Hi everyone:
Yesterday my coach (yes, even coaches have coaches... everybody can benefit from a coach) invited me to take Tony Robbins' 10 day challenge. For those of you that have his book "Awaken the Giant Within", it starts on page 309. For those that don't have it.... buy a copy now. This book will change your life.
The essence of the challenge is this: For the next 10 consecutive days, refuse to dwell on any unresourceful (negative) thoughts or feeling.Or to state this in the positive: Focus only on resourceful throughts or emotions.
To be clear, this doesn't mean you aren't allowed to temporarily experience a negative thought as let's face it, they will happen. The purpose here is to not DWELL on them. As described in the challenge, when you realize you are experiencing a negative thought or emotion, you have 1 minute to break the pattern.
If you dwell longer than 1 minute, you restart your 10 days.
Again, my coach extended me this challenge and I have excepted. In turn, I am extending the challenge to all of you! Are you up for it??? Come on... I triple dog dare you.. no stampsies or erasies.
This is day 1 for me... and so far so good! I will do my best to blog each day so you can follow along. Furthermore, I encourage all you who are brave enough to accept the challenge to post your comments as to your progress.
And as if a challenge isn't enough to motivate you. For all of those who do decide they are man/woman enough to do this.... contact me through my website (http://www.brycehealey.com/) and I will give you a FREE coaching session in which I will give you a few tools of exactly how to break your negative state.
The first step in creating a breakthrough in your life is awareness, which this exercise will give you plenty of.
Life's a trip. Give'r!
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
PS - FREE is good, and the next best thing is an amazing deal and my new coaching packages are just that! Check them out at http://www.brycehealey.com/Get_Started_Now.html.
Showing posts with label doing best. Show all posts
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Live in the now
It’s my last morning in Mexico. I am sitting out in the hotel lobby and in about an hour the shuttle will come and take me and the rest of my family off to the airport.
At the very least, it is an overcast day, so it makes it a little easier to leave. That being said, it is always tough when something you have been looking forward to for months comes to an end, especially when a winter wonderland awaits you! As the saying goes, all good things eventually come to an end.
Let me say this again, one day, everything good in your life will end. Vacations end, your favourite car eventually needs to be replaced, great jobs change, moments pass, pets die, and even the best thing in life (your relationships) will eventually end when either you or they pass on.
Morbid, perhaps, but it’s a fact. Rather than be in denial of this fact, accept it and EMBRACE it! The very fact that all of these things are finite are what make them special.
You could choose to live in the past and dwell upon all the things that used to be in your life that are no longer there, but that would make for a pretty sad life.
You could live entirely in the future, dreaming of what is to be. Saying things like ‘WHEN I get my promotion, things will be different’ or ‘WHEN the new year arrives I will change’ or ‘WHEN I win the lottery, then I can be happy’. WHAT IF… WHEN never comes???
The only ‘WHEN’ is now. EMBRACE the moments you have in the present. Be happy, now. Feel RICH, now. Enjoy, NOW.
Be grateful for all those magical moments in the past as well as every thing you have in the present. Ensure you have a future that excites you, as with every ending ushers in a great new beginning.
But again, love and live to the fullest, now. For now, is the only time we will ever have.
Your friend and coach,
Bryce
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Knowledge is Potential Power
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I just finished a book called 'blink', by Malcolm Gladwell. He ends the book with the following lines (no worries, it won't ruin anything):
"Once we know about how the mind works - and about the strengths and weaknesses of human judgement - it is our responsibility to act."
Using one of my new fav. questions, I challenged this and asked myself, "WHAT IF... I didn't act with this new found knowledge?". And hence the title for today's post; "Knowledge is potential power."
Let's take going to college or university for example. If you diligently read your books, did your assignments, etc... you would have lots of additional knowledge. Would this result in any difference in your life? Other than student loans, new friends, and some liver damage, no.
The difference comes when you 'act' with this knowledge. Going to school, reading a book, or learning in any capacity in general is much like charging up a battery with a limitless capacity. You can charge it all you want and it will have even more and more potential power, but until you put the battery to use, it is worthless.
Let's expand this thought even further. The same would apply to all 'resources' in our life, wouldn't it? And by resources, I am referring to anything you have at your disposal; knowledge, money, friends/family/your network of people, material items, your physical self, etc...
For example, being born in Canada instantly gave me access to a lot more resources (education, libraries, healthcare, infrastructure, etc...) than let's say somebody born in a developing country. That being said, they would have access to resources that I wouldn't... at least not initially. But again, if I don't act and make use of these resources they are worthless.
One thing to keep in mind is that just as with any battery, a resource needs to be charged from time to time or else it will run dry.
A trend you will find in the most successful people is that they #1 have access to a vast array of resources (and more than just $$$) and #2 they use them to their full potential when appropriate. Some were born into a world of resources and others chose to continously expand their resources.
What resources are in your life which you are not leveraging to their full potential? What are all the ways you could expand your resources? What resources may need a recharge?
And to bring it back to the opening quote and end today's post on a philosophical note: once you know about these resources, is it our responsibility to act and use them?
Doing so could result in not only expanding your own resources, but also potentially that of the entire world! This effect then compounds and is returned geometrically!
Reminds me of a proverb; the more you give the more you get.
Your friend and coach,
Bryce
I just finished a book called 'blink', by Malcolm Gladwell. He ends the book with the following lines (no worries, it won't ruin anything):
"Once we know about how the mind works - and about the strengths and weaknesses of human judgement - it is our responsibility to act."
Using one of my new fav. questions, I challenged this and asked myself, "WHAT IF... I didn't act with this new found knowledge?". And hence the title for today's post; "Knowledge is potential power."
Let's take going to college or university for example. If you diligently read your books, did your assignments, etc... you would have lots of additional knowledge. Would this result in any difference in your life? Other than student loans, new friends, and some liver damage, no.
The difference comes when you 'act' with this knowledge. Going to school, reading a book, or learning in any capacity in general is much like charging up a battery with a limitless capacity. You can charge it all you want and it will have even more and more potential power, but until you put the battery to use, it is worthless.
Let's expand this thought even further. The same would apply to all 'resources' in our life, wouldn't it? And by resources, I am referring to anything you have at your disposal; knowledge, money, friends/family/your network of people, material items, your physical self, etc...
For example, being born in Canada instantly gave me access to a lot more resources (education, libraries, healthcare, infrastructure, etc...) than let's say somebody born in a developing country. That being said, they would have access to resources that I wouldn't... at least not initially. But again, if I don't act and make use of these resources they are worthless.
One thing to keep in mind is that just as with any battery, a resource needs to be charged from time to time or else it will run dry.
A trend you will find in the most successful people is that they #1 have access to a vast array of resources (and more than just $$$) and #2 they use them to their full potential when appropriate. Some were born into a world of resources and others chose to continously expand their resources.
What resources are in your life which you are not leveraging to their full potential? What are all the ways you could expand your resources? What resources may need a recharge?
And to bring it back to the opening quote and end today's post on a philosophical note: once you know about these resources, is it our responsibility to act and use them?
Doing so could result in not only expanding your own resources, but also potentially that of the entire world! This effect then compounds and is returned geometrically!
Reminds me of a proverb; the more you give the more you get.
Your friend and coach,
Bryce
Friday, November 27, 2009
What is your best?
Welcome and thank you for coming by for a visit to read what I have to say. This marks the first of what will be many MANY posts. How EXCITING!!!
This blog will be focused on living life to the absolute fullest and will include:
- Inspirational thoughts and questions
- Free tools and tips you can use
- Observations from my own person journey
MOST IMPORTANT: This is an interactive blog! Please add your comments, send me feedback, and let me know what topics you would like to see on the blog or hear more about.
Learn a little more about who I am at my website; www.brycehealey.com (permanent link to the right).
OK, onto today's topic: What is your best?
Here is a fun exercise (Yes, this means you will have to get up from your computer. Trust me, it'll be worth it):
1) Sit on the ground with your legs stretched out straight in front of you.
2) Do your 'best' to touch your toes or (for you yogis) see how far past your toes your 'best' is
3) Sit back up nice and straight, take a deep breath, picture going twice as far, and with pure determination, see how far past your toes you will go this time.
GO DO IT! Picturing it in your head doesn't count. ha ha
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.
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Did you do it? Good.
So if you did your 'best' the first time, how come the second time you went further? And probably not just a little further, but several inches further!
Paradoxically, doing your 'best' is often limiting you from achieving your best! And this applies to all areas of your life.
An every day example of this would be the value of a coach or personal trainer. Invariably, just as you squeeze out that last painful repetition, you hear "Give me 2 more!". And what do you know, you can do it! And it is in these final repetitions when you truly push yourself, you achieve your biggest results.
What areas of your life are you doing your 'best'? What would happen if you pushed yourself and did better?
Life's a trip. Give'r.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
PS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!
This blog will be focused on living life to the absolute fullest and will include:
- Inspirational thoughts and questions
- Free tools and tips you can use
- Observations from my own person journey
MOST IMPORTANT: This is an interactive blog! Please add your comments, send me feedback, and let me know what topics you would like to see on the blog or hear more about.
Learn a little more about who I am at my website; www.brycehealey.com (permanent link to the right).
OK, onto today's topic: What is your best?
Here is a fun exercise (Yes, this means you will have to get up from your computer. Trust me, it'll be worth it):
1) Sit on the ground with your legs stretched out straight in front of you.
2) Do your 'best' to touch your toes or (for you yogis) see how far past your toes your 'best' is
3) Sit back up nice and straight, take a deep breath, picture going twice as far, and with pure determination, see how far past your toes you will go this time.
GO DO IT! Picturing it in your head doesn't count. ha ha
.
.
.
Did you do it? Good.
So if you did your 'best' the first time, how come the second time you went further? And probably not just a little further, but several inches further!
Paradoxically, doing your 'best' is often limiting you from achieving your best! And this applies to all areas of your life.
An every day example of this would be the value of a coach or personal trainer. Invariably, just as you squeeze out that last painful repetition, you hear "Give me 2 more!". And what do you know, you can do it! And it is in these final repetitions when you truly push yourself, you achieve your biggest results.
What areas of your life are you doing your 'best'? What would happen if you pushed yourself and did better?
Life's a trip. Give'r.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
PS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!
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