In Episode 23 of the Superhero Academy Podcast, we will discuss the measures you need to take as an individual to take responsibility for your life.

Each and every day we have an opportunity to plant another seed for the future, but most of us don't do it. Why?

It is easier to let life, time, opportunities, and fear keep us from living at our highest degree of purpose, fulfilling our destiny in each moment that passes.

To be mindful is to respect the time that we have, and honor our future with productivity today.

To be absent-minded is to let those opportunities pass us.

Finding and living on the edge of our fears keeps us in the place where we are living with power, creating from a conscious mind, and enabling ourselves to live in that highest degree of purpose.

With smart goals, attentiveness, and consistent action, over time you will plant seeds that will blossom into value: a money tree that was well taken care of that now takes care of you.

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Shame and Addiction. 

We all deal with being addicted to things:

The list is endless. My own personal battle with addiction and its subsequent shame was with porn, and I got started as early as 12 years old.

Shame tells us that we are unworthy, keeps us from community and vulnerability, and helps to keep us entrapped in the circle of a habit that does not serve our greater good.

The statistics behind the porn industry are mind-blowing, but this isn't the only addiction that seeks to destroy humanity's power core: our ability to connect fully and deeply.

Anytime we deal with actions that cause us to feel shame. we hole up, refuse to take risks, and engage in behaviors that we know do us no good. We joke about them, make light of them, and hang out with other people who have the same addictions.

No one is alone. We all just feel shame, and therefore feel alone, as if no one else on the planet is suffering from addiction.

Addiction is as simple as engaging in an act, an act that consumes your time, resources, and life energy; an act that causes your brain to increase dopamine production.

As long as the dopamine is being produced, the act feels good, and until the dopamine stops, we typically feel no remorse. 

Then shame kicks in. 

"Why did I do that?"

"I need to stop doing this."

"It's okay, so many other people are doing it."

"I'm not THAT bad."

Anything taking your time, resources, and energy that is not causing you to live a more fulfilled existence and change the world by changing yourself is quite possibly an addiction, especially if you seek out the activity due to some trauma that is buried deep underneath the surface.

I discuss my own battle, shame, and overcoming in Episode 22 of Superhero Academy.

Gratis - Latin for favor or "Free"

Satis - Latin for "Enough"

Would you choose to know your entire future or let it play out?

Does it matter when IT happens as long as IT DOES HAPPEN?

What role do you have to play in all of this?

Instant Gratification or Delayed Satisfaction?

Without joy, there can be no pain, and without pain, no joy.

Life will always balance itself out, for your greater good, as long as you continue to rise every time you fall, learning and experiencing as a child the entire way.

Check out this episode for motivation to keep going when things get a little tough.

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Mindfulness is an aspect of meditation that is often overlooked because the simple act of taking a few minutes to calm the always overly stimulated mind is a daunting task to the average adult who's never really had to reign in the mind.

The simple act of taking a minute after a 15 or 30-minute segment of work to decompress everything is crucial to living stress-free, sleeping better, and overall health.

With 2,000,000 bits of information streaming into our senses every single second, the 30,000-60,000 thoughts that we have during the day can easily get out of hand and leave you tired, stressed out, and wanting a vacation.

What if that vacation was in the mind? 

What if you could take a minute vacation away from everything by being more mindful and learning, over time, how your mind works and how to work with it.

Check out this episode for some easy-to-use skills for mindfulness to get you started.

I have something I want to ask you to do. Three things guaranteed to make your life better. 

One - making the most of your time, and understanding what you do with it. A calendar is a time budget.

Two - Make your To-Do list without DUTIES

Three - Be grateful, daily, and often.

Find out more in Episode 19!!

You aren't where you KNOW you can be because of that ONE thing. You know, that ONE THING. The thing you've always made excuses to keep doing or keep being involved in. That vice is the key to the life you dream about. Every second of pleasure you get now from the vice is a debit from the joy you'd receive from getting rid of it.

Every way we turn, there's always another person saying that our thoughts create reality. James Allen explains why in this podcast where I read excerpts from his manuscript, "As a Man Thinketh." Highly recommended.

Quality is easy to come by if you're a sincere person. If you bring quality and value to other people's lives, there's no way you can't succeed. Here's how to be sincere, and be a person of quality. Excerpts from Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

Makes a HUGE difference when we stop wishing and making excuses for not learning and THEN doing. So we stay where we are, unhappy, unsatisfied, always looking for more.

A couple of stories that illustrate the need to be fully authentic and truthful with one's self at all times. It's so necessary to be sincere and genuine, because now, what the mind things can manifest in the body so fast.