“What would you dare to dream if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Brian Tracy

After a failed business in 1992, Darren LaCroix took the stage in a Boston comedy club and bombed miserably. It was horrible. The headliner that night told him to “keep his day job.” Friends told him that his dream of making people laugh for a living was crazy and stupid. He didn’t listen.

He may have been born without a funny bone in his body, but he possessed the desire to learn and the willingness to fail. These were the essentials for achieving his dream. He says, Effort + Direction = Mastery.

In 2001, Darren LaCroix out-spoke 25,000 contestants from 14 countries to become the World Champion of Public Speaking. Darren now travels the world demystifying the process of creating a powerful presentation.

This is a great and inspiring story that shows you its ok to dare to dream and than making your dreams a reality. He shares tips and advice on staying motivated and inspired, and a few GOLDEN tips on mastering your next speech.

Enjoy and leave your comments below. Until next time, peace, passion and purpose.

Meet Tristan, passionate about finding the confident habits that let you live life on your own terms: To be happier, overcome your inner fears, and be more productive. He has made it his mission to study psychology and neuroscience, to find the routines that really work.

It started with a selfish 20 year self-discovery journey, but in the process he learnt such great lessons that he decided to share with others in his blog, Confident Habits. Taking what he learns, add the findings from his own experiments, and translate it all into easy and practical steps.

In this episode Tristan share how you can follow your passion while still working in your current career and why this act can help bring more passion into your life. We talk about 5 practical things we can all implement into our lives to help us grow our confidence and success, and even discuss ideas on how to start your own blog.

Enjoy this chat and please leave me your comments below. Peace, passion and purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jerome is the Chief Epic Officer of The Epic Advantage, a global leadership development company that helps top tier professionals lead high performing people, teams and organizations.

His expertise is in Leadership Development, Performance, and Motivation. I am committed to helping people Unleash Greatness, Accelerate Opportunity, and Maximize Performance. The Epic Advantage provides solutions to the #1 challenge in business and organizational leadership as well as personal and professional performance.

He is a Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Executive Coach and adventurist. In this episode we discuss the importance of self-leadership, three powerful questions to helping you live and lead a more epic life, plus more GOLD to help you take the flying leap to living a life that you truly desire.

Enjoy this one and if you love it share it with your network and until next time, peace, passion & purpose.

“Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honour, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.”Nichiren Daishonin

My thoughts on fasting and why it will through challenge allow us to live with greater peace. I hope you can find joy in this thought. Please leave me your comments below. Enjoy!

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