I came across this powerful poem today and want to share it with you.

Words that should be read every day until they are engrained in our very being…

“I shall pass through this world but once.
 Any good therefore that I can do…
or ANY kindness that I can show…
to ANY human being,
let me do it NOW.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.“
– Henry Drummond

Don’t save your BEST for another day – that day might never come.
 Don’t save your kindness for tomorrow, tomorrow may never come.

Whatever you want to do… DO IT NOW.
 Whatever you need to say… SAY IT NOW.
 Whoever you want to be – BE THAT person NOW. Be that person today.

We aren’t guaranteed tomorrow. Not you, not I, none of us. All we have is now.


Why are we afraid to LIVE FULLY NOW?
 Why should we be afraid to express our true selves?

Why should we live in fear of others opinions?
 We shouldn’t.

Let it all go.
 Let it all go, knowing you have no guarantees of tomorrow.

The world deserves your BEST today. You deserve the blessing of knowing you gave your best TODAY.

Every day, remind yourself of how blessed you are to get another day, and make sure you give your very best to that day. You may never pass this way again.


You may never get the opportunity to tell the people you love how you really feel.

What if you never got that opportunity again?

What if the people you love never knew how you felt about them. What if they never knew what they meant to you?


Don’t defer or neglect it – Tell them today.

Today is the day.
 It’s the day to feel good.
 It’s the day to get grateful about all the blessings that ALREADY exist in your life.

What could you really be grateful for if you looked hard? 


Today is the day to DO GOOD. What can you do for someone today to make their life better?

It doesn’t have to cost money. It can be a smile. It can be some words of encouragement.

Remind yourself of this poem every day:
“I shall pass through this world but once.
 Any good therefore that I can do…
or ANY kindness that I can show…
 to ANY human being,
let me do it NOW.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.“

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These little choices make a huge difference in the quality of your life:

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The Little Choices Really Do Make A Big Difference


When you get to the end of your life…
 will you have PRIDE in the consistent choices you made throughout your life?
 or REGRET in the poor choices that led to a lesser quality of life than you were capable of living?

The little choices you make EVERY DAY add up… In EVERY area of your life… EVERY time… WITHOUT exception.
 They can add up positively… or negatively.

The choices you make, consistently can add up to a life you love… or a life that is suffering the consequences of bad decisions.

When you add up ALL of your choices over weeks, months, years… a LIFETIME… the difference in the quality of life you live can be VERY different depending on the choices you have made.

It’s never ONE BIG moment that defines your success or happiness in life… it’s the little things… it’s every-thing. EVERY-LITTLE- THING. It’s EVERY choice you make EVERY day.

The choice to sleep in… or the choice get up early and work out… Compound those choices over many years and you have two very different lives… both in fitness, mentality and quality of life.

The choice to be grateful for all you do have… and practice that every day… or to be resentful and bitter, always complaining about what is missing… what is NOT THERE.
 Compound those feelings over years, and you have 2 very different lives.

The amazing things that come to someone who is in genuine appreciation for everything that IS GOOD in their life… and the negative circumstances that arise from the person who is constantly complaining about what is not there.

Every choice matters.


If you do… or you don’t say “Hi” to that person, that one little moment could have changed your entire life…
If you do or don’t pick up your phone while driving, that one choice could change everything…
If you do or don’t read that book…
If you do or don’t eat those things that you know you shouldn’t, or those you know you should…
If you do or don’t stand for something you believe in… if you do or don’t stand up for yourself…
If you do or don’t compare yourself and compete with others…
If you do or don’t to daily gratitude, daily exercise, daily meditation, consistent healthy eating…
EVERY CHOICE, EVERY DAY, EVERY MOMENT… MATTERS! And it is NEVER TOO LATE.

If you have only just realized that the choices you have made over a long period have lead you to a place you don’t want to be – START NOW PAVING A NEW PATH… a path made with stronger choices, that lead to a better destination.

EVERY CHOICE from this moment forward is shaping YOUR FUTURE. You are the master, the captain, the director of your life. You write the book, and the next chapter starts RIGHT NOW. You decide where these coming chapters are going based on the PATH YOU ARE PAVING right now, today, tomorrow and in the future with every choice you make.

Who you will become in 1,5,10 years will be very different depending on the choices you make in every moment… Who you will become will depend on the choices you make with consistency.

When you get to the end of your life… will you have PRIDE in the consistent choices you made throughout your life? or will you live with the REGRET because of poor choices that led to a lesser quality of life than you were capable of living?

The choice is yours. In every moment. In every day.

Make those choices consciously, in presence, in confidence and without caring what anyone else expects from you.

This is your journey, and when you make choices that you know are best for you, from a place of intuitive knowing, from your heart – you can bet those choices will lead to better outcomes for others as well.

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This Speech Will Help You Understand Why You Have To Go Through Pain Sometimes

Written and Spoken by Chiara Gizzi

Aristotle once said: “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

It is during our darkest moments… that we must FOCUS… to see the light.

It is during our hardest moments, our most difficult challenges that we must trust that this moment will not last forever.

In our most difficult moments we must remember that this moment will pass… we should remind ourselves that all difficult moments pass, the rain doesn’t last forever… the sun will shine again. We don’t know what this will mean in the greater perspective of our life.

Are you afraid of the dark? I used to be. Not only as a child who was scared of imaginary monsters under the bed – but as an adult too.

To live the human experience means to live both in the light and in the dark. Mother nature shows us this polarity in many ways. Day and night. Oceans and deserts. Summer and Winter.

When we are living in the light, life is good. We know who we are and where we are headed – nothing can stand in our way. We can see clearly.

While we want to spend most of our days in the light, that is, in positive emotions like joy, happiness and gratitude, it is an inevitable part of life that at times we will experience the opposite. There has to be darkness in order to appreciate the light, just as there needs to be struggle and hard times to truly appreciate the good times.

But what happens when darkness descends on your life?

Maybe you lose your job, or a relationship fails. Maybe your mental health takes a steep decline. Sometimes it doesn’t seem fair. Sometimes there seems to be no good reason for this to be happening. Darkness is just a part of life.

However it happens, when we find ourselves in the darkness, we can feel lost, alone and even scared. It can feel as though there is no hope for the future. Motivation disappears. Everything feels like an uphill battle.

It has taken me many cycles of light and dark in my life to understand that in the moments of darkness in our lives we are not lost, we are simply learning a new way of being. We are growing. We are expanding.

When a tree that has spent all summer blossoming in the sunshine begins to feel the inevitable pinch of the autumn air on its leaves, does it just shrivel up and die? No. It changes.

The inner knowing of the tree allows itself to surrender to the world around it with grace. The tree allows its leaves to change colour, shrivel and fall away – all the while knowing that this is not the end… just a new beginning.

Even though it may be hurting, the tree knows that come spring, as the air begins to warm and the light gets brighter new growth will come. And that is exactly what happens. As the season changes, the tree is renewed. After the months of darkness, the tree flourishes for another season.

Life is full of transitions. But, perhaps because we fear change, we resist the dark winters of our experience.

What if you made a different choice?

What if, instead of resisting our dark times, you embraced them as a time of rest, renewal and regeneration?

What if you could learn to love the darkness in your life as much as you love the light?

The thing is, without the darkness, you may never grow into the bigger, bolder, more beautiful version of who are.

We all know the stories of inspiring, amazing people who have turned their challenges into triumphs. We’ve heard countless stories of struggle and hard times that turned into powerful strengths that shaped beautiful lives. Would those people have been able to achieve such greatness had they not been forced into the darkness?

When we experience difficulties, it is important not to try to avoid them. We must learn to embrace them as an integral part of our life experience. You never know what you can become. There is a reason for everything.

Instead of asking WHY ME…
ASK: Why now?
ASK: What does this mean?
ASK: What CAN I DO right now to make this situation better?
ASK: How can I see this from a different perspective that will help me feel better?

You always have the choice to trust the process of your life, trust in the Universe to support you and believe in your heart that the light will return. You can choose FEAR or FAITH.

You can surrender. You can trust and believe that your life is a miracle – even if you don’t always understand it.

The darkness is not the end. It is simply a chance to grow into the person you need to be when the light breaks through.

If you are in the darkness today, I want you to know that I see you. You are loved. No matter how hard it seems, you are worthy of joy and you can get through this.

The light is never far away.

Never lose hope.

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I AM affirmations for Health, Wealth, Joy and Abundant Attraction – Fearless Soul

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Narrated by Josiah Ruff for Fearless Soul
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Transcript – I AM affirmations for Health, Wealth, Joy and Abundant Attraction – Fearless Soul

Welcome to I AM affirmations for Health, Wealth, Joy and Abundant Attraction.

Thoughts are powerful. Thoughts lead to actions. Actions over time become habits… and habits ultimately lead to long-lasting results.

Ultimately, our thoughts and our beliefs create our destiny… Knowing that, we must choose thoughts that empower us to live the life WE WANT TO LIVE… and we can do that with affirmation and repetition.

Affirmations are a great way to start and end your day. There is a scientific reason why. Our brains have a Reticular Activating System (RAS for short). The main function of the RAS is to fill our awareness with things that we think about.
 So if you think about red and then look around in your room, you’ll notice red all around. Likewise, when you tell yourself that your life is amazing, you’ll find more and more amazing things show up in your life.

It’s time to start attracting the things YOU WANT to show up in your life

It’s time to program your mind for HEALTH, WEALTH and JOY. 

Try it EVERY DAY for 30 days and watch your life change. 

Let’s begin…

I AM health
I AM wealth
I AM joy


I AM abundant
I AM blessed
I AM healthy

I AM wealthy
I AM joyful
I AM happy



I AM wise
I AM smart

I AM brave
I AM calm
I AM strong

I AM abundant
I AM a powerful attractor
I AM a creator
I AM creative



I AM LOVED

I AM full of LOVE

I AM RESPECTED

I AM respectful to myself


I AM compassionate

I AM VALUED

I VALUE MYSELF


I AM ENOUGH
I AM ENOUGH

I AM ENOUGH

I need nothing, but attract more than I need
I AM ABUNDANT
I AM ABUNDANT
I AM ABUNDANT
I attract amazing things, people, health and wealth into my life

I AM PRESENT
I AM a great friend
I AM a great listener
I AM a great partner
I AM a great attractor of the perfect partner

I AM full of LOVE
I AM healthy
I AM strong
I AM energetic
I AM confident

I AM ALIVE
I AM grateful

I AM ALIVE

I AM grateful
I AM ALIVE

I AM grateful

I AM WORTHY
I value myself
I AM WORTHY
I value myself
I AM WORTHY
I value myself

I AM JOYFUL
I AM PLAYFUL
I AM GRATEFUL
I AM JOYFUL
I AM PLAYFUL
I AM GRATEFUL
I AM JOYFUL
I AM PLAYFUL
I AM GRATEFUL

I LOVE MY LIFE
I LOVE MY LIFE
I LOVE MY LIFE

I have more than enough and I AM more than enough


I have more than enough and I AM more than enough


I have more than enough and I AM more than enough

I am capable of anything I put my mind to.
I have all I need to achieve
I attract the right people into my life

I LOVE MY LIFE
I LOVE MY LIFE
I LOVE MY LIFE



MY LIFE IS ABUNDANT

MY LIFE IS ABUNDANT

MY LIFE IS ABUNDANT
I AM ABUNDANT
I AM ABUNDANT

I AM ABUNDANT

I attract amazing things, people, health and wealth into my life



I AM FULL OF LOVE
I AM LOVED
I AM FULL OF JOY
I AM JOYFUL
I ATTRACT JOY

I AM HEALTHY
I TAKE CARE OF MY PHYSICAL BODY
I ATTRACT HEALTH
I AM POSITIVE
I ATTRACT POSITIVE ENERGY
I AM PURPOSEFUL
I ATTRACT ON PURPOSE
I AM INTENTIONAL
I ATTRACT INTENTIONALLY



My life is of MY CREATION

I AM A POWERFUL CREATOR
My life keeps getting better and better
Every day I attract amazing people into my life

Every day I attract abundance into my life
Every day I attract JOY into my life



There’s a FLOW to my life
There’s an EASE to my life
I LOVE MY LIFE
I LOVE MY SELF
I LOVE my ever expanding self
I LOVE who I AM and who I AM BECOMING
I AM BLESSED
I AM BLESSED
I AM BLESSED

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The Butterfly and The Cocoon – Struggle Makes You Stronger (Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

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Speaker: Tyrone Stokes for Fearless Soul | Music “WINGZ” by Masara
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Transcript – Butterfly Cocoon – A Story of Struggle (Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

I came across this powerful story that really highlighted how our STRUGGLES form our greatest STRENGTHS.

When you listen to this story, see if you can apply it, not just to your life, but also to those who you love… sometimes you have the best intentions to help others through trying to eliminate their struggles, when really all they need is to know that they can handle it on their own.

The story goes like this:

There once was a man who came across a Butterfly cocoon. 

Curious to see the butterfly emerge, the man sat and watched for many hours as the butterfly struggled to force its body through a small hole.

 Then, nothing… the butterfly appeared to stop making any progress – it seemed to the man that the butterfly had gone as long and as far as it could and could struggle no more.

So, with the best intentions, the man decided he had to help the butterfly… he grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

With the cocoon cut open, the butterfly no longer had to struggle and emerged easily… however… as it emerged, the man noticed it had a swollen body, and small shrivelled wings… 

The man continued to watch, expecting the butterfly to grow it’s wings and fly away… However, this did not happen, the butterfly spent the rest of its very short life crawling around the ground with a swollen body and small wings, unable to fly.

Although the man had the best intentions, what he failed to understand was that the cocoon’s job is to provide the STRUGGLE and RESISTANCE the butterfly needs to GROW.

The restriction from the tiny opening of the cocoon is exactly what is needed because it forces fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, which enables the wings to GROW and prepare it for FREEDOM once it EARNS its way out of the cocoon.

There’s a powerful life lesson here:

 Our STRUGGLES always give us STRENGTH.

 Sometimes the STRUGGLES we go through are exactly what we need to GROW and DEVELOP.

Although it is never fun in the moment… we can almost always look back on difficult moments as crucial times that changed us for the better in some way.

We all face struggle, and sometimes we watch those we love struggle as well – and although we don’t wish upon anyone hard times, we all need them for growth and for strength.



Trying to avoid struggle… taking the easy path… will only lead to a harder life… to greater struggles, later on.

Cursing the world and blaming struggles and circumstances for where you are will never help either.

You must FACE your struggles and LEARN from them, use the hard times of your past to your advantage.

 You must FACE YOUR STRUGGLES and believe you have the strength to overcome them. If you can do that, you WILL over come them.

There’s no shame in struggle… we all face our own battles in life… they are part of our journey, part of our STORY, pieces of our puzzle.

Next time you are going through a challenge or a struggle, remind yourself:
This struggle is STRENGTHENING ME.
This struggle is preparing me for something bigger and better BETTER.
This struggle was sent to make me STRONGER… WISER… BETTER.
It was sent to give me strength, so I can FLY.

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Build Solid Foundations (Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

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Speaker: Josiah Ruff for Fearless Soul | Music from Curious Cinematic 3 | © Fearless Soul
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Transcript – Build Solid Foundations (Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

If you really think about it… everything you want in life… everything worth anything in life requires BUILDING.

Your home – it required BUILDING to get to the stage of being liveable. Your business – if you want it to be successful… you have to BUILD IT. It takes time. It takes effort.

Your relationships… of all kinds… friends, family, romantic relationships… they require BUILDING. Building of trust. Building of respect. It also takes time, and effort.

Your own mental strength and physical health… they both need constant BUILDING to get better. You really have to put in the time, consistently to be a better human being… in ALL AREAS.

ALL of these things require EFFORT. And all of these things won’t last unless you build STRONG FOUNDATIONS.

If you want to live in a home that was built with no effort or care, chances are it will crumble on top of you.

ANYTHING WITH WEAK FOUNDATIONS will eventually crumble!

If you care about your business you need to put the effort in. You must build solid foundations by putting in the time and giving value to your customers… consistently.

If you care about your relationships you must build them intentionally. You must put in the effort. YOU have to build the foundations. You can’t rely on luck or anyone else. You have to be there in the relationships to make them work.

You have to EARN the respect from your friends and loved ones, you can’t buy it. You EARN it from the time, effort and presence you put into it.

If you care about your own mental and emotional wellbeing you have to build the foundations there as well.

You build strong personal foundations by putting in the time, consistently, every day.
Time in silence.
Time in self development.
Time reading or listening to things that make you better.
Time with people that make you feel good.
Time in gratitude.
Time taking care of your health.

You build the foundations over time so you can survive the stormy weather.

A strong house doesn’t blow over in stormy weather, because it has SOLID FOUNDATIONS… and in the same way… YOU won’t blow over when life challenges you.

If you build solid foundations, you can survive anything… any situation. If your business takes a hit… the foundations and lessons you’ve learned on your journey will help you fight back, and come back stronger, better, with new perspective. Even if you lose a business or lose a job… the foundations you’ve built within yourself will MAKE SURE that is not the end of the story.

You will be back, and you will USE the setback as a lesson… as a foundation to build back better.

If you’re going through a tough time personally… all those solid foundations you’ve built over the years will help give you shelter from the storms around you.

The time spent working on YOU will prove valuable in ALL challenging situations. It will give you perspective. It will keep you CALM when everyone around you is losing their heads. It will help you understand that tough times don’t last forever.

It will give you strength.

There is nothing more important than building SOLID FOUNDATIONS – in every area that matters in your life.

And when is the best time to start building? RIGHT NOW. Don’t wait for a storm to destroy things that matter to you before you put in the time to build those foundations.

Start now. Think of every area in your life where YOU can be better… where you MUST be better… and then ask yourself what you can do to build stronger foundations.

Who do you need to call?
What do you need to say?
How much time do you need to block out every morning?
And how will you spend that time?

Make a commitment now, to build solid foundations for your life. You will not regret it.

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If I Die Today (A Speech You Should Listen To Before It’s Too Late)

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Transcript – If I Die Today (A Speech You Should Listen To Before It’s Too Late) | Motivational Video

If I died today would I be proud of the life I lived?

Death… It’s the one thing that puts everything else into perspective.

Thinking about your own death, can be the best thing you can do for your LIFE… and how you LIVE that life before you die… Why? Because it forces you to reflect on some very important questions…

If I die tomorrow…Was I happy? Would I be proud of the person I have become?

Was there love in my life? Did I give enough love? Did I show those I love the REAL ME?

Did I live the life I WANTED TO LIVE? Or was my life made up of things I should’ve let go? How could I have brought more happiness to my life and the people I really cared about? Could I have done things better? Differently? How?

Will I be missed? What will I leave behind? Will anyone on earth be better because I was there?

Thinking about your own death forces you to self- examine your life… and gives you the OPPORTUNITY to take responsibility for that life… for all the areas you have not been at your best, and therefore the opportunity to DECIDE TO DO BETTER FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD.

Sitting, alone, with your thoughts… and thinking about your passing is perhaps the healthiest thing you can do for your life if you want to improve it. And the truth is, none of us know if we are going to wake up tomorrow. None of us come here to earth with any guarantees.

That is why we should all… very often… think about the ONLY real guarantee… and this is of our death… and the possibility it might be sooner than we think… and because of that LEAVE NOTHING FOR TOMORROW.

If you don’t like who you’ve been up to this moment – MAKE A CHANGE… AND MAKE IT NOW.

If you have a broken relationship with someone you really love – MEND IT NOW. If you can give more love – GIVE IT NOW. If you can play more and work less – DECIDE AND COMMIT to that NOW. If you can do anything to improve the quality of your life – MAKE THAT COMMITMENT NOW.

Write down everything you must change in your life NOW. Everything that can not wait for tomorrow.

Every phone call you need to make. Every apology. Every hug you need to give. Everything you need to say.

Decide to stop caring about what other people think of you. Start living the life YOU really want to live. Start feeling the way you deserve to feel. Start loving the way YOU want to love.

Bring your defences down. Drop your guard and open your heart.

Write a list of the amazing experiences you’re going to commit to experience before you go.

Think about how much better all your relationships will be when you open up, when you are your true self, when you are PRESENT, living in the moment and let go of all care for others opinions and judgements.

Think about the amazing life you can live when you let go of societies expectations and the seriousness most people live with.

Get excited about your life. LOVE YOUR LIFE… while you are LIVING IT.

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7 Things I Need To Tell You About Life

7 Things I Need To Tell You About Life  (Motivational Video) – Watch On Youtube:

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Transcript – 7 Things I Need To Tell You About Life | Motivational Video

Life is to be lived… lived before you die. Don’t waste a second of this precious gift You’re here for a reason, never stop asking WHY

Here are 7 things I need to tell you about life.

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Hellen Keller

Number 1. Life is not meant to be so serious. Make time for fun, for joy, for play.

Alan Watts once said: “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is PLAY.”

Don’t trust anyone that tells you life has to be serious. Don’t believe anyone that says there is no time for fun, joy, laughter in EVERY or ANY day.

When we are young life is nothing fun. The important lesson MOST of us adults still need to learn is that LIFE is not meant to be so serious. We can easily forget that our lives DO NOT last forever.

This is why it is important to remind yourself that one day, you, like all humans will die.

When we remind ourselves of our certain death… When we remind ourselves of the fact that we do not know when it will all end… when we really take that in… the impermanence of it all… maybe then… maybe then… we can start taking everything a little less seriously.

Most people are struggling so hard, to get the job… to get the extra money… so they can impress people who don’t really care about any of that anyway… because they too are doing the same thing. Searching for that one achievement… that one amount of money that will make everything better. But money doesn’t make us feel worthy… only we can do that.

Maybe we don’t need to stress so much about our weight… or our skin… or our bank account… or what other people think of us.

I challenge you to look at life, NOT as a struggle… or a strain… or a destination that is SOMEWHERE ELSE needing to be reached… but a journey… a challenge to see how much JOY you can squeeze out of everyday… then… whether or not you get the big house, or fancy car… it won’t matter will it?… Because no matter what happens you will have what most don’t… 3 things money can never buy… Joy, peace… and passion for life.

Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside.

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle

Number 2. Circumstances will NEVER define you… unless YOU decide to let them.

Let me tell you a little life fact: If you are blessed enough to reach adulthood there is a 100% chance… YES, one hundred percent chance… that life will dish you up some things that you did NOT plan for, nor want in your life experience. These things are called character building moments. Life lessons. Challenges sent, maybe to give your life more meaning, maybe just something you need to deal with in your own time, in your own way.

Wayne Dyer once said: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”…

When you change the way you look at these life challenges, sometimes you will find they are not problems or misfortunes but re- directions, sometimes blessings.

Maya Angelou said “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Don’t fight against life. When challenges come, as I guarantee they will, see if you can continue to give your best to the present moment in front of you.

Be open to the fact that you do not know how anything will turn out… including this hard moment in front of you. Trust that it was for the best… for you, or for someone else. See if you can find meaning in any of it, even the hardest of times.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

Number 3. If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.

The Buddha said: “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”… And that is not an extreme statement.

Humans are said to have up to 60,000 thoughts a day, that is not the problem, the problem is most people are having these thoughts on autopilot… and many of them are NOT positive.

Most people are programmed by society, by the news channels, by social media. They believe everything they read, they are REACTIVE and when a challenge appears in their life, they don’t know how to handle it, because they don’t know how to think for themselves.

Rather than responding calmly and sensibly to fix a small challenge… they react in anger and escalate the challenge into a monster problem.

Learning to control your mind, and control your emotions is KEY to living a life IN CONTROL. Not in control of circumstances but in control of how YOU FEEL about them… which is more important than being in control of circumstances because that is something you have NO CONTROL over.

You control your mind and emotions through daily rituals. Consistent self-work every day. Repeating powerful processes that are proven to promote CALM, positive feelings. Meditation… daily gratitude… prayer… exercise… detoxing from ALL negativity – specifically news, negative influences and social media – all these things are crucial to living a beautiful life.

Ultimately every individual is responsible for how they feel. Next time you react in anger KNOW that it is YOU that needs to do more work, not the circumstance or person that made you angry.

No matter what is going on around the world, INSIDE… in YOUR WORLD it can be a magical, peaceful place

“If you’re not going with the flow you’re going too slow”

Number 4. Make a PLAN… but go with the FLOW as well.

Jim Rohn once said: “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

Planning doesn’t mean being attached to the outcome though. If you plan to take your umbrella on a walk to deal with the rain, but your umbrella breaks… learn how to dance in the rain.

What does that have to do with your life? Well most often in your life, you want to avoid getting wet, as in, you want to avoid getting in financial trouble, having health issues, having relationship or emotional problems, having a bad day, bad week, bad year or labelling your life as BAD…

How do you avoid the “rain of life”? You avoid it by planning. Not planning for circumstances to be perfect. But planning to do the work on YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Planning exercise and healthy eating so your body is strong, healthy and vibrant – that will lead to a better quality of life.

Planning daily rituals like meditation, gratitude, prayer, journalling or anything else that puts you in a great space – all of these things have a profound, and compounding effect on your life. The people you attract… the relationships you attract and strengthen. How you feel about yourself.

Now of course, not everything always goes to plan, so when a challenge appears… when the rain of life comes down… learn how to dance in the rain, how to flow with it… and most importantly, PLAN to get back on track.

As Benjamin Franklin once said “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ― Lao Tzu

Number 5. You’ll never be able to please everyone.

Yes, that is right. Even Mother Teresa has haters. No matter how pure your soul is, unfortunately, the reality of human beings is that we are all so DIFFERENT. And because of those great differences, we are all vibrating on VERY different levels.

Some people are just not ready for kindness, peace, compassion – some people aren’t ready for ANYTHING positive.

Don’t let that get to you. It’s nothing personal it’s just the very fact that everyone is so different, and from their difference in upbringing, circumstances and environment come differences of opinion and differences in reactions.

Just because they don’t agree with you, or even if they are against you… or your ideas… doesn’t mean you can’t find a way to either get along with them or let them go their own way in peace.

The very thing you don’t want to do is fight back and bring more negative energy to ANY situation.

Let those who differ from you, differ from you. Be an example of someone who allows all others to have their opinion, without being affected.

Move on with your life without hate… there is no need for everyone, or anyone to agree with you.

Be so busy improving yourself that you don’t even notice negativity coming your way.

Be so focused on making a positive difference in the lives of those who want to hear from you that you fail to hear from those who don’t.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

Number 6. You won’t be happy if you’re being someone else trying to fit in with others – Be yourself and do it with pride!

Genuine happiness will never come to you if you are changing who you are to please OTHER people.

You can not be genuinely happy if you are not genuinely YOU.

Get comfortable BEING YOU… around everyone and anyone. All the wrong people will leave you… and that’s ok… because the RIGHT people will stay.

The right people as in, those who love the REAL YOU… exactly as you are.

As Dr Seuss said, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

“How people treat you is their Karma, how you react is yours” – Wayne Dyer

Number 7. Those who are stuck in their own misery will try and drag you into their dark hole. Don’t let anyone steal your joy.

Wayne Dyer said “Loving people live in a loving world, hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world”

The nature of some human beings is that they don’t want to see you happy… because they haven’t yet achieved it for themselves.

Many people live in a hostile universe… and, perhaps unknowingly… perhaps unintentionally will try and drag you into this hostile universe so they are not alone in there.

Never change who you are and drop down into this hostile world.

If you remain true to you… committed to this loving universe you live in… committed to your own well being, your own peace, joy and MAGIC you are living in every day… sooner or later all those people will stop trying to drag you down, and instead ask you to help them up to your world.

Be the light for others to find their way.

Be the example that changes not only your life, but others through your own POSITIVE LIFE EXPERIENCE.

Eleanor Roosevelt said: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Don’t allow the bitterness of others inside your heart. They don’t want to be there either… they need someone to show them the way.

So many people are hurting and they hide that hurt with bitterness and judgement. Wherever you can, in any day, in any moment… be that light for someone else. Lighten their day with your genuine kindness. Even if they don’t give it back.

Be a positive example for this world.

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I Wonder (Short Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

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Transcript – I Wonder (Short Motivational Video) Fearless Soul

I wonder… I wonder if today will be a day I look back on…

I wonder if today will be a day I look back on with pride… or with regret.

I wonder if today will be a day I look back on as a significant day that brought about positive change… spiritually, emotionally, habitually.

I wonder if maybe, it will be just another day.

I wonder if today will be a day I look back on because something finally clicked, something within me finally clicked… my awareness finally understood something that was needed to advance my life… to bring about positive change.
I guess there’s no need to wonder… because it’s all up to me.

There’s no magic outside… the magic I seek is inside… and I decide… I decide if I want this day to be a significant day… I decide if I will look back on THIS DAY with pride… because I… DECIDE…

I DECIDE. I decide my actions in each and every moment. I decide my intentions… BEFORE I decide my actions.

I choose my BELIEFS and I choose the values by which I live my life…

I choose how I respond to each and every situation and circumstance. I decide what matters to me. I decide who I am going to be.

But that’s just me… Who will YOU decide to be today?

I wonder…

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This Is Why We Suffer (and This Is How We End Suffering)

Speaker: Peter Crone

Transcript – Peter Crone on Suffering and How To End Our Own Internal Suffering:

The way life occurs to us is that there’s always somewhere to get to, until you realize that there isn’t

…Similarly suffering is always present until we realize that there isn’t suffering. And that to me is the beauty of the human experience.

So, suffering is unavoidable by virtue of we’re here, but nonetheless, the opportunity, the possibility that it is to be human is to transcend suffering.

And it’s such a beautiful design again, because if it weren’t for the previous suffering, we don’t get to experience the latter freedom.

As an adult, I got to see myself in a picture and all black and white of me as a child and my cute little onesy, whatever it is running with my arms out, my mother is sort of very gently ushering me from behind. So you can see that she’s sort of directing me towards somebody who you can’t see because they’re off camera. They’re out of frame from the picture. But I know because of the setting, it was set at a Harbor at a dock where the boat had just, you know, come to birth and we’ve probably come off the boat and I’m running towards my dad because my dad worked on the boats. And as I looked at that photo and it’s this whole black and white, and this adorable little child, which you know, is running towards his father, who he loves his dad. And what had occurred to me is at that moment, one of the most important parts of love is the energy of missing somebody.

We often think that love is I’m with someone I’m sharing a dinner with them, I’m going to bed with them, or it could be a family member who I’m living with or I’m sharing time with constantly. But that denies the flip side of the same coin, which is one of the most beautiful aspects of love is what feels like the absence of the experience of love. And we can call that missing somebody… and why it was so profound for me is to see that little child run towards his dad with the excitement of the fact that for a minute, for minutes, maybe a day, maybe a week, it could be longer…. We experience the separation from that, which we love.

And if it weren’t for the experience of separation, we would not appreciate the joy of love.

And so why I use that example as it relates to suffering and freedom is because separation is hurtful, it’s painful, and that is suffering. And in this case, suffering is where we become separate from the knowledge, from the true wisdom of our true essence, whilst freedom is the remembrance and the awakening to the essence of who I am at my core, which is freedom.

So the two are inextricably connected and simultaneously necessary in order to experience one or the other.

If it weren’t for the experience of missing, I don’t get to go to the depths of the joy of love and equally, if it weren’t for the pain and the seeming inconvenience of human suffering, then I wouldn’t get to experience the elation and the joy of liberation that is true freedom.

When you really understand that dynamic…. it’s so beautiful to see the duality of everything. And I would actually take it a little deeper, which is to say the freedom really is the container. Like the love is the container that holds both.

We have the joy and we have the misery, we have the happiness and we have the sadness. And this is where if we can be big enough, expanded enough as human beings that we make space for all of it… it would be as nonsensical.

You know, for people who think they just want to be positive and happy, that is like asinine. It would be like me saying, no, no, no. All I want to do is inhale. Cause that’s so good. You get oxygen. If you’re like, what the hell? Like if it weren’t for the fact that I get to exit and let go of, you know, in this case, obviously physiologically biologically the toxins of carbon dioxide and stuff that no longer serves me because it’s already served its purpose in my body. Then I wouldn’t get the joy of having that cyclical process of inhale exhale that keeps me alive.

So similarly, the actual nature of duality, both parts are flip sides of the same coin that are an inherent experience of being human. And the degree to which we can embrace both is the degree to which we are truly free to allow all aspects of what it means to be human.

So suffering is really one aspect, but it is an aspect where there is ultimately a form of ignorance. And I don’t mean that as a judgment. I mean, it truly, in the fact that we don’t know something.

We suffer because we don’t know how extraordinary we are. We suffer because we don’t know that we actually are loved. We don’t, we suffer because we don’t feel safe. And it is in that ignorance than not knowing the absence of knowledge that we suffer.

And the process of awakening is realizing, Oh, these are lies. And as I transcend lie, I expand into my bigger nature, which then is the experience of liberation, which is contained in the safety that we are held and beneficiaries of life, because we are fundamentally loved.

The way I look at it is that this dimension that we are in as human beings to me is a revelatory dimension. What does that mean? Life will reveal where you yourself, as a being do not experience freedom.

Life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free.

So why is that a completely different perspective or different way of looking at the experience of life? Because most people are playing the human game. What is the human game they’re trying to accumulate, right? Accumulation of status, accumulation of possessions, accumulation of finance. And they’re trying to play the game of I’m becoming a better human by virtue of what I have usually… now that’s not wrong, but it’s also, to me, it’s a powerless game to play.

Whereas the awakening process of who I am as a being who is limitless, who is in its infancy and its true inherent nature, nothing but love peace, power, freedom.

That is to me, the game, that’s really at foot for human beings. That is the opportunity that it is to be a human is to awaken to the true essence of who I am rather than being defined by the persona that has been conditioned over time. That is now founded in the essence of survival. That is two entirely different approaches to the human experience. One is linear and one is vertical, right? So linear is okay, hopefully over time I’m going to improve. I got a promotion, I got a corner office. I got a bigger home. I’ve got a nicer car. I’ve got a little bit more money. That is, you know, there’s again, no judgment, but it is a futile dead end method of trying to find internal value by using external and exogenous means to bring some sense of worth.. versus discovering. Wow. My inherent nature is freedom.

My inherent nature is love. My inherent nature is peace and life is constantly giving me the opportunity to awaken to those qualities by virtue of presenting to me ironically, where I don’t experience that.

So that’s why, again, I said, life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free.

We often look as those circumstances as frustrating as things we don’t want, but that’s precisely why they’re being given to us because we’ve yet to see how powerful and extraordinary we are that we have yet to integrate those experiences and see that I can truly be with whatever is occurring and maintain my inner sense of peace and freedom and love.

We arrive as beings, but shrouded in constraint, we arrive as souls, but constrained by fear and the game of this particular dimension of planet earth and being human is Oh, awesome. We are set here so that we can reveal where we are confined, constrained and have some sense of separation and limitation. And so life is the process of sloughing by virtue of these trials and tribulations. And these sort of confronting circumstances really is a form of resistance, which just like polishing a diamond is allowing us to recognize where we still feel constrained or we arrived with our bucket of fears. And as I say, you know, the “ winner of the game” is who can get rid of their fears the the fastest, not that there is any urgency, but we could say, and I would assert the true liberation and true freedom, which is my main product is when we have confronted all of the fears that we arrived with to recognize that in fact, there is nothing to fear itself whatsoever. And that was always just a narrative that was part of our persona or our ego. That was just simply the cocoon in which we found we needed to live in order to stay safe. When in fact it’s quite the antithesis of that, which is true. Security is when I no longer need the illusion of external security.

If the experience I have with another person is of some form of disharmony, of judgment of hostility. Then that really is a reflection of what’s going on inside of me.

So as I say, as we express, so we experience, right. So if I’m expressing anger towards whoever or whatever the circumstance may be, then I am experiencing anger, right? So this, this water travels through say a garden hose. If the garden hose was sent in today, I had a feeling internally, it would feel the passage of the water when it was cold or hot, or how fast it’s moving. So likewise as we express our emotional state, we’re under the impression that it’s by virtue of what’s going on outside of us, but whether it is or not in terms of our interpretation when nonetheless experiencing all of that.

So then why wouldn’t I, if I know that correlation, if I’m, if I’m actually aware of that formula, then why wouldn’t I, wherever possible, bring an experience of love and joy to whoever it might be, because then I’m equally the beneficiary of it. And this is why exercises like gratitude journals or going and being a volunteer and being of service to a community feels good. Why does it feel good? Because what I’m actually doing is I’m bringing the experience of my true self is what I would have saw and I’m sharing to another, I’m giving to another. And therefore I am equally the beneficiary of my own active contribution.

You know, Einstein said, you either, you look at the universe in one of two ways, everything is a miracle or nothing’s a miracle, right? And so really when you get, we are beneficiaries of life, even though again, I’ve been through a ton of what felt like unnecessarily hardship that at the time, my little persona was like, I don’t want this. This sucks, but really in hindsight is often the case we’ve recognized. Wow. If it weren’t for those events, if it weren’t for those hardships, then I wouldn’t have discovered that expansiveness of what I’ve just stepped into and why I use the expression that smooth seas never made a good sailor, right? So we need adversity itself is the catalyst for growth. It is. Life is the greatest teacher by virtue of the fact that it gives us challenges so that it can, as I said earlier, slough off anything that is confining us, anything that is holding us back a constraint that is in some way, limiting ourself expression, we need some resistance to get rid of that.

And that is at times a very difficult pill to swallow, but it is nonetheless the catalyst to discover that really we are held eternally.

It’s like the metaphor of the image of these trapeze artists, right? The experience for anybody who goes up on a trapeze from the perspective of the ego is fear. If there’s no net, right? You, you would feel such trepidation of letting go of the trapeze bar to transition maybe to your partner and be caught in the absence of knowing there was some safety net and that’s the ego’s experiences. It goes through life. It feels that at any turn its existence is in potential danger. Everything can come across as a potential threat, and that’s an exhausting place to live from.

Conversely, if we can tap into this deeper essence of understanding the nature of life and particularly the nature of who we are, then at every turn, there is always a safety net. It might not feel like it, but we can drop, we can fall. We can miss the grip of the partners. We transitioned from trapeze bar to trapeze bar and it’s okay. And that we could say our errors and mistakes are failures and it’s okay.

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