The Jerry Banfield Show

Would you believe that making the investment of a lifetime feels crazy at the time? I thought it would be more like awe inspiring or full of confidence or similar to winning big at a casino. The experience of starting to invest in a new opportunity that might produce huge returns in actually is a giant leap of faith into the unknown often in the moment looking more like a foolish idea. In December 2016, my friend Albert who works with my friend Robert at Wall of Coins sold me on how awesome the cryptocurrency called Dash was. At the time, the price was around $10 and had been flat for months. A data analysis of past history showed that the price had been as much as $14 over two years ago with the price then plunging to $2 quickly followed by a slow trend up to $10. Meanwhile, I was experience more financial insecurity than I had in a year and a half. Buying $10,000 of Bitcoin and changing it into Dash to get a masternode seemed crazy. What if I made a mistake and lost my money? Where would I get cash to pay my bills if this went wrong? After looking at the Dash community and seeing the features of Dash plus the budget proposal and masternode system, I felt wild in jumping in with all the money I could afford to invest all tied up in one wallet on my computer. Now two months later as the price has blown up to $37 turning my $10,000 investment into one worth $37,000, I am tempted to sell even though I planned for holding on for at least a year. Even in the middle of the best investment I have ever made, holding with my original plan remains challenging as I consider the risk of not selling and watching this price bubble burst potentially back where I started or even lower. I am grateful today to have the courage to keep trying even when many of the investments I have made in the past have ended up turning to dust. Today I know that courageously doing the right thing for the right reasons allows me to make something of the opportunities I have instead of just sitting on the sidelines predicting and wishing. My exercise for today is to remember WHY I invested to begin with which was not to make money but to be a part of a community and GIVE my money to people who would be able to make the best use of it in building this new cryptocurrency or digital cash money online! Thank you for reading about day 111 of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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How do we balance the need for fun, variety, and uncertainty in our lives with our desire for safety, security, and certainty? Endless innovation or constant never ending improvement is the way to get both a stable life full of peace and continuously improve in each area of our lives. Taking a leap of faith on each new innovation brings the feeling of risk and excitement we seek when we are bored. The improvements that come from each new success then increase the feelings of certainty we work so hard for in our relationships, work, and health. Just when I was starting to feel comfortable and certain in my filming studio after months of not changing anything, I realized yesterday it was time for innovation because I always need to continue improving my recording setup to provide you with the best audio and visual experience. While it is uncomfortable ordering $800 in new audio recording equipment, I also enjoy the discomfort a bit because the rest of my life is so stable. Considering upgrading my audio is enough to keep my life from feeling boring and to help me avoid causing problems in other areas just to keep things interesting. The balancing act to me seems to be to maintain stability in most areas and consciously continue to test and innovate in each area of my life for the element of surprise and fun. Thank you very much for reading about day 110 of Happier People podcast here! My exercise is to watch the balance in my life today so that I embrace the opportunities to improve instead of fighting them into certainty and I find gratitude in the peace I have in my life enough to not cause new problems in an effort to get more variety!

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How is it we end up feeling like the victim in a situation where we chose to participate after figuring we can save everyone, demand everything go our way, and then we act like the world did us wrong when challenges come up? Hear my thoughts on this bait and switch victimization followed by an ask me anything live question and answer session for the rest of the show during day 109 of Happier People podcast!

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Would you prefer a live question and answer session with me today instead of me just talking? Ask me anything during day 107 of Happier People podcast!

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Do we overestimate what we can do in a year and underestimate we can do in a decade? Explore the power of practical persistence with me during Day 106 of Happier People podcast!

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How to make anxiety and uncertainty into faith and fun? Hear my answers to that as I am grateful today to have a choice between having a life filled with faith, fun, and adventure instead of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty! My exercise for today is to expand my focus today on my gratitude for having a life where I am comfortable with uncertainty and where I choose to know everything will be okay in the face of anxious thoughts. Thank you for joining me for day 105 of Happier People podcast!

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What works to end anxiety and depression forever starting now? After suffering through being anxious and depressed for most of my adult life, today I have a way that works to completely overcome nearly all negative emotions! Would you watch the video until the end to experience the same shift for yourself? The most helpful part might be where I mention about hysteria. Hysteria means ungovernable emotional excess and for hundreds of years this was a common diagnosis especially in women. Symptoms included faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, desire for sex, and a tendency to cause trouble. Treatments included anything from the insane asylum a horrible surgery which removed the uterus. Today, hysteria is no longer a medical diagnosis. Where did it go? Did all cases of hysteria suddenly become curred? Was it just a made up name for a feeling of something wrong inside that now we have shifted into calling anxiety and depression? We find today that terms like anxiety and depression are diagnosed today in the same way hysteria was a hundred years ago. In learning about this, I hope you are able to break the cycle of feeling like something is wrong with you and embrace the beautiful life you have today. Anxiety is defined according to Google as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. In order to feel anxious, it is 100% necessary to have enough energy to get that worked up in the first place! I have learned that what I used to call anxiety is simply connecting my thoughts to an excited and alive state of my body. The feeling that anxiety points to really is a good thing because to be anxious requires being alive. With depression, the same thing is true. How would you feel if you were relaxed and at peace? Depression often points to a state of wanting to take a break and rest while being anxious often points to the opposite. For us today the problem is that we have use two opposite terms to define how we feel and then in every waking moment we often see only anxiety or depression. Life quickly becomes unlivable with these labels under the constant feeling something is wrong. I hope watching this video will help provide a solution. If you would like to learn more, would you watch my complete autobiography called Speaker Meeting 2017 at https://jerrybanfield.com/freecourses/ or see the full version on YouTube for adults only at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzmDezsRZA to get a complete look at what I have been through in my life and how I am able to live a happy and health life today? My exercise for today is to remember this myself as I go through the day and ask for help to avoid the temptation to define my life in terms of anxiety and depression again! Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy Day 104 of Happier People podcast here with me!

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What did I learn reading Tony Robbin's book Awaken the Giant Within at http://amzn.to/2m427Gx? Hear the story during day 103 of Happier People podcast as to how I started reading this book and what a positive difference it made in my life!

Here is an exercise I did as a part of the book you might enjoy! In reading Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins, I am completing one assignment here where I will explain the rules I want for my life in the for the following questions!

What does it take for me to feel successful?

How to I define feeling loved?

Where am I satisfying feelings of confidence?

When am I allowed to feel excellent?

These are the rules I am making for feeling successful today!

Anytime I take an action to help someone else I am successful.

When I give generously such as on my free courses page, I am showing success.

Changing a diaper.

Asking for help.

Sharing my experience.

Paying for service.

Watching a class on Skillshare.

Listening to a book.

Making a debt payment.

Having faith.

How about my rules for feeling loved?

Petting a dog.

Smiling at anyone.

Giving a hug.

Giving a compliment.

Accepting and letting go of the need to change.

Sharing an old secret openly.

Wishing good luck.

Spending time with someone.

Looking without fear.

Feeling confident happens when!

I trust unconditionally.

Remembering this too shall pass.

Start and finish a prayer.

Smiling and laughing.

Raising my head up after a failure.

Show up for life and any activity.

Waking up and going to be without a drink.

Dancing with or without tears in my eyes.

What does it take for me to feel excellent?

Laughter at myself and life's beauty.

Drinking my daily raw vegan smoothie with a pound of fruit and a pound of vegetables.

Enjoying a glass of matcha green or black tea.

Appreciating the health I have today.

Walking my dogs.

Going to bed on time.

Getting up when I am needed.

Praying before getting out of bed.

Finishing a video or blog post.

Choosing not to engage in anger, fear, remorse, guilt, shame, frustration, and annoyance.

Not reacting when another driver makes what I judge as a bad decision.

Playing with my daughter.

Sitting on the couch with my wife.

By design, I work to make all of my rules for feeling successful, excellent, confident, and loved results that I can fully control. I give myself permission to feel good every day for doing pretty much anything because this allows me to share the happiness I have with the rest of the world. Making challenging rules based on requiring others to do actions like give me love, money, power, and respect only ever left me miserable. Today I am grateful to feel fully responsible for my mental state and to actually follow an exercise in a book instead of just blowing it off!

Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed it!

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Hear how each decision I make today literally changes my entire destiny and that of the world as I explore what is called the butterfly effect in real time during day 102 of Happier People podcast!

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