Guest Post By Wilson Usman from wilsonusman.com
Failure is Success Best Friend
By Wilson Usman
This is a guest post by Wilson Usman a 26 year old dude that decided to quit his 9 to 5 job to become an online entrepreneur come hell or high water. With a lot of failures already, he’s finding success through affiliate marketing.
Why is this? Why is it that we can’t succeed sometimes without actually failing? In my opinion, the two are best friends. If you want to become successful at anything you have to fail more than you succeed. You need to persist when it gets tough and you have to believe no matter what people tell you that what you think is possible.
“Failure is Success’s Best Friend.” There can’t be one without the other, they always somehow, somewhere play a part in somebody’s life. Take a successful person for example; they’ll tell you that they failed somewhere in there lives and if it wasn’t for that they might have not gotten to where they are today.
So why is it that we try to avoid failures instead of embrace them?
Here’s a quote from a famous failure…
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
The reason I believe that we don’t want to fail at whatever it is that we try to achieve is because we are afraid that others will look at us as FAILURES, because NOT succeeding the first time or second time is bad. I know this from my own experience.
Failing 23 Times – NOT Enough
To give you another example that’s more personal, I’ll explain my story. Before I started blogging I had a job selling vacuums door-to-door for over two years. It wasn’t the coolest job ever, especially around this time of the year, but it paid the bills. Friends, family and sometimes my own conscious told me I would never succeed at this. I’ll tell you it was hard fighting all this negativity. Anyway I ended up taking the job and actually not making any money selling for almost two weeks of failing. I told myself the last day before I made the sale that I would NOT fail anymore and I would NOT come out of that house until I made that sale. I don’t know if it was my talk that I had inside myself that helped me or the 23 people I had NOT sold that DAMN! vacuum to before I made my first sale, but I have a hunch that it was all the failing.
The moral of that mini story is that I failed until I succeeded. After all the negativity I wasn’t going to let the naysayer’s win.
I’ve learned a lot from living and I think its the best way to learn. I do agree though that we can learn from others successes, as well as failures.
A New Challenge – More Failures
Recently I’ve taken a new challenge in my life of becoming a successful online entrepreneur and start earning $10,000 a month from different income streams. And in this challenge I’ve been faced with some difficulties. But I still enjoy going through the process.
The biggest of all problems I had, once again when I began looking into making an income online, was my mindset. I’d heard from several people already that it wasn’t possible and that it was a SCAM!! Yes like everything that I’ve heard before, but I still gave it a shot.
Gladly my mindset, ever since I read “Think and Grow Rich,” has been that everything that the mind of man can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE. The words of this book are truly powerful and I recommend anyone to get this book.
So a word of advice is to have a positive mindset and actually believing you can make a full time income on the Internet if you want to. You just have to work hard at it and it will pay off.
NOT Taking Action Leads to Wasted Time and Procrastination
The second thing that I challenged when I got started was TAKING ACTION. I spent a year learning and reading and learning and reading some more. That was a big mistake because I could have been making more by now. I think if you’re going to try anything you should correct as you do. You’re going to make mistakes anyway why not make them while you’re learning.
You shouldn’t wait for the perfect time or place because it’s never going to happen, just do it! I know that’s a little corny but its true. I spent so much time looking for information that I already had to be successful but I kept procrastinating. Don’t make that mistake.
Trying to Become a Jack of All Trades
And finally the biggest of all failures was not focusing on one thing. Online you can get distracted with every magic bullet that all the marketers shoot at you. I tried learning PPC, flipping websites, adsense, and freelancing. By trying to do so much I started getting overwhelmed and never really succeeded at anything until I focused one method.
I have to say that my experience with failure has taught me a lot and without it I could have never had success. Again other factors like persistence, definite purpose, and autosuggestion have contributed a lot my success.
If you’ve had to struggle at something but you’ve come up and overcame your failures, share it in the comments. I think that from people’s experiences we can learn a lot.
My Arizona Experience Uncut, Real, and Live. (Day 1 of 30 Day Experiment of Following Gut)
A blog about my Arizona Experience. Unedited, raw, live and real. So, if you are following along, this is stil day one of part of my 30 day 100% following my gut experiment. Which means that whatever ideas that I am inspired in the exact moment to write or take action on I will do at that moment.
I just started this experiment last night and already got 2 emails from people that are sending me some projects that they have pitched to me.
The universe works fast, when we are inspired in action. So back to my Arizonza experience unedited, raw, and uncut.
So most of you know I’m out here on some kinda path that I was called to do from my higher guides. (Google higher guides or spirit guides) Yet, at the same time some of you don’t really know the depths of the location move. You have to understand the entire journey before you can appreciate the current place I have found myself in.
A bit of hesitation, looms from up under me as I start this piece.. by the way. But I’ll continue forward as this is the expermiemnt I am running with and not trying to censor it.
So, here we go. I came from the (818- google it). My experience there was hard to the core. I mean anyone that actually has grown up there or maybe even still lives there knows that placce aint no joke. (Gang warfare, drugs, violence, real hoes, pornography captial of the world).
It is a filipino americans version of the ghetto. I don’t say this to to offednd or hurt people at all, that are still living there.
It’s just that I know how hardcore it is over there but know that I mean well, and I’m just writing from my experience anyway, so take it with a grain of salt.
I moved there from the ghetto into Moreno Valley CA then to Riverside, after some hardcore family seperation shit that was more than I could handle at the time, but still managed to come out from that experience with tons of inspiration I can now use to gather together from. It is so interesting the fact that we can all go through some really hardcore and challenging times and still use that experience into something productive and creative that moves other people.
So from there I was called by my spirit to move to Arizona. For those of you that aren’t too acustomed to moving and have stayed like in one spot your entire life, that inital descion may have been a shock.
It’s funny because, I discused moving to this place with people who are like travelers and they are like in agreement with my choice to move out here. Then I talk to people who stayed in the same house for like all there life and they are shocked and stuff, and even tried to stop me. lol. One thing that most people already know about me, is that once I set my mind on something, I do it.
I’ll be the first to admit pretty “bullheaded” in my descions on certain things.
I don’t know I guess, everyone has different perspectives on things like change of location and some people are more accepting of change and welcome change more than others. Who knows? I don’t like judging people. I just do me and that works out very great.
So I am here in Arizona. With no intentions of moving back to California in the near future. If anything I wil move to a different country. Costa Rica? Possibly.
But, it really is just a lot of fun. Those blogs that you read, like even though I put logical thought into it, rework and edit it and make it presentable, like that’s me foreal.
Like, I really do enjoy my life and its wierd because even when I’m just free writing right now with this experiment I’m running of just writing on inspiraton or whatever comes to my mind, like life is all good still.
Like you would think, there is this wierd hidden unconsious challenge that I would start presenting to you with this free writing, but its not. Sorry, I don’t have a hard life. lol.
I mean I did early on I guess, but those issues weren’t really me. It was the other people that had to learn lessons and I was just there as a guide to like observe and gain inspiration from. I’ve made tons of mistakes in my past that were really not the best choices in the world.
Yet, I feel like my life is really intersting, regardless of whatever people think. Like there is magic in my unconsious that I tap into when I am here with you at this very exact moment typing this. So, really I would just suggest yah continue to follow me on this 30 day experiment. Stuff may come out as writing or just some other form, but yah this is pretty awesome.
Till next time…
+Baker
( I use a plus sign before my name, because I’m a positive person.)
Baker Joy-A Poem (Day 1 of Follwing My Gut Experiment)
Baker joy is not like anything you have ever seen
I am living the dream
Baker joy is the way and I get my dough
I use words that are consistent with how I glow
What you reap you sow
So I am out putting out good
These are words that are from someone who used to
Live in the hood
I still know people that live in the hood
I tell them its all good
They live in struggle but they hard to the core
Eight one hate still livin’ like it’s 98′
Had to get out that place just wasn’t my fate
I tell them to move out, but there finances are poor
Yet I still soar… admist all the craziness
Going with the flow is not laziness
It is pure genius, my ego mind can’t believe I’m saying this
Yet I am free once again to be me
This new 30 day experiment is flowing with authentic creativity
Who is with me? Who is not? I Can care less
I am on fire, burning hot
Baker joy is something everyone has caught
Like an epedemic in the air
Life is fair
You get what you put out there
Baker oven filled with so much creativity
Catching up with my own spirit that is 10 steps ahead of me
I spark the imagination
I am bulding my brand with utter fascination
I am what you think about when you go to bed at night
Rhymes filled with mind blowing insight
I don’t care if what I’m saying is politcally right
I follow my own light
Baker joy is shining bright
+Baker
Following My Gut 100% a 30 Day Experiment
One of the things I write about a lot is following ones intuition or gut. What I have found is that, even though I write a lot about this topic, I actually don’t this 100%.
I mean, I’ve improved dramatically over the course of my 26 years of living. I am pleased with my progress thus far on this topic of going with the flow and taking inspired action when it comes from me, from the divine. But, feeling the urge to take it to the next level.
The reason I know my flow is not 100% is because my mind is always trying to come up with reasons to stop me from doing something. I will be taking part in a 30 day experiment to see what would happen if I just did and said exactly what was on my mind at that exact time it arrives.
This is a bit scary for me, because I do have amazing ideas run through my head all day long, but I probably only really act on really about 20% of them. I’ve wanted to do this experiment for quite sometime now.
Synchronistically I checked up on my Twitter, and click on a link of Steve Pavlina’s blog. He recently wrote a post here about that very same experiment that I’ve been thinking about doing for a few weeks now.
So as I take on this new 30 day experiment, do keep in mind that I will move into the direction of what an inspired thought, and not try to “censor” it. This may mean more frequent posts showing up on my blog, and if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, some really just off the wall stuff will come up, or not… who knows? I’ll just move into inspiration and not try to “pre-plan” out things so much.
So the commitment I’m making for the next 30 day experiment is just taking action on my next inspired thought, without thinking twice and taking action on it at that exact moment.
Let’s see where this goes. =)
You are more than welcomed to “flow” with me for the next 30 days if you like, we can share and discuss the experience together.
+Baker
(I decided to go back old school with it! Let the expermient begin!!!)
The Top 5 Benefits of Being Awesome
Be
Awesome
Kevin
Everyone’s
Ready
Currently at the age of 26, I live an awesome life. In my own path of self discovery, and taking the leap of faith with moving out here to Arizona from California on my own on a whim, building up this blog from scratch, tapping back into my creativity, and just being open minded to new expansive ideas, I’ve managed to really see the real benefits of being an awesome person.
Awesome people, get what they want when they want and how they want it. Broken down to its core, an awesome person has inner peace and joy within oneself, and thus the individual sends out this peace and joy with those he or she comes in contact with. I’ve found this to be valuable for my overall success. This inner knowing is something that can be developed over time.
The following words you will read will allow you to see the top benefits that being awesome truly brings to you.
The 5 benefits of being awesome, that I describe below, are benefits I’ve personally enjoyed as a result of becoming more self aware and conscious with the choices I make in my own life, and embracing my very own awesomeness. =)
1. More Clarity
Awesome people have clarity in their life. Yes, they do get burned by the struggles and harshness of this world, but clarity arises from deep within them because they are aware of this inner power. This inner power is being clear of where they are currently. The emphasis is really on being clear in the moment. No worries, just safe and secure with a clear focus on where the person is now.
I’ve found that daily meditation at the start of each day, sets the tone for my day and clears my head, resulting in more clarity during the day.
2. Inner Peace
Awesome people have inner peace. They don’t concern themselves with what everyone else is getting caught up in. They are filled with inner peace, because they know this is what brings them back to a state of and realization that “All is well.” The inner peace they have inside, shows that they are more than capable to get what they want they want to get it. You will experience a sense of inner peace when you acknowledge and embrace your inner awesomeness.
3. More Abundance
I heard a very amazing quote about the real meaning of abundance. The quote reads as follows, “Abundance is the ability to do what you need to do, when you need to do it.” That resonates well with me and I try to keep that mantra alive in my own life, with whatever direction I choose to go in. It is that freedom that allows that awesomeness to come alive in myself. Since, we live in the material world, abundance of freedom generally results in also having an abundance of money. If you are interested in a process that I wrote about on How to become Automatically Rich for the Long Term. Read my post on How To Use This Daily Habit to become Automatically Rich. Too many people don’t realize they have the power to achieve this state of abundance, but it is very possible and realistic, it begins with the right mindset and habits.
4. Better Connection
Connection with awesome people. The reality is that the more you step into your awesomeness, you attract awesome people that are a perfect fit to the direction you want to go in life. The best thing is these connections are real and authentic. This is because being awesome at the basic level is not external. Being awesome is simply your recognition of your own inner light. I’ve discovered that being awesome is an internal thing.
5. More Joy
Joy is the result of being an awesome person. Imagine yourself as that creative inner child that is very playful and filled with joy, being fully expressed daily. This daily expression comes from honoring your inner child instead of pushing it further away. The truly awesome people know this. They understand that there inner child must be fed, and they take action steps that result in feeding this inner child, by giving to themselves always. Joy is a very special benefit of being awesome.
Yours in Awesomeness,
Why The Law of Attraction Is A Way of Life & My Guest Post On John Chow’s Blog
A question that many people always ask is, if the law of attraction is “real.”
Well to that I say, yes indeed it is very real.
But, what I have discovered for myself, is that the law of attraction is not just a “one time thing.” You don’t just wake up one morning and ask for something very big and it comes to you, that very same second, or even that very same day.
What people generally don’t fully grasp is that the law of attraction works as more of a process more than anything else.
If you are curious about what really happens when you start thinking positive & more about the law of attraction read my previous post about this Here.
When we desire bigger things in life, the reason that it takes awhile for it to manifest in real time, is because a lot of times vibrationally or energetically we aren’t a match to that big goal yet that we want. The truth is that patience does come into play here, if indeed one desires bigger things in life.
I was communicating to a very good friend of mine via email one month ago about what I wanted to do with my blog and the overall direction of the blog.
At the time, I was feeling this minor transition in my own personal life, and with the blog itself. I felt that there was a transition I had to make. He had mentioned to start hitting bigger brand names on the web, to get my message out on a bigger scale. So I agreed and realized that in order to do that I would have to step up my vibrational frequency and content creation, to match up and be up to par with bigger brands online.
So I put the intention out to the universe to attract bigger brand name blogs to collaborate with, that I know is very much up to speed and expanding in a very good direction for my blog as well.
So I started researching bigger blog brands out there. I ran across John Chow’s Blog-The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul.
Now, regardless if you are an aspring online entrepreneur or already a successful online entrepreneur let me break it down for you. (Please not the following numbers are not typos or exaggerated claims). John Chow makes over 100k a month from the internet, with over 100k subscribers to his blog alone johnchow.com. Those statistics are pretty major.
So, it would be fair to say John Chow’s blog is relatively speaking a highly notable big name brand online for other aspiring online entrepreneurs to follow. So, I decided to send him a guest post. He has frequent guest posts on there, so I said it was worth a shot, Send him my guest post and leave it up to the universe.
2 weeks go by and I don’t get a single word back from him. The third week, I check my twitter updates and he tweets: New Blog Post @JohnChow – The Difficult Part About The Secret a.k.a “The Law of Attraction”
The Guest Post I submitted, fittingly was about my personal experience about the Law of Attraction. =)
Was this the Law of attraction in action? Yes.
One of the things that people will begin to understand with this whole process is that what they choose to focus on expands. If you are in the vibration of success, you attract this. It is just an energy thing.
One of the things people do when they first here about the law of attraction, is they try to set an intention and go about their business and when what they want doesn’t come right away, they give up and drop out of that initial vibration of the excitement and joy and feeling of actually having what they are asking for.
Since, they drop out of this vibrational frequency, they don’t manifest what they intended because, they were no longer a match (energetically) to what they were asking for.
Everything is energy. Your thoughts and actions produce this signal to the universe. I am not just saying this because it sounds like the cool thing to say, I live this in real life.
The point here is this, you have to first set the intention that is aligned with your values, do what brings you joy, detatch from the outcome and it will manifest at the time the universe wants it to come to you. Keep in mind this is a process. It is just about continually doing your thing, and letting go knowing that the universe has it all handled.
The law of attraction is a way of life. It isn’t something that is stressful, hard, or confusing. At the core it is very easy, natural, and flowing. Maybe what you are asking for doesn’t come, because you are not really ready for it. This is hard for people to accept, including myself.
But, we are all here on this journey of life attracting to ourselves that which we are a match to and which serves our highest good at the moment. Sometimes, we don’t get what we want, because there is a life lesson we need to learn first. But, we have to work through it and overcome these sometimes very challenging life obstacles. If things don’t go your way, just be patient and consciously focus your attention on what you already have in your life.
Focusing on being grateful for all that is already here in your life, opens you up to understanding how manifestation truly works. Be grateful and express joy for whatever it is you have in your life now, and the flowing energy opens up for you.
Allow yourself the opportunity to let go and just trust that what you are asking for is asking for you as well. Be easy about this, life is an adventure and we attract to us the energy that we give out. This truly is an exciting time to be alive, for with these concepts I describe here, one can truly begin to thrive in direction of their wildest dreams if they so choose.
The law of attraction is a way of life, because it is how things naturally flow, and not a “one time” thing.
In The flow,
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Guest Post by Darren L Carter: Building an Entrepreneur, Designing a Lifestyle
Today I have a guest post by Darren L Carter from Darrenlcarter.com: Entrepreneur, Designing a Lifestyle. One of the things that caught my attention when I was reading through Darren’s blog was the fact that he is blogging from Rural Japan at the moment, and has the goal of earning a full-time living from the internet. Achieving this goal will allow him to escape the regular 9-5 job and become location independent and travel the world at his convience with just his laptop.
The following guest post featured today on Baker’s World Blog, highlights the early stages of Darren’s location independent lifestyle and journey as a successful internet entrepreneur.
Experiments in Lifestyle Design
By Darren L Carter
So I recently heard about something called Lifestyle Design. I take that back, I recently discovered lifestyle design. I first heard about it in Tim Ferris’ book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
less than a year ago but I never focused on all the stuff about lifestyle design (his blog is even named Experiments in Lifestyle Design). For me lifestyle design was something I was already doing. I was living in a tiny farming village, I had traveled far and wide to different places I wanted to go, and the world looked like an easy place to try out. I didn’t really see anything that could stop me (still don’t).
I ended up listening to parts of the audio version of Tim’s book over 100 times on my long drives to a city or my daily drives through the countryside to go teach kids English (my Friday elementary school has 16 kids). Despite hearing the word lifestyle design over and over on my long drives it never registered as anything other than common sense… Until I found out last week that there is a whole culture devoted to lifestyle design and other peoples experiments in lifestyle design.
Last week I read an article over at Kathy Dobson’s blog with the question “Crave Adventure?” in the title. Of course I answered yes in my head. The article was about something called Tropical MBA and the first post I saw was called Live on a Tropical Island For Free. The offer was for someone to live for free on a tropical resort in the Philippines with full access to mentoring and advice in exchange for working with him on his own business and blog projects.
I didn’t get accepted, but it was through this find that I discovered a whole movement around Lifestyle Design, full of people who are turning their lives into a wild experiment with the minimum acceptable goal being the fulfillment of their absolute dream lifestyle. And many of them are becoming internet entrepreneurs (like me) in order to design their ideal lifestyle with full freedom.
My Experiment in Lifestyle Design
For the last few years my life has been an experiment in lifestyle design. My only plan was to find a cool place to go, get an interesting job to support myself, learn from everyone I meet, and take in every piece of life there is to be lived (not necessarily in that order).
If you’ve watched the video’s on my blog you know that I’m in rural Japan. It’s been an awesome experience. But it’s coming to an end That’s why I’ve committed myself to building an online business despite having no prior experience or knowledge (until my business mentor Alex Jeffrey’s came along). That’s why I have been putting every ounce of passion and motivation towards becoming a successful entrepreneur and learning everything I can along the way. So that I can go somewhere new in the world and experience a new adventure and use my creativity to build something valuable that is mine (not a boss) to give to people.
Because I know that no matter what happens I’ll keep continuing my adventure. Whether I go to a tropical island, sail around the world for 3 months on a boat (yes that’s also a possibility), move to the mega-city of Tokyo for a bit, or choose anywhere else in the world, I have already decided that my life is an adventure.
Your Experiment in Lifestyle Design
I was asked this question once by a friend and mentor. He told me to take it seriously and write down the answer to give to him. I followed his advice and it helped me tremendously for such a simple exercise. So now I’m going to ask you the question. And I want you to take it seriously and write down your answer (paper, notepad, napkin, computer). Write down everything. And remember, there are no rules and no boundaries and nothing is set in stone.
What is your 100 percent perfect lifestyle?
Now I’m gonna go take a bath in a hot spring (my reward for writing this post!)
-Darren L Carter
Attention To Stuff That Matters Most to YOU & Living YOUR Passions
“Things that matter most Must never be at the mercy of things that matter least”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I ran across this quote twice in one week. First, while checking on my twitter when someone quoted it on their Twitter update, and second by reading a book that had the exact quote. Which reminded me of the importance of following one’s passion.
It is reported now that more than half of Americans who do actually have a job in today’s economy, are dissatisfied with their job.
One of the reason that many people I feel today are dissatisfied with their job is because of a lack of guidance. Many people are continually doing stuff they despise because at the end of the day they failed to listen to their inner guidance.
One of the remarkable discoveries I have found in my life, is that by just writing these blogs I find a great sense of passion exude from within me, as if I am feeding an inner sense of joy that lives inside of me every time I have the opportunity to just be in the moment and put my thoughts together on here.
I have found that when I focus my intent and energies on the things that matter most to me, such as creating value. I am not at the mercy of things that matter least, such as getting involved in activities such as idol gossip, abuse of substances, or excessive television watching (just a few examples).
Living YOUR passion means that you become the person that is at the steering wheel of your life. Although, I have helped many people so far realize that they create their own reality with their thoughts. There are still a few people still doubt the fact that when I tell them that, “They create their own reality.”
The people that generally have a hard time with this concept, I have found are simply those that are moving more in the direction of focusing on activities that matter least in their lives. Therefore this constant focus on what matters very little in their lives does indeed become at the mercy of what matters most.
If you are to truly become the creator of your reality and be in control of your life, you have to be open to the fact that the action steps you take are in alignment with what matters most in your life at that time. This comes from being and living YOUR passions in life.
Although, becoming an entrepreneur is not the only way to follow ones passions in life. Becoming an entrepreneur provides this amazing gateway that appeals to many of the people in my generation and the younger generation to achieving real freedom over time and money.
The idea of owning your own business, being your own boss, setting your own working hours, ability to travel, and doing what you love most has a tremendous upside, especially in today’s economy. I will have future posts by some truly amazing people that are living this lifestyle as successful online entrepreneurs in my future posts. So stay tuned.
Living your passion opens up so many doors for you. Regardless, of how much rejection, or set backs you face in the process, if you are doing what feels right for you with persistence, doors will open for you.
I understand this from my own personal experience.
When I first started writing this blog, I didn’t know where it could possibly lead me. The first 6 months of this blog had only anywhere from (0-2) readers to my blog daily. Yes, Only (zero-two) visitors to my blog each day for 6 months. When I recieved my first comment on my blog, (which was like one sentence long) I literally jumped out of my seat with joy and excitment. Initially 3 years ago, I started this blog as a hobby, and just somewhere to keep my thoughts positive and write about concepts and philosophies expressed in personal development books, and live personal development seminars that I enjoyed.
I never felt burdened by having to write a blog post, I just really enjoyed writing. It wasn’t like how you see most of these online bloggers starting today where they are writing a blog just because it has potential to make them a ton of money. That mindset and approach just always seemed too unauthentic to me.
I actually enjoy writing these posts. I have a clear message that I think I’m doing a very good job at currently to share with others, and this blog is growing gradually at a pace that is actually consistent with my own personal growth and life experiences.
Now, I have a good number of readers coming to my site daily, self published 2 books that were inspired out of this blog itself (which I will relaunch soon) and I have been approved by some companies to sponsor some ads on my blog that resonate well with my site. So all in all, just that passion for writing opened up doorways for me of opportunities to monetize. The success of this blog is consistent with my passion for self expression and creating value for others. I am happy and very grateful for this wonderful space and opportunity that I am currently involved in.
The goal really is to follow your passion, and run away with it. I can guarantee the opportunities will show up if you are consistently plugging away with your passion small steps daily.
You see, when someone is living from their passion in life, whatever it may be, they are creating their reality as they move along. The goal really is just to continue to put that focus back to the passion and less time spent on focus of what everything else around you is trying to make of you.
I will be real with you. The challenging part, is that sometimes you will tend to follow advice from very well meaning people such as parents, relatives, friends, teachers, or people in “percieved authority” and stray away from your real passion. This is a reality I see very common among many people.
There is good news though. The truth is, once you can get passed that stage, you will be set free to truly live YOUR passion, and not the passion that others try to impose on you.
Although, it can be a real struggle, from my own experince, the fight for your freedom is well worth it at the end of the day.
The point of attraction is only in the here and now. You can create your reality as you wish, if indeed you are living your passion. If you are not clear on what your passion is. Experiment over and again, and allow whatever feels like exciting to you, be the measure of what you “should” be doing. Be easy about this, and allow your inner guidance to guide you.
Believing in You,
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The Top 6 Things That Will Gaurantee YOU Lead A Remarkable Life
I lead a remarkable life. Although, at the moment some healthy challenges and obstacles on a more business level of where I want to go with this blog have surfaced, all in all this life I am currently living is nothing short of remarkable.
I have what I need when I need it, and I continue to creatively express myself in a manner that is consistent with my natural talents that brings joy to people. Many people wonder what it is like to lead a remarkable life. But, what most people sometimes fail to understand is that a remarkable life is not something that is overly difficult to lead at all.
As a matter of fact, broken down to its core, leading a remarkable life really just consists of 6 core things that I myself have been working on over the 1 year I’ve been out here on my own in Arizona and that continues to work well for me in my own personal growth.
Top 6 Things That Will Gaurantee a Remarkable Life
1. Supportive Friends and Family
This goes without saying. High on every remarkable life consists of having supportive friends and family. Without that good support and compassion from the friends and family it is challenging to actually live a remarkable life. A remarkable life is only as remarkable as the connections you share authentically with others. Meaningful relationships with others is the foundation of leading a remarkable life. Having people close to you support your dreams and what you want to do in life, is very valuable. This is a very touchy subject, that many don’t want to admit. But the reality is leading a remarkable life does require gently releasing and leting go of those people that were once close to you that no longer fully support your endevours.
2. Doing what you love
Doing what you love is essential to a remarkable life. Too many people are stuck at jobs they dislike. If you are stuck at a job you dislike and are there for a majority of your day, a remarkable life is not available to you. The remarkable life is doing what you love, fully utilizing all of your God given talents in a manner that is consistent with your life’s purpose. Doing what you love opens up such an amazing space for your life that allows you to stay on a path that is consistent with your wildest dreams. Doing what you love on a daily basis brings out a remarkable life guaranteed.
3. Passive Income
If this is your first time reading on passive income, I suggest you read on an earlier post I wrote on passive income here. A remarkable life does consist of you making a passive income. Passive income gives you the ability to have more time freedom in your life. Do you want to travel and see the world? Do you want more time with your loved ones? Earning Passive income is not some distant fantasy, that most may imagine. Earning Passive income is real. It does require a lot of time and effort to get to that point where your income is purely passive, but it is very doable. Although I am not 100% there yet, I know that this is the path to a remarkable life, because it gives you that leverage of time to do more stuff you like versus stuff you don’t like. Passive income allows you the opportunity to lead a remarkable life because it allows you more time freedom to do the things that excite you, when you want to do them. Fascinating concept right?
4. Contribution
A remarkable life consists highly of making a positive contribution to society. It is key that you make a contribution to society to guarantee you lead a remarkable life. As human beings we have the natural desire to give in any way we can. A remarkable life means that you are giving to causes or people that need what you have to offer the most. As you give you shall receive. The remarkable life consists of this conscious effort to make a positive contribution to society because at the end of the day it just feels good to give to others. The feeling of giving alone will convince you that you are living a remarkable life by your sincere contribution to society.
5. The Attitude of Gratitude
Developing an attitude of gratitude is essential to leading a remarkable life. When I feel down or not feeling so great, I consciously make the effort to express sincere and honest gratitude for the little things that I have and experiences that I’ve had that are positive and uplifting. It doesn’t matter if it is something as small as being grateful for the bed I sleep on, or the ability to simply witness the beautiful stars of the night sky. I consciously make an effort to express gratitude and thankfulness for everything. The energy inside me then gets uplifted and I can operate from a place of gratitude that feels great. A remarkable life requires consciously being grateful for everything you experience and have in your life.
6. Being Yourself
Last on the list is being yourself. I blog a lot about this topic, because it truly is just so valuable to be comfortable in your own skin and have fun being you. If you are a singer, sing. If you are a painter, paint. If you are a businessman, get that dough. If you are a mixture of many things, bring it all together and balance it according to how you see fit. Being the modern day renaissance man or woman is admirable and very intriguing. The point here is this, when you are being you, and not the you that others are constantly trying to mold you into, you step into your own as a being of radiant light filled with joy and expressing the best parts of you to the world. From being you, you allow that inner light to shine through and I can guarantee being the best you in whatever situation you see yourself in, you will lead a remarkable life gauranteed.
Remarkable Living,
Guest Post from Jonny Gibaud from thelifething.com
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