Last Minute thoughts on a New Year...

First let me preface this rant by saying 'I'm not really into the whole linear time thing'. But since we are at the Dawn of a New Year, I've been thinking a bit about Time and the unfortunate habit of tracking it.

In fact, I think one of the worst things that we have done as a society is to have invented the 'Work Week'. Now as with anything...there are both positive aspects and negative aspects to breaking down 'Time' and measuring it.

I'll start with the Positive...

Obviously we, as a society are forced to accomplish things by going to 'work' Monday through Friday. This type of 'agreement' lets businesses and therefore people utilize each others resources. This is a good thing. It allows us to eat and have shelter.

Also, having a 'Work Week Agreement' creates a lot of social settings and relationships which otherwise wouldn't exist. We are social creatures and in the words of the immortal Bruce Lee...'To Be is To Be Related To'. Also a good thing.

There are more good things like money, products, goods, and services but there's no need to go into those. I'll just agree that the 'Work Week' does have its good side.

Now on with the Bad...

Unfortunately, having a 'Work Week' also trains us to trade our most precious resource...Time. It's the one thing that we can't get back (unless of course we run into a Time Reverse Scenario!). Working 40+ hours a week leaves little time for ourselves. Add a family into that scenario and forget it.

The other tragedy I see is that it trains many of us to put off having a 'Good Time' until the weekend. To me this is soooo frustrating because I love to be social AND I work for myself. I'm not in an office environment. Most of my friends are 'stuck' in the 'Work Week' and I have to wait for them until the weekend to go 'have fun'. How selfish of them. I mean come on...working to make sure your family is taken care of? Why would you do that when you could just come hang out with me!

Seriously though, most of them hate being at work and I hate not being somewhere where I can talk to (and hypnotize) my co-workers. It can be a double edged sword.

The truth of it is that it benefits my business to put more time into it during the week. And it's unrealistic of me to think that people can abandon the 'Work Week' as easily as I did...

So...I started thinking.

As human beings we have an amazing ability to experience joy and ecstasy at ANYTIME we choose. Seriously...If you know how to do it there isn't a place that you couldn't enjoy. Even a funeral...I'm not kidding! It might be in bad taste to laugh at a funeral but I have to admit, I've done it and so have many of my friends. Think about the Irish...it's a party to them.

If people can do it at the funeral of someone they care about...why can't people do it during this so-called 'Work Week'?

Now what most people don't realize is that there is a strategy to 'Being Happy'. It's an unconscious process that can be replicated at will. No doubt there are times when it is harder...like when you're in extreme physical pain BUT even then it can be done.

How is it done you say? Well it takes some training but it IS worth it. How do I know it works...because I do it myself everyday. If I were to really think about the last few years of my life like most people would, I would be one depressed S.O.B. I'm not going to go into detail but let's just say the fact that I have a badly injured knee, can barely walk after 4 months, and am an OBSESSED martial artist who can't participate in his passion is the least of my worries...

Luckily, I simply refuse to look at things that way...

What I suggest to people is that the first step into actually getting out of the 'Work Week' successfully, is to change how they feel during the 'Work Week'. State change is everything. It allows more neurology to fire off in oneself, and when that happens, our problems go away, we feel great, and our creative abilities come out.

Having to work in a job that you just don't like is a problem. It will drain your lifeforce if you let it. I'm not saying quit your job...that would be irresponsible in this economy. I'm not going to suggest for you to 'Like' your crappy job or even 'Love' your crappy job. It's probably not a good idea to start lying to yourself. Some of you might be saying...well Ed, aren't YOU lying to yourself when your life is so crappy right now? My reply is that I am very aware of my situation BUT I don't let it dictate how I feel.

Think of it like being in a fight. If you let your emotions take over you are done for! Trust me...I know.

What I am suggesting is that you learn to Master your own state so that you can experience being 'Happy' any time you choose DESPITE your job or extraneous circumstances. And not just 'Happy' but the kind of 'Happy' you felt when you were a teenager. Go back to a time when you felt indestructible and that the world was full of possibility. (If you were a depressed teenager then simply go back to a different time when you felt good feelings.) Once you have the memory simply step into it and let your body re-experience that moment once again. It's pretty awesome looking through those filters...isn't it. If you can't do it that's okay...it just means you need some training.

Next you learn to anchor those feelings in so you can get them back any time you want to. Part of my strategy to enjoying my work is to anchor in being mischievious and a bit of a trouble maker. I was like that in my youth and I had fun with it. Not hurting anyone but being a bit of a shock to people. It creates response potential...a good thing.

Anything to wake them out of their 'seriousness'.

On a side note there is a serious thing in Government Mind Control called Tinkerbelle Programming. It makes the subject believe on an unconscious level that they are younger than they really are and that they will never grow up (like Tinkerbelle). These subjects always appear younger than their chronological age enabling them to be of 'use' longer.

I'm not suggesting I have experience with this. I just look young for 37, besides...

Programming the mind to make the body appear younger can't be possible...can it?

I think never growing up can cause responsibility problems although not always (just think Richard Branson).

So I say keep your responsibility and your job but learn to conjure the playfulness of your youth while you're at your job. Text your spouse some naughty jokes. Put a sign on the security guard's back. Studies have proven that when you are in a Playful, Fun, and Happy mood, that more of the brain's neurons fire.

So in essence you are activating more of your brain! That's what allows people to solve problems. Solving a problem from a depressed state rarely happens and to me...HAVING to work in the 'Rat Race Work Week' is a problem if you hate what you are doing.

And if you really want to get more out of your Time...

Learn to enjoy the moment because really the only time that is real is the present. The past and the future exist only within your mind. That's the truth of the matter and the truth of matter is that its always changing! But of course the more things change the more they stay the same...until you choose otherwise because...

This year is ALMOST last year and NEXT year will never get here just like ALMOST is really NEXT to NOTHING...isn't it.

So...get that and join me during the 'Work Week' for some fun and maybe even a little trouble.


'Til Our Next Present Moment'



Ed

Motivation is for P*ssies!

I'm in a transition phase where I am starting to REALLY PUSH my business to grow it and so I got to thinking about Motivation. Now one of the last things that I want to be is a Motivational Speaker. Have you ever seen these guys...(and gals)?

They come out on stage. There's music playing and a big screen in the background. They've got a headset mike on and they are all pumped up and yelling at the crowd. In fact I know of one speaker who comes out, asks everyone how they are doing today, and then has them repeat it over and over again until they are yelling it at the top of their lungs. Talk about an annoying pattern interrupt. The only problem is that that sh*t doesn't work on me. If I don't feel like yelling there's nothing you can do to me to make me do it and the more you try the more I think about choking you out.

Not only that but this type of Motivation only lasts so long. How many of you out there have ever had the experience where you felt great at a particular seminar? You were pumped...you were certain you were going to change your life. Maybe you felt that way for a couple of days...maybe even weeks....

BUT...

Eventually...

You went back to just feeling the way you normally feel day in and day out and nothing changed for you. I've heard this story over and over again from seminar attendees. Granted there are those people out there who naturally have high energy and bounce off the walls accomplishing everything under the sun and then some. Then there's the rest of us. It can take a lot of effort that most of us simply don't have.

Don't get me wrong...you CAN train yourself to be motivated and you CAN create certain states for yourself that you can use whenever you want and I do do that, but...the point is not to have those states NECESSARY in order to create change for yourself. Read on...

So...knowing all of this I realized that I have a challenge ahead of me. The first challenge is that I'm naturally lazy. Add the stubbornness on top of that and you get the idea. I don't like to HAVE to do anything...so the thought of HAVING to GET MOTIVATED to accomplish my goals doesn't sit well.

Yet, I am getting into an industry that most people associate with these yahoo feel good Motivationally Soaked Evangelists. How am I going to fake being pumped and get people MOTIVATED if I'm unwilling to do it myself?

Well luckily for me I tend to listen to the voices in my head (sometimes) and they all seem to agree...

Motivation is for PUSSIES!

End of story. I mean when you really think about it Motivation is just a word. It doesn't even exist. It is a concept that we have invented to define certain states of being which may or may not translate into certain behaviors taking place. On top of that, we as human beings have made a fatal error when it comes to Motivation...

We overwhelmingly believe that things will change for us if we just BECOME MOTIVATED like that successful guy we heard at the McSuccess Seminar. He is the Alpha and the rest of us are just flock until we GET MOTIVATED.

In fact...if we have sufficient Motivation AND get a Millionaire Brain THEN life will be a piece of cake and WE TOO can MOTIVATE others while gold nuggets shoot out of our ass!

So I starting thinking more about it...is that what I really want for myself? (I have to admit the nuggets thing would be a nifty trick).

I mean...I enjoy giving people the FEELING of Motivation and I do like Money BUT I don't want to work that hard. My systems are about FREEDOM and that FREEDOM comes through making simple realistic choices THAT WORK.

The simple fact is that the world changes all the time on its own. Does the WORLD NEED MOTIVATION to change? Does the sun need Motivation to burn albinos? No...it just does it naturally the way it was designed to, and we can too!

The point is to do things easily without thinking about them. Without stressing about them. Without worrying about what friends, family, co-workers, government, religious leaders or even yourself will think about you if you fail at said things.

The REAL trick here is to just simply do the things that will bring about the change we desire and do them unconsciously with no attachment to the outcome unless we should so choose. It'd be like taking a magic pill and just waking up one day and doing the right things with no thought added to them...just like brushing your teeth. Think about it...how Motivated do you NEED to be to brush your teeth?

Now that I think about it perhaps some of you COULD benefit from a little Motivation. For the rest of you this is my suggestion...

Realize that everyone who NEEDS Motivation is coming from a state of lack because they are not doing the things that they KNOW to do to get their results. You either have Motivation at the moment or you don't. Motivation is a state that we have all experienced in one form or another at one time or another. Some of us can maintain that state easily and some of us have a harder time at it. When Motivation goes away so too do the behaviors associated with it. By all means, when it comes take advantage of it...BUT don't make it the thing you need to take action.

In reality we usually GET MOTIVATED AFTER we've taken the actions we needed to take instead of before.

So instead of linking whatever behaviors that will more likely bring about the things that you desire, to a fleeting state...link them to something that occurs naturally..Like Breathing! This is the whole premise of the Fast Food Effect...Utilization.

How do you do this?

Come to my seminars and buy my products of course...what a shameless plug! No Seriously...

Sometimes all it takes is just to change the way you THINK about the things you already know you should be doing but don't because you THINK you lack the Motivation.

Stop and consider what it would be like if you just did the things you needed to do without thought...it would be a bit like being in a Magical Spell wouldn't it.

One day you will just wake up and suddenly you would be surrounded by all the things you once wanted.

And Motivation would be that thing that other people would assume you had...wouldn't it!