How To Stay Positive, Even Your Inner Voice Is Trying To Sabotage You

I recently received an email from one of my readers asking me for advice on how to stay positive, so I decided to share what I replied to him.

What follows is my response in the form of a TOP 20 list of all the things I do on a day to day basis to stay positive,  keep myself inspired and make sure that little voice in my head tells me great things about myself and my future…

BE WARNED: This is not your traditional positive thinking crap. These are simple, yet profoundly effective tips for staying in a positive frame of mind.

Lastly, please forgive me for not always going into greater detail on each item on the list. It would take an entire book to do each one justice. However, the tips are self explanatory and you can use your common sense to apply them in your life.

My Top 20 Ways To Stay Positive:

The following is a list of things I do and think regularly (if not daily) to stay in a positive frame of mind. If any of these speak to you, use them and let me know your results… Of course, this list is far from complete, but it contains my personal favorite techniques…

Your Body:

Your state of mind is influenced by your energy levels. The following tips will help your body operate at peak performance and keep your head clear. When your body is running like a finely tuned machine, your mind follows suit.

• Exercise daily. This increases blood circulation to the brain, giving you more energy and keeping your mind clear. Make sure you choose exercise that is fun for you.
• Add lots of raw vegetables, nuts and fruits to your diet and stop eating crap. The quality of the food you eat will determine how you feel. How you feel will impact what you think.
  Crap food in = crap thoughts and feelings out…
• Eat a nutritious breakfast – it’s the most important meal of the day. I make a green smoothie every morning. Here is a link to a video a friend of mine made teaching how to make a green smoothie… http://www.theshawnstevensonmodel.com/green-warrior-shake/
• Take some time out every day to do an activity that is fun for you. This will release Serotonin in your brain and make you feel good, promoting a clear mind and good feelings.

Your People:

I’ve heard it said that our lives are the sum total of the 5 people we spend the most time with…

• Hang around with high quality people who support where you are going in life.
• Share yourself vulnerably with the people in your life. Vulnerable does not mean weak – in fact, it takes a lot of courage to be totally open and honest with people. Being this way regularly will grow relationships built on trust and honesty. These relationships are your support line when you’re not feeling great. Also, don’t pretend that everything is OK if it is not. Just sharing your challenges with another person you trust can get rid of a lot of the anxiety you may be feeling at the time.
• Contribute to the people around you regularly in whatever way you can. It will make you feel good about yourself. Also, what comes around tends to go around, so by contributing, you can be sure that you’ll be contributed to in some way in the future.
• Personally, I have made a commitment to myself not to withhold important communications from the people I love. When we don’t say something you know needs to be said, we bottle it up inside, and that pressure causes tension in our mind. This tension often manifests itself in the form of negative thoughts and low energy. So, say what needs to be said (with love of course) and most times you’ll immediately notice a sense of relief.
• I also have a commitment to love my family. I believe that our relationship to our parents is of FUNDAMENTAL importance to our happiness. Notice that I said our relationship to our parents and not with our parents. Even if your parents are no longer alive, you can still relate to them with love. If you know you are harboring resentment towards a parent, seek counseling or get the issue resolved. Whatever the case, LOVE your parents and you’ll love yourself. I wish I had the space to write more on this topic, but I’ll have to save it for a future post…

Your Thoughts And Feelings:

The way you see the world directly impacts the thoughts you think and how you respond to life. Here’s a list of ideas and beliefs I have. Try them on and see if they fit you…

• I have a commitment to myself not to judge anything as ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’. It is what it is…
• I have a commitment to myself to find the blessings in any circumstance. This way, I ALWAYS benefit, even when at first it appears as if life is throwing me a curve ball…
• I have a commitment to myself to feel grateful as much as possible and I focus on cultivating gratitude.
• I have learned to trust that the tough times always pass, and that I am always looked after by Life (or some higher power). I consciously cultivate this belief and look for evidence of it, so I see it every day. This is a VERY powerful belief to cultivate and can remove all future based fear.

Your Work:

Given that most of us spend about a third of our life at work, here are some basic, yet powerful tips for staying positive and focused while working:

• Take regular breaks and if you can, nap once a day for 20 minutes. A nap will recharge you and clear your mind of clutter.
• Focus on your strengths at work and if possible, delegate your weaknesses… If you’re an entrepreneur, go take the Wealth Dynamics test to find out your entrepreneurial strengths.
• Complete the tasks you set yourself. Set yourself one important primary priority task to achieve every day and get it done. It will give you a sense of satisfaction and help you experience making progress. Feeling like you are not making progress in life sucks (at least for me it does)!

Habits To Adopt:

Your results in life come from your habits. I have made many of the things on this list a habit, and do them daily. Try some of these out and watch how your state of mind improves magically.

• Before I go to sleep I run over my day and congratulate myself for everything I did well and let go of any judgment about the things I did not do well. This keeps me feeling like I am making progress and doing a great job in my life.
• When I’m feeling really low, I pull out a pen and pad and begin writing down my feelings and my thoughts. This helps me get clear on what I am really feeling and seeing it on paper helps me understand what is going on. I don’t stop writing until I feel better.
• Perhaps most profound for me, I have managed to ACCEPT my life just as it is and as it isn’t. As a result, I rarely get upset. Practice not resisting things the way they are.
• Perhaps the most powerful habit I have adopted is waking up and immediately visualizing my day going well. I do this to keep my focus on where I am going and why I am going there. It motivates me and keeps my mind in the space I need it to be in order to be successful in my life.  To help me visualize, I use the Relaxation For Manifestation audio program. It’s the best.

Print this list out and try out a different tip each day. Notice the results and keep doing what works for you.

VERY IMPORTANT: Smile, take a break and get outside today and always remember… You are amazing!

P.S. I’d love to hear your ideas to add to this list. Please leave them below. I read each one.

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Have you ever experienced the frustration of attracting the same negative experience into your life over and over again, and not knowing why or what to do about it?

Perhaps you keep attracting romantic relationships that never turn out the way you’d hoped they would… or business partnerships that always seem to turn sour…

Whatever it is, the technique I’m going to share with you in this article will help you destroy your destructive patterns so they never haunt you again.

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> BEWARE: If you’re a card carrying Law Of Attraction fan, then this article is going to shock and annoy you…

I’ve had enough!

I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with all the CRAP written on the internet about how to attract money using the Law Of Attraction.

Not because I don’t think it’s possible to attract opportunities to make money, but because most of the information is just plain USELESS! By useless, I mean that it is not actionable and you can’t do anything with it.

I searched Google for “attract wealth” and here are some of the gems I found:

“Step into the flow of the Universe and ask for money help…”

At first glance, this looks like an innocent enough premise, but when we dig a little deeper you’ll discover that statements like this often leave us more confused that before we read them.

Check this out… Could you please tell me exactly WHERE I find this universal flow. Once I’ve found it, HOW do I step into it and HOW do I ask for money help? Read the rest of this entry »

I ran over a dog last night!

It was dark and I was driving to the airport to collect two friends visiting me on the island. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a dog running across the freeway…

I slammed on my brakes, trying to keep the car from skidding out of control, but the dog kept running. Seconds later I felt a series of loud thuds followed by shrieks of terror and agony as the dog got dragged underneath my truck.

My heart started racing and time slowed down to a standstill as adrenaline pumped into my veins.

“Oh s#%t”, I thought to myself…

as I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the injured dog writhing in the middle of the freeway.

The dog’s agonized howls penetrated my car even though I had music playing, the windows were shut and I was 100 meters down the road.

I’m not proud to admit it, but my first thought was:

“There’s no way that this dog is going to be alive much longer… Another car will probably hit it again in a few seconds. I’m going to keep driving to the airport, pick up my friends and forget this ever happened…”

I kept driving for another 10 seconds, but the dog’s agonized howls haunted me like the sound of a baby crying for its mother. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to solve ALL your problems in one  go?

Sound like hype? Well, read on…

Earlier this week, I was coaching a friend who struggles to consistently do his visualization exercises each morning.

When I asked him why he struggles, he delivered his usual response, “I have a discipline problem”.

I had to contain myself from laughing as I slowly and deliberately responded with, “Really…”

I quizzed him as to where I could find his “discipline problem” and suggested that he might consider getting it seen to by a doctor!

You get the idea…

Every day we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves and our lives that are complete lies.

My friend does not have a ‘discipline problem’.

If I cut him open and looked inside his head, I am certain that I would not find a ‘discipline problem’.

His ‘discipline problem’ exists only in his thoughts about himself, but not in reality.

I like this example because it perfectly illustrates how we create our world in a very literal way through our thinking. My friend’s thoughts about his imaginary ‘discipline problem’ actually cause him to act in a way that keeps him stuck.

“You Have No Problems”

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In this video, I’ll teach you a new technique to rapidly accelerate your success. It’s called Trim Tabbing and I learned it from my mentor Eben Pagan.

If you enjoyed this video, please leave your comments below and let me know what your trim tab is…

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A friend sent me this and I loved it!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930′s 1940′s, 50′s, 60′s and early 70′s !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

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It had to happen some time…

Finally, my faithful laptop of 4 years died… The Blue Screen Of Death took over it’s old soul and it went to PC heaven. Not after much frustration trying to resuscitate it, I might add! (see picture to the right)

So, my buddy Wendi Friesen took me to BestBuy in Irvine, CA, and I bought this new beauty – a Dell Studio XPS 13

I must make a quick shout out to CARBONITE, my online backup service that saved ALL my data (and my life).

Thanks to Carbonite, I was able to download ALL my data to my new PC immediately as if nothing had happened. If you have not yet installed Carbonite on your computer, they offer a free trial. It’s only a matter of time before your computer dies, breaks or someone makes off with it…

Share my joy as I unwrap my new baby…

Have you ever noticed that sometimes your HOT and sometimes you’re NOT?

No, I’m not talking about in the bedroom, I’m talking about being attractive – in a Law Of Attraction way…

Ever noticed that sometimes you attract amazing people and incredible opportunities and other times it feels like the river of Attraction has totally dried up, and the opportunities that once were everywhere, are nowhere to be found…

Know what I mean?

Watch the video below and you’ll learn:

• Why the Law Of Attraction works sometimes and doesn’t work other times
• How to avoid the TWO emotional states that repel Attraction
• How to regain control of your emotions, when they seem to run away with your mind…

Please leave your comments below and let me know what you think of this concept.

P.S. If you want to learn more about the Law Of Attraction, click here.

My alarm went off at 05:45 and I hit snooze…

I couldn’t get out of bed this morning.

A little voice in my head was telling me,
“Sleep in Bruce… It’s warm and comfortable here and it’s cold and dark outside”.

Then, another voice in my head piped up and began doing battle with the first voice saying,
“Bruce! You committed to going to the gym every morning this month. Don’t let yourself down…”

Jeez, it was a tough 30 minute match, but in the end, the 2nd voice won and I went to gym. I’m on a mission to get 6-pack abs and more often than not, in order to manifest the BIG things in life, you need to get yourself uncomfortable.

In fact, I’d go as far to say that real transformation cannot happen inside your comfort zone…

So, I made this video to share some insight on how YOU can go about transforming some area(s) of your life. You won’t hear this from most other teachers of the Law Of Attraction, so prepare to be shocked!

Enjoy…

If you can’t see YouTube videos, watch this video on Google.
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