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I was on a call this week with one of the other SFM members, Rob Sewell, who really shared from the heart about how learning to live a life of honesty has turned his personal and business life around.
Please click here to hear more in a video I shot for you:
Here’s the notes I took from Rob’s call which I share in the video above. I trust they inspire you just as they inspire me:
“We talk about being authentic here in SFM, well in my experience that all starts with honesty.
A couple of years ago I couldn’t have been further away from that.
My transformation in life has been quite remarkable and it all started with honesty.
It is the foundation of my recovery from Drug and alcohol addiction, and has been instrumental in building my SFM affiliate business to 5 figures a month.
Honesty is not just about telling the truth. It’s about being real with yourself and others about who you are, what you want and what you need to live your most authentic life.
Honesty promotes openness, empowers us and enables us to develop consistency in how we present the facts. Honesty sharpens our perception and allows us to observe everything around us with clarity.
The stress in our lives comes not from the environment, but from the self-built jail of the mind. What keeps us in our self-built jails is lying, mostly to ourselves.
I want to provide people with the tools we can use to escape from that jail of the mind. Facing up to what you have avoided leads to a huge release of emotion which then leads to a state of overflowing creativity.
To be able to create you must be able to tell the truth. Telling the truth frees us from the entrapment of the mind.
We all lie to others for personal gain or to excuse or misrepresent our own shortcomings, but the worst type of lying we practice, is when we lie to ourselves.
We convince ourselves we are not good enough or able to do something our heart was really set on.
It sets us back by delaying the pursuit of our goals and dreams. It takes away our ability to take chances that our heart is willing to take but our mind is blocking us from taking.
Despite its temptation, ease of use and false promises, lying gets us nowhere in the end.
So, do you want to be one of the most respected, highly thought of people among your social sphere and your business?
Honesty should be the bedrock of your foundation, as it will define who you are before you even allow others to know more about you.
Honesty helps you find the answers you’re looking for.
Honesty gets you where you want to go faster because you live how you really feel.
You may not always know what you want in your future, but your intuition will give you a feel for what is in harmony with your heart.
Start today, first, by being as honest as you can with yourself. Be honest about your thoughts, words, actions and wants.
Then, think about your interaction with society, your personal relationships, and your customers.
The feeling of excitement and anticipation of being in a completely new place?
The feeling of leaving the security of the ground behind, the feeling of “Should I really be doing this?”
Flying for the first time is a lot like creating your own online business, launching a start-up, or establishing a nonprofit organisation. Stepping out from your ‘norm’ requires overcoming the very real fear of leaving the safety of solid ground behind, defying gravity, and taking a path of unexpected variables toward your destination.
Let’s face it, it requires courage.
Did you ever wonder what the Wright brothers had on their minds and in their hearts that caused them to build a machine heavy enough to hold people yet light enough to fly through the air?
What compelled them to utilise scrap materials (from a bicycle shop of all places!) to build wings that would forever change the world?
What drove them to try and fail and try some more and to keep trying time and time again when not only friends were against them, but even when the wind was against them?
Whatever it was, their passion for innovation, underpinned by perspiration, resulted in aviation!
The Wright brothers knew the laws of gravity worked against them. They knew that people thought they were crazy for even trying to create a flying machine that could soar through the skies above everyone else. However, they persevered, refusing to give up until they discovered new laws, principles of aerodynamics that enabled a craft of a certain weight traveling at a certain velocity to gain momentum and catch flight. These pioneers of the skies created a new norm, so life-changing that it transformed the way we live our lives today.
My Father’s life was saved last month because of an Air Ambulance. I’m thankful the Wright Brothers didn’t give up on their dream. Who could suffer if you give up on yours?
Now maybe you aren’t interested in building a flying machine, but in essence the Wright brothers’ aspiration is the goal of every entrepreneur; “What do you need to build in order to get up there into the sky of economic viability?”
How can you take what you have and escape the gravitational pull of a salary that limits your ability to escape from living paycheck to paycheck?
At the end of the day, the same courage and perseverance that fuelled the Wright brothers is what will determine the direction of your own dreams. It is the power of a transformative belief that says: “Just because I haven’t seen it modelled in my past doesn’t mean that I cannot create something that changes the direction of my future.”
Simply put, it is the power to make the seemingly impossible dream that’s been placed in your heart and mind become your new reality.
One of the voluntary activities I’ve been involved in over the years as a Chartered Scientist is to act as a Science Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) Ambassador in Schools. The idea being, as practitioners, we can bring real world STEM examples from industry into the class rooms to inspire students with real world application of classroom theory.
Generally when I go into a school and ask “Who likes Science & Math?” very few hands go up.
“OK, so who likes making paper aeroplanes?” all hands go up.
So we make aeroplanes on A4 sheets with a template printed on them for the students to fold in certain ways. We then take their final aeroplanes and let them launch them from a special electric powered launcher which fires the aeroplane at a speed of 70mph. If the students have got the folds in the template right, the plane will travel from one end of a Basketball court into the wall on the opposite side of the court (~100ft).
Sometimes the folds aren’t right so the planes don’t make it the length of the court, or go off to one side. But that’s fine, we simply readjust the folds to optimise the product, then fire again.
At the end of the session I’ll explain to the students the principles they used to fly their product were all based on Science & Math. Then I’ll ask them the same question I asked them at the start of our session; “Who likes Science & Math?”, this time every hand goes up.
Why the sudden change in the students response?
They’d simply experienced the real world application of what was otherwise bland theory.
Here at Digi Life Enabled we want to encourage people to fulfil their dream, their purpose, through a life of integrity and sign post people to training and skills that can help them realise that.
We recognise when starting something new, there’s both excitement and fear, we recognise courage and perseverance is required to get a break through, and we recognise the need for pragmatic real world training and coaching, not just bland theory.
So, if you’re looking for an online business to support a lifestyle that’s congruent with your dreams and your purpose, then if you haven’t done so, why not take a RISK FREE step toward your goals by setting up your own FREE TRIAL account with SFM by clicking here.
For 30 days you’ll be able to explore the system that we ourselves benefitted from, have a FREE 1-2-1 with a system consultant over the phone at a time convenient to yourself, and if during those 30 days you feel it’s not for you, then you can cancel at any time without any additional cost to yourself.
On my journey to setting up an online business I came across Tim Low from Singapore. The thing that appealed to me about Tim was that replacing his six figure lawyers income through his online business didn’t make him go out and buy the latest fast car, but rather, gave him the time and financial freedom to volunteer in his local community, serving the Church as a Bereavement Counsellor, something that the time demands of the legal profession could not afford him.
As someone who has self-funded overseas missions and aid trips to vulnerable people groups, the business model that enabled Tim to make this transition really appealed to me.
What I also like about Tim is his honesty about his struggles. Tim like me admits that one of the most challenging things to deal with when transitioning from the corporate salary world, to the online entrepreneur world is the issue of ‘mindset’.
I know it sounds a bit ‘fluffy’, but when you’ve spent most of your life in corporate institutions, they do leave a mark on you and that can hold you back from stepping out into any new venture, including the the online world. That’s why having access to mentors on that journey, who are walking the trail with you, is such a valuable asset.
Anyway Tim shared this recent message which you can listen to in less than 2 minutes about keeping things simple as a means to success (click on image below to watch):
You see, many of us don’t get started at fulfilling our dreams, passions or business strategy because we over complicate things. But the truth is Tim & I only got started in online business by taking small simple steps with mentors on hand to advise us as we needed that guidance.
So if you’re interested in learning more about the exact same online business and education system that Tim & I used to start up our own businesses from scratch, then why not set up your own FREE TRIAL account by clicking here.
You’ll be able to explore the system for 30 days, have a FREE 1-2-1 with a system consultant over the phone at a time convenient to yourself, and if during those 30 days you feel it’s not for you, then you can cancel at any time without any additional cost to yourself.
This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the Mind-Body Connection.
Did you know it’s only since the middle ages that the mind, body and spirit have been considered separate?
Before that, we were considered whole integrated people.
Writing as I am from the UK, it’s noticeable how our Western culture has been influenced by reductionism – splitting into parts and specialisation. Each aspect is now cared for separately: surgeons for the physical, psychiatrists for the mental and clergy for the spiritual.
Matters of health tend to be viewed by many as purely physical however, it’s not that simple. For example, the Reticular Activating System connects the cortex and the sub-brain; physical stimulation affects the mind and mental stressors affect the body, generating physical responses. In other words, our physical state of health affects our mental health and vice-versa.
Let us look for a moment at what we think, believe and meditate on and it’s relation to our physical state.
The belief of the mind has enormous influence over our physical abilities to the extent that sports psychology is the determining factor in many athletes physical performance.
Most people know the basic story of Roger Bannister, who, on May 6, 1954, broke the 4 minute mile with a time of 3 minutes 59 seconds. But what many people forget is that runners had been chasing the goal seriously since at least 1886 and that the challenge involved the most brilliant coaches and gifted athletes in North America, Europe, and Australia. For years runners had been striving against the clock, but the elusive four minutes had always beaten them to the extent that it had become as much a psychological barrier as a physical one.
When Bannister eventually broke the record, even his most ardent rivals breathed a sigh of relief. At last, somebody did it! And once they saw it could be done, they did it too. Only 46 days after Bannister’s feat, John Landy, an Australian runner, broke the barrier again, with an even faster time of 3 minutes 58 seconds! Then, just a year later, three runners broke the four-minute barrier in a single race. Over the last half century, more than a thousand runners have conquered a barrier that had once been considered hopelessly out of reach (the current record is 3 minutes 43 seconds).
Many studies have reviewed this phenomena of a sudden surge of success in the physical realm. They concluded that a positive mindset based on a belief of what could be possible is actually what helped those runners beat that record.
So does that mean we can all run a sub-4 minute mile if we simply believe it?
No. Because as whole integrated people there are other factors around health and fitness we also need to take into consideration. It does mean, however, that when it comes to success and wellbeing, in whatever sphere of life, what we think, believe and meditate on is key.
So, take control of those limiting thoughts that come your way; remember you have a purpose in this world that you can fulfil through a life of integrity.
If you have a dream in your heart, you don’t have to work out every detail of it before you take your first step. Instead, take one small step today and leave the other steps for tomorrow. Focus on what you can do now. Believe you will succeed and you will!
This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the impact of both negative and positive thinking on our physical well-being.
Did you realise negative thoughts actually impact our physical health in a negative way, and positive thoughts impact our physical health in a positive way?
Both my parents were in Medicine and they used to (in fact still do) say; “A merry heart is good medicine”, and based on that statement, I wanted to share the following fun experiment with you, but you’ll need a partner to help, so why not print this off and go and get someone and follow the instructions below:
1) Close your eyes and think for a moment of a time where you felt really down. You doubted your ability to accomplish that next step in your career move; your boss had put you down. You didn’t think you were worth anything…
The next step requires a partner!
2) Now raise your arms to your sides as if imitating an aeroplane!
3) Ask your partner to try to push your arms down to your side again.
What happens?
4) Now shut your eyes again and imagine a time when you could conquer the world! Anything was possible! That next career move, no problem!
5) Raise your arms in the air again to the side.
6) Get your partner to push your arms down.
What happens…?
See the power of positive thinking in your mind!
This demonstrates the truth of the adage: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” (Henry Ford).
I tried this at a get together with my friends the other evening and the results were amazing!
When I had negative mental thoughts I was physically weaker and my arms were easily pushed down by my friend Jackie, but when I had positive mental thoughts I was physically stronger and Jackie had to struggle to get my arms down. Our other friends watching just laughed and thought we’d planned it or were making it up, but we weren’t. How I was thinking mentally, really affected my physical strength at the same time. So why don’t you try the experiment and let us know your results?
You see, whether it’s a new business, a new skill, a new direction, you have the power within you to make a success of whatever you do by thinking positively, or to let yourself down by thinking negatively, so think positively!
I’m not saying you can think something and it happens, but there’s a principle here. If you allow something to become big in your mind, if you let it consume you, you are giving it permission to happen, so be careful what thoughts you dwell on. Don’t listen to negative thoughts or comments made about you!
You have the power within you to succeed at whatever you turn your mind to, if you tell yourself you can, you will be able to do it!
Last week we looked at why on a personal and business level it’s important to not only map out and prioritise our values, but also to live them out. Because the danger is, if we don’t check in with our values, and we just let the ups and downs of life happen to us, we may find ourselves off course with our true purpose.
Anyway, as I was having breakfast with my daughters one morning this week I heard over the radio the musician Joel Vaughn share the story behind his song ‘One In A Million’ which came about from a conversation he himself had with his 5yr old daughter one morning.
His story emphasises the importance of value and purpose in our lives.
I found a snippet of it on youtube which I’d like to share with you:
The point is, young or old, we all have true value and a purpose in this world.
“You don’t have to live without a purpose Without a cause … and feeling flawed There’s so much more beneath the surface In every heart … a work of art
You’re made, for more Than you could ever know Don’t you, let go!
You’re one in a million And you gotta know it’s true (and you gotta know it’s true) No one else within the universe Could ever be just like you (could ever be just like you)”
(Joel Vaughn – One In A Million)
