#56: Human Performance, Dignity & Divinity

In Newsletter 54, I wrote this line:

“what excites me today is exploring human performance, human dignity, human divinity, while still executing the mechanical blueprints that let us live a life we don’t need vacation from.” 

A TLO member wrote back and asked:

“I have a question about what you say at the end. What does that mean, for you specifically? How are you exploring human performance, dignity, and divinity? Via continuous study of Neville Goddard, Joe Murphy, and the like? Something else?”

This newsletter is my answer.

To explain it, I want to show you what I mean by “mechanical blueprints” and then how human performance, dignity, and divinity keep showing up in that work.

What I Mean By Mechanical Blueprints

For years I have coached people through the TLO framework.

It starts with the Perfect Day exercise. This is a life assumption exercise. You write out how you want to feel in life and what an extraordinary day looks like for you, as if it already exists. It is the dream. It is what you were actually put on this planet to be, instead of defaulting to status quo. For me, it is the way I now live between places like Beirut and Maryland, on purpose. You let yourself have that life in consciousness before you see it in the physical world, instead of waiting to see it before you believe it. 

From there we build the Lifestyle Blueprint. This is where we translate that vision via Five Freedom: financial, time, geographic, purpose, and relationships. For each freedom we list the goals, blockers that stand in the way of each and actions or relationships that will carry you over those blockers. It is essentially a map to your Perfect Day. The Lifestyle Blueprint is how I get people into their Perfect Day and moving toward it with serious intensity.

Then we build the Financial Blueprint. This is the plan to fund the lifestyle. The assets, income streams, and investments that power the Perfect Day forward.

Underneath all of this sit the TLO Principles. These are the mindset shifts that help you release old stories, stop over identifying with titles, and use your 9-5, your skills, and your current reality as a launching pad. The TLO Principles help people see where they are stuck in status quo so they can step out of it.

Perfect Day, Lifestyle Blueprint, Financial Blueprint, and the TLO Principles together are the mechanical blueprints. They are concrete, repeatable, teachable, and most importantly, executable. They are framework for how I help people actually change their life in this physical world. 

Alongside this work I read and study thinkers like Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, Emmett Fox, Wayne Dyer, Abraham Hicks and others. Their ideas gave language to what I was witnessing in all my coaching students and in my own journey.

Over time, the same three themes kept showing up: human performance, human dignity, and human divinity.

Here’s my definitions and what I mean by each.

Human Performance

Human performance is what we are actually capable of once we stop letting inherited limits decide what we attempt. 

Most of us were raised in systems based on competition. Get the grade. Get the promotion. Stay inside the lines. Under that pressure, people quietly shrink their own possibilities and call it being “realistic.”

Something shifts when a person commits to their Perfect Day and starts acting on their Lifestyle and Financial Blueprints. They stop asking, “Is this reasonable?” and start asking better questions, like, “Does this line up with the life I am actually trying to create?”

We have all seen this in the wider world. Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile. Then many runners do it soon after. The human body did not transform in a year. The belief barrier moved. 

I lived my own version of that pattern. For years I held multiple careers at the same time: corporate executive, police officer, real estate investor, and military special agent, while raising kids, traveling the world and starting numerous businesses. On paper, that mix looked like too much. In practice, it worked because my decisions served the life I wanted, not limits other people expect.

In the TLO community I watch people make moves their old self would never have tried. New countries. New roles. New businesses. New boundaries at home and at work. This is what I mean by human performance. A person sees a bigger version of their life and steadily grows into it. 

Human Dignity

Human dignity is self concept. It is how you see yourself when no one is watching.

Each of us is a statistical long shot. You are a one in trillions event. That alone should change how you carry yourself. If you really took that in, you would walk into rooms differently. You would speak differently. You would negotiate differently.

Yet most people are waiting for the world to hand them dignity. A title, a degree, a certain income level, a certain relationship status. They want an external stamp that says “You are worthy now.” 

What I want for people is an internal recognition that arrives before all of that.

Something like: “I matter because I exist. My life has value regardless of what anyone else thinks of it.”

That kind of dignity is quiet. It is not loud or performative. It feels like a steady center in your chest.

Once it lands, choices change. You stop begging for validation. You stop making yourself smaller to keep the peace. You stop staying in environments that drain you. Over time, your external life reshapes itself around that inner sense of worth. I have watched this happen with enough people that I trust it as a pattern.

Human Divinity

Human divinity is our uniquely human capacity for conscious creation. It's also our own inherent tendency to risk dulling that gift as well. 

We live in a time where tools, technology, and AI can remove friction from almost everything. That can be a gift. It can also be a trap. When something makes life easier, most people simply fill the freed space with more tasks, more noise, more grind.

Very rarely do they use that space to live more deeply. For those who know me well, this is exactly what you've sensed of me. Deleveraging so I can use time even more intentionally.

For me, divinity shows up when a person starts to take their inner life seriously. They realize their thoughts, assumptions, and images are not just private entertainment. Those inner patterns act like blueprints that their outer life tends to follow. 

Inside TLO, when someone finally believes their Perfect Day is worth building and starts to make decisions from that place, they are practicing conscious creation. They are treating their attention as a sacred resource. They are using their mind and imagination as tools, not as dumping grounds. 

When that happens, you can feel something higher move through a life. Opportunities line up. Old patterns break. New people appear. The person is the same, but the way they create has changed. That is what I mean by human divinity. Not something far away. Something that comes online when you create on purpose. 

Why This Matters Now

As I simplify my own life, step back from certain ventures, and release roles that no longer fit, these three ideas have become my personal focus. 

Human performance is the question, “What else am I actually capable of if I stop playing small and start honoring the life I really want?”

Human dignity is the question, “Can I remember my worth without waiting for the world to approve me first?”

Human divinity is the question, “Will I use my consciousness to design my life, or will I keep letting the outside world do that for me?” 

The mechanical blueprints of Try Life On are staying. Perfect Day, Lifestyle Blueprint, Financial Blueprint, and the TLO Principles still work. They help people build lives they do not need vacation from.

What excites me now is going deeper into what it means to be human while we do all of that. To build smart, live free, and also remember who we are at a deeper level.

That is what I meant in Newsletter 54. And that is the journey I am inviting you to explore, in your own way, on your own terms. 

Keep Trying Life On. 

Maurice