Countdown to The Superman Effect- 44 days

What a coming out party! I began this writing process with my wife being my only reader and now I can’t stop telling people about this blog. I don’t think it’s because of my writing but because I no longer want to keep these thoughts of the real me from those I love. My sister sent me an email today “Dennis, I haven’t found a moment to read your blog, but plan to as soon as I can.” I had to chuckle. “I haven’t found a moment”- synchronistic choice of words. This blog is all about the moment! It is about the moment when I decided to live my truth in front of any and everyone.

Work was challenging today because I feel I am at a crossroads. Do I put the same energy into my job for the last 44 days that I put in the past eight years? If I "phone it in", then the university new student goals stand less of a chance of being met. If I give it all I have as has been the case for 65- eight week terms, then I am psychically zapped by the time I get home. I want to leave the university graciously and with a disco celebration. I’ve been doing this for way too long to just check out.

That is where you all come in. The energy that my readers have given me through their encouraging words and enthusiastic support is replenishing my reservoir and making it possible to sprint in both parallel universes. It is not only my readers that have given me a jolt. I have been blown away by the number of people that have reconnected with me in the past few weeks. I have a theory: Perhaps my decision to reveal my truest nature in such a public way has sent a pulse throughout the universe and my loved ones are picking up on it.

The day The Superman Effect was conceived, May 17, 2009, I wrote this question immediately after telling my wife that I was going to write a book: What instantly happens to human beings when there is an alignment of universal forces that support a clear life vision and purpose? I now realize why I wrote “human beings” and not “what instantly happens to a person…” It is clear to me that the ability of any one individual to possess a clear vision and purpose has a vibratory effect on all human beings. We are all moved by the same force to support this vision and to cultivate our own. This is why I am hearing from so many. They are aggressively rooting me on with the positive energy needed to ignore today’s news of a 10.2% unemployment and are calling for a cultural revolution away from despair and towards determination. My story is not unique. There is a dream seed in all of us and the energy that is in world right now keeping this seed from germinating has a challenger. We are that challenger. Growth is inevitable. Keep feeding this war machine with positive thoughts.

I am ready to reveal to you the Puerto Rican version of “Meet Joe Black”. I did not seek to help the dying cross over, yet it has presented me with some of the most precious moments of my life. Tomorrow I will start with my father and uncle.

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true". - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist