Afleveringen
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Well, actually, this episode is about so much more than that!
Manifestation is grossly misunderstood, dare I say it, grossly... mis-sold.
You are already good at "manifesting" - because, not only can everyone do it, everyone is manifesting - all of the time.
It's just that most people - unaware "normal crazy people" - are manifesting what they don't want!
So, what is manifesting? How can you manifest what you actually want? Or, more to the point and better again, how can you manifest what's best for you?
All your questions about manifesting and manifestation are answered in juts over thirty minutes. Worth a listen...
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Everything that's wrong in your life comes from thought. All good things flow, when you're in flow.
In this episode we explore how people get stuck, how they can be paralysed by fear to the point of panic, how people end up by putting themselves in the nearest cardiac unit.
For example, the physical effects of stress are very real indeed but the root cause is imagined - an automatic flurry of thoughts that tigger all the wrong things to happen in your body.
A mind that is ill at ease creates a body of disease.
Never mind. It's all normal and it will pass!
All you have to do is not think - we're at our very best when we're not thinking.
Then, you can tune in to what's going on, notice the synchronicities, allow yourself be guided by them in harmony with your gut instinct and... do.
And the doing comes effortlessly. All good things flow when you're in flow.
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This episode starts by exploring the feelings and sentiments of a bruised and battered leadership team - and their discovery that they had something to celebrate.
Life throws us curved balls every day. For most (read "Normal Crazy People"), the automatic way in which the thinking mind reacts only magnifies life's everyday challenges, making dealing with them all the more difficult.
For starters, in this episode, we celebrate coping. When we cope with a challenge - or, to put it in proper terms, when we rise to a challenge and deal with it - we provide ourselves with an important opportunity to encourage ourselves to move forward in our lives.
Coping produces Perfect Moments. And, yet, coping is just the beginning.
When you take control of your state of mind, when you stop thinking and start acting, when you "go beyond caring", you're ready for real action. And every, however small, demonstration of real action encourages us to "trust the process".
This "process" is one where, by taking control of our state of mind, we become action heroes - no more thinking and overthinking, no more making the simple complex, no more questioning our ability to change our lives. We just do.
And, when we just do - starting with coping - we learn to trust a process that is, in fact, a process in developing our ability to trust ourselves.
There's an inner you that you can trust implicitly - explicitly. This inner you rises from within when you rise to the occasion of the here and now.
It's time to liberate that inner you.
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Imagine investing your attention, focus and energy in what you don't want to happen.
You don't need to imagine - it's something that comes naturally to the normal crazy mind - it's called worry.
And only an idiot would go there. But, we're all idiots until we take responsibility for what's going on in our head and take control of our state of mind.
In this episode, we explore how thinking leads to over-thinking, how wondering leads to worrying, we explore the delusional dangers of positive thinking and, obviously, we consider the detailed instructions on how to take that responsibility and control that leads to an end of worry, an end to stress and the beginning of an everyday experience of everyday life that is... a joy to behold.
We explore how taking control of your state of mind is actually simple, an easy task: you don't have to fight the thoughts in your head that lead to worry, you don't even have to fight the 1.8m years of evolution that designed your mind to err in the negative.
You simply have to allow yourself be. And, to do that, you can simply use the everyday tasks at hand to... change your life beyond recognition.
And, oh, beware of red BMWs!
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You don't find flow, nor peace of mind... they find you.
In this episode, we explore how to allow this happen - it is, as the very title of this whole podcast would suggest, a process of letting go.
Before we get into that, though, we explore what flow is, in actuality, in practical terms and we explore the nature of peace of mind and its implications.
We learn that, with peace of mind, comes an understanding, an experience of not having a care in the world. And we learn that, with flow, not only do we discover that we can do what we need to do effortlessly, we discover that we can do things that we never imagined ourselves doing or being capable of doing.
We discover how to live the kind of life our heart desires, without having to work hard to get there or, perhaps, without having to work... at all.
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This episode's title holds true, whether you're a normal crazy person or someone who has taken responsibility for your own state of mind.
What's going on within creates what you achieve and experience - it has nothing to do with anyone else but you.
If you're a normal crazy person, your everyday life is the result of a mass hallucination, a mass hypnosis driven by programmed, patterned, repetitive thought, which leads to a programmed, patterned, repetitive life - no wonder, when using our minds this way, we feel stuck, fearful of change and stressed (and much more besides).
Normal, shared, hallucinogenic thought creates an assumed reality that enough people share to provide us with the "comfort" that it must be OK. It's not.
Being the creator of your own life, as you are, you must ask yourself this key question:
"What kind of life do I really want to create for myself?"
This is actually a simpler question to answer than you might think. And this is one of the key questions that we address in this episode. I hope this discussion will enable you settle on the answer that you know (normal people don't know that they know!) to be the best answer for you and yours.
But, then, this episode goes on to explain how to create the life that's best for you and what results you can expect.
Worth 35mins of your time!
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I really don't like the title of this week's episode because we're talking about so much more...
First of all, we bust a few productivity-boosting myths: like you should do the (apparently) important things first or you should do the task you'd prefer not to have to do at all before you do anything else; like you should have a "To Do List" or have a plan or, God help us, an Action Plan; like multi-tasking, otherwise known to cognitive psychology as trying to half do a load of things badly simultaneously. Ah... Myths!
More importantly, this episode provides you with a step-by-step Blueprint that will boost an awful lot more than your productivity.
Because, essentially, we're talking about focus and flow in this episode. And we're talking about the importance of focus and flow in everything - focus is not just a work thing, obviously.
Allied to that Blueprint is an exploration of "compartmentalisation" - actually another aspect or attribute of Flow.
In short, this episode is longer than usual (bit of a paradox there!) because there's so much in it - so much that will change your life.
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Another misleading episode title - because there's nothing that you need to boost!
Self-esteem is about how you think about what you think about who you think you are. How many steps removed are we from reality?
It's only our "Conceptual Self" that thinks it needs bettering, buttering-up, bolstering. The various tips that you'll find online about boosting your self-esteem are thoughts about thoughts.
And, as we know from previous episodes, we are at our best when we are not thinking. We are when we are not thinking.
So, do we need to stop thinking? And how much effort will that take? Is it even possible?
No, you don't need to try to stop something, you need to start being something... real. You simply need to come to your senses to actually feel who you really are - that way you'll stop thinking about it, stop thinking about yourself.
And, when we stop thinking, we start living. And that's a game-changer.
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Actually, the title of this week's episode is a little misleading - after all, why do you need to deal with something that, in reality, isn't there.
Yes, whilst everyday life is full or pressure and challenge, stress is imaginary, in the mind of the beholder.
That doesn't make stress any less life-destroying, literally. Everyday stress kills, like death by a thousand cuts. Everyday stress damages the cardiovascular, digestive and immune systems - but not, not ever, beyond repair.
You can choose to rid your life of stress today - you don't even have to image something different from your imaginary stress, you just have to come to your senses.
In this episode, we explore how two-step cognitive appraisal triggers stress - in other words, what's happening to you doesn't trigger your stress, what you think about what you think is happening and how you think you might be able to handle it... all that thinking is what triggers your stress and, in the process, makes what might be a small, everyday challenge, feel like a life-threatening situation.
All this is automated but that does not mean that there's nothing that you can do about it.
On the contrary - the small steps that you must take to rid your life of stress are as easy and as natural as breathing in and out.
And ridding your life of stress is only the beginning because, once free of that thought-fuelled downward spiral, you're free to start living the kind of life you're meant to be living, one that's filled with perfect moments.
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Regardless of your individual circumstances, there is one thing that I know you're looking for (because everyone's looking for it)... peace of mind.
Now, before we go any further, I do know some people who are not looking for peace of mind because they've already found it - they're owners of The Psychology of Success Online Program. You'll find details of that in the link in your podcast player!
Anyway, back to this episode. When you experience peace of mind, even for a moment, everything changes because your perspective is altered and, once experienced it cannot be unexperienced.
With peace of mind comes presence and presence is not just attractive, it's creative.
In this episode we explore how we effortlessly encounter opportunity when we're present - opportunity that your thinking mind could never imagine happening. I've picked a perfect client story to illustrate the point.
With presence comes an understanding that, in this moment (which is the only place and time that you can do what you need to do to get to where's best for you), all is well, you don't have a care in the world.
And that's liberating.
And, when you're liberated, anything's possible or, actually, the best's just going to happen.
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We're talking about real success and happiness in this episode - we're talking about the real you and how different that is from the person that you think you are, the personality that fits you like a glove.
We're talking about how to balance work and life, how to rid your life of stress, effort and worry. We're talking about living your life on your terms, your way.
But we're not just talking about it - this episode provides both the instructions on how to do the right things in the right way at the right time (and no more!) and how that actually works in the reality of the cut and thrust of everyday life.
And we're exploring the actual difference that makes: to the structure of your brain and to your experience of everyday life - how others have changed their lives by changing their minds.
And how you can do that too. Today.
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What does happiness mean to you? What does success look like? How would it feel to be living your life, your way, to the full?
Do you need to answer these questions? You certainly shouldn't exercise your mind in thinking about them!
In this episode, we explore how we need not define happiness and success, how we need to know what it's like to feel it and how, when we do feel it, even if only for a glancing moment, do we sustain it.
Yes, living your "best life" - an awful expression but you know what I mean - is but a breath away or, perhaps, not even that!
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As is often the case, I sat down to record one episode and an entirely different episode emerged... it's called being in flow!
So, whilst the above title is spot on, I explore a variety of ways in which we normally try to succeed or excel, which simply do not work - or worse set us up for disappointment or failure - as an introduction to the last ten minutes of this episode when... you get exactly what it says on the tin!
What does that mean? You're getting simple instruction in proper meditation. You're getting a refresher in the importance of proper meditation and we're more deeply exploring what passes for living when you've not embarked on a program of proper meditation.
This episode goes around the houses just a bit before getting to the point but, as with life itself, the journey is what's important. Listen carefully, you never know when you'll have an "Aha Moment".
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Well, now - there's so much in this episode!
We debunk the idea that you can get more out of life by working harder, not smarter. You don't have to work at all.
We get to understand your life's purpose. Yes, I already know it!
We deal with the confusion created by too many apparent bright ideas and we understand how, when we take our foot off the gas, we accelerate.
Yes - the whole process, the flow of synchronicities, the abundance of real-life, everyday results, everything accelerates when you ease up.
What do we mean by easing up? Well, you really should invest just over half an hour of your time by listening to this episode - it may be the one that tips you over that tipping point into living right now like you mean it.
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There's so much in this episode: from reflecting on how you react or how you've noticed that you're less prone to reaction, to considering how you say and do what you might previously have been coy about saying and doing; from how your doing mind looks after you, does things for you to how your automatic mind does things to you.
We explore the hows of looking after your moment-to-moment behaviour, allowing yourself make the right choices and decisions and being agile to get the most out fo the moment.
And we highlight the significance of the apparent insignificance of the moment, the small actions, the little choices.
More than that, we realise that the future starts from where you are and that there's no merit in revisiting the un-undoable past, because... the past does not belong to you. You really need to listen to understand what I mean by that!
All in all, in this episode we take another one of those proverbial steps in the right direction.
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Which of the above three words is bad?
In this episode we explore and explode some of the myths about goal-setting and, then, how get a feel for what is best for you.
Yes, I did not say what you "want" - we can have so much more out of life than we think we want.
We investigate how, in clearing your mind, everything becomes clearer: your own self-worth, your perspective of reality, the things that are most important to you and what your heart truly desires. Big stuff, the stuff that a great life is made of.
But, then, there comes a very important word of caution which could be summed up as follows: play your cards close to your chest.
Yes, all that - and more - is to be explored in this episode.
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You never know when you're going to learn something new, just like we can never anticipate having an Aha Moment - if we could it wouldn't be an Aha Moment!
And we never know who's going to teach us - learning comes from the most unlikely places.
In this episode we explore signs, signposts, opportunities and synchronicities - all easily spotted, embraced and followed... when we are present.
Are we talking about "presence of mind" - much more than that. Are we talking about "mindfulness" - well that's just a means to an end or, should I say, a means to ever moving forward because it's not the "end" that matters, it is the now.
A couple of everyday practical examples will explain how flow works in practice, how energy works in what our normal way of thinking would consider to be mysterious ways.
And how, when we just let go - to coin a phrase! - all good things "fall into our lap" - effortlessly, of course.
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One of the most difficult things in life to say - and, in not saying it, a rock on which we so often perish... "NO".
We get into so much trouble by not saying what needs to be said because we're afraid.
What will others think of us? We'll debunk that nonsense in this episode!
How could I get away with saying that? We'll deal with this too.
And, then, of course, we'll explore how life is so much simpler and easier - to the point of effortless - when we say and do what needs to be said and done.
And it's not just what you say, it's how you say it. Will you need to worry about how you go about doing that? Will you need to have a plan for it? No... it'll all just come out in the right way, at the right time, when the opportunity occurs, if (and only if) we're tuned in, fully present and in control of our own state of mind.
You're never wrong saying the right thing. This is how to do it effortlessly.
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There's so much in this episode: from love and self-love to unconditional love, from being busy-busy-busy to... doing nothing.
Doing nothing: giving yourself the mental and spiritual space to experience clarity of mind, presence of mind, an ability to effortlessly do and say the right things and, most of all, a deep understanding of what your big dreams might be.
Yes, we're following on from last week's episode when we started exploring the necessity to "dream big dreams" - a necessity because, if you don't, you're missing out on the grandeur of your own life.
I explain exactly what I mean by "doing nothing" - perhaps the most powerful form of meditation that we can practice. A practice that provides the inner calm necessary for us not to have a Eureka moment, but a whole flood of Eureka moments.
And you just might discover that doing nothing is the most important thing you could ever do!
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What does peace of mind mean to you? How about being carefree, how would that feel? How will we know how to dream big dreams if we don't know what it would feel like to know that we don't have a care in the world?
Well that, amongst plenty more besides, is what we explore in this new episode of To Succeed... Just Let Go.
One key theme running through this episode can be summed up like this: you are at your best when you're not thinking.
Not thinking is the key to understanding who you are, what you are and what your big dreams would look and feel like.
Once we begin to understand what we truly "want" out of life, we then, as we explain in this episode, give our subconscious mind its "landing co-ordinates" - and, when we allow it, it will take us there... effortlessly.
There's much more to this episode than the above few words summarise - worth 32mins of your time!
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