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Pulling Back The Covers Of Motivation To Discover Your Body Of Inspiration

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PULLING BACK THE COVER OFMOTIVATION TO DISCOVER YOUR BODY OF

INSPIRATION

By Tony Teegarden

Report + Worksheets


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My name is Tony Teegarden and I believe you, myself and

everyone else here on this big blue marble flying through

the vastness of space, finds ourselves here for a reason.

We have a reason for existing.

You and I have a purpose for being here.

We have gifts that can be and should be opened right

now in the present time. Thats why its called The

Present, because right now is the gift and its the only

sure thing weve got to work on.

When we discover it, we no longer require motivation. In

some way, you and I are meant to make a difference in

peoples lives. Part of that discovery process requires you

and I to continually awaken ourselves to the vastness of

being present and not only acknowledging this truth, but

doing something with it.

You see, today I realize life is more than just about

improving ones status in life. Its even more than just

about the quality of our health, wealth & relationships.

Those are extremely important but theyre just a piece of

the puzzle.

Yes, you need to be successful in those areas of life but

have you taken a moment to consider why?

You need your health for the energy to serve, you need

the wealth for the ability to create experiences for others

and you need the relationships to complete the dynamic

of contributing to something larger than just yourself.

You see, you do need those pieces to be in alignment not

only for self satisfaction, which is important but more

importantly, the world needs you to be successful.

In spite of all the struggle, strife and at times seemingly

negative unappreciative circumstances...The world needsyou to be successful physically, spiritually, financially and

in your relationships so you can contribute to those

around you.

This piece of work is dedicated to a space and time

where I woke up to the fact that my everyday efforts were

more than just about what I could do for Tony Teegarden

togetmore. Its about my journey of ultimately asking the

question,How can I effectively give more?

I didnt know it at the time, but this was the question

that was quietly calling out from within me. I just

wasnt listening. I thought if I got more, Id feel more.

I discovered that the choices I thought I had made up

till that point in time, were really made by second

hand values. What I mean is those choices werent

really my choices at all. I woke up to the fact that I

was actually the effect in my life and not the cause.

The paddle is the cause. The ping pong ball is the

effect. When I committed to becoming cause in my

life, I realized it was my responsibility to do all I

could to be the paddle. I no longer requiredmotivation.

I find myself able to give more today by being the

cause in my life and by causing better choices to

occur. If the paddle represents cause in your life,

self-efficacy would be the belief that you can hit the

ball. So it behooves you to explore self-efficacy and

what you can do to nurture it.

This report is about me making this discovery and

how you can begin to as well so you can feel more

in control of your emotions, your work and your life.

This work begins to explore why we struggle with

motivation and self-efficacy. We will explore living

through inspiration rather than seeking constant

motivation. Because theres is a difference between

the two and the world desperately needs you to

know it. - Tony

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Pulling Back the

Covers...


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How old are you

right now?He

asked me as......he looked at me from across thetable.

How old? He asked again, with acurious tone to his voice.

Im 27, I said a bit sheepishly as Iwas wondering where he was goingwith this.

He then sat up slightly, leaned over abit and said quite frankly,

Take your age and add your wifesage to yours.

I looked at him while doing so.

Have the total?

Yes, of course I do, I said stillconfused.

Now as you write that number

down, add up...

...all of the combined number of

years you have been here on earth


years of education youve acquired


years of training you have been

through

...all of the years combined youve

worked at a job, jobs or business

...and all of the

combined years of life

experiences...

I was writing numbers down, pausing

only for a moment to look over at mywife to make eye contact and confirm

her numbers Id written down.

Added them all up?

Um, yeah. The total is 53 years

between my wife and I.

Then he asked the question.

Its the same question youre going to

have you ask yourself but Ill warn

you that there are risks in doing so.

The risk is that you wont

ever be able to go back to the

way things were before. Youwont see your life the same as

you did.

And you wont see yourself the

same either. If youre anything

like me, it may even keep you up

at night.

Heres the question:


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All of A

Sudden All Of

My Choices

Up To That

Point Flashed

Before Me.

Take a moment and ask yourself,

with 53 on this planet and nearly 23

years invested in all of these otherareas of education and

such....where are you financially,

physically and in what condition are

your closest relationships today?

He paused for a moment.

How do you feel deep down about

them withoutcomparing yourself to

anyone or anything?

I just sat there for a moment.

All of a sudden, all of my choices up

to that point and time in my life

flashed before me.

The path I traveled up till then didnt seem so colorful anymore...


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I was working

more hours

thanI think

existed in a

week.

You see, I was selling mobile homes

at the time and sure, financially, I

was doing pretty damn good. But

at what cost? I began asking

myself.

I was working more hours than I

think existed in a week.

I was overweight.

I lived on coffee it seemed.

I had lost touch with most all

of my friends.

I barely got to see my

wife.

And the fact was, I

really didnt like what

I was doing. I just

prided myself on

making good

money for a kid

with just a high

school

diploma.

Truth is, until I

met my wife I wasjust as broke as

anyone else just on a different

financial level.

I was spending just as much, if not

more, than I made and attempting

to fill a void I felt. Oh and I hadnearly died twice on drug overdoses

about 4 years earlier.

The truth met me in that moment. I

couldnt compare my results to

anyone else because of the way he

framed the question and I realized

somewhere I had

swayed from MY internal calling.

I was just chasing money for the

sake of it validating my self-worth.

My underlying thoughts were, The

more I made, the more I must beworth. The less I made, the less I

must be worth.

Sounds completely irrational I

know, but when youre standing in

your own stuff it can be difficult to

see it.

I WAS CHASING

MONEY FOR THE

SAKE OF

VALIDATING MY

SELF WORTH.
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So when you ask yourself questions like:

Do I have enough in savings and assets to sustain your current lifestyle for the

next 5, 10, 20, or 40 years?

Am I close?

Do I have anything saved at all?

Is my health in optimal shape or have I sacrificed it because Im too busy trying to make a living or being

there for everyone else? Have you decided youre just never going to be skinny instead of just focusing on solid healthy eating

principles and drinking lots of water?

Are your relationships everything you desire them to be or do you find them in constant drama and chaos?

Ask Yourself, How important are any of

these to you?


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Are you

running on

Someone

ElsesTracks?

Comparison kills inspiration and

ultimately contribution, so make

sure the answers are your own and

not based on someone elses value

system. (Second hand values)

If youre not sure what I mean, its

Ok. Were going to dig into this

values concept in a little bit. So

look at how many years youve been

on this big

blue

marble

called earth

ask yourself:

How many years of schooling

youve had like trade schools,

college, grade school?

How many years youve worked ata job or jobs?

How much training & education

outside of that youve gone

through?

And ask yourself, Is what youve

been doing all this time gotten you

the results you are really looking for.

Im talking about the kind of results

that lend to your feelings of true

satisfaction, fulfillment and pride

around your

accomplishments.

Ask yourself, Ss where I am today

in my health, wealth and

relationships where I thought I

would be 15 years ago? 10 yearsago? Or even 5 years ago?

Do you feel youre off track?

On track?

Or without tracks?

Heres a bigger question, are you

running on your tracks or on

someone elses? Have you been

trying to figure out why youre not

motivated or juiced in life?

Do you really know yourself well

enough to understand what

motivation is in relation to what

inspires you? Have you done that

kind of work?


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Errors,

Discovery And

Decision

Ive Failed in the

Past..

...at living my life in a way that was

truly fulfilling to me. But today I can

look back and say, Im glad I did.

Why?

Because without the experiences I

wouldnt have spent

as much time asking the questions

and figuring it out like I have.

I made a few key, consistent errors.

They were common errors that were

caused by my mental hard-wiring

and my inability as a human being

to calculate the long term effects of

my decisions I was making at the

time.

Without doing the work and

becoming conscious of them, I

would have kept on making the

same errors in judgement.

When you discover these errors and

you overcome them you can take

control of your life and

live it with at least the possibility of

living an inspired life. I call it living

your life out loud.

Will there be days that you seem to

be up against all odds and want to

quit, give up or swear like a sailor?

You bet. Or at least I have.

One of the biggest sources of our

suffering, and the biggest source of

these errors I mention, is trying to

live our life by other peoples value

systems.

You see our values are reflected in

our every day choices. The question

is, how conscious are you of what

you really value?

Are you living your life

based on your values? Or

are you living it by other

peoples values? These are

what I call second hand

values.

When you invest the time to

discover your values, do your

best to live by them

consciously, align those values

with a bigger vision to help and

serve others, you find yourself

driven to live your life from the

inside out rather than requiring

motivation to drive you from the

outside in.

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Many

People

Attemptto

live a Life

they think

theyre

supposed to

If you dont learn about and discover

these errors youre going to keep

making them, and youll continue

down a path of living your life on

other peoples tracks

rather than

being

inspired to

lay down

your own.

Otherwise youll find yourself

looking for more and more outside

motivation.

Youll consciously set goals that are

aligned with other peoples valuessystems but unconsciously continue

to try and act upon your own

hidden values. This is what we call a

moral dilemma and it causes self

sabotage and frustration.

Youll begin to wonder if there is

something wrong with you because

youre not getting your desired

outcomes and if you are you dont

feel fulfilled once you do.

You will fall into the

more trap where you think more

stuff will fill the void. More Sex,

more food & more toys. You may get

it all but at what cost?

The problem is many people attemptto live a life they think theyre

supposed to. Social Idealism's are

the source of human suffering.

Idealism's that no one lives by but

everyone attempts to live by that

aren't realistic.

This is the cause of much of our

suffering and seeking out constant

outside motivation.

Ultimately if you dont grasp this

concept, youll have less control of

your life and will be at the mercy of

those who understand these errors

and concepts.

Think of it like this, as long as you

dont do the work, they will be the

cause in your life and youll be the

effect.


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It doesnt have to be

that way.If you want to get control of your entire life...then you must educate

yourself and learn how to think on these things Im going to touch on in

this report.

No one is going come along and figure this out for you. So strap yourself

in.
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14,600 More

Days.NOW

WHAT?

Consider the fact that you have at

least another 40 years here on earth.

When you brake that down into

days, you have 14,6000 days to go.

Or look at it this way:

You have 40 more

Christmases (depending on

your faith of course)

You have 40 more Thanks

Givings

You have 40 more days to

celebrate your birth here

Makes you realize just how precious

the time you have left here doesnt

it?

Since you have 14,600 days, you

need to decide what you're going to

do with those 14,600 days. Will you

keep doing what you're doing or

will you figure out what you're

going to do differently?

At your current rate, if you were to

look back on your life and those

14,600 days were over, would you

say you did everything you could

with everything

you were given? Or did you leave

some on the table?

Will you continue to struggle or just

maintain the status quo?

The vast majority of people will

continue to struggle and very few

will be able to even maintain. An

even smaller fraction go on to

explore their possibilities.

You think its just because they are

motivated?

I dont think so.

Does Anyone Understand

Motivation?

If you were to stop the

average person on the

street and ask them to tell

you what motivation is,

where it comes from, what

causes it to work or what

causes it not to work, youd

get a lot of different answers:

1)Many have no idea

2) Most will give you a very

fuzzy answer3) Some would tell you thats

what thosepositive thinker

types sell you on

Why?


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Because A

System

ControlsThe

Direction of

their lives

There are 300 million people in the

U.S. alone and over 7 to 8 Billion

people on the planet.

From the very moment we came

into this world we were dependent

on everyone around us for all of our

physical needs.

We didnt have any judgements or

attachments of our own.

We lived inspired lives doing what

came naturally. That is until webegan to hear the words and phrases

such as:

No

Stop that

You cant

Be realistic

Here is what you need to do

You probably struggled with them

and fought them about it but it was

of no use.

They continued until you bent to

their ways.

The very same people who raised

us, learned everything they believeto be true from the generation

before them and so on, and so on.

How did it keep happening?

Dinner Table Talk

Consider this for a moment. What

was your dinner table talk like whenyou were growing up?


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How do you

think your

parents Dinner

Table Talk went?

Was the talk at the table inspiring?

Was it about goal setting?

Was it about how fortunate

you were as a family and

what those goals would mean

to the family?

Was it about the mission and

greater purpose your parents

were on and how their

current goals supported that

mission?

Dinner table talk, at least for

me, was very very different

growing up.

It was charged by what

my folks saw on the

news, what they heard

at their jobs, and

what was read in the

news papers and

magazines. (Like

The Enquirer)

How much of

it was

positively

charged do you

think?

Zero.

All of this news content was

generated by a system that seems to

have been designed to keep uspreoccupied.

How do you think your parents

parents dinner talk sounded?

Probably much the same.

As long as there has been big media,

there has been some

form

of propaganda that is meant to sway

what we value most.

It's the very same system that you

you've continued to be influenced

by today because your parents wereraised by it and their parents, and

their parents as well. Almost

everyone around us experiences it.

Weve been unknowingly force fed

the notion by those before us and

around us that were to follow a

specific path in life because if we

dont, were somehow going to fall

behind the social norm.


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Everyone has

been eating at the worldsbiggest dinner table and the dinner talk hasnt

changed much at all. I would even suspect today gotten its

even worse.

How much good news do you really hear on your local TV station at 5:00?

My parents, your parents and their parents obviously arent bad people, they were just under the same impression

you were. These are the tracks we must follow if we want to fit in.

Ask them why and they would tell you, Just because, thats how it is. Thats reality

The truth is many people fear criticism and not belonging to their tribe. Its in those moments of deciding to not rock

the boat, they abandon their childhood voice of inspiration without even knowing it. Just like they were taught to do

as a child.

People fear criticism and not belonging.


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6000 Years Later

and still the

same problems

If you look back at 6000 years of

recorded history, Im betting 97% of

those people have felt the same way

many do today.

Frustrated, unsettled, discontent and

unfulfilled with their daily routines

and lives.

They have always struggled with the

same problems. Its why history

repeats itself so often:

Not enough money

Poor Health

Lack of fulfilling and loving

relationships

Why?

From day one they where taught to

conform.

Dress a certain way

Speak a certain way

Act in a certain way

Today were programmed to:

Eat certain food

Listen to certain music

Watch certain TV shows

Wear specific types of

clothes

Drive a certain kind of car

Hang out within certain clicks

...And when you do all this, then

youll be accepted and foundattractive by your piers. If you dont,

youre wont be accepted.

And so begins your journey to desire

exterior validation and the birth of

outside motivation.

As Dr. Phil says, As a child

growing up we are these blank

slates and those who think they

know better than us write what they

think is best on our slate.

At first you wipe off what they write

and begin writing for yourself. Youre

told NO time after time and after

much struggle and fighting against

this process, you finally give up.

You begin to act out in ways that are

more from an approval seeking

place than from what feels right or

that is in natural alignment with

who and what you really are.

Only you know if what youre doing

with your life right now is in

alignment with your natural talents

and gifts. Only you.

If so, youve broken free and have a

much different journey in front of

you right now. One of inspiration,

where motivation isnt required.


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What Is

Motivation

Anyway?

Why do we hear about it all the

time and why do so many people

think its so important?

How does it work?

The Definition ofmotivation - to

give reason, incentive, enthusiasm,

or interest that causes a specific

action or certain behavior.

...To give reason... or incentive..

To me this means it takes something

outside of ourselves to make us do

something. How often that

something aligns with our highest

values is whats in question.

You see were not lazy, were just

acting on whats most important to

us in the present moment. What that

is, is probably what we hold most

important in our hierarchy of values.

You dont feel like making cold calls

to sell stuff?

Guess what? Its because youre not

acting on your highest values. You

dont see it as truly valuable.
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Or youre just not linking up the act of making

cold calls to how it will serve you temporarily as

well as your highest values long term.

Chances are youre forcing yourself to do

something that internally you dont really

see as highly valuable. If you did youd be

inspired to do it and wouldnt need to

seek motivation. Heres an example of

what I mean:

How many times did my parents

yell at me as a kid for playing

guitar instead of doing

something else they thought

was more important? They

thought I just needed to be

motivated to see it their way.

They were projecting their values onto me. Attempting to force

upon me what was important to them rather than communicating to me

through my values and what was important to me.

Instead they called me lazy, a dreamer and that I was destined to be a loser.

Did that mean I really was lazy or going to be a loser?

No! I didnt need any motivation to play guitar. I was inspired to do so for

hours upon hours. I was following my inner most dominant passion.

It eventually lead me to recording a album that is to this day still distributed

all around the world. I also had my 21st birthday playing in front of 10,000

people in Poland while on tour with that band. That album has helped inspire

thousands of people all over the world to follow their musical passions. I still

receive acknowledgement nearly 20 years later from fans who friend me on

Facebook.So you tell me, inspiration or motivation?

Lets first take a look at the birth of Inspiration and the difference between

motivation and inspiration.

Cynic 1993


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Motivation Vs

Inspiration.

Which one

Wins?

To take inspired action I feel its

important to know yourself. This

means to acknowledge who you are

from the inside out.

1. Motivation is when you

need outside influence to

get you to do something

that isnt important to you

or not in your highest

values.

2. Inspiration is when you

take action on things that

matter most to you. No one

needs to tell you to do it or

even how to do it. You just

go after it.

What we value most in life we act

upon and requires no outside

motivation.

I believe it really is that simple.

When you discover what inspires

you from within you dont battle

against procrastination. You either

do it, delegate it or dump whatever

is required to be done.

Its just what needs

happen on the way to your

destination.

I have a good friend of mine who is

physical trainer, is 50 years old and

has the body of a 30 year old.

He said something to me one time

that always stuck.

He said:

Tony, there may be days I

absolutely dread working out,

(not many) but the result from

doing it anyway such as how I

feel about myself, the ability to

be able to play with my kids and

the energy it takes to run my

business so I can contribute to

my customers, all rely on my

ability to choose the long

term result over the short

term pain of working out.

You can see his values drive

his everyday choices and

more importantly hes

conscious of them.

Ask yourself, what do you

think he values?

The Good News And The

Bad News

The good news is maybe youre

one of the few who has already

been listening to

motivational stuff.

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The bad news is just because youve listened to motivational audios,

read motivational material and been to motivational seminars, it doesnt mean youre

still inspired to do or are doing what is in your highest values.

Youre no more inspired by consuming motivational information any more than

standing in a garage makes you a car.

In a world where there is more information available to us than ever, why arent more people living lives they really

desire?

Why? Because people just dont know themselves.

In an increasingly complex world, people want simplicity and its step-by-step framework so that, from the start, they

can clearly see where theyre going in life, how all the pieces fall into place, and how easy it is to do. It takes work

to create the framework for our lives and quite frankly many people arent willing to find the pieces of that frame

work and put it together. Why?

Because People just dont Know themselves.


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They value

being

accepted for

something

they arent

More than

beingrejected for

something

they are.

In an increasingly complex world,

people want simplicity and a step-

by-step framework so that, from the

start, they can clearly see where

theyre going in life, how all the

pieces fall into place, and how easy

it is to do.

It takes a lot of work to create this

framework for our lives and quite

frankly many people arent willing

to look for the pieces of that frame

work and put it together.

They want someone to come along

and just hand their lifes framework

over to them. Its what I call the

microwave mentality. The, I just

want it now, syndrome.

They are living lives that are

completely opposite of what they

deeply feel is their real identity. They

see themselves one way but do

something different.

They arent expressing their true

values. Not consciously anyway and

its frustrating them.

In many cases they are living their

lives just seeking validation.

They value being accepted for

something they arent more than

being rejected for something that

they are.

I know because Ive done it.


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What if its

because our

hearts were

held hostage at

an early age?

Sure, you may look back and say to

yourself, But Ive lived a good life. I

provided for my family, I tithed my

10% to the church, I held a good

job, I did my share.

If thats you, thats

noble and worthy. No

question.

I would ask you to look

within and ask, was your

share all that you were meantto do? Deep down do you feel

theres more to give? Are you

capable but arent using it?

Were you given gifts that you didnt

share with the world because you

didnt want to look silly, foolish or

come off as too outside the norm?

Did you play it safe because you

didnt want to be criticized?


didnt want to experience the taste

of failure or defeat?


didnt want to feel rejected?

Was doing your part all that you

were really able to do or more

importantly was there more youreally wanted to do but havent?

Or deep down were you just doing

what you had to do to get by?

Ask yourself as youre

reading this, have you really done

what juices you or have you just

maintained the status quo? Im not

here to judge, just spur the question.

There are those that believe, Not

everybody is meant to do great

things.

I call bullshit.

Those are people who ware just

projecting their values onto you and

I. Theyve given up.

Great things are meant for

everybody, its just that not

everybody realizes they are capable

of great things because they

compare themselves and say, oh, I

could never be that kind of person.

Theyve been lead to believe this

and they have bought it hook line

and sinker.

Its not really them thinking

or talking these thoughts

though. Its the system

talking.

Thats other peoplesvalues talking

through them also

known as 2nd hand

values.

What if the reason is because we

just didnt know how important it

was to the world for us to be

successful?

What if its because our hearts were

held hostage at an early age and we

left that tiny voice imprisoned deep

down inside?


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We look at what

everyone else is

doing.

What If in the meantime weve

forgotten that little voice?

Were distracted by looking at what

everyone else is doing, what they

have and how we think they got it.

We judge ourselves and our

accomplishments by what we

perceive to be truth.

When the truth is, they are wearing

the same masks we are. and in

many cases they are in the same

boat we are in or

have

have been in.

We hold the mask up that says,

Were doing alright, were doing

pretty good.

Simple surface talk that doesnt say

what we are really feeling deep

down.

Lets be truthful, we aspire to be, do,

and contribute all that were able. I

dont mean by getting more stuff

in our life either.

I mean we truly crave to create

value in some way. And on a deep

core level we seek

acknowledgement and contribution

for it.

Why?

BecauseWe Can't

Help It!

We are

goal

oriented

forward

directional

beings.

When we

dont move in

a forward

direction with

purpose, we

become

distracted with thoughts, emotions

and behaviors that dont serve our

long term vision. We make the

errors I began talking about.

Your preferences, likeeveryones, lead you to dowhat's comfortable, safe andmakes you feel good. That'swhat egoity and real sufferingis. You follow the dictates ofyour own body mind and youmay as well be a pig snorkelingaround in the mud looking fortruffles and pigging out. That'swhat our body minds what todo.- David Deida

Its like sitting still on a bike with

your feet on the pedals.

What happens?

You fall over.

What happens when the very system

that is broken, raises anothergeneration, and that generation

raises another generation?

You guessed it, people are doing

things because they are

programmed to, not

because they want to. They operate

from their preferences. Its whats

comfortable and safe.

When you're trying to live what

everyone else is doing, you're not

living from you're own hierarchy of

values.


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Youll Look

for reasons

to stop you

You may be feeling this on some gut

level even as of right now.

You could easily take your deepest

gifts and contributions along with

its DNA to the grave.

Its easier to continue to project yourown greatness onto movie stars,

musicians and people who you

perceive as having it all together,

rather than pursue yourinner gifts.

In the long

run, you

wont be

able to out

perform your

own self

image. The values that have been

migrated over from other peoples

value systems will cause you more

grief and youll sabotage any efforts

at a life you really desire.

Youll ask yourself why you arent

motivated to do the things in life you

know you want to do.

Youll find reasons, people and

events to stop you from really doing

them. You will hear in your

language or from others:

You should

You need to

You aught to

Youre supposed to

These are all imperatives that are a

sign of living through other peoples

value systems.

If youre using them when telling

someone else what they should,

need to or aught to do, your

projecting your value system onto

them. If someone is using them in a

sentence speaking to you, they are

projecting their value system onto

you. Until you discover your own

hierarchy of values you'll always

struggle with money, health and

relationships. Until you do this

work, youll attempt to live your life

through other peoples values and

continue to miss out on the feelings

of fulfillment and a sense of deep

gratification that comes from living

through your own.


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Youll

continue to be

under the spell of more and

think you need more of what doesnt fulfill you.

Just like eating junk food, its good in the moment but its vainer at best while being

full of empty calories.

Sure it tastes good in the moment, however its void of quality nutrients and in the long term causes disease, obesity

and takes you farther away from the quality of life you really want.

As long as you live in a fantasy, ignore these blind spots and dont do the work, you will continue to feed yourself

the junk food of second hand values.

Ask yourself, what do you value most?

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Are Hidden

Values

Controlling

You?

Take a moment and make a mental

list of what you value most in your

life.

Do you value wealth and

money? Do you value your time with

family?

Is there a hobby or hobbies

you enjoy a lot?

Is it your health you value?

Maybe its your career?

How about your friendships?

How about your emotional

well being?

How about being spiritually

grounded?

On a piece of paper list all of the

things that you think are most

important to you. Now pick the top

3 that you feel are the most

important:

1. ___________________

2. ___________________

3. ___________________

Picked them?

Good.

Now take a moment and ask

yourself a few more questions while

making a mental list:

How do you spend the

majority of your time during

your day when youre not

awake?

How do you fill your space in

your home?

How do you spend your

money?

What do you find yourselfthinking about the vast

majority of the time?

Now pick out the top 3 categories

you find yourself focused on

throughout the 16 hours a day that

youre not sleeping.

1. ___________________

2. ___________________

3. ___________________

Notice anything particularly oddabout the lists?

Is what you say is most important to

you not what you fill your time up

with what you DO?

I see it all the time.

People overeating when they

say they want to lose weight.

People smoking when they

say they want to stop.

People saying they want to be

wealthy but they dont save a

dime

People in and out of

relationships who dont reallyknow themselves.

Why arent they doing what they say

is most important to them?

Because they cant help it.


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We cant help

ourselves.Were

creatures of

habit.

Without stepping back from time to

time, looking at our lives and being

conscious of our behaviors and

patterns, we succumb to our

preferences.

If we dont consciously create ourhabits we unconsciously develop

habits. Those are the preferences

that end up causing us to get more

of what we dont want rather than

more of what we do. Those habits

support the injected values we cling

on to of others because we havent

done the work to uncover our own.

This may sound contradicting but...

Were programmed for immediate

gratification.

It comes from our deepest DNA.

Its the fight or flight model.

Consider this.

If you find yourself in the path of a

wild meat eating creature, would

you hang out and logically think

about if its going to take a chunk

out of you? Or would you just run

for the safest place possible, as fast

as you can?

You may feel fear for a moment but

right after that all you feel is your

feet hitting the ground. Fear servedits purpose, it got you to

take

action!

Its built into

you

genetically to

do what

works now,

not think

about what will

happen later.

We Do What WorksTo

Survive Right Now

Many people dont know themselves

and dont take the time to know

themselves because of this very

reason.

Especially with the amount of

information thats available to us

today via the internet and big media

in general, were distracted.

Its easier to consume more and

discover less. Especially if yourenot aware of the consequences.

Its as if many people are stuck in

3rd grade because they dont have

to move on to 4th.

Everything is easier in 3rd grade and

frankly they feel if they arent made

to have to go into 4th, they wont.

This is where many of us find

ourselves as adults in life today.

Many people dont take the time to

discover what their true core values

are, what they aspire to do and how

their gifts and natural talents can

make an impact on the world.

They are asleep in the post modern

sense of the word but its not their

fault completely. They just dont

know.

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So how do we

fixthe problem

you may ask?

As I said in the beginning of this

report, once youre aware of this

stuff, you cant go back. Not

completely.

The good news is that doing the

work and uncovering your natural

talents and abilities can set you free

when you begin to make the effort

to do so.

Youll find life becomes much more

effortless when youre aligned with

your natural abilities and talents.

You begin to feel more appropriate

to life.

I didnt say you wont experience set

backs, issues and down right crappy

days. Youll have your fair share of

those if youre doing something of

significance.

Im just saying you wont be

dependenton something else to

continually wind you up when you

love what you do. Or, you wont

despise the job youre working

because you know its leading you

to that place.

If you're trying to do something

outside of your natural abilities and

talents that arent attributed to your

highest values, you're going to be

miserable.

Maybe not immediately, but give it

some time.

If you're an innovator, artist or

creator and you're trying to be a

broker or analyst, then it's an uphill

battle inside and your results may

very well prove it.

Youll always feel you need outside

motivation and wonder if theres

something wrong with you.

Youll feel you need status to

feel whole

Youll feel you need

recognition to feel whole Youll feel you need

acknowledgement to feel

whole

When you're working a job or

building a business thats outside of

your natural abilities and talents,

and its not linked to your highest

values, youll always do just good

enough. If what youre doing isnt in

your highest of values, youll never

do whats necessary or itll be way

harder than it needs to be. If its not

that important you just wont follow

through.

If you're reading this and you find

yourself broke in any of the 3 areas

of life...the good news is, its not you

thats broke.

You can become integrated with

your natural skills and talents. You

can make them work for you. You

can make a positive impact on the

world and your little voice inside

knows it. You know it.

Its safe to begin listening to it and

not the noise outside.

There is a mission within you that

you have yet to discover and the

world needs you to find it. We need

you to discover it.

The world needs you to be

successful.

So Why Doesn't

EVERYONE Follow Their

Hearts?

The vast majority people arent

ready to wake up yet. They are

content with sleep walking. They

have to want to wake up.

They are wired to survive in the now

rather than take action with future

results in mind. Something has to

shake them up so they desire to

thrive and live a different kind of

life.


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Its not just the

knowledge we

need to make

lasting change.

They are not ready to let go of their

current thoughts, emotions and

behaviors around their life

circumstances. Or they just arent

willing to be open to the idea that

one can not only survive doing

what they love but they canthrive. Its not even that they

dont have the knowledge to

do so.

Its not just the knowledge

that we need to make

lasting change that

matters. Yes knowledge

can be power, but its

only powerful if we do

something with it.

1) If it informs us about ouroutcomes = information

2) Organized information =Knowledge

3) Knowledge + experience=Understanding

4) Understanding + multiple

experiences = Wisdom

-Wyatt Woodsmall

What we need is to...

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What you

dont do

todaywonthappen

tomorrow.

What Ive been outlining in this

entire report is this. Knowledge can

be power. But its only powerful if

you do anything with it:

1) If you want to know how to

discover what really inspires

you in life, youll want to

learn how to discover your

values. Knowing what your

highest values are works to

help you get everything you

want out of life. Many times

that may be exactly opposite

of what you think you

needed to do. Youll discover

you can extract everything

you want out of life by

adding value to it first.

2) You want to learn how to

change your thoughts,

emotions and behaviors

around discovering your

purpose.

3) Finally youll want to re-train

yourself to make decisions

and take actions that go

against what you would

normally do - so that you

can create space for your

higher purpose to make itself

self evident to you.

Listen, youre not going to quit your

job, lose all the weight or find your

soul mate tomorrow. (Well

technically you could meet your

soul mate)

However what you will do is begin

to link together things like

maintaining your current job with a

great attitude while holding a higher

purpose and mission in mind will

actually make you that much more

effective in your present moments.

If you dont do all of these things-

and I mean ALL of them - youre

going to get the same results youve

been getting all your life... and the

same results that most people get in

their life still today.

Back To 14,600

More Days

Remember I mentioned you have at

least another 40 more years here on

earth?

Give or take, depending on your age

right?

Since you have 14,600 days. you

need to decide what you're going to

do with those 14,600 days starting

today.

What you dont do today wont

happen tomorrow.

Will you keep doing what you're

doing or take the actions necessary

to figure out what you're going to do

differently?

How do you figure out what youre

going to do differently?

You cant cope with what you dont

acknowledge so first youre going to

want to take inventory. Im going to

share with you how you can begin.


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"We're only a few habits a day away from changing our health, wealth and relationships."

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT W O R K S H E E T

There are two questions Id like you to ask yourself right now:

1. What would you like to see more of in your life?2. What would you like to see less of in your life?

Now, I want to share with you how you can begin taking the steps to accomplish both.

In this exercise youre going to take a few minutes and list out a few things:

Its very important that you take at least 10-15 minutes on each of the next two exercises.

If you don't have the will and desire to figure it out and write down what you want, what makesyou think you'll have the will and desire to go after it? -Rich Schefren

Lets get started:


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Step 1. Write down all of the things you dont want in your life right now that youre experiencing.List out as many things as you can think of:

If you need more room continue on a separate piece of paper:

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Step 2. Write down the payoffs youre receiving from the list above. Youre getting some sort ofemotional or physical reward or you wouldnt continue to do them. Be honest with yourself.

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Step 3. Now write down what it will it cost you if you continue these along this line.

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Step 4. Write down all of the things you do want in your life:

Hint: You can reverse engineer your Step 1. list by writing down the exact opposite of the items onthat list.

Also: Dont go for things or stuff in this list. Aim for experiences. If you want a nice home,talk about the experience the home is going to provide you not the home itself.

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Great Work! Now were going to really drill down into these in the next exercise:


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Creating Categories

Step 5. Take your I Do Want answers and assign them to the category they best fit within below:

Health: [Can include Physical, mental & emotional]

Wealth: [Can include personal, business and career]

Relationships: [Can include family, intimate & career relationships]


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What Will It Cost Me?

Step 6. When I dont follow through on this Want it will cost me...





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What Do I Stand To Gain?

Step 8. When I follow through on this Want I will gain...





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To bridge the gap of where you are to where you want to be, you have to first acknowledge your

current reality. Be honest with yourself! You cant cope with what youre not willing to

acknowledge. You dont have the like the reality, you just have to respect it.

Are you able to identify the values that are driving your current behaviors through these exercises?

To see what you truly value, look at your life currently and see how you fill your time, space and

energy and with who. Results can be harsh but are often fair.

Based on the cost vs gain exercise, are your current daily decisions taking you closer to or farther

away from you say you want?

Conclusion


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Heres the real question and the type of work I help you get into. On a deep level, how in tune are your wants with

your true core values and how do discover what they are?

What Really Drives You To Do What You

Do Everyday?


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Make life

happen.Dont

let life happen

to you.1) Do nothing

2) Do it on your own

3) Let me help you

Unfortunately the vast majority of

people will continue to struggle and

very few will be able to even

maintain because they chose to DO

NOTHING.

For

those individuals, they are victims

of not knowing and even worse if

they do know they just dont have

the will power to do anything about

it. They could still make a choice to

do something to discover what

inspires them but they wont. Its too

scary. They fear change.

It may just be too late for them but I

like to believe not. If youre one of

those on the fence types, you have

to seriously consider what the

implications of

continuing down the road youre on

will be.

If you stay that course, it may not be

pretty.

If you decide to DO IT YOURSELFthen I seriously consider you to read

as much as you can, study as much

as you can and learn as much as

you can about self

discovery,

psychology and

human behavior. The

discoveries in

neurosciences over the

past decade are

amazing and gives you

great insights to how the

human brain works and

how it can influence your

choices.

An even smaller fractionwill go on to explore and

succeed in the discovery of

themselves and their mission in life.

True learning and discovery of

yourself means changing your

thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

To affect the world outside, we must

change and influence the world

inside and that takes work, and

introspection.

The final option is to LET ME HELP

YOU.

For those few who take action and

succeed, they discover their lifes

work and lead rich and rewarding

lives with a legacy that lives far

beyond their own time here on

earth. They love the process, enjoywho they are, and who they become

along the way.

You have an opportunity to shift

from thinking you need motivation

to knowing youre living an inspired

life doing what you were meant to

do. Whether thats an online

business or an off line venture.

The choice is yours:

Do nothing...

Do it yourself...

...or together we accelerate theprocess.

In Light,

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