Control of your thoughts, emotions, and your actions in order to stay objectives. It's a way of being. It is NOT self denial. In the spiritual sense, it is being focused on one's path. To remain on your path and not to allow anything from the external world deviate one from their spiritual pursuit. That doesn't mean one doesn't have possessions though. We have many distractions today in our modern world.

Just being friendly with everyone. Not a false friendliness. Swamiji states, "learn to segregate the qualities in a person from the person." He means, you can have a sense of you are not like me but I don't want harm to come to you or that being. There is no reason to dislike a person because they have a different view. Kisma says, "pause before you think and speak and judge".

Though the flight from NY to India was 15 hours and she arrived during Monsoon which is crazy weather and she endured a 2 ½ hour drive from the airport to the Academy campus late in the evening, Kisma still opted to make this the most important "thing" to do. "The Vedanta Academy is a knowledge based ashram. They have the highest teaching ever printed" -Kisma

Wes Schaeffer - Life of a Salesman Know as an Obsessively pragmatic mentor, Wes combines Southern charm and common sense using formal training from the US Air Force Academy. He is the #1 resaler in the U.S., as well as a writer, and author. Wes is also known as the "Sales Whisperer". He is the "Go To" guy and very well know to help small businesses and entrepreneurs. He has helped both Nick and Kisma in their businesses as well.

In 2013, Elizabeth was in fitness and had been for many years. She began studying feminine archetypes to be more feminine because she felt she wasn't feminine enough. She is a self-proclaimed tomboy but also realized that being feminine is not just being prissy and what we see in fairy tales. She began writing on her blog and social media and started a FB group called the Soul Movement Salon to talk about these things.

Fear of what others think about you.It's crippling. It entraps you in a particular way of being, doing and having. Stepping outside of the box of that fear is where change takes place. The fear exists because we are so entrained to gossip. We all do it on some level. The more we gossip, we know at some level, that will come back to us and happen to us.

Glen met Swami Parthasarathy in Perth at a lecture and then went to India to the Vedanta Academy to further inquire about their teachings. Although Glen had what is considered to be a great life he felt a growing sense of constriction and thought, "There has got to be more than this". He says he felt a spiritual longing which led to his search for deeper meaning. When humans don't have knowledge, that's when they can get into destructive behaviors as they try to alleviate that sense of constriction.

Every Moment Matters. Every single moment, you have a thought; you have a line of thoughts. As you think more about a thing or person or situation, that thought flow becomes thicker. As energy grows behind that thought flow, it's like a magnet and you are bringing back that which you expect. As you have deliberate focus and thought flow, you will change everything and bring in what you really want to manifest and create in your life. It does pay to monitor your thoughts and where they are leading.

Prosperity is not just about money. It is a bigger way of being, doing and having. Prosperity has less to do with how much money a human has and more to do with how the human relates to it. It's the ability to create the mindset that takes oneself on the "divine success track". It is being very present and understanding you have the ability to create miracles. It's the ability to see space in all things. It's the understanding that we are not in a box and that there is a greater field for us to expand into.

Kisma's Mindset goes back to her musician days which began in the 6th grade. She decided she was going to be the best flutist and in an orchestra."I'm going to do whatever it takes to make this happen." At one of her first band concerts, she was playing first flute and played an incorrect note. Kisma decided then that she would never play a wrong note ever again. She felt horrified. At a young age, it solidified this mindset that she was going to be good. Band is very competitive and she was the youngest and but still won the first chair. The older students did not like her because of that. Kisma practiced and practiced and used it as a way of escaping. The flute was her world and escape and she decided to practice as much as she could. Her first year of college was at Boston Conservatory which was much more difficult.