How does a trip around the world sound?
What about on foot?
I have heard from several different sources in the personal development industry that we often overestimate what we can accomplish in a year, but also underestimate what we can get done in 5 years. Well, what about a lifetime?
A riddle which comes to mind is, "How do you eat an elephant?". Answer, one bite at a time.
And of course there is the quote by Lao Tzu, "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.".
How often do we look at the length of the journey or the size of the elephant and decide it's too big, would take too long, or too difficult and stop there instead of taking action?
So again, aside from asking for a very long snorkel, what would you say to having to walk around the world?
Now, what if you had to complete this journey IN ADDITION to your every day life?
According to the American Podiatric Medical Assocation, the average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, which they estimate add up to 185,000 KMs in a lifetime - four times the circumference of the globe.
What is something you want to accomplish in this lifetime?
What is the first step in this journey that you will take now?
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Life lessons through riddles
Sometimes the answer is in front of us
A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years.
How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
The Importance of Meaning
Why are 2010 (loonies) dollar bills worth more than 2009 (loonies) dollar bills?
The Importance of Perspective
Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. He landed he was completely unhurt, not even a scratch. Outside the building it was a sheer drop to the ground. . Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
ASS-U-ME
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
A Lesson in Dynamics
You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?
Something to keep as an advisor, not a jailor.
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Something so powerful it can build us up or tear us down:
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
COMMENTS WELCOME! ENJOY!
I will post the answers in a few days... email me if you can't sleep.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
THE ANSWERS:
1) 9-years - the tree DOUBLES in height every year. Therefore last year it would have been half the height (see it visually).
2) Because 2010 is 1 more than 2009 (think of it as the number of loonies/dollar bills and not the year).
3) Brad was a window washer and was looking at the window from the outside. When he opened it up and jump through he was jumping into the building.
4) It was day time.
5) Nine rungs. The ship rises with the tide.
6) Fear
7) Memories
A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years.
How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
The Importance of Meaning
Why are 2010 (loonies) dollar bills worth more than 2009 (loonies) dollar bills?
The Importance of Perspective
Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. He landed he was completely unhurt, not even a scratch. Outside the building it was a sheer drop to the ground. . Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
ASS-U-ME
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
A Lesson in Dynamics
You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?
Something to keep as an advisor, not a jailor.
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Something so powerful it can build us up or tear us down:
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
COMMENTS WELCOME! ENJOY!
I will post the answers in a few days... email me if you can't sleep.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
THE ANSWERS:
1) 9-years - the tree DOUBLES in height every year. Therefore last year it would have been half the height (see it visually).
2) Because 2010 is 1 more than 2009 (think of it as the number of loonies/dollar bills and not the year).
3) Brad was a window washer and was looking at the window from the outside. When he opened it up and jump through he was jumping into the building.
4) It was day time.
5) Nine rungs. The ship rises with the tide.
6) Fear
7) Memories
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Problems are a sign of life - Important video link included
Hi everyone!
It took a second try, (i.e.: I had to repeat Day 1), but I am now officially on day 2 of the 10 day challenge!
The positive thoughts/emotions are useful, but what is making a profound difference in my world is the focus on solutions.
How often do we analyze, dwell, and even move on only to revisit our problems? This is not to say you should ignore problems, but once you know a problem exists and what it is, get solution focused. What I have personally noticed over the last couple of days is by focussing on the solution I am naturally pulled in the direction to take action and soon the problem is gone.
To quote Norman Vincent Peale, the father of positive thinking, “Problems are a sign of life, and if you don’t have problems you had better start to worry because the only people that don’t have problems are in the grave!”
Accept problems as a challenge, as an opportunity to learn and grow. And most important, acknowledge that your problems are QUALITY problems.
Please watch the following video and as you do, ask yourself, 'How would my life be different if I adopted some of his positive beliefs?'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=9xwCG0Ey2Mg
Dream your life. Live your Dreams.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
It took a second try, (i.e.: I had to repeat Day 1), but I am now officially on day 2 of the 10 day challenge!
The positive thoughts/emotions are useful, but what is making a profound difference in my world is the focus on solutions.
How often do we analyze, dwell, and even move on only to revisit our problems? This is not to say you should ignore problems, but once you know a problem exists and what it is, get solution focused. What I have personally noticed over the last couple of days is by focussing on the solution I am naturally pulled in the direction to take action and soon the problem is gone.
To quote Norman Vincent Peale, the father of positive thinking, “Problems are a sign of life, and if you don’t have problems you had better start to worry because the only people that don’t have problems are in the grave!”
Accept problems as a challenge, as an opportunity to learn and grow. And most important, acknowledge that your problems are QUALITY problems.
Please watch the following video and as you do, ask yourself, 'How would my life be different if I adopted some of his positive beliefs?'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=9xwCG0Ey2Mg
Dream your life. Live your Dreams.
Your friend and Coach,
Bryce
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Ten Day Challenge! - Day 1
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.
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.
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
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
.
.
.
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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