The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

"I want you to forget everything you have learned in your whole life. This is the beginning of a new understanding, a new dream."

This little book is insightful and full of Toltec wisdom. In my understanding Toltec stems from Native American culture and really prescribes techniques used to prevent the disintegration of the self and in doing so changing our perspectives and perception in life.

So right or wrong the four agreements that Don shares in this book are simply that, ways to change our perceptions to allow us to hold strength in one-self and in doing so harnessing more free and happy lives.

What story are you telling yourself?

The story we create is often one that links us to our past. Is it true of is it just a story based on past experiences, upbringing and social conditioning? It can fill us with fear and self-doubt stopping us from going out there to achieve all that we desire to achieve.

The story affects our lives and the success we have amazing ways both for the good and the bad.

The great news is we can change the story we tell ourselves. We can rewrite our book and live a life with greater passion and purpose, one that we truly desire.

"The past is just a story we tell ourselves." Spike Jonze

Loretta is Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She was teacher of management and had studied phycology for a long time and in her research she kept reading references to brain chemicals and the way they affect animals. While the dots were not connected for her she realized that we share our brain chemicals with animals and it are these chemicals that affect their behavior in very significant ways.

In this episode we discuss our happy chemicals. The habits of a happy brain, how we can influence our levels of happiness on our journey to living with greater passion and purpose and much more.

“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”

Jonathan Levi currently lives in Tel Aviv in Israel where he has taken all that he knows to set up and run his entrepreneurial life running several successful courses, coaching, podcasting and writing. From as young as he can remember he has always been in business and certainly had that entrepreneurial character traits. But his journey hasn’t always been a breeze as he shares as well as the lessons learnt along the way.

We discuss in this interview many cool things including why, in his opinion, when starting a business from an idea you are likely to fail. If however you start a business from a problem you will have a higher chance of success. He shares his experience in both business failures and successes. Discover the problem that speaks to you personally, what is your super hero origin story.

We also discuss finding your why, sleep, language, learning, fitness and other madness.

“A body in motion wants to stay in motion a body at rest wants to stay in rest, be the body in motion.”

Guthrie is the founder of venture consulting group in which he helps businesses and families help them become more profitable. More recently he has launched a passion project which is a website and podcast called Wisdom Trek where he shares his wisdom and aims to make impact on the world and help create larger living legacies for those that choose to join in.

We discuss work-life integration, facing challenge, and leading a life with greater significance.

“Lead a life of significance and not just success.”

How much of what you do day to day are you actually aware you are doing?

It is said that for many of us what we do daily is actually 95% done on a subconscious level that means for only 5% of our day are we conscious about what we do.

If this is true than how much of what we do day in and day out is actually purposeful?

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises." Sigmund Freud

“I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not a life that others expected of me.”

Do you ever get that feeling like life is going nowhere? You fell like your stuck and unable to get out? Feeling restricted and like this is how life is meant to be but deep within you there is a yearning to be free?

Life is challenging, life is full of ups and downs, and life can be difficult, sometimes it feels so hard and complicated that you may wonder what its all for, but this shouldn’t be the case!

Life is grand. Life is a gift. At times life might present you with challenges but they shouldn’t be meet with struggle and disdain but rather be greeted with a smile and treated as healthy and exciting challenges.

To help you on this journey I have come up with 8 areas that you need to focus on that will assist you to making the required change necessary to live the life of your desires.

Bird-by-Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

This is a great book sharing insights into a life of a writer and this life of Anne Lamott. Who is she? Well it doesn’t really matter does it? Who am I? This also doesn’t matter and is not the reason I write. A writer writes to feel more, to release more, to better understand life and themselves and to really tell a story.

Starting out in our careers and our mission to success it all seems to be around chasing money and material possessions, which is fine and not a bad place to start but what does it all mean?

I started here and many of the people I speak with and interview have also started out with this intention yet along the journey the meaning and purpose behind having material possessions becomes blurred and you discover a greater truth to life. To be happy, live with purpose, and to do what you enjoy.

Want to create some lasting habit, perhaps break a few of those old, not so great habits? Have a listen as I discuss a 5 step process to assist you in building greater habits.

Great habits help build a solid life of success likewise those limiting ones can hold you back. The issues is often we go about implementing new habits and breaking old ones all wrong and therefore often fail.

These 5 steps will guide you on a new path to help sustain those habits you wish to build to create a life you wish to live.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is, then, not an act, but a habit." Aristotle.

Jeff is the host of the 5am miracle podcast, which is currently ranked number one in iTunes in the self-help and business categories. It has been nominated for two 2015 podcast awards and has exceeded 1.5 million downloads.

Among other things Jeff is a 10-time marathon runner, personal improvement junky and a passionate raw vegan. He is also a productivity author and coaches, specialising in helping others dominate their day before breakfast.

In this Episode we discuss what it means to find your passion, becoming more productive and managing your time better and how to start your day off to help you reach peak performance.

“Dominate your day before breakfast.”