Mindset
Mindfulness is the key to living an examined life, to unlocking your true potential. It’s so much more than meditation, though meditation is a key component. Ultimately it’s having awareness of your awareness. The following episodes will help take you down the mindfulness rabbit hole…
Fear sets up a dam across creative impulse, and doesn’t let anything through except fear itself. (And, as you’ll learn, fear takes a great deal of creativity in its own right!) Just as fear knows how to grow itself, creativity knows how to grow itself too. By focusing on creativity, you can become more creative. By focusing on desire, expectation, and imagination, you can find unbridled, unimpeded creativity flowing through you more powerfully than you ever thought was possible. You’ll learn all about this, and much more, with Barnet Bain…
Take a moment and think of a monster that you’ve figured out how to slay in your life. This might be an obstacle that you’ve overcome or a fear that you’ve faced. Now think of all the other people who are still trying to fight these battles. As a speaker, you can help people find the least painful path to victory in their battles. This perspective will not only help your audience stay engaged, but also change how they see the world. Tamsen Webster, an acclaimed keynote speaker, idea whisperer,…
"Embrace your fear to have heightened senses and sharper awareness." Kristen Ulmer How can you become bold and truly fearless? The traditional narrative suggests that the only productive way to address fear is to defeat it. Believe it or not, that’s not actually true. Instead of trying to win a battle against your fear, a far healthier approach is to lean into the fear. You need to fully feel it, accept it, and stop resisting it. In other words, instead of doing things in spite of your fear, do things…
"The meaning of life is is letting our souls reach their purpose." Eliyahu Jian One of the differences between people who struggle in life and those who glide through it is their mindset. The mind is split into two parts: the positive and the negative. Whatever you feed grows stronger, and it takes a lifetime of work to ensure that negative thoughts don’t take over. This doesn’t mean you can only focus on positive thoughts. You also need to act on positive thoughts or they will eventually become rotten. This…
"Behind the scenes of every great success story, you will see somebody doing something that is out of the ordinary" Robert G. Allen "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man,” George Bernard Shaw wrote. Success often requires that you do something unreasonable. You have to make a brazen claim that you’re going to do something out of the ordinary, even when the world pushes back.. Either you’ll fail miserably,…
"Connectedness is understanding that there is an unseen hand that's making moves in the universe." Luke Storey If you’re a faithful Get Yourself Optimized listener, you’ve probably already heard my recent conversation with Luke Storey. Luke, who hosts the Life Stylist Podcast, was already a recurring guest on the show. He originally joined me to talk about fashion in one of my very first episodes. In our more recent conversation, we discussed extreme biohacking, spirituality, and how this combination can lead to a higher level of consciousness. Today, Luke generously…
"Once I made the decision to go from a fashion stylist to a life stylist, I found my real passion." Luke Storey Most of us stop believing in Santa Claus when we’re children. But what if believing in him as an adult enhanced (rather than detracted from) our lives? Because we are fundamentally unable to access ultimate truth, we shouldn’t think of our beliefs as true or false. Rather, we should view our beliefs as either empowering or disempowering. Choosing empowering beliefs leads to an empowered life! Luke Storey explores…
"Pursuing something that you are so invested in and love so much and are so passionate about doesn’t feel like working." Adam Markel Being a workaholic used to be a badge of honor. Now, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that working 80, 90, or even more hours a week is a problem, not a point of pride. If you’re going through that, or still feel like the path to success is being the first one into the office and the last one out, it’s time that you make a pivot…
"Your calling will ask you to become the fullest, most powerful, and most expanded version of yourself." Jeffrey Van Dyk Each and every one of us has wounding childhood experiences, which are fundamentally confusing at their core. From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re unable to blame our parents, which leads us to blame ourselves. As a result, we can feel unworthy, unlovable, inferior, and unwanted. These feelings set us up for an epic battle that can last for the rest of our lives; the battle of yourself versus your beliefs. If…
"Alpha waves promote creativity, innovation, intuition, calmness, relaxation, and mood stability." Chris Keane Imagine how profoundly and powerfully it would impact your life if you spent 40 years as a monk meditating on a mountaintop. There’s no doubt you would gain enlightenment, clarity, and train your brain to function in remarkable ways. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have time to spend 40 years meditating. The good news is that there’s an incredible program that helps you reap many benefits of meditation in just five days. My guest today, Chris Keane…
