to change course before it really is too late? That’s all I think about right now. Really. I don’t even feel Fear anymore.
It feels as though I am about to cross this truly amazing finish line and it just feels stupid for me to be afraid of anything right now. A few weeks ago… Fear still had a place in me. That was before I began writing ‘New, Good News’.
The Law of Attraction is a real thing and if it weren’t for my single-minded nature today, there is no way I show-up today with what The World needs more than anything else, if it were not for…
The Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
***THE BEAUTY OF AGING***
Not under 50.
Bill Belichick can do what he wants. But I think he’s nuts.
As my parents’ caregiver I watched up close the beauty of two people aging together and that’s what I hope I am lucky enough to find…
sooner rather than later.
Sure. There are lots of things about aging that are far from beautiful… but to share the experience of it all with someone you love is a gift.
A true gift I hope to know.
Any significant age imbalance means I would be aging alone. Having spent so much time alone the absolute last thing I want now is to old-age alone too.
Wisdom and self-depreciating humor go a long way towards happy aging. Things I laugh at now about myself I would not have thought the least bit funny in my 30’s or 40’s.
A woman ‘my age’ would get that.
Let’s face it... it’s always better to share a joke than to be laughed at for something you have no control over.
That’s just a little of the wisdom I learned from watching my beautiful parents age.
Another thing that matters, really matters is whoever she is needs to be able to scroll through the 388 tweets of mine and…
well, it’s not necessary she agree with me on everything, in fact it’s probably best she doesn’t, but whoever she is needs to understand that for better or worse those tweets come with me.
Whether those ideas age well or not… that’s who I am now… and where I'm headed.
Could I fall in love with a Trump supporter?
Of course I could.
As long as she knows how skeptical I am about Trump and 'Trumpism' aging well.
Oh. One more thing…
For the right woman I will travel anywhere.