Masterpiece Coaching Manifesto

Your life is the material. What you make of it is the artistry. This is how we create.

I

I, Daniel Aaron, am…

I am Kintsugi, magnificently messy making masterpieces.

I break hearts open and fill the cracks with light, leaving people stronger and more beautiful at the site of their own breaks.

I am a black-belt in judo.

A lifelong pacifist, vegetarian for 39 years.

I've been wealthy enough to travel the world first class, stay in 5 star hotels, live in mansions with our own chef, nanny and driver.

I have been so broke that I could not afford food or gas, have lived in my car, lived in a tent.

Reverend. Ordained priest.

Not religious.

I traveled the Iberian peninsula working on psychic fairs with a band of chain-smoking witches.

I dived deeply into non-monogamy, been part of sex cults and participated in therapeutic pleasure sessions that were painful, scary, confronting and liberating.

I have had hundreds of coffee enemas, dozens of colonics and water-fasted for 21 days.

I have experienced many kundalini awakenings, starting from when I was an atheist.

I was once put into a straight jacket and involuntarily committed to a locked psych ward.

I've lived in ashrams, been with gurus and enlightened beings.

I have been jailed for drugs.

I was fat, shy, depressed and powerless.

I took Buddhist vows with Thich Nhat Hanh.

I became an Osho Sanyassin while living at Humaniversity in Holland.

I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I built a 10,000 square foot yoga and wellness center in Bali from the ground up.

I raised my daughter mostly on my own, liberating her mother from a sense of obligation and resentment.

I regularly immerse myself into the darkest dark.

I have plunged into many dark nights of the soul.

I survived multiple NDE's such that I "should" have died.

I have lived many lives.

None are meant to impress.

Instead, to invite.

You.

To bring your darkest and your brightest.

I am a guide to greatness. Yours, mine and everyone's.

I am YES. To living my potential, to what calls me to awaken, to realize the truth of who we are.

I am that there is nothing you have done or said, could do or say, that will keep me from loving you.

I am the deepest listening and keenest understanding you've ever known. Presence, incarnate.

I am that your dreams are sacred, your purpose powerful and your destiny within reach.

I am your greatest champion — willing to battle anything and anyone in the way of your potential, including your own stories of limitation.

I am the abundant all-sufficiency.

Free — I need nothing.

I have nothing to prove.

In my presence people's lives become better and they love themselves more.

I've invested ¾ of a million dollars in my own awakening.

Many times I committed before I had the money.

By far the best investment I ever make is in me.

I am that you are infinite.

I am a holy disruptor.

I have been the golden child and the black sheep, the inner circle and the banned. Often in the same room, for the same reasons.

I am sword and scythe, so committed to your potential that I will say what might cause you to hate, fear or avoid me.

I am the guts to face up to the hardest truths,

the persistence to transform pain-producing patterns,

and the love to see you until you see yourself.

I am a prophet, called by God.

I am Infinite, Impactful Service.

Heart wide-open, unconditional love and prodigious patience.

Everyone is my family.

I grow through coaching you.

My business is ministry.

My wealth is service.

My presence is profit. I am the law of increase in flesh form.

I am that the Truth will make you free.

I will be and do whatever it takes.

I am with you. Always. No matter what you bring.

II

You are

Not your bio or beginnings,

not limited to your current imaginations.

You are that you know.

You know what mediocre monotony looks like and it pains you.

You know who you really are.

You've glimpsed it.

In quiet moments.

In conversations.

A dream. A vision.

You have felt the fear of speaking it.

Then you'd have to live it.

You've felt it receding.

No more.

You are called.

For a unique purpose.

To disturb the status quo.

To make your life a masterpiece.

You are not lazy. You've done a lot of work.

Books, courses, retreats.

Now, it's not about information.

You must be a hero.

To children whom you haven't met.

Must be your own hero.

You are willing:

To love more: yourself, the people close to you, me, and ultimately all beings.

To have the uncomfortable conversations.

To strip the armor.

Stop performing.

Start living.

To set your baseline to yes.

To fully live.

To ask: how good can it get?

You are the Universe.

A master magician,

always ready to draw new circles.

III

We Are

Partners.

Project: your life as a masterpiece.

Always learning from each other.

Never done awakening.

Always creating more for you — problems and possibilities.

We bring our deepest and scariest thoughts and feelings to our conversations.

We share our "failures", fears, shame, shadow, history, contradictions.

We air the inherited narratives: money, men, women, sex and God.

Grist.

We are milling.

Making masterpieces.

We are aware that our work together goes beyond us.

I use you and you use me.

Coal. Compression. Diamond.

Our relationship is sacred ground.

How we meet here is how we meet the world.

It is light, and carries gravitas.

IV

Together We Create

From the outside it just looks like conversations.

We are creation constantly creating.

This is one of the most important relationships of our lives.

We are not playing and are ever so playful.

You speak - dreams, fears, fantasies. What you have never said before.

I listen, love, hear beyond the words.

Reflect you to you, a you you've known forever and are just meeting.

This is a laboratory for:

Radical experimentation,

audacious asks,

bold action without certainty,

falling flat,

changing course,

laughing at ourselves,

creating what is impossible.

A year, ten or a lifetime, deeper and deeper we go.

There is no bottom.

We keep asking: how good can it get?

Three years from now we walk on a beach together.

It's early morning, quiet, a few gulls.

A reporter recognizes us. Asks you:

"Do you have a message for the world?"

You smile.

"My life is my message."

We walk on. Pause. Face east.

I ask you:

"Who are you?"

You nod:

"I finally love myself.

I am the Universe.

I create what I desire.

All my desires are holy.

I am THAT.

My life is a masterpiece."

The sun hangs just above the water.

We breathe.