How To Stay Focused: Don’t Get Triggered Into A Distracted Day

What do you mean? Of course it is relevant! The dog's name is Trigger and he's distracted.

What do you mean? Of course it is relevant! The dog’s name is Trigger and he’s distracted. Don’t believe me? Ask SarahDeer – it’s her photo.

One day Several days An undisclosed number of days went like this for me…

I wake up, groan, and grab my laptop to check email, Facebook, and website traffic. Two hours later (where did the time go?) I’m rumbling downstairs to eat cereal and watch Whose Line Is It Anyway? while I eat. After that, I watch two more episodes.

Great Scott, this guy is lazy.

~ Your Thoughts Exactly

It gets worse…Read More

When The Thought Of Not Doing Something Makes You Cringe…

cringe You cringe when you are repulsed by something. It’s a very instinctual response – essentially uncontrollable – which makes it revealing.

We all are familiar with the positive emotions of desire (i.e. I want to do this and that). But repulsion is arguably stronger than these “toward” emotions and definitely more reliable by it’s pure instinctual nature. Repulsion is felt when something undesirable clashes with your soul. Read More

How To Stay Focused: The Four Basic Requirements

focusping Focusing is a lost skill, a casualty of the 21st century. People bury their noses in iDistracted and Distractdroid devices, practically salivating at the notifications which confirm their importance. Instead of commanding their day, they are controlled by their uncontrolled lust to be distracted.Read More

The Law Of Attraction Is Complete Nonsense

Seriously dude, she just like....expected that a penguin would be there and BOOM! The Law Of Attraction kicked in.

“Seriously dude, she just like….expected that a penguin would be there and BOOM! The Law Of Attraction kicked in. So what if it’s at a zoo? It’s proof, man.”

The Law of Attraction isn’t a law – it’s positive thinking with magic glitter on it.

From the wiki page: “One example used by a proponent of the law of attraction is that if a person opened an envelope expecting to see a bill, then the law of attraction would “confirm” those thoughts and contain a bill when opened. A person who decided to instead expect a cheque might, under the same law, find a cheque instead of a bill.”

Oh, that is fantastic! According to this philosophy, if a belligerent person were to point a gun at me, and I expected that inside the gun was one ounce of confetti and no bullets, upon him pulling the trigger, I would be celebrating, not dying.Read More

The Clear Path To Success – A Vision With Supportive Habits

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Forget the feel-good, zero-result articles like “12 ways to be more thankful today.” Those don’t help you. They make you feel good for five minutes. Tomorrow they are forgotten, as they should be.

Success comes from focusing your energy on what works. What then, is the clearest, simplest path to success in any pursuit?

  1. Develop your vision of success – what does success look like when you get there?
  2. Support that vision by strategically creating/removing habits – what daily actions would result in you getting there?
  3. Success

Some people scour the web for the secrets to success, sometimes unaware that they do it. But how can there be a secret to success when so many humans have been succeeding for centuries? There is no secret. Successful people didn’t find a magical fountain and burn the map. There are known methods that work and methods that do not, and they use the former.

It starts with vision.Read More