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	<title>Bruce Muzik&#039;s Designer Life Blog &#187; Designer Living</title>
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		<title>How To Manifest Your Dream Life &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this video, you're going to learn:

    * A little known (and scary) manifesting technique for motivating yourself to take action every time. I've NEVER taught this technique publicly before...
    * How to make sure you don’t make the BIGGEST mistake most people make with the Law Of Attraction...
    * You'll also get a sneak peek of my new front garden in paradise...]]></description>
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<h3>I’m excited…</h3>
<p>For quite some time, I have dreamed of moving to a Caribbean island, kite surfing every day and remote controlling my business from the beach.</p>
<p>Well, I’m thrilled to be able to share with you that I’ve made my dream come true.</p>
<p>Watch the video below, because in it I’m going to share exactly how I did it and draw some distinctions that you can use immediately to manifest your dream life too…</p>
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<h3>In this video, you&#8217;re going to learn:</h3>
<ul>
<li>A little known (and scary) manifesting technique for motivating yourself to take action every time. I&#8217;ve NEVER taught this technique publicly before&#8230;</li>
<li>How to make sure you don’t make the BIGGEST mistake most people make with the Law Of Attraction&#8230;</li>
<li>You&#8217;ll also get a sneak peek of my new front garden in paradise&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you’ve watched the video, please let me know what you thought by leaving me a comment down below…</p>
<p>To watch the SECOND PART of this series of <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/attract-your-dream-life-part2/">Law Of Attraction videos, click here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce Muzik" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p>P.S. You can <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/trim-tab/" target="_blank">watch the Trim Tabbing video I spoke of here</a>:</p>
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		<title>How To Achieve Almost Any Goal</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/achieve-any-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FACT: Most people never get what they truly want out of life.

Learn how to achieve almost anything by using a tried and tested method for boosting your success at anything you do… whether it’s money, sports, love or almost anything else…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>FACT: Most people never get what they truly want out of life.</h3>
<p>Most people struggle through life, repeating past mistakes over and over again and then they die&#8230; without having fulfilled their dreams.</p>
<p>In this video I teach you how to achieve virtually anything by using a tried and tested method for boosting your success at anything you do whether in money, sports, love &#8211; literally anything…</p>
<p>Once you’ve watched the video, be sure to complete the exercise below it, as the exercise will bring this important concept out of the realm of THEORY and make it PRACTICALLY applicable to your life.</p>
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<p>If you can&#8217;t see YouTube videos, watch this video on <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2274456688095035686" target="_blank">Google Video</a>.<a title="worksheet download" href="http://www.designer-life.com/downloads/measure-success-worksheet.pdf" target="_blank"><br />
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<h3><a title="worksheet download" href="http://www.designer-life.com/downloads/measure-success-worksheet.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to download your exercise</a> that accompanies this video.</h3>
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<p>P.S. After doing the exercise, please leave your comments below.</p>
<p>P.P.S. If you missed the tele-seminar I did with Roger Hamilton last week, you can listen to the replay here &#8211; <a title="How To Make Your First Million" href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/make-your-first-million/">“How To Make Your First Million, Even In Tough Economic Times”</a></p>
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		<title>Lifestyle Design &#8211; The BIGGEST Mistake That Keeps You From Achieving Your Designer Life</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/lifestyle-design-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is getting the life of your dreams turning out to be harder than you thought it would be?

If you're still dreaming of one day living the good life, you've possibly fallen prey to the single most common mistake I see people making when creating their designer life.

Before I dive in though, allow me to explain how I define a 'designer life'.

In it's simplest form, a designer life is a life that you customize to meet your ideal criteria in every area of life. As I define it, it includes having the freedom to do whatever you choose whenever you choose. There's more to it, but for the sake of simplicity, let's use this definition for the moment.

The Biggest Mistake People Make Is...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Is getting the life of your dreams turning out to be harder than you thought it would be?</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re still dreaming of one day living the good life, you&#8217;ve possibly fallen prey to the single most common mistake  I see people making when creating their <strong>designer life.</strong></p>
<p>Before I dive in though, allow me to explain how I define a &#8216;designer life&#8217;.</p>
<p>In it&#8217;s simplest form, a designer life is a life that you customize to meet your ideal criteria in every area of life. As I define it, it includes having the freedom to do whatever you choose whenever you choose. There&#8217;s more to it, but for the sake of simplicity, let&#8217;s use this definition for the moment.</p>
<h3>The Biggest Mistake People Make Is&#8230;</h3>
<h3>WAITING&#8230;</h3>
<p>Waiting is the killer of all great ideas and probably the most common mistake that stops people taking action towards creating their dream life now and actually fulfilling their dreams.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Waiting is only one measure above death&#8221; &#8211; Werner Erhard</em></p>
<p>Although its great to dream of one day owning a mansion overlooking the sea, a red Ferrari, sporting 6-pack abs and being married to Mr Right, you&#8217;re probably not going to get all of those things in the next 7 days.</p>
<p>So, here&#8217;s how you can you begin living your designer life today, without waiting for your dreams to arrive in the future?</p>
<p><strong>Ask yourself this, &#8220;What is it about the things I want that make me feel good?&#8221; </strong></p>
<p>Continuing the example above, you may answer:</p>
<ul>
<li>being able to see the sea from my bedroom</li>
<li>having a car that turns heads and thrills me to drive</li>
<li>having a healthy, fit body</li>
<li>having a loving relationship</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, take a moment and do the math. When you add up the monthly cost for you to actually do and have the things that make you feel good, I expect you&#8217;ll be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>You can have all of the things that make you feel good now, without having to own a mansion or a Ferrari. I&#8217;m not suggesting that you give up on your dreams. I am suggesting that you can afford your dream lifestyle right now in some shape or form and you don&#8217;t have to wait for it.</p>
<p>So, get busy living it now, rather that waiting for your dream life to arrive someday in the future.</p>
<p>Watch the video below.</p>
<p>I interviewed this man earlier this year. He&#8217;s 70 years old and decided to stop waiting and follow his dream of sailing around the world. He also happens to be my father&#8230;</p>
<p>Watch this video, it&#8217;s inspiring&#8230;</p>
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<p>So remember, your dream lifestyle is closer than you think, if you quit waiting for it.</p>
<p>Till next week, keep Living (with a capital L)</p>
<p>Your partner in success,</p>
<h3><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce" /></h3>
<p>P.S. If you enjoyed this article, please leave your comments below and bookmark this page on your favorite social bookmark sites using the links below.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Tips For Being Homeless&#8221; &#8211; Success University founder, Matt Morris shares his inspirational story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever feared that if you lost everything you’d end up on the street, homeless? Well, not so long ago, my new friend Matt Morris found himself living his worst nightmare &#8211; living out of his car, showering in the rain in a church parking lots and washing himself in gas station bathrooms. Now, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Have you ever feared that if you lost everything you’d end up on the street, homeless?</h3>
<p>Well, not so long ago, my new friend <strong>Matt Morris</strong> found himself living his worst nightmare &#8211; living out of his car, showering in the rain in a church parking lots and washing himself in gas station bathrooms.  Now, just a few years later Matt used personal development to turn his life around and now runs <a title="Success University" href="http://www.designerlife.successuniversity.com" target="_blank">Success University</a> the largest personal development website in the world, owns <a href="http://www.designerlife.successuniversity.com">a multi million dollar business</a> and his company feeds almost 100000 children every month.  <object width="500" height="400" data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8013919934867418732&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="id" value="VideoPlayback" /><param name="src" value="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8013919934867418732&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true" /></object><br />
Matt has lived through <strong>the ultimate rags to riches story </strong>and if you want to know how he did it, what he attributes all his success to and how you can make your own success faster, make sure that you watch this fascinating interview to the end.</p>
<p>To find out more about Matt&#8217;s awesome company, Success University, and how you can educate yourself for personal and financial success, <a href="http://www.designerlife.successuniversity.com" target="_blank">click here to go to Success University&#8217;s website</a> (opens a new browser window).</p>
<p><a title="Matt Morris Audio Interview" href="http://www.designer-life.com/2audio/Matt-Morris-Interview.mp3" target="_self">Click here to download the mp3 audio of the interview.</a> (Size: 28Mb)</p>
<p>P.S. I&#8217;m a member of Success University and I use it all the time. Its has everything from Business training to personal development training to Internet marketing training. I&#8217;m also on the teaching faculty, so Success University members get my &#8220;Mind Mastery 101&#8243; CD free (normally $67). <a href="http://www.designerlife.successuniversity.com" target="_blank">Check out Success University here</a>.</p>


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		<title>My Portable Video Studio</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/adventure-travel/my-portable-video-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are interested&#8230; 1 x Sony SR7 Camcorder 1 x Laptop 1 x 2 man tent 1 x Honda CBR600 TOTAL = A lot of fun with video&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those of you who are interested&#8230;</p>
<p>1 x Sony SR7 Camcorder<br />
1 x Laptop<br />
1 x 2 man tent<br />
1 x Honda CBR600<br />
<strong>TOTAL =</strong> A lot of fun with video&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/studio.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-74" style="margin: 5px; float: left;" title="My Portable Video Editing Suite" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/studio.jpg" alt="My Portable Video Editing Suite" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
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		<title>Thank God I… had my first book signing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an exciting weekend I just had. I&#8217;ve just got home from my first ever book signing at the Agape Spiritual Centre in Los Angeles. That&#8217;s me in the middle holding my book (with 9 of the other authors) &#62;&#62;&#62; In December 2006, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, I met up with 4 of my close [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img vspace="5" align="right" width="335" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/tgi-signing.jpg" hspace="5" alt="Thank God I Am A Published Author!" height="224" style="width: 335px; height: 224px" title="Thank God I Am A Published Author!" />What an exciting weekend I just had. I&#8217;ve just got home from my first ever book signing at the Agape Spiritual Centre in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s me in the middle holding my book (with 9 of the other authors) &gt;&gt;&gt;</p>
<p>In December 2006, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, I met up with 4 of my close friends and we set our goals for 2007. One of my goals was to have a book published and have it go to #1 on the NY Times bestseller list. Well, the first part just got ticked off, now for the second&#8230;</p>
<p>The book, titled &#8220;Thank God I&#8230;&#8221; is a compilation of 47 inspirational short stories about regular people overcoming extraordinary circumstances. Each story is entitled “Thank God I&#8230;” e.g. “Thank God I Was Raped” and “Thank God I Went Bankrupt” etc&#8230;</p>
<p><iframe scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" src="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=designerlife-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0981545300&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" marginHeight="0" marginWidth="0" align="right" style="width: 120px; height: 240px"></iframe>My story in the book tells the tale of how I spent SIX months living as the only white man in an African township (shanty town). It just got published in a book called “Thank God I&#8230;”</p>
<p>My story is called &#8220;Thank God I Was A Racist&#8221; and is an honest account of how I overcame my racial conditioning that I inherited while growing up in apartheid South Africa by moving to Gugletu. Guguletu (population 100,000) is a shanty town 15 km outside Cape Town. After SIX months of living there as the only white man, any predjudice I had moving in was completely gone. It was a defining expereince in my life.</p>
<p>You can get yourself a copy at Amazon and read these 47 inspiring stories. We (the authors) need all the help we can get making this book reach #1 on the NY Times bestseller list, so please tell all your friends about it too and help us make this book a bestseller.</p>
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		<title>Five Steps To Finding Your Fortune</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 4th in my series of lessons on finding your wealth effortlessly. I was having coffee the other night with an old friend, Ash. He said something that startled me. “Bruce, I know you teach about creating wealth, but I always have ENOUGH TO GET BY, so wealth doesn’t interest me.” I resisted [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the 4th in my series of lessons on finding your wealth effortlessly.</p>
<p>I was having coffee the other night with an old friend, Ash. He said something that startled me. “Bruce, I know you teach about creating wealth, but I always have ENOUGH TO GET BY, so wealth doesn’t interest me.”</p>
<p>I resisted the urge to grab Ash by the shoulders and shake some sense into him. Instead, I relied “Well, if you want to continue to just GET BY, then by all means, go ahead. But, if you want to live the ‘GOOD LIFE’ and really contribute to making the world a better place, you are going to need some money.”</p>
<p>Now, I’m the first to teach that money can’t buy you HAPPINESS. However, it CAN buy you some pretty cool things, like FREEDOM and TIME.</p>
<p>FREEDOM and TIME are things that Ash values highly, so why did he say that creating WEALTH didn’t interest him?</p>
<h3>LIES, MYTHS and DECEIT</h3>
<p>Many of us were brought up to believe that making money has to be hard work &#8211; that it requires sacrifice or being unscrupulous. So if MONEY can’t buy you HAPPINESS and is going to require HARD WORK, SACRIFICE and possibly being UNSCRUPULOUS, then why would anyone waste their time trying to make money?</p>
<p>This is the BIG LIE that so many people LIKE Ash have bought into and it is this lie that is probably also keeping YOU financially stuck too. Why? Because if this lie is a part of your WEALTH BLUEPRINT (your unconscious beliefs around money), your unconscious mind, attempting to protect you, will not allow you anywhere near money for too long, before it creates a circumstance to make sure that you return to ‘just getting by’.</p>
<h3>CREATING WEALTH DOES NOT HAVE TO BE HARD WORK&#8230;</h3>
<p><span id="more-59"></span>Over coffee, I began showing Ash how he could begin building his wealth by doing what he loves – teaching children. By the end of the TWO hour conversation, Ash could not contain his excitement and demanded that I take him home to begin working on his business.</p>
<p>You see, when you learn to create WEALTH in a way that is most natural to you, it is never hard work. Yes, it may require a lot of time and commitment, but hard work? NOT.</p>
<h3>MY STORY</h3>
<p>When I first started Designer Life, I was like most entrepreneurs in that I loved my business, but it seemed to run me, rather than the other way round. I was the accountant, the sales person, the web designer, the delivery boy, the customer service agent etc.</p>
<p>When I discovered Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics system, I was working 16 hour days, hating the job I once loved. Having taken the Wealth Dynamics test, I learned that I am a CREATOR profile and that my natural path to Wealth lies in my IDEAS.</p>
<p>I had reached the point of desperation. If something did not change, I was going to burn out. So, I listened to Roger’s advice and followed his SIX steps to wealth for the CREATOR and before long, I had built substantial WEALTH in my new business (and still am). So what can you do?</p>
<h3>HERE ARE FIVE STEPS TO FINDING YOUR WEALTH EFFORTLESSLY</h3>
<p><strong>STEP 1:</strong> Find something that you love to do, that you are passionate about and that you can see yourself doing for the next few years at least.</p>
<p><strong>STEP 2:</strong> Next, take your Wealth Dynamics profile test and discover your natural path to wealth &#8211; your Wealth Profile (<a href="http://www.MyWealthDynamics.com">http://www.mywealthdynamics.com</a>). Knowing your natural path to Wealth will help you make wise choices later on and save you a LOT of wasted time and effort.</p>
<p><strong>STEP 3:</strong> Figure out how you can ADD some real VALUE to other people by doing the thing that you love. Completing this step is CRITICAL if you want to take the ‘hard work’ out of creating wealth. The more value you add, the more success you will attract.</p>
<p><strong>STEP 4:</strong> Follow Roger’s advice from your Wealth Dynamics profile test to figure out a way to make PROFIT from adding VALUE to other people. Attempting to complete this step without first knowing your wealth profile is just a waste of your time, so don’t skip the steps.</p>
<p><strong>STEP 5:</strong> Follow Roger’s SIX steps for your particular Wealth Profile and watch in awe as you attract wealth effortlessly to you.</p>
<h3>I’D LOVE TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR NATURAL PATH TO WEALTH</h3>
<p>If you have been following my previous three posts on Wealth Dynamics, then you know that I have been preparing to lead my Wealth Blueprint seminars this month (yes, it’s April already) in South Africa, so this topic is close to my heart right now.</p>
<p>If creating wealth has been ‘hard work’ for you until now, then you owe it to yourself to attend a Wealth Blueprint seminar, especially considering that I’m throwing in a <strong>FREE</strong> wealth dynamics profile test worth $100 for the first 100 people who register. Find out more here: <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/weathblueprint/">www.designer-life.com/weathblueprint/</a></p>
<p>For those of you outside South Africa, you can take your Wealth Dynamics profile test here: <a href="http://www.MyWealthDynamics.com">http://www.mywealthdynamics.com</a>.</p>
<p>So, if you have had enough of just getting by, implement the FIVE steps above and you’ll look back ONE year from now and give thanks for the success you have experienced.</p>
<p>If I can leave you with one thing, it’s this: Just START. Just BEGIN. For as long as you keep thinking about creating your wealth, you’ll never take any ACTION. Without taking ACTION, you won’t notice anything different in your finances ONE year from now.</p>
<p>So, as Goethe said. <em>“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”</em></p>
<p>Till next week, live like every minute counts, because it does.</p>
<p>Bruce</p>
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		<title>Meet Eric</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote to about how life becomes a holiday when you take what you love to do and turn it into your vocation. To give you an example of an original way to do this, I’d like to introduce you to a great man and good friend of mine who has turned his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I wrote to about how life becomes a holiday when you take what you love to do and turn it into your vocation. To give you an example of an original way to do this, I’d like to introduce you to a great man and good friend of mine who has turned his passion for climbing mountains and making a difference into a career.</p>
<p><img border="0" align="right" width="351" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/faces/eric-edmeades.jpg" hspace="5" alt="Eric Edmeades" height="321" style="width: 351px; height: 321px" title="Eric Edmeades" />Right now, he is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro while leading a personal development seminar. Yes, you did read that correctly! Just as I learned lessons from riding my motorcycle through India and the Himalayas, he had some breakthroughs while climbing Kilimanjaro.</p>
<p>He is a multi-millionaire and philanthropist, and he decided to share his formula for success with others by using Mount Kilimanjaro as a metaphor for life. So, each year he climbs Kilimanjaro with 12 students where they are challenged to overcome the snow, rain, wind, cold, altitude sickness and exhaustion, not to mention the mental barriers one has to break through to reach the summit.</p>
<p>So who is this man? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Eric Edmeades… Eric, originally from Canada, is a shining example of taking one’s passion and turning it into a vocation. Every day Eric wakes up on Kilimanjaro feels like a holiday.</p>
<p>I hope this story inspires you. I&#8217;ll share more of them with you over the coming months. Till then, have another miraculous day,</p>
<p>Bruce</p>
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		<title>Lessons From The Saddle Of My Bullet &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like each day to feel like a holiday? If so, read on… Yesterday, I rode my motorcycle through four countries from London to Amsterdam to surprise my wife, Adele, who is in Amsterdam on business. Over breakfast, one of her colleagues asked me what work I was going to do today… “Well, first [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Would you like each day to feel like a holiday? If so, read on…</span></p>
<p>Yesterday, I rode my motorcycle through four countries from London to Amsterdam to surprise my wife, Adele, who is in Amsterdam on business.</p>
<p>Over breakfast, one of her colleagues asked me what work I was going to do today…<br />
“Well, first I’m going to write a newsletter to my Moving Mountains subscribers. Then I’m going to film a video lesson for my blog on one of the canals in Amsterdam and then I’m going to set up my portable recording studio and finish recording my next CD product, Mind Mastery 101.”</p>
<p>His face was visibly surprised. “That’s not work!” he exclaimed. As I left breakfast, I gave thanks that my work feels like play to me.</p>
<p>I believe that a fundamental part of being successful is being able to wake up each day and do the things you love to do. Work then feels like play. Once you figure out how to successfully make a fortune from your playing, life takes on a whole new dimension. This usually doesn’t happen overnight though. You have to prove yourself first by earning the right to success. Today’s lesson is all about what it takes to earn that right.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">BULLET SCHOOL LESSON #3: The courage to get back in the saddle.</span></p>
<p>I watched, beaming with pride as Adele crossed her first river. Her submerged exhaust gurgled in a cloud of steam that trailed behind her as she navigated her bike through the rocky river. Two meters before she reached the other side, she hit a submerged rock and her Bullet fell on top of her in knee high water <em>(watch the video below)</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya12large.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 160px; height: 107px;" title="Adele crossing the river" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya12.jpg" border="0" alt="Adele crossing the river" hspace="5" width="160" height="107" align="left" /></a>Still wet and in shock, Adele got back in the saddle and rode for another 10 minutes before pulling over complaining of an excruciating pain in her foot. It turned out that she had fractured her foot during the fall and could no longer use it to change gears.</p>
<p>She burst into tears, more from disappointment than from pain. She had come all this way, spent so much time and money preparing and only three days into our trip, it was already over for her. She spent the rest of the day in the ambulance.</p>
<p>The next morning, Adele showed me her foot. It was swollen and black with bruising. I nodded my head gravely as if to say, “Tough luck, honey…” One thing I know about my wife is that if you tell her not to do something, she becomes even more determined to do it.</p>
<p>She looked at me with disgust and said, “I didn’t come all the way to the Himalayas to ride in a bloody ambulance! Pass me my boots please…” She screamed in agony as we persuaded her fractured and swollen foot into her damp bike boot. I piggy backed her to her bike and between us, we figured out a way for her to change gears using her heel instead of her foot. As long as she did not put any weight on her fractured foot, she might just be able to ride.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya11large.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 160px; height: 107px;" title="Don't fall off!" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya11.jpg" border="0" alt="Don't fall off!" hspace="5" width="160" height="107" align="right" /></a>That day, 30 bikers rode through some of the toughest terrain known to man (the Himalayan Mountains). Adele was one of them. She fell off many more times, but each time she chose to climb back on her Bullet. Nine days later, not only was she the only woman to cross the finish line, she was still the only woman on the trip.</p>
<p>Adele is no different from you and I. She is an ordinary person with an extra-ordinary commitment to being successful at whatever she does. Her story contains many powerful metaphors:</p>
<p><strong>- BE CREATIVE:</strong> Through finding a way to change gears with her ankle, she learned that there is always a creative solution to any problem. You just need to be willing to look for it.</p>
<p><strong>- BE COURAGEOUS:</strong> She learned that the only prerequisite to success is finding the courage to get back in the saddle and continue riding. Life works in the same way.</p>
<p><strong>- KEEP FOCUSSED ON YOUR DREAM:</strong> She completed the trip because she never gave up on her dream of riding through the Himalayas, even when it was extremely painful to keep going. If you are willing to keep going, even when the going get’s tough, success will follow you wherever you go.</p>
<p><strong>- USE A TEAM:</strong> 30 bikers rallied together to help her complete the 12 day trip. She never would have finished had she tried to do it on her own. Make sure you have a team supporting you. Otherwise, success can be hard and lonely.</p>
<p>Next time you face a disaster, will your dreams become yet another casualty of war, or will you get back in the saddle and ride off into the sunset? Choose.</p>
<p>If you choose the ambulance, in two years time, your life will probably look the same as it does now.</p>
<p>If you keep choosing the saddle, you will eventually reach a point where each day feels like a holiday, as you live the life of your dreams.</p>
<p>Till next time…</p>
<p>Stay in the saddle,</p>
<p>Bruce</p>
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		<title>Lessons From The Saddle Of My Bullet &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pride myself on being a safe motorcyclist, but after 10 days of tearing up the Himalayas on some of the roughest roads known to man, I was getting cocky with my Bullet and riding faster than I should have been. Having just visited the Baralachala pass (the 2nd highest pass in the world at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I pride myself on being a safe motorcyclist, but after 10 days of tearing up the Himalayas on some of the roughest roads known to man, I was getting cocky with my Bullet and riding faster than I should have been.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya06large.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 160px; height: 120px;" title="Bruce Muzik on the Baralachla Pass" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya06.jpg" border="0" alt="Bruce Muzik on the Baralachla Pass" hspace="5" width="160" height="120" align="right" /></a>Having just visited the Baralachala pass (the 2nd highest pass in the world at 5000m above sea level), I was racing down the snow covered mountain looking forward to a hot bath at my hotel at Jispa.</p>
<p>Suddenly, the tar road turned into dirt track. Normally, this would not have been a problem, except that this time I was hurtling forward at 80km/h heading straight towards a concrete roadblock just 50 meters away!</p>
<p><strong>Slowing down on dirt road is a tender affair.</strong> One almost has to almost stroke the bike into submission. If one grabs the front brake lever even slightly too ambitiously, the front wheel will lock up and skid. Unfortunately, if I did not brake in time, I was going to end up much like the insects that were splattered on my visor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya07large.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 160px; height: 90px;" title="On top of the Baralachla Pass" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya07.jpg" border="0" alt="On top of the Baralachla Pass" hspace="5" width="160" height="90" align="left" /></a>Time slowed down as the roadblock came closer and closer. Contrary to my natural instinct, my arms relaxed their grip on the handlebars and my unconscious mind took over steering the bike. I felt as if I had been temporarily ejected out of my body and somebody else was steering for me while I watched…</p>
<p>There was no time to think or brake. The only option was to attempt to persuade my Bullet to somehow go around the roadblock. I had about 5 seconds left before I would become dinner for the local vultures.</p>
<p>I knew that if I jerked the handlebars even slightly, I would lose traction and skid, so I did the only thing any sane man would do in this situation – nothing! Well, almost nothing….</p>
<p>I focused my attention on the right edge of the concrete block in the road and miraculously <strong>my Bullet began drifting to the right hand side of the road</strong>. Inch by inch and what seemed like hours later, I scraped past the roadblock, missing it by millimeters. I still do not know how I made it out alive, but that evening as I sat around a campfire warming my hands, I reflected on some valuable lessons this experience taught me about biking and about living.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bullet School Lesson #2: When the sheet hits the fan, relax…</span></p>
<p>When it looks like you are going to crash<strong>,</strong> relax your grip on the handlebars and focus on your escape route, not on the obstacle in front of you. Your bike goes where your focus goes.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">My experience shows me that life works in the same way.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya08large.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 120px; height: 160px;" title="Adele and Bruce Muzik on top of Baralachla, India" src="http://www.designer-life.com/2images/mm/endurohimalaya/endurohimalaya08.jpg" border="0" alt="Adele and Bruce Muzik on top of Baralachla, India" hspace="5" width="120" height="160" align="right" /></a>When the sheet hits the fan and I don’t know what to do, I step back and observe the situation, take a deep breath and relax. The minute I relax and let go of having to control the outcome of my challenging situation, a solution usually presents itself to me. I equate this to loosening my grip on the handlebars and allowing my unconscious mind to step in and guide the bike for me.</p>
<p>Next, I choose the outcome I want and I place my attention on making that happen using every ounce of focus that I have. Before long, if I have managed to stick with this process, my solution has blossomed and I am over the worst of the problem.</p>
<p>If you are facing some challenges right now, why not step back a little, take a deep breath in and assess your situation from a distance. Then, choose the outcome you desire and place your focus on making that happen. Be sure to focus on the solution and not on the problem. Visualizing your desired outcome will help you stay focused on it.</p>
<p>Above all, remember to relax. When trees are being blown about by a storm wind, they do not resist the wind. They flex and bend to accommodate the wind until it passes. If they did not, the wind would uproot them.</p>
<p><strong>If you can relax and flex like the trees when the wind is blowing your life around, before long your storm will pass and you’ll wonder what you were worried about…</strong></p>
<p>Till then, have a miraculous day.</p>
<p>Bruce</p>
<p>P.S. Next time you encounter a biker, use the following lingo and appear cool:<br />
<em>“Grab a handful”</em> refers to pulling the front brake lever hard.<br />
<em>“Throwing it down the road”</em> means to lose control of your bike and go sliding down the road with it.<br />
Combine them for added effect “Last week I saw some dude grab a handful and throw it down the road!”<br />
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