Continue reading »]]> Make the decision that 2012 is the best year of your life. If you want to live the best year of your life it makes it a lot easier when you make the decision that is going to happen. Mark it down on your calendar, write it on your mirror, make the 2012 is going to be amazing vision board, and shout it out from the rooftop. It is time to make the decision that 2012 is going to be a wonderful magical year.

You will be surprised by the power of making the decision that 2012 is going to be the best. That is where the magic happens. You when decide on having an amazing future by making the present the best it can be. Be bold and take control of your life.

Lets go 2012! The best year of your LIFE!

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To quote Howard Dean, “YYYYEEEEAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”

Continue reading »]]> My last blog talked about the differences between creating projects instead of goals. Today I am going to go deeper into the aspect of the goals being destination focused. Goals are destination focused. Living your life going from goal to goal to goal, is

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telling yourself that you will only be happy until when you have completed the goal. Soon you will be looking back at your life wondering where all the time went and why you spent so little of it enjoying yourself.

If you view your goal like taking a vacation then the joy of your vacation would be getting to the end point. Which of course means that your endpoint is at home. If that is the case, why even go on vacation? That is because the fun of the vacation is the stuff in between leaving home and going back that is the point. The memories, the sights, the sounds, and the good times are the reason you go on vacation.

Switching to a more project oriented viewpoint or direction if you go by Richard Bandler‘s The Secrets of Being Happy, is that you look at your life more about how you got there. You will avoid the empty feeling that can come from reaching your goal. The, “well I did it, but now what?” You will be ready to take on the next new project.

Oh the joys of life! Of course this is build up for my next blog about building your wonderful 2012. Look forward to it. I command you! Just kidding. Also remember, don’t stop believing and hold on to the feeling.

Continue reading »]]> Last blog was about looking at the areas that you want to improve. The goals you came up a little short on. There are many blogs and information on how to use the negatives in your life to improve. That is why people triumph hitting rock bottom so they can improve their lives. You do not want to fall into the trap of just looking at the pain to improve. The biggest downfall of this behavior is that you will need that pain to improve your life. Life is a constant growth. Embrace that the only thing in life that is constant is change. It is your choice if you need negatives to change or if you can also use the amazing positive aspects of your life.

With that idea it is important to celebrate your life. As stated in my 8 Keys to Joy, Celebrate your life. After writing the things you come up short on be sure to write down what you did well. What goals you did accomplish, the miracles you manifested, the wonderful joyous aspects of your life and the wins. This allows you to look at your life and notice the things that are going right. Plus you can learn from these and find new more exciting ways to improve your life. You can look how well you did in one aspect of your life and see how you can use that in another aspect. Life isn’t all about paining and then gaining. You can gain from joy.

Personal celebrations

I will share with you my top three celebrations of this year of 2011. Three things that I am celebrating today and learning about what I can accomplish.

1. Making it to District in International Speech Competition: My ability to speak in front of people improved 10 fold during the International speech competition. Winning my club, area and division contests were a huge confidence builder, however the main benefit was the hours I spent honing my speechcraft. It also didn’t hurt that people still come up to me and tell me that their speech touched them.

2. Getting my life coaching certification: What a joy it was to get my life coaching certification and join the culture of coaches. Years of hard work and dedication has paid off. I was able to learn a lot about myself in the process and improve as a person as well as a life coach.

3. Launching a book: Going through the process and actually seeing the book in physical form was a very special thing. So far I have booked two radio interviews and looking forward to a third one in June.

What I learned is that when I set my mind to something and enjoy myself I can accomplish a lot. The joy I felt while going through each process of the top three accomplishments was something special. I loved writing the chapter for the book, going through the speech competition and every class I took through Invite Change.

Intention: With great joy I love accomplishing miracles as I serve humanity.

And remember, CELEBRATE!!!!

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Continue reading »]]> Yesterday I wrote in my blog December to Remember I wrote how December is a good time to look back and plan ahead.
What makes the look back and planning ahead valuable is the ability to be honest with yourself and have at least judgement as possible. By least judgement as possible is to not give yourself an excuse to feel bad for the things you wanted to accomplish but didn’t. To be more accurate I mean negative judgement as celebrating accomplishments is a form of judgements. Learn from your mistakes or missteps. That is how you grow as a person. Life is a practice and the way you improve anything is deliberate practice. As discussed in the book, Talented is Overrated.

You are not done with growing up as a person until you die. Making the slight adjustments will allow you to make the changes you need to live the life of your dreams. You can even make intentions out of them.

Looking at my year there are a few goals that I did not accomplish like I wanted to.  I am not where I want to be in my health, vocation and financial goals that I made last year. Luckily I realize that one of the keys to joy is to give up the illusion of being done.  That is relevant to me because I thought I have learned enough to get those areas of my life handled in 2011. What I have to learn in all three is practically the same. The remembering that life is a practice. I put to much emphasis on the results rather than the process. The process of the constant working on myself and self improvement. Hitting a wall, learning from that wall and then moving through the wall with new lessons. Without noticing I created new contracts for disappointment.

My intention is, “Through complete self love, I express my inner joy through owning the strength of my being as I continually expand my being from the inside out.”

I look forward to an amazing 2012!

Continue reading »]]> Today is a very exciting day for me because I am going to ship out my first orders for the book Power to Change. I am exited to send out great books that can help people change their lives. I am very proud to be a part of the project and I look forward to finding even more ways to find people to serve!

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Order your copy today!

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Last weekend I watched an amazingly fun movie named Limitless. Limitless is a movie that stars Bradley Cooper as an aspiring author whose life is transformed when he is introduced to the drug NZT. NZT is a drug that unleashes the mass potential of the brain causing him to be a intelligent super human.

It is impossible to watch the movie and not want to try NZT. Unfortunately in the real world there isn’t a magic drug that will allow us to be super smart. However there are many things we can do in our real life to help unleash the power of our brains so we can get close to super human as we can without a button looking pill.

5 Ways to get the NTZ Experience in Real Life

1. Exercise: Exercise increases your bloodflow and releases chemicals in the brain that help function. There have been studies that students do better on tests if they exercise in the morning.
2. Meditation: Studies have shown that meditation allows people to consciously have more control of their brain, handle stress better and also have improve test scores.
3. Diet: Having a good diet and feeding your brain allows your brain to be more efficient. Omega-3s, like found in fish oil and flax seeds are very good for your brain.
4. Continual learning: The human body is a machine that gets better with use. That also includes your brain. The more you use your brain, the more your brain will continue to get better and function. The old saying, “You cannot teach an old dog new tricks,” is proving more and more wrong as you should be able to have no problems learning new things all the way into your 70s and maybe beyond with a healthy brain.
5. Positive Thinking: Positive thinking releases joy chemicals in the brain and allows you to use your frontal cortex. Your frontal cortex allows you to be more human than animal and think through situations.

Continue reading »]]> Jill Van Leensten was nice enough to allow me to share my message of joy and intention on her radio show today, Who Motivates the Motivated. I really enjoyed my talk with Jill. We talked about how intentions can change your life, how I work with clients to reach their desires and the importance of knowing what you want.

It was a pleasure to be on her show and share my message with her listeners. Especially promoting my wonderful book, The Power to Change, which 19 amazing co-authors got together to share their message in making this world a better place. I am proud to be on that wonderful show as I was to co-author the wonderful book.

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Personal challenges build character or something like that. Especially when you have fun with the challenges. When you challenge yourself to do something difficult and you accomplish the challenge the feeling of pride is incredible. Doing personal challenges is a great way to grow as a person.

The key to personal challenges is to think of them as a challenge that is “win and learn” instead of “pass or fail”. Thinking of it as win and learn allows you to take the personal challenge as a positive even if you do not accomplish the challenge. Using “pass or fail” paradigm gives you an excuse to feel bad if you do not accomplish the challenge.

How are you going challenge yourself this week?

PS. My personal challenge is that on Monday I will do a water fast. Wish me luck!

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On thursday my Toastmasters group had an impromtu speaking night. The goal of the meeting was to work on impromtu speaking. Since most of the talking you do in your life is impromtu, having practice and being good at it is very important. Since the group enjoys my ability to think on my feet, I was asked to be co-Toastmaster with one of the group’s Distiguised Toastmasters.

At the beginning of the meeting I gave suggestions to help the group with their ability to give impromtu speeches. The best suggestion I gave was to use the improv principle of “Yes, and.”

The idea of “yes and,” is when your partner on stage says anything you take what they say as a fact on the stage and then add to it. You can use this idea in your daily life. Instead of using that voice in your head to tell you why the idea will not work. How about telling yourself “yes and” and then keep on going. Living a life of “yes and” you will be able to do the things you used to be afraid of. Not only that, when you make a mistake, you will be able to “yes and” the mistake. You will correct the mistake rather than dwelling on the mistake.

How can you “yes and” your life in the next week?