A new consciousness is seeping its way into our lives. This new consciousness I refer to as 'living on the edge'. It is a way of living and experiencing the events of our lives. "Living on the edge" is a way of being in the world. It isn't a thing you do. It is an aliveness, an ability to respond from an unlimited source of possibilities. It is based on a possible future and not a pre-determined set of programs from the past. It is based on living from passion and abandon. It is neither for those satisfied with the status quo nor those content with producing small incremental changes or shifts in results. This consciousness is transformational in nature and is both sudden and significant in its ability to produce results. It is for those among us who would like to produce quantum leaps of consciousness. Simply put, this book is for those who want to live a life defined by producing seemingly impossible results. These principles are part of this consciousness we will call "Living on the edge".

Imagine a circle. In the middle of the circle place yourself. This circle represents the distance you've gone in your life. The circle represents the limits you currently experience in your life - your paradigm. Everything you own or experience is also included inside the circle. The type of car you drive, the home you live in, the money you have, the friends you have, the love you experience - everything you now have or currently experience is included in your circle. This paradigm is what you are familiar and comfortable with, your "comfort zone" so to say.

Bring to mind something you'd like to create. Where does that fit in terms of this circle? It exists outside of your circle! Right now it's only a dream, a wish or a hope. It isn't our reality. "Living on the edge" is a way of pushing the envelope, a way of 'being' that challenges the current set of beliefs and limitations that define your consciousness and results. To challenge these limitations requires us to move from the middle of the circle to the edge. This ability to experience our edge, going where we haven't gone before, empowers us to imagine what isn't in our lives. This is a much more powerful place to stand in our lives, no longer asking "why?" things are as they are, but rather living from a question of "what now?".

"Living on the edge" accelerates the process of moving a perceived possibility into a reality. The speed at which you are able to move a dream into reality can be seen as your degree of "personal power". You cannot have your dreams and "live in the middle of your circle". Learning to effectively "live on the edge" will transform the degree to which you operate from your personal power.

This book is suggestive in nature. Its purpose is to further your exploration and application of these principles in your life. If you find this inspirational or it moves you to live with more passion, then good for you. When you simply experience these principles in your life, that experience alone will forever transform you and your world.

It isn't your agreement with them that changes your life, it is your experience of them that transforms you.

It has never been a question whether these principles are in your life, but rather will you finally allow yourself to experience yourself as a perfect expression of them. Start with this idea, just like gravity, these principles don't need your agreement for their existence. They exist independently of any opinion or belief you might have regarding them. Believing or not believing in gravity doesn't change the circumstances of gravity in action in our life, does it? It is the same with these universal principles, they don't need your agreement for their existence, they simply are.

It isn't important to understand these principles, but rather are you willing to experience them in your life. It is through experiencing them, not understanding them, that you can ultimately own and see the genius you really are. You cannot discover something you already are, you can only remember who you are. With time and application you will remember that you are the perfect expression of these principles, that your life is your creation and is a constant expression of this genius you really are.

There is nothing you have to do to express your perfection. You just are. As a perfect expression of these principles you are perfect as you are right now. It is when you see this, that your experience of your life transforms. It is in this realization, that you will see how incredibly powerful you really are. You are a genius, maybe unconscious, but a genius no less.

These principles are neutral, neither negative or positive. Think outside the antiquated and worn out paradigm of 'negative or positive' and 'good or bad' as you read. There is no need to judge the results in your life as you read. Whatever you have created so far in your life is perfect evidence of these principles and simply is what is so - so far. Judgment only serves to halt our transformation and send us into a tail spin of "right and wrong", further justifying our need to fix and change and forget who we are. Judgment moves us from the edge back to the middle. No longer dreaming, we are only able to see what is in our life and then are doomed to continually re-create it.

I suggest you read this book with no particular goal in mind. Read with a beginners mind, leaving behind what you already "know" to be true. Don't even look for any particular understanding or breakthrough. Don't look for some new solution or idea that is supposed to change you or your results. Read, not from your head, but from your heart - where "less is more" and there is nothing to "get". Let the words flow effortlessly into you. Most of this work isn't about discovery anyway, but rather "remembering" who you already are. It isn't designed to teach you anything.

This exploration is best done through the eyes of acceptance and appreciation, for these are the gateways to transformation. The purpose of this book is to assist you in experiencing these principles in your life. Or more accurately, to assist you in seeing your life as the perfect manifestation of these principles. Accept the genius you really are and these principles will come alive in your life. Allow these principles to come alive in your life and you will experience yourself as the genius you really are. There isn't one without the other. The principles can no more become part of your life, than breathing could suddenly become a part of your life. As breath is life, you are the principles in action. So, don't use this work to further struggle to understand yourself, but rather, strive to experience yourself in perfect harmony with these principles - because you are. Be the source of this experience, as you really are right now. After reading the entire book, read a chapter a day until you have met the genius you really are.

Effectively living on the edge is within your grasp, it is your destiny. Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself, not because you are supposed to, but simply because you are able to.