About Us
BE LIFE Institute is a Leadership Development Organization that helps accelerate individual and collective prosperity.
We are organized around a growing team of Life and Business Mentors who guide people of all backgrounds along the pathway of leadership, where one can learn what it fully means to lead their own life, to raise leadership within others, and to create leadership systems that empower entire communities and organizations.
We believe the world is evolving to a new stage of global prosperity enjoyed by all, but needs a more mature understanding and practice of leadership to make the developmental leap.
BE LIFE Institute exists to help individuals, groups, and businesses navigate this shifting landscape so they can all accelerate along a path towards greater fulfillment and help others do the same.
What is Prosperity?
BE LIFE draws upon Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to outline the path to prosperity. Maslow’s theory proposes that individuals are motivated to satisfy lower-level needs before they can fully pursue the fruits of higher-level accomplishments. The five levels of Maslow's pyramid includes:
Physiological needs: The most basic needs for survival, including food, water, warmth, rest, and shelter.
Safety needs: Once physiological needs are met, the focus shifts to security and stability, such as bodily safety, employment and financial security, and protection from harm.
Love and belonging needs: This level involves social needs for friendship, family, intimacy, and a sense of connection with others.
Esteem needs: As social needs are satisfied, individuals seek esteem, which includes respect, status, recognition, and a sense of accomplishment.
Self-actualization: The highest level, this is the drive to become the best that one can be and to realize one's full potential.
BE LIFE defines prosperity as the fulfillment of fundamental life needs with the achievement of self-actualization, the ever-increasing expression of your unique design and inner calling. We believe that everyone has been bestowed with unique gifts, talents, and inclinations since birth - hence your unique design - but they are latent potentialities that require discovery and cultivation. These unique gifts find their greatest meaning and expression through service to the world, an inner calling that every human being naturally yearns to follow but hides like a whisper in the noise of social expectations and materialistic pursuits.
In outlining prosperity as the fulfillment of your needs with the ever-increasing expression of your unique design and inner calling, BE LIFE defines a path to help you accelerate towards building your best life, making the most of your limited time, while maintaining a high degree of balance, coherence, and wholeness. We accomplish this through raising your leadership capacity.
What is Leadership?
As an ability, Leadership is fundamentally the simple act of giving guidance that people willingly follow. Daily life is full with acts of giving, guiding, and growing within all areas of human activity. Each act of sharing knowledge or insight to help someone is an expression of leadership to some degree or another. Seen in this light, leadership is not the privilege of a few individuals, but an inherent quality of all people.
BE LIFE is devoted to releasing the leadership power of every individual. We focus particularly on Whole Life Leadership – the capacity to help one another attain higher stages of personal and shared prosperity. This capacity advances along a pathway of development, with several milestone levels. BE LIFE defines these levels as follows:
The Pathway of Whole Life Leadership
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Walking a Path of Service to Humanity – the inner resolve and outward behavior of helping others achieve greater prosperity in their lives. This is a conscious commitment to walking a path of service for the well-being of others and the betterment of the world. This is leading your life with a high moral purpose. When you dedicate yourself to something greater than yourself, you will come to find your greatest self. This is the beginning of the path towards true prosperity.
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Clinging to the Twofold Moral Purpose – the capacity to guide yourself towards higher stages of prosperity. This means to fulfill your survival, safety, financial, health, esteem, and social-emotional needs while advancing towards greater self-actualization – the increasing expression of your unique design, on one hand, and fulfilling your highest calling in service to the world, on the other. To pursue the actualization of your unique design and highest calling is to cling to a twofold moral purpose, a straight path to achieving and sustaining clarity, confidence, and coherence in your life.
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Leaders raising leaders – the capacity to help others develop service leadership and self-leadership.
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Creating systems that raises leaders to raise leaders – an organizational capacity that propels prosperity through accelerating service leadership, self-leadership, and greater leadership within whole communities and businesses.
Who We Serve
BE LIFE believes in the potential of all people to advance along this pathway of whole life leadership – from service leadership, to self-leadership, to greater leadership, to contributing to the creation and efficacy of leadership systems.
BE LIFE also trusts in the unique expression of leadership of each individual, meaning that however you are called to lead for the betterment of others and the world, that’s what the world needs most. We stand ready to help guide anyone who seeks support along their unique path.
With these convictions, we offer our services to people of all backgrounds. From tireless professionals and parents yearning for more time and balance; to entrepreneurs and business owners wanting success without burning out; from young adults building smart foundations for healthy lifestyles and meaningful work; to wholehearted individuals and community leaders spinning countless plates; to the organizational leader seeking the next level of growth — we serve those who yearn for greater clarity and confidence in how to fulfill their needs and pursue their calling in a rapidly changing world.
What We Do
BE LIFE provides individual and group mentorship, structured training programs, proprietary tools and methods, community support, and ongoing retreats and workshop opportunities to accelerate personal, professional, organizational, and business development. Our services fall within three primary spheres of activity:
Life & Business Mentorship
Life and Business Mentors guide you to achieving prosperity through building your leadership capacity. They are trained in the unique philosophy and practice of Whole Life Wealth Development — a revolutionary framework for accelerating along a path of prosperity. The concepts, tools, practices, and systems of this framework are designed to help you take charge of the direction of your life and work, without falling into the traps of hyper-achievement burnout, on one extreme end, or becoming paralyzed by indecisiveness and uncertainty, on the other. In adopting the keystone habits that Whole Life Wealth Development recommends, what BE LIFE terms as the Rhythms of Prosperity, individuals and organizational leaders can swiftly attain and sustain profound levels of clarity and coherence to confidently navigate any opportunity or challenge that comes their way. Life and Business Mentors offer coaching services to help you achieve these ends.
Whole Life Wealth Programs
Steve Jobs once described the Macintosh as a bicycle for the mind. He had read that the condor is the most efficient creature on Earth, in terms of locomotion, while humans are one of the least efficient—until they ride a bicycle. Then, humans become the most efficient of all. For Jobs, the Macintosh was that tool—an accelerator of mental potential. In the same way, Whole Life Wealth Development is the Bicycle of Prosperity—a philosophy and system that is designed to accelerate human flourishing. BE LIFE offers a variety of retreats and workshops for people and groups of all backgrounds, so they too can taste the transformative power of this practical framework for life organization and fulfillment. These educational experiences cover a wide range of topics from life planning, goal setting, time management, healthy habits, money mindsets, conflict resolution, resilience, and so much more. Where to begin? BE LIFE recommends its Flagship Course, Rhythms of Prosperity, to kickstart your journey.
BE LIFE Mentorship Training
Our Mentorship Training program is available to those who have experienced BE LIFE’s pathway of leadership for themselves and aspire to guide others on this journey. Having mastered the Rhythms of Prosperity for their self-leadership and demonstrated a serious commitment to greater leadership - being a leader who raises leaders - Mentorship Training participants join a community of collaborators learning together to pioneer the creation of leadership systems and help propel a new era of prosperity. Upon completion of the training program, participants are certified as BE LIFE Mentors, official guides armed with the experience, community support, and resources to lead multitudes up the pathway of leadership. Together, Life and Business Mentors assume a sacred responsibility of expanding the frontiers of prosperity, so that an ever-increasing number of people can truly experience the incomparable joy of discovering their unique design and fulfilling their highest calling for the betterment of the world.