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The Awesome Day Exercise

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A number of years ago, one of the coaches I was working with asked me to do what seemed like a simple exercise.

She wanted me to write down, in detail what my “Perfect Day” is going to be like once I am living the life that I want to be living.

At first this seemed like an easy thing to do, but once I started to actually think about this exercise it became a lot more complicated than I thought.

I started off by imagining the “perfect” way that I would want to wake up.  Where would I be?  What time would it be at?  Who or what would wake me up?  What would the temperature be like?

Then I tried to imagine what my “perfect” breakfast scenario would be.  What would I want to eat?  Who would I want to be there with me?  Where would we be?

As I went through the day in my mind and tried to imagine the “perfect day”, I actually ended up getting more and more frustrated.

Why?

Well, because there are so many different things that I love doing, but trying to fit all of them into one “perfect day” was virtually impossible.

For example, I imagined that on my perfect day I would get private lessons in the martial art that I used to practice a few years ago.  But then I also wanted to play some basketball with my friends.  But if I had an intense martial arts workout that day, then basketball might be too much to do as well.

Unless of course those were the only things I was doing that day, but in my “perfect day” scenario they weren’t!

There were so many other things that I wanted to do, and it wasn’t trying to figure out which stuff to keep and which stuff to get rid of.

In the end I just couldn’t really come up with a “Perfect Day”.  There were just too many different things I wanted to do, and not all of them were physically possible to be done all in one day.

So instead I decided to do something similar to the “Perfect Day” exercise, but without the limitations…

The Awesome Day Exercise

The Awesome Day Exercise is basically very similar to the “Perfect Day” exercise, except that with this exercise we are not limiting ourselves to “Perfection” nor are we limiting ourselves to just ONE DAY!

Essentially doing the Awesome Day Exercise simply involves writing down the details of what an “Awesome Day” in our lives might look like.

And the cool thing is that we can have MANY Awesome Days…

… meaning, I could sit down and write out an Awesome Day for me… describing every part of the day in as much detail as possible, but without having to limit myself to that Awesome Day being the ONLY “Day” that I get to manifest in my life.

So for example, let’s say that *ONE* “Awesome Day” for me might be to wake up in the morning, and spend the entire day with my wife watching a marathon of an awesome show or movie series we really enjoy.

I could go into more details but you get the idea.

ANOTHER Awesome Day for me might be training for 4-6 hours in Japan at a DOJO with the Grandmaster of the martial art I used to study.

See by setting up the rules of the exercise in this way, I am not limiting myself to just ONE supposedly “Perfect Day”.

Instead I am allowing my mind to open up my imagination and imagine many different “Awesome Days”.

Try this now…

How to Do the Awesome Day Exercise

Grab a piece of white paper and a blue pen, and at the top of the page write down “An Awesome Day in My Life”.

Then, below that, start writing “The day starts off at …”

And from there, just let your imagination run loose and try to write down as much detail as possible about this one Awesome Day that you’d love to experience.

As you’re doing this, keep in mind that ANYTHING is possible.

You do NOT have to limit yourself to things that are “realistic”.

Turn off the reasoning center of your brain and just let your imagination loose.

What time would you wake up?

What would you do then?

Would you eat breakfast?  If so, what would you have?  Who would be there?  Where would you be?

What would you do right after breakfast?  Who would you do it with?

Would you have lunch?  If so, when?  With whom?  What would you have?  Where would you have it ?  Who would make it for you?

Try to write out as many details as possible of the entire day, trying to capture what you would be doing, who with, how you’d be feeling that day, what would you be feeling etc.

Why Do This?

Now you might be wondering what is the purpose of an exercise like this.

Firstly, it’s to ignite your imagination.

Secondly, it’s to program you subconscious mind with the images of what an Awesome Day might look like to you, so that your mind can begin to formulate a plan on how to manifest that.

Your subconscious mind is the most powerful supercomputer in the Universe, but it needs to be properly INSTRUCTED or PROGRAMMED in order to help you achieve what you want.

Without clarity and these images that your imagination will form as you write out your Awesome Day, it’s not easy for the mind to know what you want.

When I did this exercise a number of years ago, I was still working in the corporate world and one of my pet peeves at the time was that I had to wake up at 8am sharp each morning to make it into work on time.

So when I wrote out my “Awesome Day”, one of the details I put into my day was that I wake up WHEN I’M READY to wake up!

Not when some alarm clock goes off, but whenever I’m ready to get up.  It doesn’t matter if that is 6am, or 8am or 8:30am, or 9am or 10am or whenever.

Whenever I feel rested enough to get up, that is when I wake up on my “Awesome Day”.

Also, I hate alarm clocks, so on one of my “Awesome Days” I imagined waking up around 9:30am or so, being awakened by one of my dogs coming into the bedroom and “gently” waking me up.

When I wrote this out years and years ago, it was more or less a fantasy, as there was no way I would be able to sleep in until 9:30am!  I had to be up at 8am!

But today… as in this morning, and for many mornings in the last few years I’ve been living that “Awesome Day” description of my morning.

I wake up around 9am or 9:30am or 10:00am, just depending when I’m ready to get up, and in a lot of cases it is my dog that comes and wakes me up.

It happens all the time now.

Small details from my “Awesome Days” that I described and imagined have been manifesting, almost as if by magic, and often times I don’t even realize it until a while later when I remember what I wrote down.

Remember, I imagined it first.

Then I wrote it down in as much detail as possible.

Then it manifested!

Try it out.  You’ll love the exercise.

60 Blog Posts in 60 Days – 5 Tips on How I Stayed Consistent

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I’ve written a Blog post every single day for the last 60 days.

This is a new consistency record for me.

I’ve been blogging since 2006 but I’ve never maintained this level of consistency, writing every single day, for this long.

I’ve always been a sporadic Blogger who writes between around 5-20 Blog posts a month but without the daily consistency I’ve had in the last 60 days.

So what changed?

How did I go from being inconsistent for almost 9 years to finally writing consistently on a daily basis for 60 days and counting?

Here are a few things that I changed…

#1 – Not Allowing Myself Any Excuses

In the past, when I would try to Blog on a consistent basis, everything would usually go smoothly at first, but then I would inevitably run into some sort of strange “abnormal” situation that in my mind I would accept as a justifiable reason to not Blog for one day.

For example, let’s say that I was blogging daily for 20 days in a row and then I ended up getting sick and feeling so crappy that I didn’t even get out of bed.

In the past I would tell myself “Oh, it’s okay…this is a justified reason why I can’t write a Blog post today… I’ll just write a few extra ones when I fell better.”

And you know what?  As soon as I broke that streak of writing daily for even ONE DAY, it’s like a whole tidal wave of OTHER excuses would come pouring in and stop me from blogging.

So this time around I made a deal with myself that I would not allow any excuses to stop me.

My goal is to publish at least one Blog post per day, every day.

Ideally I prefer to write my Blog posts before the evening arrives, but the deal I made with myself is that in the worst case scenario where some weird circumstances arrive and prevent me from getting my Blog post done before night time, I told myself that I’m not allowed to go to bed until I write my Blog post.

In other words, sometime between waking up and going to bed I have to publish at least one Blog post (can also be a video).

The funny thing is that virtually as soon as I made the decision to not allow excuses to stop me, I ended up getting sick right in the beginning of January.

I felt like crap.  It was my first time getting sick in about 4 years and it wasn’t pretty.  I really felt horrible.

But you know what?  I still wrote my daily Blog posts regardless.

It actually wasn’t that difficult, because the decision was already made.   I wasn’t fighting with myself in my mind about whether I should or shouldn’t write a Blog post.

The decision was already made, I just had to execute.

In a lot of ways I think most of us ended up wasting 90% of our energy in INDECISION, trying to decide whether or not we’re going to follow through and do what we have told ourselves we will do, or if we’re going to break the promise we made ourselves.

Having that internal fight really drains your energy.

It’s much easier to just decide and then cut off any other possibilities from the equation.

There is no question whether I will publish a Blog post every day…the only question is when I’ll write or record it, whether it’ll be a text-based post, or a video or something else, and what topic my post will be about.

#2 – Creating a VERY Simple Plan for Myself

In addition to eliminating all excuses, I also implemented a VERY simple plan for myself that consists of only 3 things I strive to do daily.

  1. Write / Record and Publish at Least ONE Blog Post Per Day
  2. Promote My Blog Post(s) to My Email Subscribers / Facebook Group etc.
  3. Try to Improve SOME Aspect of My Blog or Content by at least 1%

That’s it.

All I do is create my one Blog post for each day and then I email it out to my email list and also promote it on social media sites, and then I also try to improve at least one part of my Blog or online business by 1% or more.

For example if I wanted to tweak some things on my Blog Theme, that would fall under #3, which I am allowed to do -BUT- it is always secondary to making sure #1 gets done first – my daily Blog Post.

Also, the only ONE thing on that list of 3 things that I *MUST* do each day, no negotiating is #1.

Ideally I also get #2 and #3 done each day a swell, but if I don’t – then I don’t.  My primary focus is just writing that Blog post.

In the past I would always learn some cool new trick or strategy or system for improving my Blog, and then I would spend all day and night setting things up, tweaking things and doing crazy Ninja Tactics and stuff, but then my daily Blog post would get pushed to the back-burner.

Now it’s the opposite of that.  I have to make sure I write or record one Blog post, and THEN everything else is secondary.

#3 – Eliminating Stupid Tech Challenges

Another thing that used to trip me up was running into technical challenges with my WordPress Blog  from time to time.

I would spend hours on end trying to fix or install or setup some new plugin or Widget, or fix something with my Theme and then realize that I’ve spent the whole day playing with that stuff and my Blog post or video never got made.

So this time around I decided to upgrade to a fully managed and supported WordPress platform called Kalatu.

Kalatu allowed me to focus on what matters most – BLOGGING – not wasting my time trying to figure out how to fix some weird WordPress error, or searching for the perfect theme to install.

That is pretty much it, those are the three things I put my focus on…

…and as soon as I did, things began to “click” for me, and writing daily became much easier.

The other thing that contributed to me getting into a consistent Blogging pattern was…

#4 – Getting Clear on MY Why

The other thing that helped me out tremendously is getting clear on my “WHY”.

As in, WHY do even Blog?  What’s it for?

I got clarity on that by declaring to myself and the world that I want to help 108 people retire from the jobs they hate and to start making money online, working from home, being their authentic / awesome self.

I put the focus on my audience – not me.

I SERIOUSLY 100% want to help 108 people reach that level of financial independence.

…AND I also got a lot more clarity as to what’s in it for me.

Meaning, what will *I* get from building a successful Blog…

… I decided that the first thing I will reward myself with will be a new car when my Blog reaches a stable $500+/month income level, so that way I essentially get a free car just by blogging once I reach that level of consistent income from my Blog and Blog related activities.

So this way I know WHY I’m doing this for myself and WHY I’m doing this for my audience as well.

Oh yeah, I just realized there was one more thing…

#5 – Scoreboard

Last month I wrote a Blog post which talked about having a score board for your goals.

I’ve been keeping a scoreboard running for myself, and I update it daily, and sometimes even multiple times per day.

That’s it!  These are the 5 things that I did to significantly boost my consistency as a Blogger. 🙂

How about you?

Have you started Blogging daily yet?

What kind of strategies have you found to work for you in staying consistent in life?

 

 

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.

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.

Why 2015 is Going to Be Your Best Year Yet

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I believe that 2015 is going to be the best year we’ve ever had in our lives.

I don’t know if it’s because the numbers are lining up from a numerology perspective, or if it’s some kind of planetary alignment or some sort of tipping point in the energy field of consciousness, but the first four weeks of this already feel totally different than any other year.

I can totally feel it, but I know I’m not the only one.

I’m seeing people all around me making decisions to make positive changes in their lives, and those decisions are coming about much more easily than ever before.

I’m seeing people starting to produce incredible results in their lives, in whatever area they are focusing on right now, and those results seem to be manifesting much more quickly, with less effort and with more ease.

It seems like things are speeding up, and at the same time coming into much better alignment.

Situations that come up in our lives that previously used to stress us out and frustrate us, are dealt with and released much more easily this year.

Have you noticed?

A friend of mine decided to focus on losing some weight, and has lost 20 lbs in 49 days and has told me it’s been a MUCH easier process for him than ever before.

My wife and I participated in a 21 Day Blogging Challenge from the beginning of this year, and we found it SO much easier to be able to Blog daily for some reason.

Even when the blogging challenge concluded a week ago I just kept right on Blogging on a daily basis and it’s been pretty easy.

There’s another 21 Day Blogging Challenge starting next week and I’m really looking forward to doing it again.

Other areas of my life, where I’ve faced challenges, are seemingly getting resolved much more easily now.

I’ve also noticed so many other people finally taking the leaps of faith that they need to take to take their lives to the next level.

Achieving certain results seems to be easier since 2015 started.

People have been telling me that for some reason they’re doing the same things that they have been doing for years, but for some reason NOW those things are producing much better results.

The Future Doesn’t Equal The Past

There is one key mental shift that Tony Robbins described in one of his books, that he said changed his entire life.

He was at a point in his life where he was depressed and struggling, and a friend of his came over to visit him because he was concerned for his well being.

Then, shortly after a conversation they had Tony had this seemingly insignificant thought enter his mind.  It was a belief that just popped into his mind.

The belief was “The Future Doesn’t Equal the Past”.

It may seem insignificant, but that one simple thought… a small shift in his thinking changed EVERYTHING for him.

He realized that no matter what has happened to him in the past, and what things he tried over and over and over again, the fact that he was unable to produce certain results in his life in the past didn’t mean that he would not be able to produce those results in the future.

Have you ever tried to produce a certain result in your life, such as for example trying to start your own business, or to make money online, or to lose weight or to get into a great relationship with someone?

Have you found yourself failing over and over and over again?

If so, realize right now, in this moment, that what you’re referring to is THE PAST!

It is NOT the present moment or the future.

YOUR PAST DOES NOT EQUAL YOUR FUTURE!

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve fallen, how many times you’ve failed, how many times you’ve tried something…

2015 is a fresh start.

It’s a new year.

It’s a better year.

It’s the best year ever in the history of the human race.

EVERYTHING is different now.

You CAN succeed, as long as you make the decision to stop giving your power away to the PAST.

The past doesn’t matter.

The past is an illusion.

It doesn’t even exist.

Only the present moment exists.

You are so much more powerful than you realize.

Only your Ego mind can put shackles on you by tricking you into thinking that you are weak and incapable of greatness by pointing fingers to your past, pleading and trying to convince you to “Look!  You’ve failed in the past, so that must mean you’ll fail in the future!  Don’t even bother trying.  You’ll never succeed.”

Don’t listen to it.

It’s just scared.

It’s afraid of trying.  It’s afraid to take any kind of risk.  It just wants you to play safe because it thinks that is what will make you happy.

But it’s a lie.  Playing it safe is NOT going to make you happy.

Going after your DREAMS is what will make you happy.

The journey towards the progressive realization of worthwhile dreams IS happiness.

NOT hiding in a cave, scared of your own shadow, trying to play small.

Whatever your Dreams are, YOU can do it!

You CAN achieve them.

I believe in you.

And 2015 is the year that everything changes for you!

I’ll end with this great quote from the great Zig Zilgar:

“You were Designed for Accomplishment, Engineered for Success and Endowed with the Seeds of Greatness.” – Zig Ziglar

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