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Who Are You?

  • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
  • November 10, 2013

For a number of months I have been pondering this question, trying to figure out the answer. I have applied myself to several different opportunities or career paths within that time, testing out whether they could work for me. I have even come up with ideas and concepts of avenues I thought I wanted to travel down. All of these attempts at trying to work it all out, left me with the same question and no answer.

Who Are You?

After going through a huge life changing event, this question has been in the forefront of my mind. Everything that I once knew or thought I knew has changed and the very existence of who I am has come into question. What I do know is that the sum all the actions and decisions I’ve made in the past has brought me to the present moment I’m in right now. What I also know is that present moment I am in now is exactly the way it’s supposed to be and, how it used to be or what it was is not the way it’s meant to continue. These concepts and ideas I am totally aware of.

This question is one that plagues most of humanity. It is a question that most of us ask ourselves and have huge difficulty answering. It is the answer we all search for yet it is in our searching for it that we fail to realise we already have the answer to that question. We look for the answer by putting ourselves in different jobs, different relationships, doing courses, reading self-help books and even travelling. We seek the answer for who we are outside of ourselves and, as a consequence, move further away from actually answering the one question that is constantly on our minds.

After doing a 35 minute meditation, it became apparent to me that I’ve been doing this my entire life. I have been looking outside of myself and comparing myself to other people, what they have or don’t have, what they do or don’t do, who they know or don’t know and losing myself in the process. I have known, all along who I am but I have chosen not to acknowledge it, as most of us do, because I perceived I wasn’t good enough or too different being who I am. I have tried to be how I thought others wanted me to be and attempted things that I thought others would approve of. I believed I need to have more of what I saw or perceived in others that I totally disregarded my own uniqueness. This is something most of us, if not all of us, tend to do. We are scared of being who we are, being vulnerable and exposed, worried that we won’t be loved or appreciated. There is nothing further from the truth.

So, I can’t answer the question for you but I can certainly answer the question for myself. Who I am is someone who had the great fortune of not having what everyone else had. Who I am is someone who was and is different to most other people in the way I think and look at life. Who I am is someone who loves understanding how things work. Who I am is someone who cares deeply about others, believes in others and sees the best in who they are. Who I am is like no other person because if it were true, that I was like someone else, what purpose would I have? So who I am, despite having similar experiences to other people, is important, relevant, necessary and valuable. The same goes for you! Remember that always, especially when you start comparing who you are to someone else again. Stay true to you. That is what people love about you. That is why people have invested in you and that is what will assist you to achieve your visions, missions and goals in life.

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How The End of My Marriage Helped Me Be Me Again

  • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
  • October 15, 2013

Over the last few months of my life, I have experienced one of the most challenging moments on my journey and I decided that I was finally ready to share with you what I’ve learnt and how it could help or benefit you. I tell stories so you may need to read carefully to uncover the lesson. If you miss it, don’t worry. It’s at the very end.

I am no stranger to challenge and I have embraced it at every turn, without fail. This challenge, however, was like no other. After 5 years, spending my life with one of the most incredible people I have had the pleasure and honour of knowing, my marriage came to an abrupt end. For those of you who have been married, been in a long-term relationship or lost someone to a death, you may be able to relate to what I will share with you. For those of you who haven’t, which may be a little unlikely, keep reading.

5 years ago I met a woman that literally stopped me dead in my tracks. Her blue eyes, bright smile, porcelain skin and unmistakable accent had me hooked from the moment she opened her mouth and started talking to me. Although I initially dismissed her, in my mind, the universe has a way of bringing things together that need to be together. And so, it did. We got on like a house on fire and from that moment forward, we started our journey together.

Just so you know, this isn’t a tale about my relationship but more a story of how this relationship helped me rediscover who I am, how I’d love to live my life and who I would love to be. This relationship opened the pandoras box of hidden beliefs and limitations that, once exposed, has changed the very trajectory of where I’m heading in my future. Some people call this type of life changing moment or event a Murphy’s Law event, which is one that cannot be ignored, dismissed or overlooked. It seemed that this event has called me into action, so here I am sharing it with you.

Over the course of our relationship, unbeknownst to me, I wasn’t being my true self. Neither was she. We had caught ourselves in an endless cycle of ‘two ships sailing past each other in the middle of the night’ and it was incredibly difficult to alter that path we were on. We had somehow dishonoured our own values and core beliefs to share this time with each other. It happens. This is normal and although, I wished to ‘fix’ it, the universe had other plans for both of us.

So here I am, separated from a human being that literally assisted me to change my life and uncover my true value, not only to myself but to others as well. You might be wondering, “well how did the end of your marriage help you live again?” Would you like to know? I’m about to tell you.

For many years in the early parts of my childhood, I was bullied for having big ears. My perception, whether accurate or not, was that people didn’t like me because of the way I looked. I stood out and somehow, I thought that it bothered people. Eventually, when my family decided to migrate to Australia when I was 15 years old, I chose to have cosmetic surgery done on my ears. I wanted them pinned back. I knew I was starting a new school and a new life, in a new country and I wanted to put myself in the best position that I could. The operation was a success. I started school and for the first time in my life, I started getting noticed but not like I had before. I was getting the kind of attention a 15 year old boy only hopes for. Girls seemed to think I was cute. From that moment forward, my life changed and I am here today, watching the ship sail away, because of how I chose to play it out.

I stepped into an alternate reality and took on a whole new identity, when I pinned back my ears, but since I was still scared that people wouldn’t like me, especially girls, I over-compensated with my affections and intentions. I did so because I wanted to keep the attention on me, which was a selfish desire within me to get what I perceived I wanted and needed. These were things I was unable to give to myself due to a lack of self-love and appreciation.

Fast forward quite a few years ahead in time. I was working as a chiropractor for someone I admired and put on a pedestal. He was, or so I thought, my ‘guru’. I admired him so much that I literally did almost anything he asked me to do. In turn I was able to work in one of the most prestigious chiropractic clinics in Australia. Over time, however, I started to become increasingly narcissistic. I felt I had no power and wanted to have more control within my career and in my life. Throughout most of that period I was heavily involved with my wife-to-be.

Around 2012, after reading Richard Branson’s ‘Losing My Virginity’, in entered Dr John F. Demartini and his groundbreaking method. I attended his program, The Breakthrough Experience and from that point forwards, my life started to change. I empowered myself, took control over my career and left chiropractic in order to pursue my vision of running my own company and serving people through coaching and personal development. It was at this point, where the cookie started to crumble and the layers of my unconscious beliefs started to unfold, piece by piece. I saw a vision of myself and what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to start giving back to myself and honour my worth and value. This strong yearning and desire within me posed many challenges in my relationship and, out of fear and guilt, I subdued my inner desires although silently working on them in the background.

Cut to today and now I am single once again with the world at my doorstep and opportunities waiting to be explored, uncovered, discovered and revealed. For so long in my life I had stopped myself from being who I am. Someone who stood out from the crowd. Someone who could never fit in because of the way I looked. Yet I tried so hard to be somebody I couldn’t be. I tried to please others and give them what I thought they wanted so they wouldn’t leave me or abandon me. I tried till the very end of my relationship too. The universe wouldn’t let me continue, no matter how much effort I put in. I was being called to action by my own mind to remember who I am, what makes me unique and to go and share that with the world. It seemed that my mind finally had enough of seeking praise, attention, recognition and appreciation from others. Instead, my mind wanted me to find all of that within me.

My wife was and is the greatest blessing I’ve ever received. She honoured her own journey and let me go and, in doing so, has helped me find and re-discover that big eared boy all over again, give him a great big self-hug, tell him how much I love him and appreciate him for who he is and what he has to offer and to say – “It’s ok to be who you are and it’s ok to be different”.

Sometimes we need to go through extreme crisis and challenge in order to experience our greatest truth about who we are. It’s never fun. It’s never easy and it certainly comes with its fair share of sadness, pain and loss but it also reveals the happiness, relief and gain that comes with it as well. So if there is one message to take away from this post today, it would be this:

Stay true to who you are, honour who you are, be ok to stand out and don’t be afraid to be different. It’s what the world needs more of.

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What Can You Learn From a Two to Three Metre Swell?

  • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
  • September 16, 2013

Very recently, my mother had an important birthday in her life and she chose to do something exciting to commemorate it. She booked for the entire family to go on a whale watching cruise. Naturally, we were all very excited about this because none of us have seen whales before and we thought it would be a fun experience to take the kids out on a boat.

The day finally rolled around. We left home and journeyed off to Sydney Harbour to catch our boat. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t incredibly forthcoming. It was a little bit rainy, cold and slightly windy in the harbour. Despite that, however, we were all in very good spirits. The time approached for us to board the boat and we all eagerly went and found our seats. Little did we know what was in store for us over the next 2-3 hours.

Just before we left, one of the people on board notified us that the water may be a little bit choppy once we get out onto the open ocean. They mentioned something about a 2-3 metre swell. I had no idea what to make of this, let alone most of the people on the boat. They suggested that if we feel sick or ill at anytime, to go to the back of the boat or ask for some assistance. I normally don’t suffer from motion sickness so I thought I’d be ok.

The boat left and we were on our way. Everyone seemed so excited. We are going to see whales! The ride through the harbour was calm and gentle. The scenic view of Sydney Harbour was, as always, breathtaking. Then an announcement came over the intercom that we were about to go through the heads and the water may not be as calm. We braced ourselves and the boated headed out to open waters. They weren’t kidding! There were 2 -3 metre swells and the boat was rocking side to side, up and down. It was fun at first but then a few people started to look uncomfortable. My mother was not enjoying herself and then the kids started to feel sick. Soon I started to feel sick. So I had to get up and go to the back of the boat. I stood there, with a vomit bag in my mind, thinking – “What was my mother thinking?”

I couldn’t handle it anymore so I decided to go outside and get some fresh air. For about 20 minutes, up until we were in range of the whales, I was doing whatever I could to manage myself through this insanely challenging experience. Many people, on the other hand, weren’t doing so well. The majority of the people on the boat were sick.

So what did I do? I thought to myself, which was tough on its own, to do some Demartini work. Maybe I could help my body balance itself out and change the way it was reacting to this ever changing environment? I spent the entire rest of the trip looking for benefits of the experience versus looking for drawbacks of the opposite in order to help gain some perspective and help myself out.

As a consequence, I uncovered something quite amazing about the experience I was having. I realised something. Life truly is never just a smooth ride. In fact, life presents challenges consistently in order to help us adapt and grow. While I was experiencing the most extreme version of volatility in my life, it dawned on me. ‘These rough seas won’t last forever. They will eventually end. The more I resist the flow of the ocean around me, the worse I will feel. The more I give in to the fact that this is my current experience, the easier it will be for me to actually have control over it. The more I want it to be smooth and an easy ride, the less I will learn because I won’t be tested or pushed to see how I respond.’ After having this insight, my body calmed down quite a lot.

We eventually made our way back and got to dry land but I can tell you that I was grateful that the ocean taught me a valuable lesson that day. You never know when you’ll receive a lesson, and in what form, but this was one that was seriously overdue. Life can be tough. Moments in life can be tough. They can be as rough as the biggest swells in the ocean but it’s important to remember, you won’t be out there forever. It’s temporary and it will eventually come to an end. The best thing you can do is – hang in there, find a way to adapt and use it to your advantage.

 

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The Art of Delegation

  • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
  • July 4, 2013

How many of you struggle to let go of doing everything? Does it feel like you’re cutting off an arm or a leg or giving away a part of yourself that you feel you ‘should’ be continuing to own? Well I can certainly say that this has been one of my greatest challenges to overcome and I am sure that many of you have the exact same problem to contend with.

There are certain tasks that we all love to do and cannot wait to have an opportunity that will allow us to showcase what we know. There are other tasks that we like doing but we won’t always be as motivated or inspired to complete them to the same degree. Then there are tasks that we just couldn’t be bothered with that we wish someone else would do instead. This is the case for every single human being on the planet, both young and old.

What often tends to happen is that instead of doing or performing the tasks that we truly love, that we’re inspired by, we land up applying ourselves to the ones that we like and couldn’t be bothered with. Instead of focusing on what brings us fulfilment in our lives, we focus on the areas that don’t guide us towards the life we’d love to have or create. We land up attracting challenges and feedbacks to bring us back to who we are but even then, we don’t listen or pay much attention.

Human beings have significant trouble delegating their lesser interests to other people who are more inspired and motivated to work with them. We have somehow been led to believe that we need to apply ourselves to everything, but we tend to disregard the many things that we would rather be giving our attention to.

Delegation is an important part of your growth as a leader in your life. It is impossible to achieve what you want without applying this simple action into your daily, weekly, monthly or yearly life. If we all want to achieve what we’re destined for or inspired by, it is essential and vital to make time and space for what we love and give the rest to others who would be inspired to assist us in those areas.

Ask yourself this question: If I delegated all my lower priorities to different people in life, how would that serve me and help me get to do what I love? Look for as many ways it will serve you until you start realise it’s a viable option. Then ask yourself the following question: If I don’t delegate and do everything myself, how will that be a disservice to me and stop me from doing what I love with my life? Again, look for as many ways it will be a disservice to you until you become acutely aware of the impacts that a lack of delegation can have on you achieving your dreams.

Remember, nothing worth creating in this world can ever be done alone. We all need help and we all need to learn when to let go of the reigns and share the load with the people who’d like to help us get there.

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The Zombie Epidemic

I recently watched a movie called Warm Bodies. For those of you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a movie about zombies who find their way back to being human, through the help of one zombie who somehow wants a different life. This isn’t the most amazing film I’ve ever seen but it had a message that I just had to write about.

We live in a world where more than 80% of people aren’t doing what they love with their lives. That’s a an alarming statistic. How is it possible that so many of us are lost and not sure what we want to do or how to get there?

In this movie, a zombie whose name is ‘R’ decides that he wants a different life than all the other zombies. He feels alone, isolated and unable to feel. In essence, he’s dead inside. His yearning to live takes him on a journey of re-discovery that, surprisingly, is somewhat inspiring.

While watching this movie, I reflected on humanity. I wondered if this concept, portrayed through a zombie movie, depicts a truth about human beings and the way in which we live our lives. I wondered if most of us are walking around like zombies wanting a different life but just accepting the hand we got dealt. Then I thought to myself that this must be true. These zombie movies show the real tragedy of human civilisation in a very graphic light.

We have been taught not to challenge the order of things. We’ve been conditioned to accept what we have and have been instructed not to try and change anything. The question I have is, what if we did? What if we broke out of our zombie comas, rediscovered who we really are and go do something magical in the world? What kind of life would be live? Who could we inspire?

My goal is to help people break through this epidemic, by helping kids to live according to their values and by empowering them to inspire others to express their own uniqueness and individuality. It’s time for the zombies to wake up and start living. What do you think?

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Life is a Journey, Not a Destination

I’d like to start this article with a question, but before I do that, I am going to preface my question with an insight. It may not make sense immediately, but I will bring this to light as you continue reading. One of the greatest challenges people face on this planet is overcoming the ‘powers that be’ in order to uncover, reveal and actualize their inner leader.

I’d like to ask you the following question and suggest you think about this. Whether you reflect on this throughout the article or once it’s finished, that’s up to you. How many of you out there, who might be reading this right now, look at life as a series of steps or milestones that you need, should, ought to or have to accomplish instead of a life that’s laden with experience, insight, creativity, possibility and magnificence?

From my own personal experience, I used to look at life as something I had to do. I had to be part of a religion, go to school, choose a career, go to university, find a job, get married, buy a house, have kids and eventually retire. That’s not to say I haven’t done most of those pieces, because I have. I would be a hypocrite if I said otherwise. However, my view on life has changed over the years, and this is an idea, concept, paradigm shift or possibly something you already know, I’d like to share with you to help you on your journey.

So, when you look at the title of this article – Life is a Journey, Not a Destination – what does that make you think? What ideas pop in your mind? What opinions are you creating or have created about it? What beliefs do you have in relation to it? Do you agree with it? Does it irritate you or make you feel charged inside?

What does the word journey mean to you? What does the word destination mean to you? To me, the word destination implies you’re starting at a certain point in time and space, and then ending somewhere else at a certain point in time and space. In essence, it appears to be finite. When I look at the word journey, it looks like something that has no particular end, there is color, vibrancy, change, surprises and even uncertainty. There is no specific end-point. In essence, a journey appears to be infinite because it continues on and on and never truly ends.

When you look at your life, do you see yourself working towards reaching different destinations? The university destination or the marriage destination or the great job destination or the kids destination or even the retirement destination? Do you focus a lot on end-points and finite pieces of where you’re going? Or, do you look at life as a journey that is unpredictable, exciting, invigorating, full of surprises, where you’re in control and can dictate the flow or direction of where you’re going and has infinite possibilities? Something you know has milestones but your focus is on the process, not on what you’re going to get at the end of the race?

Most people around the world look at life as a series of end-points. You might even hear some of your friends, family or even yourself say things like: “I gotta just get here and then it’ll be ok” or “I have to make this money so I can move on with my life” or “I just need a degree and then I’ll be able to do what I want.” All of these phrases or statements are infused with imperatives. Imperatives, for those of you who might not know, are words you use to indicate imposed beliefs or values. Words like ‘should’, ‘have to’, ‘ought to’ or even ‘need to’ are words we use because someone else, a perceived authority in our lives, projected a belief or value onto us about how to live life. As a consequence we injected that into our lives and are following their lead, setting end-points in life, based on their values or beliefs, rather than setting milestones along an infinite journey.

Why do you think this is? Why do you think people out there are following others, working towards achieving destination end-points, instead of leading themselves and creating their own journey through life? Are you doing this right now? Would you like to be the one in the lead, setting the pace and tone of your own life and getting on the road that can take you wherever you want it to go? Are you missing out on the experience of being who you are and sacrificing it for that destination you’re trying to reach?

A few years ago, when I was working as a chiropractor in a highly respected clinic in Sydney, Australia, I reached an end-point – a destination. I realized I wasn’t on the road I wanted to be on. I was following someone else’s journey through life and it didn’t work for me. It didn’t feel like a journey. It wasn’t exciting or full of new possibilities. I wasn’t completely in control. So, I decided to start creating my own journey. I decided it was time to empower myself and see the magnificence in my own story. It was in this moment, I chose to carve out my own life and become an inspired leader.

In the time since I began to venture into my own life, I have waxed and waned. I have been destination focused and then journey focused. However, every time I paid attention to the journey, the process in between milestones or end-points, a great sense of fulfillment, wonder and inspiration surged through me. When the destination mindset crept back in, I felt myself feeling defeated, low, lacking in energy, overwhelmed and heavy. It didn’t really resonate with me but there was this voice inside of me that continued telling me I ‘should’ or ‘I have to.’ I was scared of fully embracing my own choice to live my life the way I wanted. Why? Well, for many years I subordinated to outer authorities in my life, like most of us do, and it was a challenge to go against those beliefs I’d bought into, as well as my mind, which was holding onto those perceived truths.

The sooner I realized the way forward was to become my own authority in my life, the more I pursued it. I became aware life is not about reaching my next destination and only being focused on the end-points or what I’m trying to get to. Life is about what you can learn, gather, appreciate, share, experience, create, collaborate and do right now. Life, as a journey, seemed to be more appealing. I didn’t know where it would lead, but I knew what I wanted to achieve and I may never complete the journey, and it may continue on beyond my time. I just knew if I focused on embracing the process of living, being present and seeing everything as on the way, I would succeed and empower that leader I’d buried inside of myself and leave the journey to be travelled and continued by others.

It may seem counter-intuitive to look at life as a journey, instead of a series of destinations to achieve, reach or accomplish. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be milestones or markers you’ll reach or strive for, but you’ll never truly achieve success and fulfillment by focusing on the concept of: ‘once I get there, everything will work out’. There will always be destinations but the journey, the process in between those destinations, is where the magic lays, not the end-points.

As we all know, when we’re traveling through life, the ‘once I get there, everything will work out’ mindset, is never the reality. Life just hands us a new set of obstacles and challenges to face until the next milestone. The journey never truly ends because everything in this world is actually infinite in possibility, yet we create these end-points to try and make it a more finite world. We place limitations on what we can do by taking this type of action. We lose focus on what happens between each milestone and what we can accomplish for ourselves in those moments, what we can learn and how we can grow.

So, I’ll leave you with a series of questions. When you’ve gone on a journey in your life, whether real or imagined, did it ever truly end when you reached that end-point or are you still wondering about it, looking at photos of it and sharing it with others in some form? In other words, has your journey persisted and continued beyond the destination? Is there still more you would like to do, be or have? If so, focus on the journey instead of where you’re heading. Have that in mind, for sure, but enjoy the moments you’ll get to experience along the way.

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True Fulfilment, Is a Two Sided Partnership

There are so many people in the world who believe that in order to be happy, peaceful and in control, it is necessary to have success. They also believe that failure leads to sadness, disappointment, loss and lack of fulfilment.

In my career, I have come to learn something that some of you may already know and something that some of you have never realised. In order to achieve true fulfilment in our careers or journey through life, there are two very important pieces that allow this process to occur. These two pieces are both success and failure.

Let’s take a quick look at success first. Success is perceived to be more positive than negative. It is associated with pleasure, instead of pain and it’s what people strive to achieve.

Failure, on the other hand, is perceived to be more negative than positive. It is associated with pain, instead of pleasure and it’s what people want to avoid.

Why is that we only see success as positive and we only view failure as negatives? From what I know, everything that exists within the universe has two sides. All traits, actions, inactions and more. Nothing is just one sided. If that’s true, which I am certain of, success is not just positive and failure is not just negative. That must mean that there are two sides to each of these concepts.

Have you ever considered or wondered that there might be lots of challenges of being successful and that it may not be as easy or as glamorous as it appears? Have you ever considered or wondered that there might be lots of lessons or opportunities to be gained from experiencing failures in your life, and that it’s not as bad as it may seem?

So, I leave you with some questions to ask yourself, that may be able to balance your perceptions of success and failure, and will leave you with a sense of fulfilment instead of the one-sided happiness or sadness.

1. Let’s say that you believe success is the answer to happiness, what would be all the downsides of being successful? How would it be a disservice to you? How would it hold you back? What pressures would it place on you? Answer this at least 50 times to balance out your infatuations or illusions you’ve had about success being the answer to happiness.

2. You may also believe that failure is the ultimate nightmare but what would be all the benefits of failing and having to try again? What would you gain from failing? How would failing serve you and push you forward? How would failing alleviate the pressures you’re faced with? Answer this at least 50 times to balance out the nightmares you’ve had about failing and it leading to sadness or disappointment.

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The Greatest Solution to a Lack of Fulfilment is to Serve Others

  • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
  • March 12, 2013

Over the many years of my career, I have come to discover something fascinating about true fulfilment. I’d like to share those insights with you in this post, to give you a deeper understanding of how to actually achieve it.

The word fulfilment means ‘filling full the mind’. Simply, that means filling your mind full of what most inspires you. So if you have a lack of fulfilment, it means you’re lacking the ability to fill full the mind. So the question then lies, how does one go about filling full the mind?

In my journey to answer this question for myself, I discovered a few ways to solve this dilema and, at the same time, do what most inspires me.  Now, the title of this post definitely gives away a very obvious clue. Serving others is a definite pathway towards achieving true fulfilment. What does that mean, serving others? Some of you might look at that statement and think of altruistic pursuits like, giving charity, volunteering or doing missionary work. My definition is somewhat different.

Usually people feel a lack of fulfilment when they’re not doing what most inspires them. They feel hollow or empty and are on the pursuit for something to fill that void.

The first step to achieving fulfilment is simple, yet equally as challenging to uncover. It takes some time, requires investigation, observation and implementation. This step is focussed on uncovering your values – what’s most important to you, to what’s least important to you. There are a series of questions that you can ask yourself to help you reveal what you’re most inspired by.

Once you’ve discovered what that is, then the key is going out into the world and serving people within that top and most important value. Generally, if you’re comfortable with fair exchange, you’ll receive a payment for that service. The more you provide it, the greater the reward. The more you’re inspired by what you want to share with others, the more others are inspired to appreciate you for that.

True fulfilment comes from knowing what it is that inspires you the most, where you allow yourself to go out into the world to provide that as a service to others, and they reward you for it. It is an experience unparalleled to anything else I’ve discovered and it makes the journey all the more worthwhile.

So, if you would love to know what it is that you’re destined do with your life, so that you can serve others, be rewarded handsomely for that and achieve true fulfilment, go to the Contact Page to get in touch and we can work together to help you reach those goals.

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What’s the Most Effective Way to Change Your Life?

I am so fortunate to be able to do what I love on a daily basis. There is truly so much to be grateful for and I wanted to share with you the most effective and efficient way, that I have learnt, that can help you change your life so you can start following your dreams.

Every so often, life hands me a challenge that I haven’t come across before and helps me recognise the blessings and opportunities that I can sometimes overlook. One of the greatest challenges I’ve had throughout my life has been around the concept of money. For most people out there, including you guys, it is equally a challenge.

For most of my life I believed that if I had more money, somehow money would change my life and give me everything I want. In fact, I put money on a pedestal and subordinated to it. I would suspect that the majority of people in the world tend to do the same. Instead of us doing what we can to change our own lives, we rely on the money to do that for us. We place all our power in its metaphorical hands. This is what I was doing and, up until recently, was continuing to do. I relied on money to change my life because I was only seeing it with admiration. I wasn’t seeing the other side.

Over the past 10 months I have come to discover a little secret, that we’re all aware of but tend to overlook. This little concept or idea proved to be highly effective and incredibly rewarding and since I started implementing it, the results have astounded me. Although I still get caught in the trap of making money my ‘drug’ of choice, this approach showed me what’s possible and how to break the addiction.

So, you might be asking what is the most effective way to change my life? Well, it’s simple but it doesn’t mean that it’s easy. We all have a unique purpose or a vision and a dream for what we’d love to do with our lives. Some of us are aware of that and some of us are still searching for the answers. I have found, like many people before me, that when you pursue your dreams and follow your vision, you land up being the one in control of changing your life. You begin to rely on yourself, depend on yourself and push hard for what’s most important to you.

When you can own everything inside of you, that you perceive money is providing you, money loses its power over you and is not the goal anymore. Your vision or dream becomes the goal and money becomes the reward for honouring that goal.

We have been taught by society, our parents, teachers and other institutions that getting a job and making money is what’s most important. Who you are, what you offer this world and what matters to you is what’s most important. When you share that message with others and provide a service to the world, money becomes the thank you, that you receive for valuing your uniqueness. So go out there and start sharing your message, be of service with what you know and what you’re great at. Remember, Life Rewards Action.

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Take the Plunge and Jump in the Deep End

Have you ever been faced with a situation in life where you had two choices about how to do something? One could be to do nothing and the other could be to take a risk and go into the unknown. How many of you did nothing when faced with this challenge? How many of you took the risk and went for it?

Most of us, when faced with a decision to act on something, tend to back away from the challenge and play it safe. We decide to exercise our right to caution and stay secure. We have been taught from a very early age to overt risk at all costs. There are too many consequences, setbacks or drawbacks that we’d have to face if we took the plunge. We never give ourselves the opportunity to discover what it feels like to take the road less travelled in life. We spend most of our time journeying on a path that is familiar and comfortable. Even though this may feel better, we land up being in stasis and don’t actually progress. That’s not to say that we then need to always take risks though. A balance of both caution and risk helps us move forward in life.

So what is the benefit of taking risks? Doing things that we wouldn’t normally do? How much can you learn from being in an environment that you know so well, that hardly ever changes and almost always produces or yields the same outcomes? Taking risks and diving into the unknown will certainly test your resilience, commitment, courage, ambition, motivation and so much more. Your boundaries will be pushed and extended and what was once comfortable, may become uncomfortable for a time. By taking this road, our minds can open up to possibilities beyond our wildest dreams. Nothing great comes without paying a price. If it was that easy, we’d all be jumping in the deep end and taking the plunge. It’s difficult and challenging and this is the main reason why most of us avoid it.

My advice is – TAKE THE PLUNGE! Push yourself, challenge your comfort zone and your boundaries. You may surprise yourself and do something amazing with your life that you never thought possible.

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