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Happiness isn’t a magic quality. It’s a choice.

Larry didn’t just want to be happy when things were good. He’d cultivated a permanently stable desire for happiness –one that didn’t go out when life turned unbearable. Did it flicker?  Of course it did.  The key to a stable desire for happiness is not the absence of unhappiness but a simple passion for bringing happiness back as quickly as possible.

So that’s what Larry did.  Because that’s what Larry does.

That unwavering commitment to choosing peace and joy even while in hell is what has carried him through the same downturns everyone goes through in life, big and small.

Dave says it’s what keeps Larry here when he should be long dead by now: he’s having too much fun hanging around.

And from Larry’s story, Dave took a priceless lesson: that a stable desire for happiness is a normal state.  It exists at birth, although it’s only conspicuous by its absence.  Once time and circumstances have wrestled it out of your grip.

So he genuinely tried to fix it.

Therapy. Three different therapists over the years, beginning at age 16. Books. Workshops. Breakthroughs that felt life-changing in the moment. He’d studied hard and come to understand his patterns.  Especially his reaction to failures. He’d see and feel them so cleanly. He always promised himself that this time would be different.

Until he’d do the same freaking things again.  By remaining stuck in the unaddressed bad habits keeping him not from happiness, but from change.

The worst part wasn’t the pain. It was the confusion. “What is going on? Why can’t I change? What the fuck is wrong with me?”  Those questions haunted him for fifty-plus years.

Until one day, he stopped asking “What’s wrong with me?” and started asking “Under what conditions does change actually take place, and then stay?” Not in theory. In real life. In his life.

And that’s when he first saw the obstacle, and instantly recognized the solution:

Change isn’t about difficult adjustments to attitude or behavior; change flows almost naturally once awareness of the desire for it crosses a certain threshold.

And once he discovered that threshold? The changes he wanted to make were almost effortless.

Not because he forced anything, but because it became inevitable. Like finally admitting you’ve been shivering in a cold room knowing all along there’s a warm one with your name on it right next door.

He discovered that his intention to feel better, and then good, was literally fuelling his desire for change. Wait a minute, though – doesn’t that sound like Lucky Larry’s life?  No wonder they eventually met.

Your desire for happiness isn’t in question: the stability of that desire makes all the difference.

Because most people’s desire for happiness flickers. It burns brightest when things are terrible—“I can’t live like this anymore!” Then it fades when things get tolerable—“Meh, it’s not that bad. I can manage.”

And then it gets ignored.  Until it lights up again. That’s why conventional approaches to change never stick. Not because you’re broken. Not because you’re weak. Not because you’re doing it wrong. But because your ordinary desire for it wasn’t stable enough in the first place to keep the flame lit, and carry you through.

You thought you wanted change, when what you need to want more and better is happiness.  And that’s where your desire for it comes into play.  You need to want to be happy not more, but better than you ever have before.  Please read that again slowly to make sure you don’t miss it: change isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing what you already do naturally, just better. 

Hence the magic word, improvement.

Below the change threshold we’re talking about, you know you could feel better, but you tolerate feeling bad. For many reasons, many of which include your natural FEAR of change.  And we figured out a revolutionary work-around for that resistance.

Meanwhile, above that same threshold, feeling bad has become so expensive that choosing happiness stops being optional. It becomes desirable, natural, and then inevitable.

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The Sacred Truth

And that’s when we started wondering: If this is true for us – the relationship between desire, happiness and change – then what if we could teach this? What if we could help people to move beyond the prisons of their minds and defeat their resistance to change with a more stable desire for what that same change is meant to produce?

What if we could demonstrate to open minds and hearts the natural human threshold they need to cross over, so they didn’t have to spend decades bumping into walls like Dave did (and Larry didn’t)?

What if that person were you?

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Why We’re Sharing This With You

We’re not gurus. We’re not perfect. We’re not done learning. Dave’s approaching 70. Larry’s not far behind and running out of time. We don’t have forever.

But here’s what we do have: A methodology that works. For people who can feel who they already are, and just need a way to catch up with themselves.

So we made Games. Two, in fact, which make the personal transformation you need, feel less like punishment and more like play.

And a Mission we care about more than anything:

To reach and teach the children before the prevailing western culture (of corruption and capture, misuse and manipulation) gently plunges its teeth into them.  In turn converting our beautiful children into shades of irrelevant, insufferable, incomplete, and helpless.  But no longer.

At the moment, a dangerous lie is training our children to believe that wanting to feel good is selfish. Somehow bad, since it punishes you for trying.  That if you’re actually brave enough to want to be happier, then you first have to fix something wrong inside you.

We now know that, ironically, they got it completely backwards. And we don’t want another generation to suffer from that same unconscionable fiction the way most of us did.

Because Happiness isn’t the reward you get after solving all your problems. It’s the foundation you already have available for solving them, now.

Most people learn this lesson the hard way – if they learn it at all.  Spending decades of wasted energy undoing the self-limiting, self-critical, self-cancelling thoughts we were taught to believe were true. Thoughts so deeply ingrained that, in Dave’s case for example, it can take most of a lifetime to excavate yourself from under them.

But here’s what we decided: the next generation doesn’t have to wait that long.

In fact, if we get this right, they won’t have to wait at all.  That’s our vision: a generation of Lucky Larry’s whose natural response to life is to always want to be happy if you’re not. We want to reach them before the brainwashing sets in. We want to help the kids remember who they are before they forget. Give them the tools to catch up with themselves while there’s still time to actually live.

“The world spent centuries teaching us to postpone happiness, to perform for approval, to grind ourselves into dust. And we’re going to make sure our children NEVER learn that lie.” (Dave)

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So Who Are We To Say All This?

Larry’s fading physically – that’s just medical fact. But his spirit is already permanently installed in the people who love him.

Dave’s almost a septuagenarian, who exercises daily, takes zero medications, has no debilitating ailments, and was told 30 years ago by some guy in a suit that he’s “a late bloomer” who’ll “be around until 104.”

Which means there’s still plenty of active, healthy time ahead to pull off this stunt: helping people everywhere – especially women, who’ve spent lifetimes performing for approval instead of living for their own happiness – to believe what they already know is true.  After which they can rediscover their True Selves for themselves, and finally bring their original childhood Comfort With Change back to life. For the dreams that have been waiting since forever to show up.

And how do we do that, you may be wondering? By teaching you first. By helping you cultivate a stable desire for happiness. By showing you the threshold, so awareness can do what it does naturally – make change inevitable instead of exhausting. And then, when you’re ready, passing that knowledge forward to your kids, to the children in your life who deserve better than what we got.

That’s the work. That’s why two ordinary guys with a few beers between them and a crazy idea decided to build something that might actually change the world.

We’re not gurus. We’re messengers.

And the message is simple: You already know who you are. Isn’t it time to catch up with her, now?  (because as Dave and Larry like to say, “We’ve got work to do!…”)