To Succeed... Just Let Go

We're following on from last week's episode where we talked about how, when using your mind as nature and evolution intended, you don't have a clue who you are... you only think that you actually are your so-called Conceptual Self which is, as we now know, a figment of someone else's imagination.

This week we're going further - we're not only revisiting a couple of the key issues in relation to not know who you are, we're exploring who you could really be... what your inner potential truly is.

Most people don't know that their potential is practically unlimited. That's because most people have never glimpsed their inner potential - never even had a suspicion or a whiff of it!

But your true potential begins to present itself to you when you clear your mind, when you empty your mind of the noise in your head and present yourself to the here and now. Yes, I've used that word (present) deliberately because, when you do empty your mind of your thoughts and present yourself to the present moment, you become present, you have presence, you begin to (quite literally from the perspective on modern quantum biology) shine your life.

Shine your light into your own life now - start living your life to the full. It is going on right now.

Do you want to change? It could be something small, like the discomfort that you feel in mixing with certain types of people or in certain situations. It could be something of a personal project, like losing weight or getting fit.

You might wish for a new direction - in your work, your career or you might really love the freedom of working for yourself. It could be a more enjoyable relationship or, indeed, a new relationship.

Either way, anyone I've ever met is alway seeking some for of new beginning.

Well, that new beginning starts right now - because everything starts from the one and only place where you live your life - the here and now.

And it begins by liberating yourself from your own ideas about yourself which, as we'll see in today's episode, aren't even your own ideas.

Let go - let your new life begin.

No, I'm not going to explain what the title of this week's podcast means - like all the best things in life, you're going to have to put in a little (effortless) work to find out... the effortless work being to listen through to the end of this week's episode!!

And, as I said, we're talking about the best things in life, we really are.

For starters, this week's episode picks up on our last two: how the normal mind doesn't know what's going on and doesn't know what to do: what choices to make, what decisions to take, what option to opt for...

But that's just the normal mind and, whether you've yet experienced it or not, you don't have a normal mind, you have an extraordinary one once you put it to use for your own ends.

What ends might they be? Well, perhaps living your life to the full might be an end worth pursuing... you're going to have to take Option #2!!

We're picking up on last week's episode where I almost casually made four really important points... when you're using you mind in an ordinary way:

1. You have no idea what's going on
2. You haven't a clue what you should be doing or how to do it
3. You don't know who you are and
4. You don't know what you really want to achieve

Sounds weird - but it's the stuff of ordinary everyday life - because it is designed to be ordinary, to feel mundane.

But your life is only ordinary because you're using your ordinary mind in an ordinary way.

What if you started using your mind differently? If you could use your mind in an extra-ordinary way, your life would become extraordinary... as surely as night follows day.

And the mundane? Listen and learn!!

You're surrounded by them, you may even be one of them and, if you are, you aren't even aware of it because... you're a Zombie!

The alternative presents itself in every single moment of your life and, in each and every one of those single moments, you have a life-changing choice to make: am I going to turn up to my life and live it to the full in the here and now or am I going to continue, automatically, wandering around in a brain fog?

You aren't going to change anything in your life - from health and fitness to weight or career - if you don't make the little life choices that we're exploring in this episode. But, when you do start making these tiny little everyday life choices, you will - and you can depend upon it - end up being presented with the kind of life-changing opportunities - and it will feel like it has just happened.

What are we talking about? Listen and learn!!

Ah yes, one of the many excuses used by so-called normal crazy people to stay put in their not-so-comfortable comfort zone... I need to be realistic. Or, if I can put it the other way around, "I couldn't have that kind of life... that would be unrealistic!"

But what is realistic if not something your normal mind thinks? And, from all our conversations, you already are aware of the constraints that normal thought imposes upon us.

So, in this episode, we're exploring how to drop the preconceived notion of being realistic. We're looking at it from a practical everyday point of view because this approach has everyday practical application - from a business and career perspective, from a relationship, health, wealth, fitness, anything perspective... you name it, when you take this approach anything can happen and whatever happens will lead you in the right direction in your life.

What exactly is the approach we're talking about? Well, it is effortless (that's a scientific fact) and simply involves turning up to your own life, free of those normal crazy thoughts, in the here and now.

Yes, in this session I'm going to tell you how to achieve all of the above... effortlessly.

And, although I and pretty much all of my clients are actually experiencing fulfilment, happiness and success, this podcast episode is not based on someone else's experience that you may or may not be able to replicate... these small transformational steps I'm suggesting are based in the hard sciences of developmental and cognitive psychology, neuroscience and even cutting-edge quantum physics which, by the way, tells us how the world really works.

How does this world really work? How can you find fulfilment happiness and success? By turning up to this wonderful world of ours by leaving the thoughts that have you stuck (or you think have you stuck) behind.

Yes, you change your life by changing your mind, by physically changing the shape and functionality of the key parts of your brain - what I call the "being brain" and the "doing brain"... so utterly different from being poisoned by your thinking brain.

And, in case you're really interested in living the life you'd really love to live, you might also be interested in knowing that you can start the process this very instant.

The answer to that question is, of course, "yes" - we're all in a "mood" all of the time until we take charge of what's going on between our own two ears.

When you do, you're going to discover something so breathtakingly simple that you'll marvel at how easy it is to change your life... yes, that's what I said.

Choosing to take charge is even simpler than it sounds: you don't try to change your mind, you don't have to start trying to think "happy thoughts" - none of that superfluous nonsense is required.

All you do is... choose to turn up. Turn up to what? Turn up to the reality of the present moment. When you do that, you stop thinking (it is, as you'll discover, thinking that put you in the mood in the first place), you become present. And, when you become present, you have presence. And we all know what that means: people with presence are attractive, people love to be around people who have that indefinable extra.

And, when you are present, your mood evaporates, stress evaporates and what you're left with is the reality of living your life your way here and now. And that certainly is life changing.

Do you realise how addicted and obsessed you are? Do you realise that it's normal? Do you understand that being normal is short-changing you in every single aspect of your life?

In this episode, we're exploring the one thing that poisons everyday life - the root of all evil.

Do you know what that is? You'll have to listen in!!

But... actually this episode is really about being present and attractive - it's about becoming a magnet - it's about how to attract into your life everything that you need to live the life you'd love to live.

So, in actual fact, this episode could have a completely different title... The Joy Magnet.

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Life and how you live it, work and how you do it... it's all about the attitude that you bring to the party.

If you hate your job, you'll make it so much more difficult for you to do it, simply confirming that you were right to hate your job in the first place. Why would you set yourself off on such a vicious, thought-fuelled, circle?

Why not get off the sorry-go-'round and hop on life's merry-go-'round?

Obviously, I'm not talking about being positive instead of negative - I'm talking about being in the only state of mind worth being in: one that has fully turned up to your life in the here and now, perceived warts and all.

There are no lines between life and work, other than those we create. In creating them, we needlessly create the stress that drags us down, burns us out. It's time to bring a different attitude to the party, the party of life.