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What do you do when you know you're off-track and you want to make a switch?  A listener asks, "How can I have confidence that I won't fail when I make a change I know needs to be made?

This listener is feeling unmotivated and says, "It's not the work. It's me. I feel like an artist who wants to do great work but has completely lost the drive.  How can I get it back?" When you lose your passion and motivation, here is the way you can regain your drive.   

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A listener asks "How can I feel good in this physical form when life seems like such a hassle and I know that part of me is beyond all this?" 

There is a space between stimulus and response.  This space is the place of our freedom.  This episode explores the ideas of personal freedom, choice and the power we each have to choose our response to the circumstances of our lives.

In this interview with young adult fiction novelist, Stacy Claflin, we discuss her inspiration, process and upcoming projects.

In this episode of the show, author Denise Barreto and I discuss the 5 steps to doing your life's work, outlined in her book, From Here to There: 5 Steps to Doing Your Life's Work Every Day. Denise provides powerful personal anecdotes and wonderful insights to help you do your life's work wherever you are in your career and life!

This is Part One of an interview with Denise Barreto, author of From Here to There: 5 Steps to Doing Your Life's Work Every Day. In this episode, I ask Denise about how she defines one's "life's work," what that means to her personally, and how she started doing her life's work--and helping others to do the same. (Part Two features a step-by-step discussion on each phase of the process for doing your life's work, outlined in the book)

In this episode, I continue the previous discussion on affirmation and discuss keys of manifestation and attraction--including affirmations, emotional alignment and action. I give personal examples to help these philosophical ideas make practical sense.

In this episode, I use 'affirmation' and 'mantra' as an analogy for how we think and feel about ourselves and our world.  I define each term and challenge you to uncover the affirmations and mantras that shape your life and your destiny.

This episode I share the single most detrimental affirmation that has ever shaped my life.  I was not even aware that I held this belief at the time.   I follow it up with the single most powerful affirmation that changed my life.  At the end, I share a couple of powerful affirmations you can adopt in your own life.

In this week's episode, I share 3 steps that have helped me in my search for purpose and meaning.  I also tell what I learned about resistance on a sightseeing cruise on Lake Superior.

Setting boundaries is one of the most challenging obstacles many of us face. Whether it is setting boundaries with friend or family members--or even strangers--we often struggle with setting (and holding) firm boundaries. Setting boundaries is vital to nurturing and cultivating your dream. There are dream snatchers out there who will steal the vitality of your dream before it has an opportunity to take root.  This may not be intentional, but it can happen all too easily.  It is essential that you protect your dreams with boundaries until they are strong enough that no one can shake them.

The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them.  Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.  Results + Momentum = Confidence.   Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, then evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you've begun to produce results.

You will face criticism. We all do. If you can learn to see it as a gift, you will experience great courage and personal power. Learning to deal with criticism in a healthy way is the keystone of self-actualization. "The highest quality that a human being can reach is to be independent of the good opinion of others." - Abraham Maslow Criticism offers you an opportunity--to clarify your dream and to become who you must be to do what you must do! Embrace it!

"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty that you can deal with"  So says peak performance advisor, Tony Robbins. Life flows in a myriad of uncertainties.  The power comes from recognizing this fact and learning to bring certainty to the uncertainty.   If you can do this, then you will stand out in a world of those "losing their heads".  

In this episode, I discuss the idea of one's "calling".  I tell you why you should give up the search for it and how you can find it in the process. I share a simple equation for uncovering your personal power and encourage you to bring your true self to the forefront of your life. Finally, I share how to create a life of purpose and meaning, day by day.

Unmet expectations lead to disappointment and pain.  You can free yourself of the "Pain Prison" and here is how.

In this episode of the show I answer a listener's question "What if you don't know what tod o in life...how does one achieve balance or alignment?"  The truth is that there is no "magic pill,"  but I share some personal experiences as well as a powerful tool I have used to ditch the "work/life"  balance paradigm.

In this episode I talk about what "Epic Shit" Syndrome is and how to over come it.  I share why many of us as over-achievers set out on a quest for the "epic" in order to validate ourselves and our lives. I tell how to break this cycle through a simple realization.

"I don't know what to do!"   Have you said this...to yourself or to someone else?  Has someone said it to you? This episode is all about banishing "I don't know what to do" from your life. You don't have to live in uncertainty and doubt. You can get rid of the frustration of uncertainty by following this simple shift in belief.  I'll tell you how on this episode.

This week's episode is all about finding greater meaning and purpose. I share my own personal experience searching for my purpose and why I wasted many years in the process. I explain why I think you should quit looking for your purpose and instead, learn to value it. I talk about what is required to live a life of purpose and meaning and issue a challenge.

This episode is all about building security in your relationship.  It's the foundation to a powerful and healthy relationship.  I also discuss... The myth of seraching for the "perfect one" (and why you shouldn't do it) Why you should search for someone who complements you versus someone who completes you. The reasons that we build romantic relationships (and the fundamental purpose of relationships) How to createa safety zone and nurture the "Secret Garden of the Soul" within your relationship. BONUS: I share how to affair-proof your relationship.

In this episode of the show, I discuss the most important relationship you have--that with yourself.  I talk about how our relationships with our loved ones and friends are really constructed and how we can transform any relationship in an instant by changing our thoughts about the relationship.

An unexpected Google Hangout prompts this question.  I take this esoteric, "big" question and remind you of what you already know about who you are and what you are capable of. At the end, I share the secret to creating any potential relationship you desire.

"How do I move on after being layed off?  I think this could be the opportunity I've been looking for." I answer this question from a listener and discuss the difference between courage and valor and how to exercise true courage on a daily basis.

In this episode, I discuss excuses--what they are, why we use them and how to overcome them.

In this episode, I answer a reader's question about how to move on after a breakup.  I provide 3 main steps that I have used in my own experience which have helped me to move on.

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In the inaugural episode of the AWAKE! podcast, I discuss the Law of Everything: The external world reflects the internal world. I discuss how this principle impacts our lives and ways in which we can cultivate and nurture internal growth while allowing the resistance to the external circumstances to melt away.  15 minutes 38 seconds