Archives for May 2017

As Angel and I watched a rerun of the Academy Awards last night, we both noticed an obvious commonality between many of the speeches the winners on stage made when they accepted their awards.  If you stripped the details out of each speech, 90% of them boiled down to:

“I am so thankful.  My whole life has been leading up to this moment.”

The most interesting thing about this sentiment, in my opinion, is that regardless of a human being’s social status, wealth, age, or unique situation, their whole life has undoubtedly been leading up to every present moment of their life.  Think about that for a second.  This reality might seem more significant on stage at a high-stakes awards ceremony, but it’s equally significant to all of us.  Every single thing you’ve gone through in life – every high, every low, and everything in between – has all led you to the moment you’re experiencing right now.

This means that you are exactly where you need to be to get to where you want to go.  It’s just a matter of taking one new step in the right direction, and another, and another.

So, never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are right now.  You aren’t.

Things can change if you want them to, at any age.  Life changes every single moment, and so can YOU!

The key is to embrace these powerful realities and not procrastinate…

Think about a change you want to make in your life, or a goal you want to achieve.

Then watch this quick video Angel and I recorded for you, and let us ask a simple yet powerful question that just might change your perspective about everything… [Read more…]

Like many people, Angel and I spent years struggling to make even the slightest bit of progress on the goals we had set for ourselves.

We started new workout programs with incredible optimism at least a couple dozen times.  We threw away all the junk food in our house more times than I can even remember.  We tried waking up earlier, meditating, reading more often, writing a book, getting out of debt, running a business, and more…

But, for the longest time, we failed on all fronts.

We’d get started with a new goal, and then we’d get derailed.

And boy did we feel horrible!

We often felt like losers … like no matter how hard we tried, our goals were out of reach!  And we’d berate ourselves constantly for not being stronger, smarter, and more disciplined.

But what Angel and I didn’t realize, until we started successfully achieving our goals a few years later, is that it was never a matter of us not having enough strength, intelligence, or discipline.  It was a matter of us focusing on our goals in an ineffective way.

In fact, believe it or not, we were actually focusing on our goals too much.

Yes, you read that right.  It sounds counterintuitive, but it’s the truth. [Read more…]