Truth W. Hawk

Truth W. Hawk is a veteran Hollywood content creator, filmmaker, writer and producer. He's the producer of 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, the author of a highly-regarded inspirational business book, HOW TO SUCCEED ON PURPOSE. A "life-changing gem" compared to titles by Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Peter Thiel, Eric Reis and film director, David Lynch.

Known in Hollywood as Seth Jaret, he’s a catalyst of creative success — from ideation to manifestation, from concept to screen, from babe to stage.

He is the CEO of global creative media agency, Virtual Matter, a veteran talent manager and wheeler-dealer who has sold a hundred movie and television projects, brokered tens of millions of dollars in talent and IP deals and pioneered successful A-list artists, Pulitzer Prize-winners, Richard Branson's comic book slate and even guided the Chopra Family.

He's also taught branding and teamwork at Stanford University, guided meditation at the University of Amsterdam, and lectured at the world's top film schools.

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What's So Special About Hummingbirds?

Portrait of an artist mid-design

I'm mid-stream in the creative process, mid-thought, midday. Contemplating the properties and essence of the hummingbird and why I want it on the cover of my book.

This video is raw — a stream-of-consciousness. And it took 20 hours to upload from Big Sur!

As I'm re-designing the cover I've been contemplating this magical creature, it's importance to me as a totem for this project and how it is a beautiful, ideal metaphor for what's contained in How To Succeed On Purpose.

This week I also produced a Hummingbird Meditation. You can find that here

One could say I'm in a hummingbird state of mind. Or state of being...

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The Human Condition?

Being human isn’t conditional. It’s not predicated on anything. There is no credit check. No application process. If you’re reading this, you’ve already qualified.
— Truth

Membership has its privileges.

Welcome to the club — you’re pre-approved.

What exactly is the "human condition?"

Being human isn’t a condition that can be ameliorated with a salve. It’s not a temporary state of being, at least while on this planet, anyway. It’s permanent.

And being human isn’t conditional. It’s not predicated on anything. There is no credit check. No application process. If you’re reading this, you've already qualified. Pre-conditions have been satisfied. You are human.

Welcome to the club — you’re pre-approved. Membership has its privileges. Being human is a state of being. It’s something to embrace, to celebrate and to come to terms with. You did ask to be here. You came into this time and place for a reason knowing full well what you were getting yourself into. Your soul knows why and what you are here to accomplish. And the way you can accomplish anything and everything, the true source expression of it all, is love.

So radiate love, be love, be in love. That’s human truth. It’s what makes us human beings. Not conditional humans. Being human is not a condition that needs to cured. It’s our regard for it, our perspective on it, that demands medical attention.

Best not to think of it as a condition. Like it’s something that you were diagnosed with and wonder how you contracted it and how you might cure it. It’s who we are. What we are. No salve will cure it. No balm will heal it, nor make it disappear or fade away or reverse its effects.

Solve your perspective, don’t salve your “condition.” You are human. I am human. Make the best of it: Fasten your seat belt and settle in for the ride of a lifetime.

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Photo Credit: Joshua Earle

 

Turtle Envy

Home—wherever you are—is being at peace, being content in your own skin... even if that skin’s a shell.
— Truth
Maui Sea Turtle

Like the enormous sea turtle I encountered on a Maui beach — it was 300 pounds at least! — who is at home in its shell wherever it happens to venture, home is wherever you are, being at peace, being content in your skin, even if that means feeling like a foreigner for a spell.

Because feeling at home is embracing and accepting however you are at the moment. Whatever is real for you right now. Accepting a true state of present awareness is your ultimate connection to home.

Remind yourself that feeling foreign in your home town means you had been feeling at home in a foreign town!

Yours truly, getting grounded in Maui

Yours truly, getting grounded in Maui

Sometimes one’s own home town can feel like foreign territory when returning from a new place, a new situation, a new environment. Coming “home” from some faraway corner of the globe or rarefied experience can make your home town feel out of place — or you out of place in it. Remind yourself that feeling foreign in your home town means you had been feeling at home in a foreign town!

Human beings are highly adaptable. Feeling foreign is a temporary state before we find our place, connect with our tribe and settle into the comfort of our own being. Not feeling at home means you did feel at home somewhere.

Find home again by reminding yourself that, like the sea turtle, you carry home with you wherever you go and home is somewhere you can be wherever you are.

Like the turtle, we can allow the awareness of "home" to be with us wherever we tread. And re-create the feelings we define as home whenever we want.

At least, until we can return to our most favorite, most familiar, perfectly-tailored shell.

Which we realize was with us all along.

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Improve-isation

This isn't about "make it or break it," "use it or lose it," "love it or leave it." It's about improvising improvements.

WHEN SHIT GOES WRONG, like something falling through or going to pot or breaking or getting totaled, rolling with it often leads to an improvement of circumstances; the replacement of the old with something new and better (not just different), something that shows a greater refinement of choices in one's life. A new opportunity for growth and evolution, for transcendence and promotion. 

Its not just about going with the flow, it's not just about improvisation; it's improve-isation: the act of improving your life. Making the upgrade that often comes to us after a period of things falling away, breaking or in the wake of crushing disappointments: a better home, a newer car, a more loving partner, a more embracing community, a healthier body, a more rewarding job, a more purposeful life, a brighter future.

This isn't about "make it or break it," "use it or lose it," "love it or leave it." It's about improvising improvements.

It's the tap dance of IMPROVE-isation.

Tank House view
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