Imagine if your mind was the internet, your questions were a google search, and you were the one typing the question into the search bar.

How do you formulate that question?

You take some time to think about what you want to know, you take some time to word it in the way that you think will deliver the most beneficial answer.

We know google is going to go searching all over the internet for the answer to that specific question asked - that is it's job after all - so we make sure we word the question in the right way to make sure we get the best possible answer possible.

We are not going to ask a question that we don't want the answer to.

The wrong question is still going to come back with the right answer to that question. It's just going to be the answer we don't want.

But if you ask the right questions, then you are going to get the right answer.

If you imagine your mind was the internet, just like google - ready and waiting to answer whatever question you ask, could you be asking yourself better questions, to make sure you get better answers?

Recently, I wrote a Memo to The Universal Marketing and Publicity Departments, handing over the creation of the marketing and publicity strategy for my new book, It Is Possible.

The way we create a life beyond our present reality is to get clear about what it is that we want, and then put it out there by taking action, and taking this action in faith. Believing before we can see. 

So much of the stuff that that we do here in The Happiness Hunter is really about getting super clear about what it is that we want, and then putting it out there and taking action as if it is reality. 

We need to get really clear about what we want and what we're asking for. We need to feel comfortable and not scared of asking for that. And then we have to be open to the guidance that comes in along the way. And then we need to take action on it.

It's a really simple formula.

This episode outlines the back story behind me writing this memo, but also shares a conversation it opened up with Jane Turner of Write with Jane, on her Youtube show - Conversations with Jane.

Imagine if your biggest weakness could become your greatest strength?

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit" - Napoleon Hill.

When we gain awareness of our weaknesses, when they have been exposed and highlighted, we have an opportunity to choose to change.

We have an opportunity to learn how to become strong in those areas we have identified as weak.

We have an opportunity to use our obstacles and challenges to grow and become stronger, and the steps that we take to overcome our shortcomings mean that we become better than we were before, not just where we were weak, but that strength lifts us in all of the other areas of our lives too.

How much time do you spend thinking about it, talking about it, worrying about it, procrastinating on doing it, beating up on yourself that you haven't done it yet, doubting whether you should do it, questioning the best way to do it?

Rather than just simply, doing it.

Outcomes are achieved and things get done when we get out of our heads and into the field of play. With no excuses.

Not thinking about doing it. Just doing it.

And then it’s done, and you’ve reclaimed all the mental space that not doing it was consuming.

You will feel amazing. You’ve proven to yourself what you can achieve, which builds trust with yourself, increases your confidence and helps you realise even better results.

Imagine what you could achieve if you got clear on what you wanted, you set yourself a goal, made a plan and then got it done.

What is possible for you, if you just got out of your own way, and did it?

One of the most significant pieces of advice I picked up when I first started my business was this - stay in your lane.

Staying in your lane basically means to focus on what you are doing; that the lane you are in, is the lane you are in.

The lane somebody else is in, is the lane they are in.

Our job is to know our own lane and not to drift into each others' lanes.

We can run alongside each other, inspire each other, challenge each other, lift and support each other.

But my race is my race, and your race is your race.

We each bring our own set of what makes each of us, us, to our own race.

We cannot BE each other.

Similarly, looking at what someone else is doing and being jealous or envious of them, mad at them, comparing yourself in a positive or negative light.

It actually has no bearing at all on your race and the lane you are in.

When you are looking around you, beside you, behind you all the time. All it does is stop you moving forward. When we know our lane, and stay in it, we can focus on being the best we can possibly be, and bringing the best of ourselves to our own race, without losing ourselves and wasting our time and energy to a lane we don't belong to.

In a nutshell, self-esteem is your opinion of yourself and your abilities. It is the determining factor in your happiness and success.

It includes:

According to Nathaniel Brandon, author of the Book How to raise your self-esteem, it is the sum of self-confidence and self respect.

In this episode of the podcast you'll discover:

Your energetic income level is the threshold of how much money you allow yourself to receive.

You may never have heard of this before, but once you listen to this episode you will never think about money in quite the same way ever again.

When you understand and have the awareness of the energetic income level at which you feel comfortable, you then have the opportunity to learn how to work on the belief systems and the stories that are keeping you stuck where you are, and preventing you from moving beyond your current energetic income ceiling.

If you want to change your energetic income level you need to work on your money mindset.

Having a really clear understanding of your current energetic income level and your current attitude around money (poverty/lack/scarcity or abundance) is a great place to start.

The gap between where we are now and where we want to be will more often than not require us to do something that we have never done before.

It will require us to take a leap of faith, to put our trust into something that we can't see, that we don't know and that we can't touch.

Taking a leap of faith does not mean that you don't have fear.

Taking a leap of faith means that you have such a burning desire to get where you want to go, and to live your life how you want to live, and to experience life in that way that in the deepest part of you knows is 100% possible - that your desire outweighs your fear.

It means that you are able to accept that right now you don't know what you don't know, and the only way you are going to find out what you need to find out, is to think, feel and act in a different way than you ever have before.

Every great success, every great achievement, every great transformation had at it's very beginning a yes.

And every single one of those yeses was from someone who made a decision to just say no to the fear and yes to taking a leap of faith.

To hold the vision and trust the process, however terrifying it might be. Because in that moment of saying yes, something changes within you, and you will never be the same again.

The decision to decide to change can be hard.

But what happens if you avoid the hard, and you don't decide?

What happens if you just keep going as you are, and nothing changes? We really need to ask ourselves - Is that acceptable? For things to remain as they are?

Indecision is a decision in itself. Avoiding the uncomfortable feelings, conversations, reckonings.

This is a decision.

Deciding not to decide is a decision.

But something magical happens when we decide to decide. When we decide to say yes. To step up. To try something new. To do something different. To come at life from a new angle with a different approach.

What could happen for you, in your life, in your business, in your health, in your relationships? If you simply decided to decide?

Have a listen to this episode and ask yourself - where am I avoiding making a decision? Where do I need to decide to decide?

Self-sabotage is a behaviour.

Behaviour becomes self-sabotaging when it creates problems in daily life and interferes with long standing goals.

We are not always aware of when we are self-sabotaging because there is not always a clear link between behaviour and consequences.

However, this behaviour can be overcome with awareness.

In this episode of the podcast, you'll learn:

- what self-sabotaging behaviour is

- the three things you can do to help you gain awareness

- some practical things you can do to help break the pattern of self-sabotaging behaviour

Here's to your success!