What is your vision in life & business?

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” ~ Steve Jobs

Last week we looked at an overview of 5 more techniques and tactics that can help us use our minds in a beneficial way for making changes and improvements in our life and business. Giving us more changeability so we can achieve our goals and desires.  It was part two of a 10-technique blueprint we’re laying out over the coming episodes here on the Changeability Podcast.

In today’s show we start back at the beginning.  In the first of those 10 techniques, we’re going back to basics - asking a basic question - what do you want? – What do you want your life to look like?  What is your vision in life and business?

In episode 9 you’ll find out about:

• How changing our life and creating the life we want doesn’t just happen by chance.
• How we need to make a conscious decision to change what we want to change to get the life we want, and then make it happen.
• How that conscious decision begins with a vision for our life and business.
• Why we need to pen – or write down - our vision for life.
• How our vision can come in all shapes and sizes
• How a big picture – vision – helps define our later goals.
• How 3 kick-ass questions will help kick-start your own vision making, cool fizzing life and business.
• How you can get a great ‘starter for 10’ solution to determine the 10 key areas of your life where you might wish to begin your own personal vision.

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” Nido Qubein

This is where the background theory of the first six episodes of the Changeability Podcast morphs into the practice. 

Last week we started looking at practical techniques and actions to move us beyond the theory of how our minds work and hold us back from doing what we want to do. We outlined 5 mind management techniques to do this.

In today’s show we carry on where we left off at the end of episode 7.  This is like the part 2 of How to Manage Your Mind, as we take a look at 5 more ways to manage your mind. 

These are 5 more techniques and tactics that can help us use our minds in a beneficial way for making changes and improvements in our life and business. Giving us more changeability so we can achieve our goals and desires.

In episode 8 you’ll find out about:

• How it’s not all about what we want to achieve and future goals and dreams.
• How a bit of appreciation can go a long way.
• The simplest explanation of mindfulness you can find and one of the best ways of doing it.
• Why meditation is so awesome (and it’s not just us saying it)!
• Where mindset meets action and stuff starts to happen.
• How to put yourself out there and use other people to boost your success.
• Making the most of our experiences and having a good time doing it.

How to manage your mind

“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” Jim Rohn

Over the course of the first 6 episodes of the Changeability Podcast we’ve talked about our brains, our conscious and subconscious minds – their different but equally important roles and how the subconscious mind is many times more powerful than the subconscious (episode 2).

We’ve seen how the things our conscious creative imaginative mind wants for us can be undermined by our subconscious, whose job it is to keep us safe within the realms of our current experience and way of looking at the world through our self-beliefs and habits. And in doing so can unintentionally restrict our awareness of opportunities and ultimately make the difference between us achieving what we want to or not (episode 3). 

We’ve talked about how all change starts with a conscious thought (episode 4) and how important it is to take control. We constantly take choices whether we realize it or not – and one of the things we can choose to do is find ways to manage our minds to help us take control and get the business and life we want (episode 5).

And in episode six we looked at mind management and what it is. How it can help help us be aware of negative disempowering thoughts and increase empowering positive thoughts.

So that's all very good in theory but how do we actually do it?

That’s what we start to talk about it today’s episode of the Changeability Podcast – how to manage your mind. We give an overview of some of the actual techniques and tactics we can use to help us manage our minds - to make changes and improvements in our lives.

And we begin with a chat about Kathryn’s 30-day challenge – to create and publish a video everyday for the month of September.

In episode 7 you’ll find out:

• Why Kathryn has committed to making 30 videos in 30 days
• What we can gain from 30-day challenges
• About 5 techniques for how to manage your mind
• Why it’s good to look where you’re going and where you’re coming from
• Why you need to be like a sat nav and auditor
• About clearing the ground
• The fear of public speaking and hope versus expectation
• About the power of imagination

Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Brilliant Living HQ Facebook page
• Brilliant Living HQ on Twitter
• On Google+
• Kathryn Bryant: Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life

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What is mind management

“What is the single most important skill you can master to increase your happiness and success? Training your mind.” ~ T Harv Eker in Success Magazine

In today’s episode of the Changeability Podcast we’re thinking about our strap line – ‘Manage your Mind’.  You might have heard the term mind management before, but what is mind management?  Why is it becoming popular and what’s in it for you? 

In episode 6 you’ll find out about:

•  Kathryn and Julian’s acting skills (you’ve been warned)
• How many thoughts you have in a day
• Why sports people love mind management
• How thoughts have energy
• How you are not thoughts
• How mind management needs training
• How Mind management can improve your personal and professional life 

Links and resources mentioned in this episode: 

• T Harv Eker: Success Magazine Success.com 
• Dr Steve Peters: The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
• Kathryn Bryant: Changeability: Manage your Mind - Change your Life