Learn the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Last week I coached and worked with 16 different people on goal achievement.  I had the opportunity to connect and meet some amazing people from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and New Zealand. In this video I share what I learned from these people.  I also talk about the 3 most common problems with goal achievement and the insights I gained.

In this video you’ll also learn:

  • what holds most people back from expressing themselves creatively
  • why you’re not taking action to achieve your goals
  • why you talk yourself out of your dreams and goals
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Must read books on personal growth. The books with a start (*) are my absolute favorites. I’ve read seventy-four of these books. The ones I haven’t read were recommended to me by close friends (and are now on my reading list).  Be sure to scroll to the bottom and add your own:

    Relationships and Communication

  1. The Complete Conversations with God ~ Neale Donald Walsch *
  2. Using Your Brain for a Change ~ Richard Bandler *
  3. Unlimited Power ~ Anthony Robbins *
  4. Awaken the Giant Within ~ Anthony Robbins
  5. Don’t Shoot the Dog ~ Karen Pryor
  6. The Psychology of Persuasion ~ Robert Cialdini
  7. How to Win Friends and Influence People ~ Dale Carnegie
  8. The Mastery of Love ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
  9. Get the Life You Want ~ Richard Bandler
  10. Spirituality and Well Being

  11. Happier Than God ~ Neale Donald Walsch
  12. A Vision of Power and Glory ~ John Kehoe
  13. The Other Side and Back ~ Sylvia Browne
  14. Creative Visualization ~ Shakti Gawain
  15. Quantum Healing ~ Deepak Chopra
  16. Your Body’s Telling You: Love Yourself! ~ Lise Bourbeau *
  17. The Four Agreements ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
  18. Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out ~ Marci Shimoff
  19. The Practice of Happiness ~ John Kehoe *
  20. The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
  21. Power vs Force ~ David R. Hawkins *
  22. Secrets for Success and Inner Peace ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
  23. A New Earth ~ Eckart Tolle
  24. Law of Attraction and Manifestation

  25. The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks
  26. The 5 Rules of Thought ~ Mary T. Browne
  27. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success ~ Deepak Chopra
  28. The Science of Success ~ James Arthur Ray
  29. Money and the Law of Attraction ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks *
  30. The Attractor Factor ~ Joe Vitale
  31. The Strangest Secret ~ Earl Nightingale *
  32. The Astonishing Power of Emotions ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks
  33. Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting ~ Lynn Grabhorn *
  34. Ask and It Is Given ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks
  35. The Power of Intention ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
  36. The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks *
  37. The Secret ~ Rhonda Byrne
  38. The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks
  39. Mind Power

  40. The Lazy Way to Success ~ Frank Gratzon *
  41. Mind Power into the 21st Century ~ John Kehoe *
  42. The Mind Map Book ~ Tony Buzan
  43. The New Psycho-Cybernetics ~ Maxwell Maltz
  44. As a Man Thinketh ~ James Allen
  45. The Hidden Power ~ Judge Thomas Troward
  46. The Master Key System ~ Charles F. Haanel
  47. The Power of Self Mind Control ~ Burt Goldman
  48. The Biology of Belief ~ Bruce H. Lipton *
  49. Man’s Search for Meaning ~ Viktor Frankl
  50. The Power of Positive Thinking ~ Vincent Peale
  51. Leadership and Peak Performance

  52. The Leader Who Had No Title ~ Robin Sharma
  53. Emotional Intelligence ~ Daniel Goleman
  54. You Can Have What You Want ~ Michael Neill
  55. Do One Thing Different ~ Bill O’Hanlon
  56. The World Is As You Dream It ~ John Perkins
  57. The One Minute Manager ~ Ken Blanchard
  58. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari ~ Robin Sharma *
  59. Body Mind Mastery ~ Dan Millman
  60. You²: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness ~ Price Pritchett *
  61. A Touch of Greatness ~ Frank Tibolt
  62. People Are Idiots and I Can Prove It! ~ Larry Winget *
  63. The Saint, The Surfer and the CEO ~ Robin Sharma
  64. Remember Everything You Read: 7 Day Speed Reading ~ Stanley D. Frank
  65. The Power of An Hour ~ Dave Lakhani
  66. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment ~ George Leonard
  67. The 80/20 Principle ~ Richard Koch
  68. It’s Not Over Until You Win ~ Les Brown
  69. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ~ Stephen R. Covey
  70. Born To Win ~ Lewis Timberlake
  71. Who Will Cry When You Die ~ Robin Sharma
  72. Business and Entrepreneurship

  73. The Road to Wealth ~ Robert G. Allen
  74. Six Thinking Hats ~ Edward de Bono
  75. Rules for Renegades ~ Christine Comaford-Lynch
  76. The Purple Cow ~ Seth Godin
  77. Ben Franklin: America’s Original Entrepreneur ~ Blaine McCormick
  78. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got ~ Jay Abraham
  79. Multiple Streams of Income ~ Robert G. Allen
  80. Multiple Streams of Internet Income ~ Robert G. Allen
  81. Nothing Down for the 2000’s ~ Robert G. Allen
  82. E Myth Mastery ~ Michael E. Gerber
  83. How I Made My First Million on the Internet ~ Ewen Chia *
  84. Make Real Money on the Internet ~ Stephen Pierce
  85. The E Code ~ Joe Vitale and Jo Han Mok
  86. Good to Great ~ Jim Collins
  87. Unleashing the Ideavirus ~ Seth Godin
  88. Money and Wealth

  89. You Were Born Rich ~ Bob Proctor
  90. Money, Success and You ~ John Kehoe
  91. The Science of Getting Rich ~ Wallace Wattles
  92. Busting Loose from the Money Game ~ Robert Scheinfeld *
  93. Think and Grow Rich ~ Napoleon Hill *
  94. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind ~ T. Harv Eker *
  95. Speed Wealth ~ T. Harv Eker
  96. The Millionaire from Nazareth ~ Catherine Ponder
  97. It’s Not About the Money ~ Bob Proctor
  98. One Minute Millionaire ~ Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen
  99. Richest Man in Babylon ~ George Clason
  100. Rich Dad, Poor Dad ~ Richard T. Kiyosaki
  101. How to Get Lots of Money for Anything Fast ~ Stuart Lichtman
  102. The 4 Hour Work Week ~ Tim Ferris
  103. Quantum Physics Reality

  104. Take the Quantum Leap ~ Fred Alan Wolf
  105. Parallel Universes ~ Fred Alan Wolf
  106. The Holographic Universe ~ Michael Talbot *
  107. Mind into Matter ~ Fred Alan Wolf
  108. The Field ~ Lynn Mctaggart

These books are linked to an affiliate program that I earn a commission on if you buy them.  I don’t care if you buy them or not, I just wanted to share this list of awesome books with you :)  Continue reading…

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

You know what I’ve found to be one of the biggest obstacles to achievement, progress and real success? The ability to decide. And not a half-ass decision, but a real committed decision where you commit to something and then go and do it.

When I decided to leave my full time job in 2008 to pursue a full time career as a coach, it was one of the most gut-wrenching decisions I’ve ever made. It was a difficult decision and maybe the craziest decision I’ve made ever - at least that’s what my parents, my family and most of my good friends were telling me.

They thought I was nuts. To leave a really good-paying job to go and chase some dream to become a successful entrepreneur was insanity.

It turns out it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I absolutely love what I do and I’m having a blast doing it.

So, how about you? Are you looking for something new? Are you feeling stuck and unsure how to get around it?

When you make a decision, any decision, what you’re really doing is moving your life in a new direction. Because the Universe will always find an abundance of opportunities to conspire and create your reality once you decide.

Decision is the Starting Point

When you don’t decide what you’re really doing is “holding up” your creativity. You’ve delayed the flow of current in your life. It’s just like you might pause a movie to go and get some popcorn. The move doesn’t start again until you hit “play.”

The way you hit play in your life is by making a decision. As soon as you make your decision the Universal Movie Projector of your life will conspire to make it happen for you.

Now here’s the other side of the coin. It’s a myth that many people have been brainwashed to believe; that if you just wait long enough and be patient, the right opportunities will show up on your doorstep.

There is some truth in that statement, but here’s the other half that nobody seems to speak about. It’s that opportunity only comes knocking once you decide what it is you want. The reality is that the sooner you decide, the sooner you will be flooded with new opportunities.

I can tell you from my own personal experience that opportunities only show up when you make a committed decision. Only then will you see new opportunities that weren’t there before.

Making the Wrong Decision Helps Too!

Decision is the starting point. Being able to make good decisions - often enough - will always bring you new opportunities. You might not always make the right decision, but making a decision is more important than not making any decision at all.

Would you like to know why?

The more decisions you make, the more contrast you experience. The more contrast you experience, the greater the variety in your life. The greater the variety in your life, the easier it is for you to decide what you like and what you don’t like. The easier it is for you to decide what you like and what you don’t like, the easier it is for you to decide what you really WANT.

You see how this works?

By actually becoming a master in making decisions, you get clearer on what you want - and not only that. You also get what you want much faster.

But you MUST decide.

The problem is that many people are afraid of making the wrong decisions. They don’t want to look stupid or make a mistake. Because of they did make a mistake, their friends and family might think they were a failure.

Sound familiar?

Now here’s what you must realize. You’re decisions are not just about you. They impact everyone in your life.  So when considering your decision, you want to bring in a broader perspective so that you get clear on what it is you’re really trying to do.

5 Questions to Help You Make Better Decisions Now

You can gain a broader perspective on your decisions by asking these higher level questions:

1. What’s the best way to handle this so that everyone wins?

2. What’s the most creative way to create a win-win solution?

3. How can I do this so that everyone benefits?

4. What can I do to make this work?

5. How do I feel about this decision?

Anytime you make a decision ask these five questions. Not only will it get you out of your head and into someone else’s - it will give you a broader perspective of what you’re trying to do, it will help you clarify your direction and help others too.

Do you need to make a decision right now?  How do you do it?  What questions do you ask yourself? Continue reading…