Preston Smiles

Yes sir, let’s do it.

Preston Smiles

Yes. It’s who I be. It’s like this is a kid. I use the energy differently. There was a point in my life when I was in a gang and I was fighting and getting kicked out of schools, drinking and smoking. I was living a different life but it was the same energy just pushed in a different way.

Preston Smiles

Sometimes, when I’m feeling very extreme and I’m speaking to my coaching clients. I remind them that the same energy that Hitler used is the same energy that Ghandi used.

Preston Smiles

I’ve always been quite the leader. The question is where I was leading people to. Now, I have such a deep reverence and understanding that love is all there is, was, and ever will be. That’s so heavy on my heart and it burns in my soul that it gives me energy. I literally am tapping into something outside of me that’s bigger than me and it gives me fuel.

Preston Smiles

Absolutely. That’s beautiful. You need to think differently to be able to live your best life.

We’ve all had sometimes. I’m so grateful though. I’m so grateful for some of the crazy stuff that I did. The ways in which I was operating because without that, I would be just guessing. Without that, I would say that I couldn’t serve people the way that I do. Because I’ve been such a brainwashed angry American and sad, and been to the depths of my soul.

Preston Smiles

It makes it easier for me when I’m speaking with people. I know what they’re experiencing and I know that it’s not the truth of their being. I am super grateful for the crazy Preston that was operating in my teens.

Preston Smiles

Everything’s a practice. Practice it to be able to live your best life.

Whatever we practice more, we get more of. Practicing tapping into what makes your heart smile, practicing scheduling play, and time to tap back into that innocence. It’s the part of all of us that has never been hurt, harm, or endangered. To me, that’s an access point. It opens up the space for one to create and use the energy that’s already there.

Practicing tapping into what makes your heart smile opens up the space for one to create use the energy that’s already there.

I find that a lot of people are lethargic and tired. They have anxiety and they’re overwhelmed. They’re not actually on a daily basis experiencing their joy that their play, their innocence, and essence of who they be. Outside of being me is focused, “Responsible adults”

Preston Smiles

There’s a few ways. Nobody’s getting this right. Nobody’s getting A++. Everybody’s forever unfolding like a lotus flower. We’re all on a journey home to the self.

So, I will not stand up here and pretend like I’ve been getting this right all the time. Or even if I do get it right all the time. But, the practice that I’ve been in is not giving a F. Meaning, not making it about me. Because when I’m making it about me, it’s easy to come up with excuses. When I make it about me, it’s easy to sleep in a little longer. When I make it about me, it’s easy to not go the extra mile.

But when I make it about something bigger than myself, which comes back to the thing that we’ve all been thought a million times is start with why. When that “why” is big enough, the “how” and the “what” and all of that stuff reveals itself. For me, it’s about that. It’s about reminding myself that this is so much bigger than me.

When I think about it, one of the reasons why I do what I do. One of the reasons why I get up and put forth a 110 everyday as much as possible. It is because to me, if there is going to be a little Wayne and a Kim Kardashian. There has to be a Preston Smiles and an Alexi Panos. If there’s going to a Kylie Jenner, then there has to be a Kamala. You need a way to be able to live your best life.

Preston Smiles

I find that those of us who are in the know tend to play a little smaller. Than those who are not as aware that we’re all connected and that we live in an interdependent world. To me, it’s my job to turn the volume up. That’s why I wrote a book called Love Louder.

The moment we turn the volume up on our love, we automatically turn the volume up on our lives and when we turn the volume up on our lives, it gets attention.

It’s just like you would if you were sitting on street corner. Somebody rolled by and was playing music really loud, it gets attention. To me, that’s my job.

My job is to stand on a top of the mountain waving a white flag. My job is to remind everybody that love is our truth that there is no separation. That underneath all of the stories we have about each other. Whether it’d be gay, straight, white, black, Christian, Muslim, republican, democrat. Underneath all of that stuff is our truth. The only time we truly tapped into it as a society is when disaster hits, and I’m not waiting for disasters anymore.

Now, it’s time for me to step up every day and be a lighthouse for those who are standing in the dark.

Preston Smiles

A lot of people I would say out the gate and I know this because I’ve been this.

Preston Smiles

We live in a high-tech low touch society right now. A lot of times, what most entrepreneurs especially do is the moment they’re cognizant that they are alive. They reach over to that phone, and in reaching over to that phone, even if you just check one email or one text message. You now are in the day, and when you’re in the day, then you’re essentially trying to put out fires. “There’s that email I have to respond to.” We get going too fast.

Preston Smiles

Do not reach for that phone. In the morning, find the routine. Find the practice that feels good for you to be able to live your best life.

For me, it’s drinking a bunch of water a throughout the entire day because most people on our planet are dehydrated. So I drink a bunch of water straight in the morning.

Stretching. I go through a stream of consciousness gratitude where I just say thank you for everything. I don’t care what it is. I’d be like, “Thank you for my fingernails, for my kinky hair, for my mother, for my dog when I was 7.” Just anything that comes out. It doesn’t matter what comes out and just go into the gratitude.

Some people journal. I don’t journal as much. What I do is I read and then I just sit in silence and meditate and take in the da. The stillness of the morning and then, I reach for my phone. Then, I go in social media and then, the day gets started. So that’s one practical tip out the gate that will shift and change everything.

Preston Smiles

He is a friend of mine.

Preston Smiles

The world is moving so fast now. I remember a time when you tag something in on the internet. I was a kid when there was no internet. But you tag something in the internet and it take like maybe 2 minutes for that thing to pull up. Now, if it doesn’t pull up in 1 second, I’m like, “What’s wrong with the internet?” Something’s gotten wrong and it’s like everything is so fast this days.

Make sure that you take time in the mornings to envision and declare and open yourself up.

One of the practices and this has really changed my life is this understanding that it’s not my job to make it happen. It’s my job to welcome it, to become the space for creativity, for love, for harmony, for whatever needs to come through.

Preston Smiles

Steve Jobs was not trying to become something. He was revealing what was already there. Ghandi was not trying to become something. He was revealing what was already there. We can go down the list.

Instead of chasing these people or these results and circumstances. It’s about coming back to a reminder and remembering that we just get to become the space.

Preston Smiles

A lot of us spend a lot of time in that analytical brain. We think that science has the answers to everything and science is constantly disproving itself. Science doesn’t know what’s in the ocean. Let alone like how they manifest something.

Opening ourselves up to that is such a powerful practice.