If you go to my Beachbody store, http://passionfitness.info/join , and sign up as a COACH you instantly have the unique opportunity to purchase the Beachbody Showcase Pack for over a 60% savings. In dollars that is a $220 savings that as a retail purchaser you simply would not get. This kind of savings pays for the first 15 months worth of coaching fees and oh yeah, there is no contract you can cancel at any time and keep the show case pack! If you decide not to cancel then in addition to the huge savings there is also an opportunity to make money just for living healthier and showing others how they can to.
The showcase pack is a package with the top 6 selling Beachbody programs - all for $199.95! If you were purchasing these products separately for yourself, you would be paying a retail price of $419.10
P90X = $119.85
Power 90 = $59.85
Turbo Jam = $59.85
Hip Hop Abs = $59.85
Slim in 6 = $59.85
Yoga Booty Ballet = $59.85
With P90X being almost $120 by itself, it is like you are getting the rest of the programs for $16.02 each!!! Can we say BARGAIN??? Even if you have no interest in coaching whatsoever but are interested in saving hundreds of dollars on beachbody products you are going to buy anyway then this is the way to do it.
To reap the huge savings there are two simple steps:
Step 1. Sign up for the coaching opportunity here: http://passionfitness.info/join
Step 2. Purchase the $420 showcase pack for only $199.
Optional Step 3: Cancel your coach membership ONLY if you are not interested in a chance to make money by living healthier and showing others how they can to. Otherwise - ignore step 3.
Give me a shout if you have any questions.
Tom - Independent Beachbody Coach and a showcase pack owner :)
Friday, June 26, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Entrepreneurs and others: Buy from and support other Entrepreneurs!
You are going to buy food this week anyway, right? Buy your food from an entrepreneur. Do you have a local family owned or community owned fresh market? Perfect! Those are typically cheaper in dollars and BETTER for you anyway, but it also supports people in an economy rather than supporting the business hawking fat pigs who get away with cheating on their income and business taxes at the expense of US and our already battered economy.
Food is just one example that can cross over into just about anything you are going to purchase. I would personally like to see everyone purchasing more from the entrepreneurs, the family owned / community owned businesses, and the self employed business owners. But, it is especially important for us entrepreneurs to purchase from other entrepreneurs. All of us want to obtain more personal freedom through our opportunities and all of us have something the other person wants or needs. So, why not support each other?
Some examples...
If I need a logo design or some other visual graphic I’m going to purchase the service and talents of my friend Kristine who does that type of stuff. She is talented, trusted, I know my money would be well spent. If I need work done on my car I’m going to hire my friend John because he is trusted and knows a lot about cars. If I would like a piece of clothing altered or something handmade I may purchase the service and talent of my friend Morgan who does that on the side. If I need to buy fresh produce I’m going to the local family/community owned fresh markets in my area etc… I am also going to give them a little free positive publicity from time to time just in case any one of you is in the market for a good mechanic, graphic designer, or handmade artist. Like wise, I have seen my links to my Beachbody store posted by others in various places with some really nice genuine words attached to it.
All of these people and businesses collect one hundred percent of the profits, they pay taxes on their gross profits so that they can be capitalists in a democracy, the economy benefits from it and we all benefit from that as a nation. If any of these trusted people want an exercise program they may be more inclined to buy one from me or from my sponsoring coach because they work and we are living it which is a very important point to be made. Shop around and make sure you get what you want, the quality you are looking for, and for the price you deem reasonable. Supporting entrepreneurs doesn’t mean you have to buy any ole mediocre product or service from anyone. In a democracy and in capitalism it’s the innovators and the visionaries that thrive precisely because the strong survive and the weak go out of business which is all fueled by the demand we create to get something at least reasonable in exchange for our money.
What I am proposing is a win – win for all who get involved in purchasing goods and services that are going to be purchased anyway, but from an entrepreneur or family owned /community owned business rather than from a corporate giant skirting tax laws and hurting an already battered economy. It reminds me of the old adage, “Capital belongs in the hands of the people not the state” I like to amend that our capital doesn’t belong to the state OR corporate fat pigs skirting tax laws further damaging an already battered economy. It is so simple! Buy from tax skirting off shoring entities and you contribute to a foreign economy while damaging your own already struggling economy. Buy from domestic entrepreneurs and businesses whos manufacturing is done within the borders of the United States and watch your own economy thrive while supporting your fellow people.
Lets support each other whenever we can. Be a good steward of the land, of mother earth, of the economy so that it may thrive again to our benefit, and support your fellow people.
Tom – Entrepreneur – Independent Beachbody Coach
Food is just one example that can cross over into just about anything you are going to purchase. I would personally like to see everyone purchasing more from the entrepreneurs, the family owned / community owned businesses, and the self employed business owners. But, it is especially important for us entrepreneurs to purchase from other entrepreneurs. All of us want to obtain more personal freedom through our opportunities and all of us have something the other person wants or needs. So, why not support each other?
Some examples...
If I need a logo design or some other visual graphic I’m going to purchase the service and talents of my friend Kristine who does that type of stuff. She is talented, trusted, I know my money would be well spent. If I need work done on my car I’m going to hire my friend John because he is trusted and knows a lot about cars. If I would like a piece of clothing altered or something handmade I may purchase the service and talent of my friend Morgan who does that on the side. If I need to buy fresh produce I’m going to the local family/community owned fresh markets in my area etc… I am also going to give them a little free positive publicity from time to time just in case any one of you is in the market for a good mechanic, graphic designer, or handmade artist. Like wise, I have seen my links to my Beachbody store posted by others in various places with some really nice genuine words attached to it.
All of these people and businesses collect one hundred percent of the profits, they pay taxes on their gross profits so that they can be capitalists in a democracy, the economy benefits from it and we all benefit from that as a nation. If any of these trusted people want an exercise program they may be more inclined to buy one from me or from my sponsoring coach because they work and we are living it which is a very important point to be made. Shop around and make sure you get what you want, the quality you are looking for, and for the price you deem reasonable. Supporting entrepreneurs doesn’t mean you have to buy any ole mediocre product or service from anyone. In a democracy and in capitalism it’s the innovators and the visionaries that thrive precisely because the strong survive and the weak go out of business which is all fueled by the demand we create to get something at least reasonable in exchange for our money.
What I am proposing is a win – win for all who get involved in purchasing goods and services that are going to be purchased anyway, but from an entrepreneur or family owned /community owned business rather than from a corporate giant skirting tax laws and hurting an already battered economy. It reminds me of the old adage, “Capital belongs in the hands of the people not the state” I like to amend that our capital doesn’t belong to the state OR corporate fat pigs skirting tax laws further damaging an already battered economy. It is so simple! Buy from tax skirting off shoring entities and you contribute to a foreign economy while damaging your own already struggling economy. Buy from domestic entrepreneurs and businesses whos manufacturing is done within the borders of the United States and watch your own economy thrive while supporting your fellow people.
Lets support each other whenever we can. Be a good steward of the land, of mother earth, of the economy so that it may thrive again to our benefit, and support your fellow people.
Tom – Entrepreneur – Independent Beachbody Coach
Thursday, June 18, 2009
BeachBody Opportunity - Obtain more time and money to do the things you REALLY want to do with your life.
I found this golden nugget of information in my online coach office this morning. It lays it out there brilliantly. Its claim to help a person obtain more time and money is right on. I lost my darn job in this economy AND I was attending college full time and a half! I NEEDED more time and money and, well, I got it with this opportunity. If after reading this you would like to know more about the Beachbody opportunity give me a shout. You can easily find various ways of contacting me of your choosing at http://passionforfitness.info/contactme OR if you already know this is what you want to do then sign up and get in touch with me so I can begin helping you obtain more time and money right away.
Two of the biggest reasons Coaches LOVE being Coaches is because this business affords them the opportunity to obtain more time and money.
Seize that opportunity by making the most of your Business Services Fee, which helps you easily manage your customers and coaching team through your online office and provides motivation and education via extensive tools.
Remember, for just $14.95 per month, you get ALL of the following:
* Two Web sites: Beachbody®-focused online social networking site and a customizable business site.
* Email account, including viral marketing tools that let you send bulk emails and eCards to your customer and Coach databases
* Sales and marketing materials available 24/7
* Weekly training, such as One Minute Trainer videos
* Tips and tools, including Webinars, events updates, tutorials, FAQs, and more
* No overhead: zero, zip, nada!
* Billing processing
* Shipping fulfillment/credit-card handling
* Weekly records management in your own online office
* Access to an online Print Center for ordering professionally produced advertising materials
This minimal investment can yield massive returns—so take advantage of all of these incredible tools today!
Two of the biggest reasons Coaches LOVE being Coaches is because this business affords them the opportunity to obtain more time and money.
Seize that opportunity by making the most of your Business Services Fee, which helps you easily manage your customers and coaching team through your online office and provides motivation and education via extensive tools.
Remember, for just $14.95 per month, you get ALL of the following:
* Two Web sites: Beachbody®-focused online social networking site and a customizable business site.
* Email account, including viral marketing tools that let you send bulk emails and eCards to your customer and Coach databases
* Sales and marketing materials available 24/7
* Weekly training, such as One Minute Trainer videos
* Tips and tools, including Webinars, events updates, tutorials, FAQs, and more
* No overhead: zero, zip, nada!
* Billing processing
* Shipping fulfillment/credit-card handling
* Weekly records management in your own online office
* Access to an online Print Center for ordering professionally produced advertising materials
This minimal investment can yield massive returns—so take advantage of all of these incredible tools today!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Your brain on exercise by Tony Horton
I read this just out of interest by the title and the author. After I read it I simply had to share and not be selfish. Enjoy!
"There was an astonishing article in Newsweek a few weeks back that just blew my mind/brain/cranium/noggin. Here's what I've learned from this article and further research. We all know that working out and exercising do amazing things for our body, and the benefits, other than weight loss and getting fit, are endless. Most of us also know that when our hearts, legs, and lungs get pumping, we feel much better than if we did nothing. Turns out that doing 20 minutes or more of cardiovascular and/or high-paced resistance workouts affects every aspect of our lives. The great thing about the Newsweek article is that it really laid out the scientific findings over the last few years. Here's the scope. When you're forced to pull more oxygen into the body through exercise, you break what's called "the blood-brain barrier." It happens when you climb a long flight of stairs and when you're busting through any kind of workout that gets your heart rate pumping. This oxygen-filled blood makes its way into the temporal lobe of the brain. Inside that temporal lobe is an area called the hippocampus. Inside the hippocampus lies the seahorse-shaped area known as the dentate gyrus. As you exercise, these oxygen-filled blood cells rush into this area of the brain. A chemical/protein called IGF-1 is formed and released inside the dentate gyrus, which ramps up another chemical/molecule called BDNF; both IGF-1 and BDNF are "Miracle-grow" for the brain.
Studies with kids right up to seniors have proven that high-paced workouts (Power 90®, Power Half Hour®, Power 90® Master Series, P90X®, Tony & the Kids!, etc.) cause the release of these chemicals into the brain. Combine this with even more "brain drugs" like dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine and you've got yourself a feel-good party in your head. Aerobic physical movement causes the release of these chemicals, and they all help you focus and give you energy when you need it. They also help you relax and rest properly. It's like a homemade chemistry set inside your skull that produces a cocktail that simulates the effects of Prozac and Ritalin. Children who play outdoors more often score better on tests than kids who don't. Regular physical activity improves memory, mood, and problem-solving abilities. Consistent exercise raises self-esteem and decreases anxiety. Study after study has proven that people who exercise 5 to 6 days a week greatly decrease their need for psychotherapeutic drugs. If your brain goes without regular bouts of exercise, the hippocampus will shrink and erode, which can lead to neurological illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease. When the dentate gyrus is stimulated, neuro-genesis or neuro-plasticity occurs. I'm not talking about just slowing the aging process, I'm telling you that the brain creates new cells through exercise—brand new cells that assist in the reversal of aging. If you're looking for the fountain of youth, you can find it inside your head every time you exercise for more than 20 minutes. TMT X 2 anyone?"
Sweet article hey? I thought so.
Tom - Independent Beachbody coach
"There was an astonishing article in Newsweek a few weeks back that just blew my mind/brain/cranium/noggin. Here's what I've learned from this article and further research. We all know that working out and exercising do amazing things for our body, and the benefits, other than weight loss and getting fit, are endless. Most of us also know that when our hearts, legs, and lungs get pumping, we feel much better than if we did nothing. Turns out that doing 20 minutes or more of cardiovascular and/or high-paced resistance workouts affects every aspect of our lives. The great thing about the Newsweek article is that it really laid out the scientific findings over the last few years. Here's the scope. When you're forced to pull more oxygen into the body through exercise, you break what's called "the blood-brain barrier." It happens when you climb a long flight of stairs and when you're busting through any kind of workout that gets your heart rate pumping. This oxygen-filled blood makes its way into the temporal lobe of the brain. Inside that temporal lobe is an area called the hippocampus. Inside the hippocampus lies the seahorse-shaped area known as the dentate gyrus. As you exercise, these oxygen-filled blood cells rush into this area of the brain. A chemical/protein called IGF-1 is formed and released inside the dentate gyrus, which ramps up another chemical/molecule called BDNF; both IGF-1 and BDNF are "Miracle-grow" for the brain.
Studies with kids right up to seniors have proven that high-paced workouts (Power 90®, Power Half Hour®, Power 90® Master Series, P90X®, Tony & the Kids!, etc.) cause the release of these chemicals into the brain. Combine this with even more "brain drugs" like dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine and you've got yourself a feel-good party in your head. Aerobic physical movement causes the release of these chemicals, and they all help you focus and give you energy when you need it. They also help you relax and rest properly. It's like a homemade chemistry set inside your skull that produces a cocktail that simulates the effects of Prozac and Ritalin. Children who play outdoors more often score better on tests than kids who don't. Regular physical activity improves memory, mood, and problem-solving abilities. Consistent exercise raises self-esteem and decreases anxiety. Study after study has proven that people who exercise 5 to 6 days a week greatly decrease their need for psychotherapeutic drugs. If your brain goes without regular bouts of exercise, the hippocampus will shrink and erode, which can lead to neurological illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease. When the dentate gyrus is stimulated, neuro-genesis or neuro-plasticity occurs. I'm not talking about just slowing the aging process, I'm telling you that the brain creates new cells through exercise—brand new cells that assist in the reversal of aging. If you're looking for the fountain of youth, you can find it inside your head every time you exercise for more than 20 minutes. TMT X 2 anyone?"
Sweet article hey? I thought so.
Tom - Independent Beachbody coach
My eBook, "Time Proven Formula For Success"
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In my eBook I covered topics, philosophies, strategies, and a very specific FORMULA for success to follow that I truly believe in, in my heart. This whole eBook is a composite of my own experiences and the experiences of others who are successful.
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ATTN entrepreneurs and coaches within my team: Contact me directly to get your copy. It makes sense to just give you a copy because if you succeed with me then we all succeed together. It's that kind of selfless Win-Win scenario I want us all to experience together as a team. It doesn't matter If I personally sponsor you or not. If you are in my down line get a hold of me today. If you are not sure if you are in my down line just ask me and I will find out.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
What You Can Expect From My Book
My Personal Story
Part II Philosophies to Succeed
The Importance of Having Personal Philosophies
Make the Next Few Years BETTER Than the Last Few Years
Capitalism is BETTER Than Communism
Profits are Better than Wages
Personal Development
Work on Yourself More Than You Work On Your Job
Find your inner POWER Voice
Attract People to Come to YOU
Success
Do NOT just survive, THRIVE!
Part III What You NEED to Understand
Don’t Just “Kind Of” Do it
A Sure Way to FAIL Before You Even Get Started
The Average Person
The Job Security Facade – Mandatory vs. Voluntary
Why Some Succeed in Network Marketing and Most Fail
Economics 101
Leading AND Teaching SELLS
The Importance of a Formula or a Roadmap in place
Have a Plan / Work the Plan
Learn to Fail BETTER
Resolve – Have It!
Part IV Formula / Roadmap to SUCCESS
Reflect – figure out what YOU want
Find YOUR Opportunity
Establish Goals and Write Them Down – The Importance of Goals
Sign and Date Those Goals
Identify Obstacles Ahead of Time
It’s all In Who You Associate Yourself With – Choose Wisely!
Identify people and groups you need to work with
Identify What You Need to Know and Thirst for That Knowledge
Develop a Plan of Action
Write Down, “What’s In It for Me When I Accomplish My Goals?”
Work the Plan Every Day!
(optional - bonus chapter for continued reading)
Part V Join Me
I Like Things That Work, Don’t You?
Join Me - Get Healthy AND Wealthy At the Same Time
eBook: http://passionforfitness.info/ebooks/formula-for-success.php
Tom
In my eBook I covered topics, philosophies, strategies, and a very specific FORMULA for success to follow that I truly believe in, in my heart. This whole eBook is a composite of my own experiences and the experiences of others who are successful.
Visit my Formula for Success web page for more information. While you're on my web page check out the 100% guarantee that I am giving you. You can read the table of contents down below to see the list of topics that I discuss in my eBook that are very relevant to any independent business or entrepreneur.
ATTN entrepreneurs and coaches within my team: Contact me directly to get your copy. It makes sense to just give you a copy because if you succeed with me then we all succeed together. It's that kind of selfless Win-Win scenario I want us all to experience together as a team. It doesn't matter If I personally sponsor you or not. If you are in my down line get a hold of me today. If you are not sure if you are in my down line just ask me and I will find out.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
What You Can Expect From My Book
My Personal Story
Part II Philosophies to Succeed
The Importance of Having Personal Philosophies
Make the Next Few Years BETTER Than the Last Few Years
Capitalism is BETTER Than Communism
Profits are Better than Wages
Personal Development
Work on Yourself More Than You Work On Your Job
Find your inner POWER Voice
Attract People to Come to YOU
Success
Do NOT just survive, THRIVE!
Part III What You NEED to Understand
Don’t Just “Kind Of” Do it
A Sure Way to FAIL Before You Even Get Started
The Average Person
The Job Security Facade – Mandatory vs. Voluntary
Why Some Succeed in Network Marketing and Most Fail
Economics 101
Leading AND Teaching SELLS
The Importance of a Formula or a Roadmap in place
Have a Plan / Work the Plan
Learn to Fail BETTER
Resolve – Have It!
Part IV Formula / Roadmap to SUCCESS
Reflect – figure out what YOU want
Find YOUR Opportunity
Establish Goals and Write Them Down – The Importance of Goals
Sign and Date Those Goals
Identify Obstacles Ahead of Time
It’s all In Who You Associate Yourself With – Choose Wisely!
Identify people and groups you need to work with
Identify What You Need to Know and Thirst for That Knowledge
Develop a Plan of Action
Write Down, “What’s In It for Me When I Accomplish My Goals?”
Work the Plan Every Day!
(optional - bonus chapter for continued reading)
Part V Join Me
I Like Things That Work, Don’t You?
Join Me - Get Healthy AND Wealthy At the Same Time
eBook: http://passionforfitness.info/ebooks/formula-for-success.php
Tom
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Failure is in the air and you can emerge stronger than ever.
Failure is the great American Taboo and today it is bubbling to the surface all around us. Very few people are escaping job lay offs, job off shoring, job pay cuts, investments shrinking, home value declining, the neighborhood crumbling, relationships going awry etc. Someday we may look back on this period of global recession as a moment in time when a convergence of big scares rattled peoples beliefs about the basics of their existence and what their purpose is. It is no longer possible to avoid failure just by being conscientious and working hard. This formula of working hard is the formula of our parents and our grandparents which they took to the bank and it had its moment in time in which has by now run its course.
Since the world has changed in a way that makes failure inedible what's the solution? LEARN to failure BETTER! Change your personal philosophy in the way you look at failure. Your personal income as well as your happiness is directly related to your personal philosophy. Always has been and always will be.
Learning is error driven because the brain is naturally trying to be more efficient. When you error the brain wants to learn from the experience and adapt. The adaptation is where learning takes place so you get BETTER and function more efficiently. We make predictions all the time in so many different things going on that we expect to have happen and when a mistake happens or an error in judgment, those mistakes register disproportionately. This forces us to integrate that new information. Oddly enough, not so odd if you understand the purpose of a challenge, the more wildly wrong our prediction the quicker we learn. Our brain feeds on failure and learning is error driven. From a logical stand point, failure is nothing more than feedback. It’s the negative feedback you get that the brain is so acutely aware of. Being so acutely aware of this negative feedback innately drives the will of our brain to want to learn and learning is the only means for opportunity to pull yourself out of failure and emerge stronger than ever before. You must understand the PURPOSE in the challenge and in failing. Without it we cannot learn, grow, become, succeed, fulfill etc.
"I have failed over and over again and that is why I succeed" - Michael Jordan, Winston Churchill, Walt Disney, Oprah, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Wright brothers.
At its worst failure is a mixed blessing that can hurt but provides opportunities to learn and grow. Setbacks, adversity, even trauma may be necessary to come out happy, successful and fulfilled. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt from the University of Virginia refers to "Post traumatic growth. Wildly successful people credit their accomplishments to earlier failures that pushed them to the edge of the abyss.”
For some people failure has stripped away everything that is inessential. For those with the right personal philosophies this will teach them things about themselves they could not have learned other wise and come out of it stronger than ever, maybe even become wildly successful. For others with the wrong personal philosophies they will simply allow it to consume them and never get out of their situation. You must learn that trauma is survivable so that you don't plunge too deeply, exacerbate an already bad situation by your own doings, and never recover from it.
Learn to compartmentalize your emotions. Perform in your life but without becoming emotionally attached to your loses. Remember, logically, failure is nothing more than feedback so you may adapt and become better. FAILURE SHOWS US THE PATH TO GETTING BETTER! Don't you want to get better? Learn to fail better. Emotionally attaching yourself to your losses has a tendency to exacerbate the situation by your own doings and could even prevent you from harnessing the opportunity to get better that only failure can give you. Don't blow those opportunities because you're emotionally attached to your loses.
Everyone experiences failure and even at least mild depression from it at times. The same set of circumstances that drives one person into the ground makes another person stronger. Why is that? Why do some people pull themselves out and others do not? I like Susan Nolen Hooeksemas take on this, a psychologist at Yale. She states that "Some people slip into rumination. Rumination is a spiral of morbid self involvement that's extremely difficult to shake." If you have enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks and failures you can find the kernel of good inside the bad, use that kernel to your advantage, and profit from it.
Life is mix of successes and failures. The wildly successful and happy people in our world have just learned to fail better, that's all. Usually a person at the beginning through the early thirties looses, a lot. The people who are going to succeed are the ones who learn to stand it and discipline their disappointments. Sadly most people are so devastated by their loses and setbacks that they never adapt, never learn to metabolize that failure and consequently never get ahead. The ones that do get ahead will lose and put their loses behind them emotionally.
Do you have a hard time processing failure in your brain so that you can move on? If so then it's not the world that is keeping you back, it's you that’s keeping you back and it's just something you've got to work on by means of self development. Try this out, write down your feelings in a journal and put a date over every entry. This will force you to come to terms with what happened and process that information. It also serves to improve your social skills, making you more likeable, helps you become less vindictive and makes it easier to move on and pull yourself out of that less than desirable place you are in.
Don't flinch from failure. Learn to be resilient. Don't put up the walls that block out failure. Welcome all experiences good and bad. Let the bad ones teach you. Welcome failures as learning opportunities to teach you how to become wildly successful. If you don't believe you can learn anything from your mistakes then you won't welcome failure with open arms. If you don't welcome failure you're more vulnerable to a downward "spiral of morbid self involvement" instead of an upward soaring of wild success.
A HUGE mistake you could make that is extremely difficult to recover from is putting up those walls shielding yourself from failures and setbacks. Without that trial and error learning you place yourself at great risk to anxiety disorders for when failure does eventually happen, and it will happen eventually. This doesn’t mean you should jump head first into the deep end of the pool if you don’t know how to swim. Gradually expose yourself so your brain has time to adapt and ultimately succeed.
The great pay off in failing is that it gives us another chance, but to act with more intelligence next time around. There is a strong sense of pride that can be felt in the potential positive consequences of failing IF you understand the PURPOSE and OPPORTUNITY within the failures.
In the end, with the right personal philosophies, there is no such thing as failure if you learn something and grow from the experience. Failure should be an implicit part of your success. Trial and error becomes trial and SUCCESS.
Tom Birkenmeyer - Independent Beachbody Coach
Since the world has changed in a way that makes failure inedible what's the solution? LEARN to failure BETTER! Change your personal philosophy in the way you look at failure. Your personal income as well as your happiness is directly related to your personal philosophy. Always has been and always will be.
Learning is error driven because the brain is naturally trying to be more efficient. When you error the brain wants to learn from the experience and adapt. The adaptation is where learning takes place so you get BETTER and function more efficiently. We make predictions all the time in so many different things going on that we expect to have happen and when a mistake happens or an error in judgment, those mistakes register disproportionately. This forces us to integrate that new information. Oddly enough, not so odd if you understand the purpose of a challenge, the more wildly wrong our prediction the quicker we learn. Our brain feeds on failure and learning is error driven. From a logical stand point, failure is nothing more than feedback. It’s the negative feedback you get that the brain is so acutely aware of. Being so acutely aware of this negative feedback innately drives the will of our brain to want to learn and learning is the only means for opportunity to pull yourself out of failure and emerge stronger than ever before. You must understand the PURPOSE in the challenge and in failing. Without it we cannot learn, grow, become, succeed, fulfill etc.
"I have failed over and over again and that is why I succeed" - Michael Jordan, Winston Churchill, Walt Disney, Oprah, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Wright brothers.
At its worst failure is a mixed blessing that can hurt but provides opportunities to learn and grow. Setbacks, adversity, even trauma may be necessary to come out happy, successful and fulfilled. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt from the University of Virginia refers to "Post traumatic growth. Wildly successful people credit their accomplishments to earlier failures that pushed them to the edge of the abyss.”
For some people failure has stripped away everything that is inessential. For those with the right personal philosophies this will teach them things about themselves they could not have learned other wise and come out of it stronger than ever, maybe even become wildly successful. For others with the wrong personal philosophies they will simply allow it to consume them and never get out of their situation. You must learn that trauma is survivable so that you don't plunge too deeply, exacerbate an already bad situation by your own doings, and never recover from it.
Learn to compartmentalize your emotions. Perform in your life but without becoming emotionally attached to your loses. Remember, logically, failure is nothing more than feedback so you may adapt and become better. FAILURE SHOWS US THE PATH TO GETTING BETTER! Don't you want to get better? Learn to fail better. Emotionally attaching yourself to your losses has a tendency to exacerbate the situation by your own doings and could even prevent you from harnessing the opportunity to get better that only failure can give you. Don't blow those opportunities because you're emotionally attached to your loses.
Everyone experiences failure and even at least mild depression from it at times. The same set of circumstances that drives one person into the ground makes another person stronger. Why is that? Why do some people pull themselves out and others do not? I like Susan Nolen Hooeksemas take on this, a psychologist at Yale. She states that "Some people slip into rumination. Rumination is a spiral of morbid self involvement that's extremely difficult to shake." If you have enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks and failures you can find the kernel of good inside the bad, use that kernel to your advantage, and profit from it.
Life is mix of successes and failures. The wildly successful and happy people in our world have just learned to fail better, that's all. Usually a person at the beginning through the early thirties looses, a lot. The people who are going to succeed are the ones who learn to stand it and discipline their disappointments. Sadly most people are so devastated by their loses and setbacks that they never adapt, never learn to metabolize that failure and consequently never get ahead. The ones that do get ahead will lose and put their loses behind them emotionally.
Do you have a hard time processing failure in your brain so that you can move on? If so then it's not the world that is keeping you back, it's you that’s keeping you back and it's just something you've got to work on by means of self development. Try this out, write down your feelings in a journal and put a date over every entry. This will force you to come to terms with what happened and process that information. It also serves to improve your social skills, making you more likeable, helps you become less vindictive and makes it easier to move on and pull yourself out of that less than desirable place you are in.
Don't flinch from failure. Learn to be resilient. Don't put up the walls that block out failure. Welcome all experiences good and bad. Let the bad ones teach you. Welcome failures as learning opportunities to teach you how to become wildly successful. If you don't believe you can learn anything from your mistakes then you won't welcome failure with open arms. If you don't welcome failure you're more vulnerable to a downward "spiral of morbid self involvement" instead of an upward soaring of wild success.
A HUGE mistake you could make that is extremely difficult to recover from is putting up those walls shielding yourself from failures and setbacks. Without that trial and error learning you place yourself at great risk to anxiety disorders for when failure does eventually happen, and it will happen eventually. This doesn’t mean you should jump head first into the deep end of the pool if you don’t know how to swim. Gradually expose yourself so your brain has time to adapt and ultimately succeed.
The great pay off in failing is that it gives us another chance, but to act with more intelligence next time around. There is a strong sense of pride that can be felt in the potential positive consequences of failing IF you understand the PURPOSE and OPPORTUNITY within the failures.
In the end, with the right personal philosophies, there is no such thing as failure if you learn something and grow from the experience. Failure should be an implicit part of your success. Trial and error becomes trial and SUCCESS.
Tom Birkenmeyer - Independent Beachbody Coach
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