“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” George A. Moore

I really love this quote. As I reflect on it I wonder about my needs. Too often do we find ourselves searching externally for greater meaning yet perhaps everything we need is already within us. If only we could create more awareness around this perhaps then could we start living more freely.

This episode is all about needs. What are your needs? What are your true needs? And how do your needs direct the journey of your life? How do they impact your behaviours and actions? If all our needs where meet would we be needless? What would you goal in life be if this were the case. (more…)

Summary

Part of the new generation of spiritual visionaries and thought leaders, Derek Rydall is the author of EMERGENCE: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change and the world’s #1 expert on the revolutionary Law of Emergence.

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He has trained top executives at Fortune 500 companies in empowered leadership and communications, and has coached celebrities and media professionals on creating conscious entertainment. (more…)

Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday 

“The ego is not master in its own house.” Sigmund Freud

Is ego the enemy? I am in two thoughts on this and love books like this that help me questions topics like that on the ego at a higher altitude. Ryan Holiday author of The Obstacle Is the Way and fantastic book that I have also reviewed at The Hidden Why has done it again. His writing is brilliant. The topic is relatable and message important to all.

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Ryan is a master of the writing and I understand that the process of writing mustn’t be an easy one even for someone that appears to do it so easily. His writing is without clutter and very purposeful. It is not highly technical making the process of reading smooth and messages shared more absorbable. In this book, Ryan speaks and shares reasons on why he believes ego is the enemy in three parts as it relates to our aspirations, successes and failures. (more…)

“A fixation with connecting with ‘friends’ online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.” Craig Hodges

Summary

Nic Gregoriades is a martial artist and spiritual explorer from Cape Town, South Africa. In 2003 he moved to London to earn his black belt in Jiu Jitsu. There he founded the popular martial arts community, The Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood and became the first person to be awarded the black belt by the legendary Roger Gracie.

In late 2012 he took a trip to the amazon to drink the sacred plant medicine, Ayahuasca, which profoundly affected his world view and caused him to drastically change his life path. He now travels the world teaching Jiu Jitsu, studying yoga and learning about the human experience.

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Thomas Faustin-Huisking is an aspiring polymath from Texas. He has played gigs in Austin, taught SAT prep in Seoul, modeled in Paris, shown paintings in New York, shot film and television in Los Angeles, and trained Muay Thai in Phuket, among many other pursuits. (more…)

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney

In this episode of The Hidden Why Podcast I delve again into the topic of dreaming. Do not let go or lose hope in the pursuit of your dreams. Connecting your inner self with what you dream will allow you to make greater decisions in life that will assist you to live the life you love.

If you have lost hope or been discouraged then do the work to reconnect. Once you do you can then start taking appropriate level of action to allow you to awaken those dreams and bring them into reality. (more…)

Summary

Meet Grace Marshall:

“I coach, train, write and speak on productivity. I help people adopt new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.

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I’m naturally disorganized! My passion for productivity began when I got fed up of saying “I haven’t got enough time.” Impatience is what drove me to get good at getting things done. I wasn’t willing to put life on hold so I juggle my business, family, community and social life on a daily basis – and not necessarily in that order. Now I absolutely love helping people live the life they want in the time that they have.”

You’ll enjoy this conversation all about productivity sharing some great insights and practical tips.

Key Take Outs

• Mind your limiting beliefs. We make assumption of who we are based on the sum of all our past experiences and conditioning that often limits our perception of who we can become. Challenge yourself and know that your reality is a creation of your own that can be changed. If you desire to be someone else, you can make that happen.
• Value, passion and reason. Know your values, work with passion and be purposeful on your journey. This is a sure way to creating the life that you truly desire. If you have come of track it is possible to get back on. You don’t need to rely on the paths others have created (including society) you can create your own.
• Do not compare. While comparison can strengthen our hunger for the life we desire by giving us greater drive, it can also limit our belief of what’s possible. In comparison you will judge yourself on the backs of others and set even set limiting benchmarks for your potential.
• Find groups of people for support. You are not alone and you will find strength to tackle just about anything in life with a supporting group of people. Reach out to the groups that will support you on your journey.
• Don’t make work a chore, keep it a passion. Use positive language to assist you in this purpose. Try saying “I get to…” rather than “I have to…” and see how those tasks feel. This will allow you to recognise and remove that which has little purpose to your mission and stay positive about the ones that you love.

Do you have any routines and rituals that you believe contribute to your success?

A weekly review. Touch base with what you’re trying to achieve, plan, reschedule, reprioritise and clarify purpose. This can be done monthly, quarterly, yearly etc.

What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self?

You don’t have to have it all worked out.

Grace’s interpretation of success.

Being happy with how I spend my time.

What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make change?

A wake up call can be dramatic but most transformation start with smaller decisions. What is one small change the you could make to your next hour or next day.

Quick round questions

Favourite Food

Pancakes

Favourite Leisure Activitiy

Reading

Favourite book(s)

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown

Quote

“Forget perfection, the aim is to be good enough most of the time with intermittent lapses into hopelessness and brilliance.”

Do we all have a why?

Yes. Some are clear cut while others they must define their. We can add definition to our own lives.

What does living life with passion and purpose mean?

Feeling alive. Doing good work that does you good as well as the good you are doing. Waking up looking forward to the day and a sense of satisfaction at the end of each day with what you’ve achieved.

How to find Grace and other links

You can find out more about Grace by visiting her website here.  

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The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace By Pedram Shojai

The life we live today has changed dramatically to the life we lived 100 years ago. The truth of our existence now is overwhelm and rapid change. We are evolving at an increasing rate. Here inlays the battle, we are still human. The reality of this is the reason why we all need to pay more attention for if we don’t it will take away the beauty of what our existence is truly about.

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What is life? How are we meant to live this life? Why am I here? What’s it all for? Questions that I ask myself often but only because I have hacked my life and in doing so created space to allow time for reflection. Do you have the time for yourself or do you find life passing by quick as you speed from one task to the next? Chasing one rabbit and only in catching it chasing the next for what you thought it would bring didn’t eventuate. This book will give you some insight into how to avoid some of these traps of life and how to stay grounded.

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain

Fear is not the enemy- it’s our comrade. Fear comes not with the aim to stop us in our progress but as a means or reminder for us to create greater awareness. The feelings that fear bring are real we cannot deny how we feel. However, the reason we are fearful is no more real than the thought that has created it to exist.

Use fear to assess the situation but don’t let how you feel stop you or hinder your advancement. Actually, it would be better to use fear as a sign that you must take action because whatever fear that exists now will only reappear in absence of action. The reason why fear exists is only based on assumption and thought and if you really what to remove it action will prove assumption wrong.

Fear is simply your ego trying to protect it’s own definition and we shouldn’t allow our ego to get in the way of work that needs to be done to live the life we truly desire.

Enjoy this little dose of inspiration.

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Summary

Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort. As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world.

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One of Lee’s major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World. Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project.

He is now dedicating his time to public speaking and writing, having recently published three books. Lee also performs leadership and service excellence workshops and consulting for organisations around the world as well as for the Disney Institute.

There is no question that Lee has a great deal of knowledge and experience that we could all take something from. Enjoy this chat and please let me know your thoughts.

Key Take Outs

• On being organised in life. Being organised is a learnt skill, if you are not organised you can improve in this area. The fact is that we all have the exact same number of hours in the day yet some people get more done and seem to live with more balance than others, the reason for this is that they are either organised or very fortunate to have a team of people around them to assist them with this. I believe being effective allows you to become more purposeful in life.
• Know your core values. If you are not aware of what is important to you in life than you may always find yourself doing things that are not important and this is a sure way to achieve less. Know your values, know your visions and then with some level of discipline and purpose focus on those things first and foremost. You will notice the difference that this has on your life.
• Learn to be disciplined. Discipline for me was taught to me. I learnt it and I think this is something I should be grateful for as I don’t believe it’s as common with younger generations. We can become more disciplined without the need of punishment by another if we fail to act.

Firstly, it’s important that you know your desires and to know your values. This will make it easy to take action as required. And like most skills it is progressive, so start disciplining yourself with smaller more actionable tasks and then as you build your discipline spread wider. Most of us don’t like doing the shit work and will always make time for the fun and this is what often separates the successful from the unsuccessful, they persevere and discipline themselves through the bad as well as the good.

• Build trust. According to Lee it takes time to build trust. You will build it by being open with people. Being integral with who you are being and what you’re doing will build a greater level of trust among others. “Be more then you do.” People are always watching, if you are incongruent with what you say your credibility will be shot. Say as you do and really just be human, don’t allow the dark sides to show in stages of adversity.

Do you have any routines and rituals that you believe contribute to your success?

Scheduling his day and keeping to routines. Exercise, good diet and sleep are important aspects of this.

What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self?

Be more open minded. You can be more than you expect. Don’t underestimate the influence you have on other people.

Lee’s interpretation of success

I am complete. I have family and we are all good shape.

What is your number one productivity advice?

Have solid routines.

What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make change?

Decide what you want to become an expert in.

Quick round questions

Favourite Food

Meatloaf with green beans and mash potato.

Favourite Leisure Activitiy

Holidaying and relaxing.

Favourite book(s)

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

Quote

“It’s never too late to get better.”

Do we all have a why?

Yes. You have to figure out what it is but when you do life will be great. Wake up everyday and think about how you can make life better for others.

What does living life with passion and purpose mean?

By adding value to peoples lives. Being a teacher.

How to find Lee and other links

You can find out more about Lee at his website here.  

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