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In case you missed it, Tony Robbins “Breakthrough” debuted last night and regardless of what anyone thinks of the show I feel the deeper message is critical to everyone.

We have the power and we must use that power to take back control of our life!

If you contemplate the steps Tony gave in the show and then determine how you can apply them to your life, the show will much more then entertainment.  

If on the other hand you sit there and mock the show, Tony and how bad it was…well you’re life may never change and you have only yourself to blame….oh yea, what have you done to help people lately? 

There are 7 Steps in the show:

1 – Rewrite Your Story

2 – Confront Your Real Issues

3 – Discover Your Inner Strength

4 – Redefine What Is Possible

5 – Exceed Your Expectations

6 – Change Your Belief System

7 – Own Your Breakthrough

What’s great about show like this is we can all have our own interpretation of what each steps means (to us).

My interpretation of the steps are:

Rewrite Your Story” – If we choose to continue on the path we’re on we can expect to get more of the same.  If that’s a story of sorrow, poverty, sickness…we’ll keep getting more of the same.  If how ever we “rewrite our story” before it happens we will have different results.  We can rewrite our story by making even the smallest of changes in our perspective.  A small shift now will create dramatic results down the road.  One way to create this shift is by asking yourself “What if…”  “What if I stopped thinking this way? Then what would happen?”  “What if I stated to act differently? What would happen?”  By simply questioning your current situation you’ll begin to shack loss the limiting beliefs that hold you in bondage.

Confront Your Real Issues” – The real issues are deeper then what we see.  What we see is the ‘effect’ of the ‘cause’.  We need to get to the ‘cause.’  The real issue isn’t that your overweight, unemployed or don’t have a special person in your life.  The real issue is how you THINK and FEEL about the issues.  As Tony said, “The quality of your life is the quality of your emotions.”  If your thoughts and emotions are in turmoil…your life will reflect this.  So by digging deep and getting the real issue, permanent change can occur.

Discover Your Inner Strength” – Once you’ve confronted you real issue you can now experience just how much mental strength you have.  This will take guts, courage and a “damm the torpedoes” attitude.  Here is where action comes in. It’s great to contemplate and discover your real issue, but if you don’t take action to counter it, you’ll never discover your inner strength.  With the new perspective from confronting your real issue you’ll notice things you’ve never seen before.  When you see the world a new, as if for the first time, you’ll be able to tap into our inner strength and take new action…and get new results!

Redefine What Is Possible” – By discovering your inner strength and taking new action you automatically redefine what you thought was possible.  If you had thought something was possible, you would have done it already won’t have you?  The power of taking action is incredible!  Not only do you discover your mental strength but you also redefine what you once that as impossible is now possible. And if you change one thought about something you can change ALL your thoughts!  

Exceed Your Expectations” – So now we come what I call “the push.”  If you’re like me your expectations are set pretty high aren’t they?   Well this particular step is refereeing to what you found when you faced the real issue, discovered your inner strength and redefined what is possible.  So you know what?  This is all new ground!  The only standards set here are the old ones with limits.  In this case you can “shoot for the eagle, bag the pheasant and you won’t eat crow.”   Set a SMART goal, go for it and exceed what you thought was possible!

Change Your Belief System” – Not sure if you’re noticing a pattern here, but each step sets you up for the next.  Think about this….who sets your expectations?  You do.  Where do your expectations come from?  Your beliefs.  So by exceeding your exceptions you automatically change your belief system.  What has to happen in this step is for you to recognize that your belief system has changed.  If you poo-poo your accomplishment in the pervious step, nothing inside will change.  By acknowledging what you accomplished, knowing that it is was all you…your belief system will change.    

Own Your Breakthrough” – This may actually be the toughest step of all.  As a society we’re taught to be “humble”, don’t brag and keep your head down.  By owning your breakthrough you are stepping into your own personal power…the one you were born with…the one that is your inheritance…the power you deserve!  This has nothing to do with being humble or bragging.  It has everything to do with being your authentic self.  By owning your breakthrough you are acknowledging you are more then you ever thought you were. This personal power can then be applied to other areas of your life. When that happens…look out world!

Tony Robbins has done so much for so many people and I’m glad to see this special on TV and I’m looking forward to next week.

You can catch the show again here under “Episode”

http://www.tonyrobbins.com/breakthrough/

What to experience your own breakthrough Contac Me or visit:

http://www.breakthroughinsider.com/

Let me know your thoughts about the show in the comments below.

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I was listening to the radio on my way back from NLP Training and a VERY old song came on.

It’s actually one of my favorite songs and is commonly referred to as “The Sunscreen Song“.  It is what sounds like a commencement speech, set to music.  In fact it is not a real commencement speech (though it should be!), but rather a column that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on June 1, 1997 entitled “ADVICE, LIKE YOUTH, PROBABLY JUST WASTED ON THE YOUNGby staff writer Mary Schmich.

Sometime around Thursday, July 31, 1997, Mary’s article found it’s way onto the internet in the form of an email hoax, claiming to be the 1997 commencement address of Kurt Vonnegut to MIT grads.  The real address that year was actually delivered by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on June 5.  You can find it posted on MIT’s website.

A year later, the email re-circulated claiming to be Kurt’s commencement address to the Class of 1998!

The email caught the attention of Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, who is best known for two films — “Strictly Ballroom,” about competitive dancing, and a 1996 remake of “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. 

Luhrmann eventually tracked the source of the speech to Schmich, and contacted Chicago Tribune management to buy the rights to the words to turn it into a song.  He took Quindon Tarver’s “Everybody’s Free (to Feel Good)” song, remixed it, and hired Sydney actor Lee Perry to read Schmich’s “speech”.  The end result became the seven-minute long “Sunscreen Song”.

The song received heavy airplay from American radio stations nationwide after KNRK in Portland aired an edited (about 4 1/2 minute) version in the spring of 1999 — about the time of graduation that year.  According to Luhrmann’s label, Capitol Records, it became the most requested song on radio morning shows in Atlanta and Philadelphia.

The lyrics to Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen, by Mary Schmich:

 

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

There are so many messages in this song; I’d love to hear from you on what you got out of it in the comments below.

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Most people admire and respect strong individuals who have won great success by manifesting will power and self discipline. People in all walks of life, who with sheer will power, self discipline and ambition have improved their life, learned new skills, overcame difficulties and hardships, reduced their weight, raised high in their chosen field or advanced on the spiritual path.

The truth is that everyone can reach high levels of will power and self-discipline through a practical method of mental strength training. These inner powers are not reserved for a few special people.

Will power and self discipline are two of the most important and useful inner powers in everyone’s life, and have always been considered as essential tools for success in all areas of life. They can be learned and developed like any other skill, yet, in spite of this, only few take any steps to develop and strengthen them in a systematic way.

What is will power?

It is the inner strength to make a decision, take action, and handle and execute any aim or task until it is accomplished, regardless of inner and outer resistance, discomfort or difficulties.

It bestows the ability to overcome laziness, temptations and negative habits, and to carry out actions, even if they require effort, are unpleasant and tedious or are contrary to one’s habits.

What is self discipline?

It is the rejection of instant gratification in favor of something better. It is the giving up of instant pleasure and satisfaction for a higher and better goal.

It manifests as the ability to stick to actions, thoughts and behavior, which lead to improvement and success. Self-discipline is self-control, and it manifests in spiritual, mental, emotional and physical discipline.

The purpose of self-discipline is not living a limiting or a restrictive lifestyle. It does not mean being narrowed minded or living like a fakir. It is one of the pillars of success and power. It endows the inner strength to focus all the energy on a goal and persevere until it is accomplished.

Both of these abilities are required for daily actions and decisions, and also for making major decisions and attaining major success. They are needed to start and continue studying, building a business, losing weight, bodybuilding and physical exercises, maintaining good relationships, changing habits, self improvement, meditation, spiritual growth, keeping and carrying out promises and for almost everything else.

One of the most simple and effective methods to develop will power and self-discipline is by refusing to satisfy unimportant and unnecessary desires. Everyone is constantly confronted and tempted by an endless stream of desires and temptations, many of which are not really important or desirable. By learning to refuse to satisfy every one of them, you get stronger.

Refusing and rejecting useless, harmful or unnecessary desires and actions, and behaving contrary to your habits, sharpen and strengthen your mindset. By constant practice your inner power grows, just like exercising your muscles at a gym increases your physical strength. In both cases, when you need inner power or physical strength, they are available at your disposal.

Here are a few examples:

  • Don’t read the newspaper for a day or two.
  • Drink water when thirsty, in spite of your desire to have a soft drink.
  • Walk up and down the stairs instead of taking the lift.
  • Get down from the bus one station before or after your destination, and walk the rest of the way.
  • For a week go to sleep one hour earlier than usual.
  • Sometimes resist the desire to eat ice cream.

These are only a few examples of the many mental strength exercises that can be conducted in order to develop will power, self-discipline that in turn will increase your personal performance. Exercises like these add to the storehouse of your inner strength. By following a systematic method of training you can reach far, have more control over yourself and your life, attain your goals, and improve your life, and gain satisfaction and peace of mind.

Please let me know how you develop your will power and discipline in the comments below.

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Let’s take a short trip.  Close your eyes…well not now, first read the next paragraph. Close your eyes and remember a time in your life when you felt inspired and excited to make a significant change. What happened? Did you go for it or did your inner obstacles get in the way?

Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings are the foundation on which you build your mental strength, hence your success. A solid house can’t built on a foundation of shifting sand, or a compose pile.  The same applies to achieving success by using mental strength.

If your beliefs that lead to your thoughts are shaky, scattered and uncontrolled, they will creates internal obstacles that will hold you back unless you destroy them.

Many times it’s our “good indented” friends, colleagues and family members who foster the seed of doubts by trying to talk you out of changing your path. It is when you decide to make a better life for yourself that your decision will be met by all kinds of cautious warnings.

People will tell you “That sounds great, but do you have any idea how much that will cost you or how long it’ll take to get the kind of result you want?” Or, “What makes you think YOU can do that?” Or, “Why in the world do you want to change? Just put in your time and be happy.”  Or the big one…”What will happen if . . .?”

Regardless of who and where this “advice come from, they only serve to increase your level of anxiety and self doubts. The best way to handle such opinions is to say what my good friend T. Harv Eker says, “Thanks for sharing” and then immediately forget what they said.

Learning to handle obstacles is the best way to stand your ground and succeed. While listening or running away only serves to undermines your self esteem.

The Universe presents you with these challenges in order to learn to how to develop mental strength, grow stronger and more confident in yourself.

To succeed at overcoming obstacles you need to have the mental strength to stick through any adversity, if you truly believe in your goal.  You must see things through; to have the mental strength to believe more in yourself than in the obstacles and to have the willingness to do what it takes to turn the obstacles around.

This means, you need to stand up to your obstacles and not just believe you can overcome them, but take action AND overcome them! When you attack your obstacles head-on and do something, you’ll find that they will simply evaporate.  Heck, you might even have some fun at the same time.

Standing up to and conquering your obstacles develops the mental strength within you and creates sense of accomplishment that reinforces the sense of your inner power. By developing a habit mental strength, you instill into your psyche a strong message of endurance and success. This strengthens the belief in yourself and what you can accomplish.

Sometimes you may have to resort to some other measures to overcome obstacles. Here a few simple yet powerful techniques to assist you in developing mental strength

Contemplation:

Ask yourself if the obstacle can be ignored. Your fixation of the problem only renders it more cumbersome. If possible, stop paying attention to it. Remember, energy flows where attention goes and results show.

Use humor to neutralize obstacle. This helps to diffuse the tension around the issue.

Take the bull by the horn and address the challenge head-on. This might be challenging at first, particularly if you are not used to confrontation. Yet the more you do it, the easier it will become.

Action Steps:

1.See obstacles as a learning to move you forward, fail forward fast!

2. Repeat loudly as often as necessary to yourself: “I have overcome this”, or “This to shall pass.”

3. Confront obstacles as habits of success (and not of failure.)

4. Develop the ability to overcome, bypass, or eliminate obstacles.

5. When difficult circumstances arise, take massive and immediate action.

You can only allow other people to put obstacles in your path, you either accept them or not, it’s totally up to you. Learn how to develop mental strength by standing up to the challenges without complaining. Have the mental strength to change your thoughts and beliefs that you can succeed and you will.

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The world is undergoing a big shift.  It may SEEM like there is a tremendous amount of turmoil and insecurity in our society.  It may appear that it’s more difficult to succeed.  It may feel like it’s easier to tell yourself that people aren’t spending money on services like yours.

The belief that it’s harder to be “healthy, wealthy and wise” seems to be spreading like wildfire.

But the reality is…

Everything You Need to Thrive Is Here Now

In fact, there has never been a better time to prosper and create abundance than right here right now.

And it’s not about the economy recovering so that people begin spending money.  It’s not about hope and wishes.  It begins with you knowing that a new way of enhancing and developing yourself is emerging out of the rubble of what no longer works, and really never did…at least in the long run.

And frankly, I am excited and inspired by it.

What’s This New Way?

The shift to a new way of living strong starts with the knowing WHY you will succeed.

Here are some powerful affirmations I’ve created to help you have an amazing 2010.  You might want to ‘copy & paste’ them on a separate document.  Then print them out and read them everyday and see what happens!

  • I will succeed because I have defined success on my own terms.  I get to decide what MY success is!
  • I will succeed because I know that when I have aligned who I am with what I love, success is the ONLY option.
  • I will succeed because I get to do what you love everyday.
  • I will succeed because I’ve learned to attract and serve others from a caring, loving and secure place.
  • I will succeed because I know that creating mental strength and taking action is the key to ALL success.
  • I will succeed because I’ve learned to FOCUS (follow One Course Until Successful) and tune out everything else.
  • I will succeed because the world is a better place when I do.

I’m Here to Help

Yes, I want all of that and more for you in 2010!

Here are some of the shifts I am personally committed to helping you achieve for yourself and your life in 2010:

  • A tri-strength program (mental, physical and spiritual) that allows you to expand your energy and live life on YOUR terms with joy and ease.
  • Learning to master your energy for maximum fulfillment and results.
  • Becoming masterful at engaging people into what you do.
  • Inspiring you to move from GREAT to ELITE

To Your Inner Strength!

“See” you next year…

Gregg

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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart?’” ~ Carlos Castaneda from The Wheel of Time

I LOVE Carlos Castaneda! He is probably one of my all time favorite authors.  I can pick up any of his books, randomly open it and BAMB…there’s a powerful message….just like the one above.  

I’ve read the above passage countless of times. I can vividly remember reading it about 4 years while I was considering several opportunities.    On the surface, a few seemed to be a dream!  In considering the all the opportunities explain to my wife that, although some of them were fantastic, they just didn’t feel right.

I literally got stomach cramps thinking about taking any of them.

I thought this passage captured the intention of my decision well so I (literally! :) read it again and again and even shared it with my wife…it made SO much sense to me….my decision was made!

  • So, how about you? 
  • Got any big things on your mind?
  • Any big decisions?!?

Then ask yourself this simple question: Does this path have a heart?

Well, does it?!?

It takes inner strength not only to ask this question…but to answer it as well.

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I recently read this expert from Bruce Lee and wanted to share it here:

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-”if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

What limits are you putting on yourself that you have passively accepted?

More importantly:

  • Are you prepared to make a choice?
  • Once the choice is made, are you courageous enough to start?
  • Will you commit to finishing what you start?

To Your Inner Strength,

Gregg Swanson
Warrior Mind Coach

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Wanna have some fun? 

 

OK

 

Which of the following statements are true?

 

 

  • Lemmings commit mass suicide by leaping off cliffs.

  • Chameleons change color to match their background.

  • The Great Wall of China can be seen from the moon.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

  • Most tigers live in India.

  • Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

  • Baseball was invented in America.

  • Charles Darwin coined the phrase ‘the survival of the fittest’.

  • Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

  • Trees produce most of the earth’s oxygen.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

  • Hitler was a vegetarian.

  • The world exists separate from and independent of you.

 

 

Actually, none of the above statements is true! 

 

What you say…that can’t be correct!

 

This little test shows how easy it can be to hold incorrect beliefs and think they are facts.

 

To find the correct answers go to:

http://WarriorMindCoach.com/answers.html

To Your Inner Strength,

Gregg Swanson
Warrior Mind Coach
http://WarriorMindCoach.com

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Is it just me or have you noticed a growing trend towards “quickies”?  The majority development programs these days seem to focus on how quick you can get something done.

The One Minute…
10 Minutes to…
The 7 Minuet…

Go ahead in fill in the blanks and you’ll find some program that fits it.

I like to sit back and observer…observer trends and their results.  We live in a world of “cause and effect” and I can’t help but question what effect these quickie solutions are having on our overall consciousness as well as how long with the results last?

In looking at Nature, the lasting results are those that take a long time to develop, i.e. an oak tree, a river, a person.  Where as the “quickness” of things in Nature tend to destroy, i.e. hurricane, tornado, tsunami’s.

So I question, are we really building up or at some level destroying?

We have become a lazy society that wants “it” and wants “it” NOW!

I propose, for those that have the courage, to suck it up princess and put in your time.  Put in the time to what ever you’re doing.  Put in the hours at the gym to get in better shape.  Take the time to read and think. Build something by hand….do SOMETHING that takes time.

You’ll find that you will not only enjoy the process but the end results will last a VERY long time.

To Your Inner Strength,
Gregg

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