To Succeed... Just Let Go

You'll learn exactly how to set your mind to achieve your goals, objectives, dreams and "perfect moments" in this episode.And, once your mind is set, what you have to do to get there becomes effortless.As you'll discover, you don't need to know what you need to do, it will become obvious what's best to do as you effortlessly dance through each day, like a ballerina, without putting a foot wrong.The whole process rests on your expectations and, in this episode, we explain exactly what expectation actually is... and how to give yourself new expectations, great expectations.And, I should mention, because so many people asked me to talk about it, one of those expectations might be that you lose weight... we talk about that too - but not as much as you might expect!!

Well now, in Episode #213 we explore the essence of life, the essence of living life to the full.We explore peace of mind and what I describe as "the flat calm of being", of not having a care in the world.And, as you'll discover, it's all about perspective or, perhaps, not having one - now there's a thought!Which leads us back into the world of thought - the world of not being, the world that only exists in the warped minds of those lost in thought... most of us.So, we talk about the experience of being - it's all about experience. Yes, we could have the support of all the science in the world (and we have) to confirm how the world really works but, ultimately, it all boils down to you experiencing it.And the experience is, in essence, the joy of being in just this moment.How to do it? Well, you're going to have to listen to the episode, aren't you!

Has it taken me until Episode 212 to explain the step-by-step actions and benefits of meditation?Well, you'll have to listen to really find out but...This episode explains the science of meditation - forget the spiritual or religious, we're talking hard science. And we're talking about the impact that an understanding of the hard science has on your understanding and experience of meditation and, more importantly, the very real an powerful impact meditation will have in the cut and thrust of your everyday life - very quickly.We're talking weeks.If there is anything in your life that you don't like - and everyone has, at least, a short list of things that they'd like to change - then meditation is going to provide you with the neurological structure and practical ability to allow those changes happen, allow your perceived dislikes to vanish - just as meditation will allow your self-defeating or negative thoughts to vanish.This episode gives you the big why - once we know why we're doing anything, whatever it is that we have to do becomes all the easier and more effective.This Episode 212 is a must if you want to change your life or any aspect of it.

Which is easier, to think about doing something, to annoy yourself that you're thinking about doing it instead of doing it, to get frustrated and, perhaps, even guilty that you haven't done what you know you need to do or... to just do what you need to do?Which is easier?You know that answer. What you don't know is that everything, other than doing what needs to be done, is the result of thought, your thought, repetitive thought, the thoughts that hold you back.And, then, what you probably will not know is that, when you actually go and do what needs to be done, you'll do it through the fog of thought that our brain's "Autopilot" uses to enable us make it through the day unharmed.Let's go further. You'll probably be aware that you have strengths and weaknesses - probably more weaknesses (there's a reason for that). What you won't be aware of is that neither your strengths nor weaknesses are real. Simply more thinking.You really need to listen to this episode - it will awaken you to what is truly possible in your life - starting now.

Now there's a title!This episode covers a multitude but, in essence, goes straight to the heart of why we, as humans, are losing our humanity or, as one scientist puts it, "losing our soul".This hasn't got an awful lot to do with Artificial Intelligence. Instead, it's got to do the "Knowledge" or the accumulation of what passes for knowledge.In essence, it's all about how thinking divorces from reality, how thinking distances is from our true nature, how accumulated thought - including the 70k thoughts that are swilling around in your head every day - has separated from our "perfect virtue".On the one hand, truth is, this is a process that's been going on for over 7,000 years.On the other hand, this is a process that you can not just stop in its tracks but reverse in a couple of weeks, during which you'll have taken your very own evolutionary quantum leap.Listen and be...

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 much thinking.We're at our best as human beings when we're not thinking - when we are, as the name suggests, just being.So... in this episode we're exploring how to simply and effortlessly be, how to kiss all your cares and worries goodbye, how to experience Flow and how to allow all the best in life simply "fall into your lap".You'll learn about not just seeing the light but being the light - we're talking hard science here.You'll learn how to allow yourself flow so that you do what you thought you couldn't do, say what you thought you couldn't get away with and, as a result, amaze yourself.Prepare to be amazed.

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 that you already have from listening to this podcast.In short, we address how to navigate your way through what, for many (even if they won't admit it by papering over the cracks) is something akin to a minefield.We address how to look after yourself - you are the most important person in your life - and how to come to a place where, if the "normal crazies" are open to it, everyone can be a winner.Most importantly, we address family dynamics from the perspective of your own energy and flow, bearing in mind, as we explored a couple of weeks ago, your free-flowing energy might just help others flow too.

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 all take towards a happier and healthier life.We explore the interplay between genetics - often the lame excuse that normal crazy people use to explain their lifestyle-induced medical conditions - and lifestyle choices.And, as we explain in this video, there is, of course, an interplay between the two but it all boils down to this: when it comes to illness or potential illness, genetics "loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger".What lifestyle choices are we talking about? Well, in actual fact, there's just the one!Yes, as always, why would I complicate the simple... the one and only choice that we all need to get right is whether or not we're in control of our own state of mind because, when we are, we'll get all the other choices right.And, again as always, we explain exactly how to make that one lifestyle choice and, for starters, how getting that choice right will totally reconfigure your physical health.But that's only for starters.

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 completely unaware of it.We explore adolescence - not the Netflix series although what happens in the Netflix series provides a useful foil for the subject matter of this episode. We explore adolescence in the context of how, if we have done things to our children when they were growing up, we can undo those things.The lessons are simple - it's never too late to love: to love yourself and truly love your "loved ones". It's never too late to raise the lives of those around you by raising your own game, by becoming properly present.And, of course, it's never to late for anything because... all we have is now - this is where and when we need to be at our best, to do our best, to create a better world.

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 caring in this episode because, it's only when you literally "go beyond caring" that all that's best starts flowing for you.In this context, caring is synonymous with wondering - "when will my Perfect Moment happen?" - which leads to worrying, which leads to frustration, which leads back into the dark vortex created by thought that divorces you from the here and now where, if you've gone beyond caring, you'll simply be aware of and embrace the opportunities or synchronicities that will allow all good things "fall into your lap".Laced with a few good, practical, stories - from people who, having gone beyond caring, have had their "ideal" scenarios "just happen" - this episode is like a user's manual on how to great your ideal life.

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 manifest what you actually want? Or, more to the point and better again, how can you manifest what's best for you?All your questions about manifesting and manifestation are answered in juts over thirty minutes. Worth a listen...

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 thoughts that tigger all the wrong things to happen in your body.A mind that is ill at ease creates a body of disease.Never mind. It's all normal and it will pass! All you have to do is not think - we're at our very best when we're not thinking. Then, you can tune in to what's going on, notice the synchronicities, allow yourself be guided by them in harmony with your gut instinct and... do.And the doing comes effortlessly. All good things flow when you're in flow.

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, in this episode, we celebrate coping. When we cope with a challenge - or, to put it in proper terms, when we rise to a challenge and deal with it - we provide ourselves with an important opportunity to encourage ourselves to move forward in our lives.Coping produces Perfect Moments. And, yet, coping is just the beginning.When you take control of your state of mind, when you stop thinking and start acting, when you "go beyond caring", you're ready for real action. And every, however small, demonstration of real action encourages us to "trust the process".This "process" is one where, by taking control of our state of mind, we become action heroes - no more thinking and overthinking, no more making the simple complex, no more questioning our ability to change our lives. We just do.And, when we just do - starting with coping - we learn to trust a process that is, in fact, a process in developing our ability to trust ourselves.There's an inner you that you can trust implicitly - explicitly. This inner you rises from within when you rise to the occasion of the here and now.It's time to liberate that inner you.

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 over-thinking, how wondering leads to worrying, we explore the delusional dangers of positive thinking and, obviously, we consider the detailed instructions on how to take that responsibility and control that leads to an end of worry, an end to stress and the beginning of an everyday experience of everyday life that is... a joy to behold.We explore how taking control of your state of mind is actually simple, an easy task: you don't have to fight the thoughts in your head that lead to worry, you don't even have to fight the 1.8m years of evolution that designed your mind to err in the negative. You simply have to allow yourself be. And, to do that, you can simply use the everyday tasks at hand to... change your life beyond recognition.And, oh, beware of red BMWs!

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 understanding, an experience of not having a care in the world. And we learn that, with flow, not only do we discover that we can do what we need to do effortlessly, we discover that we can do things that we never imagined ourselves doing or being capable of doing.We discover how to live the kind of life our heart desires, without having to work hard to get there or, perhaps, without having to work... at all.

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 thought, which leads to a programmed, patterned, repetitive life - no wonder, when using our minds this way, we feel stuck, fearful of change and stressed (and much more besides).Normal, shared, hallucinogenic thought creates an assumed reality that enough people share to provide us with the "comfort" that it must be OK. It's not.Being the creator of your own life, as you are, you must ask yourself this key question:"What kind of life do I really want to create for myself?"This is actually a simpler question to answer than you might think. And this is one of the key questions that we address in this episode. I hope this discussion will enable you settle on the answer that you know (normal people don't know that they know!) to be the best answer for you and yours.But, then, this episode goes on to explain how to create the life that's best for you and what results you can expect.Worth 35mins of your time!

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-tasking, otherwise known to cognitive psychology as trying to half do a load of things badly simultaneously. Ah... Myths!More importantly, this episode provides you with a step-by-step Blueprint that will boost an awful lot more than your productivity.Because, essentially, we're talking about focus and flow in this episode. And we're talking about the importance of focus and flow in everything - focus is not just a work thing, obviously.Allied to that Blueprint is an exploration of "compartmentalisation" - actually another aspect or attribute of Flow.In short, this episode is longer than usual (bit of a paradox there!) because there's so much in it - so much that will change your life.

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 thoughts.And, as we know from previous episodes, we are at our best when we are not thinking. We are when we are not thinking.So, do we need to stop thinking? And how much effort will that take? Is it even possible?No, you don't need to try to stop something, you need to start being something... real. You simply need to come to your senses to actually feel who you really are - that way you'll stop thinking about it, stop thinking about yourself.And, when we stop thinking, we start living. And that's a game-changer.

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 the cardiovascular, digestive and immune systems - but not, not ever, beyond repair.You can choose to rid your life of stress today - you don't even have to image something different from your imaginary stress, you just have to come to your senses.In this episode, we explore how two-step cognitive appraisal triggers stress - in other words, what's happening to you doesn't trigger your stress, what you think about what you think is happening and how you think you might be able to handle it... all that thinking is what triggers your stress and, in the process, makes what might be a small, everyday challenge, feel like a life-threatening situation.All this is automated but that does not mean that there's nothing that you can do about it.On the contrary - the small steps that you must take to rid your life of stress are as easy and as natural as breathing in and out.And ridding your life of stress is only the beginning because, once free of that thought-fuelled downward spiral, you're free to start living the kind of life you're meant to be living, one that's filled with perfect moments.

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!Anyway, back to this episode. When you experience peace of mind, even for a moment, everything changes because your perspective is altered and, once experienced it cannot be unexperienced.With peace of mind comes presence and presence is not just attractive, it's creative. In this episode we explore how we effortlessly encounter opportunity when we're present - opportunity that your thinking mind could never imagine happening. I've picked a perfect client story to illustrate the point.With presence comes an understanding that, in this moment (which is the only place and time that you can do what you need to do to get to where's best for you), all is well, you don't have a care in the world.And that's liberating.And, when you're liberated, anything's possible or, actually, the best's just going to happen.

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 about it - this episode provides both the instructions on how to do the right things in the right way at the right time (and no more!) and how that actually works in the reality of the cut and thrust of everyday life. And we're exploring the actual difference that makes: to the structure of your brain and to your experience of everyday life - how others have changed their lives by changing their minds.And how you can do that too. Today.

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 glancing moment, do we sustain it.Yes, living your "best life" - an awful expression but you know what I mean - is but a breath away or, perhaps, not even that!

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 what it says on the tin!What does that mean? You're getting simple instruction in proper meditation. You're getting a refresher in the importance of proper meditation and we're more deeply exploring what passes for living when you've not embarked on a program of proper meditation.This episode goes around the houses just a bit before getting to the point but, as with life itself, the journey is what's important. Listen carefully, you never know when you'll have an "Aha Moment".

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 flow of synchronicities, the abundance of real-life, everyday results, everything accelerates when you ease up.What do we mean by easing up? Well, you really should invest just over half an hour of your time by listening to this episode - it may be the one that tips you over that tipping point into living right now like you mean it.

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, allowing yourself make the right choices and decisions and being agile to get the most out fo the moment.And we highlight the significance of the apparent insignificance of the moment, the small actions, the little choices.More than that, we realise that the future starts from where you are and that there's no merit in revisiting the un-undoable past, because... the past does not belong to you. You really need to listen to understand what I mean by that!All in all, in this episode we take another one of those proverbial steps in the right direction.

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 are most important to you and what your heart truly desires. Big stuff, the stuff that a great life is made of.But, then, there comes a very important word of caution which could be summed up as follows: play your cards close to your chest.Yes, all that - and more - is to be explored in this episode.

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 talking about "presence of mind" - much more than that. Are we talking about "mindfulness" - well that's just a means to an end or, should I say, a means to ever moving forward because it's not the "end" that matters, it is the now.A couple of everyday practical examples will explain how flow works in practice, how energy works in what our normal way of thinking would consider to be mysterious ways.And how, when we just let go - to coin a phrase! - all good things "fall into our lap" - effortlessly, of course.

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 simpler and easier - to the point of effortless - when we say and do what needs to be said and done.And it's not just what you say, it's how you say it. Will you need to worry about how you go about doing that? Will you need to have a plan for it? No... it'll all just come out in the right way, at the right time, when the opportunity occurs, if (and only if) we're tuned in, fully present and in control of our own state of mind.You're never wrong saying the right thing. This is how to do it effortlessly.

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 week's episode when we started exploring the necessity to "dream big dreams" - a necessity because, if you don't, you're missing out on the grandeur of your own life.I explain exactly what I mean by "doing nothing" - perhaps the most powerful form of meditation that we can practice. A practice that provides the inner calm necessary for us not to have a Eureka moment, but a whole flood of Eureka moments.And you just might discover that doing nothing is the most important thing you could ever do!

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 are at your best when you're not thinking.Not thinking is the key to understanding who you are, what you are and what your big dreams would look and feel like.Once we begin to understand what we truly "want" out of life, we then, as we explain in this episode, give our subconscious mind its "landing co-ordinates" - and, when we allow it, it will take us there... effortlessly.There's much more to this episode than the above few words summarise - worth 32mins of your time!

Yes, once you get the hang of making the right choice, your new life takes on, quite literally, a life of its own.In this episode we're exploring peace of mind and how to experience it.And it is all about... experience - the great thing being, once you experience it, you can never un-experience it.Peace of mind means: health, happiness, effortlessness, living "your best life", without a care in the world.Like some of that?The recipe is here and, actually, there are only two ingredients. How simple is that.

You are not who you think you are. Your deeply held expectations and beliefs about yourself have nothing to do with who you really are.You are not your personality. You are not your so-called Conceptual Self - as we say in this episode, this fact is confirmed by the word "conceptual" - you are not a bundle of misconceived concepts, you are something far grander.Imagine the power that you have within when you consider that people in their 70s, meditating for the first time, can meditate themselves neurally younger, reverse cognitive decline...And that's only an isolated example of the power within.When you begin to discover that power, no longer will you be afraid to venture beyond your comfort zone, out into a world beyond the capability of your thinking mind to even imagine.As we say in this week's episode: It's time to wake up.

Oh, we're so good at coming up with "reasons why not":That would be unrealistic - I can't see how that could happen - that's never going to work for little ol' me!!All nonsense created by the normal thinking mind that is designed to ensure that your life does not change.This episode use practical examples - case studies if you like - of how to let all your excuses and obstacles... just evaporate.This is, if ever there was one, a How To episode.

Are you really your own worst enemy? Are you the one that's always getting in your own way? Is your daily life like an obstacle course?!Would you, join two-thirds of my audience (you need to listen to the episode!) and what would that say about the extent to which you are or are not in the driving seat of your life?In this episode we explore how we can, to quote a client "leave the old world of thought" behind. I explain just how effortless the whole "process" is.And we explore the very real consequences of you choosing to pay attention to what is going on instead of paying automatic habituated attention to what you're thinking.Your life awaits just a little action on your part!

All was well until thought crept over the fence and destroyed our experience of life!All thinking leads to over-thinking. All thinking is flawed. And all flawed thinking leads you to thinking that you are flawed.Flawed and undeserving, little in comparison to how grand you really are.Using our mind that normal way, we sleepwalk through our lives, missing... everything but experiencing effort, struggle, stress and frustration.We simply need to let our thoughts pass by.Then, we experience reality as it is. We experience ourselves as we are. And we do what we need to do in the right in the right way at the right time... effortlessly.Like the sound of that?

All too many people meditate without know why they need to meditate.Yes, meditation is a necessity. If you don't take control of your own state of mind you will continue to miss your own life.In this episode, I explain exactly how this happens automatically and we explore the implications.Those implications are numerous and, at its most fundamental, they are the reasons why it is so difficult to give up bad habits, lose weight, make money, enjoy yourself as your self.In these 30mins, I hope, I will impress upon you the paramount importance of taking control of your won state of mind. And how doing so will change... everything.Also, you will hear me referencing a book during this episode - Depression: An Emotion Not an Illness. That book is by Aine Tubridy and Michael Corry.

We're all have a pretty good idea of what we don't want in our everyday lives. But goals are not things from which you run away!No... goals are things we run towards - it's how we best set our mind to achieve anything and everything that our heart desires.In this episode we explore exactly how to do that and, more importantly, we explore how our doing mind then goes about enabling that which our heart desires "fall intou our lap".So, forget about what you don't want in your life; forget about how or when what you do want will happen; forget about where you'll be or what you need to do - just set your mind.Then, your set mind will look after the rest. It will ensure that, in every here and now, you do the right thing to inexorably move you to where you really, really want to be.You don't have to worry about what you need to do or when you need to do it. You don't need a plan. You need to have the end in mind and, with the end in mind, your doing mind will take you there.And it's all pretty effortless.

You don't need to push nor do you need to struggle. You don't need to wonder when what your heart desires will fall into your lap. It will happen in its own good time.Yes, life's a lot like comedy, it's all about... timing!When you're in flow, you will discover the right information in the right way at the right time; you will hear things at just the moment that they mean the most to you; your Perfect Moments will "fall into your lap" at the perfect moment (otherwise they wouldn't be perfect moments!).What you and I have to do is turn up: be focused, present, alert and ready for action. To do this we need to become accustomed to choosing to be present, we need to become adept at practicing being present.Through presence and action we become ready to receive - to receive all the good things that will inevitably "fall into our lap" in the right way, at the right time, effortlessly.

What strategies do you need to adopt for changing your life or any aspect of it?What plans to you need to create to take the right action that will lead you to achieve your goals?Well, you're in for an eye-opener in this episode: strategies and plans are what normal crazy people create to end up... in the same place!You need neither strategies nor plans to transform your life and every aspect of it. In fact, there's only one thing that you need to change and that change will enable you do everything in the right way, at the right time to achieve so much more than what your thinking mind might have had in mind for you by way of "goals".And a word of advice... do work through this episode (it's full of practical tips) and do listen carefully to the last 4 minutes... I'll say no more.

Yes, there's only one lifestyle choice that you need to make - after that you're restructured brain will take you in hand and make all the moment-to-moment choices for you effortlessly.That means you'll start acting - a world away from how we normally only automatically react.That means you will transform every aspect of your life: your health and wellbeing, your financial freedom, your success and happiness.What's that one lifestyle choice? Well, if you're a regular listener, you may well already know. If you're not, it's time to find out!But, as I said, getting it right it enables you live life to the full, it enables you effortlessly make the moment-to-moment binary choice: am I present or am I thinking.

We've talked about how important it is to forget the past - with a view to living in the present.But what about the future? Surely you need to think your future through, figure it out, have a plan. No!Forget about the future too.Because the only place that you can live your life is in the here and now. Your future will be created by what you do and how you do it in the here and now. And, when you do turn up to and tune in to the here and now, lo and behold, you feel a sense of direction - it's called your gut instinct. You know what the right thing is to do now, to lead you to where is best for you, regardless of what you might think is going on in the here and now.The episode explains exactly how this works in practice - it also explains how normal crazy people are responsible for creating the kind of life that they'd prefer not to have! But let's not dwell on that. Instead, let's dwell on how to live, for real, with an inbuilt sense of unwavering direction.

So many people think that revisiting it will enable unpack who they think they are and, then, move on. So many people want to revisit it but end up reliving it.And, even without the aid of a psychoanalyst, you must understand that the normally-minded way of "operating" means that we are, in effect, reliving our past every single day - every Groundhog Day - and, in the process, missing every single day of our lives.No... today is the day that you decide "I'm leaving my past where it belongs... in the past".Today is the day that you're going to fully understand and appreciate the importance of tuning your attention to the present, restructuring your brain's key neural components and taking the quantum evolutionary leap that is going to change your mind... today.Time to move up a few gears...

We're moving our conversation along - from how we deal with so-called normal crazy people to how we create and build the kind of relationships that enrich our lives and, indeed, the lives of those around us.We're talking about meaningfully touching other people's lives by discovering our own!This is one of the most joyful parts of the adventure that we explore in this Podcast and it starts with those who are closest to us.In this episode, we explore how you discover your true self, how, through liberating yourself from your own thoughts (and misgivings about who you think you are), you will encounter and experience the joy of traveling with like-minded people.And, of course, as always, you will discover the simple steps that make this whole adventure effortless.

OK, so you're working on yourself (you are, like the rest of us, a work-in-progress) and you're discovering more about your inner power and how presence transforms everything.And, then, you come down out of the little ivory tower in which you were meditating at 7.00am in the morning and are slapped across the face by the simple mathematical fact that you're pretty much only going to be confronted by normal crazy people today.How do you deal with that? How do you deal with them? How do you handle other people?Well, for starters, in this episode, we start (again) by addressing how you need to deal with the other person... in your head. The one that shouts loudest, the one who isn't there!Once you've put on and adjusted your own oxygen mask, so to speak, your ready for action - not reaction, there's a world of difference - and that'll change everything, including (some of) those normal crazy people around you.

Discard your "To Do" List and start doing the important stuff - the stuff that your thinking mind would never conceive putting on a To Do List.Yes, today we're talking about you being the right person, in the right place, at the right time, doing just what you need to do to achieve what you want... and doing no more.In this episode, I explain why so many people have said to me, over the years, that the best things in life seem to "just happen" or it feels like the good stuff in life "just falls into my lap". I explain how it actually works in detail, using everyday examples for the challenging world of work, business, family life and relationships.And the really interesting thing is that, as the above "quotes" would suggest, it's all very easy indeed - to the point of effortless.And the secret? What will set you apart from everyone else? Well, you're going to be completely different from 96% of people on this planet, because you're going to turn up!

This episode follow on from last week's - #168. Here, I explain exactly how trying in built-in to our way of normal thinking - it's a fundamental evolutionary flaw. I explain this with practical everyday examples.We then explore how to stop trying. I do this step-by-step - again with practical examples.When you stop trying, you start doing just what you need to do and you do it in the right way, at the right time... effortlessly.I explain the discipline required to do this. But it's not the kind of discipline that you think is required - it's actually very simple indeed.With a disciplined mind, you start making the right little choices - the ones that are otherwise made for you automatically by your thinking mind - and your thinking mind will always make the wrong choice!You're going to start making the right little choices that will start changing your life straight away - today.

The one thing that will stop you getting what you want is trying too hard.Or we could put it another way: the one thing that will stop you getting what you want is thinking that you have to try hard. Or... thinking at all because, as we all already know, all thinking leads to over-thinking and we end up suffocating the life out of ourselves.So, let this episode be an adventure for you into the world of how this works for real people... I'm using plenty of examples in this episode about how what you need "falls into your lap" or "just happens" when you "stop trying", "do nothing" or have "gone beyond caring" (AKA stopped trying!).When you stop thinking - the thinking that leads to trying, struggle and stress - you'll discover that you have what the normal mind would consider "super-human powers". You'll discover not only that the journey can be effortless - you'll actually discover your very own journey.A little too cryptic for you? Well we haven't even talked about spit yet!!!

Oh yes, this episode is a how to episode!Learn how to make the right choices and right decisions by... learning how to choose in the first place.You see, the normal mind cannot make choices - the choices are made automatically by the brain's Autopilot. The normal mind cannot take action - it's always in automatic reactive mode.So you can't choose to be in flow until you re-learn (yes, you already know how to do this) how to make the choice and take the action to experience Flow.Once experienced deliberately, in cannot be unexperienced - it can only be built upon. And this ongoing process will change every aspect of your life and how you experience it.So, you have the step-by-step in this episode - not just how to choose, not just how to take action, not just how to experience Flow but, all importantly, how to maintain Flow during the cut and thrust of your everyday life.So, not only are we building on last week's episode - How to Work Smarter Not Harder - we are going beyond... into the life that you would love to live.

How much easier would life be if you could stop the nonsense of thinking that you need to work hard to be a success?How much more effortless would your daily workload be if you could be in what athletes call "the zone", while you're working?How much more fun would life be if you only did what you needed to do, in the right way, at the right time... and forget the rest?Well, in this episode, you get a blow-by-blow account of how to work smarter. You get the step-by-step guide to allowing your doing mind enable you flow through your day effortlessly - not some days, every day.As you might imagine, it all boils down to knowing what the right things are to do (and forgetting the rest!), doing them effortlessly in the right way and, then, moving on to the next now. As I say right at the end of this week's episode, "nothing could be simpler" - and I mean it.

We're off on an adventure in this week's episode... the adventure that you will experience when you change your expectations.We "live" according to our expectations: our expectations of ourselves and how the world works. And, for the normally-minded individual, that means that we always live down to our expectations.And that's not living at all.And because it's a scientific fact that we only perceive and achieve according to those hard-baked in-build expectations, nothing is ever going to change in your life - until you change those expectations.First and foremost, you need to experience that the expectations that you have of yourself are wrong. You experience this through meditation. And, indeed, this episode has something of a teeny-tiny masterclass on meditation!You then need to alter your expectations of how things will work out for you in any situation - this is what normal people call "plans" and "wishes", "goals" and "objectives" - things that the part of your mind that runs your life simply doesn't understand!In this episode, in the space of a couple of minutes, you're going to learn how to give your mind the expectations that you want of your life, starting straight away.As an Online Program Owner said to me this week "This is my life, my way" - and that is what this episode is all about.

Actually, the title of this week's Episode should be "Who's Hindering Who?"Yes, this week we take a tour into the realms of madness, crushed dreams and lost lives. Seriously.And I don't apologise for the blunt delivery of this week's message - because we're talking about a matter of life and death... your's.We're exploring the fact that there are two of you and the one of you who makes the most noise doesn't actually exist - although it sure feels as if they do.They make so much noise that you could be forgiven for thinking that the other you doesn't even exist and, yet, it is this "other you" who will enable you live your life in a way that the noise in your head could never even begin to imagine.It is this "other you" that you can trust - implicitly, explicitly, completely. Let that other you take you by the hand on the adventure of your lifetime.