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The Power Of Gratitude

What are you grateful for?

I am seeing more and more when I don’t practice gratitude, I find myself focusing on the wrong things…

Why my business idea has not worked?

Why are they having a go at me?

Why did that client not ring me back?

Why is this process so difficult?

Why is someone being ungrateful?

When this happens I realise one thing. I am not practising gratitude myself.

So I remind my self that all of that does not matter and focus on the things I am grateful for.

We get so focused on what we want, that we forget to be GRATEFUL for what we have.

We get caught up in what we are not getting, we forget the wonderful things right in front of us.

When was the last time you STOPPED thinking about all the things you want to achieve or what you haven’t got and think about what you already have?

If you are in good health, you have all your limbs, you can see, hear, smell, taste of if you can walk or exercise, be thankful.

If you have a family, wife, kids, parents, be thankful

These are things to be grateful for, which the majority of us take for granted.

Don’t wait until you haven’t got these things to realise what you had was so precious. Be grateful today.

Practice gratitude now and every day. Stop and think about what wonderful things you have and really appreciate that you have them.

Focus on the abundance all around us and not the lack.

It is so easy to place your whole focus one one small thing that isn’t going right, and forget about all the other things we have that are really more important, that are going right, that are amazing.

So what is really important to you that you may be taking for granted?

If its your health, take steps to improve it.

If it is a relationship with yourself, your partner, your siblings, your parents, friends, then be thankful to yourself and those you hold dear.

Gratitude opens the door and closes the door

It opens the gate and closes the gate.

Gratitude is the way to the life you choose.

Thank you for reading.

Truth, Courage & Happiness

Dean x

Inspiration, mindset, Motivation

The Two Shoe Salemen

This is one of my favourite stories with a HUGE lesson for you…

Once upon a time there were two shoe salesmen.

They were both sent to the same distant third world country by their companies to drum up business and to sell their shoes.

The first salesman gets off the plane, heads to the village and has a look around.

However, after a short while he is disappointed by what he sees. He gets on the phone to head office…

“Boss, bad news I’m afraid. This was a complete waste of time, put me on the first plane home… Nobody here wears shoes!”

A little while later the second salesman gets off the plane and heads to the same village. After he has a look around the same village he makes a call to his boss at head office.

This time though, this salesman is excited by what he sees…

“Boss, You are never going to believe this, I have some BRILLIANT NEWS… Nobody here has shoes, we are going to make a fortune!”

Here’s the thing…

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Your Thoughts Are Everything

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This is just one example of two people having exactly the same experience, but with a totally different approach to their thinking based on their past conditioning.

And that’s going to be key to YOUR success.

If you keep thinking that you CAN’T. You WON’T, it is as simple as that.

You’ve probably noticed that, right?

Imagine…

Telling yourself day after day, month after month, year after year that you have an addictive personality, or you are obese or have diabetes or that you cannot work because of a bad back or you are not good enough.

Whatever it is over time, 1 thing will happen…

..You’re going to believe it.

you will blindly accept that as truth and simply stop challenging it and use it as an excuse why you cannot have the life you want.

I have been there!

And because I have and believed the story I chose, it gave me validation to keep doing what I was doing.

After all. It’s not my fault.

It’s my <insert fault/blame/condition here>’s fault

Be careful of what you’re telling yourself. One day you might just believe it.

Like Abraham Maslow once said:

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You’ll be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”

If you want happiness and fulfilment in YOUR life, then you have to accept responsibility for it. Until you do you will hand power over to something or somebody else.

So accept responsibility for your life, it has nothing to do with anyone else. because then have the power to change it, it is then yours to control.

You have to start with you, your happiness starts with you being selfish and looking after you first. Fulfilment happens when you are then selfless and help and serve others.

So what will you do today to start?

Truth, Courage & Happiness

Dean x

Balance, Mental Strength, mindset, Motivation

How To Appreciate YOUR Life Today

How to Appreciate your life TODAY!

Stress is huge in peoples lives, constantly getting caught up in trivial things and making HUGE deals out of them.

I know, I have been there myself, many, many times!

So I wanted to share something with you today, that will make a massive difference to how you think and feel today…

At your earliest opportunity, take yourself off the grid. go for a 45-60 minute walk, somewhere away from roads and the usual hustle and bustle.

Find a woodland, go to the beach, some patch of country side, somewhere you can simply switch off.

We are creatures of Nature, so reconnect with who you are and where you are from. Listen to the birds, the rustle of the leaves in the trees, the waves crashing onto the sand or the wind.

Feel the breeze – How does it feel to you?

What can you smell? – what subtle smells are in the air that you recognise?

What can you see? – look beyond what you expect to see and look for things hidden in plain sight. What trees do you see?

birds? what detail can you focus on that you just accept day to day?

what can you hear? – what are you tuned out of? the every day wonders that you no longer hear?

Remove your sight, close your eyes and listen, how much different does it feel using your other senses?

Free your Mind From the Rat Race! stop all the stressful thoughts coming in by focusing on the very moment you are in, BE in the moment.

So why should do this?

Because you are taking YOUR life for granted, it is passing by at an incredible rate and you are simply not living it to its fullest. It is bogged down with the excesses of life that you simply do not need, but are terrified to let go of.

Too busy worrying and stressing, getting the kids to school, getting to work, living up to others, pleasing others and constantly worrying about your “what if” future.

Your life is in fast forward and you don’t even know it!

Don’t dismiss this out of hand.

Bringing yourself back into balance, improving your health (Exercise, Nutrition, Mindset) is the most important thing you could ever do.

Just as you train physically to look after muscles and joints, just as you eat correctly to nourish your very being, You must also nourish and exercise your mind.

Our minds are polluted daily with mindless reality shows, gossip magazines, the misery on the news on tv, papers and radio. Training our minds is vital for our health.

Picture a mind garden, you can plant roses (positive thoughts, positive, information) or you can plant weeds (Misery and negative thoughts as mentioned above). Both grow equally.

Which do you think is best for you?

To have a healthy mind you have to look after it. Remove the A.N.T.S (automatic negative thoughts). Catch them when they go in, be aware of them and refuse them entry. Take the positive situation from everything, see how you can FLIP any situation to your advantage.

If you dwell on what you don’t want, you will get more of that. So focus on what you do want, make it your purpose.

So start today to reconnect with your inner self, take yourself out of the rat race and simply slow down. Remove the excess that you don’t need and find your essence. Then have the courage to face up to yourself and challenge your very purpose.

when was the last time you did? when was the last time you just stopped?

When was the last time you appreciated what you have? your health? your family? your loved ones? your friends?

How about doing this today and seeing how you feel?

Let me know your thoughts below…

Truth, Courage & Happiness

Dean x

‪#TheLeanWarrior‬

Inspiration, mindset, Motivation, self mastery

I’m TOO Busy

I’m TOO busy!

How often have you said that?

I know I have said it A LOT over the years!

But here’s the thing…

We always have time to improve.

Yes, seriously there is always time!

it is easy to say “I haven’t got time”… but that isn’t true is it?

in reality it is most often because you don’t see the value in it.

So if you wanted to lose weight but haven’t got the time, its really because you may think that you should, but you haven’t got a compelling reason to.

But have you asked yourself why?

Because in reality, if you just thought about it, you may just come up with that compelling reason to change and stop buying into a bullsh*t story holding you back!

Because that is ALL they are!

We hold onto them for dear life as justification why you cannot achieve what you want or do what you dream of doing.

So I am calling you out.

Because there is ALWAYS time!

Maybe you want time to…

Play with and keep up with your kids,
be a great role model for your kids so they grow up fit and healthy
complete a challenge like a 5k run to raise money for a charity close to your heart.
Land your dream job (but don’t feel you are good enough)
get that bikini bod back
get into your mighty fine wardrobe hanging in the cupboard.

The truth is, once you find the real reason.

That reason you will move heaven and earth to achieve?

Then suddenly you will find the time and realise you were never really that busy after all.

I have been there,

My wife and I were told we couldn’t have kids.

So we had a compelling reason to find a way and make the changes and to live a healthier active lifestyle and understand what true health meant. (and its not what the media and supermarkets tell you believe me!)

Thats how we have a beautiful thriving son. Because we didn’t accept what the doctors said

So the only reason you are holding yourself back is the story you listen to.

The one you created, because lets face it, you weren’t born with it, you put it in there.

So stop using whatever story you are hanging on to as an excuse why you cannot improve your life, because you can, you can have and do anything you choose.

So change the story and it might just change your life.

If you want help to become the person so desperate to escape your current situation.

then get in touch

Let me know what you are struggling with and we can connect and have a chat.

Truth, courage & happiness

Dean x

P.s. In case you are thinking that you cannot, my belief is greater than your doubt. just take the first step to see… I dare you 🙂

brainset, Inspiration, mindset, Motivation

Wheres the Struggle?

Struggle

Now there’s a word banded about so much these days.

It seems like more and more we are conditioned that life should be a struggle.

So much so that we buy into that story and act it out, every day!

We blindly accept that we should be struggling and suffering, based on what we hear and are told and so we actually take that story and work hard to make it true.

I mean it must be true, everyone says so, everyone tells me life is hard so it must be true!

But what if I told you life can be easy?

I’ll bet some stories come into your head just to prove me wrong.

I know that because I had those stories and still do.

So I get it, I really do.

I’ve been there. Believed what everyone said.

You got to work hard, you got to sacrifice, grind, struggle etc etc. all words that infer difficulty.

and boy did I live up to it!

but it isn’t supposed to be.

Once you really realise and accept how little time you really have on this spinning orb, thats when you realise you can do anything you want.

And should go about it with all the passion and purpose you can muster.

Where is it written that if you do something that you truly love that it will be difficult?

Our fleeting presence is a mere speck in time and each day if you waste that time doing things that serve no purpose? is a travesty.

So listen up! It’s game time. You’re in, playing, right now, and the clock is ticking.

Yes you are, right here, right now!

So what are you going to do?

If you are only existing and surviving, doing something you loathe, when you have your dreams hidden away under lock and key, what has to happen for you to change that?

Make no mistake, in no time at all you will be gone, forever. So you better do whatever it is you’re going to do. Because once you time is up, it’s up.

You cannot turn back those hands of time.

So what do you do?

You replace clarity instead of confusion

By contracting to expand, removing the clutter and excess in your life that does not serve you, so you can provide the space to grow into who you really are.

So simplify the complexity. If it feels too hard, it is, so see how you can make it easier.

Do less not more, when did doing more make things simpler?

Find your true essence. when everything about who think you are is stripped back, the real you will remain, so have the courage to face yourself and find YOU.

Forget about survival and struggle

Focus on thriving and success.

We all have the ability to choose our own path to happiness, you just have to have the courage to stand up and find it.

What would success mean to you in your life?

What are you struggling with?

If you want help with finding out then get in touch.

‪#‎truth‬
‪#‎courage‬
‪#‎Happiness‬
‪#‎TheLeanWarrior‬

Dean x

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