“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Bill Gates

In this episode I share with you a quick thought on why it's important to dream big but don't wipe yourself out by overestimating what you can do in a year. This expectation often dampens peoples efforts as they progress towards living a life that they desire. Not only can it dampen but it can also put end to people's dreams.

From all the amazing guests I've had on the show one thing that seems very common is that their journey to success was 10 years plus. You might be just amazed with what you can achieve in your lifetime but don't be so hard on yourself if you don't achieve it all within the next year.

Enjoy my thought, be inspired, and please leave your thoughts below and share this with your network. Peace, passion and purpose.

I believe we need to keep an open mind in life with everything we approach. This book is one of those. When anyone tells me to do something specific in order to live longer, not that it happens everyday, I don't jump all in. I instead seek to understand, remain open to the facts and my own experiences, assess and reflect on my own thoughts and assumptions, and then decide on what beliefs I will create.

Dr. Chopra shares five things that we can all do to extend our lives. The include drinking coffee, taking vitamin D, exercising, eating nuts, and meditating. If you have experience with any one of these, you will likely to be able to draw your own conclusions as to the benefits they have in your life. If you are not familiar you may just make assumptions based on your current knowledge level and thoughts. If that is the case this book makes for a very insightful read.

It might sound like I am blowing this book off, I am not. I really enjoyed this read and with my hand on my heart openly admit I have started drinking more coffee as a consequence, and perhaps a few more nuts. In no way does this book promote excess. Actually excess will really be determined by your current level of intake. If you currently drink 10 cups of coffee a day then Dr. Chopra’s view that 4-6 may be beneficial may cause you to reduce your intake. On exercise also, he doesn't claim that the more exercise you do the better off you are but that just doping exercise will be beneficial.

After leaving his corporate job Nick immersed himself in the world of thought leadership in the areas of personal and spiritual growth, creative expression and inspired business and leadership. Initially he did this through his involvement with Alternatives at Saint James’s in Piccadilly where he got to meet and host many of the leading voices on the planet. Then he began to find his own voice and thought leadership through speaking, coaching and ultimately writing.

His thought leadership has been born out of his own personal experience, struggles and triumphs. As he has pioneered in his own life in the areas of work, success, power, inspiration, creativity, entrepreneurship, fear and now leadership, he has now written about what has worked for him.

In this episode we discuss the Hero’s Journey. How to honor your soul and in the adventure of life discover inspiration within, face the resistance along the way and come out of living in the shadows of others lives.

Powerful conversation! I really hope you enjoy it and would love to hear your comments. Peace, passion and purpose.

189: Raj Raghunathan| If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy by

There is an over abundance of information that exists within the self-help industries and in general online. The successful say do this, the top 10 ways to be greater, the number 1 thing to do if you want more happiness. Here is my thought, like anything in life, you have to do what works for you.

There are timeless practices, behaviours and bits and pieces that may be beneficial to us all, I can accept this but to say that what works for me will be a fool proof plan for living the life you desire is rubbish.

Be open, curious and be willing to try things out but ultimately always do what works for you. Enjoy this thought and leave me your comments below.

We all put off following our dreams- fear of failure is a big reason for this. But if you could not fail what would you be doing in life?

I say dream big and keep your dreams alive. Don't let yourself or anyone else tell you that your dreams are unrealistic or impossible to reach, including yourself. The dreams I have are epic.

The truth is that as we grow into our adult hood and fall into the rat wheel of life, chasing our tails just to keep our head above water yet inevitably just going around in circles, our dreams fade. We mustn’t let go of them.

What a truly amazing life story. If you looked at Arnold’s life now without knowing his story you would not even begin to believe the journey he has taken to get there. This is why I love biographies of successful people, there is so much great insight, learnings and most of all inspiration. If you believe that what you dream is impossible, unreachable, then read this – you may just turn impossible into possible.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria and as a kid had a fairly normal upbringing, at least for the time. Like any young boy he did boy things, tried to impress the girls, looked for adventure, sought passion to sink his teeth into and always looked for way to make a dime. Fast forward to today, Arnold has had an amazing array of success in life.

From the world champion and arguably the greatest bodybuilder of his time, to a number 1 action movie hero, and more recently Governor of California his achievements are none other than grand. They are not everyone’s dreams but none the less they are huge dreams achieved by a guy from a standard upbringing. Not to mention that majority of his success was made in America, a country he immigrated to at age 21 without limited knowledge of the language.

To hustle or not to hustle, perhaps there is no in-between. I have my own thoughts on this word and am still not sure if I actually like it. It's not the word itself or it's meaning but perhaps the context and manner in which it is used. I share my thoughts in this book reflection.

The term hustle to me means to work freaking hard in a forceful way to have greater achievement. I believe that if taken too literally it can find people living to viciously in the future and therefor missing our the benefits of being present and now. I also believe that if we enjoy what we do the term loses its meaning. When you do what you love it becomes less forceful, no matter how hard or how long the hours that you dedicate to your art.

Over the past 20 years, Travis Bell (Trav) has been involved in the personal fitness training industry. Starting with 1 client, Trav built a personal training business that did over 1 million personal training sessions with a team who motivated 10’s of 1000’s of clients across Australia.

But rather than just help people achieve their health goals, Trav was also personally called upon by clients to help them achieve goals in the other areas of their lives. Trav’s superpower is his unique ability to get people from where they are now to where they want to be.

This is the foundation for why Trav is now regarded as one of Australia’s foremost personal development experts & life strategists. He is a speaker, coach, author and lifestyle enthusiast who is also known as The Bucket List Guy.

In this episode Trav shares all that it takes to go out there and live your life before its too late. Enjoy! Peace, passion and purpose.

In this episode I talk about what I have found beneficial in honing my energy and focus to complete tasks and projects. I am a creative and have a flourishing amount of thoughts and ideas that consume me. With this it's been a challenge and still is to tame my mind and focus my attention so that I can really work on what's important and get some closer on things I start.

It also assists me in being more purposeful so that I am not jumping from one thing to the next without any progression towards the life I truly desire to live. It is not easy but these practices help. I hope they can help you. You can read my blog post on it here - How To Remain Focused – An Untamed Mind.

Enjoy!

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