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Don’t say you don’t have enough time.  You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  ~Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is amazing how I can work with a client to create a powerful vision, strategy and action plan of what their business can become, and then when we get together the following week nothing has happened.  When I ask the client what happened the answer is often I just couldn’t find the time.

When we have become so accustomed to having our lives run on autopilot. We believe that the way our life is running is the way it must be and there is absolutely no changing it.

Have you every gone on vacation. Isn’t it amazing how you can free up all that time, and do things that are completely different from your day-to-day.  And when you return from vacation your life has not fallen apart, your job is still there, your friends are still your friends.  The only difference was that for a short time you set a different priority and you planned accordingly.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. – Neil Peart.

It is all about what you set as a priority in your life.  Once you decide that your best is truly the only thing you will work towards you’ll begin to see the time to make it happen almost magically appear.

1. Vision – I can’t stress the importance of this enough.  Weak visions create weak desire, weak commitment, and weak change.  Your vision must be one that totally fires you up.  For 30 days spend 10-15 minutes each day reviewing and reworking your vision until it becomes your own personal Magnum Opus.
2. Life Track and Smack – Make a list of all the things you do on a daily basis. Be as detailed as possible. Cover work, family, fun, free time.  Write down everything that you do.   Go through this list (If your Vision is in hand all the better), decide if each thing on your list is positive, negative or neutral in your journey towards a better live and living.  If it is negative SMACK it out of your life.  If it is positive strengthen it.  If it is neutral get clarity around it.  I don’t think there are many actions that are neutral in our life, we are either growing or moving back.  One way to get clarity on the neutral items and even the negative and positive ones is to go to reflect on your last day in the world.  If you spent your whole life doing this action would your feel happy, sad or indifferent. If your feeling is joy, its a keeper.  If its sad or indifferent SMACK it! Clearing those items from your life will help you make time for what is important to you.
3. Time Block Your Week – At the beginning  of each week take out your calendar and plan your week.  Make a list of the things that are important to you to get done;  Meetings, Journaling, Quiet Time, Exercise, Family… Once you have your list BLOCK off time in your week for those things first.  Then once all the important things are blocked off, you can add in the lesser things.
4. Beware the minutes – Time adds up.  I heard recently that the average Canadian spends 17 hours/week checking emails, tweeting, facebooking, snapping pictures…. I’ve spent a week not even touching the internet without any productivity loss.  Value your time like precious jewels, when you waste it its like throwing diamonds away.

Your amazing life is waiting to be realized by you.  Create a powerful Vision, SMACK time and life wasters out of your life, put the worthy first, and value every moment.

Have an awesome day.

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Coming of the heels of Healthy Month, I have recently begun Learning Month.

For over 8 years I had been trying to get back into better physical health. Though I worked out 4 times a week, it seemed to be more of a counterbalance to my unhealthy life style. I wouldn’t gain weight, unless I stopped playing, but I wasn’t really feeling more physically fit.

In the middle of December 2009 we went away for a family vacation for a week. By the end of the week after filling my body with way to much junk. I decided it was time to change the pattern.

I needed a new approach.

If I tell you not to think about a pink elephant, the first thing that you will see in your mind is a pink elephant.

If I tell you there are no red cars on the highway today you will see more red cars than usual.

We focus more on the images than on the do’s or do nots that precede them.

I realized that stating the intention No More Junk Food, was not going to work for two reasons.

One was because all I would be seeing in my mind is Junk Food and then want to eat it even more and two because it was a totally undefined intention.

So here is what I did… I asked my wife What would our lives look like if we ate healthy for a month?

We spent about 2-3 min answering the question. Things like Vibrancy, more energy, healthier skin, lose weight, save money and more came up.

Then I asked What are the benefits of eating junk food? Aside from laughing and the question and emotional comfort food, nothing much else came up.

So I asked If there is such benefit to eating healthy, would it be worthwhile to try it for a MONTH?

And Healthy Month was born.

The month ended this past Monday.  Thank G-d we accomplished our objective. I lost 20lb, I’m leaner, stronger and have more energy.  My wife was in great shape to begin with but she has gotten stronger from doing more intense yoga workouts.

And now with healthy month ended I have developed the healthy eating habit. I just prefer healthy now.

And Now Learning Month

I suddenly realized that I have the opportunity to accomplish 12 personal development objectives this year. This is pretty massive when we can rarely follow through on one.

For some reason I began to reflect on my evenings. Usually after the kids go to sleep I putter around, pretend to do some work, watch a movie or just wander around aimlessly.

So I asked myself the question What would my life look like a month from now if I spent two hours learning 5 nights a week after the kids go to sleep?

WOW. 40 hours focused on cultivating my mind. I cant even imagine

I was sitting with a group of people at a 2hr workshop and the question that was asked was, Where would you be if you weren’t here tonight?

More than 50% of the ppl would have been doing something that takes little skill, shuts down your brain, has no true value and is an utter time waster….It’s scary that we all now that I am talking about watching TV or mindless net surfing.

I sat there smiling knowing that if I wasn’t at the workshop working my mind, I would have been at the local study hall working my mind.

Its never to late to make the best of your life. All you need to do is start with a month.

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