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What Holds You Back?
By Joshua Seth | September 14, 2007
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In the past few days since my last Blog posting, I’ve flown to Alaska (and bought a coat!), performed my hypnosis show twice and my stress reduction and weight loss seminars once, and spent the rest of my time doing the following:• Ziplining in the rainforest canopy• Photographing bears fishing for salmon in the wild• Visiting two glaciers and reveling in the serenity and silence of the crisp, clean air• Pontooning in the midst of dozens of humpback and killer whales• Hiking up the side of a mountain to the foot of a steep and thundering waterfallWhat have you done this week?I don’t ask this to make you jealous or resentful. Far from it. I ask because I enjoy, no LOVE showing people how to live their dreams, but before I can do that they first have to identify what their dreams are. I’ve found that most people have buried them under years of unfulfilling work, unsatisfying relationships, and resignation to the daily grind.I’m no different… I just did something about it.As recently as two years ago I was still living in Los Angeles, holding down two careers (one as a hypnotist and the other as a very successful voice over actor) and working about 14 hours a day. I was successful by most common measurements of the term but I was unhappy.I decided to “throw it all away” and leave a dead-end relationship, a career that paid well but bored me to tears, sell my house, and travel the world. Two years later, I’m working far less (about 6 hours a week), making far more, spending my time with happy / enthusiastic people, and traveling to places I hadn’t even known existed!You can do this too.I’m not saying you have leave your job or relationships. I’m saying you can live your dreams and have a fulfilling life full of exciting adventures, living each day as though it might be your last. You just have to take that first step of overcoming your fears and deciding to take charge of your life. Your time in which to do this is limited.We don’t live forever folks. In fact, have you ever thought to count up the number of days you have to enjoy your life? How many do you think it is?Millions of days?Hundreds of thousands of days?Tens of thousands of days?Actually, you probably have less than 30,000 days to live (365 days x 80 years = 29,200 days). That’s it. Then it’s over.How many have you used up already? How many have you squandered on meaningless or unfulfilling pursuits? How many more are you willing to throw away?When I speak to groups and individuals about improving their lives I find that they usually need to progress through the following steps:• Before you can live your dreams you need to identify what they are• Before you can identify your dreams you need to believe that you are a person worth living them• Before you can improve your self-esteem to the point where you can dream big dreams again, you need to take control of your life and stop allowing it to overwhelm you• Before you can take control of your life, you need to learn certain skill-sets like stress reduction, time and information management, and simplicity of living.• Before you can do all that you need to change your mindset from one of reacting to your environment to one of proactively creating your environment. You need to change the mindset that created all of the unnecessary problems in the first place. You need to SNAP OUT OF IT.Whatever your life is at the moment it is the cumulative result of all of your past thinking; therefore, you can change the course of the remainder of your life by changing your thinking now.I’d like to help you do that.What would you like me to address IN DEPTH in future Blog postings?• Mindset: how to be a truly happy person and attract great people and opportunities into your life• Stress Reduction: how to limit debilitating stress and take advantage of motivating stress• Time and Information Management: how to decrease the number of things you HAVE to do so you can increase the number of things you WANT to do• Weight Loss: how to become fit, healthy, and active without diets or “exercise”. After all, you can only live your dreams to the extent that you are healthy• Fears and Phobias: how to quickly and easily overcome any fear, no matter how long you’ve had it or how debilitating it’s become• Persuasion and Influence: how to use hypnotic language patterns and rapport building techniques to sell anything to anyone so you can finance living your dreams• Focus: how to cut out all the distractions and get things done once and for all• Dreaming Big: how to discover what you really want out of life• Self Esteem and Self Confidence: how to truly believe that you are worth having, being, and doing the best that the world has to offer so you can get far more out of lifePlease vote for whatever topic most intrigues you from the list above by clicking on the underlined heading. You may click on as many topics as you like and your vote will be counted each time. I will devote myself to writing a multi-part Blog on whichever topic gets the most votes. (VOTING IS OVER. LINKS ARE DISABLED.)So, what do you want to learn?All my best,Joshua SethHypnotist • Adventurer————————–Get Your Free eBook atwww.JoshuaSeth.com
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December 21st, 2007 at 1:11 am
Wow, your blogs are great! Normally I skim blogs, literally every single one of the 30 I read, but your blog has this draw to it, that keeps readers going and wondering “What kind of trouble has he gotten himself into?”
How you turned such a horribly negative situation into something so positive and good! That was quite the story! Live life one moment at a time I say, I rarely plan ahead and when I do I tell people don’t expect 100% for me to be there, you just never know what might come your way at the last second!