Podcasts about our ego

 Jealousy is a passion that causes pain.Jealousy happens if our darling loves another guy, then we feel worthless. Or if another body gets the promotion that we desire. Jealousy is a part of our ego. We should not support our jealousy. Why? If we support jealousy instead of punishing the jealousy, it will grow. The reason number one for homicide in Thailand is Jealousy!!!Because the Thai society is not punishing Jealousy.  For the Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam is Jealousy the worst sentiment! I was grown up in a big family, and we had to share. Imagine within 3 years my mother got two twins and one single. There was no option to be jealous because we got severe punishment for that. A big family, cannot afford jealousy.What can we do, to overcome Jealousy? We speak over our Jealousy to everybody, so that we lose the attachment of our Jealousy.We never want that other people are caring for our Jealousy. We do the opposite. I had a jealous girlfriend, and I was provoking her with her Jealousy again and again until she let go her Jealousy. For instance, she was phoning me, and asked where I am? I replied, I am in a Nightclub and have a fantastic time with the girls there. Or she was coming home I pretended that another girl is still there. It was always so funny!What to do, when we are getting jealous?First, we recognize our Jealousy.We know how bad this emotion will affect us and we don't want that other person to suffer under our jealousy. We breathe deeply in that jealousy and release that feeling when we exhale. (Do it until the jealousy is gone). Or we make Bioenergetic or EFT for Jealousy. If we can get help would be good. We apologize that we didn't trust.How I have handled my Jealousy?I was together with a girl, we went to a party, and she got in love with another guy. I felt humiliated and desperate. I repeated in my mind: I am a nobody, a nothing, (quote from Zen). I repeated this, again and again, until I felt it. Suddenly I went in a deep tremendous bliss and silent state. Jealousy was gone! Our Ego wants that we are something, that we are special. So more humble we are so less suffering and so less jealousy. My Video: How To Overcome Jealousy?  https://youtu.be/kqcKIeE8-wwMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.B/How-To-Overcome-Jealousy.mp3

 The great Yogi Ramakrishna strongly avoided saying “I” or “my”.A wife went to a doctor and asked him what she should do because her husband doesn't like to have sex with her anymore. The doctor answered bring me your husband and I will solve the problem. The doctor said to her husband before you go to bed, go to the bathroom and in front of the mirror say 10 times: I don't know her, and she is not my wife.Problem solved! Because what we don't know and don't own is exciting. If we say it is “my” friend then our ego assumes that we own our friend and that he is under our control. That is the reason why we are so angry if our friend does what we don't like. And when we are married we think that we both own our spouse. After the separation our illusion is over, we have never owned our spouse and our spouse was never under our control. Because of our illusion, we own our spouse we suffered so hard. Be thankful that you are together in a loving relationship. How would you appreciate your time together, if you would think that your loving relationship can end every moment? Our Ego likes to personalize everything so that even after some time an innocent PC, smartphone, car,… becomes a person. And if these things getting broken or don't work we get angry. As a kid, I have learned what I really owned. My mother said: close your eyes and what you see is yours.  We don't own anything.When the Greek emperor Alexander the Great died, he said: “Make two holes in the coffin and let my hands hang outside. Because everybody should see that I died with empty hands.”All our accusation in this world are temporary and not under our control. Even it is so with our body or life. Without the grace of God, we are nothing.Our Ego/I assumes that we are God that we have everything under our control…. Everybody experience devastating moments where we had been overwhelmed. Still, after some time, we think we have everything under our control. That is the incurable disease of our ego.   When we brag what we have done we can't really see the reality. Because we depend on so many circumstances. And God punishes our bragging with worse moments. Watch yourself when you brag, what will happen afterward? Ramakrishna said:God laughsWhen a doctor said I have healed him.When two brothers divide the land of their died father and say this land is yours and that land is mine.Everything owns God!Praise the LordMy Video: With our “I” and “My” start the problems https://youtu.be/lJThjlIS23kMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.B/With-our-“I”-and-“My”-start-the-problems.mp3

 Today, if we like to meet somebody, typically everybody likes to say he has no time, he is busy… so he has to schedule the time… Like a very important person. Our Ego loves a tied schedule because then our Ego feels important.Our Death also loves a busy timetable because we run from one appointment to the next and at the end of the road stands the Death with open arms to snap away our life. Or do you think that it is coincident that even in India the death toll from heartache surpasses all the other diseases? And 30 years ago there was rarely any heartache in India! Stress is the killer number 1.Actually, even kids have a busy timetable, so they must plan in advance their time.We lose the contact with ourselves, when we are overly busy and become a robot without any feelings. We have only time to think and the feelings we skip.We run behind a tied schedule so that we always escape from ourselves.We don't want to face our dark sides of us so that our dark sides controlling our life.If we are not aware of our enemies inside, then our own enemies getting the control over our lives. Think this over.My father was working 7 days a week and over 80 hours… His tyrannic character was showing up when he was stressed through his work. He was beating and abusing us on a daily basis. Do you think, we had always been the reason for his anger? No, it was his work… And he could not reflect on the cause of his stress, anger… Because he had no time to do so.Time is money… If we are greedy:1.) we can't work enough,2.) we can't have enough,3,) and we can't enjoy our life.For God or the divine, we have no time, and the death has scheduled our life.Very often, I see these over-busy people in front of a TV, Laptop or smartphone and wasting their time.It looks contradicting, the busy timetable and on the other hand procrastinating or wasting time for nonsense.If we are busy, we need time to relax, to come back and for that, we choose the smartphone or other digital equipment… Because our inner child wants playtime.Instead, we should choose to do workouts to free us from our anger, frustration, and tension. Afterward, we meditate and connect with the divine.Less is much more! If we decide to live relaxed, with enough time for reflection, sport, and meditation… we have much more from our life. And we live much longer.If we decide to live relaxed, even then are coming unexpected stressful moments. And if we had been relaxed before, we can care much better for such stressful events and find easier the best solution.My video: The Disease of Being Busy The Disease of Being Busy  https://youtu.be/BR4siq-kVwQMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.A/The-Disease-of-Being-Busy.mp3

 I want to give you ample proof that body strain exhaust can be used to reset your life, get rid of your traumas, and connect with the Lord.It is well proven that body-oriented therapy like Bio Energetic brings up the negative suppressed feelings and releases the negative feelings and thoughts.Our negative emotions are creating all of our negative thoughts.Without pain, no gainWith special body exercises like Bioenergetic, and encounter under strain we can free ourselves from our negativity….We have to undergo some pain…Has sport or body strain through work the same effect?In London, they have science proven on thousands of depressive patients that through sport, the depression will go…Every body exercise with strain will release a part of our negativity and give us some calmness in our minds….What is the most effective technique to do so?After my experiences so more strain so better…Some examples: I have done and still doing trekking. I have found out that so heavier the back-sack, so more difficult the trek and so more days we are trekking, so more we gain clarity, and calmness in our minds….1.) Near Pueblo, Mexico, we climbed a Volcano from an altitude of 2900m to 4500m in 3 hours, and in 1.5 hours back…For sure that was fast.I repeated the name of God with every step I took!Why?Try it out, after some time you have much more energy and you can connect more easily with the Lord.I had to go through my inside barriers to keep up the speed… My legs had been so exhausted that it was difficult to hike.And I had big breathing problems when we reached a higher altitude. Nevertheless, I still kept walking and repeating the name of God …After this strain all my negativity was gone and I got confidence and could start a new life.Our Ego wants to keep up the negativity and so it will hinder us from releasing our negativity through exhausting our body…And is telling us always to stop such activity where our body can be exhausted…. Don't trust your Ego!In the past, 1000 years ago, it was normal for the majority to exhaust the body and so release daily their negativity…And for sure life was happier than our life….2.) I wanted to trek from Manang to the holy Muktinath temple via the Thorong La pass, an altitude of 5410m.Life is not easy, we had landslides on the road to Manang.We needed 2 days to Manang…Normally you have to stay 1 to 2 days in Manang for acclimatisation at the high altitude…I skipped that because we need 2 days to Manang.Every morning and evening I meditated, and did my Qigong, to make sure to do everything for a true pilgrimage.This 3-day trek, from Manang to Muktinath is very exhausting, on the last day we had to climb 1000m altitude to cross the Thorong La pass, and then 2000m down to Muktinath.I coughed already a cold…I asked a porter what to do, and he said simply go slowly, then you can do it…In the end, I could go only very slowly 5 steps, and then pause to grasp the air…At this altitude is only 1/6 of the oxygen than at sea level.Even I could enjoy it, I could see so much more without chasing a goal …Just to be in the here and now, surrounded by snow…Finally, I crossed the Thorong La Pass and could run down… fast…I wanted air…Again, I repeated my mantra and that gave me so much more power than usual and made me relaxed.My psychological pain/traumas from my previous relationship were gone, I could reset my life… And start a new positive life and attract the things that I needed…My Video:  Episode 37 Pilgrimage with body strain to exhaust our negativity! https://youtu.be/hFS_ZBypKCsMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast4/Episode-37-Pilgrimage-with-body-strain-to-exhaust-our-negativity.mp3

What if you stopped fighting that loud inner voice of self-doubt? In this week's episode we share how you can transform the way you approach your innermost thoughts and challenges by flipping the script on silencing your inner critic, disarming your negative thoughts and embracing your vulnerability. Rachael Jayne Groover is with me on the show for an empowering discussion that merges the realms of psychology, spirituality, and pragmatic lifestyle changes. RJ shares her transformative strategies to shift your mental frequency away from negative thought patterns helping you ignite a more profound awakening to your personal and professional potential.     In this episode you'll learn: What are effective strategies to manage negative thoughts? How can spiritual awakening impact daily life? What is the mind, body, and spirit connection? What can I do to overcome self-doubt?     Topics Covered: - Internal dialogue and self-doubt - Distancing from negative thoughts - Ego and personal development - Spiritual awakening process - Inner peace in daily life - Mind-body-spirit connection - Self-improvement vs. letting go - Dealing with inner dialogues Key Moments in the Show: [02:52] The Pressure to Conform [06:20] Finding That Inner Peace [09:26] The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection [12:47] How We Subconsciously Sabotage Ourselves [15:25] Personal Growth and Discomfort [17:41] How Can We Reframe How We Look at Our Ego? [22:15] Strategies for Managing Negative Thoughts [26:58] The Why-Free Diet     Get free resources for this episode at  TanyaDalton.com/connect   Connect with Tanya Dalton on LinkedIn Watch the episode on YouTube Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts   Full Transcript and Show Notes: TanyaDalton.com/podcast

This is a mini episode consisting of a passionate discussion regarding people's fear of success. Is that a real thing or just an excuse? My good friend Jess Glazer and I go back and forth showcasing how we're all just a bag of beliefs. So let's reprogram our subconscious mind, feed it expansive beliefs and let go of the contracting ones. The inner work creates our outer world. Enjoy the episode and if you feel connected to it, please share it with someone who can also benefit and receive value from it! Love you guys. Keep on playing bigger and revealing more light.0:48 - Our imagination is infinite1:28 - Thinking and playing bigger2:21 - Having a fear of success3:36 - Our EGO is very strategic6:21 - We are who we believe we should be Guys! Are you building or have thought about building a digital online business, where you can create freedom, impact, wealth and purpose? My friend, Jess whom you heard in the episode has a free 3 day event coming up that I want to give you access too. I encourage you to click the link below if the following grabs you. Creating a 5-step framework the most successful online experts are using to leverage their time, help more people, and build a sustainable business machine, AND uncovering the 7 elements to build an offer that sells itself, and avoid the 3 most common mistakes keeping struggling entrepreneurs broke. Click the link below for complimentary access.Complimentary 3 Day Live Event To join our community click here.➤ To connect with Craig Siegel follow Craig on Instagram➤ Get your free build your million dollar network blueprint Here! ➤ Order a copy of my new book The Reinvention Formula today! ➤ Join our CLS texting community for free daily inspiration and business strategies to elevate your day, text (917) 634-3796To follow The CLS Experience and connect with Craig on Social Media:➤ INSTAGRAM➤ FACEBOOK➤ TIKTOK➤ YOUTUBE➤ WEBSITE➤ LINKEDIN➤ TWITTER

 Well, just detox.For me are all people toxic.... You can learn the most in your life if you are together with difficult people.And that quote I have heard from so many Gurus, like Osho, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan,… What you learn to deal with toxic people is priceless. When I have read the book, “I never have promised you a rose garden.”I could understand that we are not so different from other people.Our EGO thinks always that we are superior and much better than the other guy. Don't get in the trap of the EGO.This book (mentioned before) describes the healing of an autistic, mad person in a madhouse.A male nurse said to that mad person, I am not different than you…We should go in the foot of that toxic person to understand that person…What we reject becomes worse or harms us. Your own sins you see first in other people. (Goethe) Our brain can only see bad habits in other people when our brain has the same bad habits. I don't know why, but all of my chiefs thought I can deal with all kinds of difficult people so they put me together with them.And in India in the Ashram, it was the same... I had to deal with suicide candidates and really awful wicked people... All people thought that I can do that, to normalize them... Yes, I can...Because I tried to understand them and to connect with them. The same is true that I had to ride the most dangerous horses… I connected with these wild horses and afterward, everybody could ride these horses.  Use that opportunity to deal with toxic people and get books, on how to deal with difficult people. Try out new strategies.Remember, we are all the same. My Video:  How to deal with toxic people? KaliMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast2/How.to.deal.with.toxic.people.mp3

Ep#249- The Battle of Our Ego and Our Soul- An Interview with Intuitive and Author, Sue Frederick. My guest for this empowerring chat is Sue Frederick. She is an author, a spiritual coach an intuitive and an ordained Unity Minister. In this empowering chat, Sue shares her story of holding her husband as he died in her arms when she was 29. It changed her life forever, sending her on a deep spiritual journey. Those questions took her on a journey of studying Buddhism, Hinduism and learning about Numerology.  She now helps clients through their spiritual journeys. Those questions took her on a journey of studying Buddhism, Hinduism and learning about Numerology, and eventually she become a Unity Minister. She now help clients through their spiritual journeys. Her latest book is called, “Through a Divine Lens, Practices to Quiet Your Ego and Align with Your Soul.” Sue illuminates the soul path in her book through personal stories and client stories. She also offers tools we can all use to access our soul's purpose. Sue believes that spiritual awakening is possible through the Divine Lens. And the battle of our Ego versus our  Soul is at the center of our growth and our learning. The old way of thinking claims we can change the world by convincing others that we have the right ideas. It is an "us" versus "them" mentality. It doesn't work. Perhaps at one time it did, however we have now come to realize that is not the lesson on the table. It has to start with us, with me, with you. Sue shared how she had to learn that no matter what somebody believes she has to see the soul in that person. Or said another way:” I have to see the All-good, all God universe in every person I come in contact with. I have to remember to “love on them.” And that is so hard to do in these very difficult times we are living in. According to Sue, when we look at life through the Ego lens, (which resides in the human mind) we often forget we have a soul too, one that is here to guide us through the higher frequency of love – and that cannot be achieved when the human ego is engaged. The ego is all about self-preservation and keeping us safe through the tough challenges we humans face. And our society preaches fear, getting ahead, competition and so on, anything to stay ahead and stay safe. It doesn't work. All that does is amp our anxiety, our fears and our need to control everything around us. And now we are achieving at a whole new level of consciousness and growth. Now we can get beyond the ego, beyond the mind, to the heart space. We have to be heartfelt soul beings who see everybody here as beautiful souls. Some are walking a troubled path and some are walking with pure love in their heart. And we all have to help each other stay in the light and always walk toward love. Meditation, mindfulness practices and journaling can help us to get in touch with our soul so that we can quiet the ego and allow the soul to lead. We all have this accessible to us, but it takes work and intention to access our souls and let love lead the way. "Through a Divine Lens," outlines much of this and helps us to access those parts of ourselves that are meant to lead in light and love. To learn more about Sue Frederick please visit: CareerIntuitive.org/about-sue-frederick To Purchase "Through a Divine Lens" visit: CareerIntuitive.org To learn more about how I show up in the world please visit: SusanBurrell.com

? When was the last time you embraced criticism & correction in your life? How do you even know which voices to listen to and let speak into your life? Join Kent as he dives into this important topic looking at the book of Proverbs. Let's grow together! ?? #SermonTime. IT'S EASY TO GIVE at Harmony, text any amount to (859) 459-0316 to get started (or give online @ my.harmonychurch.cc/give ). ----------------- OPENING ILLUSTRATION: Years ago, when I was a youth pastor. I was at this camp and we had a “morning show” it was basically a way to wake up all the kids and get them excited for the day. We would get up there and do gross games and make jokes and make it super fun and set the expectation for the kids. Every day I would have the kids turn to their neighbor and say, “best camp ever…” in a derogatory and negative way. The kids would do it and I would laugh and get them to laugh and we'd move on. Finally, my buddy Jason Schmidt pulled me aside after a few days of this and he rebuked me. He said, “Kent, all the kids love you and follow you and when you make it like camp is no fun, you set the attitude for all of them… you're a leader, you need to lead them better…” Man, that hit me hard… If I'm honest, his words stung me a little bit. But, as I sat back and looked at it Most of my growth as a leader has come from the hard truthful things and the people who risked telling them to me rather than through the easy things of life. don't you find that to be true? ILLUSTRATION: Years ago I tried my hand at making knives. The thing that shapes a knife from blank steel into an instrument you can cut with is heat, pressure, and friction. The process of producing a tool requires the removal and reshaping of material - it takes heat, pressure, and friction SCRIPTURE: This week, we are taking a breather from Basecamp because I want to challenge you to expand your thinking to be willing to embrace a concept that our world has in some ways lost. Your growth as a human is partially a product of the heat, pressure, and friction in your life - so stop running from it. Let me explain. I've told you the culture of the Kingdom of God is not the culture of the world we live in. One of my biggest worries is that over the course of Basecamp, you are going to hear certain concepts and ideas and because they challenge the status quo, you are going to reject them instead of being willing to consider them. b They will feel like Rebuke, and our culture is scared to allow anyone to tell them they might be wrong. b Let's look at some of what the book of Proverbs says about Rebuke to give us a pattern to use for personal growth. 1. Restructure your thinking about discipline… Proverbs 12:1: "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid." Discipline is not the same as punishment. -Discipline is the means to course-correct -Discipline comes from a desire of what is best for a person ILLUSTRATION: Good parents know how to teach this concept to their children. The reason you are correcting them is because you love them, not because you hate them. I tell my kids all the time if I hated them, I would let them do whatever the heck they want. It is my love for them that puts me in a position to do the hard things and bring correction. What keeps people from loving discipline/correction [have the bullets appear one at a time] Our Ego (if you operate out of pride or fear, you will innately reject discipline.) Our Past Experience (you've carried wounds that keep you from being able to hear the discipline as a loving interaction) Our Culture (so many of us have bought into the cultural idea that you should be able to “live your truth” that we ignore when our truth needs to be reshaped) This brings me to a good point… How do you know which rebuke or discipline to listen to? 2. Tuning your ears for Wisdom Proverbs 15:31: "Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise." ILLUSTRATION: One of the weird things about being a pastor is you have hundreds of people who all have an opinion about how and what you should do and feel like it's their biblical mandate to let you know those things. Harmony actually is a very uncommon church and I don't get tons of this. But I've had more rebuke than you can imagine from the style of music a church uses, to the temperature of the thermostats, things I've said in a sermon, the way I dress, to a million other things. I'm sure I'm not alone in that You've got the same thing… the over-opinionated employee, that parent of your student who wants to tell you how to run your class, How do you know what to listen to and what not to listen to? b I love this proverb because it doesn't tell you to listen to ALL correction, it tells you to heed “life-giving” correction Learn from what is life-giving and discard the rest… b How do you know what's “life-giving” correction? b Here are the personal metrics I use to determine life-giving (I want at least 2 out of 3 of these to consider the correction): -Does the person bringing correction love Jesus? -Does the person love/want what's best for me? -Does the person love/want the best for the organization or mission? There are certainly other metrics you should use, but these will help you get where you need to go The key is to realize you don't have to take all corrections - but you can be wise in what you invite and who you invite to give you corrections.. ILLUSTRATION: If you tell me my sermon was a stinker I might listen. But if my wife or one of our elders says that to me, I'm going to for sure listen. Their known proximity to me, to Jesus, and love for this church would dictate that for me. Make sense? 3. Good leaders look for the person who grows from adversity Proverbs 19:20: "Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise." ILLUSTRATION: Early on in my career, I thought I had to be a know it all. I thought I had to have an answer for every problem. I had to always be on top of every situation. This unintentionally put me in a position of pretending and not being open to feedback. I've known a pretty large group of talented people who never progressed in their field simply due to their inability to take feedback and correction. How do you change that attitude? it takes two things: Take the pressure off: realize no one, including God, needs you to have everything together Address your ego: change from Edging God Out to Exalting God Only CLOSING ILLUSTRATION: You know, one of the little talked about things that Jesus did was to rebuke His disciples. At one point, He said to them, “are you still so dull?” like, “are you not even getting this stuff I'm talking about?” Another time, Peter said something that sounded SUPER spiritual and good and Jesus responded with “get behind me Satan, you don't have in mind the things of God, but of man” I want to bring this up to you at the end of this sermon not because I think I'm in some position to correct or discipline you or rebuke you, but because Jesus is still in the business of rebuking us - it's really a means by which He turns our hearts back to Himself. The scripture is clear that God uses hardship to discipline us - turn us back to Him. God cares way more about your discipleship than your comfort - He cares that you are looking more like Him than looking like what you want this life to look like. What would it look like for you to intentionally take a step to be willing to let God offend your modern sensibility? Because I promise you, the longer you follow Him, the more you will find the beauty of being seated with the wise and accepting the Lords discipline and rebuke! --------------

Our Ego. Just what is it - and what are the key roles this mystical entity serves as we navigate a healthy sense of self, and our overall well-being as humans? Our guest, Performance and Well-Being coach, Georgina Halabi explores the concept of ego and how it can be used to protect oneself from harm, but also how it can be used to transcend the self and connect to a higher consciousness. They discussed how wolves can be used as a metaphor for the ego and how it is important to study the behaviors of wolves to understand them better. They also discussed how the ego can be programmed to be whatever one wants it to be and how the higher self can be used to discern how to use the ego. According to modern researchers such as Loevinger, and Cook-Geuter; there are seven primary levels of ego development. Therefore, it's essential we ask these questions when considering the evolution of our ego development.  How do these levels of ego development affect our relationships?  The ego greatly influences our self - understanding. So, just what is the role of the ego in creating a healthy psychological state?  These are all questions we'll answer as we explore the landscape of ego development and its effect on our health and overall well-being.  Exploring the Relationship Between Ego and Identity Negativity as a Gift or Curse How we perceive things affects how they are Exploring Consciousness and the Ego in a Conversation Action Items: Digging deeper into the topic of ego Go and sit with your Egos Explore the idea of ego as a gatekeeper or overseer Explore deep meditation practices Credits: JOIN US ON INSTAGRAM: @thelightinsidepodcast SUBSCRIBE: pod.link/thelightinside Featured Guest: Georgina Halabi Credits: Music Score by Epidemic Sound Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker Mixing, Engineering, Production, and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio Senior Program Director: Anna Getz --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelightinside/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelightinside/support

In part 4 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman describes the nature of the Jungian concept of the Self with a capital “S”. A synonym is God within, Buddha nature, Christ, etc. The Self occupies the center and circumference of our life which includes everything about us, conscious and unconscious including our shadow. Our Ego tends to take up residence in a safe corner with our attachments and ego defenses until we make the conscious effort to surrender to the urges of the Self. The Self will orchestrate accidents, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, etc. to get us to change. It's goal is to beckon us to become our whole self. Establishing our connection to this intrapsychic relationship (which Ed Edinger calls this the ego-Self axis) melds us to a transpersonal goal to become self-validating and true to ourselves. This empowers us in the arena of meaning, authenticity and our deepest truth. These audios are not the best but the content is so good, I felt it was worth it to publish them. Please share them with whomever you feel would enjoy this very thought provoking series on analytical psychology. — Rebeca Eigen, web master

Laurie Huston from News for the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell on Celebrating the Simplicity of LOVE. We began by discussing Tom's last retreat in Europe that was really a BIG Celebration of Tom's work and a discussion of how to make Tom's work out to the World in a Bigger way. My intent for the Interview was to discuss Love as an Action. An action of Sharing and Giving. The discussion morphed into the Simplicity of LOVE. Love is about Sharing, Compassion and Positivity. Love is simple, it is Fear that is more difficult. Fear means we need to Grow Up and find ways to Let Go of our Fears. Love is an Opening of our Hearts. Love is the Essence of Life. We are often told that if we want something to Act like we have it. When it comes to Love, especially romantic Love, we all put on an Act to try and BE the person we believe the other person desires most. We wear these masks so that we can manipulate others to see what we want them to see and to hope they will BE what we want them to BE. Therein lies the problem. Love doesn't manipulate others. We often are just falling in Need, instead of LOVE. We do this in most relationships, because we have believed the Media's definition of Love. Unfortunately, our media doesn't realize how manipulative it is. Our Ego wants to BE right and has certain expectations. None of this is LOVE. We end out discussion with Compassion. We have no idea what others are experiencing. So if they do or are something we don't like, then what we need is Compassion and Acceptance. Compassion and Acceptance allows everyone to BE who they are. And who they are is Lovable. Love is simple, it is Who we Are. This Love is what we express to others. Love is Who we Are! Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

The need to rise above the three modes of nature The material world has three modes of nature: goodness (Sattva), passion (Rajas), and ignorance (Tamas). It is these gunas that create and feed the Ego, which binds the divine soul to the physical body. These modes affect each individual differently, depending on their sanskaras, from previous lives. Shri Krishna will explain these gunas in depth in chapter 14. Our soul is a tiny spark of God, who is beyond these gunas. The Vedas provide many prescriptions for a person to progress from Tamas to Rajas to Sattva guna. Shri Kṛṣṇa is telling Arjuna to understand that the goal of all the teachings of the vedas is to realize this God, and that Arjuna needs to rise above these gunas and focus on self realization which will lead him towards God realization. How to rise above these gunas? Shri Krishna says: nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho niryoga-kṣhema ātmavān Nirdvandvo: Avoid getting disturbed by dualities of nature (earlier, Shri Krishna advised Arjuna to practice Samatvam, or calm mindedness). Nitya-sattva-stho: Always be established in sattva guna. Niryoga-kṣhema: Here, the term Yoga is used to mean “to acquire” and Kshema means “the efforts to preserve”. Our Ego keeps us busy acquiring various material things and then worrying about preserving them. Shri Krishna is advising that Arjuna should discipline his mind to not run behind things to acquire or worry about things to preserve, as we have to keep the Ego under check while on the path of self-realization. Also, acquiring and preserving are the manifestations of Rajo guna and Tamo guna and once we avoid these, we are able to establish ourselves in Sattva guna, which is a prerequisite for spiritual evolution. Atmavān: Focus on self-realization, A point to be noted is that we should not be reading the vedas and other spiritual texts with the intent of becoming a scholar of those texts. What is actually important is that we understand and implement the knowledge to attain self realization. This is what we termed as Nidhidhyasan previously. Shri Kṛṣṇa says that the Vedas are like a water tank, full of spiritual knowledge. But Self realization is like a flood of water. And when we are surrounded by a flood of water, we do not need a water tank. Similarly, we should approach the Vedas and all spiritual knowledge with the understanding that they are only a means to spiritual growth and self-realization. Once we achieve this realization, we no longer need these books or scriptures.

 Jealousy is a passion that causes pain.Jealousy happens if our darling loves another guy, then we feel worthless. Or if another body gets the promotion that we desire. Jealousy is a part of our ego. We should not support our jealousy. Why? If we support jealousy instead of punishing the jealousy, it will grow. The reason number one for homicide in Thailand is Jealousy!!!Because the Thai society is not punishing Jealousy.  For the Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam is Jealousy the worst sentiment! I was grown up in a big family, and we had to share. Imagine within 3 years my mother got two twins and one single. There was no option to be jealous because we got severe punishment for that. A big family, cannot afford jealousy.What can we do, to overcome Jealousy? We speak over our Jealousy to everybody, so that we lose the attachment of our Jealousy.We never want that other people are caring for our Jealousy. We do the opposite. I had a jealous girlfriend, and I was provoking her with her Jealousy again and again until she let go her Jealousy. For instance, she was phoning me, and asked where I am? I replied, I am in a Nightclub and have a fantastic time with the girls there. Or she was coming home I pretended that another girl is still there. It was always so funny!What to do, when we are getting jealous?First, we recognize our Jealousy.We know how bad this emotion will affect us and we don't want that other person to suffer under our jealousy. We breathe deeply in that jealousy and release that feeling when we exhale. (Do it until the jealousy is gone). Or we make Bioenergetic or EFT for Jealousy. If we can get help would be good. We apologize that we didn't trust.How I have handled my Jealousy?I was together with a girl, we went to a party, and she got in love with another guy. I felt humiliated and desperate. I repeated in my mind: I am a nobody, a nothing, (quote from Zen). I repeated this, again and again, until I felt it. Suddenly I went in a deep tremendous bliss and silent state. Jealousy was gone! Our Ego wants that we are something, that we are special. So more humble we are so less suffering and so less jealousy. My Video: How To Overcome Jealousy?  https://youtu.be/kqcKIeE8-wwMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.B/How-To-Overcome-Jealousy.mp3

Season 3 Episode 18 | Recorded May 27, 2022 A Fresh Book Report @ Accounting High with Scotty Scarano and Twyla Verhelst, CPA Today's Book Report is on Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday Ever felt like you're the king of the world? Or like you're carrying the world on your shoulders? When was the last time you felt like you won? Or the last time you felt like you lost? What and who got you there? Our Ego, if left unchecked, clouds our vision and prevents us from reaching greater heights. It affects us not just in moments of success but in our failures as well. Do you have too much pride to ask for help? Look in the mirror and gauge yourself. Listen in as Scott and Twyla attempt to defeat their greatest enemies, themselves. 4 - Your biggest enemy is yourself and you're more likely to be what gets in the way than anything else 7 - The three components: Aspire, Success, and Failure Shoutout to Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek 8 - Aspire: losing touch with reality and letting your pride block what's in front of you Shoutout to Frank Shamrock 10 - Find your Plus, Minus, and Equals in life and in business Shoutout to Catherine Graham, Angela Merkel 15 - You get confidence, but if you're not careful, it takes you too far 17 - Once you taste that success and you feel like you know it all… That's gonna lead to failure 20 - Beware of the disease of me Shoutout to Pat Riley, Steve Jobs, Kanye West 22 - A lot of awareness and intention is required to keep us from becoming our own barriers 25 - A monk is separate from all and in harmony with all 27 - Failure: being defined by your success that you can't even define yourself when you fail 36 - Was it them? Was it me? Or is it the circumstances that got us here? 37 - Every step of the way, Ego is the Enemy 39 - We may think that we're never equipped to get there, but there are definitely people like you that have gotten there and even past that Shoutout to Kenji Kuramoto, Nikole Mackenzie, CPA --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/accountinghigh/message

Being asked to present at an upcoming speaking engagement sparked this episode which is a little different but none the less an important topic to discuss. As a business owner/entrepreneur/CEO (whatever you want to call it), I've learned a lot this year about ego, delegation, and the work that needs done on yourself in order to succeed professionally and wanted to share that today.   Time Stamps:   (0:37) Upcoming Speaking Engagement (2:32) Running My Business/My Passion (7:02) Our Ego (10:05) Delegation (12:40) Work On Yourself (17:35) Where Are You? ---------------------------- Follow Me on Instagram! @tayloredwellbeing ---------------------------- Click Here to Apply to Work with Me or visit taylorsappington.com/application

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Our EGO is raging and has been running the show. I have created this podcast to point out a few destructive aspects of our inner double agent (EGO), so you can catch your patterns and through that improve your life.If we don't catch our deep and dark EGO patterns, it will ruin our lives and eventually kill us.Take a listen!My website:https://robertszentes.com/#selfimprovement #mentalhealth #consciousness #prosperitymindset #subconsiousmind #success #healthfitness #healing #podcast #inspiration #leadershipdevelopment #robertszentes #advancedmindinstitute

 Today, if we like to meet somebody, typically everybody likes to say he has no time, he is busy… so he has to schedule the time… Like a very important person. Our Ego loves a tied schedule because then our Ego feels important.Our Death also loves a busy timetable because we run from one appointment to the next and at the end of the road stands the Death with open arms to snap away our life. Or do you think that it is coincident that even in India the death toll from heartache surpasses all the other diseases? And 30 years ago there was rarely any heartache in India! Stress is the killer number 1.Actually, even kids have a busy timetable, so they must plan in advance their time.We lose the contact with ourselves, when we are overly busy and become a robot without any feelings. We have only time to think and the feelings we skip.We run behind a tied schedule so that we always escape from ourselves.We don't want to face our dark sides of us so that our dark sides controlling our life.If we are not aware of our enemies inside, then our own enemies getting the control over our lives. Think this over.My father was working 7 days a week and over 80 hours… His tyrannic character was showing up when he was stressed through his work. He was beating and abusing us on a daily basis. Do you think, we had always been the reason for his anger? No, it was his work… And he could not reflect on the cause of his stress, anger… Because he had no time to do so.Time is money… If we are greedy:1.) we can't work enough,2.) we can't have enough,3,) and we can't enjoy our life.For God or the divine, we have no time, and the death has scheduled our life.Very often, I see these over-busy people in front of a TV, Laptop or smartphone and wasting their time.It looks contradicting, the busy timetable and on the other hand procrastinating or wasting time for nonsense.If we are busy, we need time to relax, to come back and for that, we choose the smartphone or other digital equipment… Because our inner child wants playtime.Instead, we should choose to do workouts to free us from our anger, frustration, and tension. Afterward, we meditate and connect with the divine.Less is much more! If we decide to live relaxed, with enough time for reflection, sport, and meditation… we have much more from our life. And we live much longer.If we decide to live relaxed, even then are coming unexpected stressful moments. And if we had been relaxed before, we can care much better for such stressful events and find easier the best solution.My video: The Disease of Being Busy The Disease of Being Busy  https://youtu.be/BR4siq-kVwQMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.A/The-Disease-of-Being-Busy.mp3

Our Ego, Our Mental Health & Our Nervous System with Lindsey Lockett // Episode #39   About Lindsey - Lindsey Lockett is a trauma educator, coach, and the host of the Holistic Trauma Healing Podcast. After leaving behind the dogmas of fundamentalist religion and toxic wellness culture, Lindsey experienced her own dark night of the soul. During the healing journey that followed, she realized that trauma affects us as WHOLE people and therefore, we need to heal as WHOLE people. Although Lindsey has benefited tremendously from therapy and psychiatry, these modalities never totally resonated with her because she found that they forced her to fragment herself rather than heal holistically. The Universe dropped the phrase "holistic trauma healing" into her awareness and started her on a path to receive an affordable and accessible approach that integrates the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and ancestral parts of our being… and she discovered the magic of the nervous system!   She lives with her husband of 20 years, their 2 teenagers, and 2 dogs on 6 acres in the wilderness of Northeastern Minnesota, where she is surrounded by forest, water, and magic.   Link to Episode 5 of Lindsey's Holistic Trauma Healing Podcast here Lindsey is on Instagram here   So where you can find me, the best place in Instagram - @motherearthhealerpippa My website has lots of goodies and fun stuff to check out too - www.motherearthrising.co.uk   The Answer Self-Study Course £97 – Are you searching for a higher purpose in life? Perhaps you feel lost and are looking for support to turn your feelings of despair into hope. This uniquely designed course is here to help you, within this 5 week journey you will be guided through a step by step process into a spiritually inspired hierarchy of needs. Includes 7 modules for finding your own answers, featuring workbooks, meditations, self-reflection exercises, 4 hours of video content, plus aftercare email support. Reiki and Intuitive Channelled Readings - £44 1 hour distance Reiki Healing session where Pippa will connect to your soul guides, asking them to assist with the healing, and to allow Pippa to be a channel for their guidance. Provides clarity, empowerment, comfort, healing, and relief. Reiki Level 1, 2 and Master Training As a Reiki Master, Pippa is excited to take on new students wishing to become an attuned Reiki Healer. Individual prices are: Reiki Level 1 - £145 Reiki Level 2 - £199 Reiki Master - £399 Please get in touch with Pippa for private 1:1 training availability at: www.motherearthrising.co.uk   So happy you are here and listening to my podcast. I would be super grateful if you could leave me a 5* review, share this episode with your friends/family and tag me with your biggest take away! I love hearing what you learned and it really does make a difference in spreading my messages with the world.    Love & blessings.   Pippa Spiritual Teacher & Healer 

Our Ego is the trickiest of tricksters. It is one of the greatest magicians on the planet. In this episode Dale answers questions from a wise and conscious 11 year old boy about the possibility of our ego merging with someone else's and how we can know when this is about to happen.

Our Ego is part of our human existence - there is no way around it. This is why it is so important to learn how to dismantle our unhealthy ego and operate from our Pure ego. In order to dismantle our ego, we need to be aware of when and how we are misaligned. In this episode, Amy Elizabeth shares her personal experience of unsexy work and alignment in these trying times. If we take the time to go back to our Human Design when we are in misalignment, we can get clarity around what we must do next. Tune in as Amy dives into each Energy type and what could be holding you back. By dismantling our Ego and cleaning up our energy on a consistent basis, we will live in alignment more often and have access to the ease, flow and power that is meant for us. Dive deep into Align By Design's new Mastermind: Dismantling Ego - The Rise of the PURE Woman. When we dismantle our ego, we begin to understand how to rise in our pure ego - with grace.

Let's talk about how to show up in your life as the highest and best version of yourself AKA your soul self. We're going to demystify this idea that finding yourself and becoming yourself is something that you do outside of yourself, it's really a journey that you take in, of and with yourself. There are three levels of our being, I'm not talking about Body Mind Spirit, that's a conversation for a different time, I'm talking about the Ego, the Shadow and the Spirit. Together, we're going to break each of these down to have a better understanding of them and then we'll be talking about how you can start to align with your spirit more and how you can show up in your life as your spirit. The Shadow is all of the wounded aspects of yourself, every negative comment someone's made about you that makes you feel small, every limiting belief, every moment of feeling like you're not good enough. These thoughts/feelings can be something you're consciously aware of or it could be something you're unconsciously aware of. This can show up as self sabotage, people pleasing, perfectionism, etc. Next we have our Ego. Our ego's job is to protect the shadow, to protect us from experiencing more hurt, more discomfort, more pain. The Ego will do a lot of things to make sure this happens. One is to show up as perfect so no one knows about the painful aspects of ourselves. Another is casting judgment, because if we're judging, we get to project the hurt and pain before it hits us. The Ego is responsible for all of the fear we experience. Fear can be both a good thing and a bad thing, our ego doesn't know the difference between the fear of doing uncomfortable (but good) things for ourselves and the fear of a life or death situation (aka survival). Our Ego is always self-sabotaging us, whether we recognize it or not. The final layer of our being is our spirit. Our soul is pure unconditional Consciousness, pure unconditional love, pure unconditional Joy. We are Spiritual Beings living a Human Experience, which means we all have a spirit but sometimes it's so deep within us that it feels like we can't access it. This happens because of our life experiences, pain, hurt, trauma, liming beliefs, etc. To protect us our Ego puts up these walls of judgment, of attack, of fear, of manipulation. It thinks that it's protecting us but really it's just separating us from our authentic self. We show up in our lives in one of two ways, one is out of love and one is out of fear. When we show up in the world in alignment with fear, we are showing up in alignment with our ego, when we show up in alignment with love, we are showing up in alignment with our soul self. You can make two exact same decisions with different energy behind them. To be your soul self, acknowledge how you are showing up in your life, is it with love or is it with fear? Practice quieting the ego (lovingly), healing your shadow & create space for your soul to show up in the world. FREE Higher Self Meditation Podcasts: Boundaries | Self Healing | Self Love | Limiting Beliefs | Mindset | Spirituality

"Our Ego takes  hold of all of our senses and we begin to spiritually decline, as long as we let our Ego stay in the driver seat. The Ego builds doubt. It builds doubt about ourselves, and it builds doubt towards Hashem and his Holiness."

The Ego has a bad rap — it has become the villain of self-help. According to psychologists, if we don't have an ego, we would become mentally ill. We need it to mediate between the unconscious and the conscious. Your relationship with your Ego can turn into either an enemy or an ally. In other words, your Ego is not you, but we often completely identify with our Ego as Self. Ego is a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment, pain, love, excitement and connection – whatever we experienced in our childhoods, both good and bad. Our Ego is a curious beast — most of us don't realize its existence, yet we are under its mercy. So, this week we explore how to explore Ego gently and to shift it to its rightful place as part of our Being rather than the illusion that it is the whole of our Being.

Our Ego is not our Amigo

We spent so much time working against our true nature and so our dreams refused to manifest. Our Ego is no longer running our lives. We have given that over to the one who has all the power. We have surrendered to a will that is greater than our own and now we are free. Please share, subscribe, rate and review (helps more people find the podcast). My name is Nick Young. I am so happy and grateful to create this relaxing music for you to enhance your meditation and yoga practice. Visit the BombayRain website BombayRain.net. Contact me: sitarnickyoung@gmail.com.

Our Ego mind sure does love to know that we are going to be ok. And, it's because of this that we can often try to control how our manifestations show up.However, this is a big no no when it comes to manifesting successfully, and in this episode I outline exactly why and explain the energetics of this manifesting key!I also share a story of mine which highlights all of the topics that I share this weekend.. It also highlights how we need to stop looking at our current limiting circumstances in our reality to dictate what is possible for us.I'm still kinda' mind blown, as a year and a half ago there's absolutely no way I thought I would be sharing my stories with hundreds of people on a podcast.. So thanks for tuning in! FOLLOW Insta: https://www.instagram.com/myeverydayalchemy/@myeverydayalchemyWebsite: www.myeverydayalchemy.comRE:CREATIONInsta: https://www.instagram.com/re.creationdesigns/@re.creationdesignsWebsite: www.recreationdesigns.caMUSICPort- OTRTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/_OTRmusicWeb: https://www.musicbyotr.comInsta: https://www.instagram.com/otrmusicofficial/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0oeUdHJ3cy1oveb8WguJJtSupport the show

Who is really in control in our lives? Is it our brain who does the cognitive thinking? Our Ego who tells us what we are? Our spirit that discerns the right and wrong?

DISCLAIMER: The first few episodes are intended to get to know "Uncle Dave" a bit better and get accustomed to some of his story and his way of speaking.  The tribe is gathering and the clan is forming.  The guests are coming!!!   In the late 80's there was this song that resonated with me as I moved out of my teenage years into adulthood and that song was "Kid Ego". It was sung by one of the many hair rock bands that the late 1980's built. This song talked about an individual who was all EGO.  Someone who wouldn't listen to advice. Our Ego feeds us what we want to hear and we chase the shiny objects until the day it comes back to us.  For me the day of reckoning came last year when I made an attempt on my life. I learned my lessons and as the song goes - a little modesty would suit you better.  Once I gave it a try I rose once again after remembering who I am.  The bigger they are the harder the fall and I fell.  My friend who will alway be a part of me - Kid Ego is now put to rest because of who I really am is "Uncle Dave". "When the Ego dies the soul awakens" - Buddhist Teaching  

Today I'll be talking about something that I’ve seen happening to many immigrants, especially the ones who come to Canada after having a successful career in their home country. Our EGO. Hello everyone, so the topic today is related to our ego. In simple words, without getting into psychology or other fields where I’m not an expert. The ego is simply put as an inflated feeling of pride that makes us stand out when we compare ourselves to others. So, having an ego is not a bad thing, it can help us realize our accomplishments, make us feel confident when taking on new challenges like a new job that we might have never performed but we believe we can do it. However, taking it to the extreme, it can be a bad thing. Have you ever heard that someone has a big ego? Like those people at work that even though they may have a lower title than you think they are better than you and everyone around them? I’m sure we all have at least one of those at our offices, I know I do. But, when you move to a new country, your ego plays a big role. I’ve seen people very frustrated after months or even years in Canada because they haven’t been able to get a job. When we talk about it, I always ask them what do they do? And most, if not every time, they tell me they are Directors or Vice Presidents of something. If I’ve learned anything after living in Toronto for almost 8 years is that it doesn’t matter what you did back in your home country, it doesn’t matter if you were the VP of Sales. You’ll be lucky if you get an entry-level position in your field. There are many skills that companies here look for, a lot of them are hard-skills. But some are soft-skills and, especially for middle and upper management positions, those are key. Let me give you an example. Before I moved to Toronto, I was a Senior Project Manager managing a huge project. The budget was over 6 million dollars and I had to coordinate with teams all over the world. I managed the budget, scope, timelines, resources, etc. Everything! When I came to Canada as a student and tried to find an internship at a company, no one cared if I had managed such a big project. I thought it looked great in my resume, for sure, I was really proud of it. It was the biggest project I’ve ever managed and I had metrics and everything to show that it had been successful. When the time came to start looking for internship opportunities, I was so confident that I would get anyone I wanted that I decided to be very picky about the positions. I was certain that any of the companies would fight to have an intern like me. But, that was not the case. My ego had led me to believe that I was better than I really was. My ego held me back from applying for all internships and only picking three of them. After almost a month of not receiving any response, I started to worry. I didn’t understand why a company wouldn’t want me if I was so good! So I sought council with one of my professors and he saw my resume and said, this is not what companies are looking for. They are looking for a recent grad with almost no experience. That’s why they’re not calling you. I have to say I was shocked. My ego had grown so much, that something so small as not finding an internship hurt me so deep that made me question my professional life. Fortunately, a couple of weeks before the deadline, I secured an internship with a not-so-good company, but at that point, I had no option. I had to say yes or I wouldn’t be able to move to the next term of the certificate. Had I been less cocky and left my ego on the side, maybe I would have landed a better internship. Somewhere where I could have learned something, instead of wasting months of my life copying and pasting data from excel to PowerPoint. But I wasn’t, and I learned my lesson. After I left that company, I searched for jobs and decided to be open to interviewing for Junior Project Manager or even Project Coordinator positions.

As a human being, incarnated on Earth, you have a physical body, a soul body, and you are a spirit. There is divinity in everyone and everything.In this episode, John talks about what he means by "spiritual" and how that shows up in unexpected areas of life.He presents his model of multiple human bodies and how models are imperfect but necessary to have a common way to communicate.The soul body is a spiritual component that is affected by our experiences during this lifetime.The spirit, or Atman, is our perfect undying divine spark that remains whole and perfect forever and is never affected by life experiences.Our Ego is not evil, it is just our mental structure of who we are as individuals.

Our Ego mind is wise in making us believe the self criticism and doubts about our selves as well as the external world we are born into. Relationships are critical to life. Words come as a way of expression. How we use them, is purely down to us. Words have spirit to build or tear down the uniqueness of our Soul. The lovingness of our spirit can carry us wholly, to a deeper place of self acceptance. Our truth is our word. Our word can be our truth.

Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran. Hope you enjoy! Eknath Easwaran is one of my absolute favorite teachers. In this beautiful and brilliant biography we get his insights into the transformation of Gandhi the man into the Mahatma or "great soul." As per the sub-title of the book, we learn “How one man changed himself to change the world.” Big Ideas we explore include why/how it all starts with being the change, the power of satyagraha (= soul-force!), making history (by ignoring historians), Gandhi and sugar (and fuel for his soul engine), the call to action (to be moral warriors), and "my life is my message" (what's yours?). Get Gandhi the Man on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gandhi-Man-Changed-Himself-Change/dp/1586380559 Learn more about Eknath Easwaran: https://www.optimize.me/authors/eknath-easwaran/ ► RELATED RESOURCES: Big Idea 1: Φ + 1 + 1 + 1 = O = ∞ - PNTV: Falling Upward by Richard Rohr, OFM → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbYeFrbnDQE - PNTV: The Second Mountain by David Brooks → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjsbl89Zds - The Paradox of the Ego | Ironically: We Need a Strong Ego to Let Go of Our Ego (#1092) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-paradox-of-the-ego/ - +1: The Optimize Compass - Eric Butterworth → https://www.optimize.me/authors/eric-butterworth/ - +1: We’re Only the Light Bulbs | Our Job Is to Remain Screwed In! (#1090) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/were-only-the-light-bulbs/ - Jocko Willink → https://www.optimize.me/authors/jocko-willink/ Big Idea 2: MAKING HISTORY - Abraham Maslow → https://www.optimize.me/authors/abraham-maslow/ - +1: You and Gandhi | Making History (#847) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/you-and-gandhi/ Big Idea 3: SUGAR - “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson → https://www.optimize.me/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/18509-what-you-do-speaks-so-loudly-that-i-cann/ - PN: The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/the-case-against-sugar-gary-taubes/ Big Idea 4: WARRIORS - PN: The Baghavad Gita by Krishna → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/the-bhagavad-gita-krishna-eknath-easwaran/ - +1: The (Lucky) Master’s Path | Walk 1 Mile and Destination Is 2 Miles Farther Away (#456) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-lucky-masters-path/ Big Idea 5: “MY LIFE” - +1: Being the Change | YOU Want to See in the World (#824) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/being-the-change/ ► FREE 14-DAY TRIAL: Get the PhilosophersNote on The World According to Mister Rogers and 600+ other books by starting a Free 14-Day trial membership to Optimize: https://www.optimize.me/trial/ ► MORE GOODNESS: - Get the Optimize App for iPhone & iPad: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Get the Optimize App for Android: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Subscribe to the Optimize Podcast: https://optimize.me/podcast/ - Follow Optimize on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BriantheOptimizer/ - Follow Optimize on Instagram: https://instagram.com/optimize.me/

Our Ego - the image we have of ourselves that we show the world - is mostly based on the patterns and implicit biases we develop in the very early stages of our lives. These patterns and biases, instead of being formed intentionally, are created unconsciously by our parents, teachers, coaches, etc. It becomes the model by which we judge ‘the right way to be.' But all this influence is not simply unconscious. It is really unconsciously passed down through several generations before us. For this reason, this thing we call our ego is often very detached and dissonant from what is our authentic self. And the more dissonance, the greater levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction issues we are likely to experience. Also, the more dissonance, the less happiness, and satisfaction we will know. Would you like to intentionally align with your authentic self?

Oct 4 - Our Ego is our number adversary.  It gets in the way of all our dreaming.  BUT there is a way around it.  Intro by @thejameskumar

Piggybacking off of Episode 2, Corissa dives a little deeper into the mind. With ~60,000 thoughts each day & 95% of them being subconscious thoughts from the past, she introduces the Ego and Inner Child parts of our minds. Our Ego and Inner Child shape the personalities we create as children & stories we tell ourselves over and over to survive in life. Corissa gets vulnerable & shares the stories she's told herself since she was a young girl. Unmet needs from Corissa’s Inner child causes her Ego to attach to thoughts like, “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not pretty enough.” “If they don’t see me... If they don’t hear me... I won’t be loved.” “I need to win.” “I need to achieve.” “I must be the best.” “I need to be funny.” “I have to be pretty.” “If I don’t have and be all of these things, I am not good enough. I won’t be loved.” ALL STORIES. ALL UNTRUE. ALL SUBCONSCIOUS.Learning this creates power. When we can practice and learn to separate ourselves from our subconscious mind and Ego, we can begin to feel & fully step into our power, our freedom & discover TRUE self-confidence.EP3 SHOW NOTES: 2:20 - Recapping from Episode 2 with some conscious and subconscious mind stuffsss. 3:10 - Introducing the Ego and Inner Child within our subconscious minds.5:10 - Creation of our Ego due to unmet needs as children in order to “survive” in life.7:00 - How the Ego protects the Inner child. How the Ego keeps the inner child “safe”. How the Ego is the story we create for ourselves and how we show up in life.7:30 - Reminder: We have ~60,000 thoughts each day & 95% of those thoughts are subconscious stories and Ego. Corissa begins to share the stories that constantly repeat in her mind and show up for her and stop her in life.08:30 - Where stories like “I’m not enough” “I’m not good enough” “I’m not pretty enough” come from.10:00 - Overcome the untrue stories your Ego tells you.10:45 - Why Corissa named her Ego “Betty”.12:20 - “I’m not doing good enough in life” “They’re doing better than me” “I’m behind in life” “I can’t _______.” Comparison thoughts, thoughts creating our identity & more Ego.14:40 - Corissa begins to get vulnerable and honest about her childhood trauma and experience as a young girl shaping her Ego.16:00 - FOMO, attachment to fitting in, and the need to be liked and accepted.17:10 - Unmet needs as a child: wanting to be seen, to be heard & to be loved. The continuous and repeating “I’m not good enough”.18:30 - Unmet needs from Corissa’s Inner child causes her Ego to attach to thoughts like, “If they don’t see me.. If they don’t hear me.. I won’t be loved. I need to win. I need to achieve. I need to be the best. I need to be funny. I need to be pretty. If I am not these things, I am not enough. I am not loved.”20:00 - Jealousy is just FEAR, fear of loss.23:00 - Finding power & freedom from doing the deep personal work.24:30 - Our desire to be seen, heard & LOVED.25:00 - Our need to fix, to control, to be right, to know it all, etc. 26:30 - Separating yourself from your Ego. “BACK UP BETTY!”28:00 - Watch your thoughts. Thoughts trigger emotions. You have the power to control how you desire to feel.31:00 - Have compassion and patience with yourself as you work through practicing awareness and overcoming your subconscious ego stories.

How to deal with your racist family and friends I was asked by a good friend to do a podcast episode on the topic of how not to get triggered by our racist friends and family. We can all agree that we are a very divided country – we’ve been for a long time. And it doesn’t help that many people cling so tightly to their beliefs, don’t take responsibility and blame others which create a bigger chasm between us.   You may think of me as a calm yoga teacher, but I’m a very sensitive and emotional person. I cry a lot and can fly off the handle easily, especially when I deal with people I deem ignorant or mean.     I think that’s why discussing politics, religion, race, sex or anything that is highly emotionally charged can be so confrontational, causing feuds at family gatherings.   Right now, we are going through some major historical events: this global pandemic: those who are worried about health and those who are worried about businesses, racial protests and riots – those who support black lives and those who support macy’s. the fight for the rights of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) people -- some may totally be on board with equality and others not so much.   Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but how do we NOT get triggered by those opinions that differ from ours?   I hate to break it to you, but you’ll never get rid of triggers, nor will you be able to stop the other person from triggering you.   Today on the podcast I’ll share with you 5 ways that help me deal with people who trigger the F out of me and see their different beliefs as portals to my own growth.   Triggers are teachers. In episode 80 I talk all about triggers. Triggers are all around us. We can’t avoid being activated by someone or something.   You know you’ve aligned with your ego when you feel inferior or superior to someone else. You’re stuck in comparison or judgement.   Rather than pointing the finger and being upset with that person, what are you learning about yourself and about them?   Our relationships are direct portals to our wounds, and awareness of our triggers can be portals to our growth.   If we can view our triggers as our greatest teachers, we can then heal our inner world to affect our outer world.   Ironically, we are most often highly triggered by those we care about or are closest to.   The challenging work is to watch and witness your thoughts. Most of our thoughts are recycled from our conditioned thinking.   We are triggered when the reality is not how we think it should be.    When I feel resentment, offended, hurt, or any kind of hot emotion, it’s an opportunity to turn inward, not lash outward.   Sit with the sensation so that the boiling emotion comes to a simmer.   Trying to avoid the sensation just creates more suffering.    In fact, reality has no emotional charge. The present moment is what it is. An event. A feeling. Some words. An action.   It’s us humans that create the emotional charge behind reality. Something about that thing activates something within.   Taking responsibility for how you show up and changing your beliefs by watching your thought patterns lead to freedom.   Anything that causes you to be in an emotional state is your spiritual teacher. Invite them in.   Detach from the outcome: How do you detach from the outcome when you’re triggered, hurt and outraged at a friend’s beliefs and actions? It’s hard.   This is the work, my friend.   Detaching doesn’t mean you avoid the conversation or become numb or check out.   One of my favorite quotes is “When you’re upset, don’t eat.” Wait. No. That’s for another episode.   My favorite quote by Bryron Katie that I live by, especially when I’m triggered is, "There's your business, Other people's business and God's Business"   Most of the time I’m in someone else’s business that’s out of my control.   We spend too much energy replaying someone else’s actions and trying to influence someone else’s life, when in reality it’s their life and their choice of how they want to show up. We have no control over them.   Detach from the idea of converting anyone. You will never change anyone by forcing your own opinion and criticisms on them.   These battles about race, politics, humanity, and equality or any other disagreement are like a game of tug-of-war, where our Egos hold so tightly to what we believe to be true.   The more you pull and think you’re right, the harder the other person pulls to prove their right.   But…If you let go, you win.   The Ego wants to be right. Our heart wants to be understood.   Intentionally listening Ok so if you get that triggers can be teachers and you’re working on letting go, how do you make peace with the other person who is upsetting you?   LISTEN. Intentionally listen.   Rather than mentally formulating your next objection before the other person has finished their sentence, listen with the intention to hear their view. I know this is hard, especially when steam is fuming out of your ears and your heart is seething with rage. Come back to step 1. Triggers are your teachers. Right now, your teacher is guiding you to generously listen.   Instead of speaking AT your friend, speak to what she said so you can have a constructive conversation and learn from both ways vs locking down and having a blowup fight.   Just like you have particular beliefs that you’ve learned, she has too.   When you can detach from trying to change your friend or family, and can listen to understand their viewpoint and learn their background behind their beliefs, you will learn something about them you never knew.   I saw this on @southasians4blacklives and loved this point: Instead of calling them out, call them in Our Ego wants to be right, by trying to convert them, or point out their flaws and prove why they’re wrong or how they’re a bad person. This only makes the other person defend who they are even harder.   No one wants to feel judged, wrong or unimportant.   Once you take the tug out of the tug-of-war, they feel seen, understood and significant.   Everyone wants that.   When they feel seen and heard, they’ll be more open to listening to you too. Their wall to defend themselves has come down a bit, and so has yours.   Sometimes they won’t be open or they’re just rude to the core, and, you know what, that’s a different choice (like a long term) choice you may need to make about your relationship and the boundaries you extend to that person.   But if they’re in your life to stay, like your good friend or a family member, and if you think they’re a good person and you would like to keep them in your life, why not make it pleasant as possible and stay open to learn from each other.   So instead of calling them out, call them in. Rather than pointing out their shortcomings, share with them your personal experiences, your own blind spots and what you have learned that they may not know.   By focusing on you and inviting them in to see your vulnerability and transformation, this may help them be less defensive and more open to learning about their own blind spots.   Hopefully by staying open and communicating from your heart space of loving on them, instead of your Ego that wants to perfect and prove, they also become teachers and share what they learn with others.   See this is as practice In Sanskrit Svadyaya means “self-study.”   The real yoga starts when you leave your mat and get into the world.   Each step forward is really just a step deeper into yourself.   Every relationship is a mirror to teach us something about yourself.   Instead of preaching, controlling or forcing your opinion, see these moments of fury as opportunities to stay open, intentionally listen so you can learn about the other person (and about yourself) and fine tune your communication skills   By sharing from your heart, rather from the Ego, your light will inspire them to do the same.   And if it doesn’t, then you will have changed for the better because of it   This is the real Yoga.   to stay present to the simmer pause in stillness, listen with intention to hear both sides, study yourself so you can know yourself and speak from your heart and be the change you wish to see in the world.   I love hearing from you on my blog + instagram! How has this helped you?   If it has helped, I appreciate you sharing this with your friends.  

Our Ego-often blocks us from the very blessings and equipping we are asking the Master of the Universe to help us.  This story from the Zohar helps reminds us we can learn and benefit from anyone-and often people are sent to us by the Creator to help us see the things about ourself we might be missing... So let's read about donkeys, a driver and a man that got more than a story... Join Senior Instructor David Fournier from Restoring Grace as he continues his Zohar in 15 lesson series

This Month’s Guest is My Soul Brother from Another Mother & Father Dr. @JadeTeta! Join us as we talk about how the healthy and wellness math should work, self love, & we will have a good ol’ boundary throw down on how establishing them can lead to better health. Our guest Dr. Teta is the founder & CEO of Metabolic Effect Inc., and author of the best-selling book, The Metabolic Effect Diet. He is a regular contributor to many publications, including The Huffington Post and the Textbook of Natural Medicine, the number one natural medicine textbook used in medical schools across the country. Jade has a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a Doctorate in naturopathic medicine, a distinct specialty of medicine focusing on lifestyle approaches to health, fitness and weight loss. He carries his license to practice medicine in Washington State and California where he is a registered primary care physician. As an integrative physician, naturopath, and personal trainer with over 25 years of experience, he helps people achieve their health, weight loss, and fitness goals. So lock yourself in and get ready for a consciousness-expanding conversation & experience! Episode Guide [0:02:59] Intro, Fun Story & Watching From A Distance, Brendan’s Higher Level Learning thru Jade. [0:6:54] Jade’s thoughts on the State of Health in America, Downsides of Scare Tactic Marketing, The Flip Flop Trends, Metabolic Effect & How the Math Doesn’t Add up, [0:10:30] Approaching the Uniqueness of Each Patient, Meeting People where they are at, Our Job Teaching Clients How to Fish, The Fight Against Sensationalism, Orthorexic Behavior, When the MD’s Call on Us for Help, Naturopathic Healing, & How the Hierarchy Needs to Work. [0:18:40] Dr. Google Algorithms, Being Book Smart vs Real Cynical Smart, How Brendan & Jade are different, The Different Types of Health Influencers, The Healthcare Spectrum & Reframing Health Intervention, [0:25:51] Being A student of Life, Symptoms of Orthorexia, & Being Human, Breaking through Adolescence at 40, Discovering Anchors, Your Mental Hashtags & How those Anchors work [0:35:28] Peterpan Style & Soul over Physique, Psycho Emotional & Spiritual Assessment, Your Ego, & When Reality Hits [0:45:03] Phycological Cuts & Ownership, Getting Smacked by Our Ego, Jealousy & Who Do You Think You Are Effect & Celebrating the Success of Those Around You. [0:54:52] Having the Right Intentions and Focus, How Healing Happens through Understanding Your Suffering, Impacting Team Human, The Naked Neighbor Lesson, The Spread of Virtuous Behaviors, Embracing Suffering & Trauma & How Your Tree Actually Grows. [1:05:02] Personal Pain & How it Can Lead to Passion, The Childless Mother & Lateral Thinking Story, Reframing How We Perceive Our Circumstances, how it Leads to Personal Power, Turning it all Into Purpose Driven Health & Fitness & The Mirror Analogy, Brendan’s Old Man Soul, [1:14:19] Self Love & The Choice to Not Self Mutilate, Being Impeccable with Your Word, What Behaviors to Lead With, Laying down Boundaries with Others, Seeking the Best in Others & Spacing the Gap, Lead with Love, Creating Boundaries is Creating A Safe Place for Things to Grow [1:23:17] Jade Relates to the Book Give & Take by Adam Grant, How Reciprocity Works, Generous Tit for Tat, Matchers, Energy Vamps, Conditional vs Unconditional Love & The Oxygen Mask. [1:30:02] Being Real with Yourself, A Time & Place for Vulnerability, Me ‘a Job of Being Open & Available, When to Turn on Your Inner Savage & Closing Resources for This Episode: Dr Jade Teta Web: https://www.jadeteta.com Instagram: @jadeteta Next Level Human Podcast Brendan Vermeire: Check out Metabolic Solutions LLC Listen to The Holistic Savage Podcast Follow Brendan Vermiere @the_holistic_savage Email info@metabolicsolutionsllc.com Metabolic Solutions Products & Holistic Savage Affiliates : https://www.metabolicsolutionsllc.com/shop --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holisticsavagepodcast/message

Bhaj Govindam  Verse 4 nalinīdalagatajalamatitaralaṃ tadvajjīvitamatiśayacapalam । viddhi vyādhyabhimānagrastaṃ lokaṃ śokahataṃ ca samastam  The Fourth verse said to me - Sruti says

To pray without ceasing is to align yourself with the will of God, to seek that will and to create a harmony in your pursuits. #1 Pray Always; #2 Never give up; And #3 Keep the Faith. Always. Things mentioned in this episode: E Stanley Jones said, Prayer is surrender -- surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God. “Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.” Science has proven that everything that exists is made up of the same energy. Regardless of its physical form, its essence is that life giving energy, or the soul that connects us all. Power is found when you are doing your Ego rather than your Ego doing you. When we align our Ego with the God within us and the God outside of us, we find our flow state. Our Ego allows us to have the human experience and to remember who we truly are. They are not opposed to one another fundamentally. We have a God within us that is made up of energy and God outside of us that is also making up all that exists apart from us. We need to seek harmony with all of that energy. When I am fully present in the moment, I can feel the energy all around me, guiding me on the correct path. Praying without ceasing is living in alignment with truth and being fully present. Pray always. This can be giving thanks or expressing a request. To pray is to live in relationship with God. This is like any relationship, or like learning any skill. It takes time, focus, and devotion to advance that relationship. One must speak as well as listen to have a true relationship. Never give up! Be careful of the stories in your mind that attempt to derail you. Martin Luther said, “Pray as if everything depends on God, then work as if everything depends on you.” When you are clear on God's will for your life and you stay focused on that will, the work is in the alignment with that truth. Keep the faith. This means staying in that place of being the observer / chooser. It is in maintaining alignment with truth and allowing God's timing to work instead of trying to use the Ego's timing. Sometimes the tough times are the very lesson or shift that is needed to achieve the greatness intended in God's will. Lean into those times and embrace the process. When you commit to these 3 actions, you commit to being in alignment with God. And, you commit to a life of peace, purpose, and profit. Consider joining my Facebook community, called Shift. You can find it at www.ajamyx.com/commnity. And, pray without ceasing… Never give up… and Keep the faith!

Dr Paul W Dyer The Healthy Mind. We have the ability to grow from and transform to transcend you from this pain to freedom. Our Ego holds and Dr Paul explains in this talk on communication

Usually when I’m upset with someone, it’s because I have expectations of how they “should” be. But is that real pure love? Is that reality? Or is it just my perspective of reality? During our valentines weekend, Jake went skiing Saturday and Monday, so Sunday was our day for quality family time and for this momma to get a break. I ended up doing a mix of taking care of the baby and we didn’t get quality time together. I was upset, felt used, and unloved because it didn’t go the way I wanted. He thought the day went well. Are we on freaking different planets?! How could we experience the same day but have the opposite perspectives of how the day went? He thought taking care of the baby for 2 hours while I did errands and got a rushed 20-minute workout was enough and going for a walk in the park together constituted quality family time. I just wanted was to lock myself in the bedroom and read my book – by myself and go wine tasting and eat pizza in the afternoon as a family.  These are very different scenarios. I was resentful, bitter and upset the whole day. When the day was pretty much over, I was still fuming. My one day off to spend together was wasted. I took a shower and some deep breaths and invited my bitterness in.  When I viewed these negative emotions as a teacher, it led me to realize I had expectations of him and the day. I was blaming him the whole day, but it was my fault for feeling disappointed and upset because I never communicated my expectations of what I wanted our day to be like.  Those triggers taught me I needed to own my responsibility for my expectations of him and to communicate my feelings and what I wanted. It wasn’t fair to him to make the unreasonable expectation that he should know what I want and read my mind. I was the one who ruined my day. I had turned it into a story. Anyone else been there too making something into everything?  I had created turmoil in my world by placing my own expectations on reality. Our Ego loves to point the finger, but that doesn’t created healing. Once I lovingly communicated my feelings and took responsibility for having unreasonable expectations and judgements, Jake openly heard me and we had a great rest of the evening. It’s very empowering when you see how your thoughts become your story and know you can choose how you want to show up in the world.  The reality is: You have no control over others. You have no control of the outcome. You have no control over anything outside yourself. You only have control of yourself. Taking responsibility shifts the blame from someone else to taking responsibility for your thoughts and beliefs. Taking responsibility for your own internal state is empowering and leads to freedom and ease in life and your relationships Meditation is a great tool, that if practiced consistently can help you watch your crazy thoughts and how you actually create turmoil in your world by placing your own expectations on reality, instead of seeing reality for exactly as it is. So, my invitation for you this week: when you’re in resentment, offended or hurt by someone, see it as an opportunity to turn inward, not lash outward, to view how your expectations of how that person should be is really just a story you’re telling yourself and is not coming from a place of love. Your expectations of reality are the cause of your suffering of what is really occurring.  You have the power to create your reality by shifting your expectations of it. Always loving hearing from you on IG or the blog: www.audreysuttonmills.com 

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Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell Thanksgiving, Holidays and Fear. We began our discussion around thoughts of Gratitude and how we often focus instead on what is wrong. Our Ego becomes involved and we strive for the Perfect Holiday and this pushes us to judge and focuses us on what we need/want. We stop being authentic and can't accept anyone for who they are. Once we become Ego driven we lose touch with the true essence of the Holidays. The key may be to Listen without judging, have a list of acceptable topics to discuss like Virtual Realities and Accept those invited as who they are instead of who you want them to be. BE conscious of how you are reacting to those around you so that you can use these Holidays as opportunities to Grow Up. Family Holidays are the best opportunities to become aware of our triggers and shift our awareness so we may Evolve our Consciousness. Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters! Happy Thanksgiving!

When we talk about health and wellness, we often talk about what we eat, how we move, and the personal choices we make. But our health and wellbeing, and even the health of entire communities, depends on more than just diet and exercise. It also has a lot to do with where we live and the spaces we occupy. Music: Tech Toys by Lee Rosevere. Black Lung and Our Ego by Broke For Free.

Our mind’s job is to stay busy. To protect. To analyze. To make sense of things But when our mind runs wild, it can take us into places that aren’t good for us. Byron Katie says, there's “Your Business, Other People’s Business and God’s Business.” Our Ego loves to be right, so it compares us to others. We judge others, we worry about others – their opinions, their actions. How they wronged us, how this person should do something different than what we want, worrying over someone and their choices. We have no control over other people. These stories of others play over and over in our head exhausting our energy. It’s Wasted time of energy. Makes us small. When I tell someone “I just want you to be happy, you should do this, I wish He was like this, I care about you that why I tell you should do X,” this is me getting into someone else’s business. Gossiping about someone is an obvious way we are getting into someone else’s business. It’s low level energy and does absolutely nothing for our soul. In fact, it depletes it with judgement, negativity and smallness. But even sharing information about someone else’s life is a way, our minds keep us busy. I used to talk about other people because I didn’t think I had much to share about myself and it made me feel important that I knew what was going on with other people’s lives. It’s not productive or important. I have no control over it. We worry about things that are in God’s hands – call it source, the universe – things like the weather, catastrophes, life and death. Things we have no control over. We spend our energy on these things and they actually can sway our feelings and moods. Think about it: the weather is rainy, so it ruins your day. YOUR day? Or you get angry over a catastrophe and let your mind ruminate over it for days. Or the injustice of something that is completely out of your control. While it’s good to feel your feelings, worrying about anything that you don’t have direct control over is futile. It causes conflict in your mind. It keeps you stuck in business that is exhausting. The only thing we have control over is ourselves. Our thoughts, actions, words. When you focus your energy on what YOU do have control over, life shifts and your perspective changes. You no longer need to feel in resistance to what’s going on in life. you can feel, accept and let go. You no longer need to feel like a victim, because you know you have the power of your thoughts, choice and actions. You no longer need to hold on to resentments and judgement. You can be free to let people be who they are, and you focus on you. I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty liberating! I’ve let other people, my grudges, opinions, the weather, outside circumstances control me, because I’ve been trying to control it. The Invitation this week is to notice when your mind drifts to putting in energy somewhere that you don’t have any control. Check in with yourself and see if this is a good place for your energy. Is it the most productive and healthy place to spend your thought? Redirect it to only things you have control over. This will help refocus your mind from mindless chatter, what ifs, worry, fear and comparison. It will help you step into your authentic power of what you DO have control over. This is ultimate power, this is ultimate love, this ultimate living in the present moment.

What’s Blocking Your Spiritual Awakening? -- Why our Ego hangs on to spiritual injury for dear life –   #unlockyourhiddenpower FREE Survival Guide: www.remychausse.com/alchemy Upcoming Events: http://successcircleworkshops.com/   Overcoming spiritual injury is the surprising journey back to you and your life purpose. Learning to overcome these injuries is part of the reason we’re here on earth … AND it’s how we’re going to align with our purpose. This is why we talk so much here about shedding the doubts, frustrations and confusion that plague us so we can get on with our life and live the life we’re meant to live. This episode is for you if you wonder …   What exactly IS spiritual injury? (there’s ONE block that everybody has) 2. What’s blocking your spiritual awakening? 3. What we can learn from spiritual injury, so we can get ourselves back if we get lost Biggest mistake to avoid:  Getting stuck in our “story”. Our Ego loves it when we get stuck in there. You might also enjoy last week’s episode: https://remychausse.com/how-to-raise-your-vibration/   ========================= JOIN our next FREE webinar: http://unlockyourhiddenpower.com   We are an awesome gathering place for extraordinary souls with big-ass dreams who are RIDICULOUSLY unsatisfied with status quo … and are seeking answers about how to dissolve the obstacles in our path so we can literally bring success TO us.   ========================= Your host: Rémy Chaussé Best-selling Author and Creator of The Get UNstuck Revolution! http://TheGetUNstuckRevolution.com/Manifesto   ========================= Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel! youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=remychausse   =========================   STILL FEELING STUCK? Tell me about it below.   =========================   Be sure and subscribe to this channel ... give us a thumbs-up if you liked what you learned!  

What if we could recreate school all over again? What if there were no more lectures, or worksheets? What if school became a place where students could create their day as they saw fit? These were the kinds of questions asked by Sycamore High School, which set out to create the Synnovation Lab – a modern, self-paced learning environment that encourages students to take full ownership of their education. Music: Tech Toys and Let that Sink In by Lee Rosevere. Our Ego featuring Different Visitor by Broke For Free.

Please go SIT DOWN and LISTEN to God. Don't keep building "air castles" that have no fruitful foundation! Our EGO is trying to derail us. PLEASE Share, Thanks

Seeds of Ego: How Ego Starts Your Thought Process Away From Better Choices. Our Ego is part of who we are. Always has been, always will be. It creates situations that we know on the onset are not our best answers, yet it makes those choices so attractive and it never gets to the what do you do once you listen to it part. How can you recognize the Ego starting to come in and start your thought process to take away from you and how do you approach it once it gets going? Tune in and join in on the topic tomorrow morning at 5:30 AM PST, 8:30 AM EST! 

Off the back of reading Game Changers by Dave Asprey, we’ve been noodling over the top life priorities that came from interviewing 450 successful leaders on Bulletproof Radio. Perhaps surprisingly, the aggregated data suggested the Top Priorities for life success were (1) Nutrition, (2) Relationships, (3) Self-Awareness, (4) Exercise and (5) Sleep. 100% aligned with our priorities at AdapNation, and great to see the fundamentals are considered the most impactful to success.   That said, we’ve not covered Relationships in much detail on the podcast. The value of building up a real network and nurturing your relationships for overall satisfaction, opportunity creation and adding value. Moreover, what gets in our way of developing and nurturing valuable relationships? So, this episode navigates Relationships, Our Ego and Gratitude. Committing to mastering these areas of your life can have a profound impact on the quality of your life. And let’s face it, we are the dominant species on the planet because we are social animals, and we have self-awareness. Great discussion, and as always, hopefully a lot that you can relate and identify with.    Here’s what we discuss: 1️⃣ Value of Relationships & Building Your Network + 6 top tips 2️⃣ Ego - is it our friend or foe? What is our ego, how can it help + 4 top tips 3️⃣ The Power of Gratitude - how gratefulness leads to more success + 5 top tips   Third Party Reference made: ▪︎ Jordan Harbinger (re daily text networking tip) - @jordanharbinger ▪︎ Dave Asprey’s latest book (where the priorities came from) - Game Changers ▪︎ Robert Greene’s book on power (re ego preventing vs connection) - 48 Laws of Power ▪︎ James Smith (re attractive aloofness) - @jamessmithpt   ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you like this and other AdapNation episodes, please don't forget to subscribe to the channel, as well as leaving a 5 star review and letting friends and family know of this Podcast on Social Media.   AdapNation Useful Links: ■ #HyperWorkoutsYouTube Videos - 8-week training blocks, with video guides and print-outs ■ Steve’s Body & Mind Progress Journals - Follow Steve’s real-world progress, following all the principles within the Podcasts ■ AdapNation Instagram - To see what’s going on in our world across business, training and family ■ AdapNation Website - Where you will find articles, videos and journals on all things wellness, training and mindset ■ AdapNation Butler - An Online Personal Assistant that can inspire easy and tasty Home-cooking ■ AdapNation Food Diary - 100’s of Tasty Healthy Meal Ideas, that are focussed on helping you thrive ■ Facebook Community - To get into conversation with like-minded folk wanting to be their best

Our Ego is part of who we are. Always has been, always will be. It creates situations that we know on the onset are not our best answers, yet it makes those choices so attractive and it never gets to the what do you do once you listen to it part. How can you recognize the Ego starting to come in and start your thought process to take away from you and how do you approach it once it gets going? Tune in and join in on the topic tomorrow morning at 5:30 AM PST, 8:30 AM EST! 

It’s funny how it’s often easy for us to go to God with the big issues in our life, but with the small we almost feel like we’re bothering God. Often we have some wrong assumptions when it comes to bringing things to God. Join me and let’s talk about why we shouldn’t hesitate turning to God with all things in our lives, both big and small.   Music:  "Our Ego" by Broke for Free Free Music Archive CC by 3.0, de-amplified and cut for length

Everyone has an ego, some people call it the natural man, some call it the id, but we all have one. It rears it's head when we are offended, feel judged or oppressed. Our EGO has come out to play. In today's episode, Hayley talks about how we all have this ego that tries to protect us and keep us in the 'known', and explores the possibility of setting the ego aside and allowing yourself to grow and learn. Like the podcast? Please rate and review the podcast to allow others to find it too!

We have become so skilled at denying our own inner lovingness, worth and value. I can't remember where I heard this description about the Ego but I like it! Our Ego is our self loathing disguised as our self love! We have become masters at arguing very effectively with ourself about our own limitations.  How do we set internal boundaries against seductive self talk that tries to convince us that we aren't enough! Just because it feels real doesn't mean it is. I hope you find this episode assists you in staying connected to the magic of who you are!

In this episode of the Houston Home Talk, Mike Wall of Love Ohio Living and James talk about the detailed roadmap for changing business over to EXP, consistency, and branding.Quotes : " If we do get somebody to say yes, then we got a shot at a six-figure income."" You'll get what you want if you can help other people get what they want. "Mentions:Website: http://loveohioliving.comShownotes: 1:04: Response from other people to the interviews2:07 Mike started real state business04:45 Mike talking about consistency08:45 - Mike talks about branding 19:24 - Team Structure 20: 48 - Mike's favorite books and podcasts.Full Transcript:[00:03] INTRO: Welcome to Houston home talk featuring all things real estate in the Houston area. We'll interview real estate professionals, local business owners, and special guests from right here in the Houston community. This is where you get the inside scoop about what's new in real estate, new community openings and business openings and much more. The Houston Home Talk Show starts right now.[00:32] JAMES: All right guys welcome. What's up? This is James J. Welcome to Houston Home Talk. I am excited today to have my man Mike Wall from Dayton, Ohio. What's up Mike? How are you today?[00:43] MIKE: Yes sir. Baby, I'm so happy to be here, man. I'm so happy to help. We'll be able to drop some value on your audience today, brother.[00:50] JAMES: Yeah. Listen, I have been watching you now for several months as you have been doing a lot of interviews with a lot of the new people that have been moving over to EXP Realty. I want to say thank you because a lot of the content that you've been providing, I know I've used, I forwarded it to people and I know that the value that you're providing is helpful to a lot of people. You and I met in New Orleans last month. I've been watching you for several months. As soon as we met, there was several people that came up to you and said, hey, thanks Mike. I know you're reaching people. [01:21] MIKE: Yeah.[01:22] JAMES: You're helping people because a lot of people can't do what you're doing in the way that you do it so thank you for that. I wanted to ask you so I want to just start, so you've been doing a lot of these interviews, a lot of Facebook Live interviews. I want to get people introduced you. I want to ask you real quick, what's been the response from other people to the interviews that you've been doing with the new people that have joining EXP?[01:42] MIKE: Yeah. No, it's a great question man. It's really been overwhelming more than I even thought and really the whole reason if I back up and just telling you the reason why I started doing the podcast… [01:52] JAMES: Right.[01:53] MIKE:…is because I knew that we were building something special. I also knew that changes is big. Change is big for everybody involved and especially the for those people who are team leaders in running a business. I wanted to give those people a platform to be able to share their unique story with the world and in hopes that somebody out there might identify with them and be able to make an intelligent decision about where their business went and then also providing a detailed roadmap for change if they decided to move their business over to EXP. Then also kind of lastly is just to provide insight on people curious about learning more about EXP.[02:34] JAMES: Right? Yeah. Let's get to know a little bit about you because I know you have been in the business. You've been licensed for about 16 years or so. You started full time…was it 2014 when you were officially started full time? [02:45] MIKE: I did it. I got a unique story. I've had my license since 2002. I actually got into the business just as a buyer specialist for one of the top agents here in our marketplace. A guy named Phil Herman who worked for Remax is a big deal man. The guy was selling like 300 properties back like when nobody knew about teams. When I got into the business I just thought, man, I don't want to try to learn all this on my own. What I'll do is I'll take a little bit less of a commission split to go under somebody who actually has all the knowledge for what I want to do, right? I worked with Phil 2002 to 2009 and we all know what happened in 2008-2009. The market just completely crashed.I actually got out of real estate. I kept my license but I went to work back in corporate America and I did that for five years. I was working for a company that was based out of Blue Ash, which is a suburb of Cincinnati and I was selling copiers, man. It is a grind doing that. I did that for five years. I knew I wouldn't do that long term and I knew I would get into real estate. [03:43] JAMES: Right. [03:44] MIKE: In 2013 in about October, I started calling the expires in 2013. In 2014 May I had 44 listings and I went to my wife and I said, honey, it's costing me more to be at my corporate job than it is to be here in real estate. She said, you know what? She said, do your thing man. That first year went out and sold 57 houses. Second year in the business, sold 104 houses, third year sold 187 houses and then fourth year I sold 309 houses. I just haven't looked back, man. There's so much obviously that goes in between there because now you know, I'm operating as a team. I've got some great team members. I got a great business partner now. We've opened up a whole world with investing and so forth.[04:30] JAMES: Now let me touch on this because it seems pretty simple. One of the things that I love about you is the consistency. I know you've been doing a lot of live coaching calls. Obviously you've been doing this for several years, calling the expires. [04:41] MIKE: Yup.[04:43] JAMES: One of the things that I tell a lot of new agents is what you think, because everybody just assumes everybody's calling the expires. I've heard you mentioned this in the video, a lot of people will stop calling after the fourth time or even a third time in a lot of cases. Obviously you were consistent. What made you focus on the expires? Because as a new agent, that's one of the things that I always tell people to do. Focus on expires. You can get that information and just keep consistent, stay consistent with it. What made you start? What was the thing that kind of got you to focus on the expires when you first started?[05:17] MIKE: Yeah. No man. That's a legitimate question because if you think about it, I mean everybody's good at something, right? Everybody can always make up the excuse that I'm not good at something and typically it's because they either don't have the experience or they're just not willing to try. For me, when I moved here, I went to high school and was raised mostly in to Dallas, Fort Worth area. I moved to Ohio and went to college at Ohio State. Go Bucks. I met my wife there and my wife was from this small town, which is a Northern Cincinnati, Southern Dayton suburb called Springboro. I didn't have a personal network. I didn't have a lot of people that I could tap into. I just thought, well, what is the next best thing? I knew I could grind it out on the phones because I had done in B to B sales selling copiers, right?[06:03] JAMES: Right. [06:05] MIKE: There's no science behind it, man. I just did it. You talked about consistency and that's, that's really what it was. It's just doing it. It's repetitions in the gym, right? It's like every day you show up. You put in your reps. You work hard, and then the magic starts to happen, man.[06:20] JAMES: Right. Yeah. That consistency thing is very difficult, especially for us because there's no one to tell us to do anything.[06:27] MIKE: Right.[06:29] JAMES: Everyone wants to get in the business, but then lacking the discipline to do what you did for three years and still continue to do to this day with the Expires. It's something tells you is you have a schedule and you got to work. It's hard to do. It is hard because stuff comes up. It's hard to stay consistent. If you really want to make it and you're a prime example, everybody that's calling these Expires, they're not doing it consistently. They just don't. I know it. In Houston, it's the same thing. We've got 30,000 agents here. We've got a lot of expires but of that 30,000 there's only a handful of people that are actually consistent with it. As a matter of fact you knew that and you stuck with it and clearly it works.[07:09] MIKE: I want your audience to understand something too James is that the great thing about calling the Expires is not everyone's is going to say yes, right? We are fortunate enough to work in an industry where the margins, if you do get a yes, are very large, and I always tell my team this, right? We live in a market in southwest Ohio here where the average price point is not really high, right? Our team average sale price is $178,000. Our market. Average sale price is $130,000 but you can still make a six figure income here if you just get one yes, every week because our agents average commission check is 25.50 and if you take 25.50 and divide that out over 50 weeks, you've got a nice income, right?[07:48] JAMES: Absolutely, yeah.[07:50] MIKE: Really we just focus…we have our team focus on that one yes per week, right? We understand when we pick up the phone that the odds are against us, right? We understand that most people are not going to answer the phone and if they answer, most people are not going to set an appointment. We understand also that if we do get somebody to answer it, if we do get somebody to say yes, then we got a shot at a six figure income.[08:10] JAMES: Absolutely. Yeah, and you know there's a couple of books I've got but the go for no is one. Darren Hardy, I love Darren Hardy. December is going to be here tomorrow and I bring this up because his book talks about the format. There's this habit, habit, habit, habit and what he used to do when he was in real estate back in the day, he would just look for no's. The more no's you get, you're just closer to that yes. At some point somebody is going to say yes and I'm a huge Darren…the compound effect. That's what that's saying in the book, compound effect. I love that book. Usually we'll bring it up every single year around this time of year and I go through it and I'll operates during the year because it's a great book about the discipline of habits. In this business. it is key to everything is self-discipline to be able to, to continue to do that. Props to you on that. Now I wanted to ask you, so I heard in the interview that you had mentioned that you had back when you started full time back '04, 2014-2015. I guess a couple of years into it. You switch from the wall group over to love Ohio living, LOL team.[09:05] MIKE: I did. I did.[09:07] JAMES: Explain why did you did that? I think I know the answer. I wanted my audience to understand why did you do that? Why did you think that was important to get your name off the brand and brand it to level high live in which you did.[09:18] MIKE: Yeah. No, that's a great question. There's arguments for both sides.For me personally, I thought it was more sustainable to build a business that didn't have my name on it. I didn't think people would sustainably work to build my business. I thought that together, if we formed something that we could all believe in and all row the same direction, that didn't have my name on it. In another words, it's like a football team, right? If you think of the Dallas cowboys, right? Who did beat the Saints last night which…[09:50] JAMES: Yes, they did. Yeah.[09:51] MIKE: if you think of the Dallas Cowboys, they're not called the Jerry Jones, right? They're called the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones owns the cowboys, but everybody has their respective position for the Dallas cowboys. When they come together, they make a team, right? I wanted to do is I wanted to take the level how living team and I wanted to galvanize everybody around that.What that stood for was elite level agents being able to plug their businesses in to our tool systems and resources to go out and sell as many houses as they want. Not, they plugged into Mike Wall and just took every, all my leftovers, right? Because there is a team model that works that way and I just don't believe it's sustainable. The statistics show, I mean, the shelf life on those type of a team, the shelf life of the agent is much lower, right? Because what happens is they come in, in most cases and they build them up and then those agents, they want to go do the same thing whereas now we have an agent on our team. It's like Natalie Rose, right? Is an agent on our team? It's Natalie Rose with the level higher living team at a power broker by EXP Realty, right? Her name goes on the sign. We just have our LOL logo. Frankly, it's not that I would ever sell my business, but if you think of it like this, James who's going to buy Mike Wall real estate without Mike Wall.[11:09] JAMES: Yeah. [11:10] MIKE: You know what I mean? [11:11] JAMES: Now you're, you're right on. That's a key when we talk about marketing branding because I f struggled with that as well earlier and having my name. I agree with you completely. I think the buy in from your team is much more when you have LOL Level Higher Living. I love that you did that. That's a key. That's a nugget for people to really look at that because like you say there's arguments both ways. I'm actually on board with you as far as the branding and not having your name attached to it for the long term, long term that's a great idea. Good information there. Let me ask you, so from all the interviews that you've been doing with a lot of the EXP Agents that have been mourning, it's been absolutely crazy the growth that we've had. You joined back, was it February of this year is when you guys moved over? [11:55] MIKE: Yes sir, it'd be a year. [11:58] JAMES: Montel Williams, you moved over. What's been the best or the most surprising thing, specifically from the people that you have interviewed? Because I don't know if you've got to off the top of your head how many people you've interviewed since you started the show.[12:10] MIKE: Probably around 20, 25 at this point.[12:13] JAMES: Okay. Okay. What's been maybe one of the biggest surprises or maybe common similarities? Because everybody's story's a little different. I probably have watched virtually every video interview that you've done. Everybody's story just a little bit different. What have you found that maybe something that's maybe been similar from a lot of the people that you've spoken to? [12:30] MIKE: Yeah. I have them. Something instantly pops to mind and because it really not only has it surprised me that this is what I've learned from them. It is something that we never expected when we came over. I'm learning now when I talked to people in those interviews is that it's the same thing for them, right? What I'm learning is that the community. It's the community that we've created. It's the people that now we're able to tap into, right? Because like Jay Kinder and Mike Reese, the NEA group, right? They used to run this mastermind that was like a $25,000 buy in, right? Now they're doing that mastermind for free. [13:09] JAMES: Yeah. [13:10] MIKE: Right? We're talking about Kinder was the number one, number two guy for COA banker in the world at one time, right? He's one of the smartest guys in real estate. When you're able to plug in to those guys like I could shoot him a text right now and get a response from him, right? The same thing with Kyle Whistle, the same thing with Dan Beer. I mean we're talking about some of the biggest real estate teams and smartest real estate minds in the business.For me that was the biggest surprise man, is the fact that now we've created this fantastic community of learning and sharing and just growth and excitement, man. That's an easy answer for me. [13:50] JAMES: Yeah, you and I, we've got a lot of similar circles as far as NEA. I've been with NEA probably since 2011. Actually, back then it was just Kinder-Reese. I've been following Jay for years. He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Yes, I also coached with them him well. You're right. When now you've gotten to exponential growth summit back in the day. [14:06] MIKE: I never did go to that believe it or not. Yeah, I never went.[14:12] JAMES: Okay.[14:13] MIKE: I coached with NEA. I didn't exponential growth. [14:17] JAMES: Right. The funny thing now is that with EXP, with all these big name ages moving over, and you're right, the community and the collaboration. I know we keep using these words over. It's true. When you're in it and you and I were here where we both are at EXPN. We've been able to see it. The fact that you're right that I could call Jay right now. I've paid thousands and thousands of dollars to Jay to coach me. Now that same information, I could still get it and get access to him with literally just picking up the phone right now. That's been one of the biggest, pleasant things that I've seen as well. For a lot of people that are not, or maybe looking at the opportunity right now other than the collaboration, what else is maybe been one of the things that's been a plus for you? [15:03] MIKE: What I want to add to that real quick is that I don't want people to take that for granted because a lot of people I think represent EXP the wrong way. You're trying to get people, you're calling people that you don't know and you're trying to get them to move for revenue share or stock. That's not enough to get people to move. It's like you need to figure out what if we understand at the end of the day, right? That map is more valuable than the treasure. Then you understand that that knowledge that you can get through collaboration, that's where the treasure is, right?That's the map to the treasure. To be able to collaborate with those guys in a mastermind group. These guys are doing stuff at a level that we just haven't thought of or haven't gotten to in our businesses yet. For that person out there who's doing $10 million or $20 million a year that wants to get to 20 million or 40 million or a 100 million, right. The difference between them, where they're at right now and where they want to be is that roadmap, right? When you join EXP, you're able to tap into that right away, right, through the collaboration and relationships that you'll build here. I wanted to make sure that your audience was crystal clear on that because although revenue share is fantastic and the opportunity to be an owner through stock is fantastic. It's not the only reason you should join EXP, right?[16:28] JAMES: Yeah. No question about it. Yeah. I think the excitement around it is just because it hasn't been done this way before. [16:33] MIKE: Yeah. [16:37] JAMES: You start looking at the opportunity down the road. I could not agree with you more, Mike. That component of EXP has gotten a lot of publicity. I think as far as representing EXP, a lot of people would probably get a little turned off because everybody's talking about the revenue shift. You are right. That's not really for me the number one reason. It is the fact that you get to collaborate. You and I would not be talking right now. We aren't talking right now if it wasn’t for EXP. I wouldn't be able to call collar or anybody for that matter. It's genuine. When we went to the EXP con last month it's genuine. People are just really willing to help you with whatever because it does benefit us all when we all succeed. Where it used to be you have freinemies and you interviewed with Tammy yesterday?[17:25] MIKE: Tammy was day before. You're talking about Mary Simons Malone. I love them so much. Yes, she was frienemies with Kyle Whistle, right? They worked at competing brokerages in San Diego. She talked about that too with the collaboration now with Dan and Kyle who were formerly her biggest competition, right?[17:44] JAMES: Yeah, Yeah. Huge, huge, huge, huge. That's awesome. Couple more questions for you Mike, before I let you get on out of here. Again, you said the response from people because I saw people coming up to you and we're at the EXP last month which is pretty cool. As we were in the middle of talking,[17:59] MIKE: Let me one more thing James before because I know you asked me and I'll try not to be too long winded here. I want to make sure that people understand the value of what the model at EXP has to offer no matter where you're at in your business because you asked also what was another thing that I had learned or what was another reason that we moved and what we learned through our move, and I'm hearing back from obviously a lot of these team leaders in our interviews is the fact that I had a decision to make personally when I moved. We were opening up our own market center. We had approval through KWRI. We were opening. In fact, that market center has now opened without me. Right? [18:34] JAMES: Okay. [18:35] MIKE: Some other person or group came in and took my place. I was supposed to be an owner at that market center and EXP was put into my lap, right? We had a decision to make right away and that decision was, do I move forward with my plans with Keller Williams to open this market center, right? Or do I move my team to EXP? I'll tell you what it came down to. It came down to what was better for my team, right? Ultimately the reason why EXP want one out is because the move to Keller Williams would have been a lateral move. Actually it would have been a worst move for them because the CAP was going up at the new office. It would have only been a win for me, right? I could have been an owner at that office and that would have been great, right? Our Ego loves that, right? I'm an owner. Ultimately if I knew I wanted it to be successful through my team. That's what I want and ultimately to be able to provide them the best platform for success, right? I knew that I had to make the decision to move to EXP because now I can offer them things that I never could before. That is through revenue share and that is through who stocks, right? Now, they can become owners. They have a vested interest after three years. They have two exceptional wealth building tools that they never had access to before.[19:46] JAMES: Absolutely, yeah. That same message as I go around talking with agents in my market, same message. My team is definitely not structured because your team structure right now is, consists of what? How is your team set up right now?[19:57] MIKE: We serve two markets. We serve Dayton-Ohio market and also the Cincinnati-Ohio market. [20:02] JAMES: Okay. [20:03] MIKE: We have 25 agents. We also have a listing manager and a contract manager and then an office manager as well. [20:10] JAMES: Right. [20:11] MIKE: I have Director of operations/ co-owner and a guy named Jump Welski.[20:16] JAMES: Yeah. You've got a pretty big a machine going up there and a lot of people being affected by your decision, all tweets and make that move over to the EXP, which is not something to be taken lightly by any means. I've spoken to a lot of other agents. I don't know. I've watched a lot of your interviews with people. It's a tough decision because it's not just you that you're affecting here. It's a ton of people that are affected by your decision, good or bad one way or the other. I don't think there's really any downside to EXP. I'm going to be a little biased, but the other revenue models or other revenue streams that we have available is great. The fact that we can collaborate with people all over the country at this point and soon it'd be international, 2019-2020 which is a pretty exciting where the company's. I compare what we're doing now with EXP and how Glenn has set this up and the fact that you are not going to have a conversation. You and I could talk to each day. Three quick questions I want to ask you. First question is what are you reading right now? I know you're always seeking knowledge. I know. Are you reading anything right now that…[21:20] MIKE: Let me make it up for you man. I'll tell you right now. I usually have a couple of different books going on. I do love to read and I do love to listen to podcasts. I'm listening to… this is not a business book but its called sleep smart. I don't do fitness coaching, but I have a fitness coach too. He sends me books. I'm also listening to the Perfect Day Formula and that's by Craig Valentine. I'm listening to it another book called The Swerve. That's a good book. It's funny man, because if you do a lot of reading or if you listen to podcasts, you always get ideas about books from other people, right? It seems like one book leads to another write. One book mentions another and then you pop that in audible and you read that. I think one really good nugget and you and your audience should write this down if you haven't heard it already is listen to that recent, the most recent Maxout podcast with Ed Mylett, where he talks to you. UOP baseball team. That is so good, man. It is so powerful. I've shared that with my entire team. I listened to it probably every other morning because it just so resonates with me, especially as you transitioned into 2019. If you need something to get you up and light a fire under your butt and it is great, great material, man. [22:26] JAMES: Yeah, I have my last. He's awesome. He is awesome. That's the beauty of a podcast is or an audio book for that matter just to be able to listen to it at any point of your day, at any time. It really doesn't matter where you're at nowadays. You can just pop that in and listen to us. I have not heard that one. I will make sure that I listened to it. I'm actually post the links so people can get just click where and go right into it. [22:46] MIKE: Awesome. [22:47] JAMES: I'm an avid, avid reader as well. There's always something that I pick up. The knowledge that it's that compound effect. One compounds on top of you, the next thing. Another last, last two questions here. What's your favorite quote? Favorite quote.[23:02] MIKE: Man, that's a good one. I think it's probably changed throughout time. I think my favorite quote is probably really cliché at this point, but it just so resonates with me is the old Zig Ziglar quote is that "you'll get what you want. If you can help enough other people get what they want." That has not always been true for me. I've grown in my business, I've learned that my success will ultimately be a product of the success that I help others have.[23:28] JAMES: Yeah, no, that's awesome. Zig Ziglar Fan, goodness gracious as well. I one that was one of my favorite of course. The other one is then you're going to be a meaningful specific or a wandering generality. It's huge and especially for realtors because most realtors are not meaningful specifics.[23:45] MIKE: Right. Right. We know that.[23:46] JAMES: Great, great quote there. The last thing I want to ask you, so what's something that you want to do in 2019 that you've never done before? Whether it be business related obviously EXP is an explosion in growth mode right now. What's something that maybe you've got want to do a 2019 that you've never done before?[24:04] MIKE: That question comes at a really opportune time for me because we're actually in the middle of opening up our own mortgage company, the P and L model. I'm actually really excited to play around with that a little bit. I think there's a huge opportunity, not only to add more money to the bottom line but to also provide a level of service that most of the real estate agents can't provide because this is going to be set ups just so especially at first just so this person is servicing our team.[24:29] JAMES: That's great. I've had a sin as a, as a loan officer. There's no better mortgage advisor like yourself because you are on that side and you speak to what your clients are really wanting and really be able to direct if it's going to be your mortgage company or whoever you're working or partnering with on the mortgage side to really provide a really, really good value for people because I know you've experienced it. I've experienced it with a mortgage companies that it amazes me that some of these mortgage companies exist or lenders should I say. I've had people just completely disappear during the process. This is amazing to me. It's amazing. That's a great opportunity and I think with your background there's no way that you would not be successful with that or anything else that you do. [25:19] MIKE: Thank you sir.[25:20] JAMES: That'd be great. Again, I am a huge fan. I admire everything you've been doing. You're one of those people when you meet him, you just like of like literally I met you. We shook hands on. My God, I just liked this guy. [25:29] MIKE: Likewise my man, likewise.[25:34] JAMES: I've got to get up to and actually one more thing we got to talk about real quick, the most important thing will Ohio State be in the playoffs or not.[25:42] MIKE: Man, at this point, does it even matter? It's whoever's going to play Bama and lose, right?[25:45] JAMES: Right. Right. That’s true. [25:50] MIKE: I love my Buck guys I'm also a realist man. [25:52] JAMES: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's got to be quiet if you you say well. Anyway, when I appreciate your time, Mike. Thank you so much man. Thank you. Thank you. Keep doing what you're doing. I will continue to promote you as much as I can. If there's anything I can help you with, let me know and appreciate your time, man. You have a great one and we'll catch up. [26:07] MIKE: Likewise and if anybody's interested in that free coaching that you mentioned they could go to liverealestatecoaching.com and sign up there. I'd be happy to take on anybody for 30 to 40 minutes and just really dive deep into any area of your business you're looking to improve. [26:24] JAMES: I will post the link on the podcast. Actually let me put it on here so people can get that link and access what you're offering there. Yeah, can't go wrong. Free strategy call with Mike, reach out to them. He's an awesome agent, great example a lot of consistency and professionalism. I really appreciate what you do on Mike, We'll catch up soon brother. You take care.[26:43] MIKE: All right man. Thanks so much, James. I appreciate it. [26:46] JAMES: Okay. All right, bye-bye.[26:47] MIKE: Good luck.If you like this episode of the Houston Home Talk podcast, please don't forget to like, share, and comment! We appreciate your support and feedback! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s all in the Attitude — ego is the Enemy. Our Ego will try to defend us either consciously or subconsciously when it feels the need. When it feels like we might fail. When it senses that we are feeling stress. Or when we’re staring down the barrel at a task we don’t really want to do. Or when we’re just tired.

MY EGO IS DYING is a rant about a simple train of thought on how we can all reach a point in our lives when we can no longer go back to the old ways of life. Our Ego has been infected by a conscious disease called 'awakening'. My such 'point of no return' arrived fairly recently and I wanted to talk through this and make sense of it. Let me know what you think. For more information on the podcast visit www.youlovelifepodcast.com To purchase my new book "Intimacy is", visit any of the following links: AMAZON KINDLE: https://www.amazon.com/Intimacy-Quotes-Roman-Wyden-ebook/dp/B079VRVV8S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520023220&sr=8-1&keywords=roman+wyden BARNES & NOBLE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/intimacy-is-roman-wyden/1128016120?ean=9781543925890 iBOOKS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/intimacy-is/id1349920262?mt=11 GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=✓&query=roman+wyden

Today at noon EST, Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell on Growing Up with Love. This Love Month Tom begins this conversation discussing Self-Love is better Self-Like to avoid narcissism and the only reason we don't like ourselves is because we have Ego Fears. That of course most of us have these fears because we collected them from a very early age. Our Ego holds on to our fears and the only way we can grow up is to have the courage to face them. We then discuss Romantic Love and how most people who believe they are in Love are really in Need. That Love is selfless and it is about Giving. Which means we can't have an agenda. We can't need anything, rather we come from a place of acceptance. As soon as we need we aren't in Love. We also discuss that only one person is required to Love another. As long as the relationship isn't abusive, and as long as we don't keep 'score' and have a list of what we need from the other person or feel that we are being taken advantage of, then we can Give Unconditionally and it is LOVE! The changes, may not happen over night, but if you are patient and willing to open yourself up to Love and come from a place of Giving we can find the courage to grow and actually have fun. Remember we are here to Grow towards Love not stay stuck in our fears! Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

Today at noon EST, Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell on Growing Up with Love. This Love Month Tom begins this conversation discussing Self-Love is better Self-Like to avoid narcissism and the only reason we don't like ourselves is because we have Ego Fears. That of course most of us have these fears because we collected them from a very early age. Our Ego holds on to our fears and the only way we can grow up is to have the courage to face them. We then discuss Romantic Love and how most people who believe they are in Love are really in Need. That Love is selfless and it is about Giving. Which means we can't have an agenda. We can't need anything, rather we come from a place of acceptance. As soon as we need we aren't in Love. We also discuss that only one person is required to Love another. As long as the relationship isn't abusive, and as long as we don't keep 'score' and have a list of what we need from the other person or feel that we are being taken advantage of, then we can Give Unconditionally and it is LOVE! The changes, may not happen over night, but if you are patient and willing to open yourself up to Love and come from a place of Giving we can find the courage to grow and actually have fun. Remember we are here to Grow towards Love not stay stuck in our fears! Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

Today at noon EST, Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell on Holiday Magic and Worthiness. This conversation begins with us discussing that most of us have difficulties with worthiness and that it is a fear we collect from a very early age. Our Ego holds on to our fears and how we get really stuck if we get depressed around the Holidays. He helps us again to understand that our intentions help us to move forward and sometimes we just have to 'do' it, as in go to the Holiday events and be Open, instead of going into our fears and avoiding all interactions. The Holidays are all about family and connecting with others. Relationships all assist us to grow and in cases where there is a great deal of anxiety or depression (which Tom claims is just fear and a choice) then you need to see your fears and move through them. It is through our intention to Grow towards Love or just Grow Up that the larger consciousness system that will help us and we can come from a place of BEing instead of an intellectual understanding. The changes, may not happen over night, but if you are patient and willing to open yourself up to the Holidays and come from a place of Giving (not gifts but just BEing) we can find the courage to grow and actually have fun. A big part of our interview is on Giving and connecting with the Magic of the season. Worthiness is difficult but it is just a fear we can overcome with courage and acknowledgment that it exists. Remember we are here to Grow towards Love not stay stuck in our fears! Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

Today at noon EST, Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with physicist Tom Campbell on Holiday Magic and Worthiness. This conversation begins with us discussing that most of us have difficulties with worthiness and that it is a fear we collect from a very early age. Our Ego holds on to our fears and how we get really stuck if we get depressed around the Holidays. He helps us again to understand that our intentions help us to move forward and sometimes we just have to 'do' it, as in go to the Holiday events and be Open, instead of going into our fears and avoiding all interactions. The Holidays are all about family and connecting with others. Relationships all assist us to grow and in cases where there is a great deal of anxiety or depression (which Tom claims is just fear and a choice) then you need to see your fears and move through them. It is through our intention to Grow towards Love or just Grow Up that the larger consciousness system that will help us and we can come from a place of BEing instead of an intellectual understanding. The changes, may not happen over night, but if you are patient and willing to open yourself up to the Holidays and come from a place of Giving (not gifts but just BEing) we can find the courage to grow and actually have fun. A big part of our interview is on Giving and connecting with the Magic of the season. Worthiness is difficult but it is just a fear we can overcome with courage and acknowledgment that it exists. Remember we are here to Grow towards Love not stay stuck in our fears! Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

During this episode I talk about:  How can I become what I need to get?  Our Ego vs. Child's spirit  Over parenting, because it's serving our own need to be needed Get a life, so your kid can have one Raising children today for adulthood burnout   Julie Lythcott Haims CLICK HERE TO WATCH HER TED TALK author of, How To Raise A Successful Adult      Today's Show Sponsor www.sudiosweden.com Promo code to get 15% off: INCONTROL15   Audible: Audio books www.audibletrial.com/heatherchauvin Book recommendation: How To Raise A Successful Adult   

Niche Radio — Our “Ego” is an identity of our own construction, an identity which is ‘not real’. If we take all the perceptions of what we are i.e. our beliefs about our personality, talents, and abilities – then we have the structure of our ego. It is reactive based on our past experiences or frame of references and plays and immense role in creating the emotional drama in our lives. The ego hides behind the “I” and “me” in the thoughts and statements we have about our identity (e.g. I’m not clever enough, pretty enough, capable etc). Every time we compare ourselves to external references (i.e people, situations or things) we are reinforcing or ego and the beliefs we have about ourselves. And where did these thoughts originate from? Well, our childhood. When we were kids, perhaps when we were teased on the playground or reprimanded or praised by a teacher or parent and this is where we started forming this perception of our ‘self’. As adults, we need to stop and take a reality check against our “Ego” which has served us a purpose up until now and that is to protect us and keep us safe by limiting ourselves. Listen to my latest podcast on understanding our “Ego”

Episode 6 – Standing Out from Your Competition in Your Local Small Business   Welcome back to the Local Small Business Coach Podcast, I am your coach Tammy Adams. This is episode 6 and today we are going to discuss how to stand out from your competitors.   But before we dive in, I want to take a moment to discuss something that I saw on the Profit last night that really stood out based off our last couple of episodes.   If you aren’t watching the Profit, you need to. This is probably one of the best TV shows every local small business owner needs to watch.  Marcus Lemonis, the amazing businessman behind the show, invests in local business to help not only turn them around, but to develop a brand that he can take national.   His main mantra is something I’ve always been preaching, just using different words and that is People, Process and Product. He gives mini business lessons to the audience and as a small business owner, you can learn so much.   The main reason I bring this up is, in last night’s episode Marcus asked the small business owner, who had 5 soup shops by the way, what his gross margin was. This owner looked right at him and had no idea.   This really stood out to me since we just got through talking about this last week how you need to know your gross margin. Here is Marcus and one of his key questions was this very thing and then he goes on to share how if this man gets his gross margins up he would add over a million in sales and $300,000 in profit from this one thing.   It really drove home how important this is.  So if you aren’t watching, please go back and watch all the episodes. Maybe we will dive in more in a future episode.   But let’s dive into today’s topic – Standing out from your competitors.   I picked this topic to follow our last episode’s discussion on our Ego getting in the way on purpose.   Our Ego really goes crazy when it comes to our competitors.  Often times we beat our chest that we are so much better than they are, that we miss what they are doing well.   I actually have a great learning lesson I had on this back in my Depot days.  Since I had been with them from the 64th store, we were a very fired up group. We were growing so fast and kicking butt and our ego was huge. We dominated our competition and the love affair American had with us was pretty amazing.   As we expanded into the Western states, which is what I was a part of, we just took over a state at a time.  We had no problem being obnoxious and cocky. Then a strange thing happened, we went into Washington up against a pretty popular big box retailer similar to us. No matter what we did, these guys kept getting strong and going head to head with us.   It kind of through us for a loop since we felt we were so much better than they were. But the customer was telling us something different. Long story short, when we finally stopped beating our own chests and started to listen to the customer and how they were voting with their dollar we learned a valuable lesson. It led to use making a huge change that impacted a large chunk of our business. Those of you that shopped us 15 years ago saw us transition from a huge contractor focus to one that was both a contractor business and a home décor business. This was huge for us and a great move. It all came from us just listening to what the customers were telling us we needed to do to grow our business and meet the needs they were looking for.   I tell you this story as it is just as important to each local small business owner as it was to this big box retailer.   For each of you, there are others in your community that are also doing either a similar business as you are or they are offering maybe 1 or 2 similar services.  Your goal is to find out what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. What are the opportunities that you can be taking advantage of?   How can you stand out from your competitors?   For the full show notes click the link below!   HELPFUL LINKS Podcast Website:    LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Leave your Message on the website with the SpeakPipe Button or just email me atTammy@LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Episode Show Notes:  Episode 6 - Local Small Business Coach Podcast Our Training Materials for Local Small Business Owners:  TrainingforLocalSmallBusinessOwners.com Starting a Local Small Business Website:  StartALocalSmallBusiness.com

"Our Ego is our biggest problem, and stands in he way of living a spirit-filled life."     Modern psychology blames a low-self esteem for most people's bad behavior. Yet there is no evidence for this assumption, people with inflated (prideful) ego actually have cause more hurt and pain to society than people with a real low, deflated self esteem.     Apostle Jan Oosthuizen addresses this issue in this sermon on "developing a healthy ego."

REPLAY by Popular Demand - We hear a lot about how "bad" the Ego is, but it plays a very important role in our growth when its put to Divine Purpose. Our Ego offers us many spiritual gifts and is necessary to incorporate into our experience for our highest good. Discover how to make the most of this energy in your life and why you need your Ego more than you know. Molly will also discuss the planet Mars and how it relates to Ego energy. Well talk about Mars in each of the 12 astrological signs, so have your astro chart handy to follow along! (Get a free birth chart at www.astro.com.) Join the CCC email list here and get 3 free meditations!   Molly McCord is a Consciousness Catalyst who plays the roles of writer, author, intuitive, astrologer, messenger, and teacher. She shares consciousness-raising wisdom that pushes past the Ego-Mind's limitations, and moves us more fully into our heart-centered intelligence. Your greatest power is found in your Heart Consciousness - and she helps take you there.  

We hear a lot about how "bad" the Ego is, but it plays a very important role in our growth when it's put to Divine Purpose. Our Ego offers us many spiritual gifts and is necessary to incorporate into our experience for our highest good. Discover how to make the most of this energy in your life and why you need your Ego more than you know. Molly will also discuss the planet Mars and how it relates to Ego energy. We'll talk about Mars in each of the 12 astrological signs, so have your astro chart handy to follow along! (Get a free birth chart at www.astro.com.) Molly McCord is a Consciousness Catalyst who plays the roles of writer, author, intuitive, astrologer, messenger, and teacher. She shares consciousness-raising wisdom that pushes past the Ego-Mind's limitations, and moves us more fully into our heart-centered intelligence. Your greatest power is found in your Heart Consciousness - and she helps take you there.   Conscious Cool Chic Facebook Twitter