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What I Want Is What I Got In The End #IYP A trip to the Hospital lead me to an amazing conversation with an elderly lady and a massive lesson in understanding for myself and I hope all of you as well. Meaning what we want and think of something is not always the same as what the people who we want and think it for may think for themselves! Here is how this played out. So I had an issue with my rib...

The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It Part 2 #IYP In Part 2 of this chat I go deeper into the fact of my ant sized view (on how I assumed the world was crashing down on me) instead of my bird's eye view (which is now my fact of endless possibilities and not being held back). I also talk about the new found freedom, the new found creativity and the fact that I am not feeling held down or held bac...

The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It #IYP So I have to let you all know how a piece of information that was told to me threw me into a tizzy for a few days because of all the wrong reasons. You may ask what or why, so let me give you the background. I was leaving for a month away from my office and area, I had a few final calls and interviews to do before going, as I knew I would be offline due...

How To Protect Yourself From Negative Energy #IYP How is this done, why is this done and do I need to do it? Well, I think with the times we are all going through currently on this planet that this is a very good idea. On today's show I speak about how remaining silent for a number of reason's may actually help you and the person or person's you are surrounding yourself with protect energies and s...

Reliving Your Life With A New Outlook #IYP How often do you, like me always think of the 'grass could be greener' over there option? So on today's show I go over a great little reminder chat with a former business partner of my past and how that mindset set off 2 completely different emotions and this lead to a massive state of confusion and frustration, which as always once you sit with it leads...

Judge Me Not For What I Do Not Understand #IYP That is correct, the judgement in all of us, towards ourselves, towards others, towards events, towards everything basically. We run all the information that we get from our 5 senses "sight, sounds, taste, smell, touch" and then take that info a run it through our own filters, programming, mind,  and by that I mean how each one of us individually was...

There Is Always Something To Be Grateful For #IYP So almost as if I was channeling my great grand parents from the old country on today's show and talk, it is all about not being a little baby when dealing with the cards we are dealt in this amazing game called life. From my Krav Maga training I was in a situation where the cards were not in my favour and I got taken down the wrong way and ended u...

It Get's Better With Time, If You Work At It #IYP So on today's show I go over some recent number's from a few different studies or better yet one study that break's down into a bunch of different area's, meaning it follows the rabbit down the rabbit hole. Without going into all the details and in the show I go over a few of the numbers but to get an overall picture this is what the reports said;...

Put In The Work Stop The Fake #IYP Ohh Boy another meeting and another disappointment on my end. Is anyone real anymore? So with Ignite Your Purpose and HighWay 2 Change being both in the health area and this area being one of the trends or fades currently and maybe always for that matter, I tend to get some submission for chats or meetings to see if the parties involved can cross promote or aid o...

We Are Not Promised Tomorrow #IYP Wow what a talk I was involved in today and as always it seems to fit perfectly with all the happenings or the zeitgeist of things that is currently on going on the planet. Yes, so a very sobering talk today, but one I think that makes it possible to live a more zestful life if acted upon. Which as you will see is much easier said than done, as we found out. This...

Cellar Dweller Or Action Takers #IYP This one hit close to home in today's talk, I see the sadness or maybe a better word would be the overwhelmingness that seem's to haunt the 2 sorta relatives (or close family friends) that stopped by for a chat. They are getting up into the years where I think that they are really starting to think about and maybe even look forward to the retirement day's, exci...

What Is Your Future Plan In Life? #IYP Today's show is like honestly a 1 in a million chance happening, not ever in the history of my conversation's and very possibly even your have I heard the statements that I did today from a group that I went to school with. It not only blew my mind but it struck me as odd, and because of that allowed me to dig deep into the mental program that so many of not...

How To Be Your Best Self #IYP Do we really want to be our best self? Or is it just to much work? Have we become to civilized? Have we become to comfortable with what we have? Have we succumb to the fear of loosing what we have? I personally think from self talk, self study, mindfulness studies, and self realization that all of the above and more are correct. The one thing that I do know for sure f...

UnHappy At Work Should I Quit? #IYP I mean tell me this does not ring true to almost every single human on this planet who is blessed enough to be in a country that having a job to earn a wage is a thing! So last night I sat down for some me time, some information gathering time and what I did was I read a report on a 200 country study of happiness relating to jobs, and as well I watched a documen...

Excuses To Get Out Of Things #IYP I continue on today all about the lesson's the universe continues to provide myself through others and my own actions and reactions! Fascinating stuff, really! The topic today is this new found rant vibe I am on, which I feel is because these topics are so near and dear to my heart, having gone through them, or going through them and either learning or failing for...

Wallowing In Self Pity #IYP After Yesterday's talk I am somewhat on a role of rant's but only to better understand the why behind some of these actions I am witnessing as of late.  Also understand what we see is a chance for us to learn from and grow, and as well it can also be a mirror into our own reality.  This is one of the things that concerns me with as an extension of yesterday's talk, are...

Nothing Changes Until You Do #IYP A little bit of a rant today but this rant comes from a place of love, truly. I got this same type of talking to when I was starting out in soto zen and mindfulness studies. Every time I had an aha moment in the first few weeks and months, I fully believed I was a changed human, but 10 plus years later I now understand that, this is not the case what so ever. What...

Are You A People Pleaser and Why? #IYP Ok so as most of you know I have been going at this mindfulness game aka soto zen for over a decade and its been on heck of a ride. Massive up's and massive down's and that is just scratching the surface. There has been a lot coming up recently with all the energy shifts and planetary alignments happening in our solar system which I personally feel has been e...

We Are All The Same But Different #IYP Ok as always I am talking about an eye opening conversation I had with a group of ladies today. Very open, very honest, and very deep with a lot of great points being brought up between all of us involved. This group of ladies happened to be close to retirement age and were, well let's say well off at this point in life, and I only mention that as an understa...

Ice Bath Challenge and I Failed #IYP To think of greatness and to be humbled, we have all seen it play out in boxing, mma, and most sporting events. You have someone talking that great talk that they are at the top, unbeatable, no one can stop them and then after the event they fall from grace, loose, and or are defeated. Facts this is life and at that point we either have 2 options learn from it...

No Skin In The Game So Why Bother? #IYP We all see it, we have all done it, and we have all been apart of it, yup that's right we all have done it.  You know that I'll do that later, or next week, or after I finish this bag because it was expensive. Or we were told that someone would help us out of the goodness of their heart for our betterment and then never showed up or never took them up on the...

No Skin In The Game So Why Bother? #IYP Today we talk about the Why behind our desire's, wants, and goals. So what does it take to get to where we are going. Next on that statement would be why bother if we don't have the follow through...and how do we attain that follow through? Something that I have personally noticed for myself even is unless there is some type of investment on my end when tryi...

Health Is The Most Important Thing In Life #IYP There are times you just vibe with someone, times when it seems as if someone or something put that person in front of you, like it was meant to be! This is what happened to me today and in this 2 hour conversation I made a life long friend and now I know it was the universe that placed this guy in my face today. It started out as small talk (which I...

What More Do I Need To Get More? #IYP So speaking for myself (obviously) the thing I have noticed in myself which has been also manifesting out side of me is the need to add something every time I think something is a little off, and that thing that I usually need to add is something external. Meaning food, or a supplement, love or words from someone else, things like this. So today at the gym I w...

Surround Yourself With Good People #IYP Speaking of surrounding yourself with good people today we have been added to PODCOIN, a very cool app where you can listen to Podcasts and get paid...crazy rite! Ok so for me a lot of my work is done solo, in my studio and in my office and even when out and about I am pretty low key and not around a lot of people. The few times I am are either at the gym an...