Passion: What is it, why is it good, and what you can do about it.
“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” Donovan Bailey
In this Monday show I discuss what it means to really follow your passions. I share my personal story of how I was stuck in life, and how, by taking steps to live closer aligned with my passions, I started to break free.
When you discover things you are passionate about and become so obsessed with them you raise the bar in your life, you amplify all other aspects of your life, and life begins to hold more meaning and significance once again.
Summary
“I like the dreams of a future better than the history of the past.”
Colleen is a down to earth dream chaser doing things always that she loves and things that help others. She has a background in microbiology, radio and nursing and more recently started her passion project called Rockin’ Life which is a website and podcast that she launched in July 2015.
We delve into discussions around the benefits of practicing daily gratitude’s, key to having a strong mindset that assists you, and how to tackle life’s challenges. We also talk about reading, fears, perfectionism and how they all relate to the journey we take in life. Self-awareness is critical in taking the appropriate level of action forward.
This is a really cool conversation and I hope you get something from it. Until next time peace, passion and purpose.
The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power by Brendon Burchard
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John F. Kennedy
If there were one book I would recommend you read to start off your year it would be this one. I ended the year reading it but could easily read it again.
The thought provoking content, the motivation, the inspirational energy and the burning desire it has sparked within are still hanging with me now.
If you are in a place of darkness or just stuck in some limiting form of life, which I understand for the majority, it is the case, then this book has the power to transform you and push you to taking action and control of your life and your destiny.
This is my top read of 2015. Simple and to the point, motivationally purposeful, thought provokingly insightful, ground breaking, powerful and transformational.
3 Minute Thought: The Story We Tell Ourselves by Leigh Martinuzzi
What story are you telling yourself?
The story we create is often one that links us to our past. Is it true or is it just a story based on past experiences, upbringing and social conditioning? It can fill us with fear and self-doubt stopping us from going out there to achieve all that we desire to achieve.
The story we tell ourselves affects our lives and the success we have in amazing ways both for the good and the bad.
The great news is we can change the story we tell ourselves. We can rewrite our book and live a life with greater passion and purpose, one that we truly desire.
“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.” Spike Jonze
Loretta is Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She was teacher of management and had studied phycology for a long time and in her research she kept reading references to brain chemicals and the way they affect animals. While the dots were not connected for her she realized that we share our brain chemicals with animals and it are these chemicals that affect their behavior in very significant ways.
In this episode we discuss our happy chemicals. The habits of a happy brain, how we can influence our levels of happiness on our journey to living with greater passion and purpose and much more.
“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”
Time: How to become the master of your time in 5 simple steps.
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” Peter Drucker
We all have the same amount of hours in a week and rather than trying to manage time we are better off managing what we do within the time we have and where we put our focus.
In this episode I share with you 5 simple areas to focus on to assist you in getting more out of your time. They include: awareness; prioritise; maximise; discipline and purpose. They are simple ideas that have assisted me in becoming more productive in this busy life.
I hope you get something out of it and like always please leave me your comments and thoughts below and reach out to me if I can assist in any other way.
Thanks again! Peace, passion and purpose.
Summary
“If its not going to kill you than whats stopping you? What’s the worse case scenario?”
Guthrie is the founder of venture consulting group in which he helps businesses and families help them become more profitable. More recently he has launched a passion project, Wisdom-Trek, which is a website and podcast called where he shares his wisdom and aims to make impact on the world and help create larger living legacies for those that choose to join in.
We discuss work-life integration, facing challenge, and leading a life with greater significance. He now is very pumped and passionate about his lifestyle business that gives him and his wife the ability to work from anywhere while also helping people propel forward in their lives.
“Lead a life of significance and not just success.”
I hope you enjoy this episode as Guthrie shares his journey, lessons, wisdom and thoughts and get some great take-outs in the process. Until next time, peace, passion and purpose.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
“I want you to forget everything you have learned in your whole life. This is the beginning of a new understanding, a new dream.”
This little book is insightful and full of Toltec wisdom. In my understanding Toltec stems from Native American culture and really prescribes techniques used to prevent the disintegration of the self and in doing so changing our perspectives and perception in life.
So right or wrong the four agreements that Don shares in this book are simply that, ways to change our perceptions to allow us to hold strength in one-self and in doing so harnessing more free and happy lives.
How much of what you do day to day are you actually aware you are doing?
It is said that for many of us what we do daily is actually 95% done on a subconscious level that means for only 5% of our day are we conscious about what we do.
If this is true than how much of what we do day in and day out is actually purposeful?
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” Sigmund Freud
Please have a listen and leave me your thoughts, I’d love to know what you think.
Jonathan Levi currently lives in Tel Aviv in Israel where he has taken all that he knows to set up and run his entrepreneurial life. H created several successful courses, coaching, podcasting and writing he certainly has created a live of contribution and significance.
We discuss in this interview many cool things including why, in his opinion, when starting a business from an idea you are likely to fail. If however you start a business from a problem you will have a higher chance of success. He shares his experience in both business failures and successes. Discover the problem that speaks to you personally, what is your super hero origin story.
We also discuss finding your why, sleep, language, learning, fitness and other madness.
“A body in motion wants to stay in motion a body at rest wants to stay in rest, be the body in motion.”
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amazing guests, passionate & inspiring people, experts and thoughts on how to find your why and live with passion and purpose.
