This is seriously so beautifully put I'm just going to copy and paste it...
"It has taken me until this age (42) to realize that I don't have to live my life according to someone else's prescribed manners. I don't HAVE to work for someone else. I don't HAVE to live by the system. This is HUGE for me. I feel like I'm at the beginning of something so spectacular. Like this lump of clay has been placed in my hands and that clay is my life and my future and I can shape it into anything I want. Anything! I'm literally sitting here crying because the game plan is changing for me. I felt guilty for calling in to work today because the roads were slick. I shouldn't have to feel that way. I don't want my life to be beholden to someone else's rules. I want to call the shots and be confident and happy in doing so. Right now I want to just go walk out in the snow with my dogs and let the snow fall on my face and feel the incredible-ness of being alive and wonderful doors open in front of me.
I know I sound silly, but it was inside of me and I needed to get that out. There are very few people in my life that I feel I can share something like that with. This life is so short, Tom, and I feel like I've wasted SO MUCH of it by my own poor decisions and bad mistakes and following everyone else's rules. But my life isn't over and I want the rest of it to be spent working hard for me and my son and to experience everything my heart can dream up. NOTHING is out of reach for the heart that wants it bad enough.
And I want so much for other people to experience this. You must experience this so often - seeing people's lives change having worked with BB so as long as you have. I want to do that for others.
You know, I've always wondered what I'd want to be when i grow up. I've never really picked a career. But maybe it's because I was meant to be brought to where I am today. I know I love to travel. But every time I start to plan a trip in my head I get those niggling little doubts....can you afford it? can you take the time off from work? Who is going to watch the dogs? Who is going to watch your son? Dad is going to think you're being irresponsible spending way too much time and money doing pleasurable things instead of working your fingers to the bone. Well, why can't I have all of it? Why can't I work hard doing something healthy for me and others which also will allow me to travel when I want, not have to worry about whether my employer will let me have time off, or whether I have enough money? Why can't I take my son with me on my grand adventures and have him experience the world? And there are certainly kennels that will watch my dogs for a week. And if my bills are being paid and I'm happy, then why should my dad be disappointed in me? I never even realized until recently how much I live my life in ways that would not disappoint my dad. Well, you know what?? As long as I'm not doing anything illegal, immoral, or fattening, then he can honk off! :)
Sorry for the diatribe. But, God, it feels good to get these feelings out!"
- anonymous. One of my friends and fellow Team Beachbody Coaches :)
This comes from a dear sweet friend of mind who had a moment of enlightenment and expressed it to me :-) She gave me permission to share. I asked to share because I know 99% of YOU can relate and NEED to have a moment like this so you finally get out of your own way and begin designing the life of your own dreams instead of only someone elses.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Why did my business, my income, & my significance in other peoples lives grow over 700% in 2010 while everyone else struggles?
Because I'm an Independent Team Beachbody Coach. Why else?!?!
Why is Team Beachbody the most powerful business?
They are the only network marketing company spending over $100 million annually on branding and marketing. P90X is the number one infomercial in the country. Insanity is the number 2 infomercial in the country. They have no sales quota. They are the only company that gives you customers. They are the only company that markets to your customers. They are the only company that gives you leads to build your team. They take care of 100% of all sales transactions. The company sets you up with professional websites including a back office which tracks your business. There is no inventory to purchase. It's low cost to get started (1-time $39.95 start up fee is almost a joke to start a multi million dollar business that YOU own). No risk with a guaranteed 30 day buy back. It's a ground floor business. We are going international in 2011 (Hello!!!! Be an international founder with Beachbody!!!!!!). Every day we have advertising on t.v. and in the newspaper about the Obesity problem in America while $86 BILLION every year is spent on fitness.
The time has come and the destiny is here. How big of a piece do you want? How successful do you want to be? How significant in the lives of other people do you want to be? I know that anyone CAN do this but I'm also smart enough to know most people will sit on the sidelines and watch from the benches.
There is no other industry booming right now especially in this economy. And in this Team Beachbody Business you get an opportunity to be successful AND significant in the lives of other people simultaneously. My enormously growing weekly paychecks and more importantly the intense thank yous from peoples lives I have significance in proves it!
If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired and you've actually got enough heart in your own life to get off the sidelines, off the bench, and onto the playing field write me YOU are someone I'd like to expose this business to.
Tom - Diamond Independent Beachbody Coach
Why is Team Beachbody the most powerful business?
They are the only network marketing company spending over $100 million annually on branding and marketing. P90X is the number one infomercial in the country. Insanity is the number 2 infomercial in the country. They have no sales quota. They are the only company that gives you customers. They are the only company that markets to your customers. They are the only company that gives you leads to build your team. They take care of 100% of all sales transactions. The company sets you up with professional websites including a back office which tracks your business. There is no inventory to purchase. It's low cost to get started (1-time $39.95 start up fee is almost a joke to start a multi million dollar business that YOU own). No risk with a guaranteed 30 day buy back. It's a ground floor business. We are going international in 2011 (Hello!!!! Be an international founder with Beachbody!!!!!!). Every day we have advertising on t.v. and in the newspaper about the Obesity problem in America while $86 BILLION every year is spent on fitness.
The time has come and the destiny is here. How big of a piece do you want? How successful do you want to be? How significant in the lives of other people do you want to be? I know that anyone CAN do this but I'm also smart enough to know most people will sit on the sidelines and watch from the benches.
There is no other industry booming right now especially in this economy. And in this Team Beachbody Business you get an opportunity to be successful AND significant in the lives of other people simultaneously. My enormously growing weekly paychecks and more importantly the intense thank yous from peoples lives I have significance in proves it!
If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired and you've actually got enough heart in your own life to get off the sidelines, off the bench, and onto the playing field write me YOU are someone I'd like to expose this business to.
Tom - Diamond Independent Beachbody Coach
Friday, January 21, 2011
Over 60 and dramatically increasing her health. Sounds like a miracle but it's not
My mom is over 60, she's morbidly obese, severe type 2 diabetic, and lived a life time of an unhealthy life style. With all that damage she's done to her body from life style choices after about ONLY ONE MONTH of Shakeology For the FIRST TIME in twenty years she no longer needs to administer insulin with a meal and that's 100% because of Shakeology. For the FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE she gave up soft drinks; a major contributor to her condition. Shakeology made it easy to give up soda and junk food. And also for the first time in her life she is loosing weight long term. That's NEVER happened before. Shes setting herself up for long term success. With Shakeology it's easier to eat more nutritious the rest of the day and make a real sustainable life style change. Shes not starving, she always talks about how satiated Shakeology makes her feel, shes always talking about the wonderful taste of Shakeology, and as a Diabetic she literally gloats about having "Beautiful blood sugar levels" even right after a meal! Over 60 Years old and None of that has EVER happened before.
My moms life is being extended, the quality of her life and how good she feels is increasing, she's dramatically increasing her over all health, she's dramatically decreasing her chances of a heart attack or stroke, and she's staving off a very real possibility of suffering an amputation as many diabetics who Don't take control do.
If you want to get healthier and FEEL BETTER I'm calling on YOU to step up and actually do something to set yourself up for LONG TERM success. Watch the "100 Doctors" video at the top of this webpage: http://teampassion.info/100doctors.html and privately write me to tell me what's important to you AFTER shutting everything else off to watch that video. If you want to try Shakeology I can help you DRAMATICALLY improve your health and feel better without being out a dime of your money.
Tom - Diamond Independent TBB Coach
http://PassionForFitness.info
My moms life is being extended, the quality of her life and how good she feels is increasing, she's dramatically increasing her over all health, she's dramatically decreasing her chances of a heart attack or stroke, and she's staving off a very real possibility of suffering an amputation as many diabetics who Don't take control do.
If you want to get healthier and FEEL BETTER I'm calling on YOU to step up and actually do something to set yourself up for LONG TERM success. Watch the "100 Doctors" video at the top of this webpage: http://teampassion.info/100doctors.html and privately write me to tell me what's important to you AFTER shutting everything else off to watch that video. If you want to try Shakeology I can help you DRAMATICALLY improve your health and feel better without being out a dime of your money.
Tom - Diamond Independent TBB Coach
http://PassionForFitness.info
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
A painful past and good moral character can Make you or Break you
A painful past and good moral character doesn't mean success for the future. The set up of the universe, in which you and I are guests on, doesn't care if you are a good person with a painful past at no fault of your own. The universe holds no bias in favor of your moral character one way or the other. The great law of the universe says you reap a whirlwind of what you sew. So be careful of what you sew because you will reap a whirl wind in return.
Let the pains of your past fuel an unfettered desire for a fundamental change in your belief system and your personal philosophy to drive you to do the actionable things necessary for a different future from your past. But don't anchor one foot in the past with the other tucked timidly in the future. The worlds greatest self made success stories are born out of the most painful backgrounds. They didn't spend their time whining about what they feel they should have because they are good people. They actually DID THINGS every day driven by an unshakable personal philosophy born out of the pains of there circumstances.
I hear morally good people whine about why they should be better off because they are good people with a painful past they don't deserve. It's simply delusional and naive to think you deserve to be successful because you're a good person so you deserve it. If it were up to me that's the way it would be but it's not up to me it's up to a higher power; the god of your choosing or quite simply the universe. You will have an abundance of the things you want when the universe says you deserve it and it s NOT a moral thing because the universe doesn't have a bias about moral character. This is tremendously empowering because it's the things that you do that you have control over that will determine what you have in the future. It's human to give support and to console one another in times of pain. But never confide in each other saying things are going to be ok once things work themselves out by themselves. That's naive and potential death to a persons self image. What if you do nothing and it gets worse? Instead say something useful like, "everything will work itself out once we make everything ok let's do something".
I'm calling on YOU! Don't just think happy positive thoughts and don't cling to a painful past. Let that painful past drive you to actually DO SOMETHING to give those positive thoughts some tangible meaning. Hanging onto a painful past and finding other stories from other people to match up with is how you stay in your painful circumstances a year from now. I'd like you to walk away from that philosophy and adopt a new philosophy that says, "my future is not going to be like my past and I'm going to actually DO SOMETHING to design the life of my dreams".
Is that new philosophy a better fit for you than perhaps another philosophy you've had?
Tom - Diamond Independent Beachbody Coach
http://TeamPassion.info
Let the pains of your past fuel an unfettered desire for a fundamental change in your belief system and your personal philosophy to drive you to do the actionable things necessary for a different future from your past. But don't anchor one foot in the past with the other tucked timidly in the future. The worlds greatest self made success stories are born out of the most painful backgrounds. They didn't spend their time whining about what they feel they should have because they are good people. They actually DID THINGS every day driven by an unshakable personal philosophy born out of the pains of there circumstances.
I hear morally good people whine about why they should be better off because they are good people with a painful past they don't deserve. It's simply delusional and naive to think you deserve to be successful because you're a good person so you deserve it. If it were up to me that's the way it would be but it's not up to me it's up to a higher power; the god of your choosing or quite simply the universe. You will have an abundance of the things you want when the universe says you deserve it and it s NOT a moral thing because the universe doesn't have a bias about moral character. This is tremendously empowering because it's the things that you do that you have control over that will determine what you have in the future. It's human to give support and to console one another in times of pain. But never confide in each other saying things are going to be ok once things work themselves out by themselves. That's naive and potential death to a persons self image. What if you do nothing and it gets worse? Instead say something useful like, "everything will work itself out once we make everything ok let's do something".
I'm calling on YOU! Don't just think happy positive thoughts and don't cling to a painful past. Let that painful past drive you to actually DO SOMETHING to give those positive thoughts some tangible meaning. Hanging onto a painful past and finding other stories from other people to match up with is how you stay in your painful circumstances a year from now. I'd like you to walk away from that philosophy and adopt a new philosophy that says, "my future is not going to be like my past and I'm going to actually DO SOMETHING to design the life of my dreams".
Is that new philosophy a better fit for you than perhaps another philosophy you've had?
Tom - Diamond Independent Beachbody Coach
http://TeamPassion.info
Monday, January 17, 2011
A godsend for parents
I've been getting a TON of feed back from my users with kids. Shakeology has been a godsend for them so I wanted to include one bit of feedback from a parent:
"Ok, so, I tried shakeology today with Lizzy. She made it with skim milk and nothing added. She knows how much I am into chocolate, so she decided to let it stand on its own. It really tastes great. I was expecting more along the lines of a slimfast taste only less chalky. I was not expecting it to taste as good as it does :) keeping this in mind, I have a story to share with you...
My daughter is 16 and has an aversion to anything remotely healthy for you. I walked out of the kitchen with my shake in hand and before I knew it, she sucked down over half of it and I had to make another...later Kaytie says "Why you wanna drink nasty health dinks for anyway?" to which I said "That nasty health drink sure didn't seem to bother you when you drank most of it earlier..." Wide-eyed and shocked she turns to me and says "Oh..."
I thought it was pretty funny."
And here is one more bit of feedback from my friend Cherokee Schill:
"Since starting Shakeology the number of sugary sweets requested by my kid's has dropped significantly. Elena used to tell me that she had soda cravings. I remember having those as a kid too. With Shakeology our blood sugar has stabilized and those weird cravings have totally ceased."
Shakeology - http://shakeology.com/metalpalace
Tom
"Ok, so, I tried shakeology today with Lizzy. She made it with skim milk and nothing added. She knows how much I am into chocolate, so she decided to let it stand on its own. It really tastes great. I was expecting more along the lines of a slimfast taste only less chalky. I was not expecting it to taste as good as it does :) keeping this in mind, I have a story to share with you...
My daughter is 16 and has an aversion to anything remotely healthy for you. I walked out of the kitchen with my shake in hand and before I knew it, she sucked down over half of it and I had to make another...later Kaytie says "Why you wanna drink nasty health dinks for anyway?" to which I said "That nasty health drink sure didn't seem to bother you when you drank most of it earlier..." Wide-eyed and shocked she turns to me and says "Oh..."
I thought it was pretty funny."
And here is one more bit of feedback from my friend Cherokee Schill:
"Since starting Shakeology the number of sugary sweets requested by my kid's has dropped significantly. Elena used to tell me that she had soda cravings. I remember having those as a kid too. With Shakeology our blood sugar has stabilized and those weird cravings have totally ceased."
Shakeology - http://shakeology.com/metalpalace
Tom
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Design the life of your Dreams
The purpose of challenges, difficulties, and setbacks is for you to gain the wisdom to design the life of your dreams.
Audio: http://passionforfitness.info/contactme/design_the_life_of_your_dreams.mp3
If you're broke, in poor health, if your relationships suffer, if you're shy, scared, if you don't have enough time to spend with loved ones because you're too busy and too broke, the whole reason why god or nature puts challenges in front of you is to give you the opportunity to gain the wisdom to have more of the things you want and less of the things you don't want. The problem with most of you is your belief system. You actually believe challenges, difficulties, and setbacks are these events that happen that get your way when in reality that is the complete opposite from the truth! If your personal truth says that challenges, difficulties, and setbacks are in the way of where you want to be then that is why you are not only broke, but broke a year from now to. If you're in poor health, if your relationships suffer, if you don't have enough time to spend with loved ones because you're too busy it's because you do not have a belief system that supports having more of the things you want and less of the things you don't want, period! To believe other wise is how you remain in the same undesirable situation a year from now. To put off getting started on change from within yourself, your belief system, is how you remain truly stuck in the same undesirable situation a year from now.
The god of your choosing, or nature, does not want you to be stuck. Life is 10% what happens to you but it's 90% how you respond to what happens to you. Do you know what this means? This means you have enormous power over your life! The power is within YOU! It's not what happens to you, it's YOU! You're belief system and your personal philosophies. If you want to be the designer of your own life then change your belief system. There is no other way. IF you want to remain stuck, sliding backwards in your life, then cling to the same belief system you've always had. If you want to keep chipping away at your own self image until eventually you've entirely given up on your dreams then continue to believe something will happen first before you change. That's classic delusion and a delusional belief system will eventually kill you.
Unfortunately that is by far the most common belief system out there. Most people actually believe they are going to change from within AFTER life happens. This belief system is totally opposite of how the set up of the universe works. The set up of the universe, in which we are guests, says that nothing changes until you change. It doesn't say you change second. NO! The first step is for YOU to change. Most of you out there have this grand plan of saving change within your self for step number two. And you actually think it's going to play out that way, it's just a matter of time. If that's your plan that is how you will stay broke, out of shape, in bad relationships year after year after year until suddenly this self sabotaging self - delusional devastating belief system you have kills you right after you entirely give up on your dreams. Don't foster a belief system in yourself that's contra indicative of the universe the only possible outcome of fighting the set up is, you loose.
If things are rough, if things are bad, whatever those things are, you should be praying for challenges to land right in front of you so you can go to work to gain the wisdom to over come those challenges. That's how you pull yourself out! Without the challenge what is there to pull yourself out of a hole with? Nothing! You've got to understand that without gravity the wright brothers would not have been able to invent flight. Flying would not be possible without gravity. Coming out of poverty, or poor health, or an undesirable situation would not be possible without challenges setbacks and difficulties. Without them there is nothing to grab onto for the purpose of pulling yourself out. Sadly what most of us do is we put our head in the sand hoping the challenges will go away. They don't go away. They don't even remain the same. MORE challenges just keep piling up and then you begin to feel like you're drowning all because of doing nothing to gain the wisdom to over come those challenges.
The god of your choosing, or nature, wants you to have an abundance of wealth, health, nurturing relationships, and all the things you want for a good life. That's why god and nature gives you challenges, setbacks, and difficulties! They are opportunities to get all of those things that you want! Quit looking at them as things that get in the way you're killing yourself doing that! Use them to pull yourself out of your hole so that you can shift your fight from fighting to survive to fighting to THRIVE! It's much more fun to fight to thrive than to fight to survive! You see, once you gain the wisdom to pull yourself out of your hole you're going to be able to handle those same challenges more efficiently from now on. But, even better than that, there are going to be new challenges you're faced with to gain even MORE wisdom, to personally grow even more so that you can have more abundance of wealth, health, nurturing relationships and whatever else that YOU want to live the life of your dreams by YOUR design. This is cool stuff isn't it? Are you excited yet to grab new challenges by the horns to pull yourself up to higher places??? You should be! Are you truly going to look at challenges, difficulties, and set backs differently now? Truly?
Let me give you my own example because I want you to know I'm not talking about something that I'm not already practicing and familiar with myself. You need to know that I'm not someone who has always had it easy. Quote the contrary. I had everything working against me. But that just gave me more opportunity to grab onto to gain all the more wisdom that changed my life forever. I've had my share of difficulties and set backs. In fact I feel badly for anyone who hasn't had the difficulties to gain the wisdom to design the life of their dreams. People with a comfortable enough life tend to lull themselves into enough complacency to do nothing meaningful with their lives and that is unfortunate.
I did everything I was "suppose" to do. I was born, I went to school, I got a job, I was on time, I worked hard building someone elses dream, I worked productively to build someones elses dream, I traded my time for money just like most of you are doing, and my reward for working hard to build someone elses dream was to have my job, which 100% of my income an benefits were attached to JUST LIKE MOST OF YOU, was off shored to India at no fault of my own. I found myself at 30 years old jobless, zero income, zero benefits, nothing! After 12 years of my working adult life I had ZERO income to show for and no JOB. Add to that I was in bad physical shape. I was rotting, just like most of the U.S. population. My belief system wasn't working for me! My belief system was working against me. Just like most of you! My personal philosophies brought me to this place where I was devastated. It wasn't my job abandoning me or the bad economy or politics or any of that junk. It was all me and my devastating personal philosophies and an un supportive belief system.
When most people are abandoned by their job who do they blame for suddenly having zero income and benefits? Most people blame the economy. That's how most people remain broke year after year. And if you are most people you've got to hear this because most people will not change in a meaningful way without feeling uncomfortable enough and even embarrassed enough first. This was certainly true for me. I depended on my parents at 30 years of age to survive. It was uncomfortable for me. It was embarrassing. I felt shame in myself. I don't even know how I was able to get a date being 30 years old depending on mom & dad to get by. It was not a good place for me to be psychologically. At least that's what I thought at the time. But looking back with all this new wisdom I've acquired since then to pull myself out of that mess I know that was exactly the state of mind I needed to be in to create the change within myself that was absolutely NECESSARY to change and design the life of my dreams.
So what did I do in my poor no income sorry state??? I spent $40 to sign up for the Team Beachbody opportunity and then dropped another $200 into it because I felt it was necessary and I was dead serious about not being broke still a year from then. I didn't wanna be broke still a year later I was SICK OF IT! I attended a seminar at a hotel lobby in the Chicago area with a bunch of other people. Everyone was interested in the company and the various opportunities to get healthy a financially independent. But yet those same people, who had the comfy cushion of an income from a job, just couldn't see spending any money on this to better their situation. In fact I've been told I was totally crazy for doing so in my no income situation. I was told I should be waiting til I had more time and money til I got started. Is that stupid? To wait til I have more time and money to start doing something that will give me more time and money? That doesn't make sense that's stupid!
Guess what?
All those people that put it off til they had more time and money are still putting it off and that is NEVER EVER going to change they will continue to be broke year after year after year unless they change on the inside, FIRST. Think about what happened at this seminar for a moment this is real life stuff here this can be applied to any situation not just this seminar. This is a reflection of life and human nature itself!! I was the guy with NO income and NO time because I was attending college full time and a half and my job was off shored to India and I was the guy who signed up. Isn't that backwards? YES! It is backwards. It's a completely backwards way of thinking in comparison to how most people think and that is why I am the guy who not only pulled himself out of a devastating situation but I kept running with my BACKWARDS THINKING and eventually fired my boss and bought a house in cash just a couple years later at age 32! This is something most people do not do in the course of their entire lives! But all those people interested in the opportunity think they are acting in their own self interest by waiting till they have more time and money til they actually start doing something that will give them more time and money. To me, THAT is backwards! And to them, I am backwards! And we both have our own results or LACK OF results to show for such drastically different belief systems. Which perspective of backwards would YOU rather be??? Seriously ask that question to yourself it's worth asking and answering to yourself! Especially if it gets you to FINALLY walk away from how most people think so you can FINALLY design the life of your dreams!
I'm doing really well for myself now all because I started consistently doing the things most people are not willing to do. But guess what? I am still faced with challenges. That doesn't go away. But I adapt to them much more eagerly than I did at first. Broke Tom saw challenges as events that got in my way. The new and improved Healthier and wealthier tom sees challenges as stepping stones to success. Broke Tom avoided challenges like the plague. Heck now a days if I don't feel I have enough challenge in my life then I know it's time to make new goals. I will actually WRITE DOWN AND DATE new goals just to be presented with new bigger challenges. You need to get it out of your head that if you just overcome current challenges that they will somehow stop. Nope! Just the opposite is true. The more wisdom you accumulate for the purpose of overcoming challenges the bigger the future challenges that come your way. Since life is a mix of difficulties and opportunities anyway and there is NOTHING you can do about it because it is the set up of the universe which we did not create, why not learn to embrace difficulties, challenges, and setbacks as the opportunities that they ARE for the purpose of designing the life of your dreams? You will be MUCH happier if you exercise the complete control you have over your response to both difficulties and opportunities. But if you are still with me then by now you must realize that difficulties ARE opportunities only disguised as events that get in the way. It's the WISE and enlightened person who sees a challenge, a difficulty, or a setback as REAL opportunity. How does THAT sit in your belly? It should sit very sweet like in your belly. It should fill your spirit with an eagerness to meet a tough situation and have some fun with it while you design your own good life.
Do you want to improve your situation? Then stop treating challenges, setbacks, and difficulties as events that get in the way and start using them CONSISTENTLY for stepping stones to design the life of your dreams. There is no other way. If you're waiting for your ship to come in before you get started I've news for you. Your ship is NEVER coming. It's already here docked and waiting. The longer you make your ship wait the more it decays making it harder and much more costly to get started. Waiting, I hate to say it, is STUPID! If you're being stupid then quit being stupid and get started it's your life so own it you're the only that can!
It starts with a decision followed by a commitment. Commit consistently enough with enough heart in the game and you WILL succeed. I don't know how long it's going to take you to get there. But that time is going to pass anyway either for you or against you. If you sit on the side lines of your own life and WAIT while watching others then not only is your situation not going to improve but your self image is going to diminish and over enough time THAT will kill you. If you've made the decision and your willing to commit but not sure how to get started let me know. I can recommend the same books and audio that helped me shape my life. If you're interested in the same vehicle I'm using to shape my life after I made the decision and commitment then let me know and I can show you what I am doing so you can decide if what I'm doing is a good fit for you or not. Does that sound fair? Whatever you do, do something! Step closer to your dreams so your dreams step closer to you. Start walking away from how most people think and start that walk today.
I hope the gears in your brain are turning by now. I hope you're beginning to wonder how different the next 5 years of your life could be from the last five years if you just swap out some old philosophies for some new ones and change a few things. I hope you quit waiting for tomorrow to own your own life. And I hope that if you'd like me to show you what I am doing that you ask me today rather than tomorrow.
Your life is a master piece and every day is a micro-cosm of that much larger master piece. Design your own master piece how YOU want it.
Tom
http://PassionForFitness.info
Audio: http://passionforfitness.info/contactme/design_the_life_of_your_dreams.mp3
If you're broke, in poor health, if your relationships suffer, if you're shy, scared, if you don't have enough time to spend with loved ones because you're too busy and too broke, the whole reason why god or nature puts challenges in front of you is to give you the opportunity to gain the wisdom to have more of the things you want and less of the things you don't want. The problem with most of you is your belief system. You actually believe challenges, difficulties, and setbacks are these events that happen that get your way when in reality that is the complete opposite from the truth! If your personal truth says that challenges, difficulties, and setbacks are in the way of where you want to be then that is why you are not only broke, but broke a year from now to. If you're in poor health, if your relationships suffer, if you don't have enough time to spend with loved ones because you're too busy it's because you do not have a belief system that supports having more of the things you want and less of the things you don't want, period! To believe other wise is how you remain in the same undesirable situation a year from now. To put off getting started on change from within yourself, your belief system, is how you remain truly stuck in the same undesirable situation a year from now.
The god of your choosing, or nature, does not want you to be stuck. Life is 10% what happens to you but it's 90% how you respond to what happens to you. Do you know what this means? This means you have enormous power over your life! The power is within YOU! It's not what happens to you, it's YOU! You're belief system and your personal philosophies. If you want to be the designer of your own life then change your belief system. There is no other way. IF you want to remain stuck, sliding backwards in your life, then cling to the same belief system you've always had. If you want to keep chipping away at your own self image until eventually you've entirely given up on your dreams then continue to believe something will happen first before you change. That's classic delusion and a delusional belief system will eventually kill you.
Unfortunately that is by far the most common belief system out there. Most people actually believe they are going to change from within AFTER life happens. This belief system is totally opposite of how the set up of the universe works. The set up of the universe, in which we are guests, says that nothing changes until you change. It doesn't say you change second. NO! The first step is for YOU to change. Most of you out there have this grand plan of saving change within your self for step number two. And you actually think it's going to play out that way, it's just a matter of time. If that's your plan that is how you will stay broke, out of shape, in bad relationships year after year after year until suddenly this self sabotaging self - delusional devastating belief system you have kills you right after you entirely give up on your dreams. Don't foster a belief system in yourself that's contra indicative of the universe the only possible outcome of fighting the set up is, you loose.
If things are rough, if things are bad, whatever those things are, you should be praying for challenges to land right in front of you so you can go to work to gain the wisdom to over come those challenges. That's how you pull yourself out! Without the challenge what is there to pull yourself out of a hole with? Nothing! You've got to understand that without gravity the wright brothers would not have been able to invent flight. Flying would not be possible without gravity. Coming out of poverty, or poor health, or an undesirable situation would not be possible without challenges setbacks and difficulties. Without them there is nothing to grab onto for the purpose of pulling yourself out. Sadly what most of us do is we put our head in the sand hoping the challenges will go away. They don't go away. They don't even remain the same. MORE challenges just keep piling up and then you begin to feel like you're drowning all because of doing nothing to gain the wisdom to over come those challenges.
The god of your choosing, or nature, wants you to have an abundance of wealth, health, nurturing relationships, and all the things you want for a good life. That's why god and nature gives you challenges, setbacks, and difficulties! They are opportunities to get all of those things that you want! Quit looking at them as things that get in the way you're killing yourself doing that! Use them to pull yourself out of your hole so that you can shift your fight from fighting to survive to fighting to THRIVE! It's much more fun to fight to thrive than to fight to survive! You see, once you gain the wisdom to pull yourself out of your hole you're going to be able to handle those same challenges more efficiently from now on. But, even better than that, there are going to be new challenges you're faced with to gain even MORE wisdom, to personally grow even more so that you can have more abundance of wealth, health, nurturing relationships and whatever else that YOU want to live the life of your dreams by YOUR design. This is cool stuff isn't it? Are you excited yet to grab new challenges by the horns to pull yourself up to higher places??? You should be! Are you truly going to look at challenges, difficulties, and set backs differently now? Truly?
Let me give you my own example because I want you to know I'm not talking about something that I'm not already practicing and familiar with myself. You need to know that I'm not someone who has always had it easy. Quote the contrary. I had everything working against me. But that just gave me more opportunity to grab onto to gain all the more wisdom that changed my life forever. I've had my share of difficulties and set backs. In fact I feel badly for anyone who hasn't had the difficulties to gain the wisdom to design the life of their dreams. People with a comfortable enough life tend to lull themselves into enough complacency to do nothing meaningful with their lives and that is unfortunate.
I did everything I was "suppose" to do. I was born, I went to school, I got a job, I was on time, I worked hard building someone elses dream, I worked productively to build someones elses dream, I traded my time for money just like most of you are doing, and my reward for working hard to build someone elses dream was to have my job, which 100% of my income an benefits were attached to JUST LIKE MOST OF YOU, was off shored to India at no fault of my own. I found myself at 30 years old jobless, zero income, zero benefits, nothing! After 12 years of my working adult life I had ZERO income to show for and no JOB. Add to that I was in bad physical shape. I was rotting, just like most of the U.S. population. My belief system wasn't working for me! My belief system was working against me. Just like most of you! My personal philosophies brought me to this place where I was devastated. It wasn't my job abandoning me or the bad economy or politics or any of that junk. It was all me and my devastating personal philosophies and an un supportive belief system.
When most people are abandoned by their job who do they blame for suddenly having zero income and benefits? Most people blame the economy. That's how most people remain broke year after year. And if you are most people you've got to hear this because most people will not change in a meaningful way without feeling uncomfortable enough and even embarrassed enough first. This was certainly true for me. I depended on my parents at 30 years of age to survive. It was uncomfortable for me. It was embarrassing. I felt shame in myself. I don't even know how I was able to get a date being 30 years old depending on mom & dad to get by. It was not a good place for me to be psychologically. At least that's what I thought at the time. But looking back with all this new wisdom I've acquired since then to pull myself out of that mess I know that was exactly the state of mind I needed to be in to create the change within myself that was absolutely NECESSARY to change and design the life of my dreams.
So what did I do in my poor no income sorry state??? I spent $40 to sign up for the Team Beachbody opportunity and then dropped another $200 into it because I felt it was necessary and I was dead serious about not being broke still a year from then. I didn't wanna be broke still a year later I was SICK OF IT! I attended a seminar at a hotel lobby in the Chicago area with a bunch of other people. Everyone was interested in the company and the various opportunities to get healthy a financially independent. But yet those same people, who had the comfy cushion of an income from a job, just couldn't see spending any money on this to better their situation. In fact I've been told I was totally crazy for doing so in my no income situation. I was told I should be waiting til I had more time and money til I got started. Is that stupid? To wait til I have more time and money to start doing something that will give me more time and money? That doesn't make sense that's stupid!
Guess what?
All those people that put it off til they had more time and money are still putting it off and that is NEVER EVER going to change they will continue to be broke year after year after year unless they change on the inside, FIRST. Think about what happened at this seminar for a moment this is real life stuff here this can be applied to any situation not just this seminar. This is a reflection of life and human nature itself!! I was the guy with NO income and NO time because I was attending college full time and a half and my job was off shored to India and I was the guy who signed up. Isn't that backwards? YES! It is backwards. It's a completely backwards way of thinking in comparison to how most people think and that is why I am the guy who not only pulled himself out of a devastating situation but I kept running with my BACKWARDS THINKING and eventually fired my boss and bought a house in cash just a couple years later at age 32! This is something most people do not do in the course of their entire lives! But all those people interested in the opportunity think they are acting in their own self interest by waiting till they have more time and money til they actually start doing something that will give them more time and money. To me, THAT is backwards! And to them, I am backwards! And we both have our own results or LACK OF results to show for such drastically different belief systems. Which perspective of backwards would YOU rather be??? Seriously ask that question to yourself it's worth asking and answering to yourself! Especially if it gets you to FINALLY walk away from how most people think so you can FINALLY design the life of your dreams!
I'm doing really well for myself now all because I started consistently doing the things most people are not willing to do. But guess what? I am still faced with challenges. That doesn't go away. But I adapt to them much more eagerly than I did at first. Broke Tom saw challenges as events that got in my way. The new and improved Healthier and wealthier tom sees challenges as stepping stones to success. Broke Tom avoided challenges like the plague. Heck now a days if I don't feel I have enough challenge in my life then I know it's time to make new goals. I will actually WRITE DOWN AND DATE new goals just to be presented with new bigger challenges. You need to get it out of your head that if you just overcome current challenges that they will somehow stop. Nope! Just the opposite is true. The more wisdom you accumulate for the purpose of overcoming challenges the bigger the future challenges that come your way. Since life is a mix of difficulties and opportunities anyway and there is NOTHING you can do about it because it is the set up of the universe which we did not create, why not learn to embrace difficulties, challenges, and setbacks as the opportunities that they ARE for the purpose of designing the life of your dreams? You will be MUCH happier if you exercise the complete control you have over your response to both difficulties and opportunities. But if you are still with me then by now you must realize that difficulties ARE opportunities only disguised as events that get in the way. It's the WISE and enlightened person who sees a challenge, a difficulty, or a setback as REAL opportunity. How does THAT sit in your belly? It should sit very sweet like in your belly. It should fill your spirit with an eagerness to meet a tough situation and have some fun with it while you design your own good life.
Do you want to improve your situation? Then stop treating challenges, setbacks, and difficulties as events that get in the way and start using them CONSISTENTLY for stepping stones to design the life of your dreams. There is no other way. If you're waiting for your ship to come in before you get started I've news for you. Your ship is NEVER coming. It's already here docked and waiting. The longer you make your ship wait the more it decays making it harder and much more costly to get started. Waiting, I hate to say it, is STUPID! If you're being stupid then quit being stupid and get started it's your life so own it you're the only that can!
It starts with a decision followed by a commitment. Commit consistently enough with enough heart in the game and you WILL succeed. I don't know how long it's going to take you to get there. But that time is going to pass anyway either for you or against you. If you sit on the side lines of your own life and WAIT while watching others then not only is your situation not going to improve but your self image is going to diminish and over enough time THAT will kill you. If you've made the decision and your willing to commit but not sure how to get started let me know. I can recommend the same books and audio that helped me shape my life. If you're interested in the same vehicle I'm using to shape my life after I made the decision and commitment then let me know and I can show you what I am doing so you can decide if what I'm doing is a good fit for you or not. Does that sound fair? Whatever you do, do something! Step closer to your dreams so your dreams step closer to you. Start walking away from how most people think and start that walk today.
I hope the gears in your brain are turning by now. I hope you're beginning to wonder how different the next 5 years of your life could be from the last five years if you just swap out some old philosophies for some new ones and change a few things. I hope you quit waiting for tomorrow to own your own life. And I hope that if you'd like me to show you what I am doing that you ask me today rather than tomorrow.
Your life is a master piece and every day is a micro-cosm of that much larger master piece. Design your own master piece how YOU want it.
Tom
http://PassionForFitness.info
This year I RESOLVE to do something I've NEVER done before...
My ONLY new years resolution for 2011 is to help others join me in being financially free. I know what it's like to help people get healthy and even pay their bills which is an AWESOME feeling. This year I want the feeling of helping someone become entirely financially free. I resolve!!!
Who is going to resolve and partner up with me? Who's got the GUTS and enough HEART in their own life to invest in other people in an enlightened intelligent self interest kind of way??? This invitation is open to anyone who meets the criteria.
-Tom
Who is going to resolve and partner up with me? Who's got the GUTS and enough HEART in their own life to invest in other people in an enlightened intelligent self interest kind of way??? This invitation is open to anyone who meets the criteria.
-Tom
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