The Jerry Banfield Show

Hear the top 10 new habits I learned listening to The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle on Audible at http://amzn.to/2kWE235 which consistently help my life today to be filled with great joy and peace. In Eckhart Tolle's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, I learned to know the functioning of my mind instead of simply figuring the voice in my head was me. As Eckhart Tolle explained the pain body, I began to master realizing when my own pain body was arising which gives me the option to react in love instead of by going unconscious. When Eckhart Tolle explains about his spiritual awakening out of suffering by feeling sucked into the void and seeing a new life the next day, I understood that I already had experienced this too and it was important to keep a conscious memory of it in my working mind. For giving speeches, Eckhart Tolle mentions how he acts on faith for his talks and does not prepare anything beforehand. During the book, Eckhart Tolle mentions living on a park bench for years and feeling full of happiness which has helped me to find gratitude for my exact situation today with it needing to change. With relationships, The Power of Now helped me understand how to be aware of the arising pain body in others and to avoid fighting or feeding it when it is there. Now when I am feeling uncentered, I often will listen to one of Eckhart Tolle's speeches to relax again. I am very grateful Eckhart Tolle wrote The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment which is why I share it with you today after having listened to it on Audible two or three times from start to finish plus listening to at least twenty more speeches and seeing Eckhart live once in Canada. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy day 91 of Happier People podcast here with me! If you would like to learn more about the book or buy it, would you use my link as a way to give me a free tip of a few cents at no cost to you at http://amzn.to/2kWE235?

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Would you believe that most of us will spend over 80,000 hours of our lives working? Will you make a decision today to love what you do or find work you will love? If each of us has a job we are passionate about, how much more amazing would every one of our journeys through this life be? Today I am grateful to have complete devotion to the energy I use daily to produce this as a podcast and which. For motivation, I aim at leaving earth a happier planet than I found it and am inspired to make a place I would come back to visit again. This reason behind my tasks supplies me with infinite motivation to keep showing up here with you regardless of how many people listen. When I consider the next 60,000 hours of time I will put into this effort, I am excited to have the chance to be of service here with you today. My ambition is to continue my performance for 50 to 100 years and the greatest achievement I look for now is that I take pleasure in each moment of what I do today. My exercise for today is to look at each task within my work such as writing this description and have curiosity as to how I am experiencing the doing of it within the idea of loving what I do for my next 80,000+ hours. Thank you for being here with me and I hope you have a wonderful today!

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I used to think having a panic attack would never happen to me until it did. Would you like to hear the story of the worst one I had and what I learned from it? You might enjoy seeing how I work to prevent panic attacks from being necessary in my life. What causes a the spasms, fit of terror, and disorder that comes with a panic attack? For me, selfishness, fear, and an obsession with the future made me a perfect victim for episodes of anxiety. The opposites of these are service to others, faith, and focusing on what is happening now. Reading self-help books, going to recovery meetings, learning from healthy people around me, counseling, and prayer continue to help me live a life one day at a time where getting into misery is the exception rather than the norm. Today instead of trying to figure out how to stop a panic attack in progress, my work is to see that my panic attacks happened because I needed to learn a lesson from them. A change in behavior based on looking at my values today which are health, sobriety, unconditional love, wisdom, gratitude, creativity, play, and service gives me the opportunity to enjoy each moment without the need to circle the drain whenever a challenge comes up. My exercise for today is to continue watching for early signs of a panic attack including self-pity, anger, frustration, helplessness, resentment, fear, frustration, inconsideration, and jealously because as soon as I spot these, I know it is time to start praying and ask for help to avoid the need to indulge in another outburst! Thank you for listening day 89 of Happier People podcast and I hope it is helpful for you!

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Hear what I learned listening to Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton on Audible at http://amzn.to/2lfIrfp. The primary purpose of the book is to encourage readers to consider what impact their spending has on their happiness. In summary, investing our cash in others brings us great joy while using credit to buy things we consume for ourselves consistently does not. Buying experiences tends to bring much greater memories whereas wasting on expensive clothing, cars, and housing produces only the briefest short term pleasure followed by an adjustment from our minds to our new position which eliminates any long term benefit. With a life happier than I have ever known today, Happy Money helped me to see some of the reasons I get so much satisfaction out of my business today because of how much I am then spending on contract labor and advertising which gives thousands of people like me the chance to work full time online from home. A few little tricks from the book I liked are to avoid a commute because this tends to be one of the unhappiest activities most people consistently engage in by choosing instead to live closer to work in a less expensive home. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy day 88 of Happier People podcast! If you buy the book on Amazon or start a free trial on Audible using my link I will be grateful to receive a few cents from Amazon as a thank you at http://amzn.to/2lfIrfp.

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Hear how my morning went today as I woke up optimistic, did my prayers, and then the challenges began. Within two hours, I was dancing tears in my eyes on the carpet in the living room as my daughter continued to spin her finger to indicate I should keep going! I hope you enjoy day 87 of Happier People podcast today as I share my life with you in the hope that my experience will be useful for you!

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How would you feel if your experience playing League of Legends could earn you $50+ an hour? Watch this video to learn to reroll your top 5 LoL abilities into skills that companies are desperate to find great employees for! Take 69+ more video classes with me free at https://jerrybanfield.com/freecourses/ to ensure you never have to get a real job again! This top 5 list features search terms from Upwork.com which is the world's largest marketplace where freelancers connect with businesses needing their help online. All you need to make your League of Legends gameplay worth a lot of money is to understand what you already to do try to win the game and rank up in terms of how those skills are described in the workplace. Use LinkedIn to help find more skills and continue your education with me online to learn new ways to play around in your bedroom and earn a full time living doing it like I do!

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Sorry guys but someone has to say it: classes in school and college usually are really boring! So why are so many of us still spending so much time and money continuing to take classes we cannot wait to be over with? The REAL PROBLEM is that we get programmed to think that a CLASSROOM IS THE ONLY PLACE WE CAN LEARN! The truth is that I have learned more by doing independent study than I ever did in school AND taking responsibility for my own learning is the best thing I have ever done for my career. I hope in watching this video you can see that school might be boring but learning must be fun because a desire to learn is critical for growth and happiness while school is not. When we then sit in class and get disinterested with what the teacher is saying, the logical leap is that all studying is boring. While I used to think the time I spent in elementary school was fun, by middle school and junior high I thought learning was a waste of time because it was not fun and was not teaching me anything useful. With believing the only place I could really learn was in an lecture hall by the time I was in college, I gave up on actively trying to learn and considering anything related to be boring. Thankfully I was attracted to go back to university as a graduate student enrolled in a PHD program. As I continued my courses, I realized after becoming a founding member of the University of South Florida's doctoral leadership institute that while taking classes might be boring, learning for the right reasons was REALLY EXCITING! As I started reading book after book that my program required, I realized that if I kept learning on my own, I was free to choose what to study AND that meant I could craft myself into a person with really valuable knowledge in a very short amount of time. In the five years since then, I have been able to reach over 100 million people online with the videos I have made and have read or listed to more than 100 books from start to finish. Now I have a set of skills that I love using which is also very valuable to the work of business, startups, entrepreneurs online, and hopefully to you in living a happy life today. I share this with the hope you may be able to separate the boring nature of studying in class with the majestic experience of reading and learning! My exercise for today is to continue my habit of reading at least five books a day and watching at least 5 minutes of a video class online today. Thank you very much for watching or listening to this episode of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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How do I choose the best hourly rate for me to earn money consulting, freelancing, and working online? What in dollars per hour do I charge for my time? For being an entrepreneur making money especially with digital marketing on the internet, setting the amount I charge clients has been one of the single most challenging parts of my business. Where do I start? When do I know how to scale up? Why are clients not hiring me or why are so many clients paying right away? Is it best to charge upfront, half and half, or pay after? After 5 years of doing business online at as high as $1,000 per hour and often as low as literally paying to work, would you like to hear what I am doing today to set the bill for any new clients? You might enjoy seeing how I am now setting up what services I offer after years of ineffective systems both for me and for clients. As you listen to the discussion of pricing, I think you might be inspired to get to work on your ideal hourly rate and how you pitch it to clients as well! My exercise for today is to follow through creating the system I talk about here in this episode of Happier People podcast on day 84!

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After Googling feeding dogs vegan, the answer is YES! My rescue Labradors might live to 30+ YEARS OLD eating VEGAN on a WHOLE PLANT FOOD based diet based on stories of existing dog owners that already made the switch! WAIT you might say! DOGS ARE CARNIVORES RIGHT? NO! Dogs, like human beings, are omnivores meaning they can eat both plants and animals. What am I feeding my dogs to get them their protein and vitamins? This morning I fed them about a half can of no salt added black eyed peas (beans) with a half cup of cooked oatmeal and one scoop of almond butter. They get this same meal tonight with chickpeas or Kidney beans instead of black eyed peas and throughout the day they will get some fruit and vegetable snacks. Among all these different food groups, they receive a comprehensive nutritional balance covering all their basic needs according to what works for me as a human with an increase in protein because they are dogs. While veterinarians frequently recommend a mostly meat diet for dogs, most vets also do not expect dogs to live that long on that same diet because of the cancers our pets get. The problem goes back to a fundamental belief most of us have as humans that animal protein is better for us than plant protein. WHAT IF WE ARE WRONG? According to the science, eating more animal protein is associated with almost every single type of problem you could imagine from heart disease to cancer to brain disease to depression and low energy levels. WHY WOULDN'T ANYONE ELSE TELL US THIS? After over 30 years of believing animal protein was better for me, I discovered the science proving clearly that it is actually worse AND the reason why these facts are not widely known. Would you think for a moment about which companies would be completely destroyed by widespread knowledge that eating any type of animal product contributes to cancer MORE than smoking does? When I think about this, it covers not only so many restaurants, food industries, but also health care professionals and even our elected officials. The truth about the harmful impacts of eating anything from another animal would be an economic atomic bomb. After switching to my own mostly raw vegan diet seven months ago, I just realized how ridiculous it was that I was still feeding my dogs that I love and want to live a long time some of the worst food imaginable made out of meat that not even humans would want to eat! I am grateful for those that courageously shared this information with me today and share this with you so that you may receive the same benefits. I am excited to see how long my dogs live eating with the science in mind and will keep you updated! My exercise today is to practice gratitude for the brave men and women that have worked hard to bring me the most important facts and to continue being of service to you in the same way!

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Can I go 10 days on a mental health diet where I challenge my mind to give up getting into depression, anxiety, fear, frustration, anger, self-pity, annoyance, rage, resentment, and all the other toxic energies that it loves to feed on? Yesterday was day 1 and so is today because I only lasted 30 minutes before I had a total meltdown which I learned a lot from! Would you try this exercise with me to see inside of your own habits on a daily basis?

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