Be-Do-Have. Simplify, De-Clutter & Create Abundance
“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy.” Richard Foster.
In a blog post I wrote recently I shared some practical tips and approach to simplifying life. From experience they are what have helped me. You can read that post here. For those of you who prefer listening over reading I have created this podcast. Enjoy!
You can read my previous two blog posts on this topic below.
Simplified Living For A Simplified Life: A Process For Creating More
“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”
Loretta is Professor a psychologist the brain chemical master. She has spent years studying the chemicals of the human brain and how they affect our behviours. Serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine and endorphin – all great insightful in why we may do the things we do.
In this episode replay we discuss our happy chemicals. The habits of a happy brain, how we can influence our levels of happiness on our journey to living with greater passion and purpose. Enjoy!
Essential: Essays by The Minimalists
by Ryan Nicodemus Joshua Fields Millburn“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” Chuck Palahniuk
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Have you heard about the minimalist lifestyle? These guys live it, breathe it and share it. Having chased through the corporate life they found themselves less satisfied and began asking questions about what it’s all for. At least as far as I can tell. This book is not a coordinated journey of how to live a minimalist life but as the tittle suggestions a series of essays that they have written on living a minimalist life. Inspiration to take action towards a minimalist lifestyle of your own.
Please enjoy my book reflection and grab yourself a copy below.
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What Is Your Earliest Childhood Memory?
Our childhood leaves clues. What was in the past that made you happy, excited, lit you up that has been washed away or covered from the years of living the conditioned life?
Think back to your earliest childhood memory. What is the first thing that comes to mind? What meaning can you filter from this memory. Mine was walking a bush path on an adventure with a group of kids at about the age of 3. I love an adventure and I love sharing my experience with others. Nothing much has changed.
Summary
“What would you do if you knew you could not fail?”
Frank Sesno’s book, Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions and Spark Change shows how we can be more effective at work, at home and in life by putting great questions to work for us. What questions should we be asking?
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Ask More offers eleven categories of questions, each with its own approach, outcome and listening skills. We can use questions to learn, to connect with others, to trigger innovation and imagination, to convey authorship and to discover a shared mission.
Frank Sesno is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and former anchor, White House Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief, and talk show host for CNN. He currently serves as director of George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, and is the creator of Planet Forward, an innovative forum seeking solutions to daunting challenges such as global hunger. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Key Take Outs
- Remove the period from the sentence and ad a questions mark. It will spark further discovery.
- Find time for silence to ask questions.
- Find time for conversation.
- Make an appointment for questioning. It helps remove surprise.
- Try a conversation where you don’t use “I” am “me.”
- Use Echo questions. Listen to key words, facts or emotions and repeat it. This will assist to expand the insight and discussion.
- Empathetic questioning requires you to put yourself in the shoes of the respondent.
Do you have any routines and rituals that you believe contribute to your success?
Curious about people and always fascinated to know more. Open minded and just want to view things from many various angles. It helps deepen understanding about humanity.
What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?
To ask more. Not just the first question the first time. Ask in layers. Be deliberate and purposeful. Also, I think its important to challenge yourself.
What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make change?
What makes me feel proud. What would make my friends and family proud? What would make a difference? What would you like to read about yourself if someone wrote a biography about you?
Quick round questions
Favourite Food
Chinese food
Favourite Leisure Activity
Horse-back ridding.
Favourite Book
Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
by Barbara Bradley HagertyFavourite Quote
“What would you do if you knew you could not fail?”
What is the meaning of life?
Make a difference in someone else’s life. Doing something that has value in my own life. Giving back. Creating.
Do we all have a why?
I don’t know. Not necessarily.
What does living with passion and purpose mean?
Passion is what we love and care about. Purpose is setting ourselves a goal and achieving it.
How to find
Website: www.askmorebook.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franksesno/
The 3 Keys to Success, The Why, Awareness, & The Work
In this solo rant I discuss the 3 keys to success. A very bold statement I know and while there certainly are many other things that contribute to ones success, however you may define it, these are the three areas that have had the greatest impact in my life so far.
Know your why, find greater awareness and do the work. Enjoy!
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
10-time marathon runner, personal improvement junky and passionate raw vegan, Jeff Sanders is back to inspire you to “Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast.”
In this Episode replay we discuss what it means to find your passion, becoming more productive and managing your time better and how to start your day off to help you reach peak performance.
Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
by Frank Sesno The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
Frank Sesno is an award winning American journalist. As a former CNN correspondent, anchor and Washington bureau chief, and currently a Director at George Washington University, Frank has learnt the knack of asking powerful questions. In this book he shares his knowledge by grouping the types and styles of questions that one may ask into 11 succinct categories.
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Questions are enquiry that require answers and it is the insight of questions that bring the magic. It is thought by many, and I believe Frank agrees, that the human population in large part has lost the ability of asking well thought and structured questions. Perhaps we have stopped asking questions period. (more…)
You Are Your Full Potential – What Is It? Go Beyond This!
We are our full potential. We are everything that we have become. We are an accumulation of our past. We are who we are today and this is our potential. This is our full potential. If you are not happy with how you exist today then you need to move beyond it.
No matter what we do from here we will develop into new potential into the future. The potential you become is entirely a choice that you can make today. If you want more freedom, fulfilment and happiness then you must seek the practices and do the work that will help you reach that.
Enjoy my 7 minutes of wisdom in this episode.
Summary
“Don’t count the days make the days count.”
Gordon Jenkins, aka The Visible Guy, has faced many challenges, some life and death situations. He has ended up in the strangest of places such as a South Asian jungle instead of the Australian Outback. He is proof that no matter how bad your circumstances seem at the time, you are in control of your destiny.
Today, he shares his knowledge, enabling the seemingly unimaginable personal outcomes to happen. You become visible in a way that suits you. The imaginable just became the possible.
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Key Take Outs
- Exceed beyond reaching your full potential.
- If you commit to something be prepared to do the work and do it!
- Do not avoid the obstacle work through it.
- Motivation to take action, motivation to sustain action.
- It starts with you. The next step is yours to make. We are in control of our destiny.
- For each of us are different do what works for you.
What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make change?
Admit to your situation and then express yourself. Talk to others and share. You may be surprised by the support you receive.
Quick round questions
Favourite Food
Peaking Duck or His Beef Ragu
Favourite Leisure Activity
Food and wine.
Favourite Book
Book by Vince Lambardi – When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
Favourite Quote
“Don’t count the days make the days count.” Muhammad Ali
Do we all have a why?
Yes! Some follow it others don’t.
What does living with passion and purpose mean?
Passion allows you to do the work. If you aren’t passionate about it outsource it or don’t do it.
Purpose is the reason you do it.
The Meaning of Life Questions
To leave this world leaving value to others. Why? It’s just how I feel. I think I entered the world with a big smile on may face and I want to leave this world with a big smile on my face.
How to find Gordon Jenkins
Website: www.thevisibleguy.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Imthevisibleguy/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Imthevisibleguy/
Email: info at visible guy dot com
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