The Strong Within Affirmation Podcast

August 1st- #213 Tag Me Tuesday The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast

I take the first chance…And I take the second chance too

The amateur gets defensive, but the master is humbled when they make mistakes. We live in a world where we’re expected to know everything, and if you don’t know it all… then you are not good enough. So we fake and pretend we are smarter by saying we have all the answers. That we know every pathway to what is right or wrong.

I believe progress happens not in knowing it all, but in being a life-long student.  Some of the smartest people I know gave me great advice, but they were also some of the greatest listeners I had ever encountered. I found that they let me be heard before they responded. They got the facts and they as they truly wanted to know my side of the story rather than just telling me what they thought right away.

People think we live in a world of left or right, black or white, right or wrong, or fact or fiction. Truth is subjective… as there are many pathways to an answer. I don’t watch the news that much anymore as it just looks like a battlefield on TV.  We look to use facts or science as our weapons to prove what is right, why we are right, and why the other party is wrong. But studies and stats can always be biased or even made to fit a person’s point.  There’s nothing wrong with studies and facts, but there are many ways to an answer…and it can be a dangerous road when we know it all…when we know the ONE right answer.

We over utilize the ego wanting to prove how smart we are, how useful we can be with our knowledge, and how people need us…and those are great things to want, but what length do you go to in trying to make that your reality?

We’ve been fed the lies that to be smart we have to have it right off the bat. We look to others and wish we could be as gifted as they are, that it comes so easy to them…but we don’t see the work they do behind the scenes, we don’t see the willingness to be life-long students, and we don’t see their willingness to challenge themselves to be wrong and learn from it.

What if you were to take more chances on making mistakes so you could further your education? That you could be a life-long student by doing your homework in life…and by taking all the tests you can to learn where you need to study and put more work into your life.

Take a chance and be willing to make all the mistakes you can…and then be willing to take that second chance, that third chance…all the way up to an infinite amount of chances to become a student of life.  The amateur gets defensive when they don’t know something, the master is humbled and willing to learn all the infinite amount of ways to a better answer. Are you an amateur or a master?

Today’s Challenge:
Be a life-long student today. Think about what a life-long student would do during their day. How do they work with people, how would they go about a conversation, how would they start their day, how would they act throughout their day, how would they finish out their day? What are their goals, what is their purpose, and what are they wanting to learn in life?  How can you act like a life-long learner today…how can you be humbled in your pursuit of knowledge?

I take the first chance…And I take the second chance too

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I allow beautiful things to flow in my life easily

Life, can be one the greatest burdens we bear…but it can also be the most beautiful thing we experience.  Let me ask you a question…how’s your body posture right now, are your muscles tight, do you have your forehead crinkled and stressed, do you feel pressure or stress anywhere in your body…and what is the demeanor of your mindset right now?

What are the exact thoughts you were thinking before you began listening to the podcast? Was it on all the things you HAVE to do today…or was it on all the things you GET to do today?  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and beauty can be found in everything if we take the time to pause and truly see it.

When I decided to see more beauty in my life, I found that I not only saw things with a new eye set…but also beautiful things began happening more naturally to me. I went through a hard breakup last year. I took everything personally, and I was upset at the way things ended. I was in a dark place within my mind and feeling an extreme sadness.  However, I knew that certain things would help me to move forward and not stay stuck in my sadness, so I began getting up every morning to meditate, to write a book I wanted to publish, and to walk every morning.

What I found during my walks changed my whole attitude and outcome of me moving forward. I walk the same paths everyday either the track outside my work, or the streets of my neighborhood.  And I found ways to see the same things differently. I saw flowers I would’ve never have seen before, I saw the grace of butterflies as they did their thing, I one day had almost a hundred grasshoppers encircle me as they flew from one yard to the next making sure to fly a 360 around me in a flutter of excitement before they went to the next yard.  After that incident I looked up what seeing grasshoppers was a sign of… and it said that it meant taking a leap of faith. So on my walk it helped me to know that while I was sad of the past events in my life from the breakup, it was also a sign that I was taking a leap of faith back into my spirituality and trusting the process of the beautiful things ahead…as long as I was willing to keep moving physically and mentally..

By my continual movement within my mind and outside with my body, I not only found more beautiful things to be excited about in my life, but I found that beautiful things found a way more readily into my life as well.

So how can you see more beauty in your life, how can you find more beauty in the things you see every day, how can you love people more and allow their beauty to come out because someone believed in them when they needed it?

When you take a moment to really see something…you will look beyond it and not just see the thing, but you will see the beauty within the thing.  Ordinary things become extraordinary, when we take the time to really notice the intricacies within them.

Today’s Challenge:
Take a walk during your lunch break or when you get home after work and purposeful look to truly see the things you pass by every day without really noticing them.  What do you see differently, are there changes because of the season, what are the small things that you might have missed, what are the big things you might have missed, what are the colors, what’s around the things you see? How do the things look different because you decided to truly see the beauty in them instead of being in auto pilot?  And when you do this leave me a comment on iTunes, my site, or whatever podcast app your listening to on the beauty you found in your deliberate walk today.

I allow beautiful things to flow in my life easily

July 30th-#211 Smiling Sundays The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast

If I create my problems, then I create my solutions as well.

Isn’t it fantastic to know that if we create mistakes, then we can create solutions as well?  Think about a time in your life years ago where you made a mistake…over the years have you found ways to make up for that mistake?  I hope you have, and if not you still can change the way you view that mistake.

I know in my life I’ve ruined relationships with the thinking that it wouldn’t last, that no one really could love me…and so I waited for the other shoe to fall. I waited till the other person could see the real me and break up with me…and if they couldn’t see it…well… I found ways to help them see it.  It’s not that I’m neurotic or some weirdo trying to fail at things or make people hate me…it’s about the story I’ve told myself, hundreds of thousands of times over the years…”if they knew the real you they could never love you.”

You see, that story is utter crap…not because I’m perfect, I’m far from it…but it’s based upon the idea that I need to be perfect for someone to love me.  I believed everyone else had it altogether while I was sweating bullets hoping no one would find out that I wasn’t perfect or good enough for them.  And so, I created relationships that would never last because of what I kept telling myself. I had created my own problems and magnified them.

The beautiful thing about my old story, is it can be changed anytime I want to change it.  It’s just a shift in thinking that I’m not perfect, no one else is perfect, people don’t expect me to be perfect, and the ones who will love me for my imperfections are keepers.

So what stories are you telling that are keeping you from moving forward in your life? What problems have you created that have kept you stuck? You see the external circumstances or excuses you tell yourself of why you can’t, how you aren’t good enough, that you don’t have enough money to start this or that, or whatever B.S. excuse you tell yourself that keeps you stuck…all of those excuses are not true.  They are you looking at a problem, thinking you need to have the answer right now, and you are magnifying that problem within your mind.

What if you were to look at the problems in your life not as a final chapter, but more of a learning lesson… That it’s the chance to see what you aren’t happy about and what you can do to make the change that you want to become happy with your situation in life. Most times that change is just a change in thinking. It’s just a change in telling the story that you want to tell. As I said with my problem, it was less about waiting for people to find out that I’m not perfect…and more about showing people my vulnerabilities and loving them with all my heart instead of having one foot out the door the whole time waiting for them to leave me. Perfection is over rated anyways. I love being imperfectly amazing.

Today’s Challenge:
What stories have you been telling that have been keeping you stuck in your problems?  What stories have you been telling that are creating the problems in your life? And what story would you rather tell? Write those down and list the 3 next best action steps to begin implementing the new story you want to tell about your life.

Who we are is directed by the story we tell about who we THINK we are. If you don’t like where you are, begin telling a different story and following through with what you think, say, and do.

If I create my problems, then I create my solutions as well.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I don’t wait for beauty to happen I make things beautiful

We wait for wonderful things to happen to us or for us…never realizing that beauty is already around us. We wish and hope for these big things to happen…that we’ll win the lottery, that we’ll kiss a frog and they’ll turn into a prince, or that magically the thing we wish to be great in our lives will happen immediately.

It’s great to wish for wonderful things, but sometimes we spend so much time focusing on fantasy that we miss the amazing TRUE fantasy that is happening within our lives. We spend so much time looking for that unicorn that we miss the horses in our lives that could become unicorns…or already are unicorns but we’ve blinded ourselves from the world’s magnificence and beauty by focusing on what we don’t have.

It's been pretty hot here in Tennessee this past week. The humidity is high and the heat index has been above one hundred degrees. It feels like you are melting when you step outside…but I don’t complain. We all have a complaining meter within our lives…there’s only so much complaining you can handle before your happiness meter overloads.

Being on social media it always humors me how people can complain about EVERYTHING. It’s too hot, its too cold, it’s raining too much, or it’s too dry. I get it, we want optimal conditions, but while we search for the optimal conditions…we miss the beauty that is happening right in front of us. Complaining about things we have no control over only does two things…it takes your focus away from what you truly want as you focus on what you don’t like…and it keeps you in a perpetual state of finding things to be unhappy about.

What if you were to focus on finding the beauty and blessing within something first before finding what you don’t like about an event?  What if you were to not complain out loud about what you don’t like and release it from your mind? And what if you were to search for happiness in each moment…in knowing that you have another day on this earth…Because that’s the most priceless gift you’ve been given? Finding ugliness creates more ugliness, finding more beauty helps us to not only attract more beauty…but also to create more of it.

Today’s Challenge:
What if you weren’t to complain today? What if you were to find the blessings in the things you might see as inconvenience?  Today I challenge you to pivot from saying the things you don’t like and finding ways to see what you like about a situation, or finding ways to be comfortable in a situation that you might have normally complained about. There are no bad situations, there are only bad thoughts you attribute to that situation. Today I challenge you to rise above the situation, to not let it control your happiness, and for you to choose how you want to focus on your happiness today.

I don’t wait for beauty to happen I make things beautiful

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I Trust People

Now, I know someone will say…you have to be careful, you have to watch yourself…someone will be out to take advantadge of you, someone will try to steal from you if you let them… or that the weak, are the ones preyed upon.  And yes there are wolves among us, but the wolves attack when we’re not being attentive.

It’s not that you can’t trust the world, or that you can’t trust people, but it’s more about opening ourselves up wisely.

In my early 20’s I was taken advantage of by a friend, they wrote me a lot of bad checks telling me they had money that they never had. The things that I struggled with after the fact were the questions of…was He really delusional and believed his stories he told me…or was he just a really good conman and knew that he could take advantage of my kindness?

My “so called friend” was sent to jail, as he had printed fake checks from his home printer and had been in trouble for doing this before to other people. 

I was talking with my mentor after the fact because I was so angry about it happening.  But thinking about it now, I don’t think I was so mad at my friend as I was more mad at myself. I knew something wasn’t right, but I kept telling myself things like… “He’s my friend he would never do anything like this to me, there has to be a reason why these checks keep bouncing, I trust him-there’s no way that he would be trying to hurt me.”

I made a statement to my mentor as I was troubled because my whole idea of how to function within the world was being shattered around me on trusting people—and so I asked him… “How do I go on without trusting people? I don’t want to always be questioning who might be out to take advantage of me.”

My mentor said with such clarity, “it’s not that you can’t trust anymore…you just have to look at what is.”  Meaning that I need to listen to what’s going on, I need to hear my intuition as it’s speaking.  You see the whole time this was going on, something didn’t feel right inside, the pieces didn’t match what my friend kept telling me…that things were fine, and not to worry.  But inside my intuition knew better but I kept silencing it by not wanting to see the truth of the matter. I didn’t want to believe that a friend could take advantage of me.  I was afraid to shatter my personal truth: that my friends won’t always be there for me, and that sometimes the ones that hurt us the most are not strangers but the ones closest to us.  You see, I’ve been hurt before from the stories I tell about how I expect friends to be. I would do anything for a friend, but when they won’t do the same for me I can’t believe it. I think that everyone should think act like that. Now I know I am not perfect and I do let people down, but I hope I do more good than create more chaos in people’s lives.

But you see… this story isn’t a tragic one, while I lost a lot of money from this one friend. I actually learned that I CAN trust people, I can trust them even more than I did before the incident…I learned how to trust my intuition more, to hear my internal voice and take action upon what it’s telling me.  I learned how to see people’s intentions and I learned to care more about the people who are the conmen and women of life…not because I feel sorry for them…but I understand now, that while they will take advantage of other people…the biggest lie they tell is to themselves…that it’s ok to hurt and trick people…you see the ones who hurt us the most are the ones who are hurting the most. They are the ones pushing everyone away in one form or another…and so I’ve learned to see the truth of what is, to love the ones with great intentions and allow them closer to me…and to love the ones with bad intentions deeply within my heart but keep them at a safe distance… I’ve learned to let the ones bad intentions that I see their game…and I let them know with my eyes and heart that I understand why they do it. I work to take a brief moment to pause and be intentionally about praying for them and loving them through their pain. I wish them the best in my prayers and my thoughts in hopes they will be ready soon to begin loving themselves again…so they can begin loving others a better way.

Today’s challenge:
What does your intuition sound like? How do you know when your intuition is speaking to you, how are you able to decipher when fear is speaking and intuition is speaking?  Listen to your intuition within your actions today, what does your intuition feel like, sound like, or what do you experience in your interactions today?   The more you get to KNOW your intuition…t the more you can see what is…and the more you can begin trusting yourself and the world around you.

I Trust People

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I honor my soul

People used to have pride in their names, that they didn’t want to tarnish their good family name…but let’s not be worried about our physical names, let us be worried in allowing our souls to be seen, to let others know they can show theirs too.  Let us be so willing to share the essence of who we are that people can only feel comfortable around us to let out their authentic selves as well.

Have you ever been with someone who made you feel so good that you could let your guard down, that you could breathe easier knowing they weren’t going to judge you, and feeling a deep connection with them because they didn’t expect anything from you…except for you to be YOU around them?

When we honor our souls we don’t hide in the darkness; we don’t get caught in things that keep us from sharing our best selves with the world. When we honor our souls we focus on bringing more care into the world, we focus on changing the negative perception of the world others may have by showing them a different way from our example, and we focus on helping others more than being so concerned with getting what is ours.

For when we give fully and we honor our souls by sharing it…then we receive something much greater than we could have gotten on our own.  How are you honoring your soul today?  How are you stepping away from focusing on leaving a legacy for a good name, and leaving behind a good example for people to see goodness, care, love, and life in this world again just because you decided to share your soul and heart…with everyone around you?

Todays Challenge:
Before you speak to anyone today, what if you were to take a moment to hear them, to ponder before responding…to allow them the chance to bear their soul to the world a little more?  When you give people a chance to share their soul, you are automatically opening up the door for yours to be known.  I challenge you to wait at least 5 seconds before responding as you ask yourself the question… “how can I honor my soul by sharing it with the people I am engaging with today?”  When you take the time to pay attention to people, to bring your best self to the situation…you will allow others to become comfortable enough to share their best parts with you back.

I Honor My Soul Today.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I use my heart to see people

Even though I have eyes to see, I truly am blind to the beauty of the world.  I’ve been watching a TV show called Highway to Heaven that was produced in the 80s. It was about an angel who comes down to earth as he is on probation before he can get into heaven. He is sent to help people see what they need to see, do what they need to do, or to help them put more love and trust into this world.

The reason I love watching this program is because it reminds me how I want to be in my life. It makes me question if I’m being as kind as an angel would be, it makes me stop my initial judgement I may have about someone and to look more with my heart than my eyes. It has helped me to think about how I truly want to be rather than blindly reacting.

In fact I was meeting a life coaching client at my local subway to have lunch do a life coaching meeting. I got there before my client and was in line and big family came in with a few handicapped members in their group.  Mentally handicapped and physically handicapped. I could feel my mind immediately gravitate towards the thoughts of getting through the line as fast as possible so I wouldn’t be delayed from going on with my day by getting held up by them or maybe having to help in one way or another.

It wasn’t even a negative thought, it was more of I didn’t want to be in their way as I saw they would need time to get through the line. But my immediate thought was to get through the line as fast as possible so I wouldn’t be held up or bothered.

After my initial reaction, I began thinking about Highway to Heaven…I thought about an episode called “Alone” which had a handicapped child who was homeless who made a wish on his birthday. He stole some candles so he could put them on a piece of bread and blow them out so his wish could come true…and his wish was that he could find someone to love him. That episode hit me right in the gut, and tugged on my heart strings… I even got a little teary eyed, but I’m sure that was more of an allergic reaction from all the pollen in the air… that’s what it had to be from.

Creating the body I want is easy for me

When I am working with people, I don’t help people to focus on losing weight…I help people to focus on what they want. We have the tendency to focus on what we don’t want and try to church it up and make it positive in our focus.

For example, if you were to say I don’t to be fat, your subconscious will not hear the word want, it will ONLY hear the subject you’re talking about…so when you say I don’t want to be fat…your subconscious only hears the word FAT and negates the word DON’T.

That’s why when we are writing goals down or using affirmations we want to focus on the positive want, NOT what we don’t want.  Now I know it’s hard to find what we want at times, so sometimes to find clarity in what we truly want we have to first look at what we don’t want.but we mustn’t stop there…we need to take it a step further to change our wording to what we want without the negatives in it.

The final thought or affirmation should focus on what you want …not on what you don’t want. 

When you learn to think this way, you actually focus on the root of what you want.  Instead of saying I don’t want to be poor or I want to be rich… you might say I allow money to flow freely into my life and will always have more than I need.  Instead of saying I don’t want to be fat or I want to be at such and such a weight…you might say I want and will fit into clothes that make me look sexy and feel confident in myself.  Instead of saying I don’t want to be alone or if the right person comes into my life I will be happy…you might say I will work on bettering myself so I allow and attract the right person into my life when we both are ready.

Affirmations aren’t wishful or hopeful thinking…it’s actually a way to get your mind prepared in being crystal clear in what you want…so you can take action to better yourself and allow your wants to become a reality through your effort, and it is also taking down your walls that are blocking you from what you want so you can attract the things you want more freely and easier into your life.  We fight all the things we want by saying what we don’t want…instead of going deeper and getting the root of what we truly want. When we speak with better intention and words that help to keep us 100% focused on what we want… we create better beliefs for ourselves and we create better pathways to our goals. We also begin to attract the things we want with a greater intensity. It’s about working more efficiently than harder.

Today’s Challenge:
What are you saying in your wants? Count how many times you focus on your negative wants. Count how many times you say I don’t want or any other variation of the word don’t in your desires. Count how many times you complain about something in your day. Keep a tally on a piece of paper…try this for at least a day, but see if you can do it for a week.  This is not an exercise to depress you in how you focus on the negativity in your life, but more an activity in seeing how aware you are. We all can better ourselves, and the more aware you become means the more you can do something about what isn’t working for you when focusing on what you TRULY want in your life.

Creating the body I want is easy for me.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

For every level of chaos, there is harmony on the other side

There’s always a higher purpose, a higher frequency, and a higher understanding of what’s happening in the moment.  My most difficult times were my greatest times of growth. And until I could step back and see the bigger picture, I stayed within my struggle.

In the moment it’s easy to react and look at what’s wrong, or say things like why is this happening to me??? But when we can let go of our victim mentality of continually asking the question “why me” and  begin asking a better question of “who do I want to be???” Then we change the old story of things HAPPENING to us which is a place of immobility and things out of our control… to a place of possibility and control which gives us one of the greatest gifts we’ve ever been granted.  The gift of choice….the choice to choose the direction we want to face.

On every level of chaos, there’s a higher level of harmony.  I choose to grow from the problem, the chaos, and the issue.  I choose to work through things rather than throw my hands up in the air saying I give up.  I choose to live a life of movement rather than stagnation.  I choose to find harmony by creating a better mindset and taking action upon that better mindset.

Today’s Challenge:
Look at your life and write down what chaos you’re dealing with now and what chaos you’ve dealt with previously.  See if there are any patterns in the storms in your life that have happened. Write down why you think the chaos happened and what your part in it was, and write down how you described your chaos.  Next write down how you could have seen your chaos differently…write down how you could have described it differently than out of your control…into seeing what was in your control, write down what the lessons were for you going through that event, write down the opportunities and purposes for that event, and write down the harmonies that happened during and after the storm. 

We have the tendency to wait for the storm to pass, or for the eye of the storm to happen…and then we sit and wait for more chose to hit us…as being in the eye of the storm just means we are in the middle of the chaos. The eye of the storm isn’t the calm…the calm comes from understanding that the storm is not stronger than you. It’s the understanding that you are above any storm…It’s just making the choice to not allow it control or take over you.  I know when I learned to not call my storms tragedies or chaotic events but beautiful lessons…I found my calm, my strength, and my purpose through those times.

For every level of chaos there will be harmony on the other side

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

I create my dreams

I don’t wait for my dreams, I don’t work to find them… I create them. We think that dreams happen at night and they come and go without our control. The thing we’ve forgotten is that dreams are our wants, our fears, our wishes, our anxieties…it’s a way for our subconscious to speak to us about what we really focus on behind the scenes.

Dreams aren’t happening only when you sleep. Your dreams are being written as you walk this earth. They are being created as we hope, love, and work towards those things we truly desire. We have allowed our fears to dictate our futures, and we have allowed those fears to control the dreams we hold so deeply in our hearts. Fear is the biggest killer of dreams, and it’s the lie we tell ourselves that I cannot have what I want. It’s the excuse we give ourselves to not do the work, as we pull the wool over our eyes so we don’t feel guilty for not chasing after what we truly can have.

However, your focus on fear can be changed…and it’s changed by knowing that fear is ONLY a future projection of thinking—that you cannot do something.  Fear is the distraction that keeps us from living in the moment as we try to think too far ahead and play fortune teller. Do you think Steve Jobs had it all figured out when he started, DO you think that Gandhi had all his moves planned when he decided to start a movement on gaining freedom for his country, do you think Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream all figured out before he gave his famous speech on what dreams he did have, and do you think that you have to have it ALL figured out right this moment?

Einstein said, “that the reason for time, is so that we don’t try to do everything at once.”

So today I challenge you not to ignore that fear, but to use it as fuel…to let that fear tell you what you want. Because what we fear is what we truly want…and what we truly fear is about not being successful in reaching the goals we dream of.

Today I challenge to use action, the momentum of now, as you start movement towards your dreams. Your fear is only a future projection of not getting something…and the only way you won’t get your dreams, is if you allow the future to dictate your present moment.

Create your dreams by taking action now. Create your dreams by moving towards your fears. Create your dreams by knowing those who have what we want weren’t lucky…they were afraid, but they decided to do what they were afraid of anyways.

The only way to not reach a dream is to not work towards it. If your dream is worth it, then no force on earth will ever be powerful enough to stop you. If your dream is worth it, then you will work till the ends of the earth to find a way to make it your reality. If your dream is worth it, then it will be bigger than any fear you can ever have.

Know this truth: if you dream it and set a plan to achieve it with the knowing that there is no other option than you obtaining it…then you will make it yours. Be patient, do the work with all your energy in a positive manner, and allow yourself to know you are worthy to have it.

Today’s challenge:
Write down all the goals you wish for your life. Categorize them into 3 sections

• Goals that are simple and can be obtained easily with a minimal effort.
• Medium goals that will take more effort.
• Your so called hard or far out goals…the ones that you have told yourself that they aren’t possible, or are highly unlikely.

Circle one goal for EACH of the 3 categories, so 3 goals in total- the simple, the medium and the harder goals that you want to achieve the most, and begin writing a plan on how you can make progress and even achievement of those goals over the next year.

Bonus work…Chose 3-5 of your hard goals that would be your highest priority in that list…and for those 3-5 goals write individually why you have told yourself they were unachievable…and after you do that write down how it could be achievable for you. The way a dream becomes likely…is first we begin to uncover the lies we told ourselves of why it was impossible, and then we begin to tell the real story of how we can make it possible.

I create my dreams.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

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