7 Ways You Can Create a BIG Life – Carl Harvey

As host of The Big Life I host weekly private training sessions with the biggest personal growth experts on the planet – including Bob Proctor, Dr Joe Vitale, Christie Marie Sheldon, Lisa Nichols, Robert Greene, Vishen Lakhiani, Laura Silva, Carol Tuttle, John Assaraf… and many, many more.

All of this awesome training is geared to help you achieve one goal:

To help you create YOUR version of a “Big Life” – a fun life filled with abundance, happiness, purpose, passion, success, joy and more love than you can handle.

And – yes – champagne 

Here are the 7 biggest lessons I’ve learned from these amazing teachers so far:

1. You need to have a vision (and be in love with it!)

If you want to create a big life – filled with more abundance, happiness, passion, love and success – the first thing you gotta do is decide what you really want.

Problem is, most people’s idea of a “vision” is focussing on what they don’t want – from “I don’t want to be in debt” to “I don’t want to be overweight anymore”.

Here’s why this sucks: we get more of what we focus on, so focussing on lack only creates more lack. Avoid this approach at all costs!

The key is to have a vision that inspires you… a vision so exciting and sexy and YOU that you simply fall in love with it and can’t stop dreaming about it. (It’s gotta be this exciting to help you overcome the inevitable challenges you’ll encounter on your road to success.)

Also, write your vision down. Bob Proctor told me there’s magic in getting your goals on paper.

Just try it. And go back to your goals some time later. You’ll see!

2. Work with your subconscious mind

The worst advice I’ve heard in personal growth is to simply “take massive action” – because, until you’re ready to succeed, this usually leads to self-sabotage, procrastination, and deeper feelings of inadequacy.

This isn’t your fault… it’s because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how our minds work.

Here’s the problem: most people only set goals at the conscious level, which neuroscience is proving to limit us to just 1-5% of our total resources. This means that 95-99% of our resources are accessed through the subconscious mind – yet most of us ignore this completely!

What this means is if we want to create MORE income, love, happiness – or anything else – in our life, wefirst need to work on our subconscious beliefs. That’s where we’ll get the most leverage and biggest results.

As Dr Bruce Lipton from Stanford University says – your subconscious mind “ultimately casts the deciding vote” on your level of success and happiness, because it’s “a million times more powerful”. Imagine that!

So, all you gotta do is make sure you’re working on a plan to reprogram your subconscious mind.

Speaking of which…

3. Practice Creative Visualization (daily)

Creative Visualization is the art and science of imagining what you want to create – in vivid, sensory-rich, “high definition” levels of detail.

The reason this is so powerful is because – as Dr Maxwell Maltz wrote in his classic book Psycho Cybernetics:

Your subconscious mind “Cannot tell the difference between what’s real, and what’s imagined.”

What this means is you can TRICK your subconscious mind into believing you’re more successful / happy / rich / sexy / loveable than you actually are – simply by imagining yourself that way, in vivid detail.

It’s a wonderful quirk of our nervous system, but it really does work. You can use visualisation to boost yourconfidence, skills, happiness, abundance, energy – and more.

The keys are repetition (practice every day for a few minutes), vividness (use ALL the senses when you imagine – including touch, smells, hearing etc) and emotions (the stronger the positive emotion you can summon, the better results.)

More than 200+ studies prove that visualisation works… so get visualizing!

4. Take Inspired Action

This is where things get really FUN.

Most folks worry themselves silly and give up on their goals, because they “don’t have a plan” to get there.

But here’s the good news: when you have a compelling vision, and you work on your subconscious beliefs by visualizing every day (steps 1-3), you open yourself up to receive ideas, insights, hunches and “flashes of inspiration” from the universe – ideas which you can quickly and effortlessly put into action.

As Dr Joe Vitale taught me,

“The next step is always revealed”. Always. ALWAYS!!

So don’t worry about having a master-plan. Instead, focus on your vision, and take action on the ideas that inevitably float into your consciousness.

Then rinse… repeat… and keep following the hunches ‘til you reach your goal. Simple!

5. Go Zen

I’ll keep this one short and simple:

More than 2000 studies prove that meditation has countless benefits for body and mind. This is indisputable – it will have a HUGE positive impact on your life.

But it’s not just good for your wellbeing – from a “success” perspective, meditating puts you in flow, increases your creativity, makes you feel mentally stronger, helps you become more present, boosts your focus and productivity – and makes you a nicer person to be around. (And much more.)

That’s why if you want to be the best version of yourself, I invite you to make meditation part of your daily routine.

(And if you think meditating is tough, consider the alternative – that the voice in your head you can’t seem to shut up during meditation will be running your life; unchallenged; on autopilot, FOREVER … unless you learn how to quieten it down – by meditating! Pretty humbling, right?)

6. GIVE More

When The Secret’s Bob Proctor came on my show he revealed about 1000 ideas which blew my mind and made me wish he was my grandfather.

But the best of all of them was “you cannot out-give the universe”.

I love this idea – at its simplest it means we should stop chasing what we want, stop trying to GET it, and instead focus on giving as much value as we can.

Give love. Give appreciation. Give better service. Give a better product. Give more time. Give more attention. Give more awesomeness. Give more compliments. Give give give give give.

Give whatever you want to receive more of.

When you shift to that level of focus, abundance starts to magnetize in your life.

It took me a long time to truly *get* this, but the more value you provide, the more money you’ll make (and the better you’ll feel about it.)

7. Have A Kick-Ass Daily Routine

I wish this final strategy was sexier, but it’s crucial – literally every guest I’ve had on The Big Life, from John Assaraf to Lisa Nichols, has stressed to me the importance of having a kick-ass daily routine.

Why? Because it builds confidence, progress, flow… and MOMENTUM.

My daily routine includes meditation, visualization, writing down a page of things I’m grateful for, and heading to the gym to get my sweat on. Oh – and gangsta rap. (It always gets me psyched up and ready to take action.) But yours can be different – obviously, the hiphop is optional – but the key is to do something EVERY DAY that puts you in a PEAK state.

Then, from that level of “higher” consciousness, you can go about your day, kicking ass and being the best version of you you can be.

Do this enough times…. and you’ll end up with your “Big Life”, filled with abundance and purpose and passion and all the other awesomeness you desire.

Peace!

Source

http://addicted2success.com/life/7-ways-to-create-a-big-life-carl-harvey/

Some Lessons in Life Mastery

The following is adapted from some audios delivered by none other than Tony Robbins. I hope this inspires you as we move towards Christmas...

The level of thinking that has got us to where we are, is not going to take us to where we want to go. To get where we want to be we have to take on a new level of thinking. To get to the next level we have to look at the world in a different way. One of those is you must perceive yourself in a different way, not just your capability but who you are right now, today! That shift begins the minute you decide to consciously define yourself, instead of letting the environment do it for you.

In order to achieve all that you want ask yourself who would I have to become? More fun, playful, passionate, outrageous, disciplined? What would I do when I wake up in the morning? How would I have to look at myself in the mirror? What would I have to see in myself and in others?  How would I need to treat people? How would I breathe? How would I walk and talk? How would I speak to myself? What would I think about life? What would I believe about myself?

Now imagine stepping into this person and fusing with this person and immediately go out and act that way. Then go out and conduct your life as if you were a public figure. This will make you totally transparent which is one of the qualities of influential people. An increase in the quality of beliefs creates the increase in the quality of life.

Your success and happiness is directly proportional to your level of commitment to Constant and Never Ending Improvement (CANI).

Also, your level of personal and professional success is in direct proportion to your level of commitment to CANI. This has to be measured. We must know that problems are opportunities for growth and it is best to solve them before they exist. We must find the deeper meaning and higher purpose in our perceived problems so that we can move forward and become greater as people. The toughest times of our life provide us with the greatest resources to change our life. Remember to trust yourself and have faith that all is happening for you to experience the truth of who you really are. 

Have a beautiful and powerful day!

The 3 Decisions That Will Change Your Financial Life

There’s nothing worse than a rich person who’s chronically angry or unhappy. There’s really no excuse for it, yet I see this phenomenon every day. It results from an extremely unbalanced life, one with too much expectation and not enough appreciation for what’s there.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment. But how do you cultivate balance in life? What’s the point of achievement if your life has no balance?

For nearly four decades, I’ve had the privilege of coaching people from every walk of life, including some of the most powerful men and women on the planet. I’ve worked with presidents of the United States as well as owners of small businesses.   

Across the board, I’ve found that virtually every moment people make three key decisions that dictate the quality of their lives.

If you make these decisions unconsciously, you'll end up like majority of people who tend to be out of shape physically, exhausted emotionally and often financially stressed. But if you make these decisions consciously, you can literally change the course of your life today. 

Decision 1: Carefully choose what to focus on.

At every moment, millions of things compete for your attention. You can focus on things that are happening right here and now or on what you want to create in the future. Or you can focus on the past.

Where focus goes, energy flows. What you focus on and your pattern for doing so shapes your entire life. 

Which area do you tend to focus on more: what you have or what’s missing from your life?

I’m sure you think about both sides of this coin. But if you examine your habitual thoughts, what do you tend to spend most of your time dwelling on? 

Rather than focusing on what you don’t have and begrudging those who are better off than you financially, perhaps you should acknowledge that you have much to be grateful for and some of it has nothing to do with money. You can be grateful for your health, family, friends, opportunities and mind.

Developing a habit of appreciating what you have can create a new level of emotional well-being and wealth. But the real question is, do you take time to deeply feel grateful with your mind, body, heart and soul? That’s where the joy, happiness and fulfillment can be found. 

Consider a second pattern of focus that affects the quality of your life: Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can’t?

If you focus on what you can’t control, you’ll have more stress in life. You can influence many aspects of your life but you usually can’t control them. 

When you adopt this pattern of focus, your brain has to make another decision:  

Related: Tony Robbins on the 7 'Forces' of Business Mastery

Decision 2: Figure out, What does this all mean?

Ultimately, how you feel about your life has nothing to do with the events in it or with your financial condition or what has (or hasn't) happened to you. The quality of your life is controlled by the meaning you give these things.

Most of the time you may be unaware of the effect of your unconscious mind in assigning meaning to life’s events. 

When something happens that disrupts your life (a car accident, a health issue, a job loss), do you tend to think that this is the end or the beginning?

If someone confronts you, is that person insulting you, coaching you or truly caring for you?

Does a devastating problem mean that God is punishing you or challenging you? Or is it possible that this problem is a gift from God? 

Your life takes on whatever meaning you give it. With each meaning comes a unique feeling or emotion and the quality of your life involves where you live emotionally. 

I always ask during my seminars, “How many of you know someone who is on antidepressants and still depressed?” Typically 85 percent to 90 percent of those assembled raise their hands.

How is this possible? The drugs should make people feel better. It's true that antidepressants do come with labels warning that suicidal thoughts are a possible side effect.

But no matter how much a person drugs himself, if he constantly focuses on what he can’t control in life and what’s missing, he won't find it hard to despair. If he adds to that a meaning like “life is not worth living,” that's an emotional cocktail that no antidepressant can consistently overcome. 

Yet if that same person can arrive at a new meaning, a reason to live or a belief that all this was meant to be, then he will be stronger than anything that ever happened to him.

When people shift their habitual focus and meanings, there’s no limit on what life can become. A change of focus and a shift in meaning can literally alter someone's biochemistry in minutes. 

So take control and always remember: Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. Find an empowering meaning in any event, and wealth in its deepest sense will be yours today. 

Once you create a meaning in your mind, it creates an emotion, and that emotion leads to a state for making your third decision:

Decision 3: What will you do?  

The actions you take are powerfully shaped by the emotional state you're in. If you're angry, you're going to behave quite differently than if you're feeling playful or outrageous. 

If you want to shape your actions, the fastest way is to change what you focus on and shift the meaning to be something more empowering.

Two people who are angry will behave differently. Some pull back. Others push through.

Some individuals express anger quietly. Others do so loudly or violently. Yet others suppress it only to look for a passive-aggressive opportunity to regain the upper hand or even exact revenge.  

Where do these patterns come from? People tend to model their behavior on those they respect, enjoy and love.

The people who frustrated or angered you? You often reject their approaches.

Yet far too often you may find yourself falling back into patterns you witnessed over and over again in your youth and were displeased by. 

It’s very useful for you to become aware of your patterns when you are frustrated, angry or sad or feel lonely. You can’t change your patterns if you’re not aware of them.

Now that you’re aware of the power of these three decisions, start looking for role models who are experiencing what you want out of life. I promise you that those who have passionate relationships have a totally different focus and arrive at totally different meanings for the challenges in relationships than people who are constantly bickering or fighting. 

It’s not rocket science. If you become aware of the differences in how people approach these three decisions, you’ll have a pathway to help you create a permanent positive change in any area of life. 

This piece was adapted from Tony Robbins' new book, Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom.  

Source

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239312

The Top 101 Jim Rohn Quotes of All Time

1. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
2. Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.
3. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
4. Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
5. Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
6. Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
7. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
8. Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
9. Don’t read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.
10. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
11. Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.
12. Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
13. Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.
14. Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.
15. Either you run the day or the day runs you..
16. Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
17. Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
18. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
19. Finding is reserved for those that search.
20. For what it will make of you to achieve it.
21. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
22. Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
23. Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
24. Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, “We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.” Wow! What a clever short cut.
25. Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
26. Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
27. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
28. How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
29. Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a “must” and a “want.”
30. Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease
31. I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, “Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?” The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn’t have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars.
32. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
33. I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
34. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
35. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
36. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
37. If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
38. If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
39. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
40. In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.
41. It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
42. It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
43. It’s easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It’s easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
44. Its what you dont know what will hurt you.
45. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
46. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
47. Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.
48. Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.
49. Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
50. Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That’s why they make those second grade chairs so small.
51. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
52. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
53. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
54. Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.
55. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
56. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
57. One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental “I should” list.
58. One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
59. Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
60. Poor people have big TV’s. Rich people have big libraries.
61. Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
62. Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done
63. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
64. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
65. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
66. Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.
67. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
68. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
69. The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.
70. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
71. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
72. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
73. The more you know, the less you need to say.
74. The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter.
75. The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
76. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
77. The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
78. The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
79. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s important.
80. There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on.
81. There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.
82. Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
83. Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
84. To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
85. We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.
86. We don’t get paid for the hour; we get paid for the value we bring to the hour.
87. We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time… but we get paid for the value, not the time.
88. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weights ounces–regret weighs tons.
89. We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
90. What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
91. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
92. When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.
93. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
94. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
95. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
96. You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
97. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
98. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the season or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
99. You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.
100. Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
101. Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Source

http://www.daimanuel.com/2013/12/10/the-top-101-jim-rohn-quotes-of-all-time/

How to Be Happy - Secrets to Happiness

Three Keys to Happiness are make peace with your past, be present and engaged in the now, and be excited and anticipate something positive for the future!