Hello, I'm James Beck

Before I gave everything away, my personal life perspective was central to my decision-making process.

After I gave everything away, life changed from being 'About ME' to being 'About WE.'

Before this process, I was stuck operating from a limiting viewpoint, viewing life through my past insecurities. Every thought and action was limited by how I viewed the world.

By pressing the Reset Button on my life, I was able to approach the world in a new fashion: through service.

When a person approaches the world to serve, wanting to make life better for others, life opens up in a new and dynamic way. Living for yourself makes the world a certain kind of hell, where your mind is a cruel taskmaster.

Allowing your mind to serve your soul and others transforms your mind from an overbearing cynic to a kind servant, accelerating consciousness and enhancing performance.

I wouldn't exchange this peaceful and sovereign mindset for all the money and possessions earth has to offer.

Living in a 'WE' based existence reveals the hidden value individuals and organizations offer humanity. Living for others empowers us to live our best lives, do our best work, and find the best ways to accomplish our purpose. We make the best decisions, which effortlessly opens up unforeseeable opportunities.

I'm living a life so far beyond what the world says is impossible that there is zero desire to go back into my previous default way of living.

WARNING: Most people ask this question as they ponder 'Should I do it too?"

One accomplishes this transformation process by serving others and considering themselves last in every equation, not first.

But you can't keep one foot on the dock & the other on the boat.

Humans start life by operating from "ME" and stand on the dock of what they know. When the few launch out on the ship of "WE," it allows them to sail to uncharted territories and experience different ways of living.

It is the difference between a good (parent/executive) Servant Leader and a Crappy Politician whose self-serving decisions are promoted as 'best for the group.'

Time will tell if your authentic self is all about you or others - time always tells.

Either jump in full force and go the distance, no matter what or don't start at all.

The most difficult steps are the first ones, then the second.

It takes years to reform your way of being. From a personal perspective, this is the most significant work I've ever done.

I'm confident the process works would work similarly for you.

I gave all I owned to have this transformation and it was worth every penny.

Your brain is like a garden.

It takes seconds to plant a seed (or new thought).

However, it takes months and even years to grow a seed into mature fruit.

While it may only take 2-3 months to rewire your mind and automate your brain to perform new tasks, for you to assimilate all of these tasks and have them grow root into your personality takes about six months when we know what we are doing.

We often need to stumble into enlightenment and figure things out.

Humans want everything faster, but some things take time to grow. You may have a healthy baby plant, but it's not the right time for it to yield a bunch of mature fruit.

We often get mad at things because they don't fit into our schedule, not because there is a problem.

We have four lemon trees. 

One tree was a wedding gift, and it produces about 1 to 5 lemons a year. Those lemons are alright. If I'm frank, they are a little bitter.

My wife and I just bought a piece of land with three other lemon trees. They are each 30 to 60 years old and produce hundreds of the best lemons I have ever tasted. 

Lemons at the grocery store taste like garbage in comparison. 

My neighbors ask me for my lemons because they are so amazing.

Am I a fantastic lemon tree grower? No.

All four trees are watered and fed the same, but the old trees yield the best fruit because they have a mature root system that produces better fruit. 

Drug rehab programs that break bad habits and treat the mind last anywhere from 30 days, 90 days, up to 180 days. 

Some books say you can rewire the mind in as little as 21 days.

However, there is a difference between stopping one behavior and growing a new way of thinking in your mind and maturing those thoughts, so they produce great fruit from the essence of your being.

Our bodies replace themselves on a cellular level every 7 to 10 years (notice the 10-year mark). 

As our cells replicate, half of our DNA strand is nature. By nature, I mean the sum of our parents' genetic material and our health habits, up to that point. 

The other half of the strand is nurture, which includes our current state of mind and the choice to be mindful, positive, and meditate or self-reflect.

During meditation, our bodies produce telomerase, which is a substance that strengthens and lengthens your telomeres.

Telomeres play a vital role in preserving the information in our genome. They are specific DNA–protein structures found at both ends of each chromosome that protect the genome from (nucleolytic) degradation, unnecessary recombination, repair, and interchromosomal fusion. 

So, thinking like a gardener, I planted a thought in my mind a decade ago.

I gave away everything I owned and traveled across America, serving a family in each state for three days to explore this higher way of thinking. However, it would take 7 to 10 years for this change to manifest throughout every cell in my body.

After the transformational trip was over, I would only answer questions because I was 'in process,' which took a decade. (I used a similar process while writing my book.)

From the beginning, I believed that this process would either produce an optimized and balanced mind or drive me insane (insanity looks similar to living in a van down by the river.

The initiation part took a year because I had to figure it out and make adjustments along the way. Clawing my way back from nothing was part of the test (an optimized mind could reform).

Time would need to tell my story. 

April 1, 2021, marks ten years since I gave away everything I owned and set out on this adventure.

My mind had to transform, which took about six months. But my body needed to catch up and integrate this new information on a cellular level. It took time for the concept (lemon tree) to grow enough to offer a reasonable evaluation.

I grew up with street kids, and things happened to me that caused PTSD. My life was hell. 

The stress of my childhood and resulting PTSD deteriorated the replication of cells in the body, resulting in a lower quality of life and probably an early death.

How else could I transform the core of who I was?

I didn't know how to live. It was worth everything to figure out.

This concept is difficult for people to wrap their heads around because our society struggles to focus on the same thing for over 10 minutes. I've had to focus on this for over a decade, so it can be difficult to relate.

I waited a decade to promote my work because I wanted you to see the 'mature tree' I've grown in my mind that produces good fruit. This process takes time, but I've already put in that time.

Life feels like heaven, it has for the past decade, and I want that heaven for you. It took me 10 years to explain.

Launching into this transformational process began with the thought, "What if..."

What if I did everything that great minds suggested (including ancient texts, modern thinkers, and even fictional characters)?

What if I shut up and did the best my flawed personality could?

What would happen?

Time would tell.

Instead of following old concepts out of obligation, I would embrace each instruction as an ability.

I opened up to everything.
Everything!

While this expedited my learning process, it was brutal. The lessons I needed to learn came hard & fast.
It took some time to develop discernment.

This growth process meant betrayals of trust were inevitable.

I learned that people often trust others based on who they could be, not who they are.

We keep friends from childhood because we share unique memories from our formative years. Family members have assumed access to the most sacred aspects of our lives because they have always had access. Wealthy people are given more slack because 'their potential is so great.'

However, when people live for 'ME' and not 'WE,' it is only a matter of time before they put you in a difficult position.

Deciding between those I grow relationships with and those I choose not to spend time with are determined if they live for 'ME' (themselves) or 'WE' (live for community).

The greatest regrets I feel are for people that choose to continue to live a self-based existence when I know that the end of that path leads to depression and lack of meaning.

I regret when I lack as a teacher, unable to reach others with the message's truth.

Sometimes I talk too much, and my words can confuse others.

Confusion is always regrettable.

I chose this path because it was the only one that made sense to me.

This work is the most challenging thing I have ever done. 

I intentionally destroyed my mind so that I could rebuild it with the indestructible features the body provides. My 'belief, willpower, and a handful of relationships are the only things that I had at the beginning and end of my journey.

I drove myself insane and broke my mind so that I could rebuild it in a sane and balanced fashion.

This process tested everything in my life; few things lasted.

• My father intentionally opposed me. 
• One of my best friends didn't like the person I became and dropped the relationship.
• A doctor friend told me, " I cannot support this! You are running away from your life."

He was right. I was running away. But he didn't see what I was running towards; that was my responsibility.

• I began studying the body in 2003 when I signed up for massage school.
• I began studying the mind in 1995 when my mom got brain damage from a car accident and lost her job as a head charge nurse at a neurology clinic.
• I began studying the spirit in 1986 after I told my father about my suicide attempt.

Through my research, I learned that the damage experienced in my formative years limited the way I connected with the world. To change that, I needed to reconnect with the child inside me. I needed to integrate all aspects of my personality into myself, especially the young part that felt worthless. 

I was living a fractured life, an imitation of life.

I did all this to live a happy and fulfilled life.

To prove my concept of rewiring the mind by serving others, I needed to push myself as far as humanly possible. If my idea didn't work, it would be because the concept was flawed (not because I didn't try hard enough). 

When we see someone do something kind, it activates our sensory input in our parietal lobe = subconscious. To bring our subconscious into consciousness, we have to use our motor skills. We have to do the act of kindness with our hands and feet, which shifts the input from the back part of our brain (parietal lobe) into the executive function (neocortex or conscious part of the brain). 

Many religions address that we must have action, not just talk. This concept is valid on a physiological level.

If you wish to have this transformation, then incorporate acts of kindness in your life (both observing and doing). Section off a few hours every week to have a service experience. Intentionally watch other people serve, and it will help activate your mind.

The more you do, the faster the change happens. 

Do you need to give everything away and serve people for a year?

No, you don't have to do that to optimize your mind through serving others.

Give a 4-hour chunk of time per month/week to get started. 

However, there's no substitute for experience. 

The deeper you go into other people's lives, the deeper you delve into your own. If you want a faster transformation, then you need to go deeper faster.

Some people slowly wade into cold water; I prefer to dive.

Either way, we have to serve.