“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.” Sam Harris

Expanding on a thought that has been consuming my mind – Does free will exist? What choice or influence over our reality and the life we wish to live do we have?

If we are to believe that free will isn’t real what damage or risk does such a thought have in relation to our dreams, ambitions, drive and ability to create a life of meaning? Will we just accept what is and become passive in our existence? Will we limit the potential to live as greatly as we perhaps could? (more…)

Summary

Maria Felipe is the author of Live Your Happy. A Cuban-American born in Miami, she is 5’9” with a towering personality to match.  After experiencing success as a model and actress, including hosting World Wrestling Federation TV shows, she felt called inward and studied to become a reverend at Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles.

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Live Your Happy is not a philosophic explanation but rather a practical guide for living it. In this episode we discuss Maria’s book and work to highlight how we can remove the “cuckoo voice of the ego”, connect with the “inner Self,” and access personal power and strength. The path to deeper happiness.  (more…)

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Milburn

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” Hosea Ballou.

I like these guys and I love the message they share. Creating a minimalist lifestyle. A life that removes the clutter and chaos and in doing so allowing us to act and exist more purposefully as we wish in life.

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The concept when understood will chip away the edges of complexity, remove the boundaries and limitations placed on us by overwhelm and clutter, and allow us to navigate a more beautiful journey in life – one of freedom, fulfilment and happiness. (more…)

Proactively Create an Awesome Life

“I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” Michael J. Fox

What does your ideal life look like? Start with the end in mind and from there proactively go about creating that awesome life. Enjoy this this 3 minute thought.

Summary

Kim Ades is the president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine TM Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim is recognized as one of North America’s foremost experts on performance through thought mastery. Using her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style, Kim helps her clients shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results and personal transformation.

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In this conversation we discuss why our thoughts have greater impact on our lives than any other contributing factor. Kim shares her perspectives on what it takes to change the direction of our lives even sharing some cool practices and techniques. (more…)

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle

Biologically speaking we are hard-wired to survive. Happiness is nature’s way of helping us fulfil that need? We just endowed with chemicals and hormones that not only bring balance to the operation of this vessel but  guide us towards what is beneficial to our journey and what to avoid.

In this solo rant I discuss my thoughts on this topic. Thoughts on our happy chemicals. Why we have some natural tendencies to move towards pleasure and avoid pain, how this links to our evolution and need for survival and why it creates and ever expanding set of perceived needs. On order to better navigate our lives towards greater freedom, fulfilment and happiness.

Enjoy!

Summary

“The committed heart when fast with a challenge will find a solution. The uncommitted heart will seek an escape.”

Siphiwe Baleka is the founder of Fitness Trucking, LLC and serves as the Driver Health and Fitness Coach at Prime Inc., one of America’s largest trucking companies. His innovative, on-the-go wellness program has helped thousands of truck drivers lose weight and reclaim their health. The trucking industry is the least healthy of any industry in the US with 69% of truck drivers being obese.

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His premise is that anyone with 4 minutes can get fit. What works for truckers (more…)

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Hanselman

“The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.” Marcus Aurelius

Stoicism, an ancient Greek school of philosophy, a beautiful operating system for life. Philosophy is an attitude and a guiding principle of behaviour in life. In many ways philosophy is about asking questions, seeking truth so to live as best we can with greater ease. Principles that can improve wisdom, perseverance and the art of living.

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I believe that life is simple yet complex. I say this because there is not one formula nor is there one discipline of study that should be the basis of how we live our life. (more…)

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddha

Our Thoughts are Our Reality! Reduce the suffering, increase your happiness, focus on your thoughts. Positive thoughts bring rise to positive behaviours and positive realities – negative do the reverse. Enjoy this thought @ The Hidden Why.

Here is the verse that sparked this post:

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows one as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon.

All that we are is a result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness, follows one like a shadow that never leaves.” Dhammapada vs 1.1-1.2

Jeffrey is a Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Philanthropist, Thought Leader, Social Entrepreneur and Producer. He provides the next wave of visionary leaders with the connections, tools, platforms, consultations, trainings, knowledge and resources to accelerate their visions and businesses, as vehicles to bring humanity together.

This is round two with Jeff, we first talked back in episode 99 on The Hidden Why Podcast.

In this episode we have a great chat about awakening entrepreneurs. An individualistic attitude in life about making business to purely profit is a dying existence. It is about making business to impact positive change in this world.  (more…)