About Dane E. Colby

I'd like to share a few things about my life which led me to decide to offer  this service. As you read these words some of you will feel tired, bitter, angry or cynical. I still have those feelings at times when reading words like the ones I will be sharing with you. These feelings are a natural by-product of desiring something we do not believe is possible for us. Or which we believe is possible only through taking advantage of others. The success I am about to share with you here has been generated by my willingness to make certain choices in spite of these thoughts and feelings, which over time have brought me where I am today.

Over the past two weeks I have made $500.00 per hour doing work I love sustainable and with some very happy clients writing the check through my company: Mystical Landscapes. I set my own hours, work an average of four hours a day, and completed the work a week ahead of schedule. My client closed with the words: "Please do use us as a reference. Your work is amazing."

Now what is interesting to me is that even three years ago I would not have believed this was possible. Yet by giving myself the healing work I have received and the tools I continue to learn from workshops and coaches I have come to the point of not only believing it is possible, but living the reality.

While you will have your own personal goals, what I want to share with you is the process that has allowed me to arrive here starting at $7.00 and hour and working harder, longer days for clients that were less appreciative. I have literally spent over $250,000.00 in workshops and other mentors to gain the tools from which I have developed Maps-to-Love and have begun helping many of my friends do the same.

In my personal life I have been blessed in recent years with a growing abundance of valuable love using the tools I share in our coaching time. What I mean by "valuable love" is love in the time, shape and place in which it brings me the most joy.

My friend Andrew and I have had long phone conversations about once a week for years. As I introduced the art of appreciation, requests and a one to ten scale to measure each of our value spending time together, our relationship has improved several hundred percent for us both. As Andrew became comfortable using these approaches in his marriage and other relationships, his friends began showing him the respect he deserves.

At the heart of Maps-to-Love is self acceptance and self love. Rather than apologizing for who we are and trying to be different, Maps-to-Love is a process of recognizing our true beauty and educating others to recognize it too. Both in business and in personal relationships, this principle is what has allowed me to accept the things in myself I was told were "wrong" and instead craft a life in which these same qualities or habits brought me and others joy and healing.

I recently finished my third year of long vacations. This one lasted four months. I discovered that certain insights and aspects of my nature simply did not show up in my life until thirty days away from work. After thirty days a whole other side of my nature opens up and I get to see a different side of me. This is the side of me that is inspired to nurture myself in ways that ultimately led me to offer you this service here. As much as I might have dreamed about it, I never would be writing these words here today without these months of spacious time to reflect.

So far I've shared a few of my successes with money, time and friendship. And what I want you to know is that each is necessary for the other. If I was not successful with money I would not be able to take the time. If I did not have the time the quality of presence I am able to show up with in my relationships would drop significantly. And if I did not have friends and partners in my life loving and supporting me as deeply as they do, I would not have the courage to step outside the box as much as I do and celebrate my magnificence. This is what I want for you too: regardless of the form it takes I want to help you recognize and celebrate more of your magnificence and bring it into the world to be honored. I haven't even touched on the successes and joys of romantic partnership but that can be the juiciest and most healing arena to succeed of all and I look forward to offering more of my insights there in a one-on-one relationship.

"Dane opened up a whole new world for me by showing me the mechanics I use to pull people in and push them away. I now feel powerful asking for what I want, saying "no" to what does not work for me, and putting it all in motion. All those years I waited for the universe to deliver my man, the universe was apparently waiting for me to learn the tools to create him." 

A. C. Mill Valley, CA

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Maps to Love coach, Dane E. Colby