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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If you’re wondering if luck is by chance, then I can wholeheartedly recommend Dr Richard Wiseman’s research on luck in his book The Luck Factor. I took a few minutes to summarize what I learned from it for you…

In this uncut video you’ll learn:

• The 4 luck principles Dr Wiseman discovered lucky people have in common
• That even lucky people like me can stumble my words and “Um” and “Uhh” all over the place!
• How to get lucky at the end…

Enjoy watching…

Can’t see the video playing? Watch it on “The Luck Factor: Is Luck By Chance?” on YouTube.

You can get your lucky paws on one of the last “Luck Bundles” here. www.LuckBundle.com

You can listen to the full interview I did with Damien Senn on “How To Get Lucky” here.

P.S. As always, I want to hear what you learned from this video. Please leave your comments below. I read them all.

P.P.S. As of typing this, there are only a few Luck Bundles remaining with the amazing bonus I offered. Don’t miss out…

If there’s one thing that kills relationships, it’s neediness… Even if you’re not needy in relationships, you may be killing your Law Of Attraction success by being needy with Life. This video has the cure…

In this video you’ll learn:

• Why being needy us the most common mistake people make with the Law Of Attraction
• THREE breakthrough tips to counteract being needy with Life
• How I used these tips to manifest winning an Apple iPad

Enjoy…

P.S. Check out the Law Of Attraction CD I spoke of in the video.

P.P.S. As usual, your comments are appreciated and welcomed. I read them all.

I’ve spent the last 3 days studying the results of a Law Of Attraction survey I conducted recently. One of the questions I was asked the most often was “How do I speed up the process of getting what I want using the Law Of Attraction?”

After receiving this question at least 20 times, I began looking for an answer…

What is the secret? Is it…

• Visualizing with more clarity?
• Goal setting more regularly?
• Creating a detailed plan of action?
• Letting go and surrendering?
• Taking massive action?
• Removing limiting beliefs?
• Installing positive beliefs
• etc…

Of course, all these things are beneficial, but I was searching for the ONE single thing that makes the BIGGEST difference – the high leverage action…

After some reflection I soon realized that there are definitely times in my life when it seems like everything I touch turns to gold – when golden opportunities abound – as well as times when nothing seems to happen at all…

So, What Do All The Golden Times Have In Common?

Read the rest of this entry »

This is the first of a series of emails busting many of the most common myths around the Law Of Attraction.

Hold on tight, because it’s going to come at you fast and furiously.

MYTH: The Law Of Attraction is a LAW!

Everyone knows that the Law Of Attraction is a law, right?

Well let’s look at this pragmatically…

If the Law Of Attraction was a real law, it would have to be replicable again and again, each and every time it is applied.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I haven’t noticed that each and every time I think a thought that the Law Of Attraction makes it manifest into physical form.

In fact, I’m pretty darn pleased the Universe doesn’t work that way, because I think some pretty weird thoughts 

So what is the Law Of Attraction then?

The Law Of Attraction is a phenomenon – it’s a NAME given to a phenomenon that exists in the Universe. Read the rest of this entry »

In this article, I’m going to unravel why you’re not manifesting the kind of miracles that you know you’re capable of and how to use 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques to do to make sure that you become a miracle magnet again.

One of my favorite things in the world to do is to take my motorcycle, pack a tent on the back and go on a two week adventure ride exploring places I’ve never seen before.

One of the problems I face on the way is that after a few hours of riding, my visor has collected so many dead bugs, that I can barely see the road and I’m forced to pull over at the nearest gas station and use the windshield cleaner on my helmet to clean off the road kill.

This got me thinking about how the bugs on my visor are a great metaphor for how we clog up our life with our personal baggage and then wonder why we can’t see the wood from the trees.

The windshield cleaner is a great metaphor for the Emotional Clearing Techniques I’m going to explain later on.

Have you ever wondered why the Law Of Attraction is not working for you like it could be?

Perhaps you’ve heard amazing stories of others who are manifesting miracles left, right and center, but the only thing you’re able to manifest is an empty parking space every now and again?

If you can relate to this, chances are that there is some area where your life is clogged up with dead bugs and you need to use some Emotional Clearing Techniques to clear them out.

Consider this…

When you were born, you came into this life with a blank canvas. Anything was possible for you. Your metaphorical motorcycle visor was spotless.

As you grew up, stuff happened to you and bugs collected on your visor.

• Perhaps you were teased or bullied at school and you decided that the world is not a safe place to be.
• Then your first love broke up with you and you decided that people can’t be trusted.
• Then you discovered that achieving success was not as easy as you hoped it was going to be and decided to put your dreams on ‘hold’ ?

By the time you became an adult, you had so many bugs on your visor that you couldn’t even see where you were going anymore. Read the rest of this entry »

>>> If you don’t know the million dollar difference between money and wealth, you’ll always struggle to have any of them. Read on to find out…

One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs making is that they are trying to make money instead of focusing on creating wealth.

As I see it, there are TWO fundamental problems with trying to make money:

1. Money itself has no inherent value and it does not actually exist AND
2. Your brain struggles to visualize concepts like ‘money’

Lets delve a little deeper into these two problems…

PROBLEM #1: Money Has No Value And Does Not Exist

Money is a man made concept that we all use to measure value, but does not have any value itself. These days it’s even more intangible because money doesn’t even exist in reality – it only exists as numbers sitting in some computer system somewhere.

So trying to make money is as fruitless an activity as trying to see air. You can see the results of air moving as the trees sway in the breeze, but you can’t see the actual air itself. Read the rest of this entry »

> 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 »

Have you ever wondered if you’re sabotaging your success with the Law Of Attraction?

To some degree, we all do… If you want to manifest your dream life, you’ll need to make sure that you are not subconsciously sabotaging your success.

Watch this video below and find out:

• How your subconscious mind might be sabotaging your dreams and why it doesn’t want you to succeed…
• The only two reasons (other than dying) why you might fail. Most people make both of these…
• The 7 most common traps that stop you achieving success and what you can do to make sure you don’t get caught out by them…

Let me know what you thought of the video by leaving me a comment below…

To get the deal I mentioned in the video,
use the special coupon code (LIFE ROCKS)
with one of the following links:

• Get the Relaxation For Manifestation at 20% off
• Get the Relaxation For Wealth at 20% off

P.S. If you’ve not yet seen the other videos in this series, watch this one first and then click the links below to watch those… 
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 1
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 2
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 3