Just over 1 year and 9 months ago I started this blog. In fact this is the very first domain name I ever registered (it was registered in April 2008), originally I brought it to promote one of many mlm companies I have played with in the past, when I think about I don’t know why I thought this domain name would make a good fit.

Anyway when I decided to turn it into a blog (June 2009) I had the intention to create an authority site around personal development, cut a long story short I started auto blogging and got sided tracked in many obscure niche markets and kind of forgot about it.

This time around I am doing what really wanted to do which is have it as my own personal blog, where I talked about whatever I want. At the moment my focus is on building my online business so I will be ranting about that. However I don’t want this to be just about marketing.

I have employed a Tony Robbins coach about 7 months ago and I will also be reporting about different techniques and strategies that are working and the ones that didn’t too. As the saying goes…

“Good judgment comes from experience which comes from bad judgment”

Now that I have gathered my focus and narrowed down to specific results and not bogged down in the trenches fighting against the search engines in weird little niche markets I am really looking forward at re-launching this blog.

Anyway that is enough about me, this blog is really here for you, sure these are my words, opinions and weirdo stories however my hope is that you will find value in each and every one of my posts, after all this world is only as good as the knowledge we share with each other.

If you have any topics yo would like me to do post about, tell me in the comments until next episode.

Laters

I remember back when I was younger joking around with mates about what you would do for a million dollars tax free money; I have heard everything from very heterosexual men confessing they would give another guy a head job and swallow to others willing to cut off a finger.

We tend to joke about it because secretly as much as we would love it to come true we know no one is going to offer us a $1,000,000 simply for doing stupid stuff …or is there?

Recently Alki David from BattleCam.com recently held a competition what offered a $1,000,000 to streak in front of President Obama.

As you could image it didn’t take long for someone to step up to the plate and that man was… drum roll please…. Juan J. Rodriguez

However just like when we are messing around with our friends it seems like it might just be a fantasy for Mr Rodriguez too, more on that in a moment.

… But this got me thinking – almost all of us wish for financial freedom and riches, as a result we are presented with advertisements, products and courses about various ways to create wealth ranging from property investment, shares, start a business, forex, home business,  mlm, online information business, blogging, affiliate marketing and the list goes on.

You can find a role model of someone who has achieved financial riches in almost any walk of life to use as a role model that best suits your personality. There are many coaches and courses that are proven to have produced multimillionaires if you follow and implement what is taught.

Yet 99.8% of people would still rather buy a lottery ticket or swallow another man’s seamen just for the lure of a $1,000,000 or the perceived happiness that would supply.

Even though they know that this is just a fantasy all along.

For the record I am not a millionaire nor am I financially free but I find it ridiculous when people complain so much about money and how they hate their work and life’s a struggle and all that crap, they say they would do anything even cut off a finger to get out of the situation they are in.

I am here to tell you, you don’t need a magic genie that grants wishes for doing jackass stunts, you need to realise there are no excuses and only choices and you have the power to do whatever you want, yes there is going to be a transition period but if you have a DISICION stay focused you will wake up one day living what you dreamed of just a few months or years ago.

What about our mate Juan J. Rodriguez did he get the $1,000,000?

Well unfortunately no.

The rules stated amounts others that President Obama had to see him to qualify for the million dollars. However despite the failed attempt, David from BattleCam.com has agreed to pay all Rodriguez’s sister’s hospital bills, Rodriguez’s rent for the next year and will provide him with an additional undisclosed amount of cash.

To change the direction of the post, leave a comment letting me know what you would do with a $1,000,000 if you were given it?

A good friend of mine shared this with me, I liked it so much I thought I would share it with you. Sometimes it is good to be reminded of the small but powerful nuggets of wisdom to keep you track. To your happiness!

• Take a 10 – 30 minute walk every day and while you walk, smile.

• Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes everyday

• Sleep for 7 hours

• Live with the 3 E’s Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy

• Play more games

• Read more books than you did in 2009

• Drink plenty of water

• Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in a plant

• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar

• Make time to practice meditation and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives

• Dream more while you are awake

• Smile and laugh more

• Try to make at least 3 people smile each day

• Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip

• Don’t have negative thoughts about things you cannot control instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

• Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6

• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

• Don’t take yourself so seriously, no one else does.

• Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. This will ruin your present happiness.

• Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class, the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

• You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

• Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

• Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present

• Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch

• Forgive everyone for everything

• What other people think of you is none of your business

• However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

• Get rid of anything that is not useful, beautiful or joyful.

• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

• The best is yet to come

• No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

• Don’t overdo, keep your limits.

• Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.

• Do the right things.

• Call your family often

• Each day give something good to others.

As always I love to hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback so make sure to leave me a comment.

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4 years ago back in 2006 the movie the secret was first released and it sent ripples though the personal development community and touched the rest of the world and really made many people more aware of the universal laws that govern our realities.

However there was a movie that was released before the Secret, called What The Bleep Do We Know which was a documentary about quantum physics and how it affects our everyday life. The movie is a true mind bender and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about themselves.

In What The Bleep Do We Know Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about creating his day. – I love this! It is my favorite part of the movie and I thought I would share it with you today.

I Create My Day

The most often referenced interview in the film is Dr. Joe Dispenza’s comments on creating his day. In response to the numerous requests, the following is the transcript of that part of the interview.

“I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I’m actually intentionally creating my day. But here’s the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that’s possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

“So if we’re consciously designing our destiny, and if we’re consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life — because reality equals life — then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, ‘I’m taking this time to create my day and I’m infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer’s watching me the whole time that I’m doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won’t expect, so I’m as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it’s come from you,’ and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.

“I’ll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that during parts of the day, I’ll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that’s produced an effect in my physical body. Now that’s a subjective experience, but the truth is is that I don’t think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would come.”

(Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?^TM)

I don’t know if you did this but when I was a young child around 7 or 8 I used to go to friends birthday parties, and there was a game we used to always play called Pass The Parcel. How it works is that a gift is wrapped in dozens of layers of wrapping paper and you all sit in a circle with music playing and when the music stops whoever is holding the parcel gets to tear a layer of wrapping paper off and this goes on and on until the lucky child tears off the last layer of wrapping paper to claim their prize or gift.

It got me thinking because it reminds me of life, and consciousness. I have studied personal development and self help material for years now, it feels like my whole life in fact. As much as I didn’t like it at the time my parents were in a network marketing company since I was about 10 and as a result I had to listen to motivational tapes in the car whenever we drove any where and when I was going up we lived 30 minutes away from the closest town and a hour and a half away from the big city.

At the time as much as I used to complain as I wanted to listen to my music I am now very grateful as I now realise to some extent what a positive impact it has had on my life.

However I have a confession to make, after spending thousands of dollars and countless hours on personal development and self help material my life was still not working and it has only been recently that I have seen some real changes occur.

I don’t claim to have the answers as I feel like I am only starting my journey however I want to share some of my thoughts and insights.

If you have been following my blog I am sure you know that I mediate almost every day and I love it. It opens up your awareness so you can see things like patterns you run and beliefs that might be limiting that you would normally not recognize consciously.

Something I have noticed recently is that I used to focus on being a better person by saying affirmations, writing out an ideal day of my dreams and reading it every day, and when I feel a feeling I would associate as being negative I would do whatever I could to change it into something I would associate as positive.  I had the intention if I train my mind long enough it will begin to pay off for me.

Now I have to say this approach did work to some degree and I have gotten some good results this way, however what I have discover recently and so far it seems to get me better results is rather than focus on being a better person recognize I have all the power I need I just need to release and open up the energy block and dissolve the limiting beliefs I have.

It is like the Pass the Parcel game I was describing earlier, as you peel away the layers you come to a new understanding and new insight and as you keeping unwrapping the layers you get to the prize.

I am only at the start of this amazing journey however the progress I have made is remarkable. One of the exercises I have been practising is becoming more aware of my feelings without judgement and recognizing the power within them and ultimately within me.

Here is one exercise I have been practising it only takes 5 minutes and you can follow along.

First close your eyes and scan your body – Whatever you are feeling right now, whether good or bad or if you have a label for it or not don’t judge it just feel it.

Where is the feeling located? What colour is it? How dense is it? Good.

Now feel the power in the feeling, feel the vibration of the feeling. Good.

Now feel appreciation for the feeling.

And now feel appreciation for YOU feeling the feeling. Good.

I know this might sound a bit weird however it gets you in touch with your true power and the power of the universe. Everything is energy so feel the energy. This is where creation takes place, if you notice a limiting belief you have for example do this exercise, if you are worried about something do this exercise.

The more you do this simple exercise the more aware you will become and in some case this can be enough to lift and strip away certain limiting beliefs. Well this is my rants for today I hope it helps you on your journey.

As always I love to hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback so make sure to leave a comment and talk back to me.

Blessing

Sam