Dream It, Do It! - Jillian Michaels

 

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” –

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

God that quote pisses me off.

Why? Because it’s true—but it shouldn’t be and doesn’t have to be.
There is absolutely no reason why you can’t live your dreams, no matter what they are; no reason you can’t live the life you’ve always wanted. Look, you have dreams for a reason. Call it your destiny, your karma, your life’s mission, whatever you want, but your dreams are what define your place and purpose. When you live in fear of your own desires and ambitions, you lose sight of your true calling and your true self. Life loses meaning, and inertia sets in. You become depressed, unhappy, and start to wonder: Is this really all there is?

The answer is NO!

Every human being has the capacity to transform suffering or weakness into peace, power, strength, health, and abundance. There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can’t be reached, or dreams that can’t be realized. It’s just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.

Many self-help books tell you what to achieve, but they don’t give you particularly useful tools for how to achieve it. They offer a lot of New Age platitudes and sappy self-help mantras:

Just love yourself.

See the glass as half full.

Believe it and it will come.

I mean, really. That’s not how it works, and you know it.

A lifetime’s worth of struggle is not overturned in a moment of positive thinking. But if you have the right attitude and skills, you can and will accomplish anything and everything you want.

In my book Unlimited, I give you both: attitude and action. By its end you’ll have all the tools you need to change your life—no hype, no false promises.

I know what you’re thinking: What’s Jillian Michaels doing writing a self-help book? She’s the fitness guru, right? The fact that people think of me as a fitness guru is hilarious. I imagine a fitness guru as someone who wears spandex, feels the burn, and loves an endorphin high, then follows it all up with a shot of wheatgrass. That is so not me! What I do is not about fitness. Exercise is just one of the tools I use to help people rebuild their lives.

If you referred to an architect as a sketch artist, he would look at you like you were an insane person. Architects help people build homes; sketches are just one tool they use to do it. Well, that’s what fitness is to me—a tool I use to help you build a life. It’s never been just about the sit-up.

Now, get ready, because it’s time to stop being quiet and desperate. Screw surviving—it’s time to THRIVE. Unlimited health, wealth, and happiness are just waiting for you to claim them.

 

America’s premier health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels is a New York Times best-selling author, television personality, entrepreneur and the president of Empowered Media. via healyourlife.com

 

How Starting Over After a Lost Helps to Find Your Safe Place

Dates are important to me. I marked my divorce by a date. My marriage to the love of my life by a date. I even dated the time I decided I would leave an abusive religion and relationship. This was a monumental decision. 

Because whatever time I have upon this earth was given to me to decide its course. So, I decided I could start over when ever I wanted to. 

Instead of waiting until January 1^st to set a floating goal I would usually reinvent each year under the whispered intent, “This time I’ll do it,” I made myself a promise to do it now. When it matters most I assure you that you will find every reason to stay wherever you are regardless of the abuse and anguish. You, like me will be more willing to live in nightmarish situation for convenience that never really exists. This is what I do. 

1. Choose the next date.
2. Be absolutely honest with myself.
3. SEE the clear picture of where I will be a month or year from now if I did not take these steps.
4. Respect my very real emotions.
5. Be loyal to myself.
6. Realize I deserve to be happy.
7. Define what happiness is. If I don’t know what happiness is then how will I know when I have achieved it?
8. I give myself time to grieve. There will be pain associated with this change.
9. Ask yourself if you give up this how will it feel to gain that?
10. Behave from a divine perspective. See yourself as deserving of God’s grace.
11. Allow yourself to be healed.
12. Write your problems, the things needing change in black on piece of plain paper. Burn it! Say good bye. Express gratitude for all you learned from the experience. 

When you give yourself the deserving freedom to be the self you deserve and crave a feeling of tearful joy will flow. A reunion. You will have touched your center. Your refuge. Your safe place for all of your energy.

When ever you feel a tendency to doubt yourself draw upon this goodness. When you do this you will then be able to embrace the real authentic you fearlessly and courageously.

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A respected life strategist, Jim is both inspired and inspiring with a pin point ability to see through to the core of the issues at hand and to address them straight on. It is his instinct and intuition, honed over 25 years of consulting and coaching private clients, that truly sets him apart. Jim’s spirit and delivery are impeccably delivered in a no nonsense manner resulting in maximum results.   

 

Jim’s passion for overcoming emotional fears was born of personal tragedy. He lived in his car following the divorce of his marriage of 30 years. In overcoming the legacy of this terrifying life stopping experience, Jim developed the principles and resources that he would later use to heal himself and so many others. 

Today, Jim is a management consultant and speaker to leading companies. His past clients are: Whirlpool Corporation, MITRE and Lush Cosmetics. To have Jim speak to your organization or work with you privately contact him at 719-649-4118 or email.