To Succeed... Just Let Go

Everything bad in your life comes from thought. You need to not think. I didn't say that you need to stop thinking, I said that you need to not think. And there's a difference, a huge difference and it is the difference that will transform your life. No more "I don't think that I can do that". No more "I think I wouldn't get away with saying that". No more "What will other people think of me". Too...

Yes, we're talking about family in this episode: family relationships, dysfunctional families, family feuds, normal crazy people behaving... normally! We could come at it from the perspective of sibling rivalry, parental shortcomings - something we recently explored in The Age of Adolescence - or the so-called "Developmental Niche". But, forget all that, we need to look at it through the knowledge...

You may not like what you hear in this episode for over 90% of illness is a result of lifestyle choices - in other words, most illnesses are self-inflicted. Of course, like everything else in life, the great news is... if you're the problem, you're also the solution. And this episode explores how this actually works in practice. More than that, it provides you with the one simple step that we can...

This is an episode about being a good parent. Being a good parent starts with being a loving person, a person that loves oneself. Actually, being a good parent is simply about... being. In this episode, we explore development psychology, what happens during the third year of our lives, what parents, entirely unwittingly because they're not properly present, do to their children... obviously being...

This episode goes beyond caring in a variety of different ways. First of all, most people don't care about themselves first of all! You are the most important person in your life and, if you don't care for yourself, you're in no position to care for anyone else. Not just that, if you don't care for yourself, you're currently missing and will continue to miss your own life. But we go further beyond...

Well, actually, this episode is about so much more than that! Manifestation is grossly misunderstood, dare I say it, grossly... mis-sold. You are already good at "manifesting" - because, not only can everyone do it, everyone is manifesting - all of the time. It's just that most people - unaware "normal crazy people" - are manifesting what they don't want! So, what is manifesting? How can you manif...

Everything that's wrong in your life comes from thought. All good things flow, when you're in flow. In this episode we explore how people get stuck, how they can be paralysed by fear to the point of panic, how people end up by putting themselves in the nearest cardiac unit. For example, the physical effects of stress are very real indeed but the root cause is imagined - an automatic flurry of thou...

This episode starts by exploring the feelings and sentiments of a bruised and battered leadership team - and their discovery that they had something to celebrate. Life throws us curved balls every day. For most (read "Normal Crazy People"), the automatic way in which the thinking mind reacts only magnifies life's everyday challenges, making dealing with them all the more difficult. For starters, i...

Imagine investing your attention, focus and energy in what you don't want to happen. You don't need to imagine - it's something that comes naturally to the normal crazy mind - it's called worry. And only an idiot would go there. But, we're all idiots until we take responsibility for what's going on in our head and take control of our state of mind. In this episode, we explore how thinking leads to...

You don't find flow, nor peace of mind... they find you. In this episode, we explore how to allow this happen - it is, as the very title of this whole podcast would suggest, a process of letting go. Before we get into that, though, we explore what flow is, in actuality, in practical terms and we explore the nature of peace of mind and its implications. We learn that, with peace of mind, comes an u...

This episode's title holds true, whether you're a normal crazy person or someone who has taken responsibility for your own state of mind. What's going on within creates what you achieve and experience - it has nothing to do with anyone else but you. If you're a normal crazy person, your everyday life is the result of a mass hallucination, a mass hypnosis driven by programmed, patterned, repetitive...

I really don't like the title of this week's episode because we're talking about so much more... First of all, we bust a few productivity-boosting myths: like you should do the (apparently) important things first or you should do the task you'd prefer not to have to do at all before you do anything else; like you should have a "To Do List" or have a plan or, God help us, an Action Plan; like multi...

Another misleading episode title - because there's nothing that you need to boost! Self-esteem is about how you think about what you think about who you think you are. How many steps removed are we from reality? It's only our "Conceptual Self" that thinks it needs bettering, buttering-up, bolstering. The various tips that you'll find online about boosting your self-esteem are thoughts about though...

Actually, the title of this week's episode is a little misleading - after all, why do you need to deal with something that, in reality, isn't there. Yes, whilst everyday life is full or pressure and challenge, stress is imaginary, in the mind of the beholder. That doesn't make stress any less life-destroying, literally. Everyday stress kills, like death by a thousand cuts. Everyday stress damages...

Regardless of your individual circumstances, there is one thing that I know you're looking for (because everyone's looking for it)... peace of mind. Now, before we go any further, I do know some people who are not looking for peace of mind because they've already found it - they're owners of The Psychology of Success Online Program. You'll find details of that in the link in your podcast player! A...

We're talking about real success and happiness in this episode - we're talking about the real you and how different that is from the person that you think you are, the personality that fits you like a glove. We're talking about how to balance work and life, how to rid your life of stress, effort and worry. We're talking about living your life on your terms, your way. But we're not just talking abo...

What does happiness mean to you? What does success look like? How would it feel to be living your life, your way, to the full? Do you need to answer these questions? You certainly shouldn't exercise your mind in thinking about them! In this episode, we explore how we need not define happiness and success, how we need to know what it's like to feel it and how, when we do feel it, even if only for a...

As is often the case, I sat down to record one episode and an entirely different episode emerged... it's called being in flow! So, whilst the above title is spot on, I explore a variety of ways in which we normally try to succeed or excel, which simply do not work - or worse set us up for disappointment or failure - as an introduction to the last ten minutes of this episode when... you get exactly...

Well, now - there's so much in this episode! We debunk the idea that you can get more out of life by working harder, not smarter. You don't have to work at all. We get to understand your life's purpose. Yes, I already know it! We deal with the confusion created by too many apparent bright ideas and we understand how, when we take our foot off the gas, we accelerate. Yes - the whole process, the fl...

There's so much in this episode: from reflecting on how you react or how you've noticed that you're less prone to reaction, to considering how you say and do what you might previously have been coy about saying and doing; from how your doing mind looks after you, does things for you to how your automatic mind does things to you. We explore the hows of looking after your moment-to-moment behaviour,...

Which of the above three words is bad? In this episode we explore and explode some of the myths about goal-setting and, then, how get a feel for what is best for you. Yes, I did not say what you "want" - we can have so much more out of life than we think we want. We investigate how, in clearing your mind, everything becomes clearer: your own self-worth, your perspective of reality, the things that...

You never know when you're going to learn something new, just like we can never anticipate having an Aha Moment - if we could it wouldn't be an Aha Moment! And we never know who's going to teach us - learning comes from the most unlikely places. In this episode we explore signs, signposts, opportunities and synchronicities - all easily spotted, embraced and followed... when we are present. Are we...

One of the most difficult things in life to say - and, in not saying it, a rock on which we so often perish... "NO". We get into so much trouble by not saying what needs to be said because we're afraid. What will others think of us? We'll debunk that nonsense in this episode! How could I get away with saying that? We'll deal with this too. And, then, of course, we'll explore how life is so much si...

There's so much in this episode: from love and self-love to unconditional love, from being busy-busy-busy to... doing nothing. Doing nothing: giving yourself the mental and spiritual space to experience clarity of mind, presence of mind, an ability to effortlessly do and say the right things and, most of all, a deep understanding of what your big dreams might be. Yes, we're following on from last...

What does peace of mind mean to you? How about being carefree, how would that feel? How will we know how to dream big dreams if we don't know what it would feel like to know that we don't have a care in the world? Well that, amongst plenty more besides, is what we explore in this new episode of To Succeed... Just Let Go. One key theme running through this episode can be summed up like this: you ar...