7 Ways to Enjoy Your Life More

“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” Kenneth Branagh

Here is what I have learnt over the last few years on my own transformation in finding more peace and happiness. Do I follow them perfectly? No, not always. Yet, the more I venture forward the more I find myself connecting with these ‘values’.

The help me find more purpose in what I do. They help me be more grateful. The allow me to express and be myself. And above all they seem to ground me and in that allowing me to enjoy this life more greatly.

• Vision and purpose
• Follow your passion(s)
• Wake up well
• Be thankful- count your blessings
• Be kind to yourself
• Help others and offer value
• Don’t Take Life Too Seriously, Smile and laugh

I hope you can some value from my thoughts and would love to here your thoughts also. Perhaps I have missed some key elements. Leave your comments, questions etc here.

Until next time peace, passion & purpose.

Summary

Dana has been impacting the lives of people around the world for 25 years. He has delivered motivational talks around the world to a variety of audiences. His speaking skills have been recognized by Toastmasters International, from which he received the title of World Champion of Public Speaking in 1992.

Dana was reared in Compton, California, as one of twelve children. He became blind when he was four years old and pursued his school studies using Braille and tape recordings. He received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1974 and his law degree from the University of Southern California in 1977. (more…)

Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels by Loretta Breuning

“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.”Loretta Breuning

If it feels good, it has side effects.This was a really cool read! Enjoyable & insightful into what triggers my own personal happiness and even unhappiness.

I don’t often think about what makes me happy and probably like many of us take things in life for granted. I do things also that Loretta would describe as my happy habits. Pathways I have learnt from experience that have made me feel good. Good and bad ones included.

When I am down, unhappy, I am aware. I reflect heavily in my down times. I feel pain; I place too much pressure on myself, and judge myself. Life is not and cannot always be total bliss. We are not designed to always be happy.

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we wish to improve we must continue to challenge ourselves. Here is my thought as I work through a challenge of my own to help inspire you to start your new challenge and face it with passion.

What have you been putting off? What have you been holding back from tackling? What is that challenge in any aspect of your life, health, finances, relationships or other that would help progress you closer to the life you desire to live.

Decide what it is, however large or small, set it today, commit to it, understand the why and go of it. The challenges do not diminish life, the challenges amplify life.

Summary

Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners and he is also the host Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies.

Jim is best known internationally as ‘The Dream Business Coach’ and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate ‘done-for-you’ newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries. (more…)

How To Get Yourself Out Of Bed With Ease

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” Bob Marley

Today I share my lessons of how I’ve gone from waking up very poorly to waking up in my opinion extremely well – most of the time at least.

1. Have Reason
2. Have Plan
3. Sleep Well
4. The Opportunity Clock
5. Incentive
6. Action
7. Exercise
8. Time & practice

I hope you get some inspiration and encouragement from my thoughts here to wake up well so you can really start living your life more fully.

Peace, passion and purpose.

Summary

Zen Cryar DeBrücke is the author of Your Inner GPS. She is an internationally renowned teacher, speaker, and coach whose programs have helped people all over the world transform their personal and business lives for the better.

How can I stop feeling so stressed out by life? What is my purpose? Why am I here?

Each of us is born with access to a powerful tool called an Internal Guidance System (IGS).  Not unlike the GPS system that is built into cars, its purpose is to guide us through our lives by letting us know whether our thoughts and actions are moving us closer to, or further away from, the things we most want to create in our lives. (more…)

Success Is for You: Using Heart-Centered Power Principles for Lasting Abundance and Fulfillment

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” Bruce Lee

This is a read that I really didn’t expect. It is a different take and approach on success from what you may expect and certainly worth a read.

Dr. David R. Hawkins is a renowned physician, lecturer and researcher of consciousness, which is the state of being aware and responsive to one’s surroundings. If we can only be more aware of ourselves internally and how we respond to external happenings may then we attain more success.

Dr. Hawkins concepts seem very much common sense, including business and psychological behaviours that help propel success, however along the journey to success we loose touch with them. The idea is to gain consciousness and become aware that will then assist us in discovering true success.

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Don’t put your dreams on hold, put your excuses on hold. Summer Braken

In this episode I share a little piece of magic that I’ve applied in my own life to take greater action – quicker. It’s called the 5 Second Rule.

The key for us to free ourselves from the shackles of the life we no longer wish to live in efforts towards living the life we desires is  taking action. The problem is we often find ourselves making excuses, procrastinating and waiting to do so.

The 5 Second Rule will help you overcome this. Well it did with me. Enjoy this little practice and let me know how it goes. Peace, passion and purpose.

Summary

“What job is easy, fun & rewarding?”

Shane Seymour is the founder of TV Magic Franchising Pty Ltd. Shane Seymour was born in the small country town in Queensland, Australia and had a very modest upbringing. Shane relished in competing and being the best at anything he devoted his time to. The key to his success was living with a healthy obsession for that task/goal at hand. (more…)