More Ah Ha Links for April 2011

Hi again. Links that might inspire and motivate you. : )

Love this piece by one off my favourite bloggers. Such a heartfelt story about becoming an optimist.

How I Became an Optimist

The ability to dream big and goal setting takes them these students from good enough to excellent.

In this world, success is reached with clearly defined goals

An interesting breakdown on how one of my favourite financial bloggers makes money.

How I Make Money

Once again another study comes out showing that busy parents don’t provide healthy lifestyles for their kids.

Survey: Kids lack exercise, healthful foods

Here is a great tip on how to live to 100.

Want to Live to 100? Take Life’s Curveballs in Stride

What are the three major factors that are making Americans fat?

Food matters

Learning to live a beautiful life.

you can change : a sweeping affirmation

If You Don’t Set Goals Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later.

You are getting this because you subscribed to the My Life Changes newsletter. Something inside of you decided that you need to make life changes.  A serious part of making life changes is setting goals.

What type of life do you want? What specifically do you want out of life? What goals can you write down that will motivate you to make important life changes?

Do you wish to lose weight so you can run in the backyard with your kids next year?

Do you wish to get out of debt so you can take a dream vacation or start a business?

Do you want to begin meditating so work and family stress is easier to deal with?

These are a few specific goals you can vision and keep in your head until you have reached them.

These are a few specific examples of goals you can use to gain courage, self confidence and create a healthy self image.

It’s time for you to take action right now. Don’t end up hating yourself now because you didn’t take action  right now.

Make your dreams a reality. Nothing is stopping you except yourself.

Break free of your chains and just do it.

Ah Ha Links for April 2011

Hi there : )

Just back from sunny Florida…it was awesome!  Here are a few excellent links I researched for you guys.

Three Laws of Change – How to Influence Your Subconscious to Manage the Energies of Your Heart

Go Easy on Yourself, a New Wave of Research Urges

An Interview with Thomas Stanley, Co-Author of “The Millionaire Next Door”

How Meditation Changes Your Life

What is a goal?

Nutritionist: Change life by losing weight

We’re in a New Energy Crisis. This One is Personal.

There are different things that motivate us to push towards our dreams of success.

Stats , Supplements and Ah Ha Links for March 2011

A few stats for www.mylifechanges.com

Daily page views of users …up 71% the past 3 months.

Time on site of users…up 126% the past 3 months.

Visits from Search engine …up 109% the last month.

Supplements

I still love the supplements. My Osteoarthritis is not bothering me much, I am clear headed, sleep better, and I feel calmer. I am Zen!

Ah Ha links!

“Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do?”

30 Things We Need – and 30 We Don’t

“Charlie Sheen is the tired face of the American dream, in ways that we don’t often enough have the backbone, wisdom, or grace to (want to) admit”

The United States of Charlie Sheen

“Mr. Zuckerberg isn’t the only 20-something achiever who has changed the world at an age when our fathers and grandfathers were still trying to scramble up the first few rungs of the corporate ladder.”

Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude

Noreena Hertz says we shouldn’t always rely on the experts. Look at the financial situation…the experts really fucked that one up.

Noreena Hertz: How to use experts — and when not to

AH HA! Links For You – Feb 2011

The same device most of use to get our primary work accomplished – a computer, a smartphone, an iPad, or some combination of the above – is also now the repository of 1,000 distractions and every imaginable source of immediate gratification.

Take Back Your Attention

Decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.

Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

Do these things to become successful. .

Why You Aren’t As Successful As You Want To Be

Everyone is starting to get a little narcotic over things that don’t really matter:  checking Facebook profiles 3 times a day, YouTube videos that entertain you for hours (or we think so) only to walk away feeling like you just flushed 5 hours of your life down the toilet.

Productivity Advice From A Drug Addict Turned Self-Made Millionaire

The Top 6 Inspirational Videos Of All Time

The Beauty of Pixar. Leandro Braga took 500 hand-selected scenes and made an amazing tribute to the best animation studio on the planet. I love the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwoPtQevOTE

Free Hugs. Sometimes, a hug is all that we need. Free Hugs is the real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger and put a smile on their face. Over 66 million views!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do. What makes the difference in people’s lives?  What fulfills you? With the right emotion we can create anything.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html

Bruce Feiler: The council of dads. Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So he shares  this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_feiler_the_council_of_dads.html

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. An awe-inspiring piece of artwork, very touching and a strong move for saving the planet through a Resource-Based Economy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run? McDougall tells the story of the marathoner with a heart of gold, the unlikely ultra-runner, and the hidden tribe in Mexico that runs to live

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_to_run.html

Go From A Good Life To A Great Life!

In a World Wide Gallop poll of 150 different countries a study was conducted to see what factors came into play for us to experience a Great Life.  Interestingly enough this coincides with what the number 1 personal value members of this website are searching for. Balance.  To have a great and balanced life here are the 5 main areas of your life to focus on.  If you only work on one or two areas you won’t have a great life. To truly have a great life it takes all 5 areas.

Health

What you fuel your body with has a huge impact on whether you have a great life or only a good life.  Allowing your emotions to control your eating habits is a huge mistake, especially when try to make yourself happy with greasy hamburgers and fries. Every unhealthy meal you eat will have a negative impact on your future great life. My best tip here is to ALWAYS keep sweets and unhealthy foods out of the house so you are NEVER tempted. Ok, maybe some dark chocolate is fine. Try this for a start!

Work

Most of us spend 8 hours a day at work. These eight hours a day can have a major influence on whether our entire day will be merely good or great! To become great at work use your strengths to become the best at what you do and don’t focus on your weaknesses! Think back to your best moments and build on those. That is the best advice I can give you on work. Use your strengths!

Money

Money is nice to have but when you only accumulate things the initial joy never lasts in those objects.  What you need to buy is experiences. I’ve written about this a few times here. READ IT! Building wonderful memories for yourself with friends and family will definitely have you look back at your life as a Great Life. That fancy car you had in 1999 will not.  Spend your money wisely (and save some).

Social Network

Who we hang around with has a huge impact on how happy we will be. It’s proven that our friends or family have a huge impact on whether we eat, exercise, smoke or get fat. Maybe it’s time to take a hard look at who is in your social network and whether they are getting in the way of a great life. Get an awesome social network!

Values

I’m going to say this again. Your personal values drive you towards the life you dream of. You have to figure them out! My main value in life is freedom. Freedom from stress, from money worries, from bad health and bad luck. Whenever I think about freedom I get pumped up and I make another small step towards a life of freedom. I save that money each week, I eat my broccoli, and I have a good laugh with close friends.  Now THAT is a life free of crap and going towards great. Figure out what value or values drive you!

So there you have it. Time to make some changes. Time to create a plan and have a great life!

Attitude, Happiness And The Meaning Of Life.

We create our own reality in our minds.

The thoughts, dreams, aspirations, worries, excuses, justifications and chat in our mind determine our happiness.  We can directly identify with these thoughts and allow them to constantly sweep us away or we can grow from them, take action when required but choose to primarily live in the beauty of the current moment. The key take away here is “take action.” The world is infinite in its possibilities and each challenge requires an action.  Just worrying about something will not change your life. Deciding to take action and then moving back to the present moment with that action will. We are creatures of consciousness.  We can decide how our thoughts and then actions govern us. It is truly an amazing gift.

We get what we concentrate on.

Do you know what circumstances and issues are directing your life?  Are you overweight, lonely, addictive, in debt? Are these the circumstances affecting your current life?  Have you taken any action to address these? Where do you put your energies? Once this is clear, you can then decide where you need to focus your energies.  So stop worrying, put down the remote, clear your mind and decide once and for all what life changes you need to make.  And always live in the current moment. It is the only moment.  It is the moment of raw truth.

Never mind about the meaning of life.  What is the meaning of your life? Once that is clear you are ready to co-create the world with all your other fellow human beings. Just think about it. And then do it.

AH HA! Links of the week

Here are some interesting links for you. From how BP is still going to screw us, to publishing on your own, finding time, finding energy, money and friend philosophies.

Enjoy.

“Corporations aren’t people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. “

“I’m going to make over $100,000 this year, and a lot of the money is from the books that New York publishers rejected.”

“Turn off Twitter, Anne Lamott says. And don’t clean the house. That’s what it takes to create the rich life you deserve”

A Simple Life Change That Will Help You Live Longer And Happier

Why Money Makes You Unhappy

Want to Live Longer? Get Some Friends

Have You Been Creating Memorable Stories With Your Life?

Lately I love writing about creating memories.  The quality of your life is dependent on how you remember it. The quality of your life is a collection of stories interwoven together from a lifetime of memories. When you talk about the stories of your life are you feeling happy or content? Do your stories create sparks of joy? How about when you talk to yourself about your stories? Are you proud about your stories?

Sure you can stand around the water cooler on a Monday morning and talk about the BBQ or recommend what novel you are reading. But what about the stories that make your heart skip? What about the stories that tested your courage?

A friend of mine once gave me a plane ticket to fly to three cities in Europe. I landed in Zurich and was also allowed to fly to Sweden and Finland as well. It was a fabulous gift. I decided to include side trips to Italy and Estonia. A week before leaving, I took out my Let’s Go Europe book, highlighted a few choice youth hostels and took off. When I think back to that experience I’m amazed that in three weeks time I walked, took trains, ferries and flew to some incredible places.

I got lost in Italy at 1: AM searching for my youth hostel, shared my cigarettes with a Russian bus driver (I was the only customer) in Finland, and shared tea in Helsinki with a British art critique and an American improving lives of orphans in Russia. In Sweden I stayed on a 200 foot sailboat and went to a lingerie fashion show (poor me). My courage was tested a few times during that trip, but the memories will last a lifetime.

Staying in and experiencing the present moment is an amazing habit to find peace and even joy, but ultimately the overall quality of our life is governed by our memories and stories . This is your remembered self.

How do you remember yourself? Are you making life changes so that you think back upon your life with happiness and pleasure? What stores stand out in your memory? Are your glued to the Internet and television while the world passes you by?

Maybe it’s time to make new memories, and create a few new stories. There is a whole wide world to explore.

Reference:  Daniel Kahneman – TED – Ideas Worth Spreading

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