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Manifesting Body Diet

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For over 15 years now I’ve been an ultra-busy entrepreneur with a part-time fascination with advanced nutrition, health and weight loss strategies.

I’ve studied, experimented with, and tried out virtually every popular diet out there.

Except for a few exceptions, I have also lost anywhere from 10 – 40 lbs of weight each time I tried one of these various diets.

The only challenge is that I’ve always gained the weight back.

Why?

Well, funny enough most diet books or programs out there will say something like “Oh, that’s because diets don’t work.  What you need is a ‘lifestyle change’.”

Right… and then they proceed to give you THEIR DIET plan which is supposedly better then anything else out there, but they label it as a “lifestyle change“, and not a “diet“.

I’m sorry, but I’m not 3 years old… you can’t trick me into following what clearly is a DIET, simply by labeling it with a different name that sounds more fun like a “lifestyle change” or a “health program” – LOL.

Here’s the truth that I’ve discovered about diets, after being on close to a dozen different ones…

DIETS DO WORK!

Shocking, right?

If you look at every single person out there who has lost weight, or gotten in the best shape of their life, they’re following some sort of diet that is usually (but not always) healthier than people who are overweight or obese.

So you can’t say that diet’s don’t work, when that’s obviously not true.

Trying to form a belief like “diets don’t work” which is based on a lie, just so that you don’t have to take responsibility for the way your body looks and feels will not help you.

It’s much better to embrace the truth, and to take 100% responsibility for your body and to stop blaming diets.

The reason I’m currently overweight is NOT because the diets that I’ve been on didn’t work.

The reason I’m currently overweight is because I STOPPED FOLLOWING those diets after losing the weight that I wanted to lose, and so I gained the weight back.

So a more accurate statement of truth would be “Diets do work, and produce the specific results that they were designed to deliver, if they are followed.”

Right?

I mean it’s common sense.

Besides my own experience, I know dozens of other people who have lost weight over the years and gained it back.

While they followed the diets that they were on, they swore by them and constantly spoke highly of them saying “This diet really works!  I already lost 30lbs!”

However, six months later or a year later they gained the weight back and then they would say “Yeah, that diet didn’t work…I gained the weight back.”

But hang on a second, did they continue to follow the diet the same way as when they were losing weight and somehow ended up gaining the weight back while still being on the diet?

NO!

They STOPPED the diet, and THEN they gained the weight back.

So it’s not that the diet doesn’t work…it’s just that it doesn’t work if you stop following it!

So the real question is not so much whether certain diets work, but rather why do we stop following diets…

Why We Stop Following Diets and Gain the Weight Back

One of the most challenging things about my health and fitness for me has been trying to figure out why I lose weight on various different diets and weight loss plans that I’ve been on, and then go right back to gaining the weight back.

It’s not an easy thing to lose 30 lbs or 40 lbs of fat or more, so why go through that process only to then gain it all back?

This is a question that I’ve spent a LOT of time contemplating.

I’ve already invested over a decade of my time and energy into studying nutrition and diets and weight loss, and testing various different methods for losing weight…

… and to be completely honest, it is NOT difficult for me to lose weight.

I know exactly what things I need to do in order to change my body composition and to lose the excess fat that’s hanging around my belly right now.

I’ve done it many times, and I have total confidence that I can do it again.

But the REAL question that I’ve been fascinated with more recently is how to NOT gain the weight back!

That’s the real million dollar question, as far as I’m concerned.

I believe that the answer to that question somewhat depends on the individual person, as I don’t believe that all people are internally motivated the same way.

We each have a different set of beliefs and values that we live our lives by, and so the reasons why one person stops following a diet might be totally different than the reasons why another person stops following a diet.

However, at the core of the issue is one simple truth.

The reason we stop following diets is because they don’t align with our core beliefs and our highest values.

Here’s what I mean by that…

Throughout the various weight loss journey’s that I’ve been on I noticed a pattern that would emerge in my life when I’ve gone on the different diets.

Two main things would happen…

#1 – My Business / Income Would Suffer

For the most part, I have usually gone on diets and weight loss programs that last around 30-90 days and I’ve lost upwards of 40+ lbs on those diets.

I used various different methods and diets over the years and have actually become more and more effective in losing weight faster and more efficiently.

However, the pattern that I started to notice is that when I would go on these diets for 30-90 days, and my weight would start to drop, some weird circumstances would happen in my businesses that would result in my business income also going down.

In fact, by the time I would usually be in the last part of my weight loss plan, withing a few pounds of reaching my goal weight, my business would be in such a dire need of my attention that I would be in this state of mind where I didn’t really care about the weight loss anymore and I just want to get it over with and reach my goal so that I can stop focusing on that and focus back on my business.

The first few times this happened, I just thought it was bad luck or co-incidence, but after it started to happen again and again I realized that it’s a pattern.

And when this pattern would emerge I would then go back to focusing most of my energy on getting my business back to running smoothly, with the intention of going back to focusing on my weight loss / health when my business stabilizes.

However, in most cases by the time I would get my business back and running smoothly, I had already gained the weight back especially with the added stress of having a business that’s in trouble.

This made me realize that ENTREPRENEURS have a different set of values from other people, and in a lot of ways our businesses are one of our highest values because we believe in changing the world so much, and we have this desire to help other people so much that even our own health takes a secondary focus if our highest values are jeopardized.

The second pattern I realized was…

#2 – My Ability to Manifest Things in My Life Would Suffer

The other pattern that I began to notice throughout the various different weight loss journey’s I’ve been on is that my ability to manifest positive things in my life, using the laws of the Universe such as the Law of Attraction, would diminish while on a diet.

Meaning, as a practitioner of the Law of Attraction for many years, I have gotten used to a certain FLOW in my life where I can manifest pretty much anything I set my mind to and the minute I set my focus on something, it’s like the Universe aligns itself to help me achieve my goals.

Certain people, situations, resources and events seem to flow into my life, as if by magic, to help me achieve what I want.

However, when I’ve gone on various diets in the past, I’ve found that my capacity to manifest has diminished!

Once you become good at manifesting things in your life, you kind of get used to it, and so when that ability is diminished it starts to drive you nuts.

And that is exactly what I started to notice when I would go on the various diets I have been on.

It’s as if by reducing my body weight by 20%, I also reduced my ability to manifest by 20% or more!

I believe there are a few main reasons for this which I’ll get into in future blog posts, and as I experiment with different strategies, but at the core of the issue I think it boils down to one thing.

If we are on a diet or weight loss program which causes us to align ourselves with the energies of LACK and UNWORTHINESS when it comes to our food, then we will manifest more of those types of energies in every area of our lives.

Meaning, for example, if I think about having a certain type of food and my mind goes into a pattern of thinking that goes something like “I want to eat this, but I’m not allowed” or “I can’t have everything I want” or “I don’t want to eat this but I have to because it’s good for me“, then those types of thoughts tend to produce feelings of LACK and UNWORTHINESS and when we vibrate with those energies, we attract more of that in every area of our lives.

Having these realizations that every diet I’ve been on has produced these two undesirable effects on my entrepreneurial endeavors and my ability to manifest, I’ve decided to create a new diet / lifestyle program that I’m calling the Manifesting Body Diet.

Manifesting Body Diet

Whenever I create a new concept or process or system for myself, I like to give it a name or a label of some sort so that it’s easier for me to build a framework around it and also to attract new ideas, concepts, and resources to help me expand the idea.

So as a starting point, I’ve decided to call my new program the Manifesting Body Diet.

I’m going to design the Manifesting Body Diet around two main criteria that it must take into account.

#1 – It Must Support My Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Unlike previous diets and weight loss programs that I’ve been on, the Manifesting Body Diet has to be designed around the concept that my diet, health and fitness program has to SUPPORT and improve my ability to be successful with my entrepreneurial endeavors, not take away from them.

Because I am an entrepreneur at heart, and one of my highest values is being an entrepreneur, and having a positive impact on the world, if my diet and fitness programs are at odds with my highest values, they’ll never last.

Yes, they might work short term, but if for example losing weight gets in the way of me achieving my business goals, then I’ll have to constantly be in this mental battle of trying to decide whether I should do what I know I’m supposed to do according to the diet or weight loss program that I’m on, or whether I should do what I know needs to be done in order for my business to thrive.

And when you enter into a battle with yourself like that, your highest values will almost always win.

And that is why I’ve always been able to lose weight short term for a few months, but then as soon as my business needed my attention, I would abandon my weight loss program to put my energy in that direction instead.

So one of the primary focuses of the Manifesting Body Diet program will be that it must support and align with my entrepreneurial goals and aspirations.

Secondly…

#2 – It Must Support and Enhance My Ability to Manifest

The other aspect of my new diet program is that it must support and ideally even enhance my ability to manifest using the Law of Attraction and the other Universal laws.

Meaning, by putting time and energy into creating and following the Manifesting Body Diet, my ability to manifest what I want in my life has to go UP and not DOWN.

Although it’s not always easy to quantify or somehow track or gauge our ability to manifest things in life, because there are a lot of moving parts to the formula and not everything that we want to manifest comes about instantly, there is one way to know on a moment by moment basis if you’re aligned with your highest ability to manifest what you want in your life.

How?

By being aware of and tracking how you feel throughout the day.

When we are in full alignment with the Universe and our ability to manifest our dreams and desires is at it’s best, we FEEL GOOD…

Well, more accurately we feel great!

The side-effect (if you can call it that) of being in full alignment with our manifesting abilities just happens to be that we feel good or great in our lives.

So for example, if I was to implement some sort of weight loss strategy that was supposedly proven to produce rapid fat loss results, but by following that strategy it put my in a state of feeling horrible, even if I was losing weight by following this strategy, I would stop following it.

In other words, the purpose of the Manifesting Body Diet is NOT to find the most scientifically accurate and most efficient way to shed excess fat off my body while at the same time feeling like crap, and being miserable, and trying to tough it out… in fact it’s going to be almost the exact opposite of that.

The purpose of the Manifesting Body Diet will be for me to be able to lose weight, while also at the same time FEELING GOOD throughout my days, and having no reason to even look forward to stopping being on the diet, because it feels good, and I enjoy it, and it’s also producing the desired weight loss effect that I want, so why would I ever stop?

Starting the Manifesting Body Diet Today

Even though this diet and lifestyle program is pretty much just at it’s infancy stages as I write this blog post, I am officially starting this new diet today.

My initial starting weight is 242 lbs with approximately 32% body fat percentage, according to my Fitbit Aria scale.

My target weight is 175 lbs, and <20% body fat, so I have about 67 lbs of excess fat that I need to lose in order to achieve my goal.

As I embark on this journey, I’m going to blog about it on a regular basis and share some of the ideas, strategies and systems that I’m going to be using to achieve my goal.

If you’re an entrepreneur with a busy lifestyle or someone who wants to enhance and improve their ability to manifest things in their life, by creating a Manifesting Body that literally vibrates and emanates the Universal energies of abundance, health, prosperity and love, then I think you’re going to enjoy following my journey.

And since one of my primary focuses with my business right now is to build up a six and eventually seven figure income as a blogger, and to encourage and mentor others to do the same thing – by blogging about my Manifesting Body Diet journey I am aligning my new lifestyle with my business as well.

To follow along with my journey, I strongly recommend that you subscribe to receive regular updates from my Blog by entering in your email information below.

That way you can be notified when I publish new blog posts with ideas, resources and progress reports.

One Simple Tool That Can Make Your Blog Posts Easier to Read

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Do you want to make your Blog posts easier to read?

There’s a neat little tool called Hemingway Editor which you might like.

So what does Hemingway Editor do?

First of all, it can help you to avoid four common writing blunders which can make your content difficult to read.

The first blunder it can help you avoid is sentences that are either hard or very hard to read.

You start the process by either pasting in your Blog post text or by writing your post right inside the Hemingway Editor .

That’s actually what I’m doing right now.

I’m typing this blog post right inside Hemingway Editor and it’s analyzing what I’m writing in real time.

Here’s a screenshot of what that looks like.

Neat, right?

The second blunder it can help you avoid are phrases that are difficult to understand. Meaning, using words that not everyone understands, when a simpler word can be used instead.

The third blunder it can help you avoid is the use of too many adverbs in your writing.

The fourth blunder it can help you avoid is using a passive voice in your posts too often.

The way the editor does all these things is simply by highlighting different words, phrases or sentences using different colors.

You can then decide how to change the words or sentences to make them easier to read.

Of course this tool is not perfect. It is not a human being, so it’s only as good as the programming that went into it. However, even though the tool isn’t perfect, it can be helpful for checking your Blog posts to ensure that they are easy to read.

All you have to do is just paste your content into the tool, and it analyzes the content instantly.

You can try it yourself at this link.

Finally the tool gives you two more indicators for your Blog posts.

The first indicator it gives you is your “Readability Grading”. For example, this blog post has a readability grading of “Grade 6”. Which means that the average Grade 6 student would have no problem reading this content.

If your posts have a grading of “Grade 12” for example, then you might want to simplify your writing style and your vocabulary.

Of course it all depends on who you are targeting with your Blog. If your target audience is University Professors, then a Grade 12 grading may be totally fine.

Finally, the last indicator is your blog posts stats. It tells you how many paragraphs, sentences, words, characters and letters are in your post. It also tells you the approximate reading time required to read your post.

Here are my reading stats for this post, as of this sentence:

Pretty neat eh?

It might not be something that you have to use for every blog post that you write, but it might be a useful tool to use once in a while.

It’s a free tool, and if you’d like to try it out, just click on this link here.

Enjoy!

Invitation to Join My Team

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I’d like to take moment today to personally invite you to join my team at Empower Network.

My personal goal is to help 108 people to achieve the following goals in their lives:

  1. To discover and connect with your true passion in life
  2. To learn how to make a full time income online, from home, as a Blogger / Internet Marketer
  3. To replace your job income so that you can quit and be an entrepreneur full time
  4. To learn the success principles required for success
  5. To discover and eliminate any mental or spiritual blocks holding you back
  6. To help you develop more confidence in yourself
  7. To meet and mastermind with like-minded people
  8. To embrace the concept of “Learn, Do, Teach”
  9. To activate the Universal Law of Attraction in your life and take things to the next level

I have chosen the number 108 for certain personal and spiritual reasons, but also because there is a limited amount of people that I want to work with right now, so that I can give the best of my energy to those on my team.

I currently have 21 of those slots already filled, so there are 87 more slots available right now, but they are getting filled up FAST!

If you want to have a chance to work with me personally, I strongly recommend that you get signed up right away before this opportunity is gone.

Once the seats get filled up, I will no longer be accepting more people to work with directly in the small group setting I prefer.

Does Multi-Level Marketing Run in Your Blood?

A large percentage of the people who are on my team have what I call “MLM Blood”.

What I mean by “MLM Blood” is that if you have “MLM Blood” it means that at some point in your life, you joined some MLM and you saw the DREAM.

You saw the idea behind leveraged, passive income, in a system that is built on a WIN-WIN-WIN philosophy, and you were hooked!

However, maybe you’ve struggled over the years to make any real money in MLM companies, no matter what kind of products you’ve tried to promote or what kind of tactics you’ve tried to use on your friends and family to get them to join.

If this is you, you’ll fit perfectly on our team.

You will learn how to end those years of struggle and how to finally start making money in the direct selling industry – oh, and you won’t even have to bug your friends and family!

No seriously…you really should stop doing that.

There’s a better way.

Or Have You Ever Wanted to Start a Blog?

I’ve been a Blogger for over 8 years, and I’ve produced over 800 blog posts and video blogs, and have written various eBooks, reports and home study courses.

I’ve also helped dozens of people to start Blogging, regardless how SHY, how INTROVERTED they are or how scared they are to write their first blog post.

Don’t know what to Blog about?  I’ve got a solution for that which I teach my team-mates.

Scared to do video Blog posts?  I can teach you how to overcome that fear literally overnight.

Scared that you’re not “tech-savvy” enough?

If you can write an email, you can Blog.  With the new Kalatu platform we have, tech-skills are no longer required!

Seriously…it’s super easy.  They even tested it on 10 year old kids who found it super easy as well.

Or Are You Ready to Start Branding Yourself?

If you’re an artist, musician, healer, chiropractor, DJ, producer, actor, Realtor, personal trainer, coach, mentor, photographer, massage therapist, or any other type of person who is in a profession where having a personal brand with your audience is important, then you’ll love working with me on my team and using the Kalatu Brand Station to build your personal brand.

I’ll help you get in touch with what your brand is, and plug you into the training you need to establish a strong, clear and effective personal brand.

Feeling Stuck?

My specialty is helping people who are feeling “stuck” to get “unstuck”.

With over 20 years of personal development experience, and with a plethora of different personal development tools and modalities under my belt, I can help you to figure what beliefs and “stuck points” are keeping you stuck in your current situation, and how to get rid of them!

From time to time, we all get stuck.

And it’s hard to get “unstuck” by yourself, because we are inside our own limiting beliefs looking outwards from the inside, and so we can’t see them ourselves.

Figuring out what your limiting beliefs are, is MUCH easier to do by someone outside of yourself, such as a trained mentor / belief-change specialist like myself.

Think of it like trying to give yourself a haircut.

Yes it’s possible to cut your own hair if you shave it, but imagine trying to give yourself an actual styled haircut with your own scissors by looking in the mirror.

It’s not easy, right!?

It’s much easier for someone who is not “stuck” inside our own body to cut our hair because they can see your head from every angle and they can cut your hair properly.

Eliminating limiting beliefs is similar to that… it’s MUCH easier to do by someone else than to try to do it yourself.

Ready to Have Some Fun

Want to join my team and have some awesome fun as well??

You’ve got three options.

Option 1 – You can stay where you are, and do nothing.  And your life will continue just as it is.  Nothing will improve.

Option 2 – You can join my team by watching the video on this page which explains everything you need to know in order to get started.

Option 3 – BONUS! You can join my team by watching the same video on this page and then use my contact form to contact me and request FREE access to my “FreeYouNow Inner Circle” group.  Membership is limited to the first 108 people 87 slots left so make the decision now to get started by clicking on this link here.

See you on the inside!

P.s.  Eagles don’t learn to soar by hanging out with a bunch of turkeys!  Are you hanging out with a bunch of turkeys and wondering why you haven’t learned to soar yet?

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The Number One Reason You Can Make Your Dreams Come True

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Sometimes I have these weird moments where a strange thought pops into my mind and I’m like “Woa… that’s crazy…”

This evening I was out for dinner with my wife, eating at this small Fish’n’Chips place near our house that recently opened up, and suddenly this thought popped into my mind…

It was a realization that we were sitting there, and eating at a restaurant that started out as someone’s dream!

I am pretty sure that the lady that served us is the owner or the wife of the owner, so that Fish’n’Chips place was/is their dream…

…and my wife and I were sitting INSIDE their dream, eating the fish and chips that they dreamed up the recipe for and it was delicious.

Then I started thinking that we are SURROUNDED by and living and enjoying not just ours but other people’s dreams as well.

The car we drive in, was someone’s dream!  Maybe it was a group of people, but before the car was ever created it had to first be dreamed up.

The computer or mobile device or tablet that you’re on right now, reading this post, was at one point someone’s dream.

When you go to eat at any restaurant, that restaurant started off as a dream and now it is reality.

And when you eat at a restaurant, there’s a chef there that cooks your food, and becoming a chef was their dream at some point as well.

And that chef probably went to culinary school, and they were taught by a culinary school teacher, and that teacher also had a dream… his dream was to teach chefs.

And the school that the teacher taught at, and the chef studied at, well that school was someone’s dream as well!

And the construction crew that built the school is owned by someone who once had a dream to run his own construction company.

Everything around us, was once a dream.

And then SOMEONE made it a reality.

And you know what?

I bet that this someone who made that thing a reality had to face certain obstacles before their dream was realized.

They probably faced doubt, criticism, challenges, struggles and setbacks along the way towards achieving their dream.

But you know what?  In the end, they MUST have prevailed and made their dreams come true, otherwise whatever that thing is wouldn’t exist.

How inspiring is that?!

Any time we open our eyes and look around, all around us we can see REALIZED dreams from people who dared to dream, and then made those dreams come true.

So ask yourself this question…

If almost EVERYTHING around us was once someone’s DREAM and then that person or group of people found a way to REALIZE those dreams – making them a reality – then why not you?

If THEY can do it, then you can do it too!

You can do it.

You can make your dreams come true.

One is Better Than Zero

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I saw an awesome video today from Gary Vaynerchuk that really resonated with me.  It’s very short and to the point.

The attitude he expresses in this video is so important and especially relevant to Bloggers.

Check it out here and then read on further below…

Gary’s talking about doing interviews with people who you would think he has outgrown as a brand, and who his publicists think he’s crazy for even spending his time with.

He has been on Conan and Ellen and so many shows with HUGE audiences, but there’s something that Gary realizes…

… it’s one of those little “secrets” to success…

… and that is that it doesn’t matter if the content you produce – whether it be interviews, videos, blog posts or whatever – is seen by 100,000 viewers or 10 viewers.

Because when you look at these stats, like on Facebook or YouTube or on your Blog, the NUMBERS that you see are NOT NUMBERS – THEY’RE PEOPLE!

Human beings.

I’ve had some of my blog posts blow up and get 25,000+ visitors in one day.

I’ve also written blog posts that took hours to complete and then only got 50 or 100 visitors, zero shares and no comments.

The thing is though that those 50 or 100 visitors are human beings – people!

And sometimes with just one blog post, or video, you can LITERALLY change someone’s life forever.

And you may not even know about it, because not everyone who reads your content or watches your videos is going to message you and let you know how you changed their life.

I’ve met people on trips I’ve went on who I didn’t even realize were long-term readers of my blog, who told me in person that something I had written years prior to us meeting had a profound effect on their life.

In today’s world, where we have the ability to connect with millions, even billions of people using the Internet, and where big numbers like 50,000 views or 1 million views, or 10,000 followers seem like measures of success, we have to realize that it’s not just about the numbers.

It’s about one human being connecting with another human being.

It’s YOU reading this right now in YOUR present moment, and ME writing it right now in MY present moment.

A one to one connection.

A chance to change a life.

And what I like about Gary’s video is that he talks about the power of understanding that doing that ONE interview, regardless of who it is and how big their audiences is, is better than doing ZERO interviews.

The same thing can be said about Blog posts.

Writing ONE Blog post, is better than writing ZERO blog posts.

I’m currently participating in the 21 Day Blogging Challenge, and our goal is to write one Blog post per day for 21 days.

Want to know a little secret though?

I don’t even look at it that way.  I don’t think about writing one blog post per day for 21 days or even 7 days in a row…. all I ever think about is writing ONE BLOG POST…That’s it.

Only once I’m finished writing that ONE post, and I publish it and send it out… only then I think about writing ONE MORE blog post.

That’s all I ever do…just focus on ONE.

P.s. If you’d like to see what it feels like to be a Blogger, and publish your FIRST Blog post, I highly recommend checking out the Kalatu Brand Station.  It can help you get your first blog post written and published today.  Not only does it completely eliminate any technology barriers to setting up a world-class blog, it also coaches you on exactly what to do in order to write your first blog post today.