Alchemy For Life

Progress If you’re not measuring progress, how do you know how well you are doing in the pursuit of a goal? Don’t you have milestones and stuff like that? The Alchemy for Life system has a huge amount of tracking, and milestones, and even an icon for setbacks, so why am I even asking this? Measuring something else. I’m asking because sometimes it can seem like you’re not ma...

Here’s something you don’t hear – thoughts do not equal reality. In an odd way this is a discussion (of the reverse kind) of mindfulness. Fight of flight Our fight or flight mechanism was designed and evolved to deal with something happening right now. It was designed to deal with reality . If you’re having anxiety about the room filling up with water because it’s cur...

Three Voices Did you know you have three voices? Do you know that one can always be used to override another? Do you know that one of the voices is also a sounding board that can not only help you (preparing for a speech, reviewing a discussion), but also can torment you if overused (that fight you had playing over and over in your head for seemingly ‘no reason’)? You’re using on...

Labels We all use labels because that’s the base of all languages – complex concepts, descriptions, procedures all contained in a smaller form. Imagine if you had to describe a house every time you wanted to talk about houses. Exhausting. And you’d get dumber. So we create labels for things. But as we talked about in the Assuming podcast , the use of certain labels (in that case...

Ambition It’s a good thing, right? Have you ever done something, shown something or demonstrated something and had someone say “Well, that’s ambitious?” Has a tiny bit of something negative behind that, doesn’t it? Have you ever started a project only to decide (consciously or unconsciously) to make it much more elaborate, involved, expensive, thorough or in short&#82...

How long is your day? Ingrained in the society I live in is the eight hour work day. However, to get ahead, to be salaried, to be a manager, a mover and shaker or someone who is launching businesses or being an entrepreneur it’s expected that you work 10, 12, 16 or more hours. Is this you, you hard working devil you? In a study conducted in the UK of almost 2,000 office workers, it was found...

Think outside the box (group) We all know that thinking outside of the box has its benefits. Usually this thinking happens with someone who has a different perspective than others. And that, ironically, is what this podcast is about. Groups are great, until they’re not We all are part of one or more groups, whether it is simply because of designation (humans, teachers, mechanics, insurance p...

Liminal spaces A liminal space is the between space (usually in the physical world). It doesn’t ‘feel right.’ It’s a threshold between two states. The transitory nature usually causes you to feel a little creeped out. Ever done a house tour in which a lot of the personal belongings have been minimized? It’s not your house, it’s not their house, it’s for sa...

What are your offers? Let’s talk about your offers. By offers I don’t just mean your business offerings, I literally mean things you have offered to others —whether it’s helping someone to move if they need it in the future, lending your truck, working with someone, forming a partnership, offering to mentor, etc. Integrity and Time, Energy and Resources If you are going to make o...

What’s the speed of your reality? That’s a trick question, and it sounds a little ooga-booga doesn’t it. It is, and it’s not. A watched pot never boils You’ve heard both a watched “pot never boils” and “time flies when you’re having fun,” right? Though the former is not true, both are rooted in reality… Aha, but which reality. And d...

Special Announcement This is a special announcement about free coaching that is being offered to two groups . The Alchemy for Life™ podcast subscribers group is one of the groups, which is why you’re seeing this. Congrats. Here is the scoop You’re probably just like me. You just want to know what this is all about, so here it is. What :  A free limited coaching group to help you g...

Motivation. People talk about motivation so much it’s annoying. Coaches and speakers talk about it all. the. time. You don’t need another source do you? But here’s a different take… Two parts to motivation The actual hype that gives you energy . This is stuff like music that makes you excited to do the task. The thing you are motivated to go towards. The carrot, the pat on...

How do you have time for this? Have you heard this phrase? You typically hear this about a large project or something that is apparently time consuming. But that’s misleading. They are using the wrong word Life is made of three things™ – Time, Energy and Resources . The big secret is that mostly it’s not just about time, but about energy. We find time and time again (no pun inten...

Holistic To have a holistic approach is to consider all aspects of the whole . There’s nothing ooga booga or froo froo about that, and if you know me and this podcast you know we don’t talk about things that aren’t tangible. Being holistic is tangible. It just means that if there is a problem or an issue, you look at everything—like a doctor that doesn’t just prescribe meds...

Fate & Destiny Fate and Destiny mostly mean the same, don’t they? They’re sort of interchangeable—except for one thing: one makes you feel bad and the other makes you feel good. Free will It’ an age-old discussion, this talk of whether we have free will or not. What do you believe? Do you believe your actions today can change tomorrow, or is tomorrow going to happen regardles...

Hakan Berg is known as The King of Birds . He was a finalist on Britain’s Got Talent, and fooled half of Penn and Teller on Fool us. Hakan and I had a surprisingly philosophical discussion about laughter, trust, vulnerability, magic and being in the present. We made a discovery together about an element that seems to be missing from all self care and self love lists , but is probably most ne...

Mantras We all know what a mantra is—it’s that thing you repeat over and over again; it’s that guiding principle you have; it is those words you live by. Well I have one of those too. For me it’s “Seek First to Understand” and I don’t know if i live by those words or they just happen to describe how my brain operates. A helping hand If you are like me, then you...

Assume Assume : To suppose without information. Is this what you’re doing? is this what you have done every time you suppose without information? Or is this one of those words of power that we take for granted (no pun intended there). Label The word assume can be applied as a label to behavior. What makes it potentially dangerous and powerful is when it is applied to your behavior from an ex...

It’s such an innocuous word, isn’t it? Potential. It doesn’t sound like much when I say it by itself like that. But it’s the doorway to good and bad; to epic success or catastrophic failure. Let’s talk about what it means, what it does, and how it gives us a clue as to which successes—and failures—we may have chosen.

The comfort zone If you hire a coach, have a review or consider accomplishing a new goal invariably the comfort zone is going to come up. And the first thing that will be discussed is you leaving the comfort zone. It will be discussed as if it is a bad thing, even though it’s where you live. Leave it! But what’s the size of your comfort zone? What they don’t even consider is the...

The solution to all of your problems, past, present and future is to simply be Your Best Self. There. Done. There’s no podcast. It’s that easy. Reality and the thing you have to do first Oh, you’re still here? What’s that in your hands there… a chair? Put that down. Ok, no pressure here, but what do you need to do to be the best version of you? You have to know what t...

Robbin Castillo Robbin is a personal trainer, teacher and coach. He provides Ascension coaching , Holistic personal training and masterclasses . I normally do not feature coaches on my interviews (I tend to get a lot of requests for appearances on my podcast by coaches) but I approached Robbin because of what I saw on Instagram. His physical feats and exercises that were “just because I want...

You’re not alone. Here are do’s and don’ts for success in 2022. This bullet list and these resources will help you. 2022 and success – do’s and don’ts Don’t make resolutions. Make a goal with a system behind it. Become aware, then act on this awareness (that’s the whole premise of the podcast in case you haven’t noticed that yet). Don’t b...

Lets celebrate both today: Check out Balance and the Holidays . Check out a free course on AlchemyFor. Me – Do it to a F.A.U.L.T. Alchemy for Me is an online school meant for adults, but these kids are just so dang excited…

We have two subjects this Sunday – old news and new news. Old (but extremely important) News Around this time you are feeling an additional pull at your time, energy and resources . It’s the holiday season. Each year I give you a heads up and a warning about what is going to happen—and a way to deal with it. This year is no different . And since it’s no different, I think it&#821...