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I made this video to remind me that storms are going to happen and no matter how difficult they may seem, I can always make it through.

I hope this inspires you to hang in there.

Share it with anyone you feel could use a boost today!

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success. Start to receive the breakthroughs that are talked about by Steve Chandler, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and many other self-help Guru’s.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success. Start to receive the breakthroughs that are talked about by Steve Chandler, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and many other self-help Guru’s.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success. Start to receive the breakthroughs that are talked about by Steve Chandler, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and many other self-help Guru’s.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success. Start to receive the breakthroughs that are talked about by Steve Chandler, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and many other self help Guru’s.

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Life coaching, productivity coaching and executive coaching are all designed to help you and your organization reach capability, attain time management and realize success. This video series is designed to help you do just that.

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When you are on task, stay on task. Get the job done and don’t let the little things take you off course.

I love this clip from Pixar’s “UP”, the basis for this post….Squirrel!!!

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Dr. Rachel Smartt

Dr. Rachel Smartt is a Nutritional Counselor and Naturopathic Doctor..

Dr. Smartt has lectured nationally as a National Marketing Director representing Juice Plus+ fruits and vegetables in capsule.

She believes health is our responsibility and we must fight the ongoing war against junk food and traffic jam eating.

Her Hobbies include- cycling, running, reading, and being around positive people

Dr. Smartt resides in Peachtree City Georgia and has for the past 15 years.

Her most prized possessions are her four lovely daughters.

Her passion is to make a difference!

In this interview Rachel shares her story and the process she went through to become an expert. Through losing her husband to cancer and reinventing herself, Rachel’s closeness to God and her willingness to push forward has become an inspiration to anyone who feels they are going it alone.

Rachel can be seen at www.smarttnutrition.com

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Carolyn Fisher

Carolyn Fisher has been in the field of sports and teaching for over 20 years.

Native to Canada, she competed and trained over 80 thousand hours of Gymnastics and placed 4^th in the Western Canadian Championships.

She home-schooled her two children now ages 19 and 16 to college and 10^th grade.

She has been a professional mime, performing in National telethons and street fairs, Coached gymnastics for 20 years, been a sign language teacher for youth, and developed a successful public speaking course for young adults in which the students won many public speaking competitions.

Carolyn is featured in the Women’s sports book “you go girl!” and been in numerous televisions shows and movies including Sylvester Stallone’s “Over the Top” movie , in which a trucker (Stallone ) seeks recognition from his son and the arm wrestling community through winning the World Championships.

She has traveled to Japan, Canada and United States claiming 4 World Titles in Arm Wrestling and hundreds of National and International Titles. She is currently the only woman to hold both East and West Coast National Titles in the same year.

Besides teaching high school and Junior High P E and a private school she finds time to travel and give talks sharing her insights from her life.

In this interview you’ll learn powerful insights for lasting change and key principles that can lead you to the life you’ve always wanted.

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BNI Posts Nick’s interview with BNI Founder and Chairman Dr. Ivan Misner.

BNI has over 5600 chapters in 44 countries around the world and a membership of over 120,000 people.

See the article here:

http://www.bni.com/BNINews/tabid/64/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/329/What-Does-It-Take-to-Become-an-Expert.aspx

Listen to the interview here:

http://www.clearpathtraining.com/1160/expert-interview-with-dr-ivan-misner-and-nick-smith/

Make Today Amazing!!

The Clearpath Team

Too many people take a one time experience as the way things are. Certainty requires a person to push through and test things to the degree that they are no longer in speculation, but in the land of “I Know”

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As we walked, I asked him questions about himself in which he told me he had written a book of poetry. He showed me the book and I asked him if it would be ok to share it with my network. He said absolutely!!

Here’s what I want you to do:

• Watch the video and share it with as many of your contacts as possible
• Buy Talmages book Feast After The Spirit at https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=23087

He’s a good guy and could really use some help. Also, if you want to help him get home one day, you can find him at 10400 South, West of Redwood Road in South Jordan, Utah every day between 5:00PM and 5:50 PM (That’s when he get’s off work). If you’re on that road and are willing to help him out, please do. You’ll be glad you got to meet him. I’m glad I did!

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In this recorded coaching session with Malea, I discover that Malea is experiencing a physical loss which is affecting her mental and physical performance.

I have great relationships with therapists because there are certain tools that they carry which can be valuable to my clients. The loss that Malea is experiencing is affecting her daily routines. The things she used to be able to do with ease are now difficult. The mental and emotional struggle she is facing makes it hard to set and keep her promises and goals.

You don’t have to be sick or crazy to reap the benefits of therapy. It can be a very valuable tool for dealing with the deep emotional trauma that comes with loss, depression and other ailments.

Thank you Malea for being so open in this conversation! It brings me to tears to hear about your struggle and I KNOW you will break through and reach all of your dreams because of the strength you are finding through this transition.

You will hear clearly the boundaries for my coaching in this recording. If you are experiencing a similar situation, please get in touch with me or seek counsel from a licensed professional.

I never record a session or distribute a session without my clients permission. Malea gave me permission to share this recording with you.

I received this message from Malea shortly after our conversation:

Nick,

I can’t thank you enough for our conversation. It was short and sweet, but your guidance gave me enough strength to give myself permission to actually feel the way I was feeling without thinking there was something wrong with me. I so appreciate that. I would be happy to allow this to be published on the internet.

I will contact Becky next week. Just her short response tells me that her advice will be very valuable to my progress.

~Malea

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Becky Andrews, LCS, CT

Becky Andrews, LPC, CT – Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Thanatologist – specializing in trauma, grief and loss .  Becky is the owner of and therapist at Resilient Solutions, Inc. – an office of ten therapists each bringing their own unique experience and expertise to serve clients from children to adults, individually, marital and family therapy.

You can see her website at: www.resilientsolutionsinc.com

Becky is also the founder of  The Resilient Center for Grieving Families – helping families process a loss through play therapy, individual and group therapy.

Her clientele includes children, adolescents, and adults who have expeienced a loss and are working through the grieving process.  She leads groups in the following areas:

children, teens, adults who have experienced a loved one die from suicide, traditional death, mom’s group for women who have had a child die; spouse group; and individuals who are experieing a loss of their health (disability).

Becky received a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University, MS from Utah State University and licensing requirements from the University of Utah – Educational Psychology.

She completed the testing and certification as a Thanatologist in 2008.

Becky has been married 26 years and they love to travel, cycle, garden and enjoy time together.  Steve and Becky have two children – Natalie, 25, married to Adam; and Kendall, 23.

Becky is blind from retinitis pigmentosa and has had a guide dog by her side for 13 years … currently second guide, Cricket.

Regardless of our circumstance, each of has has the ability to succeed. Becky shares her path and shows how she became expert regardless of her limitations.

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Shore Slocum

An authentic speaker and outstanding storyteller, called a “spiritual Ninja,” “the new edgy Wayne Dyer” with “the wisdom of Deepak Chopra,” Shore Slocum shares his message worldwide in his workshops and keynotes for tens of thousands of people annually. He has honed his speaking and workshop style over 23 years in front of audiences around the world, and he has shared the stage and worked closely with speakers like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Jack Canfield, Norman Schwartzkoff, Anthony Robbins, Les Brown, Mary Lou Retton, Larry King, Zig Ziglar, Lisa Nichols, Bobby Knight, Dan O’Brien, Christopher Reeve, Daniel Gilbert, Dr. Michael Beckwith, and dozens of others.

Shore is known for his sincere caring, powerful energy, his deep wisdom, and his passion in the belief that we are all meant to create a life of fulfillment and meaning. He teaches strategies for putting the heart and spirit back into everything you do and discovering the joy that is present even in your most challenging relationships. Through his presentations, people experience the light and laughter at the core of their problems and learn to let go of judgment and criticism. Shore’s highest commitment is to help people find true fulfillment and help organizations develop a winning culture by improving their mindset, energy, skills, awareness, and connection. People who meet Shore immediately recognize his energy and passion for life and his continued growth in himself and the growth of others. They see his authentic spirit and most of all, his commitment and genuine desire to make a difference.

Considered by many the Trainer of Leaders, Shore conducts Speakers’ “boot camps” and leadership retreats to assist business/team leaders in finding their unique style and understanding the dynamics, psychology, leadership tools, and Universal Laws that will inspire others. He consults with many high-profile corporate clients to help them to uncover the hidden assets in their teams, using powerful experiential learning to imbed the ideas of communication, leadership, personal responsibility, and passion into their daily business practices. His ability to assimilate information has led Shore to develop content and curriculum for many clients, such as The Anthony Robbins Companies, Open Door Productions, and The Kabbalah Centers Worldwide. The four system audio program he cocreated with the The Kabbalah Centre called,  “The Living Law System,” sold thousands of copies in its 2007 weekend debut and continues to sell thousands monthly almost three years later.

Shore is an ordained Interfaith Minister who received his Bachelors and Masters in Religious Studies and has just completed his Doctorate in Holistic Theology. He combines this spiritual focus with a background as a star sales performer and executive manager in several companies. The owner and founder of three successful businesses, Shore’s most recent venture is as Co-Founder and Chief Creator of SoulNeeds, a Web portal that syndicates the best Spiritual and Personal Development Content in the world, combining patentable technologies and purposeful social networking tools to deliver a brand new way of content engagement, all promoted through a vast audience of conscious entertainers (musician, actors, comedians, etc.) and world-famous teachers. The launch of the SoulNeeds site will take place in October 2010, immediately prior to the SoulNeeds Music Festival in Santa Barbara California, which will feature top music, comic, and personal development talent.

The core principles and teachings of Shore’s work will debut over the next 24 months in a series of books called the “Evolution of Spirit.” Its purpose will be to make simple spiritual truths accessible and applicable in everyday life. On tap are What Makes Your Tail Wag? A Tale About Uncovering One’s Gifts and Living a Life of Purpose and Meaning, and Predictable Miracles. His next book will be called Business Would Be So Easy if It Weren’t for the People.

Shore considers his greatest achievement to be his blessed marriage to his bride Loren, and their three amazing children, Asher (age 3), Quinn (age 10) and Jos (age 14).

Loren Slocum

Loren Slocum is the founder, CEO and President of Lobella International, an organization dedicated to helping women “stay true to who they are” and realize their natural gifts. Recognizing the importance of helping to nurture the part in women that often times gets missed during their busy lives, Lobella has become a leading organization that women can depend on.

Loren is the author of 3 critically acclaimed books, No Greater Love, Being an Extraordinary Mom (October 1999, St. Martins press), re-released as The Greatest Love (January 2008) and Life Tuneups (May 2009, Globe Pequot Press). Loren has appeared on Oprah Radio, Fox, the Strategy Room and dozens of other national radio shows and currently hosts her own weekly show, “Life Tuneups” on the VoiceAmerica radio network along with her husband Shore.  She has been featured in over 30 business magazines and national media outlets such as; Success Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Dr. Laura, Woman’s World, First For Women, Working Mother, Martha Stewart Baby, Parenting, Becoming Family and much more.

Loren and Shore are two amazing people who are driven to make an enormous difference in this world.

They can be seen at www.lobella.com

And www.facebook.com/pages/SoulNeedscom/119103518121358

In this interview you hear what it took for Shore and Loren to earn their status and they will tell you how you can do it too.

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You know how you set a goal to change or have something different in your life then you slip back into the old routines and nothing changes? Einstein defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. When was the last time you considered your actions insane? Nicholas Townsend Smith (Nick) teaches you how to reprogram your behaviors and habits around the things you would like to have different so that you actually act in a way that will create the very thing you say you want. Nick trains his clients to take the learning they already have and turn it into earning what they would like to have.

Our news reflects an MTV/ Entitled society wherein you get something for nothing. We are riddled with fraud, laziness, deception and a not my problem mentality because people feel they don’t have to earn things. We have reached a tipping point where those who seek benefits outweigh those who create benefits. Therefore people feel that those who “have” must provide for those who “have not” and many have forgotten that they have the ability to provide for themselves; they feel entitled to that which they have not earned!

Nick has interviewed many experts from New York Times Best Selling Authors to Professional Mountain Bikers to discover the secrets of earning success. These common principles have been lost among the hype of get rich quick schemes, multi-million dollar lawsuits and lottery winners. Nick has been in the words of Ivan Misner, PHD, “Applying uncommon action to these common principles.” Nick has taught these principles to hundreds of business owners and professionals across American and into Canada. Nick’s expert principles have created lasting positive change for many of these people and their organizations.
Nick is an action and results based expert coach. He cares less about what you say you’ll do and more about what you actually do. An expert is one who is wise through experience, someone who tests and tries. Nick teaches his clients to become expert in their field using the same principles used by the nation’s leading experts. By creating an environment of accountability and reporting, Nick has been able to get his clients the results they’ve been challenged to attain in the past.

In this recording you will hear a raw and uncut coaching session. If you’ve wondered what it’s like to be coached by Nick, you can hear vicariously through Emily’s session.

Nick doesn’t share his clients information with anyone unless they give him written permission to do so. Emily gave Nick permission to share this information with you.

If you would like to know more about what it takes to be coached by Nick after hearing this recording, send an email to info@clearpathtraining.com

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Cheryl Cortese

Cheryl Cortese is from New Orleans, Louisiana and is a mom with 2 great children, a daughter (Edith) and a son (Christopher). Her background is Education, where she taught at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. She is an original 100 Club Member and the proud recipient of The NSA Founder’s Award. She has been a National Marketing Director with NSA for over 23 years.  Within that time she helped to develop within her organization 68 National Marketing Directors and her business spans the globe.

In this interview you’ll see Cheryl’s clear path for success. It had its up’s and down’s but she persisted long enough to win. Her 23  year adventure is laid out clearly and you will see what it takes to become expert.

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Robin Pulley, NMD

Robin R Pulley, NMD is a former stockbroker with a degree in Three-Dimensional Sculpture, Art and Design (probably one of the few lady welders you will ever meet).  Robin is also a Professional Photographer with many nationally published photographs.

Robin and her husband, Jerry, with their late- in-life “merger” have seven children and 21 grandchildren.  They moved from Boston to Salt Lake City, 12 years ago.  They love spending time with their children and grandchildren at their “dream-come true” cabin on the banks of  the  Henry’s Fork River in Idaho near Yellowstone.

The Children’s Health Study is her cause and her passion, and in the process she became the top representative of that international, non-profit organization, winning the Elton Award for the Children’s Research Foundation® .   Robin was the first person to become National Marketing Director in the entire company sharing the Children’s Health Study.   At one point Robin and her team had more people enrolled in this health Study than anyone in the world.

She can be seen at www.robinpulley.com

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Tammy Polenz- Vedas Fitness

Tammy Polenz is the owner of Vedas, an eco-friendly holistic focused fitness facility located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Polenz is an award-winning Certified Personal Fitness Trainer and Wellness Coach with over 20 years of experience. Through personal experience, she helps her clients identify personal pitfalls and empowers them to transform their own lives. Her past experience includes operations management for large gym chains, organization and management of multifaceted corporate wellness programs.

Eco-Friendly Gym design and club management are other services she currently provides for companies interested in creating a facility for their employee population. In addition, Tammy has authored numerous articles on fitness and has also recently authored Think Fit 2b Fit, scheduled to be on book store shelves sometime in the later part of 2010.

As an inspirational speaker she has made effective presentations to dozens of corporations, motivating employees to make healthy changes in their daily habits. She was featured in Oxygen magazine in 2002 for her accomplishments as a national fitness competitor in the Woman’s Trip Fitness, and again in 2003 as an upcoming fitness professional.

You can see her at http://www.vedasfitness.com/

In this interview, you’ll discover Tammy’s story and what it took for her to become an expert.

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Kevin Day Kday Racing

Over the past 16 years (7 of which have been as a professional) Kevin has been racing bicycles in and around Utah and across the Unites States. During that time he’s been fortunate enough to be a part of many elite cycling teams and make great friends from all over the world.

Kevin is a three time State Champion in the Utah State Championship, Three time Intermountain Cup over-all points leader and placed first at the 24 hours of Targhee. He has also had multiple top five finishes in both Cross Country and Short Track events on a national level.

Through this experience He’s been able to see and ride in some pretty cool places, come across his fair share of mechanical issues and struggle with the stresses and physical demands of bicycle racing. Being a professional athlete is far more work than Kevin had ever imagined and takes up more time than your average full time job. The rewards though are worth every bit of time, effort and $$ he’s spent to get there.

Thankfully Kevin has the support of a great family who have stood by his side and cheered through every up and down of his professional cycling career. They’ve seen him at the top of the podium and stood by as he watched others accelerate to the top spots. The support of Kevin’s family is what makes being a professional worthwhile.

Be sure to visit Kevin’s websites at www.kdayracing.com and www.bikefixutah.com

Discover what it takes to become an expert mountain biker in this intriguing interview. I had no idea there were so many lessons in mountain biking.

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The week leading up to the interview was stressful. Would it happen? Could I really interview a guy like him? I held my mouth shut as the excitement of this actually happening mounted. The day came, the phone rang and on the other line was Dr Misner. I did the interview and have gotten rave reviews about the quality.

I read this article recently that talks about our minds ability to feel satisfaction from just mentioning our intentions even though they haven’t been fulfilled. The approach is to talk about the things we intend to do with a tinge of dissatisfaction by having not completed them yet. This drives us to performance.

Read the article here: http://misssay.blogspot.com/2009/07/just-do-it-in-secrecy.html

The next time you feel like telling the world about what you’ll be doing, stop! Take the actions, do the thing and then tell them what you did!

It is a much more powerful approach to reaching your dreams.

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Steve Chandler- Club Fearless

Steve Chandler is a life coach and business coach and one of America’s best-selling authors whose 28 books have been translated into over 30 foreign language editions throughout Europe, China, Japan, the Middle East and Latin America.

He recently starred in an episode of NBC’s Starting Over, the Emmy-award winning reality show about life-coaching.

Chandler is a co-founder of the world mastermind network Club Fearless, and was recently a guest lecturer at the University of Santa Monica where he taught in the graduate program of Soul-Centered Leadership.

Chandler has been a trainer and fundraising consultant to more than 50 non- profit organizations nationwide.  He graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Creative Writing and Political Science, and spent four years in the U.S. Army in Language and Psychological Warfare. His internationally popular blog is available for all to read at www.imindshift.com.

Any listener of this show who emails in their address at www.stevechandler.com will receive a free copy of one of Steve’s books and CDs.

In this interview with Steve Chandler I discover his personal path for success. You will discover the secret to long lasting wealth and ultimately what it takes to become an expert.

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Clair Mellenthin

Clair Mellenthin, LCSW holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Throughout her career, she has focused on providing therapy to children, teens, and their families. Before joining Wasatch Family Therapy www.wasatchfamilytherapy.com, as the Director of Child and Adolescent Services, she worked in a successful private practice.

Ms. Mellenthin is a sought after supervisor, training graduate students and interns in play therapy, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah MSW program, and Utah Valley University.

In addition to being an experienced play therapist and teacher, Ms. Mellenthin frequently presents professional play therapy and family therapy trainings and appears on local TV and radio as an expert on children and family issues.

Ms. Mellenthin contributes to the blog www.crazibeautiful.com as a parenting expert.  She also runs a children’s play therapy group focusing on anxiety and healthy coping skills.

Clair is married to a great husband (Matt) of eight years, and is a mother to three small children whom she affectionately refers to as “my insanity creators and my sanity savers”.  Clair and her family reside in Sandy, Utah.

In this interview with Clair Mellenthin I discover her personal path for success. You will discover the secret to long lasting wealth and ultimately what it takes to become an expert.

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Could be, Should be and are

Are things that we can be

The gap we find between them

Can give us sadness or glee.

____

When who we should be is who we are

We might receive some praising

But when we are who we could be

We’re seen as outright amazing.

____

But if who we are is not who we should be

We feel a bit of regret

And when we’re not who we could be

We down ourselves and fret.

____

So how do you know if the person you are

Is the one that you should and could be?

Look at the promise you’re making and keeping

It’s here where you’ll finally break free.

____

If you make a promise and keep it

Than this is a “should be” for sure.

Giving above the expected

Is where a “could be” does more.

____

But if you fail to do what you say

And break your word all the time

Then you are neither a should be or could be

And that my friend is a crime.

____

So do what you say you will do

And make sure that who you are

Is doing the things that a “should be” would do

Or better, be a “could be” star.

____

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I was so scared and nervous going into this activity. I put it off for a week because the thought of standing at an intersection with a sign seemed overwhelming. Today I decided to go for it. I cut a piece of cardboard and wrote: “I Grow By Being Uncomfortable” in bright red marker.

I chose an intersection that I knew would be busy I-15 and State Street by Fashion Place Mall in Salt Lake. I finally stopped thinking about how daunting the task would be, got in my car and headed that way. I kept trying to shut my mind off and tell myself to just do it. I grabbed my cardboard sign and headed for the intersection.

For 1 hour I sat there holding my sign. hundreds of cars went past. Some people offered me money (which I turned away, because that wasn’t my purpose), some people asked me if I lost a bet, others asked if I was doing a school project, and still others were just intrigued. One lady said you look to nice to be poor..

Needless to say, the fear of the whole project left me. It wasn’t as big of a deal as I made it out to be in my mind. When fearful thoughts are replaced with positive action, I can do anything. It felt good to be able to say “I did it!”

Our comfort zones are funny things because what might be comfortable to us will seem uncomfortable to another and vice versa. The way to grow is to stretch out of those comfort zones into things that we otherwise wouldn’t consider.

T.S. Elliot said “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

We can do anything as long as we’ll get out of our heads and into the action.

Thomas Alva Edison said “If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves.”

I feel I hold myself back from my capabilities because I allow my fearful thoughts to keep me from acting.

I am  ready to be astounded by my capabilities.

Therefore, I want to be uncomfortable long enough to find out what I am capable of.

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Stephen McGhee

Stephen McGhee is a renaissance man and can be seen at www.miracleleader.com www.mcgheeleadership.com and www.thegetrealblog.com

With an undergraduate degree in finance and a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology, he engages many facets of life ranging from achieving superior business results to maintaining a devoted meditation practice. If you spend time with Stephen you will feel the possibility in your life, since he is constantly looking at ways to grow himself. He has a special way of being centered while at the same time leaving you with a feeling that “something powerful just happened” here.

Stephen has been coaching Leaders in Organizations for over 15 years. He has coached the top of the house in Companies like Microsoft and Kaiser and presented hundreds of keynotes both nationally and internationally. With a back ground in banking, he has a grounded business sense along with a miraculous view point of what is possible during tough times. Along with his business background he has found time to lead Wilderness trips to Argentina, Chile, Idaho, and of course, his beloved state of Colorado. He is a master Yoga practitioner with over 20 years of mat time. Basically you will find him outside doing what he loves as an avid skier, climber, and fly-fishermen.

Stephen loves his life, which is what he is most proud of, as he expands his spiritual experience through his ecumenical beliefs as a minister and spends time with Leslie, many friends and his two step sons.

In this interview with Stephen McGhee I discover his personal path for success. You will discover the secret to long lasting wealth and ultimately what it takes to become an expert.

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Ivan Misner- BNI

Dr. Ivan Misner is a New York Times bestselling author. He is also the Founder & Chairman of BNI (www.bni.com), the world’s largest referral organization with over 5,600 chapters in 44 countries around the world. His latest book, Networking Like a Pro, can be viewed at www.ivanmisner.com and www.networkinglikeapro.com

Dr. Misner is the Founder of the BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation and also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of La Verne. He resides in Southern California with his wife and three children.

In this interview with Dr Ivan Misner I discover his personal path for success. You will discover the secret to long lasting wealth and ultimately what it takes to become an expert.

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The Earning Cycle defines everything I feel is necessary for lasting change. If you want wealth, happiness, a loving relationship, a great job or anything else, you have to earn it. Lasting change doesn’t allow for quick fixes, cheats and stealing. It is a process and in order to earn the change, you have to be willing to stick with something long enough to get good at it.

Humans are constantly observing their surroundings and adapting as necessary for survival and growth. Our perception is the gate by which all things enter. To perceive something is to grasp with the mind. All of our senses are feeding information into our minds for interpretation. Our sight, touch taste smell, hearing and our instinct, are all providing an abundance of information for analysis. The gate keeper, our conscious mind, determines what is allowed to enter and what is not. This gatekeeper makes an instant judgment call based on our past experiences, beliefs and perspectives and only allows things to enter if we perceive that they will make us grow or provide protection. If we perceive something to be a danger, we will reject it. This doesn’t account for misinformation or deceit.

In order for something to take root in our subconscious mind, we have to learn or cultivate so that we can accept the new information. In essence we have to prepare our mind to receive. If we have past experiences with the information, this is easy. If we don’t have any experiences, we might feel a sense of anxiety and will need to trust before moving forward.

Once we accept the information, we have an opportunity to act or not to act. If we don’t act, the information is just that; information. Once we begin to take action on the new learning, we strengthen and nourish it through repetition. As we do it over and over again, our brain creates neural pathways and our subconscious mind runs this program automatically. We will eventually do it without thinking. Therefore, if you want to make a new behavior a routine or a habit, you must practice it over and over again. If you want to become an expert, you must practice while making adjustments. These adjustments will allow you to fine-tune your skill.

Only when you have learned something new and nurtured it, will you receive the reward for your labor. This is your harvest time where you receive the fruits of your labors. If your labor isn‘t producing the results you want, take that as feedback and trouble shoot the information you received or your efforts in nurturing. Either you have been misinformed or you haven’t nurtured properly. When you receive rewards for your labor, it is because you have taken appropriate action to that end.

The joy of this work is the rest period. I don’t mean that you give up and retire. This is the time when you get to enjoy your creations, share stories, offer thanks and teach others. This is the space where the expert lives because instead of just dreaming, the expert is enjoying the fruits of their labors.

Does this remind you of something? The four seasons? Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter? We Earn in seasons, so to speak. We have a learning phase, a nurturing, an earning and a rest phase. Each one vital to the next and all interconnected. If you don’t learn, you can’t earn. If you fail to nurture you will not enjoy the fruits or experience the rest phase.

We do things for two reasons, survival or advancement. Unfortunately, most of us live in survival and in survival you miss out on a lot of the opportunities to learn. You may learn something and not nurture properly because of fear. Because of survival, most of us never get beyond living day to day and earning the life we would truly like to have.

Unless our life becomes completely uncomfortable, or we are pushed to change, we will live exactly as we always have.

If you want to become who you are capable of becoming, you have to earn it. When you are ready, I am ready to push you and stretch you to the point that your life changes. You can do it yourself, but in most cases, your habits will win and you’ll keep doing what you’ve always done.

I have a coach because he pushes me to go further than I think I can. I wouldn’t be where I am today without mentoring and coaching. It has literally saved me years of frustration. I can do the same with you, but only if you start coaching with me.

Take action for yourself today! There is no need to wait for life to become extremely painful for you to take action. You can make a difference now!

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Now imagine another person comes on the field; an opponent. This person goal is to score a goal, your goal is to score a goal? Now how would you play the game?

Now, picture two teams coming together to play against each other. It’s no longer just you on the field, you now have teammates. How would you play the game at that point?

Now imagine yourself in front of a stadium full of fans; people who came to watch you play. How would you play the game?
We tend to play the game dependent on our surroundings.
Who’s watching? Is it just me or is there someone else involved in my game? We play the game differently when we are being watched. We play it significantly different when others count on us. And it’s an entirely different game when others look up to us.
But when we are alone we play a simple game.
Making commitments to others raises our game and our productivity.
My coach raises my game to a higher level. My clients count on me to provide value for them which also raises my game. I make commitments that get me to play the game at a higher level.
How do you want to play the game?
A simple way to raise your game is to make commitments to someone other than yourself.

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Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.

“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I had a great conversation yesterday that triggered this post. A gentleman I was meeting with was trying to determine which direction to go in his professional life. He was chasing about 6 different business ideas at the same time but in doing so wasn’t getting anywhere.

I asked him “Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?”

He replied, “I don’t know!”

Well if he doesn’t know, who will?

We spent the next hour getting very clear on his direction and action steps.

The funny thing about coaching is that I don’t get people to go in the direction I want them to go. My goal is to get them to see clearly the path they would like to take and get them moving onto it.

But when a person is unclear of where they would like to go, they’ll end up wherever they end up? Without direction, a person will float like a solitary vessel in the ocean without sail or rudder. They will float wherever the currents take them.

Lao Tsu said “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

When a person is unclear of what they want to do or even more particularly what it is they are doing, confidence diminishes. Without clarity of purpose and direction, it is nearly impossible to get others enrolled in your vision.

Imagine going up to someone and saying, “Hey, I have a great Idea and I want you to be a part of it!”

They say, “What is it?”

To which you respond, “I have no idea, but it’s awesome! Are you in?”

What would your response be to that?

How would you know what action to take or what words to say if you don’t even know what the other person is doing?

Yet so often I see business owners who know what they do, but don’t know how to explain clearly what they do. I’ve seen business owners who are generally good at many different areas, but expert at none.

Have you heard the quote “Jack of all trades, master of none”?

In order to be successful in business, you need to know where you’re going, what you do, who your ideal clients are, how to find those ideal clients, what to say to them when you do find them and what benefits you create for them that will make them want to be a client for life. This requires that a person become expert in a specific area. Not to say that you can’t have supporting trades, just one clear focus!

In your life if you are not specific and clear about the things you want then you’ll get whatever you get!

The idea of just thinking positive thoughts and things will come is only part of the equation. Getting what you want out of life takes focused action; action that has intention behind it; action that moves you towards the desired outcome. If you don’t know where you’re going, how can you ever take that kind of action? You can’t!

Albert Einstein said “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

I’ll paraphrase by saying you can’t change your life by taking the same actions that got you to where you are today!

Slow down long enough to figure out where you’re going! If you’re having a hard time slowing down, hire a coach who will hold your feet to that fire.

Get clear my friend!! Find direction and take new action!

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I AM…..

I was having breakfast this morning with my kids and my son said, “I’m Hawaiian” my daughter immediately retorted “No you’re not!” but no matter what she said, he unrelenting,  held firm that he was Hawaiian.

If I were to say to you, “I am……” and all evidence showed that was not true and you and the world showed me time and time again why that would be a lie; it wouldn’t matter unless I conceded. Even if you threatened me with imprisonment for fraud or the fear of death, I would be that thing unless I agreed with you. You may throw me in a padded room and force medications on me, but until “I” change my viewpoint, I am that thing.

We are what we say we are until “WE” decide differently!

You are what “You” say you are until you change your mind.

My question for you then is; who do you say you are? What are you declaring yourself to be?

Are you a hero or a loser? Are you happy or depressed? Are you alive or a walking zombie? Are you the best or the worst?

You’re choosing who you are and the only way that will change is for YOU to make it so.

That is why my son is Hawaiian or whatever else he might want to be!

That is why I am who I am!

That is why you are who you are!

If it’s not working for you, make a new choice!

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I view life as being life. It’s us who judge it.

My paraphrase to these statements is “Life is Life; I am good!”

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I was shocked at how much we spend feeding, sheltering, clothing and pleasing ourselves and how little we spend on improving the very thing that will allow us to provide all of those things and more.

The average American spends under $1000.00 per year on self-improvement.

Our minds and our bodies are the things that can create the greatest return in our lives. Yet we would rather have fancy clothes, a nice car and endless nights at the movies than to improve our skills, talents and abilities.

“The successful man is the average man, focused.”-Anonymous

There are three things that separate the average from the extraordinary:

1-       Knowledge- Successful people are constantly learning. They seek knowledge in all of its forms. They pay teachers and coaches, attend seminars and trainings, they read books, attend universities and schools and look for ways to increase their learning.

2-      Action- Successful people take action. They are not waiting for the lottery or jackpot. They don’t think God or the universe will just drop riches in their laps. They don’t expect the world to fix itself. They work like the dickens to earn their wealth. They go out and create the change they wish to see. They put their knowledge to work.

3-      Improvement- Successful people are constantly improving. They practice and practice their skill. They become proficient, then expert, then extraordinary. They hire the best instructors they can afford to get them to where they would like to be. They are constantly outdoing themselves.

The average person doesn’t do any of this. They spend just enough on their education and self-improvement to get by. They hope the world will change and continue watching “Lost” or “The Biggest Loser”

Wake up America!!

It’s time to take action for yourself!

Do you need that nice car today or could you invest in you and with the knowledge you gain and the action you take, buy a thousand of those nice cars?

Should you buy those designer jeans or invest in you and with the knowledge you gain and the action you take, buy a thousand pair of those designer jeans?

“The average person invests in things and the successful person invests in themselves.” – Nick

Thomas A Edison said “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves”

How can we astonish ourselves if we are busy being average?

Do something extraordinary, invest in yourself!

My coaching clients are successful, because they are investing in themselves. They are improving their skills and striving to be more than they currently are.

You are worth so much more than the credit you currently give yourself. Start investing in yourself. Buy books, attend schools, hire coaches, attend seminars and improve yourself. Spark the power inside of you and be who you would like to become.

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“If you don’t turn off the switch once in a while you’ll burn out the light bulb.”

Our minds need breaks and if you’re running, running, running, you will not have all of those bright ideas that are waiting for you.

Find ways to take breaks throughout the day. Turn off the switch so-to-speak!

By doing this, you will come back into your creativity with fresh ideas.

Our bodies work in cycles, yet our tendency is to override these cycles. We want to keep going even though our bodies are screaming at us to stop.

The logical mind wants to figure things out, but in doing so, kills creativity. When you take a break, you keep the ideas (light bulbs) fresh.

I teach my personal coaching clients to take frequent breaks throughout the day. One of my clients structures mini vacations into his work day, allowing him to feel as refreshed as if he were on a real vacation. Another client takes moments to go play video games.

Figure out what works for you and start to incorporate that break into your life. You’ll find it easier to overcome the blocks.

“Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.” –John W Raper

I love this quote! It says so much with so little.

I have found myself saying, “I want to do this, this and this!” I want to write this book, make this movie, write that poem, speak here, buy such and such, etc. I find myself bunting or hitting singles, doubles and triples in the infield or the outfield and under intense stress, energy and effort I strive to get on base metaphorically speaking. I rarely have time to get on base and do all those things I would like to do. It becomes a game of one or the other.

Yet if I were to hit the ball over the fence, I could do all those things without the stress or intense use of energy. I could literally take my time.

People who are constantly hitting the ball over the fence give me the impression of pure joy. They seem to go from one success to the next to the next. They hit one homerun and then another and then another, and still find time to touch every base along the way; no rush, no hurry, just glory!

Some of the most memorable players in baseball are the ones that hit homeruns.

Babe Ruth , one of the most known names in baseball hit 714 homeruns. Even though he was such a great batter, he was struck out 1,330 times. What would he say about a strike? “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

Do you say that? Would you say that?

Most of us don’t. We’re too busy playing it safe with line drives and bunts, scrambling just to get on base or waiting bored to death on the benches thinking, “If only…” or worse we find ourselves observing the game from the nosebleeds.

What can you do from there?

When you hit one over the fence, you’ll have time to do all of the other things you want at your own pace and be a legend, but you have to get in the game! You have to take the risk!

T.S. Elliot said “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

Go for it! Hit one over the fence!

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Now I’m joking!

I am a proponent of self development and owning the outcomes in my life. But many people aren’t. They cannot accept that they are creating every outcome in their life; good or bad. They go through life as victims of every circumstance.

Self-defeating behaviors have plagued me throughout my life and I know they affect countless others; maybe even you.

Just because a person acts this way doesn’t mean that they are stuck for life. We can be reprogrammed.

Through personal coaching, I have reprogrammed myself and I know you can do it too.

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I was in a great discussion with a member of my mastermind group the other day and she brought up some fears that she had about the future. She showed concerns about an uncertain, unproven and I think highly genius approach to doing business. She expressed doubts and fears about her ability to perform such a daunting task and was desperately seeking for reassurance.

I said to her, “Of course you’re going to have fears and doubts and all of that other fun stuff. You’re going into unexplored territory; the unknown. Whenever someone goes into the land of uncertainty, they experience some sort of anxiety.” I told her she was an explorer like Lewis and Clark of old and that if she would push through to the certainty that awaited, those fears would subside.

We could all be explorers, but many people allow those fears to overpower them and instead of discovering new lands of plenty, they step down and slither back into what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls “Mediocristan“.

As a personal coach I really enjoy helping my clients venture forward into the unknown and quash those made up, fearful stories.

My question for you is who are you going to be today; an explorer or a permanent resident of Mediocristan?

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These guys uplift and inspire millions of people from every background, ethnicity, disability and culture…

and they do it All Without Words!

Words are great but not necessary for your success!

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Our minds cannot tell the difference between what we are actually experiencing and what we are perceiving. A magician’s slight of hand is as efficient as it is because our eyes don’t always seethe trick. Virtual roller coasters work well, because of our sense of movement.

Not all people are visual. Some people create using their sense of hearing, others use their sense of touch or feeling. For this reason I feel that if one can perceive their goal in their mind using one or all of their senses, they can attain it.

My challenge is this; instead of using a vision board which uses one of your senses, Create a perception board which incorporates all of your senses. If you can, find ways to plug in things that involve your sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch and the often forgotten sixth sense; your extra sensory perception. This sixth sense can often be the “how to” of obtaining the goals you have in mind.

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When a person has no money in their bank account, they may create a story around that of all the reasons why it is the way it is. Perception and opinion allow them to create judgments or blame the results on something other than themselves. The outcome is an empty account, the story is the dot, dot, dot that follows. People present their perspectives and opinions as though they are fact when in actuality, those opinions are merely their version of fact. Feedback is not perception or opinion; it is only the data or outcome of one’s decision.

Are you presenting your opinion as feedback?

Do you feel that your perspective is that true data?

Ask yourself these questions. Find out what is actually happening. What choices are leading to the outcomes and if those results aren’t working for you, make new choices.

Not sure how to do that? Get in touch with me and schedule a waived fee coaching session. I’ll assist you in discovering how to do that for yourself.

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When coaching a person, I attempt in every case to remember that his or her change is entirely up to them as is mine. I cannot change people; they must do it for themselves. All I can do is live the best I can, teach what I’ve learned and done for myself and allow them to choose whether they will do the same.

I don’t have the power to change someone’s life; that power is within them. The power I hold is to inspire.

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Our habits and our body operate like a cruise control and will only perform automatically those things we program it to do. Most people don’t realize they have the power to change these behaviors. They feel out of control and that life is “happening” to them.

ON/CRUISE- Whenever we observe something that we would like to have in our life and make the decision that it is something we want; our body begins to build a neural pathway which will assist us in doing that thing. The body is neutral and doesn’t care if the thing is good for us or not. It merely wants to assist us in making this thing easy

SET- When we have turned on the “machine” it is up to us to make conscious choices for a long enough period of time for our body to take over. Once we have established that we want something, we go about repeating the behavior. Over time, this neural pathway gets stronger and stronger and stronger. After an number of repetitions, this behavior turns into a habit and in some cases an addiction. The body can be our servant or can become our master depending on the choices we make and the actions we take.

COAST- Sometimes we’ll take a break from our negative or positive behaviors. We get back into our comfort zones and allow our energy in this area to slow down.

ACCELERATE- Usually when we set a new goal or set our mind on something, we put our energy towards that. We step up the pace and give it everything we have. I am not just talking about positive things here. We do this with negative behaviors as well.

RESUME- We have created neural pathways for all addictions and habits in our lives. At any time we can jump back onto that path and resume our old behaviors. We may want to resume some of our positive behaviors and with very little effort can bring them back to full strength. On the flip side, a person can jump back into an old addiction with relative ease. All it takes is a choice to get back on that road and an action towards that end.

OFF- When setting a new behavior, it becomes necessary at times to turn off the cruise control. We stop acting automatically and begin to act methodically. By being aware of our negative behaviors, turning them off as we recognize them and implementing a new positive behavior, we can change any behavior. However, most of us would rather stay in cruise control.

Every behavior, habit and addiction was put into your body by you. You can continue down your path feeling as though you have no control, or you can turn off the cruise control. You have that power. You hold the power to do that.

Sometimes the idea of turning this off seems daunting. As a coach, I assist my clients in disabling negative behaviors and creating positive new ones. The tools I use with them can help you to regain control of your life.

Email me at Nick@clearpathtraining.com and we’ll schedule a time to talk. I’ll show you how this can work in your life right now.

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Click on the link to view my declaration. This is who I declare myself to be. this is who I am. Who do you declare yourself to be? BE that person!

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I was number 9 of eleven children. When I was two years old, my dad passed away from Leukemia. I was so young, that I don’t remember much about him. My mother never remarried and raised all of us in the best way she knew how. I personally don’t want to imagine what it must have been like to raise eleven kids on my own. She is a powerful woman who sacrificed her life so that I can be where I am today. We grew up very poor, many times we were on church welfare and as I grew up I began to resent my poverty. I didn’t want anyone to know I was a poor, weak, scared little boy who was thrown into a scary world with 10 other strangers and no father. For my beautiful mother’s sake, I hold no hard feelings towards her. She is an amazing woman who did what she knew how to do.

I remember in middle school and high school taking on the persona of being more than I truly was. In my efforts to cover up the story of who I really was, I began to act tough. I would make up stories of my being able to fight, because I learned a few things from my brother who was a golden gloves boxer. It was all a lie, but it worked. I never fought once in high school because no one dared prove me wrong. Truth be told, they probably would have kicked my ass pretty easily at 5’11” 155 lbs. I let this story grow and become a part of my story. I actually began to believe the lie I was living. I was a real jerk all in the name of not appearing weak.

I remember a particular Christmas when I was a teenager. The community knew my mom had very little money and had put together a large amount of gifts for our family. I distinctly remember hiding behind the door as these people sang Christmas carols and delivered their presents. I was so angry, thinking that someone in that group might realize that was my family and I was a broke kid.

I was so embarrassed of poverty. I didn’t want people to see the real me.

I was in high school and in order to throw people off even further, I bought a nice car; much nicer than I could afford and all in an attempt to mask my poverty. I would do anything to cover up the fact that my family was damn near penniless. I would attempt to buy nice clothes, eat out with friends and do what it took to fit in with the “rich” kids.

I had my integrity however; I never stole to mask my position, I always worked for everything I had. I just spent way more than I should have for what I was earning.My mother instilled a great respect for work.

Choice after choice and decision after decision made me feel as though on the surface I was rich, but underlying was a pit deeper than I knew.  I was digging myself into a deeper financial mess. I would blame everyone and anyone for putting me in this mess. I even got angry at God for making me broke. How could he!? I would say. I never took accountability for my role in life’s creations.

I played a hard game of life; much harder than it needed to be. I began to drink and really fell in love with the idea of being drunk. I would try to disappear who I was. I didn’t want others to know I was a “Loser” and I didn’t want to admit that I was the one who screwed up my life. I would try unsuccessfully to shut up my mind. I even had thoughts of ending it through suicide, but was too scared to even go down that road. Even though the thoughts would come up, I never wanted to act on them.

By the time I was 22, I was broke, drunk, addicted to porn and just a flat out “worthless human being.” Everything I had pushed so hard not to become, I became in an exaggerated degree.

One day I was paying my insurance and a man asked me to step into his office. I had never met him before and haven’t seen him since. We sat down and talked and our conversation allowed me to look at my life from the outside. I saw for the first time the game I had been playing and I broke down and sobbed. I literally sobbed as this man and I talked. I don’t mean little tears; I mean body convulsing, vocal wailing. Everything I had held pent up was coming out and I could do nothing to stop it. That was the first time in my life that I realized the only way for me to change was to get help.

About six months later, I moved to Las Vegas and met the Bishop of my church in that area. We began a long road to a new life. For over a year, we would meet on a weekly basis; looking at what I had done, what it was I was doing and creating hope for a bright future. This man worked with me so consistently and loved me so much that I began to let go of my story; the story I had lived for 23 years. He served me, he raised me up when I felt I couldn’t keep going. He made me feel human and that there was hope for me. I love that man. Kenny Stewart was his name. He owns Stewart and Sundell Concrete in Las Vegas and even though he runs a very large business, he found time to help me see my value and did that long enough for me to change. I kicked my love for alcohol and my addiction to porn and many other self-defeating behaviors.

Because of the change we had created, I chose to become an LDS missionary and served for 2 years in Bolivia, helping others experience the same joy I was experiencing. I served people and that is where the greatest joy comes from. I assisted over one hundred individuals and families find their true potential and begin to live it right now. What an amazing experience. I saw people transform right before my eyes.

I came home from my mission and began to apply these principles at a deeper level in my life. I began selling furniture at RC Willey and quickly became one of their top salesmen, selling over 1 million dollars a year in furniture. I was married in the spring of 2002 and my wife and I began to live our new life together.

Slowly, my old behavior about money began to creep back in and we started extending ourselves beyond our means. Little by little, we began to dig ourselves into a financial pit. I felt as though I needed to earn more money and rather than living within our means, I chose to become a real estate agent. I left my steady income and jumped into the unknown.

Money has a funny way of clouding judgment. In the pursuit of money, I was willing to let my family suffer, all in the name of building a brighter future. Over the next few years we struggled through an off and on income and no matter how much I would earn, we would spend more than we had. Although I was selling millions of dollars in real estate, we were consuming our income as quick as it came in.

I became a real estate broker and was shortly thereafter approached by an investment company to build a brokerage for them. They committed a nice salary and I was excited for a change of environment and a steady income. I went to work immediately and built exactly what we had envisioned. I have always been proficient at establishing systems and processes and acting on those. In a very short period of time, I built a brokerage of 15 agents and began to train them on the ins and outs of client relations and contract negotiation. Little by little, my company began to grow.

I was introduced to the world of private investing (gambling the way I see it) and began to build systems for the investment company I was working with. I began to see the potential of that game and made some choices that put me into a deeper financial hurt. Instead of accepting an income, I traded for the possibility of becoming a multi-millionaire through these investment vehicles. By the end of it, my marriage was in shambles, I was broke, my home was in the foreclosure process and I was almost a million dollars in business and personal debt. I felt like a great big screw up! My saving grace was having a life coach through the entire process who worked with me on my emotions and self-esteem. My wife, whom I love dearly, gave me an ultimatum and said if things hadn’t changed in a certain time frame, she would leave me. I was not willing to lose my family over such a stupid deal. I was scared. What would I do? How could I provide for my family?

We decided that I would do what I had so abundantly received in my life; I would become a coach and teacher for others. I have always loved teaching and determined I would teach them how to make better choices than those that I made. I would show them how every outcome was a result of their choices and if they didn’t like the way it was going, they could change it. I didn’t want people to suffer the same fate I created.

Stepping from the mess I created, I stepped full of fear into the unknown. It felt as though our world came unraveled. We ended up filing for bankruptcy and lost our home shortly thereafter. We had no income and no more savings. These were the results of my choices and I determined I would never live that way again. I made a promise to myself that I would make absolutely conscious choices toward a better future and instruct others at every possibility to do the same.

Immediately after making this decision, my brother allowed me to come into his company and set up his business systems. For 1 year, I worked with him and his employees to create complete accountability in every decision. I taught them and coached them on reaching their dreams even within another organization.  They learned that every creation takes energy and focused effort until it becomes real.

In this time, I have successfully instructed small business owners, managers, directors of Fortune 500 companies, musicians, authors, and people from all walks of life in creating clear paths for a brighter future. I love serving these people into success. I can’t imagine a better place for me to be.

The biggest thing I discovered is that when left alone, I would go back to my old behaviors; I would resurrect my negative aspects and I am not alone; everyone does the same thing.  The quickest way for me to change is to create a clear pathway to the goals I am achieving and in order to reach those objectives; I need someone to report to.  In my life’s history, I changed the most when I had someone to report to. This is why I have a coach. I will always have a coach because I know where I will go when left alone. I have an undying commitment to be this coach for others.

Here I am, a scared, poor, weak, bankrupt, foreclosed on little boy, tucked inside this grown up body. Inside of me is this story and it will always be the most precious part of me. I am where I am today because that same person that screwed up my life is the one that’s creating where I am today and where I will be in the future. I wouldn’t be here without him and he wouldn’t be here without me. He is me and I am him. That part of me made me who I am today; it gave me this strong conviction. I do what I do because of who I was and who I was is who I am.

Like my mother, I raised myself the best way I knew how. I lost sometimes and I won sometimes. I made some really stupid decisions and I made some amazing ones. I was scared to death and at times courageous. All I know is that I have a commitment to your success that you may not have for yourself. I am here to see you win and will never give up on you!

This is why I can serve you. I wake up every day pushing through my fears and history. I know what it feels like to lose everything and what I know is it’s not the end. It can never be the end unless I quit. I am not quitting on you, please don’t quit on yourself. I can help you!

I know it’s scary and would really love to have a conversation with you about it. Let’s spend a little time on the phone together and see if we can resurrect your hope.

Please pass this along to those who are experiencing similar struggles. They deserve to talk to me and so do you!

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Consciousness means that we are aware or awake to everything within our space. Sub consciousness is anything below this type of awareness

Subconscious actions are the things we do without thinking or pondering, we just do them; they are automatic. These are the habits, behaviors and underlying beliefs that move us through life automatically. I refer to these as our default mode. There is an interesting correlation between habits, behaviors and beliefs. They all signify similar things. Habits and behaviors both are based on the word have. Habit comes from the Latin word haber which means to have. Behave when broken down be/have also means to have. These are the actions that we take without thinking. These actions dictate our choices and ultimately the outcomes of those choices. Beliefs mean to have or to hold dear yet these are not necessarily the subconscious actions, but the underlying beliefs driving those actions.

Conscious actions are the actions we take on an awareness level. This is where we are fully aware of our choices, experiences, surroundings, outcomes and etc.

The beauty of these two action types is that they are both necessary for our advancement.

Conscious actions can become subconscious actions. In other words, if you perform a positive or negative conscious action long enough, you will master it and it will become automatic or subconscious. If you would like to create new positive habits, the key is to repeat this new behavior long enough consciously for it to become subconscious. Our goal is to create enough positive subconscious actions that these positive subconscious actions put our body into the mode of creating the things we would truly like to have in our lives rather than accepting those negative things that are already there.

Conscious action vs. subconscious action

Subconscious action is the action you take that is automatic. This is your current behavior or default system. Conscious action on the other hand is the awareness system wherein you are actually choosing on a moment to moment basis what your decisions and outcomes will be. Both actions are committed meaning that you Do them.

I want to clarify the distinction between Commit and Engage. To commit means to perpetrate or to perform. Engage means to make a pledge or promise. In America we swap the meanings of these two words. We use engage as though it were the action part of our statement and commit as though it were a promise. When we engage we promise and when we commit, we act. To know what you are committed to, look at what you do. What you do is what you are committed to.

Subconscious actions are usually more committed than conscious actions. What I mean by this is you are more likely to perform a subconscious act than a conscious one. Conscious action can carry the same commitment, but it takes more focused energy and effort.

If we would like to create new habits, behaviors and beliefs, we must first determine what those new behaviors will be. When we have determined what the new behavior will be, we must look at the current behaviors. If we don’t know where we are, we cannot get to where we are going. By knowing our current and future behaviors, we can begin to create a clear path from one to the other.

Once we have established the two points, the next step is to create a pathway from the one to the other with actions that we know we will act on. In goal setting, I have witnessed many people who set goals that are too lofty for their current accomplishments. In most cases these people will go back to their default mode; what they already do and the goal will fizzle and fade. The reason I tell my clients to set actions and promises they know they will engage, is because I want them to succeed on a consistent basis long enough that these conscious behaviors change into subconscious, automatic ones.

When people are left alone, they will usually go back to doing what they are comfortable with; even when that behavior is damaging to themselves and those around them. We were put on this Earth with 7 billion other people for a reason. It is so that we don’t have to change by ourselves if we choose to get assistance. My service is as valuable as it is to my clients, because I work with them and coach them on a consistent basis long enough that their new choices become subconscious or automatic.

A lot of people are afraid to look anything less than expert. Experts become experts through practice and adaptation. YOU can become expert in any area you choose if you will perform consistently and for a long enough period for that to occur. I will iterate the one vital key to your successful change;  “You need to suck at something long enough to get good at it!”

If you have struggled to make these changes on your own, email me and as my gift to you I will show you how this process works. Don’t worry, I won’t be pushing my product on you or forcing you to get into something you don’t want. I truly love to see change occur in people’s lives and you deserve to change if that is what you want. If this is not for you right now, share this link with someone you feel would benefit from this type of change.

2010 is fast approaching and most of us set new goals. I am tired of people setting goals and then not reaching them because they let low self-esteem and absurd, fear based “shy and humble acts keep them from that end.

The world needs people who are unafraid to charge forward into positive change. I am done watching people succumb to the power of negative talk. You have the power to change right now. You can change or you can go about doing what you have always done. If you choose the latter, nothing will change; you will continue being broke, fat, depressed, addicted, relationship less or any other negative behavior that you are currently acting on. Is that what you want?

If it is not what you want, I can assist you in creating the positive change you seek in your life, but only if you stand up for yourself.

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

We only become stuck in a habit when we choose to be stuck. Each of us has the power to change direction.

Choose up!
Nick Smith
The Expert Coach

We have not been conditioned into believing things, but have been conditioned out of believing. In order to fit in with the herd, we were taught to put childish things away. We were taught how to be appropriate by our parents, teachers and piers. Slowly we learned to fit in. Gradually we were trained to use logic.

It is becoming less and less accepted to believe in things you cannot see or explain. Yet it is precisely the unseen which drives us to be more than we currently are. Logic would say you can’t be your dream you because you are genetically unable. Belief pisses on the grave of logic and says “Yes I Can!”

80% of Americans believe in some sort of higher power, even though Freud, Dawkins, Shermer and many others in the scientific community call this irrational. Children are born knowing the world is abundant until their parents teach them there is lack. Again I say, we are conditioned out of believing.

Science has proven that we use the same part of our mind in evaluating beliefs as we do facts. In other words, our minds do not know the difference between a belief and a fact. (Click Here To Learn more) Beliefs allow us to do illogical things. A bee flies because he believes he can although his design makes this aerodynamically impossible. (See here).

So my friend, who says you can’t be your dream? Who is it that is asking you to be logical; to put childish things away?

I say go for it! Do it! Be it! Have it!

Why?

Because I believe you can!

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Belief is all we have, it drives every decision we make. Belief allows us to be  healed when we are sick, stand up when we are down or advance when we are behind. Belief changes a comforting story to a fearful one. Belief makes a man a failure or a success. Belief makes a sugar pill a miracle drug. Belief is unique to us all.

Some people believe there are conspiracies, others don’t. Some believe in a heaven and hell, others believe in reincarnation, some believe in nothing external. Some people believe in Aliens others in Allah. Some believe in psychics, mediums and so forth.

What do you believe?

How would you feel if someone destroyed those beliefs or forced you to believe differently?

Show me the rule book that says we must believe in God, aliens, evolution, Allah, Buddha or science. A scientist will say that proof is required by the person initiating the claim. A religious person will say that proof is required by the unbelieving.

People believe in many different ways. I feel there is beauty in this diversity. Yet some see it as ugly and unbecoming.

I believe in God, you may not. Is there a need for conflict based on that simple statement?

Even those who believe in a God believe it in different ways. Those who believe in science, believe in it in different ways. Beyond that, there are myriad ways that people believe in things.

I believe in creation, you may believe in evolution.

For me I say:

I have yet to see an airplane go back to its inventor and say; “You never created me!”

I have yet to hear of a computer telling the man who created it; he doesn’t exist.

I await the news of a skyscraper saying it evolved from a teepee

Why is it that we as human beings are constantly attempting to disprove the notion of a creator?

You may agree with me or you may say; “How could anyone discount the evidences supporting evolution?”

Either way we choose to believe it or not. It then becomes the driving force behind all of our decisions.

My challenge to you is to respect peoples beliefs. How different might this world be if we tolerated another’s beliefs?

I am not saying that we allow socially detestable actions to continue. I am not advocating murders, robberies, criminal behaviors and discriminations. I am merely suggesting a love for mankind regardless of what they choose to believe. You got to choose your beliefs, let them choose theirs. If they feel the desire to shift their beliefs and change their perspectives, let them. Don’t you have the same right?

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

When I stopped laughing, I looked at him and said, “You need more problems like that in your life.”

I loved his perspective of a problem. It would have been so easy to find a negative problem in his life, but he is out creating positive ones.

Having too many listings, too much money, too many friends and so on are all good problems to have.

My challenge to you this week is to go out and create problems; good problems in your life. Be too good at something, make too much money, find something that you can have too much of and get it, but only on the positive side.

How would that affect your life?

Please share this with all of your friends who need more problems in their lives.

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

—-Investing can be a scary thing for a lot of people. Why is it that investing in yourself is just as hard? Take time to invest in yourself. There is no greater return than that which comes from knowledge.

—-I love the thought of a media fast. I have done this for a long time. By cutting out the negativity it assists me in moving forward.

—-I feel low self esteem comes by giving your power of self worth to others. My mother wrote on her mirror, “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all? If it’s me say nothing!”  the only opinion that matters is our own. Yet how often are people dependent of the perspectives of others?

—-I’ve been a believer in the law of attraction in as much as it’s tied to action. The appearance of the body on the outside is a reflection of the feelings we hold about ourselves on the inside.

—-I am a true believer that a person’s perspective greatly affects their ability to grow.

—-Seriously, how many people wait and wait and wait for things to change while avoiding the very actions that are necessary for the desired attainment?

—- There are no obstacles in life other than the ones we place in front of ourselves.

—- It’s true! Success does come easily when you are passionate about what you do.

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

The Power and Cycle of Creative Committed Intention

Is God a Creator? If he stopped creating, would he cease to be God? Yes.

Am I a creator? Absolutely Yes! I am constantly creating. There is never a moment when I am not creating. Whether it be for the light or the darkness, good or bad.

I have remembered the cycle of creation. On Sunday night as I slept, I kept dreaming of this process. I had a clear vision of how it works. It reminds me of a scripture that says “By small and simple things shall great things come to pass.” I envisioned a large Vortex or what could be called a catch all account. All creations are attracted into this and separated by their creation; the positive to one side and the negative to the other. Creations are emotions and feelings, physical things that I can see and physical creations that I don’t yet see. I visualize a Universal Database that allows me access to infinite possibilities on both sides of the spectrum.  I imagine three types of creators; the negative creators, the positive creators and the rejecters. The negative creators are the “Have Not’s.” They are constantly going through life saying things like; “I don’t have.., I never…, I don’t get…, I’m sick of…, and on.” It can also carry I am  statements, Like I am stupid and the universe says, “Yes you are;” or I am fat and again the response is “Yes you are!” The “Have Not’s” are in a continual cycle of telling the Universe negative affirmations and all the Universe can do is say “Yes!” Because of this, I receive all of the negative things in my life that are not working and I create these both consciously and unconsciously. The positive creators are the “Have’s.” This group is constantly creating positive innovations for their lives. They love to say words like; “I have…,  I am…, I do…, I get…, and on.” The “Have’s” are in a continuous cycle of telling the Universe positive affirmations and the Universe can do nothing but say “Yes!”  As I step into the role of a “Have,” I get to experience my creative power on the positive side. I bring into my life the good things and there are NO LIMITATIONS to what I can create. As I said earlier, there are infinite possibilities. The rejecters are classified as “Have Not’s.” The difference is they are powerful creators of both light and dark. The universe is constantly sending them what they ask and this group says; “It’s the wrong color, it’s too small, it’s not enough, not that, and on.” This group is in a constant state of rejection. This group never clarifies specifically what it is they want and when the Universe says “Yes,” they send it back, because it wasn’t just right. The Universe doesn’t get to determine my definiteness. What I know is when I reject what the universe has sent me, which was my own creation; whether conscious or unconscious, I show the Universe that I am unwilling to receive; unwilling to open up to all possibilities. By so doing I dry up my own universal well and the universe, which gives in gratitude says to me; “No more for you!” It reminds me of the scripture in Matthew 25:29 which says; “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” I see this as having something in my life that I am not in love with. When this is the case and I’ll use my car as an example, I tend to neglect it. As I neglect my car by not cleaning it, tuning it up, changing the oil and so forth until one day…”Poof!” It breaks down or I get in an accident and it is destroyed. As the scripture states, “It is taken away.” All creations deserve care and love. They are creations of a God. I created them and because I have created them, I get to take care of them. As I fail to do this, this creation, whatever “IT” is, will be taken from me and given to one who is more open to receiving it. Because; what I’ll reiterate… is that all creations deserve “LOVE!”

The universe is constantly in motion. My creations are constantly in motion. More specifically, energy is constantly in motion. Are creations just focused energy? I know they are. When I create in my life, whatever it is that I created comes into my space and I take stewardship over it. Notice I said stewardship. I never own anything; for when I die it doesn’t come with me, it passes to the next steward. Therefore I control and manage my creations. This is a misinterpretation I used to give to the things that are in my control. I used to think I owned what I have. I can now see that way of believing doesn’t work. So, if I am a steward over everything in my life that I have been open to receiving, I get the opportunity to care for it. And quite literally, I can have anything I could imagine as long as it is attached to committed intention. Would it be fair for the universe to give me $1,000,000.00 if I haven’t been a good steward over $100.00? Is saying, “I am a millionaire!” committed intention if my toosh is glued to the cush? Would it work for the Universe to give me a mansion as I call it forward if I allow my current home to exist in disarray? Allow me to clarify that the universe says “Yes” to all of my creations. It is me who rejects those creations because unconsciously, I know I am not prepared.

Every creation has a price and I get to pay the price in proportion to the value of the creation I willed. Let me explain. Edison paid the price in over 1,000 attempts to create one light bulb that worked. Others have paid prices equal to that in other ways be it positive or negative. I cannot deceive the Universe. My energy does not lie. If I were to say out-loud “I own a private jet” and my internal dialogue is “I can’t even afford to fly public,” The internal energy is what’s transmitted to the universe. I cannot be fat and skinny at the same time, happy and sad, rich and poor. If I am unwilling to choose, the universe will choose for me and that is based on my internal belief; whatever that is. It reminds me of what was said, “If you are neither hot nor cold, but are look warm, I will spew thee out of my mouth.” In order for me to create more perfectly what it is I want, my internal dialogue gets to match my external dialogue. In addition, my committed action to whatever it is I want to create deserves to be in proportion, equal to the amount of effort required to control such a thing. I venture to say that the price will be equal on both ends of the spectrum. The price of love is equal to the price of hate. I feel there is always a balance.

As I receive whatever “IT” is that I created and that is everything I currently control; I have the opportunity to look at what I have in my life and do some “House Cleaning.” As I mentioned every creation deserves love. When I am finished with a creation that I have brought into my life, it gets to be released from me. Can I truly give away something that’s not mine? I can never “Give” anything. I release it into the creative cycle and someone else who has attracted that particular thing into their life receives it. If no one will receive the current creation, the energy from that creation goes back into the “Vortex” and it is reorganized into a more perfect creation and sent to someone who will love it. Energy is neutral it is our creation that determines whether that energy is positive or negative. When one releases negative energy into the vortex it is neither light nor dark. As an example; A calm person may take an angry statement that was released and create it into a positive experience before they receive it. A person releasing a junked car has no influence on the energy that car carries. The person receiving may receive it in joy as a blessing or as just a junked car. Each individual creates their feeling uniquely. I cannot and will not force another person to carry the same emotion I carry. I do not have the power to choose for them.

If I look at my life; Is it exactly what I wanted? It must be, because I have it. I get to enjoy it and love it. I created it! Do I not like what I see? I get to create it differently! I get to release what it is that I don’t like and create what it is that I do like. I absolutely am open to receiving what it is I want.

The universe can only assist me in what I want. It will never help me. The universe understands absolutes and has absolutely no reference to time. It can move forward and backward as I would perceive it, to create exactly what I deserve now. I get to state everything in the “Now,” because whether it is created today or in December, it will still be “Now.” I get to be specific, detailed and clear with the universe. If I am vague in what I want, I get vague in return. If I am clear, I receive clear. I get to be specific in size, cost, color, time, amounts and so forth. The more detail I give, the more I get.

To wrap it up…I finally am clear that the process is flowing infinitely. I am just a conduit for creation. And to me that is exciting.

I am grateful for everything I have because I created it. Look how powerful I am!

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

A great review from my good friend and client Greg Fabiano

I looked around me and what I saw

was me in a world of need.

I was broken, bankrupt and penniless

of that I will concede.

What would it take? I asked myself

to change my way of being?

What is it I would get to do

to alter what I’m seeing?

I decided then to get myself

a creature called success.

I knew if I could raise it right

it would clear me from this mess.

I searched to find my perfect match

I sought it long and hard.

And what I found so interesting

is to find it in my own yard.

I watered, fed and nurtured it

all morning, day and night.

No greater value could I create

it took near all my might.

But time went by as it always does

to my work I did hold true

and the most peculiar thing occurred,

my success turned into two

While shocked by this phenomenon

I wondered if there’s more

and yes through my committed stand,

My two turned into four

My four turned eight, and eight; sixteen

and sixteen made thirty two.

And yes with very little effort

they grew and grew and grew

My life is very different now

It’s nothing like it was

Because of my consistent effort

this poem ends like it does

In what seemed like the shortest time

I left my world of less

and learned that all I need in life

is to just have one success.

That one triumph will carry me

as quickly to the next

and through this simple process

my life will not be vexed.

So here’s a challenge to you my friend

to see how it is done.

Go out and create your own success

Cause all you need is one.

–Nick Smith– 2009

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Even with all of the new laws and restrictions, our freedom of enterprise allows us to continue creating ingenious methods to capitalize. As long as we protect our freedoms, we will have these opportunities. If we allow them to be controlled in the hands of a few, our opportunities will shrink as you say and we will have to conform or be expelled. Many teach in economics that there is a finite pie and when you take from one section of that pie, it detracts from another. I am of the opinion that if one pie runs out, I’ll make another. That is the beauty of being American. That is what makes this country great. Everyone can do that if they choose to.

I know people who are ready to capitalize on the new economy. If the Kyoto initiative passes, they are buying forested land that they could use to sell carbon credits. They are finding ways to adapt in the new economy. There is not a man in America who couldn’t do that if he was open enough to find and pursue it. If you focus on what is, you might miss out on what is possible.

I was coming out of a restaurant yesterday and a gentleman asked me for some money. I said, “What will you do to create value and I will pay you for doing it?” He looked at me and said, “I don’t believe in that. I have been robbed by this country and its all their fault. I would rather panhandle than create value.” I was shocked, looked at him and said, “That’s interesting, then there is nothing I can do for you.” I will not pay a dime to someone who is unwilling to create value for it. I will not support them in their erroneous thinking! They have the power just like I do, to choose out of their circumstances. In fact, they are the only ones who can choose out of that.

As an Admonitor, I advise my clients in this same manner. I assist them in seeing opportunities where they might have been stuck. I assist them in raising themselves into what they are capable of. I don’t do it for them, I allow them to do it for themselves. It seems to be much more powerful that way.

So to recap this entire perspective I say, If we see the economy shrinking around us, we are right. If we see it expanding around us, we are right. It is all dependent on the perspective we choose to believe.

To Work or Not To Work! That is the question!

While teaching a course on the Certainty Cycle (http://nicktsmith.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-certainty-cycle/) a gentleman asked me, “Why is it that kids these days, don’t seem to get past the idea stage, they don’t even make an effort to go further, they won’t even try.” I gave him an answer, but it was on the fly and not as thoughtful as I would have liked it to be. Hopefully this perspective will shed some additional light on the matter.

Today I was listening to “The Law” by Frederick Bastiat; a French Theorist and Political Economist. His words hit home and though they are not my own, I would like to expound upon them.

He said essentially that there are two ways to gain property, the first is to work for it and the second is to take it. Now some may argue that you can give property away, but you can only give what’s yours and you can only do it without coercion. Taking from someone to give to another is not giving, that is taking.

People fluctuate between these two areas. When society supports working for property and punishes the taker it becomes too painful for the “takers” and they will ultimately work for what they would like to have or go without. On the other hand when society supports the taker and the idea of working for property becomes too painful, most people will resort to taking.

Today we are experiencing a society wherein working for what we want has become too painful. Why should I work hard for what I want when Joe down the street does nothing and is fine? If we fail in this taker society, someone will bail us out. After all, our parents don’t want us to “struggle” like they had to. Programs and institutions, laws and teachings are created around the idea of taking from someone to give to another. So why should I become successful just to have someone take it away? As long as this mindset is prevalent, there will be no transition to a society that earns what it wants. Welfare, food stamps, grants, government bailouts, parents who let us live at home for free until we are 40 years old, coddling and “nurturing,” all lead us to believe that this way of life is ok. They all tell us that we don’t need to work for what we want.

Until we decide as a society that everyone gets to earn their keep, we will continue down the road we’re on until it naturally becomes too painful and we switch back to the other way of being. If we choose to go down the natural path and act as takers long enough for it to lose its savor, it usually results in some kind of a struggle. Great or small this struggle is painful and can take a very long time to cure. If we choose to change it on our own, it can be equally difficult because these results that we are experiencing didn’t come about overnight or else we would have rejected them. They came gradually and patiently until most of us became takers without even knowing that this is what we were doing.

The choice is ours. The following story may reflect how this works:

THERE IS A STORY told about an elder Native American walking in the forest with his grandson.

Native American culture holds great respect for its elders and the wisdom that accompanies them.

At one point along the way after they had spotted a wolf in the distance, the grandfather said: “Within us there are two wolves. One is mean, vicious and angry, hungry to destroy. The other is kind and gentle.” That was all he said.

As they continued walking for a while finally the grandson asked his grandfather: “Which wolf will win?”

The grandfather reflected silently for a moment and then responded: “The one you feed.”

Which one will you feed? Will you continue to feed the idea of “something for nothing” or will you ingrain patiently, the idea that working for what we want is a much less painful path?

Until we choose the path of earning what we want without being forced to do so, we will continue to experience much of the same until like I said, we are compelled to change.

Everything we are experiencing today is a result of past decisions. Good or bad, our actions or inactions have created today’s actuality. How are your decisions working for you? How are they working for those you care about?

No one can force you to do things differently. Even if they held a knife to your throat and said they would kill you if you didn’t do it their way, you would still be at choice. That is the one thing that can never be taken away and must be guarded at all costs.

In closing, it is ultimately up to you. Lead by example. Show those that look up to you that you are willing to create value for what you get and they may do the same. Teach them how creating value is much less painful than taking and they might have a desire to do so. You can only change yourself. Others will get to choose for themselves.

Choose to change or be changed!

Both are choices!

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Last weekend I was discussing an agreement with a gentleman who had won a contract and his bid was extremely low. He was in a panic to get his subcontractors bids where he needed them in order for his company to make a profit. I’m sure he lost sleep and precious time with his family working to resolve this one agreement. On the phone he was the nicest person you would ever meet. But I could tell he was stressed.

On Monday I called to talk to him and was informed that he wasn’t there. That over the weekend, he had gone missing and no one knew where he was.

I called again today and was informed that he had been killed in a plane crash over the weekend while flying up to a camping area with his brother and father.

On Friday this young man was stressed, today he is dead. He left behind a wife and three children.

I doubt highly that he even knew that he would no longer be with us this week. I wonder if he spent all of that time worrying about a seemingly insignificant thing at the expense of being with his family. I know his wife would never say “Honey, I wish you would have worked more!”

As I received that news today, I thought of my own family. Did I tell them I loved them today? Did I work a little less and spend more time with them?

Right now is the only moment we have to live. There is not a person in this world that knows when their time will be. I don’t know if I’ll be alive tonight, let alone 5 minutes from now. Yet how often do we live our lives out in some future time, anticipating that we’ll be around to do what we say we will do?

Live Now!

Give all you have to give to the world now!

There is no tomorrow.

If you don’t do what you’ve dreamed of now, you may not be around to do it then.

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

One day while wandering in my dreams

I saw the strangest thing

A man was planting different seeds

To see what fruits they’d bring.

I watched him till and dig the earth

And carefully prepare it

But when he’d plant tomatoes there

The bush brought forth a carrot.

He threw some orange seeds in the air

And whichever ground they fell on

The trees would grow extremely tall

And bring forth watermelon.

The broccoli seeds would grow as pears

The peach trees.. artichoke

I couldn’t see how this could be

It must have been a joke

But I saw him plant with so much care

Some wild raspberries

And as he watered and nurtured them

They started growing peas

I was confused, my head a mess

How could this ever be?

But with my own two eyes I saw

A blossoming turnip tree.

Beets were squash and squash was corn

Pumpkin trees made funny shapes.

But the strangest one I ever saw

Was a palm tree full of grapes.

I rubbed my eyes and pinched myself

And fell right out of bed.

I woke up from the craziness

That took over my head.

I wondered on the spectacle

Of such abnormal dreaming

Could the things I saw that night

Hold a deeper meaning?

I wondered and I pondered hard

About the things I saw

And then I realized that they were

Contrary to God’s law

For God has blessed each thing on Earth

To keep us from a bind

And therefore every seed we plant

brings forth in its own kind.

A tomato seed will grow tomatoes

A pea will be a pea

You will never plant an olive seed

And grow a mango tree.

In kind the actions that we sow

Will work in the same way

If we sow some kindness

We’ll enjoy its fruits some day.

If we seek for confidence

Then that is what we plant

Or if we want to know we can

We never say we can’t

For what you put out in the world

Will end up as your keep

Be sure that you remember

What you sow you’ll always reap.

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach

Exercise: Skip two meals—Don’t eat breakfast and lunch. No snacks, no water, no gum or anything that would add calories or substance to your body. You cannot eat any food until dinner.

Objective: To gain a clear perspective of what it is like to go hungry

Items you will need for this exercise:

Pen

1 Day Journal (Write your thoughts and experiences)

Schedule:

When you wake up, reaffirm your commitment to this exercise.

Read the following throughout the day and as you do, I invite you to ponder, meditate, pray or whatever else you might do to get in touch with your internal self, about your possible experience if this was you.

Please do not read this until you feel the hunger.

You are going without food and experiencing what is called hunger. Pay close attention to the things your body does to keep itself a live. You may experience growling of the stomach, dizziness, pain, headaches, sleepiness, nausea and coldness. You might experience crabbiness, lightheadedness and faintness. You might feel like you want to die, or imagine what it would be like to eat. You may scour the cupboards or refrigerator looking for something to ease the suffering. I want you to imagine feeling this every day. What would it be like if you didn’t know if you would ever eat again? How would you feel if you didn’t know when your next meal would be? Imagine going to the cupboard and refrigerator to find them empty. You have no money, no job, your unemployed or live in a country controlled by tyranny or anarchy. There is no food for you.

In America, over 10 million people go hungry every day; 4 million of them are children. 35 million people have food insecurity. Meaning there is “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” Some food insecure households are able to obtain enough food to avoid actually going hungry. Each year in the world, 15 million children die from malnutrition. Every year 6 million children under the age of five die from malnutrition and complications caused by lack of food. What if this was your family? What if it was your child that was hungry? Imagine the despair and pain you would feel if you didn’t provide for your family.

Feeding so many hungry people in the world seems like a daunting task. Read the following story and reflect on its principle:

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf’s edge and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was stuck by the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, “You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can’t possibly make a difference.” The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, “It sure made a difference to that one!”

What you can do:

Take the money that you would have spent on those two meals and give it to an organization that is focused on feeding the hungry or go out and find a family and feed them yourself. If the average person gave $20.00 and only 3% of the US population did this, which is approximately 10 million people, we could raise over $200 million dollars for food. Placed in the right hands, we could eradicate hunger and dramatically affect the well being of tens of millions of people around the world. Now, what if only 3% of the entire world did this? Imagine the donation of the money you would have spent on those two meals as though it were the man throwing that one starfish back into the water.

You can make a difference!

What you receive:

When you do this exercise, you realize how easily you could be the one going hungry. By placing yourself in their shoes you can empathize with their plight. If you were in that situation, what would you want others to do for you? Do that thing. This practice keeps you humble. It gives you a sense of your own reliance on the resources of this world. Without them, you would be in the same position as those who are going hungry. Because you have the resources, you can do something, but will you? No one will ever force you to do this. It will happen when you choose to do so.

Hunger Organizations:

Bread for the World

Food for the Hungry

Freedom from Hunger

Global hunger Project

LDS Humanitarian Services

And more: http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#hunger

Do your research and find the best one for you. Thanks for caring!

Choose up!

Nick Smith

The Expert Coach