BEING THE PRIZE

The most challenging part of my life as of late has been looking backward and seeing mistakes I’ve made on more than one occasion and patterns that seem to play out for decades. Breaking cycles and transforming myself into an entirely different person with limitless possibilities for life has been slow going on many days. Looking into the future and wondering what my life will be like seems to slow the pace even further. It seems that when I just accept that my life will be a certain way and go about my life as if those desires and goals are somehow already playing out, (even if I can’t witness them with my mortal eyes) that I find success. Assuming success not on a scale of time but in terms of timing is a recurring theme. Things don’t necessarily seem to play out in a way that I would have envisioned them but they eventually do play out and for the better.

My subconscious mind is far more creative and intelligent than my waking mind and I credit my subconscious mind for creating scenarios that are far greater and more exciting than my conscious mind could have fathomed. These greater and more elaborate occurrences based on my original goals and desires, often take longer to produce than the original visions that my conscious mind foresaw. This is understandable and when I start to trust in my subconscious mind I believe that I will start to experience a fuller life that is capable of far more than I literally could imagine.

I plan on accepting the power of my subconscious mind to bring the people and experiences into my life that create an extraordinary life for myself and for the people that I have chosen to surround myself with.

The most difficult part about success seems to be determining the path that one needs to follow to achieve it. There are many doors to walk through and forks in the road. Your internal dialogue that forces you to ponder these questions is quite confusing at times. What direction should you go? What doors should you open? Do we have a destiny?

It seems that like most cases Love is the divining rod for life. Perusing our passions first requires finding them. How do we know what we love until we have experienced it for ourselves? We take life on through trial and error. We have to be brave enough to experience life. We have to avoid making excuses and create the drive to step out of our current frame of mind.

I am issuing a challenge to myself. I challenge myself to create a consistent schedule for life that includes exploring various aspects of my personality to find the things in life that truly allow me the feeling of passion and love for life.

I specifically challenge myself to take everyone opportunity to explore an experience I have yet to experience and further more create opportunities on a weekly basis to discover something new about myself.

I will create a chart that I can use to track all the goals I have set for myself as well as weekly periods to check on my progress.

My first challenge is to explore a way in which to sleep that allows me the greatest amount of quality sleep for the shortest period of time. My sleeping schedule has been very chaotic for the past few years and I fell that sleep is a foundation on which energy is recaptured. To optimize my life I must first sleep in a way that creates the most potential for all forms of energy in my day.

I am not quite sure of a best place to begin, so I will just begin with what’s currently going on.   I am in the process of creating my first official information product.  The deadline for it is set for Monday, so I am keeping busy translating, writing sales copy and doing all the other little things that are involved into rolling out a successful product.  The mindset is a vital component of everything we do, the interesting thing about it  is that  you can’t  start thinking  positive thoughts and immediately expect to see overwhelming results (it does happened sometimes though).  I see it as a seed growing into a tree, at any given time you look at it it seems like nothing is happening, but day in and day out you recognize incremental improvements.  When things seems like they are not going anywhere and the mindset just seems like an unnecessary extra step, I remind myself that as long as I keep going results will be there as sure as the sun will rise the following day.

Often the lack of willpower comes from a sort of blockage. What are you avoiding in your life? Is it fear? Fear of success or failure. Fear of commitment or lack of commitment. It’s not always easy to identify what is bothering us or why it is bothering us. Procrastination is a symptom of unhappiness.

Think about people you know that are truly passionate about something. How often are they avoiding doing something they love. Remember a time in our lives where we loved something. When we find ourselves procrastinating tt’s important to take time and reflect on our lives. If we allow ourselves to become trapped in the constant hustle of life, we will find ourselves lost. It is the time we set aside for self reflection and communication with ourselves as well as those close to us, that we are able to access the issues that are causing our life to flow away from love and happiness.

It is important to embrace the answers that you find. If you find something and then burry it again you are lacking the Integrity to deal with life powerfully. We often find ourselves rejecting the answers we find because it seems easier to continue on with the current state of things. It is by living a powerful life that we will find joy and love in the smallest aspects of life.

It has come to my attention that while the Prize Mentality is always accessible it is something that becomes easier to access through repetition. Similar to how an athlete builds muscle memory and intuitive reaction time by consistent training, so too does the Prize Mentality become quicker and stronger the more often you use it.

In the beginning phases of accessing the Prize Mentality things can be slow and we fall out of focus with our goals and the attributes of the mentality more easily. This is mainly due to our inability to quickly recognize and adapt to scenarios based on the principles of the Prize Mentality. By going over the aspects of the Prize on a regular basis we start to engrain the principles into our mind. We are ready to interpret, accept and adapt to life because the Prize Mentality is at the forefront of our brain.

The training wheels of the Prize Mentality are our morning reviews. When we remind ourselves of who we are capable of being we increase the odds that we will be that person. As we remind ourselves on a regular basis two things will start to happen. First we will build the mental conditioning and repetition required to make the Prize Mentality a permanent fixture and synonymous with whom we are. Secondly we start to create a fail safe mechanism known as Cognitive Dissonance. This Cognitive Dissonance is nothing more than our brain recognizing that our actions are not in congruence with our image of ourselves. If we are not being the Prize, then our mind will be quick to remind of us this and our Integrity will create the Desire to abide by the principles we have decided to pursue.

In time the theory is that the Prize Mentality becomes you and you stop thinking in terms of “What would the Prize do?” and start being the Prize and therefore you always know what to do. I am still very much in need of reviewing and refining my mentality to be in line with the desires and goals that I have set for myself.

K

K’s Personal Vision Statement

To create a life driven solely by the fulfillment of the most deep rooted desires and goals that I envision; free of “reasons” and “excuses” and full of Love and Gratitude, through the pursuit of knowledge and exploration of the Prize Mentality.

K’s Short Term Goals for the next 6 months(Nov 2007):

Physical:

1. Gym 3+ days a weeks, Home/Cardio or some physical activity 3+ days a week
2. Diet consisting of vitamins, supplements and protein shakes in addition to a standard 2,000 calorie diet.
3. Gain 20lbs of muscle mass and increase my strength 30%

Mental:

1. Daily Blog entry 15-30 minutes (5days a week minimum)
2. Read for 30 minutes a day
3. Add 1 new vocabulary word per week

Emotional:

1. Wake up 95% of the time with a true sense of excitement and fulfillment for the day
2. Love someone on a level deeper than purely physical, and intellectual
3. Travel once a month on a short vacation lasting a minimum of a day on average

Spiritual:

1. Morning Gratitude Mantra (giving thanks for everything in my life)
2. Meditation period 30+ minutes daily (5 days a week)
3. Follow the law of Attraction to create specific outcomes on a daily basis

Community:

1. Trained one new person in the skills and business lessons that I have learned that allows them to launch and maintain a successful new venture
2. Family dinners once a month where all 6 members of the family are present
3. All business Team Members have a sense of gratitude and excitement for the companies which they are a part of

Financial:

1. Created two more streams of income for the transportation business (Shuttle service and Advertising revenue)
2. Net $200,000 additional dollars from new sources of income
3. Have freedom of time created by solid team members which will allows me to expand to 1 new venture that produces a profit within the first 3 months of operations.

K’s Mid Range Goals for the next 5 years(May 1^st 2012):

Physical:

1. Gym 3+ days a weeks, Home/Cardio or some physical activity 3+ days a week
2. Diet consisting of vitamins, supplements and protein shakes in addition to a standard 2,000 calorie diet.
3. My heart, hair and health are flourishing and above average for my age

Mental:

1. Daily Blog entry 30-60 minutes (5days a week minimum) (this now generates income)
2. Read for 60 minutes a day
3. Add 1 new vocabulary word per week (261 new words from this day forward)

Emotional:

1. Wake up 99% of the time with a true sense of excitement and fulfillment for the day
2. Love someone on a level deeper than purely physical, and intellectual
3. Have traveled to at least 10 countries and purchased at least one foreign property that provides a mental fountain of youth for myself

Spiritual:

1. Morning Gratitude Mantra (giving thanks for everything in my life)
2. Meditation period 30+ minutes daily (5 days a week)
3. Follow the law of Attraction to create specific outcomes on a daily basis

Financial:

1. Created a stream of income through stocks, precious metals and or entrepreneurial ventures creating a annual net income of $1,000,000+
2. Created financial independence that allows me to follow any passion I desire with no stress on my financial status
3. Have created at least one product which was featured on Home Shopping Network and grossed at least $1,000,000 in sales

Community:

1. Helped 10+ individuals start maintain and continue the success of their business venture
2. Send greeting cards and phone calls to all of the people in my personal network on all special events and once every six months randomly to say thank you
3. Created a foundation or community center in a developing country that promotes entrepreneurship and free market success based on the Prize Mentality

The intent of this blog is to help in keeping track of the actions and thoughts of the person, in order to reinforce the understanding that he is the prize.