Bug Guts! February 28, 2007

I received this email from Paul Jenkins from Producer Revolution. It’s a great way to help you remember in a tangible way that there really is more to life than “bug guts”!

Last week I had the amazing experience to interview Steve and Jill Brady on my weekly radio show.  Steve shared the following thought with me:

When you are driving, sometimes bugs get splattered on your windshield.  If you focus your eyes on the bug guts, you quickly lose sight of the road.  If you keep your eyes focused on the road ahead, you can barely even notice the bug guts.  This is a powerful analogy related to life’s challenges – especially when you consider Steve’s story.  The “bug guts” in Steve’s life include a spinal cord injury which left him quadraplegic.  Perhaps there is much more purpose to your life than the bug guts splattered on your life’s windshield.

Keep the perspective and look past those bug guts!

A powerful analogy on the subject of thoughts! February 21, 2007

A little over a year ago I heard an analogy that has given me a lot of mileage in my practice about the power of our thoughts.  The analogy is from Wayne Dyer. 

Think of your thoughts as a form of mental currency.  Imagine that I give you a million dollars (you like this game already), and you take this bushel of money down to the mall.  You can buy anything you want with this money.  You go into the first store where they are selling plastic trees.  These are not the nice attractive trees you might want for your home or office, but absolutely hideous, ugly, gross things.  You look at an ugly orange one and think to yourself, “I hate this thing!  Who would EVER want this thing in their house?!!”  Then you look at the price tag and it says $30,000.  You ask yourself, “Where do they get off charging thirty thousand dollars for this piece of junk?!”  So you grab the stupid thing, drag it up to the front, plunk down your thirty grand and say, “I hate this thing!  Send it to my place.”

The next store is selling pots (probably for the plastic trees), and they are just as disgusting as the trees.  Again you find a particularly yucky one and see that they are charging $10,000 for it.  “WHAT? Ten grand for this?!?  I hate this thing and would never want it in my home! – Here’s your ten thousand, send it to my place!”

You would never do this, right?  You would only spend your money on things you WANT.  But how are you spending your thoughts?  Take an accounting and ask yourself how much you are spending on things you DON’T want.  Your thoughts are the currency with which you buy your life, and whatever you buy with this mental currency will follow you home and fill up your place.

Spend your thoughts wisely!

Paul H. Jenkins, Ph.D.
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Let’s Get Started! February 2, 2007

One of the books I have been reading lately is E-Myth. It is an essential to every person that wants to be a successful businessman. You can revisit this book over and over again and the learning continues. That is the power of a true classic.

One of the phrases that stuck out to me tonight was this: “Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in them.”

Earlier in the book Gerber discusses that working IN your business sets you up for failure. The business owner needs to be working ON the business, constantly improving the business development processes. We need to do this in our lives as well. So many of us are way too causal in our actions, thoughts and words. People that are in the world to be producers and achieve their goals and dreams in business and in your personal life need to realize and remember that every choice you make has a consequence either good or bad. We are accountable for our actions. No decision should be made without thought or measuring it up to your goals in life.

You should ask yourself each time, “Is this decision I am about to make in line with my goals I have set for my business and myself?” If you start to use this sort of filtering system, it will be a lot easier to make your choices because you will see if it is taking you one step closer or one step further away. The more you practice this it will just become habit and you will soon be making choices that are in line with your goals and you will be on your way to prosperity!